RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 17, 2013 at 2:03 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 11:33 am)Chuck Wrote: I believe the theoretical detection distance of coolest and smallest brown dwarves is well under 1 light year using current technology. Even if we have surveyed every part of the sky with our best technology, we would still have only excluded any closer brown dwarves than alpha centuri from less than 1/64th of the volume of space such brown dwarves might occupy.
But that would apply only to the coolest and smallest brown dwarves, right? A larger, warmer one should theoretically be detectable further out.
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