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A Deep look at the T-type brown dwarf binary Epsilon Indi Bab with Chandra and ATCA

Published inThe Astrophysical journal, vol. 625, no. 1, p. L63-L66
Publication date2005
First online date2005-05-02
Abstract

We present deep observations of the nearby T-type brown dwarf binary $\epsilon$ Indi Bab in radio with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and in X-rays with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Despite long integration times, the binary (composed of T1 and T6 dwarfs) was not detected in either wavelength regime. We reached $3\sigma$ upper limits of $1.23 \times 10^{12}$ and $1.74 \times 10^{12}$ erg/s/Hz for the radio luminosity at 4.8 GHz and 8.64 GHz, respectively/ in the X-rays, the upper limit in the $0.1-10$ keV band was $3.16 \times 10^{23}$ erg/s. We discuss the above results in the framework of magnetic activity in ultracool, low-mass dwarfs.

Keywords
  • Radio continuum: stars
  • Stars: activity
  • Stars: coronae
  • Stars: individual (
  • Indi Bab)
  • Stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs
  • X-rays: stars
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AUDARD, Marc et al. A Deep look at the T-type brown dwarf binary Epsilon Indi Bab with Chandra and ATCA. In: The Astrophysical journal, 2005, vol. 625, n° 1, p. L63–L66. doi: 10.1086/430881
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