Isabelle Baraffe

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of irradiation and evaporation on the evolution of short period planets and argue that substantial mass loss may have occurred for these objects, and suggest that the distinction between planets and brown dwarfs be based on an observational diagnostic, reflecting the different formation mechanisms between these two distinct populations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the crucial effect that convection plays in the evolution, interior and atmospheric physics of brown dwarfs and discuss the role of convection/turbulence in the formation and settling of dust grains, and nonequilibrium chemistry, in BD atmospheres.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first set of realistic simulations and the preliminary design of the fiber injection unit that will be implemented in SPHERE, a demonstrator that will combine the capabilities of two flagship instruments installed on the ESO Very Large Telescope, the high-contrast exoplanet imager SpHERE and the highresolution spectrograph CRIRES+, with the goal of answering fundamental questions on the formation, composition and evolution of young planets.

TL;DR: The first ultracool dwarf discovery from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey Early Data Release (LAS EDR) was reported in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of star-like objects has been studied from the fundamental physics point of view, from the astrophysical and cosmological implications of very low-mass stars (VLMS), Brown Dwarfs (BD) and Extra-solar Giant Planets (EGP).