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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
 No. As I already said repeatedly, those did not discuss the generation of the extremely high energy electrons (or positrons) that are the subject of this thread. That's why I was asking you for references to support your brown dwarf claim. |
VanRijn, I made no brown dwarf claim as you say.
I asked if a BD could be the source of these high energy electrons. I made a connection between BDs being pulsar-like and one of the given possible explanations - a nearby pulsar - for these findings.
The articles I referenced and the quotes given discuss high energy electrons, their acceleration, and what mechanisms might be the cause on the BD.
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another:
"A very similar process is believed to apply to brown dwarfs, albeit producing radio emission many orders of magnitude brighter than that detected from the planets. The resulting radiation, which is very strongly beamed perpendicular to the magnetic field of the brown dwarf, sweeps Earth once per rotation period of the dwarf to produce the bright pulses. However, it remains a mystery how the high energy electrons which produce the radio emission are continuously accelerated into the magnetic poles of the dwarf. What has been established is that this radio emission requires these brown dwarfs to possess very powerful, large-scale magnetic fields as strong as those detected from the most magnetically active main sequence stars."