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Old 14-January-2009, 10:01 AM
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I am not familiar with brown dwarfs, so I do not know the magnetic field strengths that they might achieve, but definitely not as strong as e.g. pulsars. So, let's see what we can try to figure out:

Here is a Nature paper on brown dwarfs and X-ray emission. A quote from that paper:

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Originally Posted by Berger et al.
Brown dwarfs older than approx10 Myr are expected to possess short-lived magnetic fields2 and to emit radio and X-rays only very weakly from their coronae.
So I guess this sort of throws my idea into the waste basket.
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