WISE 0713−2917

WISE J071322.55−291751.9 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0713−2917) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0,[1] located in constellation Canis Major at approximately 23 light-years from Earth.[1]

WISE J071322.55−291751.9
Observation data
Epoch J2000[1]      Equinox J2000[1]
Constellation Canis Major
Right ascension 07h 13m 22.55s[1]
Declination −29° 17 51.9[1]
Characteristics
Spectral type Y0[1]
Apparent magnitude (J (MKO-NIR filter system)) 19.64 ± 0.15[1]
Apparent magnitude (J (SOAR/OSIRIS)) 20.06 ± 0.21[1]
Apparent magnitude (H (MKO-NIR filter system)) >19.3[1]
Apparent magnitude (H (SOAR/OSIRIS)) 21.16 ± 0.66[1]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: 388 ± 20[2] mas/yr
Dec.: −419 ± 22[2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)106 ± 13 mas[2]
Distanceapprox. 31 ly
(approx. 9 pc)
Other designations
WISE J071322.55−291751.9,[1]
WISE 0713−2917[1]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Discovery

WISE 0713−2917 was discovered in 2012 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick and colleagues from data collected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in the infrared at a wavelength of 40 cm (16 in), whose mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. In 2012 Kirkpatrick et al. published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal, where they presented discovery of seven new found by WISE brown dwarfs of spectral type Y, among which also was WISE 0713−2917.[1]

Distance

Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 0713−2917 is a trigonometric parallax, published in 2014 by Beichman et al.: 0.106 ± 0.013 arcsec, corresponding to a distance of 9.4 ± 1.2 pc (30.7 ± 3.9 ly).[2]

See also

The other six discoveries of brown dwarfs, published in Kirkpatrick et al. (2012):[1]

References

  1. Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Cushing, Michael C.; Mace, Gregory N.; Griffith, Roger L.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Wright, Edward L.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; McLean, Ian S.; Mainzer, Amy K.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Tinney, Chris G.; Parker, Stephen; Salter, Graeme (2012). "Further Defining Spectral Type "Y" and Exploring the Low-mass End of the Field Brown Dwarf Mass Function". The Astrophysical Journal. 753 (2): 156. arXiv:1205.2122. Bibcode:2012ApJ...753..156K. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/156. S2CID 119279752.
  2. Beichman, C.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Cushing, Michael C.; Dodson-Robinson, Sally; Marley, Mark S.; Morley, Caroline V.; Wright, E. L. (2014). "WISE Y Dwarfs As Probes of the Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection". The Astrophysical Journal. 783 (2): 68. arXiv:1401.1194v2. Bibcode:2014ApJ...783...68B. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/783/2/68. S2CID 119302072.
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