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First Detection of Millimeter Dust Emission from Brown Dwarf Disks

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We report results from the first deep millimeter continuum survey targeting Brown Dwarfs (BDs). The survey led to the first detection of cold dust in the disks around two young BDs (CFHT-BD-Tau 4 and IC348 613), with deep JCMT and IRAM observations reaching flux levels of a few mJy. The dust masses are estimated to be a few Earth masses assuming the same dust opacities as usually applied to TTauri stars.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307076,
  title  = {First Detection of Millimeter Dust Emission from Brown Dwarf Disks},
  author = {R. Klein and D. Apai and I. Pascucci and Th. Henning and L. B. F. M. Waters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307076},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, accepted for ApJL