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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 786, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/786/2/L18
Keywords
brown dwarfs; infrared: stars; proper motions; solar neighborhood; stars: low-mass
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- NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program [NNX12AI47G]
- UCLA
- JPL/Caltech
- NASA
- NSF
- [GN2013A-DD-3]
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Through a previous analysis of multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), I identified WISE J085510.83-071442.5 as a new high proper motion object. By combining astrometry from WISE and the Spitzer Space Telescope, I have measured a proper motion of 8.1 +/- 0.1 yr-1 and a parallax of 0.454 +/- 0.045 (2.20(+0.24) (-0.20) pc) for WISE J085510.83-071442.5, giving it the third highest proper motion and the fourth largest parallax of any known star or brown dwarf. It is also the coldest known brown dwarf based on its absolutemagnitude at 4.5 mu m and its color in [ 3.6]-[ 4.5]. By comparing M-4.5 with the values predicted by theoretical evolutionary models, I estimate an effective temperature of 225-260K and a mass of 3-10M(Jup) for the age range of 1-10 Gyr that encompasses most nearby stars.
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