Finding ultracool brown dwarfs with MegaCam on CFHT: method and first results
Finding ultracool brown dwarfs with MegaCam on CFHT: method and first results
Aims. We present the first results of a wide field survey for cool brown dwarfs with the MegaCam camera on the CFHT telescope, the Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey, hereafter CFBDS. Our objectives are to find ultracool brown dwarfs and to constrain the field-brown dwarf mass function thanks to a larger …