Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet
by Jeff_Brown on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:13PM
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Above 13 Jupiter masses would it have to be a burned out star?
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Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet
by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:59PM
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Brown dwarf? Some sputtering early attempts at fusion, but not enough to become self-sustaining.
13 Mj is on the low side of the definition. It's not a definitive number and goes as high as 80 Mj, depending who you ask.
Re:Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet
by wumpus on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:57PM
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13 Mj is the current mass at which people think deuterium fusion can start. Above 80 Mj, hydrogen fusion will start.
These numbers depend on a lot of details of stellar atmospheres.
I took a graduate-level Stellar Atmospheres class from S. Kumar, who first theorized about this class of not-quite-star.