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Convection in brown dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Subhanjoy Mohanty ,
Isabelle Baraffe  and
Gilles Chabrier
Subhanjoy Mohanty
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA email: smohanty@cfa.harvard.edu
Isabelle Baraffe
Affiliation:
CRAL, École Normale Supérieure, 46 allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, FRANCE email: ibaraffe@ens-lyon.fr, chabrier@ens-lyon.fr
Gilles Chabrier
Affiliation:
CRAL, École Normale Supérieure, 46 allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, FRANCE email: ibaraffe@ens-lyon.fr, chabrier@ens-lyon.fr
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Abstract

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We briefly review the crucial effect that convection plays in the evolution, interior and atmospheric physics of brown dwarfs. In particular, we discuss: (1) the role of convection in the interior structure and evolution of brown dwarfs (BDs); (2) the importance of convection in the atmospheres of ultra-cool objects, at both high and low gravities (i.e., in both young and old BDs); and (3) the role of convection/turbulence in the formation and settling of dust grains, and non-equilibrium chemistry, in BD atmospheres.

Keywords

Stars: brown dwarfsconvection

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Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S239: Convection in Astrophysics , August 2006 , pp. 197 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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