Orbital migration and the brown dwarf desert

P J  Armitage; I A  Bonnell

Orbital migration and the brown dwarf desert

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

The orbital elements of extreme mass ratio binaries will be modified by interactions with surrounding circumstellar disks. For brown dwarf companions to Solar-type stars the resulting orbital migration is sufficient to drive short period systems to merger, creating a brown dwarf desert at small separations. We highlight the similarities and the differences between the migration of brown dwarfs and massive extrasolar planets, and discuss how observations can test a migration model for the brown dwarf desert.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	31-34
Number of pages	4
Journal	BROWN DWARFS
Publication status	Published - 2003

Keywords

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
ACCRETION DISKS
EVOLUTION
STARS

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Orbital migration and the brown dwarf desert

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