Isolated Brown dwarfs at the Exoplanet Mass Boundary
Jacqueline Faherty
Carnegie Institute DTM


Young brown dwarfs and directly-imaged exoplanets have enticingly similar photometric and spectroscopic characteristics, indicating that their cool, low gravity atmospheres should be studied in concert. Similarities between the peculiar shaped H band, near and mid-IR photometry as well as location on color magnitude diagrams provide important clues about how to extract physical properties of planets from current brown dwarf observations. In this talk I will discuss systems newly assigned to 10-150 Myr nearby moving groups, highlight the diversity of this uniform age-calibrated brown dwarf (or planetary mass) sample, and reflect on their implication for understanding current and future planetary data.

Date: Thursday, 20 February 2014
Time: 11:30
Where: Université de Montréal
  Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, local D-460
Contact: René Doyon