IR spectra of 5 brown dwarfs with Gemini North IRS Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Miles B.E.
  2. Skemer A.J.I.
  3. Morley C.V.
  4. Marley M.S.
  5. Fortney J.J.,Allers K.N.
  6. Faherty J.K.
  7. Geballe T.R.
  8. Visscher C.
  9. Schneider A.C.,Lupu R.
  10. Freedman R.S.
  11. Bjoraker G.L.
  12. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Cold brown dwarfs are excellent analogs of widely separated, gas giant exoplanets, and provide insight into the potential atmospheric chemistry and physics we may encounter in objects to be discovered by future direct imaging surveys. We present a low-resolution, R~300, M-band spectroscopic sequence of seven brown dwarfs with effective temperatures between 750 and 250K along with Jupiter. These spectra reveal disequilibrium abundances of carbon monoxide (CO) produced by atmospheric quenching. We use the eddy diffusion coefficient (Kzz) to estimate the strength of vertical mixing in each object. The Kzz values of cooler gaseous objects are close to their theoretical maximum, and warmer objects show weaker mixing, likely due to less efficient convective mixing in primarily radiative layers. The CO-derived Kzz values imply that disequilibrium phosphine (PH3) should be easily observable in all of the brown dwarfs, but none as yet show any evidence for PH3 absorption. We find that ammonia is relatively insensitive to atmospheric quenching at these effective temperatures. We are able to improve the fit to WISE 0855's M-band spectrum by including both CO and water clouds in the atmospheric model.

Keywords
  1. Brown dwarfs
  2. Infrared astronomy
  3. Spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020AJ....160...63M
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2020-11-04T13:05:18Z
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2020-11-04T13:05:18Z
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