Large-Scale Searches for Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. This is the accepted manuscript version of a book chapter which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3_118-1Searches of large-scale surveys have resulted in the discovery of over 1000 brown dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood. In this chapter we review the progress in finding brown dwarfs in large datasets, highlighting the key science goals and summarizing the surveys that have contributed most significantly to the current sample.Peer reviewe