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Prospects for Life on Temperate Planets around Brown Dwarfs

  • Authors: Manasvi Lingam, Idan Ginsburg, and Abraham Loeb

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 888 102.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

The JWST integration time (Δt) necessary to achieve an S/N of ∼5 using eclipse (i.e., thermal emission) spectroscopy for an Earth-analog around a brown dwarf plotted as a function of the brown dwarf’s age. We have specified d = 10 pc, λ = 10 μm, and ζ = 0.5 in (20). The dotted, unbroken, and dashed black curves depict Δt for brown dwarfs whose masses are 10 MJ, 40 MJ, and 70 MJ, respectively. The horizontal red line demarcates the desirable region where the integration time is <10 hr.

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