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L Dwarfs and the Substellar Mass Function

  • Authors: I. Neill Reid, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, J. Liebert, A. Burrows, J. E. Gizis, A. Burgasser, C. C. Dahn, D. Monet, R. Cutri, C. A. Beichman, and M. Skrutskie

Reid et al. 1999 The Astrophysical Journal 521 613.

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Caption: Fig. 9.

The 2.2 μm and bolometric luminosity functions and the effective temperature distribution predicted by our models with ﹩B( t) =\mathrm{constant}\,﹩ and ﹩\Psi ( M) \propto M^{-\alpha },\alpha =1,2﹩. The ﹩\alpha =1﹩ predictions are plotted as a solid line; the dotted histogram plots the expected distribution for ﹩\alpha =2﹩. The locations of GD 165B and Gl 229B are indicated as points of reference. All results are scaled to an 8 pc radius spherical volume element.

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