Open AccessGiant Planets and Brown Dwarfs Form in Different Ways
Author(s) -
Katherine Kornei
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo127841
Subject(s) - brown dwarf , planet , astrobiology , astronomy , physics , astrophysics
Once thought to be part of the same population, planets larger than Jupiter and “failed stars” likely grow via different mechanisms, the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey has shown.