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Unable to sustain nuclear fusion in their cores due to insufficient mass, all brown dwarfs are about the radius of Jupiter, emit primarily in the infrared, and are degenerate across effective temperature, mass, and age. These observational challenges make stellar direct measurement methods such as interferometry and asteroseismology unfeasible and dynamical mass measurements very difficult for a large number of objects. However, spectral energy distributions (SED) that account for over 97% 97\%  of the flux from any brown dwarf Flux calibration with parallaxes give bolometric luminosities ($L_{bol}$), which provide precise measurement of the total power of these