作者: Jill Tarter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01162-2_3
关键词: Initial mass function 、 Astronomy 、 Spitzer Space Telescope 、 Philosophy 、 Brown dwarf 、 Term (time)
摘要: This contribution provides a very brief, personal comment on the remarkable past five decades of progress in our understanding small-mass objects that try, but do not succeed stably fusing hydrogen. article describes origin term ‘brown dwarf’ as introduced by me 1975.