An oasis in the brown dwarf desert—astronomers surprised, relieved
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 13:50
in Astronomy & Space
A new paper published this month in The Astronomical Journal by astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reports a wellspring of new brown dwarf stellar companions, throwing cold water on the entire idea of the "brown dwarf desert," the previously mystifying lack of these sub-stellar objects around stars.