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TOI-2490b- The most eccentric brown dwarf transiting in the brown dwarf desert

TOI-2490b- The most eccentric brown dwarf transiting in the brown dwarf desert

We report the discovery of the most eccentric transiting brown dwarf in the brown dwarf desert, TOI02490b. The brown dwarf desert is the lack of brown dwarfs around main sequence stars within $\sim3$~AU and is thought to be caused by differences in formation mechanisms between a star and planet. To …