solar neighborhood

The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

We present ground-based spectroscopic verification of 6 Y dwarfs (see also Cushing et al.), 89 T dwarfs, 8 L dwarfs, and 1 M dwarf identified by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Eighty of these are cold brown dwarfs with spectral types …