Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research

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Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Jan 28, 2014

A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets. Their paper on the discovery was published recently in Astrophysical Journal.

Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRge
Published at Tue, 28 JAN 2014 16:46:21 AEST