The brown dwarf atmosphere monitoring (BAM) project - I. The largest near-IR monitoring survey of L and T dwarfs

@article{Wilson2014TheBD,  title={The brown dwarf atmosphere monitoring (BAM) project - I. The largest near-IR monitoring survey of L and T dwarfs},  author={Paul A. Wilson and Abhijith Rajan and Jennifer Patience and Jennifer Patience},  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},  year={2014},  volume={566},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118656241}}
Using SofI on the 3.5m New Technology Telescope, we have conducted an extensive near-infrared monitoring survey of an unbiased sample of 69 brown dwarfs spanning the L0 and T8 spectral range, with at least one example of each spectral type. Each target was observed for a 2-4 hour period in the Js-band, and the median photometric precision of the data is ~0.7%. A total of 14 brown dwarfs were identified as variables with min-to-max amplitudes ranging from 1.7% to 10.8% over the observed duration… 

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