Infrared photometry of brown dwarf and Hyper-LIRG

To test this hypothesis, we use a sample of 919 Spitzer observations around WISE-selected high-redshift hyper-luminous infrared galaxy candidates. For this control sample, we find another six brown dwarf candidates, suggesting that the seven companion candidates are not physically associated. In fact, only one of these seven Spitzer brown dwarf candidates has a photometric distance estimate consistent with being a companion to the WISE brown dwarf candidate.

Other than this, there is no evidence for any widely separated (>20AU) ultra-cool binaries. As an adjunct to this paper, we make available a source catalog of ~7.33x10^5^ objects detected in all of these Spitzer follow-up fields for use by the astronomical community. The complete catalog includes the Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m photometry, along with positionally matched B and R photometry from USNO-B; J, H, and K_s_ photometry from Two Micron All-Sky Survey; and W1, W2, W3, and W4 photometry from the WISE all-sky catalog.