# Hunting for ancient brown dwarfs: the developing field of brown dwarfs in globular clusters

## TL;DR

Detecting brown dwarfs in globular clusters can significantly improve our understanding of stellar evolution, cluster properties, and atmospheric physics, with upcoming telescopes enabling breakthroughs in this developing field.

## Contribution

This paper highlights the potential of future infrared observations to detect brown dwarfs in globular clusters, advancing the study of their properties and cluster dynamics.

## Key findings

- Infrared telescopes like JWST will enable detection of brown dwarfs in clusters.
- Brown dwarfs can help constrain cluster ages and dynamics.
- Detection will improve models of brown dwarf atmospheres and interiors.

## Abstract

The detection of brown dwarfs in globular star clusters will allow us to break the degeneracies in age, mass and composition that affect our current models, and therefore to constrain the physics of their atmospheres and interiors. Furthermore, detecting brown dwarfs will help us constrain the properties of the clusters themselves, as they carry information about the clusters' age and dynamics. Great advancements in this field are to be expected in the next ten years, thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity in the infrared of upcoming telescopes like JWST and the ELTs.