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We present a photometric analysis of 19 DA and 13 DAO white dwarfs (WDs) with effective temperatures exceeding 60 kK, building on the spectral analysis reported in the first paper of this two-part study. By examining archival light curves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Semih Filiz , Nicole Reindl , David Jones , Paulina Sowicka , Matti Dorsch , Thomas Rauch , Klaus Werner

We present an atmospheric retrieval analysis of HST/WFC3/G141 spectroscopic phase curve observations of two brown dwarfs, WD-0137B and EPIC-2122B, in ultra-short period orbits around white dwarf hosts. These systems are analogous to hot and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Joshua D. Lothringer , Yifan Zhou , Daniel Apai , Xianyu Tan , Vivien Parmentier , Sarah L. Casewell

We present the first results on the spectra of Be/X-ray binary RX J0440.9+4431 obtained with the 2m Ritchey-Cretein-Coude telescope with Cassegrain Multi Mode Spectrograph (CMMS) (with R = 14000) at Terskol observatory. The H-alpha line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-08 Andrew Simon , A. V. Bondar , V. M. Reshetnyk

We present the spectroscopic analysis of a large sample of late-M, L, and T dwarfs from UKIDSS. Using the YJHK photometry from ULAS and the red-optical photometry from SDSS we selected a sample of 262 brown dwarf candidates and we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Marocco , H. R. A. Jones , A. C. Day-Jones , D. J. Pinfield , P. W. Lucas , B. Burningham , Z. H. Zhang , R. L. Smart , J. I. Gomes , L. Smith

We present a uniform atmospheric retrieval analysis of 22 late-T and Y-type brown dwarfs within 20 pc, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec PRISM and MIRI LRS. This dataset provides the first continuous 0.95-12 um…

We conducted a volume-limited survey at 4.9 GHz of 32 nearby ultracool dwarfs with spectral types covering the range M7 -- T8. A statistical analysis was performed on the combined data from the present survey and previous radio observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Antonova , G. Hallinan , J. G. Doyle , S. Yu , A. Kuznetsov , Y. Metodieva , A. Golden , K. L. Cruz

We have obtained a series of high-resolution optical spectra for the brown dwarf 2MASSW J1207334-393254 (2M1207) using the ESO Very Large Telescope with the UVES spectrograph during two consecutive observing nights (time resolution of ~12…

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

We present the first results of a near-infrared (0.96-2.31 micron) spectroscopic survey of M, L, and T dwarfs obtained with NIRSPEC on the Keck II telescope. Our new survey has a resolving power of R = 2000 and is comprised of two major…

We present results from the "Weather on Other Worlds" Spitzer Exploration Science program to investigate photometric variability in L and T dwarfs, usually attributed to patchy clouds. We surveyed 44 L3-T8 dwarfs, spanning a range of…

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3M$_\odot$ M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Emily K Pass , Jennifer G Winters , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M Irwin , Amber A Medina

We present Kepler, Spitzer Space Telescope, Gemini-North, MMT, and Kitt Peak observations of the L1 dwarf WISEP J190648.47+401106.8. We find that the Kepler optical light curve is consistent in phase and amplitude over the nearly two years…

Brown dwarfs in close-in orbits around white dwarfs offer an excellent opportunity to investigate properties of fast-rotating, tidally-locked, and highly-irradiated atmospheres. We present Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 G141…

We present highly time resolved circular-polarization and flux spectra of the magnetic white dwarf LP790-29 taken with the VLT UT1 in order to test the hypothesis that LP790-29 is a fast rotator with a period of the order of seconds to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Jordan , Susanne Friedrich

Brown dwarfs are compact objects that do not reach temperatures high enough to produce sustained hydrogen fusion. Consequently, they cool over time, gradually evolving through later spectral types. In fact, three new spectral types (L, T,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 A. R. Callen , I. H. Bustos Fierro , M. Gómez

Near-infrared spectroscopic observations of a sample of very cool, low-mass objects are presented with higher spectral resolution than in any previous studies. Six of the objects are L-dwarfs, ranging in spectral class from L2 to L8/9, and…

Recently, studies of brown dwarfs have demonstrated that they possess strong magnetic fields and have the potential to produce radio and optical auroral emissions powered by magnetospheric currents. This emission provides the only window on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 J. Sebastian Pineda , Gregg Hallinan , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Garret Cotter , Melodie M. Kao , Kunal Mooley

We present near-infrared spectra for a sample of T dwarfs, including eleven new discoveries made using the Two Micron All Sky Survey. These objects are distinguished from warmer (L-type) brown dwarfs by the presence of methane absorption…

Monitoring mass accretion onto substellar objects provides insights into the geometry of the accretion flows. We use the Lulin One-meter Telescope to monitor H$\alpha$ emission from FU Tau B, a $\sim$19 $M_{\rm Jup}$ brown-dwarf companion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Ya-Lin Wu , Yu-Chi Cheng , Li-Ching Huang , Brendan Bowler , Laird Close , Wei-Ling Tseng , Ning Chen , Da-Wei Chen

We present a study of high-cadence, high-precision, optical light curves from the TESS satellite of 67 blazars in the southern sky. We provide descriptive flux statistics, power spectral density model parameters, and characteristic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-18 Ryne Dingler , Krista Lynne Smith

Most brown dwarfs show some level of photometric or spectral variability. However, finding the most variable dwarfs more suited for a thorough variability monitoring campaign remained a challenge until a few years ago with the design of…

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