Assessing Ariel's capabilities to observe free-floating brown dwarfs

arXiv:2605.28924 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-05-27 · Read on arXiv

Roman Akhmetshyn, Nicolas B Cowan, Sarah Casewell

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-05-27

Comments: Submitted to RASTI on May 22, 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Montreal Open Clusters and Associations — 3× in this paper
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Variability of Brown Dwarfs
• Exoplanet Atmosphere Measurements from Direct Imaging
• On the synergetic use of Ariel and JWST for exoplanet atmospheric science
• Maximizing Ariel's Survey Leverage for Population-Level Studies of Exoplanets
• Long-term, Multiwavelength Light Curves of Ultra-Cool Dwarfs: II. The evolving Light Curves of the T2.5 SIMP 0136 & the Uncorrelated Light Curves of the M9 TVLM 513
• The Montreal Open Clusters and Associations (MOCA) Database: A Census of Nearby Associations, Open Clusters, and Young Substellar Objects within 500 pc of the Sun
• Balancing Variety and Sample Size: Optimal Parameter Sampling for Ariel Target Selection

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