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Modelling the environment around five ultracool dwarfs via the radio domain

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

We present the results of a series of short radio observations of six ultracool dwarfs made using the upgraded VLA in S (2--4GHz) and C (4--7GHz) bands. LSR J1835+3259 exhibits a 100 percent right-hand circularly polarised burst which shows intense narrowband features with a fast negative frequency drift of about 30-30 MHz s1\textrm{s}^{-1}. They are superimposed on a fainter broadband emission feature with a total duration of about 20 minutes, bandwidth of about 1 GHz, centred at about 3.5 GHz, and a slow positive frequency drift of about 1 MHz s1\textrm{s}^{-1}. This makes it the first such event detected below 4 GHz and the first one exhibiting both positive and negative frequency drifts. Polarised radio emission is also seen in 2MASS J00361617+1821104 and NLTT 33370, while LP 349-25 and TVLM 513-46546 have unpolarised emission and BRI B0021-0214 was not detected. We can reproduce the main characteristics of the burst from LSR J1835+3259 using a model describing the magnetic field of the dwarf as a tilted dipole. We also analyse the origins of the quiescent radio emission and estimate the required parameters of the magnetic field and energetic electrons. Although our results are non-unique, we find a set of models which agree well with the observations.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02989,
  title  = {Modelling the environment around five ultracool dwarfs via the radio domain},
  author = {Y. T. Metodieva and A. A. Kuznetsov and A. E. Antonova and J. G. Doyle and G. Ramsay and K. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02989},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables