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This letter reports the first detection of a periodic light curve whose modulation is unambiguously due to rotation in a polluted white dwarf. TESS observations of WD 2138-332, at a distance of 16.1 pc, reveal a 0.39 per cent amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 J. Farihi , A. Robert , N. Walters

Observations of variability can provide valuable information about the processes of cloud formation and dissipation in brown dwarf atmospheres. Here we report the results of an independent analysis of archival data from the Brown dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jacqueline Radigan

We have observed the post common envelope binary WD0137-349 in the near infrared $J$, $H$ and $K$ bands and have determined that the photometry varies on the system period (116 min). The amplitude of the variability increases with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-08 S. L. Casewell , M. R. Burleigh , K. A. Lawrie , P. F. L. Maxted , P. D. Dobbie , R. Napiwotzki

Using a sample of 361 nearby brown dwarfs, we have searched for 4.6$\mu$m variability indicative of large-scale rotational modulations or large-scale long-term changes on timescales of over 10 years. Our findings show no statistically…

The L/T transition is a critical evolutionary stage for brown dwarfs and self-luminous giant planets. L/T transition brown dwarfs are more likely to be spectroscopically variable, and their high-amplitude variability probes distributions in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Madalyn F. Chapleski , Yifan Zhou

The binary brown dwarf WISE J104915.57$-$531906.1 (also Luhman 16AB), composed of a late L and early T dwarf, is a prototypical L/T transition flux reversal binary located at only 2 pc distance. Luhman 16B is a known variable whose light…

(abridged) We perform photometric time-series analysis of a sample of ten early to mid-L dwarfs in the field over three years of $K_s$-band observations with the OMEGA 2000 infrared camera of the 3.5m telescope on Calar Alto Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Belén López Martí , María Rosa Zapatero Osorio

Rotational modulations of brown dwarfs have recently provided powerful constraints on the properties of ultra-cool atmospheres, including longitudinal and vertical cloud structures and cloud evolution. Furthermore, periodic light curves…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Yifan Zhou , Daniel Apai , Glenn Schneider , Mark S. Marley , Adam P. Showman

Rotationally-modulated variability of brown dwarfs and giant planets provides unique information about their surface brightness inhomogeneities, atmospheric circulation, cloud evolution, vertical atmospheric structure, and rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Brendan P. Bowler , Yifan Zhou , Caroline V. Morley , Tiffany Kataria , Marta L. Bryan , Björn Benneke , Konstantin Batygin

In this paper we study the full sample of known Spitzer [$3.6~\mu$m] and $J$-band variable brown dwarfs. We calculate the rotational velocities, $v\sin i$, of 16 variable brown dwarfs using archival Keck NIRSPEC data and compute the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Johanna M. Vos , Katelyn N. Allers , Beth A. Biller

We present here optical I-band photometric variability study down to $\simeq$ 19 mag of a young ($\sim$2-3 Myr) star-forming region IC 348 in the Perseus molecular cloud. We aim to explore the fast rotation (in the time-scales of hours) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Samrat Ghosh , Soumen Mondal , Somnath Dutta , Ramkrishna Das , Santosh Joshi , Sneh Lata , Dhrimadri Khata , Alik Panja

We present near-IR spectra of a sample of T Tauri, Herbig Ae/Be, and FU Ori objects. Using the FSPEC instrument on the Bok 90-inch telescope, we obtained K-band spectra with a resolution of ~3500. Here we present spectra of the v=2->0 and…

We present a detailed analysis of time-resolved optical spectra of the ZZ Ceti white dwarf, HS 0507+0434B. Using the wavelength dependence of observed mode amplitudes, we deduce the spherical degree, l, of the modes, most of which have l=1.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rubina Kotak , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , J. Christopher Clemens

We present the detection of [$3.6~\mu$m] photometric variability in two young, L/T transition brown dwarfs, WISE J004701.06+680352.1 (W0047) and 2MASS J2244316+204343 (2M2244) using the \textit{Spitzer Space Telescope}. We find a period of…

We report on phase-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry in the R and B bands of the white dwarf candidate ZTF 185139.81+171430.3. The source has been reported to be variable with a large amplitude of close to 1 magnitude, in the R…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 C. C. Pedersen , M. R. M. Knudsen , K. Valeckas , L. Izzo , T. M. Tauris , J. P. U. Fynbo

We present \textit{Spitzer Space Telescope} variability monitoring observations of three low-gravity L dwarfs with previous detections of variability in the near-IR, 2MASS J0045+16, 2MASS J0501-00 and 2MASS J1425-36. We detect significant,…

We report the possible identification of weak methane spectral features in the near-infrared K band in two late L dwarfs, DENIS 0205-11 (L7) and 2MASS 1523+30 (L8). New, high signal-to-noise ratio flux-calibrated spectra, spanning the…

Observations of rotational modulations of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets allow the characterization of condensate cloud properties. As of now rotational spectral modulations have only been seen in three L-type brown dwarfs. We report…

We present a technique to identify spectrophotometrically variable L7-T3 brown dwarfs with single-epoch, low-resolution, near-infrared SpeX spectra. We calculated spectral indices on known variable brown dwarfs and used them to select 11…

We report on the first dedicated monitoring campaign of spectroscopic variability in young brown dwarfs. High-resolution optical spectra of six targets in nearby star-forming regions were obtained over 11 nights between 2005 January-March…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Scholz , Ray Jayawardhana