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

http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08913


We present the discovery of an extremely cold, nearby brown dwarf in the solar neighborhood, found in the CatWISE catalog (Eisenhardt et al., in prep.). Photometric follow-up with Spitzer reveals that the object, CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3, has ch1$-$ch2 = 3.24$\,\pm\,$0.31 mag, making it one of the reddest brown dwarfs known. Using the Spitzer photometry and the polynomial relations from Kirkpatrick et al. (2019) we estimate an effective temperature in the $\sim$270–360 K range, and a distance estimate in the 5.6$-$10.9 pc range. We combined the WISE, NEOWISE, and Spitzer data to measure a proper motion of $\mu_\alpha \cos \delta = 337\pm69$ mas yr$^{-1}$, $\mu_\delta = -50\pm97$ mas yr$^{-1}$, which implies a relatively low tangential velocity in the range 7$-$22 km s$^{-1}$.

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F. Marocco, D. Caselden, A. Meisner, et. al.
Mon, 24 Jun 19
43/56

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication on ApJ