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astro-ph1998
Brown Dwarfs
Ben R. Oppenheimer, S. R. Kulkarni, John R. Stauffer
After a discussion of the physical processes in brown dwarfs, we present a complete, precise definition of brown dwarfs and of planets inspired by the internal physics of objects b…
astro-ph1998
Discovery of a Very Low-Mass Binary with HST/NICMOS
E. L. Martin, G. Basri, W. Brandner +7
Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS observations are presented of six brown dwarf candidates in the Pleiades open cluster. One of them, namely CFHT-Pl-18, is clearly resolved as a binary…