Ha emission from FU Tau B brown dwarf companion

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Monitoring mass accretion onto substellar objects provides insights into the geometry of the accretion flows. We use the Lulin One-meter Telescope to monitor H{alpha} emission from FUTauB, a ~19MJup brown-dwarf companion at 5.7" (719au) from the host star, for six consecutive nights. This is the longest continuous H{alpha} monitoring for a substellar companion near the deuterium-burning limit. We aim to investigate if accretion near the planetary regime could be rotationally modulated as suggested by magnetospheric accretion models. We find tentative evidence that H{alpha} mildly varies on hourly and daily timescales, though our sensitivity is not sufficient to definitively establish any rotational modulation. No burst-like events are detected, implying that accretion onto FUTauB is overall stable during the time baseline and sampling windows over which it was observed. The primary star FUTauA also exhibits H{alpha} variations over timescales from minutes to days. This program highlights the potential of monitoring accretion onto substellar objects with small telescopes.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51660143
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/166/143
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Provenance
Creator Wu Y.-L.; Cheng Y.-C.; Huang L.-C.; Bowler B.P.; Close L.M.; Tseng W.-L.,Chen N.; Chen D.-W.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2024
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Exoplanet Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy