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Atmosphere models for very low mass stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

I. Baraffe  and
F. Allard
I. Baraffe
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, CRAL, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
F. Allard
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0032

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Over the past decade considerable effort, both observational and theoretical, has been directed towards a more accurate determination of the stellar lower main sequence and of the sub-stellar domain covered by Brown Dwarfs and Planets. Astronomers have been looking for brown dwarfs for more than a decade, either with standard astronomical technics or with microlensing experiments. A breakthrough in the search for brown dwarfs was very recently achieved with the discovery of the first cool brown dwarf GL 229B (Nakajima et al. 1995). At the same epoch, the search for planets blossomed with the discovery of a Jupiter - mass companion of the star 51 Pegasi (Mayor and Queloz 199,5). Now, the number of faint, cool stars and substellar objects is rising rapidly.

Type
Stellar Atmospheres
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 189: Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory , 1997 , pp. 227 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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