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Failed Stars and Super Planets: A Report Based on the January 1998 Workshop on Substellar-Mass Objects (1998)
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA)
 Space Studies Board (SSB)

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Failed Stars and Super Planets: A Report Based on the January 1998 Workshop on Substellar-Mass Objects

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Formation of SMOs

  

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 Starlike and Planetlike Formation,

  

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 Formation of Substellar-Mass Companions to Stars, David C. Black, Lunar and Planetary Institute

  

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 Formation of Brown Dwarfs by Mass Transfer, Frank Shu, University of California, Berkeley

  

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 Formation of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets, Peter Bodenheimer, University of California, Santa Cruz

  

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 Long-Term Dynamical Evolution of Multiple-Component Systems, Martin J. Duncan, Queen's University

  

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Statistical Detections, Galactic Structure, and the Mass Content SMOs,

  

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 Microlensing Determination of the SMO Mass Function,

  

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 Detecting Planets via Microlensing,

  

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 Microlensing: An Observational Overview, Charles Alcock, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  

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 Microlensing as a Probe of the Initial Mass Function and Galactic Structure,
Andrew Gould, Ohio State University

  

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 Dark Matter in the Universe and Microlensing, Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

  

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 Microlensing and the Search for Planets, Stanton Peale, University of California, Santa Barbara

  

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Findings and Future Needs

  

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 Status of Current Research Activities,

  

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 The Most Compelling Issues for Near-Term Study,

  

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 Contributions to Broader Scientific Goals,

  

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 Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research,

  

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 The Contribution of Studies of SMOs to Achieving Long-Term Scientific Priorities,

  

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 Concluding Remarks,

  

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