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Jun 2003
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Brown Dwarfs, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #211, held 20-24 May 2002 at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Edited by Eduard
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Determining the process(es) by which brown dwarfs form is key to understanding their intrinsic nature. If their origins are within circumstellar disks they are akin to giant planets. If, on the other hand, they coalesce from molecular cloud cores, then they share a common lineage with low mass stars. These two mechanisms can be distinguished by investigation of young (< 10 Myr) substellar objects. If brown dwarfs are small failed stars, we expect to find very low mass analogs of the Classical T Tauris, with primordial magnetic fields from the molecular cloud collapse. Accretion onto these objects leads to characteristic magnetic activity signatures such as chromospheric and coronal emission resulting in an ultraviolet excess continuum. The Orion OB1b association (m-M = 7.9, 2 Myr) provides a laboratory for following the strength and occurrence of the accretion process as a function of mass. Studies of the substellar mass function within the sigma Orionis cluster at the southern end of the association indicate that brown dwarfs are common. Based on model isochrones and the SDSS M dwarf sequence we expect the 95% completeness limit of the "Orion" scans to correspond to 0.1 and 0.03 solar masses for the u and g bands.
Covey Kevin R.
Hawley Suzanne L.
McGehee Peregrine M.
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