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A T-Dwarf Candidate from JWST Early Release NIRCam data

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-06-14 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present a distant T-type brown dwarf candidate at 2.55\approx2.55 kpc discovered in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) fields by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam. In addition to the superb sensitivity, we utilised 7 filters from JWST in near-IR and thus is advantageous in finding faint, previously unseen brown dwarfs. From the model spectra in new JWST/NIRCam filter wavelengths, the selection criteria of F115W-F277W<<-0.8 and F277W-F444W>>1.1 were chosen to target the spectrum features of brown dwarfs having temperatures from 500K to 1300K. Searching through the data from Early Release Observations (ERO) and Early Release Science (ERS), we find 1 promising candidate in the CEERS field. The result of SED fitting suggested an early T spectral type with a low effective temperature of Teff_\text{eff}\approx1300K, the surface gravity of logg5.25cm s2\log{g}\approx5.25\text{cm s}^{-2}, and an eddy diffusion parameter of logKzz7cm2s1_{zz}\approx7\text{cm}^2 \text{s}^{-1}, which indicates an age of \approx1.8Gyr and a mass of 0.05\approx0.05M_{\odot}. In contrast to typically found T-dwarf within several hundred parsecs, the estimated distance of the source is 2.55\approx2.55kpc, showing the JWST's power to extend the search to a much larger distance.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2306.02663,
  title  = {A T-Dwarf Candidate from JWST Early Release NIRCam data},
  author = {Po-Ya Wang and Tomotsugu Goto and Simon C. -C. Ho and Yu-Wei Lin and Cossas K. -W. Wu and Chih-Teng Ling and Tetsuya Hashimoto and Seong Jin Kim and Tiger Y. -Y. Hsiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02663},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages, 6 figures and 1 table; accepted for publication in MNRAS; A summary video is available at https://youtu.be/PQW79tuS0mI

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