ATMOSPHERES FROM VERY LOW-MASS STARS TO EXTRASOLAR PLANETS

Within the next few years, several instruments aiming at imaging extrasolar planets will see first light. In parallel, low mass planets are being searched around red dwarfs which offer more favorable conditions - both for radial velocity detection and transit studies - than solar-type stars. We review recent advancements in modeling the stellar to substellar transition. The revised solar oxygen abundances and cloud models allow to reproduce the photometric and spectroscopic properties of this transition to a degree never achieved before, but problems remain at the stellar-brown dwarf transition typical of the T-eff range of characterizable exoplanets.