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https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8020077
Copy DOIJournal: Universe | Publication Date: Jan 27, 2022 |
Citations: 3 | License type: CC BY 4.0 |
We study the origin of unusually persistent microwave and X-ray radiation from the ultracool dwarf TVLM 513-46546. It is shown that the source of ≈1 keV X-ray emission is not the entire corona of the brown dwarf, but a population of several hundreds of coronal magnetic loops, with 10 MK plasma heated upon dissipation of the electric current generated by the photospheric convection. Unlike models, which assume a large-scale magnetic structure of the microwave source, our model suggests that the microwave radiation comes from hundreds of magnetic loops quasi-uniformly distributed over the dwarf’s surface. We propose a long-term operating mechanism of acceleration of electrons generating gyrosynchrotron radio emission caused by oscillations of electric current in the magnetic loops as an equivalent RLC circuit. The second population of magnetic loops—the sources of microwave radiation, is at the same time a source of softer (≈0.2 keV) X-ray emission.
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