Title: Follow up for brown dwarf candidates from TESS PI: Theron Carmichael Abstract ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We currently know of only 21 transiting brown dwarfs, which means that only as many of these objects have measured masses and radii. There is a need to discover and characterize more brown dwarfs because doing so will produce a large enough sample size of these objects to allow us to draw statistically-motivated conclusions about their behavior and their origins. This is where CHIRON and the TESS mission synergize well as we may use CHIRON to measure RVs and TESS to measure light curves and combine these measurements to derive masses, radii, and orbital eccentricities for brown dwarfs and directly test them against substellar evolutionary models in order to understand their formation mechanisms.