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Table 2

Value of the NIR spectral indices (as defined by Burgasser et al. 2006; Warren et al. 2007; Delorme et al. 2008a) for some of the latest known brown dwarfs.

Object Sp. type H2O-J Wj CH4-J H2O-H CH4-H NH3-H CH4-K K/J

CFBDSIR2149 T7/T7.5 0.067 0.404 0.198 0.222 0.138 0706 0.133 0.199
 ± 0.003  ± 0.004  ± 0.004  ± 0.007  ± 0.006  ± 0.015  ± 0.023  ± 0.003
T7.5 T7 T8 T7 T7.5 T6.5

SDSS1504+10 T7 0.082 0.416 0.342 0.241 0.184 0.668 0.126 0.132

Gl570D T7.5 0.059 0.330 0.208 0.206 0.142 0.662 0.074 0.081

2M0415 T8 0.030 0.310 0.172 0.172 0.106 0.618 0.067 0.133

Ross458C T8+ 0.007 0.269 0.202 0.219 0.107 0.701 0.082 0.192

Wolf940B T8+ 0.030 0.272 0.030 0.141 0.091 0.537 0.073 0.111

Notes. Values were derived using spectra from this article and from Burgasser et al. (2006), Delorme et al. (2008a), Burningham et al. (2009, 2010).

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