substellar objects (brown dwarfs)

I spent the day at the NSBP / NSHP meeting in San José . My favorite session of the day was the morning astro session, which was entirely about brown dwarfs. I learned a lot in a very short time. Caprice Phillips (UCSC) introduced the session with an introduction to the scientific and technical questions in play. She put a lot of emphasis on using binaries and clusters to put detailed abundance…