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| CfA Colloquium Schedule Spring 2007 | ||
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22 March 2007Speaker: Kevin Luhman (Pennsylvania State University) Title: The Origin of Brown Dwarfs Abstract: I review the latest observational constraints on the process of brown dwarf formation, which include measurements of the initial mass function, binarity, circumstellar environment (disks, accretion, envelopes), and spatial distributions at birth of brown dwarfs. These properties are compared to comparable measurements for stars and to predictions of theories for the formation of brown dwarfs.
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