The discovery of the first bona fide brown dwarfs in 1995 ushered in a new era in both stellar and planetary astrophysics. The emergent spectra of brown dwarfs are distinct from those of the lowest-mass stars and thus the creation of three new spectral classes, L, T, and Y, were required in order to classify them. In this chapter, I provide a historical review of the creation of these spectral classes and briefly discuss the physical conditions that give rise to the variations in spectral morphology used for classification.
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Cushing, M. C. (2014). Ultracool Objects: L, T, and Y Dwarfs (pp. 113–140). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01162-2_7
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