A Search for Radio Emission at the Bottom of the Main Sequence and Beyond
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- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in The Astronomical Journal
- Vol. 118 (3) , 1369-1372
- https://doi.org/10.1086/301015
Abstract
We have used the VLA to conduct a deep search for 3.6 cm radio emission from nearby very low mass stars and brown dwarfs. The Güdel-Benz relation is used to predict radio luminosities for some very low mass stars and candidate brown dwarfs with measured X-ray fluxes. The predicted radio fluxes are quite small, whereas the measured radio flux from the brown dwarf candidate GY 31 in the ρ Oph cloud is relatively strong. In light of our new observations, this object remains an anomaly. We present upper limits for our measured radio fluxes at 3.6 cm for our targets.Keywords
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