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"about a sixth of brown dwarfs, come in pairs" we're told in the Space.com article, and the paper's abstract says we have here "the discovery of a companion to a young planetary mass brown dwarf". So can someone who knows about this stuff clear up why this is important? :-) Evercat 22:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, is "Oph 162225-240515" the name of the pair or just the name of the bigger object? Evercat 22:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
My rough calculations suggest that they would orbit their common barycenter with a period of perhaps 20,000 years, but it is important to take into account the unknown orientation of the axis of rotation. If anyone sees a reference to this sort of analysis, please insert the information and a link. -- NealMcB 21:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
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"about a sixth of brown dwarfs, come in pairs" we're told in the Space.com article, and the paper's abstract says we have here "the discovery of a companion to a young planetary mass brown dwarf". So can someone who knows about this stuff clear up why this is important? :-) Evercat 22:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, is "Oph 162225-240515" the name of the pair or just the name of the bigger object? Evercat 22:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
My rough calculations suggest that they would orbit their common barycenter with a period of perhaps 20,000 years, but it is important to take into account the unknown orientation of the axis of rotation. If anyone sees a reference to this sort of analysis, please insert the information and a link. -- NealMcB 21:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)