Spectra of 28 nearby young late-M dwarfs

We search for young brown dwarf candidates among a sample of 28 nearby late-M dwarfs with spectral types between M5.0 and M9.0, and we also search for debris disks around three of them.

Based on theoretical models, we used the color I-J, the J-band absolute magnitude, and the detection of the LiI 6708{AA} doublet line as a strong constraint to estimate masses and ages of our targets. For the search of debris disks, we observed three targets at submillimeter wavelength of 850um. We report here the first clear detections of lithium absorption in four targets and a marginal detection in one target.