Stellar Companion Appears to be Giant Planet
APR 01, 1985
DOI: 10.1063/1.2814523
Is Jupiter as large as a planet can be? Are the Sun’s faint neighbors, with roughly 10% of its mass, the smallest stars? There is no apparent physical reason that objects in the mass range of 5 to 50 times the mass of Jupiter should not exist, and although the properties of such objects have not been well explored theoretically, their existence has important implications for a number of fields in physics and astronomy.
© 1985. American Institute of Physics
