My research focuses in the characterization of the atmospheres of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and free-floating planets.
My spectral libraries
Selected Refereed Publications
1.Manjavacas, E; Miles-Paez, P. A.; Karalidi, T; Vos, J. M; Galloway, M. L; Girard, J. H. Time-resolved Optical Polarization Monitoring of the Most Variable Brown Dwarf, 2023, AJ, 165, 181M.
2. Manjavacas, E.; Karalidi, Theodora; Tan, Xianyu; Vos, Johanna M.; Biller, Beth A.; Lew, Ben W. P. Tracing the Top-of-the-atmosphere and Vertical Cloud Structure of a fast-rotating late T-dwarf, 2022, AJ, 164, 65M.
3. Manjavacas, E.; Karalidi, T.; Vos, J.; Biller, B.; Lew B. Revealing the Vertical Cloud Structure of a young low-mass Brown Dwarf, an analog to the beta-Pictoris b directly-imaged exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE spectro-photometric variability, 2021, ApJ, 162, 179.
4. Manjavacas, E.; Lodieu, N.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Zapatero-Osorio, M. R. et al. Spectroscopic Low-gravity Indicators for Brown Dwarfs, 2020, MNRAS, 491, 5925.
5. Manjavacas, E.; Apai, D. et al. Cloud Atlas: Rotational Spectral Modulations and Potential Sulfide Clouds in the Planetary-mass, Late T-type Companion Ross 458C, 2019, ApJ, 875L, 15.
6. Manjavacas, E.; Apai, D. et al. Cloud Atlas: Hubble Space Telescope Near-infrared Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs, Planetary-mass Companions, and Hot Jupiters, 2019, AJ, 157, 101.
7. Manjavacas, E.; Apai, D.; Zhou, Y.; Lew, B.; Karalidi, T.; Scheider, G. et al.;. Cloud Atlas: Discovery of Rotational Spectral Modulation in a low-mass, L-Type Brown Dwarf Companion to a Star, 2018, AJ, 155, 11.
8. Manjavacas, E.; Miles-Páez, P. A.; Zapatero-Osorio, M. R.; Goldman, B.; Buenzli, E..; Pallé, E.; Henning, T., MNRAS, 468, 3024. Polarization of young brown dwarfs.
9. Manjavacas, E.; Goldman, B; Alcalá, J. M.; Bonnefoy, M.; Zapatero-Osorio, M. R.; Homeier, D.; Béjar, V. J. S.; Smart, R. L.; Allard F.; Henning, T.; 2016, MNRAS, 455, 1341. Hunting for brown dwarf binaries and testing atmospheric models using X-Shooter spectra.87.
10. Manjavacas, E.; Bonnefoy, M.; Goldman, B.; Chauvin, G.; Rojo, P. et al. 2014, 564, 55, A&A. New constrains on the formation and settling of dust in the atmosphere of young M and L dwarfs.
11. Manjavacas, E.; Goldman, B.; Reffert, S.; Henning, T. 2013, 560, 52 A&A. Parallaxes of cool brown dwarfs.
Press releases
June/July 2021: Astronomers Probe Layer-Cake Structure Of Brown Dwarf’s Atmosphere
May 2019: Mapping Cloud on a Distant World
July 2017: Polarized light from a brown dwarf: where lies the dust at play? Calar Alto Observatory
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