Astronomy:WISE 2220−3628

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Short description: Brwn dwarf in the constellation Grus

Coordinates: Sky map 22h 20m 55.31s, −36° 28′ 17.4″

WISE J222055.31−362817.4
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Grus
Right ascension  22h 20m 55.31s[1]
Declination −36° 28′ 17.4″[1]
Characteristics
Spectral type Y0[1]
Apparent magnitude (J (MKO-NIR filter system)) 20.38 ± 0.17[1]
Apparent magnitude (H (MKO-NIR filter system)) 20.81 ± 0.30[1]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: 283 ± 13[2] mas/yr
Dec.: −97 ± 17[2] mas/yr
Parallax (π)136 ± 17[2] mas
Distanceapprox. 24 ly
(approx. 7.4 pc)
Other designations
WISE J222055.31−362817.4,[1]
WISE 2220−3628[1]
Database references
SIMBADdata

WISE J222055.31−362817.4 (designation abbreviated to WISE 2220−3628) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0,[1] located in constellation Grus at approximately 26 light-years from Earth.[1]

Discovery

WISE 2220−3628 was discovered in 2012 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satelliteNASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which 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 2220−3628.[1]

Properties

Y-class dwarfs are among the coldest of all brown dwarfs.[1]

Distance

Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 2220−3628 is a trigonometric parallax, published in 2014 by Beichman et al.: 0.136 ± 0.017 arcsec, corresponding to a distance of 7.4 ± 0.9 pc (24.1 ± 2.9 ly).[2]

See also

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Cushing, Michael C.; Mace, Gregory N.; Griffith, Roger L.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Wright, Edward L. et al. (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. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/156. Bibcode2012ApJ...753..156K. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/783/2/68. Bibcode2014ApJ...783...68B.