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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 573, Issue 2, Pages L115-L117Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/342210
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accretion, accretion disks; circumstellar matter; stars : individual (Chamaeleon H alpha 2, LP 944-20); stars : low-mass, brown dwarfs
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We present the first mid-infrared (MIR) detection of a field brown dwarf (BD) and the first ground-based MIR measurements of a disk around a young BD candidate. We prove the absence of warm dust surrounding the field BD LP 944-20. In the case of the young BD candidate Cha Halpha 2, we find clear evidence for thermal dust emission from a disk. Surprisingly, the object does not exhibit any silicate feature as previously predicted. We show that the flat spectrum can be explained by an optically thick flat dust disk.
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