Coronal X-ray emission from an intermediate-age brown dwarf

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2003-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304231v1

Astrophys.J. 587 (2003) L51

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1086/375017

We report the X-ray detection of the brown dwarf (BD) companion TWA 5B in a $\simeq 12$ Myr old pre-main sequence binary system. We clearly resolve the faint companion (35 photons) separated from the X-ray luminous primary by 2 arcsec in a {\it Chandra} ACIS image. TWA 5B shows a soft X-ray spectrum with a low plasma temperature of only 0.3 keV and a constant flux during the 3 hour observation, of which the characteristics are commonly seen in the solar corona. The X-ray luminosity is 4$\times10^{27}$ erg s$^{-1}$ (0.1--10 keV band) or $\log L_X/L_{bol} = -3.4$. Comparing these properties to both younger and older BDs, we discuss the evolution of the X-ray emission in BDs. During their first few Myr, they exhibit high levels of X-ray activity as seen in higher mass pre-main sequence stars. The level in TWA 5B is still high at $t \simeq 12$ Myr in $\log L_X/L_{bol}$ while $kT$ has already substantially cooled.

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