Preface |
Host Photograph |
Conference Photograph |
Sponsor Photograph |
List of Participants |
Genesis / Part 1.: |
The Bottom of the Main Sequence and Beyond: Speculations, Calculations, Observations, and Discoveries (1958-2002) / S. S. Kumar |
Brown Dwarfs as Ejected Stellar Embryos: Observational Perspectives / B. Reipurth ; C. Clarke |
Formation of Planetary-Mass Brown Dwarfs in Magnetic Molecular Clouds / A. P. Boss |
The Formation Mechanism and Resulting Properties of Brown Dwarfs / M. R. Bate ; I. A. Bonnell ; V. Bromm |
Orbital Migration and the Brown Dwarf Desert / P. J. Armitage |
Brown Dwarf Companion Frequencies and Dynamical Interactions / M. F. Sterzik ; R. H. Durisen |
The Ejection of Brown Dwarfs from Unstable Multiples / E. Delgado-Donate |
Evolutionary Models for Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs at Young Ages / I. Baraffe ; G. Chabrier ; F. Allard ; P. Hauschildt |
Observations of Recently Born Substellar Objects / Part 2.: |
Brown Dwarfs in Southern Star Forming Regions / F. Comeron |
Probing the Bottom End of the IMF in Orion with Gemini / P. W. Lucas ; P. F. Roche ; F. C. Riddick |
The Substellar Luminosity and Mass Functions of the Trapezium Cluster Down to the Deuterium Burning Limit / A. A. Muench ; E. A. Lada ; C. J. Lada ; J. F. Alves |
Optical Spectroscopy of Young Brown Dwarfs in Orion |
A Deep Photometric Search for Substellar Mass Objects in Taurus / E. A. Magnier ; C. Dougados ; F. Menard ; E. L. Martin ; A. Magazzu |
Infrared Spectra of Brown Dwarf Candidates in Taurus / J. Licandro ; E. Magnier |
A Large, Deep Survey of the Taurus Dark Cloud / S. L. Osborne ; R. F. Jameson ; P. D. Dobbie |
The Brown Dwarf Deficit in Taurus: Evidence for a Non-Universal IMF / C. Briceno ; K. Luhman ; L. Hartmann ; J. R. Stauffer ; J. D. Kirkpatrick |
The First Young Brown Dwarf in the Serpens Cloud / J.-L. Monin ; E. Caux ; A. Klotz ; N. Lodieu |
Deep Near-Infrared Surveys and Young Brown Dwarf Populations in Star-Forming Regions / M. Tamura ; T. Naoi ; Y. Oasa ; Y. Nakajima ; C. Nagashima ; T. Nagayama ; D. Baba ; T. Nagata ; S. Sato ; D. Kato ; M. Kurita ; K. Sugitani ; Y. Itoh ; H. Nakaya ; A. Pickles |
Very Low Mass Stellar Populations in Star-Forming Regions: Near-Infrared Luminosity Functions and Mass Functions |
Spectroscopy of Brown Dwarf Candidates in the NGC 1333 Molecular Cloud / B. Wilking ; A. Mikhail ; G. Carlson ; M. Meyer ; T. Greene |
The Substellar Population in IC 348 / K. L. Luhman |
The Substellar Population in [sigma] Orionis / M. R. Zapatero Osorio ; D. Barrado y Navascues ; V. J. S. Bejar ; R. Rebolo ; J. A. Caballero ; R. Mundt ; J. Eisloffel |
Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarf Candidates in Orion OB1a and OB1b / F. M. Walter ; W. H. Sherry ; S. J. Wolk |
Candidate Brown Dwarfs in the Orion OB1b |
Circumsubstellar Matter / Part 3.: |
Disks in Brown Dwarf Systems / L. Testi ; A. Natta ; E. Oliva ; F. D'Antona |
Disks around Young Brown Dwarfs / M. C. Liu |
Probing Dust around Brown Dwarfs: The Naked LP 944-20 and the Disk of Cha H[alpha]2 / D. Apai ; I. Pascucci ; T. Henning ; R. Klein ; D. Semenov ; E. Guenther ; B. Stecklum |
A Search for Disk Emission in Young Brown Dwarfs: L'-band Observations of [sigma] Orionis and TW Hydrae / R. Jayawardhana ; D. R. Ardila ; B. Stelzer |
Accretion in Very Low Mass Objects / J. Muzerolle ; L. Hillenbrand ; N. Calvet |
Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Taurus / R. White ; G. Basri |
Observations of Young Brown Dwarfs (age [similar]50-200 Myr) / Part 4.: |
The Lower Mass Function of Young Open Clusters / J. Bouvier ; E. Moraux ; J.-C. Cuillandre |
The Low Mass End of the Young Cluster IC2391 |
Brown Dwarfs in the Alpha Persei Cluster / M. McCaughrean |
The Missing M Dwarfs / D. J. Pinfield ; S. T. Hodgkin |
Determination of Substellar Mass Function of Young Open Clusters Using 2MASS and GSC Data / A. Tej ; K. C. Sahu ; T. Chandrasekhar ; N. M. Ashok |
