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Binarity Enhances the Occurrence Rate of Radiation Belt Emissions in Ultracool Dwarfs
Melodie M. Kao, J. Sebastian Pineda
Despite a burgeoning set of ultracool dwarf (M7) radio detections, their radio emissions remain enigmatic. Open questions include the plasma source and acceleration mechanism…
The Occurrence Rate of Quiescent Radio Emission for Ultracool Dwarfs using a Generalized Semi-Analytical Bayesian Framework
Melodie M. Kao, Evgenya L. Shkolnik
We present a generalized analytical Bayesian framework for calculating the occurrence rate of steady emission (or absorption) in astrophysical objects. As a proof-of-concept, we ap…
Radio Emission from Binary Ultracool Dwarf Systems
Melodie M. Kao, J. Sebastian Pineda
Well-characterized binary systems will provide valuable opportunities to study the conditions that are necessary for the onset of both auroral and non-auroral magnetospheric radio…
On the Correlation between L Dwarf Optical and Infrared Variability and Radio Aurorae
Tyler Richey-Yowell, Melodie M. Kao, J. Sebastian Pineda +2
Photometric variability attributed to cloud phenomena is common in L/T transition brown dwarfs. Recent studies show that such variability may also trace aurorae, suggesting that lo…
Magnetism in the Brown Dwarf Regime
Melodie M. Kao, J. Sebastian Pineda, Peter Williams +8
A suite of discoveries in the last two decades demonstrate that we are now at a point where incorporating magnetic behavior is key for advancing our ability to characterize substel…
The Strongest Magnetic Fields on the Coolest Brown Dwarfs
Melodie Kao, Gregg Hallinan, J. Sebastian Pineda +2
We have used NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to observe a sample of five known radio-emitting late L and T dwarfs ranging in age from ~0.2 - 3.4Gyr. We observed each ta…