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The Enigmatic Brown Dwarf WISEA J153429.75-104303.3 (a.k.a. “The Accident”)

  • Authors: J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Federico Marocco, Dan Caselden, Aaron M. Meisner, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Adam C. Schneider, Marc J. Kuchner, S. L. Casewell, Christopher R. Gelino, Michael C. Cushing, Peter R. Eisenhardt, Edward L. Wright, and Steven D. Schurr

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 915 L6.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Color–color and color–magnitude plots adapted from Figure 18 of Kirkpatrick et al. (2021) and showing the 20 pc census of L, T, and Y dwarfs. (Left) JMKO − ch2 color vs. ch1−ch2 color. (Right) Absolute JMKO magnitude vs. ch1−ch2 color. The locations of WISE 1534−1043 (orange diamond), WISE 0855−0714 (green triangle), WISE 0830+2837 (recumbent pink barbell), WISE 1828+2650 (standing yellow barbell), subdwarfs (blue squares), and young objects (ruddy circles) are marked along with other L, T, and Y dwarfs (black) within 20 pc of the Sun. There are two positions shown for WISE 1534−1043, as explained in the text. As a J-band limit for WISE 0830+2837, we have used four Y1 dwarfs with G141 spectra from Schneider et al. (2015) to measure an offset of F125W − J ≈ 0.87 mag, and we apply this offset to the F125W limit from Bardalez Gagliuffi et al. (2020). The young objects and subdwarfs marked are those identified in Table 11 of Kirkpatrick et al. (2021).

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