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超冷矮星的射电辐射

Radio Emission from Ultra-Cool Dwarfs

P. K. G. Williams

摘要:

2001年发现的超冷矮星(UCD)的无线电发射,非常低质量的恒星和棕矮星的光谱类型为~M7和更晚,揭示了这些物体可以产生和消散强大的磁场。射电观测为UCD磁性提供了无与伦比的洞察力:探测范围延伸到温度<1000 K的棕矮星,在那里没有其他观测探测器是有效的。数据显示,UCD可以产生强(kG)场,有时具有稳定的偶极结构;它们可以产生和保留非热等离子体,电子加速扩展到MeV能量;它们可以驱动极光电流系统,导致显著的大气能量沉积和强大的相干无线电爆发。仍然需要理解的是潜在的发电机过程,粒子在这些物体周围加速的精确方法,观察到的磁现象的多样性,以及所有这些因素如何随着中心物体的质量接近木星而变化。这些问题的答案是双重重要的,因为UCD既是潜在的系外行星宿主,如TRAPPIST-1系统,也是太阳系外巨行星本身的类似物。

英文摘要:

The 2001 discovery of radio emission from ultra-cool dwarfs (UCDs), the very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs with spectral types of ~M7 and later, revealed that these objects can generate and dissipate powerful magnetic fields. Radio observations provide unparalleled insight into UCD magnetism: detections extend to brown dwarfs with temperatures <1000 K, where no other observational probes are effective. The data reveal that UCDs can generate strong (kG) fields, sometimes with a stable dipolar structure; that they can produce and retain nonthermal plasmas with electron acceleration extending to MeV energies; and that they can drive auroral current systems resulting in significant atmospheric energy deposition and powerful, coherent radio bursts. Still to be understood are the underlying dynamo processes, the precise means by which particles are accelerated around these objects, the observed diversity of magnetic phenomenologies, and how all of these factors change as the mass of the central object approaches that of Jupiter. The answers to these questions are doubly important because UCDs are both potential exoplanet hosts, as in the TRAPPIST-1 system, and analogues of extrasolar giant planets themselves.

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