Inhomogeneous cloud coverage through the Coulomb explosion of dust in substellar atmospheres
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Inhomogeneous cloud coverage through the Coulomb explosion of dust in substellar atmospheres
Context. Recent observations of brown dwarf spectroscopic variability in the infrared infer the presence of patchy cloud cover. Aims. This paper proposes a mechanism for producing inhomogeneous cloud coverage due to the depletion of cloud particles through the Coulomb explosion of dust in atmospheric plasma regions. Charged dust grains Coulomb-explode when the electrostatic stress of the grain ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526045