Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi (AMNH) "System architectures as fossils of brown dwarf and giant planet formation"
Brown dwarfs and giant planets share many similarities in their physical properties and atmospheric dynamics, but the most fundamental difference between these two types of objects is the formation pathway that led to their creation. The key to differentiating between formation pathways may lie in their chemical compositions. Recent discoveries have unveiled a number of systems with substellar companions in orbital configurations that are challenging to...
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