Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20053677
Three brown dwarfs in different evolutionary stages have been observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Combining the new observations with previous studies presented in the literature yields a brown dwarf sample that reaches well down into the cooling phase of brown dwarfs, allowing to investigate the possible influence of effective temperature on X-ray activity. Combining our results with published data allows us to consider a subsample of high-mass brown dwarfs (with 0.05-0.07 Msun), and another one characterized by similar effective temperature (with 2400-2800 K). Our findings support the idea that effective temperature plays a critical role for the X-ray activity in brown dwarfs. This underlines an earlier suggestion based on observations of chromospheric Ha emission in ultracool dwarfs that the low ionization fraction in the cool brown dwarf atmospheres may suppress magnetic activity.
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Flaccomio Ettore
Jayawardhana Ray
Jena -Uni
Micela Giuseppina
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