Revealing the substellar population of IC 1396: A spectroscopic survey of brown dwarfs in the region

arXiv:2606.28532 · astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-26 · Read on arXiv

Belinda Damian, Jessy Jose, Aleks Scholz, Carlos Román Zúñiga, B. Shridharan, Genaro Suárez, Juan José Downes, Swagat R. Das, Sreeja S. Kartha, Saumya Gupta

astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-26

Comments: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). 15 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables

Code: https://github.com/jmeyers314/linmix

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Terminology

• Abundance — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hyper Suprime-Cam — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gran Telescopio CANARIAS — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The SpeX Prism Library: 1000+ Low-resolution, Near-infrared Spectra of Ultracool M, L, T and Y Dwarfs
• New Grids of ATLAS9 Model Atmospheres
• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• The Origin and Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function

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