suggesting that binarity was a key factor in the creation of brown-dwarf desert inhabitants.

One of the many possible reasons for the existence of the desert relates to planetary (and brown dwarf) migration. If a brown dwarf were to form within 5 AU of its companion star, the two objects' strong mutual gravitational attraction could plausibly cause the dwarf to migrate inwards towards the central star and eventually fall into it. That being said, the exact details