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2003AJ....125..343L - Astron. J., 125, 343-347 (2003/January-0)

A flaring L5 dwarf: the nature of Hα emission in very low (sub)stellar objects.

LIEBERT J., KIRKPATRICK J.D., CRUZ K.L., REID I.N., BURGASSER A., TINNEY C.G. and GIZIS J.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

Time series spectrophotometry of the L5 dwarf 2MASS J01443536-0716142 showed strong Hα emission that declined by nearly 75% in four consecutive exposures. The line was not detected in emission on a spectrum obtained 11 months later. This behavior contrasts with that of 2MASSI J1315309-264951, an L5 dwarf that has shown even stronger Hα emission on four separate occasions. The observational database suggests that L dwarfs can be found in such strong flares only occasionally, with a duty cycle on the order of 1%. In contrast, the few, continuously strong Hα emitters, including PC 0025+0447 and 2MASSI J1237392+652615, must either be (1) objects no older than 10-100 Myr with continuously active accretion and/or chromospheres, but which apparently formed in isolation from known young stellar clusters and associations, or (2) objects empowered by a different but unknown mechanism for the Hα energy.

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Journal keyword(s): Stars: Chromospheres - stars: individual (2MASS J01443536-0716142) - stars: individual (2MASSI J1315309-264951) - stars: individual (PC 0025+0447) - Stars: Individual: Alphanumeric: 2MASSI J1237392+652615 - Stars: Low-Mass, Brown Dwarfs

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