Theory of Low-Mass Stars and Substellar Objects

By G. Chabrier, Isabelle Baraffe. 2000

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▪ Abstract Since the discovery of the first bona-fide brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets in 1995, the field of low-mass stars and substellar objects has progressed considerably, both from theoret...

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. A. Burgasser
2. J. D. Kirkpatrick
3. Michael C. Liu
4. M. Marley
5. T. Dupuy
6. K. Luhman
7. Jon Fortney
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1. A. Burgasser
2. J. D. Kirkpatrick
3. Michael C. Liu
4. T. Dupuy
5. M. Marley
6. K. Luhman
7. Kelle Cruz
8. Jon Fortney

Citations in the corpus

• The Formation and Early Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs (2012, background): “Whitworth et al. (2007) and Chabrier & Baraffe (2000) reviewed theories for the formation and evolution of brown dwarfs, respectively, and Luhman et al. (2007d) and Burgasser et al. (2007) compared the predictions of the formation models to observations.”
• Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the US Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program (2004, background): “However, for all but the youngest objects, brown dwarf radii are largely independent of mass and age, and all are similar to the radius of Jupiter (Chabrier & Baraffe 2000).”
• A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Spectral Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs (2004, background): “Since their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) peak near ∼1 µm, considerable observational (Basri 2000, Kirkpatrick 2005) and theoretical (Chabrier & Baraffe 2000; Burrows et al. 2001) effort has gone into studying them at both red-optical and near-infrared wavelengths.”
• Masses and Radii of Low-Mass Stars: Theory Versus Observations (2005, unknown): “Current stellar structure models of low mass stars have reached a high level sophistication and maturity (e.g., Chabrier & Baraffe 2000).”
• THE EVOLUTION OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AS REVEALED BY THEIR DONOR STARS (2011, background): “In the brown dwarf regime, there is no thermal equilibrium configuration, so even the structure and temperature of isolated objects strongly depend on age (Chabrier & Baraffe 2000).”
• MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA) (2010, background): “1997; Chabrier et al. 2000; Chabrier & Baraffe 2000; Burrows et al. 2001) has been studied extensively.”
• Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies (2012, background): “Theoretical studies include evolutionary tracks of premain-sequence stars (e.g., Chabrier & Baraffe 2000 for low mass stars and substellar objects).”
• Evolution of low-mass star and brown dwarf eclipsing binaries (2007, background): “These discrepancies are unlikely to be due to inaccurate equation of state or opacities, whose treatment is relatively well mastered for m >∼ 0.4M⊙ and Teff >∼ 4000 K (Chabrier & Baraffe 2000, CB00).”
• Planetary Radii across Five Orders of Magnitude in Mass and Stellar Insolation: Application to Transits (2006, background): “Following the Hubbard (1977) prescription to smallTint leads to planetary radii that reach an asymptotic value governed by their Bond albedo (Chabrier & Baraffe 2000), and hence overestimates the radii of old, cold planets.”
• The Galactic Disk Mass Function: Reconciliation of the Hubble Space Telescope and Nearby Determinations (2003, background): “These stars are expectedFzF 800 to have metal-depleted abundances and fainter magnitudes for a given V I color than stars with solar abundance (Chabrier & Baraffe 2000).”
• Updated Electron-Conduction Opacities: The Impact on Low-Mass Stellar Models (2007, background): “…is verified in the interiors of brown dwarfs, very low-mass stars with massMtot < 0.15M⊙ (the exact value slightly affected by the metal content; see Chabrier & Baraffe 2000 for a review), in the He-core of low-mass stars during their Red Giant Branch (RGB) evolution (see, e.g., Salaris, Cassisi,…”
• The Evolution of L and T Dwarfs in Color-Magnitude Diagrams (2008, background): “The agreement is not as good as we found with the COND03models (Fig.”
• Astrometry and Photometry for Cool Dwarfs and Brown Dwarfs (2002, background): “…review the rapid development of the observational data (Reid & Hawley 2000; Basri 2000; Liebert 2000) and theoretical understanding (Allard et al. 1997; Chabrier & Baraffe 2000; Burrows et al. 2001) of these low-mass objects that bridge the gap between coolM stars and giant Jupiter-like planets.”
• The Interior Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Giant Planets (2009, background): “The exact choice of the starting model is usually thought to be unimportant, if 25 one is interested in following the evolution for ages greater than 1 Myr (Burrows et al. 1997; Chabrier & Baraffe 2000).”