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IfA 2014 Talk : Searching for Brown Dwarfs in Young Moving Groups.

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posted on 2014-03-01, 01:23 authored by Jonathan GagnéJonathan Gagné, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Lison Malo, Étienne Artigau, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Kelle CruzKelle Cruz, Philippe Delorme, Peter Plavchan, Peter Gao, Elise Furlan, Angelle Tanner, Cassy Davison

A presentation on the latest developments brought to the "'Bayesian Analysis for Nearby Young AssociatioNs" (BANYAN) tool that aims at searching for late-type objects in nearby, young associations and moving groups such as TW Hydrae, Beta Pictoris and Tucana-Horologium. This includes a review of the findings that this new method has generated. The current status of the BANYAN II All-Sky Survey (BASS) is also presented, in which we followed several hundreds of new, late > M5 candidates to nearby moving groups. Finally, we present a review of the discovery of several new L0 - L4 young brown dwarfs, and the very recent direct imaging discovery of a young exoplanet companion.

A link to the BANYAN II additional material (slide 16) is provided below.