Discovery of Cold Brown Dwarfs or Free-Floating Giant Planets Close to the Sun
by Sandy Leggett, Daniel Apai, Adam Burgasser, Michael Cushing, Trent Dupuy, Jackie Faherty, John Gizis, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Mark Marley, Caroline Morley, Adam Schneider, and Clara Sousa-Silva
Published onMay 31, 2019
Discovery of Cold Brown Dwarfs or Free-Floating Giant Planets Close to the Sun
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Abstract
This White Paper describes the opportunities for discovery of Jupiter-mass objects with 300 K atmospheres. The discovery and characterization of such cold objects is vital for understanding the low-mass terminus of the initial mass function and for optimizing the study of exoplanets by the next generation of telescopes, space probes and missions.
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