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WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 (designation is abbreviated to W1800+0134[1]) is a brown dwarf of spectral class L7.5,[1] located in constellation Ophiuchus at approximately 26 light-years from Earth.[1]

Discovery

WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 was discovered in 2011 by Gizis et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 centimetres (16 in)) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. There are also precovery identifications of this object in Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) data (observed on 2000 September 23) and in the 3rd release of the DENIS database (close in time to the 2MASS observation).[1] On 2011 June 22 Gizis et al. had conducted near-infrared spectroscopy with SpeX spectrograph, mounted on the 3 m Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.[1] In 2011 Gizis et al. published a paper in The Astronomical Journal, where they presented discovery of a newfound by WISE L-type brown dwarf WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 (a single discovery, presented in the article).[1]

Physical properties

WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 has temperature 1430 ± 100 K and luminosity 10−4.5 ± 0.3 Solar luminosities (the estimates are based on the object's spectral class (L7.5)).[1] Mass estimates, determined from this temperature, are 0.04,[note 1] 0.05,[note 2] and 0.074[note 3] Solar masses, anyway below the hydrogen-burning limit, which implies that WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 is not a true star, but only a substellar object, that is a brown dwarf.[1]

Failed test for binarity

WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 was tested spectroscopically for L + T binarity, and the binarity was not revealed.[1] Common proper motion companions also were not found.[1]

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Notes

  1. ^ For an assumed age 0.5 Gyr.
  2. ^ For an assumed age 1 Gyr.
  3. ^ For an assumed age 5 Gyr.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Gizis, John E.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Castro, Philip J.; Shara, Michael M. (2011). "WISEP J180026.60+013453.1: A nearby late-L Dwarf near the Galactic Plane". The Astronomical Journal. 142 (5): 171. arXiv:1109.0054. Bibcode:2011AJ....142..171G. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/142/5/171. S2CID 118596629.
  2. ^ a b c Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2021). "Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 649: A1. arXiv:2012.01533. Bibcode:2021A&A...649A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039657. S2CID 227254300. (Erratum: doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039657e). Gaia EDR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gizis, John E.; et al. (2015). "Properties of the Nearby Brown Dwarf WISEP J180026.60+013453.1". The Astronomical Journal. 150 (6). 179. arXiv:1509.04690. Bibcode:2015AJ....150..179G. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/6/179. S2CID 118641133.
  4. ^ "WISEP J180026.60+013453.1 -- Brown Dwarf (M<0.08solMass)". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
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