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\nThanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project and the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video.This video is about the line between Brown dwarfs and gas giant planets (aka super Jupiter's): does it exist?...\nThanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project and the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video.

This video is about the line between Brown dwarfs and gas giant planets (aka super Jupiter's): does it exist? Is it the deuterium-burning threshold? Behavior? Metallicity? Formation? Or is there no meaningful scientific distinction, and are brown dwarfs and giant planets really all on a spectrum with no clear line between them?

REFERENCES

Giant planet and brown dwarf formation

Exoplanets versus brown dwarfs: the CoRoT view and the future

Defining and cataloging exoplanets: The exoplanet.eu database

A Definition for Giant Planets Based on the Mass-Density Relationship

Spatial differences between stars and brown dwarfs: a dynamical origin?

Hints for Small Disks around Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

VLA observations of the disk around the young brown dwarf 2MASS J044427+2512


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