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COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS). I. A High-gravity T4 Benchmark around an Old White Dwarf and a Re-examination of the Surface-gravity Dependence of the L/T Transition

  • Authors: Zhoujian Zhang, Michael C. Liu, J.J. Hermes, Eugene A. Magnier, Mark S. Marley, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Michael A. Tucker, Aaron Do, Anna V. Payne, and Benjamin J. Shappee

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 891 171.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Color–color/magnitude diagrams for the companion COCONUTS-1B (red). We use gray squares to show known field M6–T9 dwarfs from Best et al. (2018) and W.M.J. Best et al. (2020, in preparation), which have infrared absolute magnitudes with S/N > 5 and are not young, binaries, or subdwarfs. We use black squares and black error bars to show the typical photometry and 1σ confidence limits of these field dwarfs in each spectral type bin. The yP1 and JMKO absolute magnitudes of COCONUTS-1B are computed by assuming its primary star’s Gaia DR2 parallax. The companion’s colors and magnitudes both suggest a mid-T dwarf located at the distance of the white dwarf primary.

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