Abbreviated Journal Title
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.
Keywords
stars: abundances; brown dwarfs; circumstellar matter; stars: low-mass; INTERSTELLAR SILICATE MINERALOGY; LOW-TEMPERATURE CRYSTALLIZATION; PROTOPLANETARY ACCRETION DISKS; SCORPIUS OB ASSOCIATION; AURIGA; MOLECULAR CLOUD; STAR-FORMING REGION; LOW-MASS STAR; GRAIN-GROWTH; CIRCUMSTELLAR DISK; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; Astronomy & Astrophysics
Abstract
We present a study of the radial distribution of dust species in young brown dwarf discs. Our work is based on a compositional analysis of the 10 and 20 mu m silicate emission features for brown dwarfs in the TaurusAuriga star-forming region. A fundamental finding of our work is that brown dwarfs exhibit stronger signs of dust processing in the cold component of the disc, compared to the higher mass T Tauri stars in Taurus. For nearly all of our targets, we find a flat disc structure, which is consistent with the stronger signs of dust processing observed in these discs. For the case of one brown dwarf, 2M04230607, we find the forsterite mass fraction to be a factor of similar to 3 higher in the outer disc compared to the inner disc region. Simple large-scale radial mixing cannot account for this gradient in the dust chemical composition, and some local crystalline formation mechanism may be effective in this disc. The relatively high abundance of crystalline silicates in the outer cold regions of brown dwarf discs provides an interesting analogy to comets. In this context, we have discussed the applicability of the various mechanisms that have been proposed for comets on the formation and the outward transport of high-temperature material. We also present Chandra X-ray observations for two Taurus brown dwarfs, 2M04414825 and CFHT-BD-Tau 9. We find 2M04414825, which has an similar to 12 per cent crystalline mass fraction, to be more than an order of magnitude brighter in X-ray than CFHT-BD-Tau 9, which has an similar to 35 per cent crystalline mass fraction. Combining with previous X-ray data, we find the inner disc crystalline mass fractions to be anti-correlated with the X-ray strength.
Journal Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume
420
Issue/Number
3
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
2603
Last Page
2624
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0035-8711
Recommended Citation
Riaz, B.; Honda, M.; Campins, H.; Micela, G.; Guarcello, M. G.; Gledhill, T.; Hough, J.; and Martín, E. L., "The radial distribution of dust species in young brown dwarf discs" (2012). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 3189.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/3189
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