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Extrasolar Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Theory

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Book cover Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations

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With little doubt, we are in the midst of a renaissance in the study of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. High-resolution Doppler spectroscopy of nearby stars has netted ~14 giant planets/brown dwarfs within 2.5 A.U. of their primaries (Table 1), seven within 0.25 A.U.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Surveys in stellar clusters and in the field are discovering scores of objects near the stellar/substellar boundary, with exotic spectra such as have never before been catalogued or studied[8, 9, 10, 11]. There are numerous searches now underway to directly detect brown dwarfs, one succeeding spectacularly with the discovery of Gliese 229B[12, 13, 14, 15, 16]. The spectrum of Gl 229B is similar to that of Jupiter, in that it has methane bands. In fact, it has features in common with both stars and giant planets. As a missing link, Gl 229B is heralding a new era in the theoretical study of stellar/planetary atmospheres, brown dwarfs, and planets.

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Burrows, A. (1999). Extrasolar Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Theory. In: Mariotti, JM., Alloin, D. (eds) Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations. NATO Science Series, vol 532. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4623-4_9

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