WISE_0535−7500

WISE 0535−7500

WISE 0535−7500

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WISE J053516.80−750024.9 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0535−7500) is either a sub-brown dwarf or a free planet. It has spectral class ≥Y1 and is [1] located in constellation Mensa. It is estimated to be 47 light-years from Earth.[2]

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Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of all the nearest stars out to Gliese 1, as well as most brown dwarfs and some planets. WISE 0535−7500 is at bottom right

In 2017, more accurate analysis found it to be a binary system made up of two substellar objects of spectral class≥Y1 in orbit less than one astronomical unit from each other.[2]

Discovery

WISE 0535−7500 was discovered in 2012 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40-centimetre (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 the discovery of seven new found by WISE brown dwarfs of spectral type Y, among which also was WISE 0535−7500.[1]

Distance

Trigonometric parallax of WISE 0535−7500 is 0.070 ± 0.005 arcsec, corresponding to a distance of 14 pc and 47 ly.[2]

Y dwarf

Brown dwarfs are defined as substellar objects that have at some time in their lives burnt deuterium in their interior. The borderline between a brown dwarf and a planet is conventionally taken to be 13 times the mass of Jupiter. All brown dwarfs are either M dwarfs, L dwarfs, T dwarfs or Y dwarfs, in order of decreasing temperature. An increasing number after the letter in the spectral type also means decreasing temperature, a Y2 dwarf is cooler than a Y1 dwarf is cooler than a Y0 dwarf. Planets can also be L dwarfs, T dwarfs or Y dwarfs.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; 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. arXiv:1205.2122. Bibcode:2012ApJ...753..156K. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/156. S2CID 119279752.
  2. [2]
    Leggett, S. K.; et al. (2017). "The Y-type Brown Dwarfs: Estimates of Mass and Age from New Astrometry, Homogenized Photometry, and Near-infrared Spectroscopy". The Astrophysical Journal. 842 (2). 118. arXiv:1704.03573. Bibcode:2017ApJ...842..118L. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa6fb5. S2CID 119249195.
  3. [3]
    I. Neill Reid and Stanimir A. Metchev, Chapter 5: The Brown Dwarf – Exoplanet Connection, in John W. Mason (ed.) Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability; Springer, Berlin, 2008.
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