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WISE J104915.57-531906.1 A+B and WISE J085510.83-071442.5 were recently discovered as the third and fourth closest known systems to the Sun, respectively (2.0 and 2.3 pc). The former consists of a L8+T0.5 binary and the latter is a probable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 N. D. Melso , K. M. Kaldon , K. L. Luhman

Using two epochs of 4.5um images from the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope, we recently identified a common proper motion companion to the white dwarf WD 0806-661 that is a candidate for the coldest known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 K. L. Luhman , A. J. Burgasser , I. Labbe , D. Saumon , M. S. Marley , J. J. Bochanski , A. J. Monson , S. E. Persson

We have identified CFBDS J1458+10 as a 0.11" (2.6 AU) physical binary using Keck laser guide star adaptive optics imaging and have measured a distance of 23.1+/-2.4 pc to the system based on near-IR parallax data from CFHT. The…

WISE 0855-0714 is the coldest known brown dwarf, located 2.28 pc from the solar system. Discovered by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in 2014 (Luhman 2014), the object is of interest to scientists because of its low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Edward L. Wright , Jack Foley

Aims: WISE provides an infrared all-sky survey which aims at completing our knowledge on the possibly dramatically increasing number of brown dwarfs with lower temperatures. We search for the nearest representatives of the coolest brown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 R. -D. Scholz , G. Bihain , O. Schnurr , J. Storm

WISE J085510.83-071442.5 was recently discovered as the coldest known brown dwarf based on four epochs of images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope. We have improved the accuracy of its parallax…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 K. L. Luhman , T. L. Esplin

We report the discovery of the first new ultra-cool brown dwarf found with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The object's preliminary designation is WISEPC J045853.90+643451.9. Follow-up spectroscopy with the LUCIFER…

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been reactivated as NEOWISE-R to characterize and search for Near Earth Objects. The brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5 has now been reobserved by NEOWISE-R, and we confirm the…

WISE J085510.83-071442.5 (hereafter WISE 0855-0714) is the coldest known brown dwarf (~250 K) and the fourth closest known system to the Sun (2.2 pc). It has been previously detected only in the J band and two mid-IR bands. To better…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 K. L. Luhman , T. L. Esplin

Through a previous analysis of multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), I identified WISE J085510.83-071442.5 as a new high proper motion object. By combining astrometry from WISE and the Spitzer Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 K. L. Luhman

The Y-dwarf WISE 1828+2650 is one of the coldest known Brown Dwarfs with an effective temperature of $\sim$300 K. Located at a distance of just 10 pc, previous model-based estimates suggest WISE1828+2650 has a mass of $\sim$5-10 Mj, making…

As part of a larger search of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data for cool brown dwarfs with effective temperatures less than 1000 K, we present the discovery of three new cool brown dwarfs with spectral types later than T7.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael C. Cushing , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Christopher R. Gelino , Gregory N. Mace , Michael F. Skrutskie , Andrew Gould

Because WISE J085510.83$-$071442.5 (hereafter WISE 0855-0714) is the coldest known brown dwarf ($\sim250$ K) and one of the Sun's closest neighbors (2.2 pc), it offers a unique opportunity for studying a planet-like atmosphere in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Taran Esplin , Kevin Luhman , Michael Cushing , Kevin Hardegree-Ullman , Jessica Trucks , Adam Burgasser , Adam Schneider

We present the results of an intense photometric monitoring in the near-infrared (~0.9 microns) with the TRAPPIST robotic telescope of the newly discovered binary brown dwarf WISE J104915.57-531906.1, the third closest system to the Sun at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Gillon , A. H. M. J. Triaud , E. Jehin , L. Delrez , C. Opitom , P. Magain , M. Lendl , D. Queloz

We present the discovery of a very cold, very low mass, nearby brown dwarf using data from the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The object, WISE J064723.23-623235.5, has a very red WISE color of W1-W2 > 3.77 mag and a very…

We have used multi-epoch images from the Infrared Array Camera on board the Spitzer Space Telescope to search for substellar companions to stars in the solar neighborhood based on common proper motions. Through this work, we have discovered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 K. L. Luhman , A. J. Burgasser , J. J. Bochanski

We present follow-up $Spitzer$ observations at 3.6$\mu$m (ch1) and 4.5$\mu$m (ch2) of CWISEP J144606.62$-$231717.8, one of the coldest known brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. This object was found by mining the Wide-field Infrared…

WD 0806-661 B is one of the coldest known brown dwarfs (T=300-345 K) based on previous mid-infrared photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope. In addition, it is a benchmark for testing theoretical models of brown dwarfs because its age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 K. L. Luhman , C. V. Morley , A. J. Burgasser T. L. Esplin , J. J. Bochanski

Context. Nearby isolated planetary mass objects are beginning to be discovered, but their individual properties are poorly constrained because their low surface temperatures and strong molecular self-absorption make them extremely faint.…

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,…

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