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HN Peg B:L-T矮星跃迁模型的检验

HN Peg B: A Test of Models of the L to T Dwarf Transition

S. K. Leggett, D. Saumon, Loic Albert, Michael. C. Cushing, Michael C. Liu, K. L. Luhman, M. S. Marley, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Thomas L. Roellig, K. N. Allers

摘要:

Luhman和合作者最近发现了G 0矮星HN Peg的早期T矮星伴侣,使用斯皮策红外阵列相机(IRAC)图像。根据1998年2微米全天巡天图像和2004年IRAC图像推断的共同自行,建立了伙伴关系。在本文中,我们提出了新的近红外成像数据,证实了共同的自行系统。我们还提出了新的3 - 4 μ m光谱的HN Peg B,它提供了更严格的限制,热光度测定和合成光谱的比较。新的自适应光学成像数据也被提出,这表明T矮星是未解决的,提供限制的多重性的对象。我们使用的年龄,距离和光度的太阳金属性T矮星,以确定其有效的温度和重力,并比较合成光谱与这些值,以及一系列的颗粒特性和垂直混合,所观察到的0.8 - 4.0微米的光谱和中红外测光。我们发现,模型的温度和重力适合的年龄范围的系统(0.5 Gyr)的老端可以做一个合理的工作拟合的数据,但只有当光球凝结云甲板是薄的,如果有显着的垂直混合在大气中。像HN Peg B这样的矮星,具有确定的金属丰度,半径,重力和温度,将允许发展动力学大气模型,从而解决L到T矮星过渡的难题。

英文摘要:

Luhman and collaborators recently discovered an early-T dwarf companion to the G0 dwarf star HN Peg, using Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) images. Companionship was established on the basis of the common proper motion inferred from 1998 Two Micron All Sky Survey images and the 2004 IRAC images. In this paper we present new near-infrared imaging data which confirms the common proper motion of the system. We also present new 3 - 4 um spectroscopy of HN Peg B, which provides tighter constraints on both the bolometric luminosity determination and the comparison to synthetic spectra. New adaptive optics imaging data are also presented, which shows the T dwarf to be unresolved, providing limits on the multiplicity of the object. We use the age, distance and luminosity of the solar-metallicity T dwarf to determine its effective temperature and gravity, and compare synthetic spectra with these values, and a range of grain properties and vertical mixing, to the observed 0.8 - 4.0 um spectra and mid-infrared photometry. We find that models with temperature and gravity appropriate for the older end of the age range of the system (0.5 Gyr) can do a reasonable job of fitting the data, but only if the photospheric condensate cloud deck is thin, and if there is significant vertical mixing in the atmosphere. Dwarfs such as HN Peg B, with well-determined metallicity, radius, gravity and temperature will allow development of dynamical atmosphere models, leading to the solution of the puzzle of the L to T dwarf transition.

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