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    Revealing the Vertical Cloud Structure of a Young Low-mass Brown Dwarf, an Analog to the ß-Pictoris b Directly Imaged Exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE Spectrophotometric Variability

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    Manjavacas, E.
    Karalidi, T.
    Vos, J.M.
    Biller, B.A.
    Lew, B.W.P.
    Affiliation
    Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona
    Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona
    Issue Date
    2021
    
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    American Astronomical Society
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    Manjavacas, E., Karalidi, T., Vos, J. M., Biller, B. A., & Lew, B. W. P. (2021). Revealing the Vertical Cloud Structure of a Young Low-mass Brown Dwarf, an Analog to the ß-Pictoris b Directly Imaged Exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE Spectrophotometric Variability. Astronomical Journal.
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    Young brown dwarfs are analogs to giant exoplanets, as they share effective temperatures, near-infrared colors, and surface gravities. Thus, the detailed characterization of young brown dwarfs might shed light on the study of giant exoplanets that we are currently unable to observe with a sufficient signal-to-noise to allow a precise characterization of their atmospheres. 2MASS J22081363+2921215 is a young L3 brown dwarf, and a member of the ß-Pictoris young moving group (23 ± 3 Myr), which shares its effective temperature and mass with the ß Pictoris b giant exoplanet. We performed a ~2.5 hr spectrophotometric J-band monitoring of 2MASS J22081363+2921215 with the MOSFIRE multi-object spectrograph, installed at the Keck I telescope. We measured a minimum variability amplitude of 3.22 ± 0.42% for its J-band light curve. The ratio between the maximum and the minimum flux spectra of 2MASS J22081363+2921215 shows a weak wavelength dependence, and a potentially enhanced variability amplitude in its alkali lines. Further analysis suggests that the variability amplitudes of the alkali lines are higher than its overall variability amplitude (4.5%-11%, depending on the lines). The variability amplitudes of these lines are lower if we degrade the resolution of the original MOSFIRE spectra to R ~ 100, which explains why this potentially enhanced variability of the alkali lines had not been found previously in Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/WFC3 light curves. Using radiative-transfer models, we obtained the different cloud layers that might be introducing the spectrophotometric variability we observe for 2MASS J22081363+2921215, which further supports the measured enhanced variability amplitudes of the alkali lines. We provide an artistic recreation of the vertical cloud structure of this ß-Pictoris b analog.
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    10.3847/1538-3881/ac174c
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