One more neighbor: The first brown dwarf in the VVV survey

Context. The discovery of brown dwarfs (BDs) in the solar neighborhood and young star clusters has helped to constraint the low-mass end of the stellar mass function and the initial mass function. We use data of the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV), a near-infrared (NIR) multi-wavelength (ZYJH K-s) multi-epoch (K-s) ESO Public Survey mapping the Milky Way bulge and southern Galactic plane to search for nearby BDs.