WISE J2209+2711

WISE J220905.73+271143.9
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Pegasus
Right ascension 22h 09m 05.734 s
Declination +27° 11 44.00
Characteristics
Evolutionary stage brown dwarf
Spectral type Y0:,[1]
Astrometry
Parallax (π)147 ± 11[2] mas
Distance22 ± 2 ly
(6.8 ± 0.5 pc)
Other designations
WISE J220905.73+271143.9[1]
Database references
SIMBADdata

WISE J2209+2711 is a brown dwarf of spectral type Y0:,[1] located in constellation Pegasus at 22 light-years from Earth.[2]

History of observations

Discovery of WISE J2209+2711 was published in 2014 by Cushing et al.[1]

Distance

WISE J2209+2711 distance estimates

Source Parallax, mas Distance, pc Distance, ly Distance, Pm Ref.
Cushing et al. (2014) 5.2–11.7 17–38.2 160.5–361 [1]
Beichman et al. (2014) 147±11 6.8+0.6
−0.5
22.2+1.8
−1.5
209.9+17
−14.6
[2]

Non-trigonometric distance estimates are marked in italic. The most precise estimate is marked in bold.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cushing, Michael C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Mace, Gregory N.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Gould, Andrew (2014). "Three New Cool Brown Dwarfs Discovered with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and an Improved Spectrum of the Y0 Dwarf WISE J041022.71+150248.4". The Astronomical Journal 147 (5): 113. arXiv:1402.1378. Bibcode:2014AJ....147..113C. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/147/5/113.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Beichman, C.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Cushing, Michael C.; Dodson-Robinson, Sally; Marley, Mark S.; Morley, Caroline V.; Wright, E. L. (2014). "WISE Y Dwarfs As Probes of the Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection". The Astrophysical Journal 783 (2): 68. arXiv:1401.1194v2. Bibcode:2014ApJ...783...68B. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/783/2/68.