Time to announce yet another new paper at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. This one is hot off the press and was published today (15th September 2023).
The latest paper is the 36th so far in Volume 6 (2023) and the 101st in all. The authors are Kareem El-Badry (Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, USA), Kevin Burdge (Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Jan van Roestel (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam,NL) & Antonio C. Rodriguez (Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, USA).
The primary classification for this paper is Solar and Stellar Astrophysics and its title is “A transiting brown dwarf in a 2 hour orbit”. The article reports the discovery of a brown dwarf in a very short orbit around a low-mass star with a discussion about the evolution of this orbit probably due to magnetic braking. Amazingly, the entire binary system would fit comfortably inside the Sun (although that’s not actually where it is).
Anyway, here is a screen grab of the overlay of the published version which includes the abstract:
You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper on the arXiv here.
In the Dark 