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This book provides an introduction to brown dwarfs aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, supplementing stellar astrophysics or (exo)planetary science classes. It emphasises key theoretical ideas, including brown dwarf concepts, atmospheres, formation, initial mass function, and the main observational results that support those ideas.

Produktbeschreibung
This book provides an introduction to brown dwarfs aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, supplementing stellar astrophysics or (exo)planetary science classes. It emphasises key theoretical ideas, including brown dwarf concepts, atmospheres, formation, initial mass function, and the main observational results that support those ideas.
Autorenporträt
John Gizis is Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Astronomy at the University of Delaware. He earned his PhD in 1998 at the California Institute of Technology. Before joining the University of Delaware, he was a member of the 2MASS Rare Objects Team that developed the L and T brown dwarf spectral classification.