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2020ApJ...888L..19M - Astrophys. J., 888, L19-L19 (2020/January-2)

Improved Infrared photometry and a preliminary parallax measurement for the extremely cold brown dwarf CWISEP J144606.62-231717.8.

MAROCCO F., KIRKPATRICK J.D., MEISNER A.M., CASELDEN D., EISENHARDT P.R.M., CUSHING M.C., FAHERTY J.K., GELINO C.R. and WRIGHT E.L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present follow-up Spitzer observations at 3.6 µm (ch1) and 4.5 µm (ch2) of CWISEP J144606.62-231717.8, one of the coldest known brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. This object was found by mining the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE data via the CatWISE Preliminary Catalog by Meisner et al., where an initial Spitzer color of ch1-ch2 = 3.71 ± 0.44 mag was reported, implying it could be one of the reddest, and hence coldest, known brown dwarfs. Additional Spitzer data presented here allows us to revise its color to ch1-ch2 = 2.986 ± 0.048 mag, which makes CWISEP J144606.62-231717.8 the fifth reddest brown dwarf ever observed. A preliminary trigonometric parallax measurement, based on a combination of WISE and Spitzer astrometry, places this object at a distance of 10.1–1.3+1.7 pc. Based on our improved Spitzer color and preliminary parallax, CWISEP J144606.62-231717.8 has a Teff in the 310-360 K range. Assuming an age of 0.5-13 Gyr, this corresponds to a mass between 2 and 20 MJup.

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Journal keyword(s): Brown dwarfs - Y dwarfs - Solar neighborhood - Trigonometric parallax - Proper motions

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