alt Hacker News> many of these little red dots are turning out to be nothing more than bog-standard brown dwarfs
Your own paper estimates 5 to 25% may be brown dwarfs, and says nothing about whether they might be in our galaxy or not.
> many of these little red dots are turning out to be nothing more than bog-standard brown dwarfs
Your own paper estimates 5 to 25% may be brown dwarfs, and says nothing about whether they might be in our galaxy or not.
Pretty sure we can't resolve brown dwarfs farther than a few 10k ly (well inside the confines of our galaxy).