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2000A&A...358L..33S - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 358L33-36 (2000/6-2)

Line formation in the Atmosphere of brown dwarf Gliese 229B : CH4 at 2.3µm.

SENGUPTA S. and KRISHAN V.

Abstract (from CDS):

We investigate the formation of methane line at 2.3µm in Brown Dwarf Gliese 229B. Two sets of model parameters with (a) Teff=940K and log(g)=5.0, (b) Teff=1030K and log(g)=5.5 are adopted both of which provide excellent fit for the synthetic continuum spectra with the observed flux at a wide range of wavelengths. In the absence of observational data for individual molecular lines, we set the additional parameters that are needed in order to model the individual lines by fitting the calculated flux with the observed flux at the continuum. A significant difference in the amount of flux at the core of the line is found with the two different models although the flux at the continuum remains the same. Hence, we show that if spectroscopic observation at 2.3µm with a resolution as high as R≃200,000 is possible then a much better constraint on the surface gravity and on the metallicity of the object could be obtained by fitting the theoretical model of individual molecular line with the observed data.

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Journal keyword(s): molecular processes - line: formation - radiative transfer - stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs

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