A Search for Brown Dwarfs in the Alpha Persei Cluster |
The Substellar Members of the Pleiades |
A Large Area Survey for Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades / S. Hodgkin |
A Deep JI Survey of the Pleiades for Freely-Floating Superplanets and Brown Dwarfs at the Deuterium Burning Limit / M. J. Schwartz ; E. E. Becklin ; B. Zuckerman |
Imaging Searches for Mature Ultracool Dwarfs / Part 5.: |
2MASS Data Mining and the M, L, and T Dwarf Archives |
New M and L Dwarfs Confirmed with CorMASS / J. C. Wilson ; N. A. Miller ; J. E. Gizis ; M. F. Skrutskie ; J. R. Houck ; A. J. Burgasser ; D. G. Monet |
Ultracool Neighbors from 2MASS / K. L. Cruz ; I. N. Reid ; P. J. Lowrance ; J. Liebert ; N. Gorlova ; C. Cooper |
Ground-Based Optical Deep Pencil Beam Surveys / P. C. Boeshaar ; V. Margoniner |
A Deep Large Scale Survey for Intermediate Age Brown Dwarfs in the Praesepe Cluster / R. J. Chappelle D. J. Pinfield ; I. A. Steele |
Brown Dwarf and Low-Mass Star Sequences in the Pleiades and Praesepe |
Globular Clusters: Low Mass Stars, Still No Brown Dwarfs! / G. De Marchi |
Searches for Substellar Companions / Part 6.: |
Searching for Planets of Brown Dwarfs / G. Wuchterl |
Multiplicity, Kinematics, and Rotation Rates of Very Young Brown Dwarfs in Cha I / V. Joergens ; R. Neuhauser ; E. W. Guenther ; M. Fernandez |
A Census of Brown Dwarf Binaries / W. Brandner ; H. Bouy |
Multiplicity of Nearby Free-Floating Late M and L Dwarfs: HST-WFPC2 Observations of Candidates and Bona Fide Binary Brown Dwarfs / X. Delfosse |
Detection of Nine M8.0-L.05 Binaries: The Very Low Mass Binary Population and Its Implications for Brown Dwarf Formation Theories / L. M. Close ; N. Siegler ; M. Freed |
Discovery of Three Very Low Mass Binary Systems: An Adaptive Optics Survey of M6.0-M7 Stars / E. E. Mamajek |
Discovery of a Tight Brown Dwarf Companion to the Low Mass Star LHS 2397a |
A Search for Brown Dwarfs around Young Solar-Analog Stars Using the Hokupa'a/Gemini Adaptive Optics System / D. E. Potter ; M. C. Cushing |
Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy of Binary Brown Dwarfs HD 130948B and HD 130948C / M. Goto ; A. T. Tokunaga ; M. Cushing ; D. Potter ; N. Kobayashi ; H. Takami ; N. Takato ; H. Terada ; Y. Hayano ; M. Iye ; W. Gaessler ; D. J. Saint-Jacques |
CHAOS: The Cornell High-Order Adaptive Optics Survey for Brown Dwarfs / J. Carson ; S. Eikenberry ; B. Brandl ; T. L. Hayward |
Differential Simultaneous Imaging and Faint Companions: TRIDENT First Results from CFHT / C. Marois ; D. Nadeau ; R. Doyon ; R. Racine ; G. A. H. Walker |
There is a Brown Dwarf Desert of Companions Orbiting Stars between 75 and 1000 AU / C. McCarthy |
Wide Brown Dwarf Companions to Main-Sequence Stars |
Searching for Wide Binary Brown Dwarfs around Nearby Stars / L. Albert |
The Search for Brown Dwarfs around White Dwarfs / J. Farihi |
Subaru Coronagraphic Search for Companion Brown Dwarfs / S. S. Hayashi ; M. Fukagawa ; H. Suto ; K. Murakawa |
Companions to Young Stars |
Faint Companion Detection Using Noise Removal with Speckle Interferometry / D. W. Tyler |
A Search for Companions to L Dwarfs / P. R. Allen ; D. W. Koerner ; M. W. McElwain ; G. R. Murphy |
Microlensing Constraints on Low-Mass Companions / B. S. Gaudi |
VLT Spectra of the Companion Candidate Cha H[alpha] 5/cc 1 |
M-Dwarf Multiplicity Rate in the Solar Vicinity / L. Marchal ; T. Forveille ; D. Segransan ; J. L. Beuzit ; S. Udry ; C. Perrier ; M. Mayor ; J.-L. Halbwachs |
Light Time Effects in Pulsating Variables and Brown Dwarfs / S. Y. Jiang |
Atmospheres and Internal Structure / Part 7.: |
Photospheric Properties of L and T Dwarfs / S. K. Leggett ; X. Fan ; T. R. Geballe ; D. A. Golimowski ; G. R. Knapp |
Model Atmospheres and Spectra: The Role of Dust / T. Guillot ; H.-G. Ludwig ; P. H. Hauschildt ; A. Schweitzer ; D. R. Alexander ; J. W. Ferguson |
