CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3: An Extremely Cold Brown Dwarf in the Solar Neighborhood Discovered with CatWISE

  • Federico Marocco
  • , Dan Caselden
  • , Aaron M. Meisner
  • , J. Davy Kirkpatrick
  • , Edward L. Wright
  • , Jacqueline K. Faherty
  • , Christopher R. Gelino
  • , Peter R.M. Eisenhardt
  • , John W. Fowler
  • , Michael C. Cushing
  • , Roc M. Cutri
  • , Nelson Garcia
  • , Thomas H. Jarrett
  • , Renata Koontz
  • , Amanda Mainzer
  • , Elijah J. Marchese
  • , Bahram Mobasher
  • , David J. Schlegel
  • , Daniel Stern
  • , Harry I. Teplitz

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Abstract

We present the discovery of an extremely cold, nearby brown dwarf in the solar neighborhood, found in the CatWISE catalog. Photometric follow-up with Spitzer reveals that the object, CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3, has ch1-ch2 = 3.24 ±0.31 mag, making it one of the reddest brown dwarfs known. Using the Spitzer photometry and the polynomial relations from Kirkpatrick et al. we estimate an effective temperature in the ∼270-360 K range, and a distance estimate in the 5.6-10.9 pc range. We combined the WISE, NEOWISE, and Spitzer data to measure a proper motion of mas yr-1, μ δ = -50 ±97 mas yr-1, which implies a relatively low tangential velocity in the range 7-22 km s-1.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number17
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume881
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 10 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • brown dwarfs
  • infrared: stars
  • proper motions
  • solar neighborhood

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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