Rotation and Activity in Cool Fusors - UC Berkeley Astronomy 在凉爽的fusors -伯克利大学天文学的旋转和活动.ppt

Brown Dwarfs : Up Close and Physical Luminosity History of Low Mass Objects History of Substellar Sizes Core Temperature depends on Age and Mass The Lithium Test The New Cool Spectral Types : L Dwarfs Spectra of L Dwarfs The New Cool Spectral Types : T Dwarfs Alkalai Resonance Lines in the Optical Spectra of T Dwarfs Spectral Typing by IR Molecular Indices Dust formation Atmospheric Structure Changes Cloud Formation in Brown Dwarfs Photometric Evidence of Rotation and Weather The Weather Report for Brown Dwarfs Effect of Clouds on Spectra Atmospheric Changes with Spectral Type “Fine Analysis” vs Structural Effective Temperatures Rotation and Magnetic Activity on Brown Dwarfs Ha falls at the bottom of the Main Sequence Rotation in very cool objects Accretion and Activity in Young BDs:Ha Strength vs Width Rotation vs Ha strength in Young BDs Deriving Fundamental Physical Parameters Sensitivities to Teff and log(g) Breaking the Degeneracy Deriving Fundamental Physical Parameters Mass-Luminosity Relation Radius and Temperature vs Mass Model Gravities and Ages Evolutionary Model Uncertainties Conclusions Thank You! * In the mass range intermediate between stars and planets are the substellar objects known as brown dwarfs. The first BDs were discovered in 1995. The first confirmations were based in one case on interior properties (the lithium test), and in the other case on external temperature (the methane test). I will concentrate on what we have learned about their physical properties. We are only beginning to directly test masses and evolutionary models, but are learning about temperatures and atmospheric properties. I also touch on rotation, magnetic and accretion activity, in young and old BDs over their entire mass range. I will NOT cover many topics, including search techniques and results, the mass function or space density, binarity, or formation mechanisms. Gl 229 You could view brown dwarfs as stars which only have a deuterium main sequence (which is s