«Since both stars and the planets in our Solar System produce radio emission, detailed study of
the radio emission properties of these brown dwarfs may enable us to distinguish where the boundary between stellar and planetary behavior occurs in these not - quite - stars, not - quite - planets,» Osten explained.
Not exact matches
They also plan to keep monitoring the steady
radio emission from the vicinity of the Spitler burst to see if its
properties change in time, as expected based on that theory.
That was surprising, since aside from their polarity, the
properties of a pair of magnetic poles should be exactly the same, leading to identical
radio emissions, says Hankins.