Exploring the Brown Dwarf Desert: New Substellar Companions from the SDSS-III MARVELS Survey

Nolan Grieves, Jian Ge, Neil Thomas +27

Planet searches using the radial velocity technique show a paucity of companions to solar-type stars within ~5 AU in the mass range of ~10 - 80 M${}_{\text{Jup}}$. This deficit, know…