Toward the End of Stars: Discovering the Galaxy's Coldest Brown Dwarfs

Abstract

This White Paper to the National Academy of Sciences Astro2010 Decadal Review Committee highlights cross-disciplinary science opportunities over the next decade with cold brown dwarfs, sources defined here as having photospheric temperatures less than ~1000 K.

8 pages, 3 figures, Astro2010 Science White Paper; v2 has a generally printable font