2019•Bulletin of the American Astronomical SocietyRequires access
The Need for Infrared Astrometry of Brown Dwarfs in the Post-Gaia Era
J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Fatima N. Abdurrahman, William M. J. Best, Trent J. Dupuy, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Calen B. Henderson, Federico Marocco, Przemek Mróz, J. Sahlmann, Richard L. Smart, Christopher A. Theissen, EDWARD L. WRIGHT
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Abstract
Brown dwarf research in the next decade will be reliant on extending high-precision astrometry in wavelength and temporal coverage. Future astrometry will enable measures of the low-mass cutoff of star formation, allow for the discovery of cold brown dwarf analogs to cold (exo)planets, and enable mass measurements for single and binary systems .