WISE J2000+3629

WISE J200050.19+362950.1
	; WISE J2000+3629 is the orange object in the center. It is located in a crowded field near the galactic plane.; Credit: unWISE
Observation data; Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000
Constellation	Cygnus
Right ascension	20h 00m 50.198s
Declination	36° 29′ 50.18″
Astrometry
Parallax (π)	133.4 ± 2.2 mas
Distance	24.4 ± 0.4 ly ; (7.5 ± 0.1 pc)
Characteristics
Spectral type	T8
Other designations
	WISE J200050.19+362950.1
Database references
SIMBAD	data
	WISE J2000+3629 Location of WISE J2000+3629 in the constellation Cygnus;

WISE J2000+3629 (full designation is WISE J200050.19+362950.1) in astronomy is a nearby brown dwarf with a temperature less than 700 Kelvin (spectral type T8), located in the constellation Cygnus. Parallax measurement suggest it is 24.4 light-years from Earth,^[1] making it one of the nearest known brown dwarfs to the Sun. It was discovered in 2014.

Discovery[edit]

WISE J2000+3629 was discovered in 2014 by Michael Cushing et al^[2] using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Caselden, Dan; Schneider, Adam C.; Marocco, Federico; Cayago, Alfred J.; Smart, R. L.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; Kuchner, Marc J. (2021). "The Field Substellar Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20 pc Census of 525 L, T, and y Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 253 (1): 7. arXiv:2011.11616. Bibcode:2021ApJS..253....7K. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abd107. S2CID 227126954.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cushing, Michael C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Mace, Gregory N.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Gould, Andrew (10 April 2014). "Three New Cool Brown Dwarfs Discovered with Thewide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer(Wise) and an Improved Spectrum of the Y0 Dwarf Wise J041022.71+150248.4". The Astronomical Journal. 147 (5): 113. arXiv:1402.1378. Bibcode:2014AJ....147..113C. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/147/5/113. S2CID 5858277.

Notes[edit]

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[Kirkpatrick_et_al._2021-1] Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Caselden, Dan; Schneider, Adam C.; Marocco, Federico; Cayago, Alfred J.; Smart, R. L.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; Kuchner, Marc J. (2021). "The Field Substellar Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20 pc Census of 525 L, T, and y Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 253 (1): 7. arXiv:2011.11616. Bibcode:2021ApJS..253....7K. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abd107. S2CID 227126954.

[Cushing2014-2] Cushing, Michael C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Mace, Gregory N.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Gould, Andrew (10 April 2014). "Three New Cool Brown Dwarfs Discovered with Thewide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer(Wise) and an Improved Spectrum of the Y0 Dwarf Wise J041022.71+150248.4". The Astronomical Journal. 147 (5): 113. arXiv:1402.1378. Bibcode:2014AJ....147..113C. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/147/5/113. S2CID 5858277.

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