Some Scientific Progress on Brown Dwarfs Stars / Planets

Some Scientific Progress on Brown Dwarfs Brown dwarfs are tricky to study, because even the bigger, brighter ones by definition don't emit an awful lot of light.  But using the 1.4 billion pixel camera of the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), some progress is being made.  In a recent report, this quote caught my eye; "Spectroscopic follow-up observations on four of them allowed the team to reach several conclusions: These companion brown dwarfs are infrequent, making up only about 0.6% of binaries, at least for those in which the stars are widely spaced (closer pairs were much more difficult to study). More puzzling, the scientists found that the brown dwarf companions are well enough understood to conclude that they did not form at the same time as their more normal, companion star." (1) Well, that presumably means that these brown dwarf companions were captured (or perhaps formed independently from an orbiting or captured partial nebula later on, who knows?)  But it's a pretty small sample range at just 4 such objects, so it might be a bit of a stretch to read too much into this at this stage.  Also bear in mind that the kind of 'brown dwarf' I'm focussed on with my Dark Star Theory is some way down on the scale of these objects.  So way down, in fact, that the Dark Star companion would really be a sub-brown dwarf, a cosmic entity which lies between the smallest brown dwarf and the gas giant Jupiter. Even so, could this mean that the Dark Star might have formed or been captured some time after the formation of the solar system?  It most likely first made its presence felt 3.9 billion years ago during a period of time known as the 'late, heavy bombardment'.  This was some 400 million years after the formation of the Sun, which more or less insinuates that any Dark Star out there should really have formed during the same time. Andy Lloyd, 5th September 2013 Reference: 1)  "Astronomers Use Pan-STARRS to Detect Brown Dwarf Companion Stars" 3rd September 2013 http://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-use-pan-starrs-detect-brown-dwarf-companion-stars/ with thanks to Mark