Jacqueline K Faherty, Ben Burningham, Jonathan Gagné, Genaro Suárez, Johanna M Vos, Sherelyn Alejandro Merchan, Caroline V Morley, Melanie Rowland, Brianna Lacy, Rocio Kiman, Dan Caselden, J Davy Kirkpatrick, Aaron Meisner, Adam C Schneider, Marc Jason Kuchner, Daniella Carolina Bardalez Gagliuffi, Charles Beichman, Peter Eisenhardt, Christopher R Gelino, Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad, Eileen Gonzales, Federico Marocco, Austin James Rothermich, Niall Whiteford
Beyond our Solar System, aurorae have been inferred from radio observations of isolated brown dwarfs1,2 . Within our Solar System, giant planets have auroral emission with signatures across the electromagnetic spectrum including infrared emission of H3 + and methane. Isolated brown dwarfs with auroral signatures in the radio have been searched for corresponding infrared features, but only null detections have been reported3 . CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3. (W1935 for short) is an isolated brown dwarf with a temperature of approximately 482 K...
April 2024: Nature