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作为银河系计时器的褐矮星

Brown Dwarfs as Galactic Chronometers

Adam J. Burgasser

摘要:

褐矮星是天然的时钟,由于核心融合不足,随着时间的推移会冷却和变暗。它们数量众多,存在于几乎所有的银河系环境中,使它们成为各种银河系研究的潜在有用的计时器。然而,要实现这一潜力,需要对单个来源进行精确和准确的年龄测定,这一前景由于低温棕矮星复杂的大气和光谱;质量、年龄和光度之间的简并性;以及缺乏有用的磁活动和旋转年龄趋势而变得困难。在这篇文章中,我回顾了五种方法,其中褐矮星的年龄是唯一确定的,讨论了它们的适用性和局限性,并给出了目前的经验精度。

英文摘要:

Brown dwarfs are natural clocks, cooling and dimming over time due to insufficient core fusion. They are also numerous and present in nearly all Galactic environments, making them potentially useful chronometers for a variety of Galactic studies. For this potential to be realized, however, precise and accurate ages for individual sources are required, a prospect made difficult by the complex atmospheres and spectra of low-temperature brown dwarfs; degeneracy between mass, age and luminosity; and the lack of useful age trends in magnetic activity and rotation. In this contribution, I review five ways in which ages for brown dwarfs are uniquely determined, discuss their applicability and limitations, and give current empirical precisions.

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