Establishing an Empirical Substellar Sequence to Planetary Masses
Abstract
Mass is the most fundamental parameter governing the life-history of all gaseous objects from stars to brown dwarfs and giant planets. Extending measurements of mass to the regime of directly imaged gas-giants, and spectroscopically characterizing this mass sample, will require the leap in angular resolution and sensitivity offered by the ELTs.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.469D