An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert: Confirmation of Two Low-Mass Transiting Brown Dwarfs Discovered by TESS
Elina Yuchen Zhang et al 2026 AJ 171 62 Two newly discovered brown dwarfs occupy an underpopulated region of the brown dwarf mass–period parameter space; one brown dwarf appears to be under luminous…
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