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A Deep Look at the T-Type Brown Dwarf Binary $\epsilon$ Indi Bab with Chandra and ATCA

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We present deep observations of the nearby T-type brown dwarf binary ϵ\epsilon Indi Bab in radio with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and in X-rays with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Despite long integration times, the binary (composed of T1 and T6 dwarfs) was not detected in either wavelength regime. We reached 3σ3\sigma upper limits of 1.23×10121.23 \times 10^{12} and 1.74×10121.74 \times 10^{12} erg/s/Hz for the radio luminosity at 4.8 GHz and 8.64 GHz, respectively; in the X-rays, the upper limit in the 0.1100.1-10 keV band was 3.16×10233.16 \times 10^{23} erg/s. We discuss the above results in the framework of magnetic activity in ultracool, low-mass dwarfs.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504424,
  title  = {A Deep Look at the T-Type Brown Dwarf Binary $\epsilon$ Indi Bab with Chandra and ATCA},
  author = {M. Audard and A. Brown and K. R. Briggs and M. Guedel and A. Telleschi and J. E. Gizis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504424},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters