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Project 1640 Observations of Brown Dwarf GJ 758 B: Near-infrared Spectrum and Atmospheric Modeling

  • Authors: R. Nilsson, A. Veicht, P. A. Giorla Godfrey, E. L. Rice, J. Aguilar, L. Pueyo, L. C. Roberts, R. Oppenheimer, D. Brenner, S. H. Luszcz-Cook, E. Bacchus, C. Beichman, R. Burruss, E. Cady, R. Dekany, R. Fergus, L. Hillenbrand, S. Hinkley, D. King, T. Lockhart, I. R. Parry, A. Sivaramakrishnan, R. Soummer, G. Vasisht, C. Zhai, and N. T. Zimmerman

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 838 64.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Best fit synthetic spectrum from BT-Settl13 models (black) using parameters derived from MCMC analysis of the complete Y JH spectrum (excluding the terrestrial water absorption band) from S4 extractions of the P1640 spectrum of GJ 758 B (gray markers and error bars). 100 spectra were randomly chosen from the posterior distributions of the MCMC calculations to represent the range of model fits that are allowed within 1 − σ uncertainty for the spectrum. The best fit parameters, 741 K/4.3 dex (cgs) for the Y JH spectrum, are the 50% quantiles of the effective temperature and surface gravity parameters from the MCMC posterior distributions (see Figure 9. The BT-Settl13 spectra with parameters determined from YJ and H fits only are shown in red and blue, respectively.

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