Astronomy:DENIS-P J1058.7-1548

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DENIS-P J1058.7-1548
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Crater
Right ascension  10h 58m 47.870s[1]
Declination −15° 48′ 17.23″[1]
Characteristics
Spectral type L3
Apparent magnitude (J) 14.155[1]
Apparent magnitude (H) 13.226[1]
Apparent magnitude (K) 12.532[1]
Astrometry
Parallax (π)66.5 ± 4.4[2] mas
Distance49 ± 3 ly
(15.0 ± 1.0 pc)
Details[3]
Mass<0.055 M
Radius>0.111 R
Age<320 Myr
Other designations
DENIS J1058.7-1548, 2MASS J10584787-1548172, 2MUCD 10949
Database references
SIMBADdata

DENIS-P J1058.7-1548 is a brown dwarf of spectral type L3, located in constellation Crater at approximately 17.3 parsecs or 56.5 light-years from Earth.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cutri, R. M. (2003). "2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources". VizieR On-line Data Catalog. Bibcode2003yCat.2246....0C. 
  2. Faherty, Jacqueline K. (2012). "The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). III. Parallaxes for 70 Ultracool Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal 752: 56. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/56. Bibcode2012ApJ...752...56F. 
  3. Aren N. Heinze (12 March 2013). "Weather on Other Worlds I: Detection of Periodic Variability in the L3 Dwarf DENIS-P J1058.7-1548 with Precise Multi-Wavelength Photometry". The Astrophysical Journal 767: 173. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/173. Bibcode2013ApJ...767..173H. 
  4. Dahn, C. C.; Harris, Hugh C.; Vrba, Frederick J.; Guetter, Harry H.; Canzian, Blaise; Henden, Arne A.; Levine, Stephen E.; Luginbuhl, Christian B. et al. (2002). "Astrometry and Photometry for Cool Dwarfs and Brown Dwarfs". The Astronomical Journal 124 (2): 1170–1189. doi:10.1086/341646. Bibcode2002AJ....124.1170D. 

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