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2023ApJ...945..119G - Astrophys. J., 945, 119 (2023/March-2)

The Oceanus Moving Group: A New 500 Myr Old Host for the Nearest Brown Dwarf.

GAGNE J., MORANTA L., FAHERTY J.K., KIMAN R., COUTURE D., LAROCHELLE A.R., POPINCHALK M. and MORRONE D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of the Oceanus moving group, a ≈500 Myr old group with 50 members and candidate members at distances 2-50 pc from the Sun, using an unsupervised clustering analysis of nearby stars with Gaia DR3 data. This new moving group includes the nearest brown dwarf WISE J104915.57-531906.1 AB (Luhman 16 AB) at a distance of 2 pc, which was previously suspected to be young (600-800 Myr) based on a comparison of its dynamical mass measurements with brown dwarf evolutionary models. We use empirical color-magnitude sequences, stellar activity, and gyrochronology to determine that this new group is roughly coeval with the Coma Ber open cluster, with an isochronal age of 510 ± 95 Myr. This newly discovered group will be useful to refine the age and chemical composition of Luhman 16 AB, which is already one of the best substellar benchmarks known to date. Furthermore, the Oceanus moving group is one of the nearest young moving groups identified to date, making it a valuable laboratory for the study of exoplanets and substellar members, with eight brown dwarf candidate members already identified here.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Stellar associations - Open star clusters - Stellar kinematics - Brown dwarfs

Nomenclature: NAME Oceanus Moving Group N=1.

Status at CDS : Large table(s) will be appraised for possible ingestion in VizieR.

Simbad objects: 47

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