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Substellar And Low-Mass Dwarf Identification With Near-Infrared Imaging Space Observatories, Benne W. Holwerda, J. S. Bridge, R. Ryan, M. A. Kenworthy, N. Pirzkal, M. Andersen, S. Wilkins, R. Smit, S. R. Bernard, T. Meshkat, R. Steele, R. C. Bouwens
Substellar And Low-Mass Dwarf Identification With Near-Infrared Imaging Space Observatories, Benne W. Holwerda, J. S. Bridge, R. Ryan, M. A. Kenworthy, N. Pirzkal, M. Andersen, S. Wilkins, R. Smit, S. R. Bernard, T. Meshkat, R. Steele, R. C. Bouwens
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Aims. We aim to evaluate the near-infrared colors of brown dwarfs as observed with four major infrared imaging space observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Euclid mission, and the WFIRST telescope. Methods. We used the SPLAT SPEX/ISPEX spectroscopic library to map out the colors of the M-, L-, and T-type dwarfs. We have identified which color-color combination is optimal for identifying broad type and which single color is optimal to then identify the subtype (e.g., T0-9). We evaluated each observatory separately as well as the narrow-field (HST and JWST) and wide-field (Euclid and …