Deuterium-burning in substellar objects

Details Deuterium-burning in substellar objects Deuterium-burning in substellar objects

2000-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009174v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, Latex file, uses aasms4.sty, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312941

We consider the depletion of primordial deuterium in the interior of substellar objects as a function of mass, age and absolute magnitude in several photometric passbands. We characterize potential spectroscopic signatures of deuterium in the lines of deuterated water HDO. These results will serve as a useful, independent diagnostic to characterize the mass and/or the age of young substellar objects, and to provide an independent age determination of very young clusters. These results can serve to identify objects at the deuterium-burning limit and to confront the theoretical prediction that D-burning is a necessary condition to form star-like objects.

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