2013ApJ...778L..10B -
Astrophys. J., 778, L10 (2013/November-3)
Weather on the nearest brown dwarfs: resolved simultaneous multi-wavelength variability monitoring of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB.
BILLER B.A., CROSSFIELD I.J.M., MANCINI L., CICERI S., SOUTHWORTH J., KOPYTOVA T.G., BONNEFOY M., DEACON N.R., SCHLIEDER J.E., BUENZLI E., BRANDNER W., ALLARD F., HOMEIER D., FREYTAG B., BAILER-JONES C.A.L., GREINER J., HENNING T. and GOLDMAN B.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present two epochs of MPG/ESO 2.2 m GROND simultaneous six-band (r'i'z' JHK) photometric monitoring of the closest known L/T transition brown dwarf binary WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB. We report here the first resolved variability monitoring of both the T0.5 and L7.5 components. We obtained 4 hr of focused observations on the night of 2013 April 22 (UT), as well as 4 hr of defocused (unresolved) observations on the night of 2013 April 16 (UT). We note a number of robust trends in our light curves. The r' and i' light curves appear to be anti-correlated with z' and H for the T0.5 component and in the unresolved light curve. In the defocused dataset, J appears correlated with z' and H and anti-correlated with r' and i', while in the focused dataset we measure no variability for J at the level of our photometric precision, likely due to evolving weather phenomena. In our focused T0.5 component light curve, the K band light curve displays a significant phase offset relative to both H and z'. We argue that the measured phase offsets are correlated with atmospheric pressure probed at each band, as estimated from one-dimensional atmospheric models. We also report low-amplitude variability in i' and z' intrinsic to the L7.5 component.
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