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Exploring the Extremes: Characterizing a New Population of Old and Cold Brown Dwarfs

  • Authors: Aaron M. Meisner, S. K. Leggett, Sarah E. Logsdon, Adam C. Schneider, Pascal Tremblin, Mark Phillips

Aaron M. Meisner et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 166 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Comparison of WISE W1/W2 and Spitzer ch1/ch2 photometry for mid–late T dwarfs, Y dwarfs, and T/Y subdwarf candidates. W2 and ch2 remain tightly correlated with effectively zero systematic offset across the range of M W2 and J − W2 values spanned by this sample. On the other hand, there is considerable scatter between W1 and ch1 magnitudes, with this scatter becoming larger for increasing M W2, W1, and J − W2. This suggests that caution ought to be exercised when attempting to select cold, low-metallicity candidates based on WISE W1 − W2 color only, as has been previously attempted/suggested in Meisner et al. (2021) and Brooks et al. (2022).

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