Open AccessStarlike Brown Dwarf? Not Anymore
Author(s) -
JoAnna Wendel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo073625
Subject(s) - brown dwarf , astronomy , physics , planet
Because of a new, surprisingly smaller mass estimate for a much-studied, nearby brown dwarf, astronomers now regard the familiar object as merely planetlike.