Multicolour time series photometry of three periodic ultracool dwarfs

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2013

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Oxford University Press

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Photometry in I, or contemporaneously in I and R, of the known variable ultracool dwarfs Kelu-1 and 2MASS J11553952−3727350 is presented. The nature of the variability of Kelu-1 appears to evolve on time-scales of a day or less. Both the period and amplitude of the variability of 2MASS J11553952−3727350 have changed substantially since publication of earlier observations of the object. DENIS 1454−6604 is a new variable ultracool dwarf, with persistent and prominent brightness modulations at a period of 2.6 h.

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Stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs, Stars: variables: general, Stars: individual: Kelu-1, Stars: individual: 2MASS J11553952-3727350, Stars: individual: DENIS-P J145407.8-640447

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Koen, C. (2013). Multicolour time series photometry of three periodic ultracool dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(1): 652–660