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3\12 Virtual Observatory Prototype Produces Surprise Discovery
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Brown dwarf expert Kirkpatrick expressed eagerness to apply the new 
NVO-based search technique to larger patches of sky as the data 
becomes available.

"This method is fully capable of uncovering a colder brown dwarf than 
any now known, and I'm looking forward to working with NVO products in 
order to find it," Kirkpatrick said.

Related Web Sites

* Original announcement of NVO (10/29/01)
  http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home01/oct01/virtual.html
* NVO Web page
  http://us-vo.org/

Acknowledgments: The NVO Project is funded by the National Science 
Foundation's Information Technology Research Program, under 
Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 to The Johns Hopkins University. The 
development efforts build upon complementary projects and programs, 
including NSF's National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (NPACI) Digital Sky project (Caltech).  Funding for the 
Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan 
Foundation, NASA, NSF, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese 
Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the participating 
institutions (The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for
Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins 
University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute 
for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics , New 
Mexico State University, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton
University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of 
Washington). The Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) is a joint project 
of the University of Massachusetts and IPAC/Caltech, funded by NASA 
and the NSF.

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