Probing the shape of the brown dwarf desert around main-sequence A-F-G-type stars using post-common-envelope WD$-$BD binaries

Zhangliang Chen, Yizhi Chen, Chen Chen +2

Brown dwarfs (BDs) possessing masses within the range $40-60M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$ are rare around solar-type main-sequence (MS) stars, which gives rise to the brown dwarf desert (BDD). One…