[JumpCrisscross]

> many of these little red dots are turning out to be nothing more than bog-standard brown dwarfs

Your own paper estimates 5 to 25% may be brown dwarfs, and says nothing about whether they might be in our galaxy or not.

[fractaled]

Pretty sure we can't resolve brown dwarfs farther than a few 10k ly (well inside the confines of our galaxy).