We report the results of deep infrared observations of brown dwarf candidates in the Trapezium cluster in Orion .
Analysis of the JHK color-color diagram indicates that a large fraction ( \sim 65 \% \pm 15 \% ) of the observed sources exhibit infrared excess emission .
This suggests the extreme youth of these objects and in turn , provides strong independent confirmation of the existence of a large population of substellar objects in the cluster .
Moreover , this suggests that the majority of these substellar objects are presently surrounded by circumstellar disks similar to the situation for the stellar population of the cluster .
This evidence for a high initial disk frequency ( > 50 % ) around cluster members of all masses combined with the smooth continuity of the cluster ’ s initial mass function across the hydrogen burning limit suggests that a single physical mechanism is likely responsible for producing the entire cluster mass spectrum down to near the deuterium burning limit .
The results may also indicate that even substellar objects are capable of forming with systems of planetary companions .