** UNITED KINGDOM INFRARED TELESCOPE **

United Kingdom Infrared Telescope

N E W S L E T T E R

ISSUE 19, AUTUMN 2006

**HD 3651 B - First directly detected brown dwarf companion of an exoplanet host star!**

See Research news below and Mugrauer et al. 2006 for further details.

CONTENTS OF THE AUTUMN 2006 NEWSLETTER

RESEARCH NEWS

Search for Rare Objects in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey: Cool Brown Dwarfs and High-Redshift Quasars

The First Polarimetric Signatures of Infrared Jets in X-ray Binaries

UKIRT Spectra Unravel Mysteries of the Extreme Hypergiant Rho Cassiopeiae

UFTI Images the First Brown Dwarf Companion of an Exoplanet Host Star!

UKIDSS First Data Release (DR1)

Accessing Data from the WFCAM Science Archive

Moon Ghosts in WFCAM Data

View from the Top

SPECIAL REPORT

A Blend of Science, Art, and Intuition: An Overview of the Mauna Kea Weather Center

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