Evidence of Cloud Disruption in the L/T Dwarf Transition
Evidence of Cloud Disruption in the L/T Dwarf Transition
Clouds of metal-bearing condensates play a critical role in shaping the emergent spectral energy distributions of the coolest classes of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, L and T dwarfs. Because condensate clouds in planetary atmospheres show distinct horizontal structure, we have explored a model for partly cloudy atmospheres in brown …