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HN Peg B: A Test of Models of the L to T Dwarf Transition

  • Authors: S. K. Leggett, D. Saumon, Loic Albert, Michael C. Cushing, Michael C. Liu, K. L. Luhman, M. S. Marley, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Thomas L. Roellig, and K. N. Allers

Leggett et al. 2008 The Astrophysical Journal 682 1256.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 4.

Observed spectrum of HN Peg B (heavy black line), compared to synthetic spectra with various ﹩T_{\mathrm{eff}\,}﹩, gravity, sedimentation efficiency ﹩f_{\mathrm{sed}\,}﹩, and vertical mixing diffusion coefficient ﹩K_{zz}﹩ parameters, as indicated in the legends. The model fluxes have been scaled to flux at the Earth using the known distance to HN Peg and the HN Peg B radii calculated by evolutionary models. The top panel shows our best‐fitting model (red line) together with a similar model with thicker cloud decks (brown line). The bottom panel shows the best‐fitting cooler model (blue line), together with a warmer model spectrum demonstrating the effect of less vertical transport (green line; compare to brown line in top panel).

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