Hunting for ancient brown dwarfs: the developing field of brown dwarfs in globular clusters
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2019-03-19 v1
Abstract
The detection of brown dwarfs in globular star clusters will allow us to break the degeneracies in age, mass and composition that affect our current models, and therefore to constrain the physics of their atmospheres and interiors. Furthermore, detecting brown dwarfs will help us constrain the properties of the clusters themselves, as they carry information about the clusters' age and dynamics. Great advancements in this field are to be expected in the next ten years, thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity in the infrared of upcoming telescopes like JWST and the ELTs.
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@article{arxiv.1903.06769,
title = {Hunting for ancient brown dwarfs: the developing field of brown dwarfs in globular clusters},
author = {Ilaria Caiazzo and Adam Burgasser and Jon M. Rees and France Allard and Andrea Dieball and Jeremy Heyl and Harvey Richer and Isabelle Baraffe and Christian Knigge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06769},
year = {2019}
}
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White paper submitted for Astro2020 Decadal Survey. 8 pages, 2 figures