IRAC Photometry of 400-800K Brown Dwarfs
Warm IRAC [3.6] and [4.5] photometry is critical for understanding the cold population of brown dwarfs now being found, objects which have more in common with planets than stars. As effective temperature drops from 800K to 400K, the fraction of flux emitted beyond 3um increases rapidly, from about 40% to >75%. This rapid increase makes a color like
Leggett, Sandy et al.
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