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2021PASP..133h4401N - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 133, part no 8, 4401-84401 (2021/August-0)

Trigonometric parallaxes of two T dwarfs with Keck and ShaneAO astrometry.

NGUYEN J., AMMONS S.M., DENNISON K., GARCIA E.V., LU J.R., McMILLAN S. and SALAMA M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present trigonometric parallax and proper motion measurements for two T-type brown dwarfs. We derive our measurements from infrared laser guide star adaptive optics observations spanning five years from the ShaneAO/SHARCS and NIRC2/medium-cam instruments on the Shane and Keck telescopes, respectively. To improve our astrometric precision, we measure and apply a distortion correction to our fields for both instruments. We also transform the Keck and ShaneAO astrometric reference frames onto the ICRS using five-parameter parallax and proper motion solutions for background reference stars from Gaia DR2. Fitting for parallax and proper motion, we measure parallaxes of 73.5 ± 9.2 mas and 70.1 ± 6.7 mas for WISEJ19010703+47181688 (WISE1901) and WISEJ21543294+59421370 (WISE2154), respectively. We utilize Monte Carlo methods to estimate the error in our sparse field methods, taking into account overfitting and differential atmospheric refraction. Comparing to previous measurements in the literature, all of our parallax and proper motion values fall within 2σ of the published measurements, and 4 of 6 measurements are within 1σ. These data are among the first parallax measurements of these T dwarfs and serve as precise measurements for calibrating stellar formation models. These two objects are the first results of an ongoing survey of T dwarfs with Keck/NIRC2 and the Shane Adaptive Optics system at Lick Observatory.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Astrometry - Brown dwarfs - Parallax - Proper motions - T dwarfs - Laser guide stars - Astrophysics: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Astrophysics: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

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