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This paper reviews the contributions of UKIRT to understanding the initial mass function of brown dwarfs.
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I am very grateful to the UKIRT staff, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey teams, and to my collaborators, in particular Tom Geballe of Gemini Observatory, Dave Golimowski and Keith Noll of STScI, Jill Knapp of Princeton University, Mark Marley of NASA Ames, David Pinfield, Ben Burningham and Phil Lucas of the University of Hertfordshire, Didier Saumon of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Steve Warren of Imperial College London. SKL is supported by the Gemini Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., on behalf of the international Gemini partnership of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
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Leggett, S.K. (2013). UKIRT and the Brown Dwarfs: From Speculation to Classification. In: Adamson, A., Davies, J., Robson, I. (eds) Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_15
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