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The missing mass in the solar neighbourhood may be low mass (brown dwarf) companion stars in wide binaries. A search for these companions has been initiated using a new Photometric-camera.
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Hepburn, I.D. (1987). The search for very low mass (brown dwarf) stars as wide binaries. In: Linsky, J.L., Stencel, R.E. (eds) Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18653-0_192
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