Identifying and characterizing ultracool dwarfs ejected from post-encounter disintegrating systems

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 522; no. 2
• Main Authors: Yip, Alexandra K. P., Kurtev, Radostin, Pinfield, David J., Marocco, Federico, Gromadzki, Mariusz, Carballo-Bello, Julio A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 07.04.2023
• Subjects: Astronomy & Astrophysics

ABSTRACT Disintegrating multiple systems have been previously discovered from kinematic studies of the Hipparcos catalogue. They are presumably the result of dynamical encounters taking place in the Galactic disc between single/multiple systems. In this paper, we aim to expand the search for such sy...