- Brown Dwarfs
Offers a profile of these substellar objects that were first conceived of in the early 1960s as failed stars. Includes links to other general and technical articles.
astron.berkeley.edu/~basri/bdwarfs
- Brown Dwarfs in the Trapezium Region of the Orion Molecular Cloud
An ideal laboratory for studying the properties of neo-natal stellar and sub-stellar objects.
nicmosis.as.arizona.edu:8000/TRAPESIUM/TRAPEZIUM_DOWNLOAD.html
- Counting Brown Dwarfs
Looks at how astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have surveyed a population of cosmic missing links called brown dwarfs.
science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast24aug_1.htm
- Distribution of Masses: Planets & Brown Dwarfs
Highlights from the Lick Observatory survey showing that brown dwarfs are rare around solar-type stars.
www.physics.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/planetsearch/bd/bd.html
- Scientific American: The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs
Less massive than stars but more massive than planets, brown dwarfs were long assumed to be rare. New sky surveys, however, show that the objects may be as common as stars.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000276D4-33FB-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
- Supernovae, Pulsars, and Catastrophic Variables: Brown Dwarves
Existing on the fine line that separates objects with sufficient mass to become a star, and those objects whose mass falls shy of the density necessary to start the fusion process.
business.fortunecity.com/rowling/167/SuperNovae/BrownDwarf.html
- X-ray Astronomy Field Guide: Brown Dwarfs
Includes images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of these objects, formed from clouds of collapsing gas and dust, that did not contain enough mass to initiate core nuclear fusion.
chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/browndwarf_fg.html
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