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Revised Fluxes for Gliese 229B

Revised Fluxes for Gliese 229B

We have used the coronographic instrument CoCo with the IRTF's facility camera NSFCAM to obtain improved photometry at JHKL' of the giant planet/brown dwarf Gliese 229B. We have recalibrated the published spectra for this object, and re-calculated its luminosity. Our L' value, and our flux calibration of the spectra at …