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We present an analysis of the 0.95-14.5 micron spectral energy distributions of nine field ultracool dwarfs with spectral types ranging from L1 to T4.5. Effective temperatures, gravities, and condensate cloud sedimentation efficiencies are…

We present a new suite of atmosphere models with flexible cloud parameters to investigate the effects of clouds on brown dwarfs across the L/T transition. We fit these models to a sample of 13 objects with well-known masses, distances, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Laci Shea Brock , Travis Barman , Quinn M. Konopacky , Jordan M. Stone

Photometric variability attributed to cloud phenomena is common in L/T transition brown dwarfs. Recent studies show that such variability may also trace aurorae, suggesting that localized magnetic heating may contribute to observed brown…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Tyler Richey-Yowell , Melodie M. Kao , J. Sebastian Pineda , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Gregg Hallinan

The previous, high angular resolution 225 GHz ($\sim$1.3 mm) continuum observations on the transitional disk DM Tau have resolved an outer ring at 20-120 au radii that is weakly azimuthally asymmetric. We aimed to examine dust growth and…

[Abridged] As part of our on-going investigation of magnetic activity in ultracool dwarfs we present simultaneous radio, X-ray, UV, and optical observations of LSR1835+32 (M8.5), and simultaneous X-ray and UV observations of VB10 (M8), both…

Irradiated brown dwarfs offer a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between stellar and planetary atmospheres. We present high-quality $\mathit{HST}$/WFC3/G141 phase-resolved spectra of the white dwarf + brown dwarf binary GD 1400,…

We determine the effective temperature, surface gravity and projected rotational velocity of nine T dwarfs from the comparison of high-resolution near-infrared spectra and synthetic models, and estimate the mass and age of the objects from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. del Burgo , E. L. Martin , M. R. Zapatero Osorio , P. H. Hauschildt

[Abridged] We present an 8.5-hour simultaneous radio, X-ray, UV, and optical observation of the L dwarf binary 2MASSW J0746+20. We detect strong radio emission, dominated by short-duration periodic pulses at 4.86 GHz with P=124.32+/-0.11…

The spectra of brown dwarfs are key to exploring the chemistry and physics that take place in their atmospheres. Late-T dwarf spectra are particularly diagnostic due to their relatively cloud-free atmospheres and deep molecular bands. With…

This work brings a wavelet analysis for 14 Kepler white dwarf stars, in order to confirm their photometric variability behavior and to search for periodicities in these targets. From the observed Kepler light curves we obtained the wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-17 S. R. de Lira , J. P. Bravo , I. C. Leao , A. D. da Costa , B. L. Canto Martins , D. B. de Freitas , J. R. De Medeiros

We observed two full orbital phase curves of the transiting brown dwarf KELT-1b, at 3.6um and 4.5um, using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Combined with previous eclipse data from Beatty et al. (2014), we strongly detect KELT-1b's phase…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Thomas G. Beatty , Mark S. Marley , B. Scott Gaudi , Knicole D. Colon , Jonathan J. Fortney , Adam P. Showman

We find periodic I-band variability in two ultracool dwarfs, TVLM 513-46546 and 2MASS J00361617+1821104, on either side of the M/L dwarf boundary. Both of these targets are short-period radio transients, with the detected I-band periods…

Brown dwarfs were recently found to display rotational modulations, commonly attributed to cloud cover of varying thickness, possibly modulated by planetary-scale waves. However, the long-term, continuous, high-precision monitoring data to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Daniel Apai , Domenico Nardiello , Luigi R. Bedin

Most directly imaged giant exoplanets are fainter than brown dwarfs with similar spectra. To explain their relative underluminosity unusually cloudy atmospheres have been proposed. However, with multiple parameters varying between any two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Daniel Apai , Jacqueline Radigan , Esther Buenzli , Adam Burrows , Iain N. Reid , Ray Jayawardhana

We present 10 - 19 um moderate resolution spectra of ten M dwarfs, one L dwarf, and two T dwarf systems obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. The IRS allows us to examine molecular spectroscopic…

We have used time-resolved spectroscopy to measure the colour dependence of pulsation amplitudes in the DAV white dwarf G 29-38. Model atmospheres predict that mode amplitudes should change with wavelength in a manner that depends on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Clemens , M. H. van Kerkwijk , Y. Wu

[abridged] We report four years of radial velocity monitoring observations of SDSS J080531.84+481233.0 that reveal significant and periodic variability, confirming the binary nature of the source. We infer an orbital period of 2.02$\pm$0.03…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Adam J. Burgasser , Cullen H. Blake , Christopher R. Gelino , Johannes Sahlmann , Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi

We detect radio emission in an additional two epochs of the ultracool dwarf binary LP 349- 25, finding that the observed emission is broadband and steady on timescales between 10s and 10.7 hours, as well as on timescales of 0.6 and 1.6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 R. A. Osten , N. Phan-Bao , S. L. Hawley , I. Neill Reid , R. Ojha

Radio activity has been observed in a large variety of stellar objects, including in the last few years, ultra-cool dwarfs. To explore the extent of long-term radio activity in ultra-cool dwarfs, we use data taken over an extended period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Antonova , J. G. Doyle , G. Hallinan , A. Golden , C. Koen

We present the first detection of photometric variability of a spectroscopically-confirmed Y dwarf. The Infrared Array Camera on board the Spitzer Space Telescope was used to obtain times series photometry at 3.6 and 4.5 microns over a…