Clouds and Clearings in the Atmospheres of L and T Dwarfs / M. S. Marley ; A. S. Ackerman ; D. Saumon ; K. Lodders ; R. S. Freedman |
Non-equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs |
The Classification of L Dwarfs: Is It Based on Clouds or Temperature? / D. C. Stephens |
An Efficient Low-Resolution NIR Classification Scheme for M, L, and T Dwarfs and Its Application to Young BDs / C. Baffa ; G. Comoretto ; S. Gennari ; F. Ghinassi |
Unified Cloudy Models of L and T Dwarfs: Physical Basis of the Spectral Classification in the Substellar Regime / T. Tsuji |
Modeling of Optical and IR Spectra of M and Brown Dwarfs / Y. V. Pavlenko |
The Transition from L to T: Chemistry and Classification |
The Classification of T Dwarfs |
The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey / I. S. McLean ; M. R. McGovern ; L. Prato |
A Near-Infrared Spectral Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs / J. T. Rayner ; W. D. Vacca |
Modeling Brown Dwarfs, L Dwarfs, and T Dwarfs / A. Burrows |
News of Effective Temperatures of L Dwarfs |
The First Infrared Parallaxes for T-Dwarfs / C. G. Tinney ; A. Burgasser |
Parallaxes of Brown Dwarfs at USNO / H. C. Harris ; C. C. Dahn ; F. J. Vrba ; H. H. Guetter ; B. Canzian ; A. A. Henden ; S. E. Levine ; C. B. Luginbuhl ; A. K. B. Monet ; J. R. Pier ; R. C. Stone ; R. L. Walker |
Mass-Luminosity Relations of Very Low Mass Stars |
Evolution of Brown Dwarf Atmospheres: Investigating Physical Parameters from Near-IR Spectra / M. R. Meyer ; G. H. Rieke |
Methane and the Spectra of T Dwarfs / D. Homeier |
Middle-Infrared Observations of DENIS J0255-4700 / M. Creech-Eakman ; E. Serabyn ; G. S. Orton |
H- and K- Band Methane Features in an L Dwarf, 2MASS 0920+35 / T. Nakajima ; K. Yanagisawa |
Activity and Weather / Part 8.: |
Magnetic Activity and Rotation in Brown Dwarfs and Low Mass Stars / S. Mohanty |
Activity and Kinematics of Late M, L, and T Dwarfs |
X-ray Emission from Old and Intermediate Age Brown Dwarfs |
X-ray Detection of Brown Dwarfs with Chandra |
T Dwarf Photometric Variability / E. Artigau |
Variability of L Dwarfs in the Near Infrared |
Periodic Variability in the Brown Dwarf Kelu-1 / F. J. Clarke |
Testing for Photometric Variability at the L/T Boundary / M. L. Enoch ; M. E. Brown |
CLOUDS--Continuous Observations of Ultra-cool dwarfS / B. Goldman |
Future Prospects / Part 9.: |
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) / L. J. Moon |
Status of IR Array Technology for Wide-Field NIR Survey Cameras / K. W. Hodapp ; D. N. B. Hall |
Brown Dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) / N. Hambly |
High Dynamical Range Observations on the VLT / A. M. Lagrange ; G. Chauvin ; D. Mouillet ; J.-L. Beuzit |
High Dynamic Range and the Search for Planets / C. Ftaclas ; J. R. Kuhn ; P. Baudoz |
The Next Generation Sky Survey and the Quest for Cooler Brown Dwarfs / J. D. Wirkpatrick |
Detection of Brown Dwarfs with Astrometric Satellites / H.-H. Bernstein |
Microlensing of Free-Floating Brown Dwarfs / H. Zinnecker |
Prospecting for Brown Dwarfs in Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) Legacy Science Datasets / D. Padgett ; J. O'Linger ; K. Stapelfeldt |
Formation of Substellar Objects: A SIRTF Legacy / C. H. Young ; K. M. Guenthner |
Searching for Ultracool Substellar Companions with NICI / D. Toomey |
Surveying the Solar Neighborhood for Brown Dwarf Companions with the ECLIPSE Discovery Mission |
Looking for Very Low-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Objects with SDSS / P. M. McGehee ; S. L. Hawley ; K. R. Covey |
Panel Discussion of Substellar Terminology / Part 10.: |
Nomenclature: Brown Dwarfs, Gas Giant Planets, and? |
The Brown Dwarf Talking Blues |
Summary / Part 11.: |
Conference Summary |
Research on the Bottom of the Main Sequence and Brown Dwarfs in the Early Days / T. Nakano |
Additional photographs |
Author Index |