Astronomers find a brown dwarf companion to a nearby debris disk host star
Friday, August 26, 2016 - 08:21
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—Astronomers have detected a brown dwarf orbiting HR 2562 – a nearby star known to host a debris disk. The newly discovered substellar companion is the first brown dwarf-mass object found to reside in the inner hole of a debris disk. The findings were presented in a paper published Aug. 23 on the arXiv pre-print server.