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2020AJ....160..156S - Astron. J., 160, 156-156 (2020/October-0)

Discovery of a nearby young brown dwarf disk.

SCHUTTE M.C., LAWSON K.D., WISNIEWSKI J.P., KUCHNER M.J., SILVERBERG S.M., FAHERTY J.K., BARDALEZ GAGLIUFFI D.C., KIMAN R., GAGNE J., MEISNER A., SCHNEIDER A.C., BANS A.S., DEBES J.H., KOVACEVIC N., BOSCH M.K.D., DURANTINI LUCA H.A., HOLDEN J., HYOGO M. (The Disk Detective Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf with a disk at 102 pc from the Sun, WISEA J120037.79-784508.3 (W1200-7845), via the Disk Detective citizen science project. We establish that W1200-7845 is located in the 3.7–1.4+4.6 Myr old ε Cha association. Its spectral energy distribution (SED) exhibits clear evidence of an infrared (IR) excess, indicative of the presence of a warm circumstellar disk. Modeling this warm disk, we find the data are best fit using a power-law description with a slope α = -0.94, which suggests that it is a young, Class II type disk. Using a single blackbody disk fit, we find Teff,disk=521K and LIR/L*=0.14. The near-IR spectrum of W1200-7845 matches a spectral type of M6.0 γ±0.5, which corresponds to a low surface gravity object, and lacks distinctive signatures of strong Paβ or Brγ accretion. Both our SED fitting and spectral analysis indicate that the source is cool (Teff = 2784-2850 K), with a mass of 42-58 MJup, well within the brown dwarf regime. The proximity of this young brown dwarf disk makes the system an ideal benchmark for investigating the formation and early evolution of brown dwarfs.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Brown dwarfs - Circumstellar disks

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