Optical linear polarization in ultra cool dwarfs: A tool to probe dust in the ultra cool dwarf atmospheres

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 508, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1423-1427

  Tata, R ^a   Martin E L ^a,b,c   Sengupta, S ^d,e   Phan Bao, N ^f,g   Zapatero Osorio, M R ^b,c   Bouy, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^g INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Polarization; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; DEBRIS DISK; DUST CLOUDS; HIGHER-DEGREE; LINEAR POLARIZATION; OBLATENESS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; STARS: LOW-MASS , BROWN DWARFS; THEORETICAL MODELS; ULTRA COOL DWARFS; WILLIAM HERSCHEL TELESCOPES; STARS: LOW-MASS, BROWN DWARFS;

DEBRIS; DUST; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SPACE PROBES; STARS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 72849125099     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911830     Document Type: Article

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