Probing Dust in the Atmosphere of Brown Dwarfs Through Polarization
arXiv:astro-ph/0110017 · doi:10.1086/324559
Abstract
Theoretical analysis and observational evidences indicate that a brown dwarf with effective temperature greater than 1400 K would have dust cloud in its atmosphere. In this letter, we show that dust scattering should yield polarized continuum radiation from the relatively warm brown dwarfs and the polarized flux profile could be a potential diagnosis tool for the optical and the physical properties of dust grains. The degree of polarization due to multiple scattering will be more in the optical region if the particle size is small while significant polarization should be detected in the infra-red region if the particle size is large. It is pointed out that the departure from sphericity in the shape of the object due to rapid rotation and due to tidal effect by the companion in a binary system ensures the disc integrated polarization to be non-zero.
9 pages (Latex AAS v4.0), 2 postscript figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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