Synthetic Spectra and Mass Determination of the Brown Dwarf GI 229B

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Jul 1996

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Astrophysical Journal Letters v.465, p.L123

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

118

Sun: Atmosphere, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Fundamental Parameters, Stars: Low-Mass, Brown Dwarfs

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We present preliminary nongray model atmospheres and interiors for cool brown dwarfs. The resulting synthetic spectra are compared to available spectroscopic and photometric observations of the coolest brown dwarf yet discovered, Gl 229B (Nakajima et al.). Despite the grainless nature of the present models, we find that the resulting synthetic spectra provide an excellent fit to most of the spectral features of the brown dwarf. We confirm the presence of methane absorption and the substellar nature of Gl 229B. These preliminary models set an upper limit for the effective temperature of 1000 K. We also compute the evolution of brown dwarfs with solar composition and masses from 0.02 to 0.065 Msolar. While uncertainties in the age of the system yield some indeterminateness for the mass of Gl 229B, the most likely solution is m ~ 0.04--0.055 Msolar. In any case, we can set an upper limit m = 0.065 Msolar for a very unlikely age, t = 10 Gyr.

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