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== External links == {{Wiktionary}} {{commons}} * [http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/02/image/a/ HubbleSite newscenter – Weather patterns on a brown dwarf] * {{cite journal |last1=Allard |first1=France |last2=Homeier |first2=Derek |year=2007 |title=Brown dwarfs |journal=[[Scholarpedia]] |volume=2 |issue=12 |page=4475 |doi=10.4249/scholarpedia.4475 |bibcode=2007SchpJ...2.4475A |doi-access=free }} === History === * Kumar, Shiv S.; ''Low-Luminosity Stars''. Gordon and Breach, London, 1969—an early overview paper on brown dwarfs * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050114164835/http://www.bartleby.com/65/br/browndwa.html The Columbia Encyclopedia: "Brown Dwarfs"] === Details === * [http://www.dwarfarchives.org/ A current list of L and T dwarfs] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050224110208/http://astron.berkeley.edu/~stars/bdwarfs/structbd.html A geological definition of brown dwarfs], contrasted with stars and planets (via Berkeley) * I. Neill Reid's pages at the [[Space Telescope Science Institute]]: ** [https://archive.today/20121215095626/http://www-int.stsci.edu/~inr/ldwarf1.html On spectral analysis] of [[M dwarf]]s, [[L dwarf]]s, and [[T dwarf]]s ** [https://archive.today/20130521055905/http://www-int.stsci.edu/~inr/ldwarf3.html Temperature and mass characteristics] of low-temperature dwarfs * [https://archive.today/20121206015750/http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=2192 First X-ray from brown dwarf observed], Spaceref.com, 2000 * Montes, David; [http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/recopilaciones/enanasmarrones.html "Brown Dwarfs and ultracool dwarfs (late-M, L, T)"], UCM * [http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060703_mystery_monday.html Wild Weather: Iron Rain on Failed Stars]—scientists are investigating astonishing weather patterns on brown dwarfs, Space.com, 2006 * [http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/brown_dwarf_detectives.html NASA Brown dwarf detectives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017075014/http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/brown_dwarf_detectives.html |date=2014-10-17 }}—Detailed information in a simplified sense * [http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/ds3.htm Brown Dwarfs]—Website with general information about brown dwarfs (has many detailed and colorful artist's impressions) === Stars === * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051201132115/http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/documents/compendium/cha_halpha1/ Cha Halpha 1] stats and history * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050212200244/http://astron.berkeley.edu/~stars/bdwarfs/observbd.html "A census of observed brown dwarfs"] (not all confirmed), 1998 * {{cite journal |last1=Luhman |first1=Kevin L. |last2=Adame |first2=Lucía |last3=d'Alessio |first3=Paola |last4=Calvet |first4=Nuria |last5=Hartmann |first5=Lee |last6=Megeath |first6=S. Thomas |last7=Fazio |first7=Giovanni G. |year=2005 |title=Discovery of a Planetary-Mass Brown Dwarf with a Circumstellar Disk |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=635 |issue=1 |pages=L93–L96 |arxiv=astro-ph/0511807 |bibcode=2005ApJ...635L..93L |doi=10.1086/498868 |s2cid=11685964 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070609130324/http://www.gemini.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=232 Michaud, Peter; Heyer, Inge; Leggett, Sandy K.; and Adamson, Andy; "Discovery Narrows the Gap Between Planets and Brown Dwarfs", Gemini and Joint Astronomy Centre, 2007] * {{cite journal |arxiv=astro-ph/0607305 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10795.x |doi-access=free |title=The possiblity of detection of ultracool dwarfs with the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey |date=2006 |last1=Deacon |first1=N. R. |last2=Hambly |first2=N. C. |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=371 |issue=4 |pages=1722–1730 |bibcode=2006MNRAS.371.1722D }} {{Star}} {{Exoplanet}} {{Portal bar|Astronomy|Stars|Outer space}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown Dwarf}} [[Category:Brown dwarfs| ]] [[Category:Definition of planet]] [[Category:Star types]] [[Category:Stellar phenomena]] [[Category:Substellar objects]] [[Category:Types of planet]]
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