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تسجيل مستخدم جديدProbing the Substellar Regime with SIRTF
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Eduardo L. Martin
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One of the main scientific drivers of the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is the search for brown dwarfs and extrasolar superplanets. We discuss observational strategies for identification of these objects, and conclude that an optimal strategy is a wide IRAC survey (18 deg$^2$) with a 5 $sigma$ sensitivity of 3.9 $mu$Jy in channel 2 (M$sim19.1^m$). For this sensitivity, we provide estimates of the number of low mass brown dwarfs and isolated planets detected per square degree for power-law mass functions with $alpha$=1.5, and 1.0. Shallower surveys covering a larger area are inefficient because of large overheads and detector noise. Deeper surveys covering a smaller area become more and more affected by crowding with galaxies. A survey like the one that we propose would determine the field mass function down to a few Jupiter masses through the identification of a large sample of brown dwarfs and isolated planets. The proposed SIRTF survey would also allow the first detection of ultracool substellar objects with temperatures between 700 K and 200 K. The cooling curves of substellar objects with masses less than 20 Jupiters imply that they should spend most of their lifetimes at temperatures below 700 K. Preliminary models indicate that their atmospheres could be dominated by water clouds, which would diminish their optical and near-infrared fluxes. The properties of those objects are still completely unexplored.
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