OTS 44

OTS 44

An artist's concept of OTS 44's dust disk
Observation data
Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Chamaeleon
Right ascension 11h 10m 11.5s
Declination −76° 32′ 13″
Characteristics
Spectral type M9.5[1]
Astrometry
Distance554 ly
(170 pc)
Details
Mass0.011[2] M☉
Radius0.23[1]–0.57[3] R☉
Luminosity0.0013[1]–0.0024[3] L☉
Temperature1700[2][3]–2300[1] K

OTS 44 is a free-floating planetary-mass object or brown dwarf located approximately 550 light-years (170 pc) away in the constellation Chamaeleon. It is among the lowest-mass free-floating substellar objects, with approximately 11.5 times the mass of Jupiter, or approximately 1.1% that of the Sun.[2][4] Its radius is not very well known and is estimated to be 23–57% that of the Sun.[1][3]

OTS 44 was discovered in 1998 by Oasa, Tamura, and Sugitani as a member of the star-forming region Chamaeleon I.[5][6] Based upon infrared observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, OTS 44 emits an excess of infrared radiation for an object of its type, suggesting it has a circumstellar disk of dust and particles of rock and ice.[1][3][7] This disk has a mass of at least 10 Earth masses.[3] Observations with the SINFONI spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope show that the disk is accreting matter at the rate of approximately 10−11 of the mass of the Sun per year.[3] It could eventually develop into a planetary system.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Luhman, K. L.; et al. (February 2005), "Spitzer Identification of the Least Massive Known Brown Dwarf with a Circumstellar Disk", The Astrophysical Journal 620 (1): L51–L54, arXiv:astro-ph/0502100, Bibcode:2005ApJ...620L..51L, doi:10.1086/428613
  2. 1 2 3 Bonnefoy, M.; Chauvin, G.; Lagrange, A.-M.; Rojo, P.; Allard, F.; Pinte, C.; Dumas, C.; Homeier, D. (2014). "A library of near-infrared integral field spectra of young M-L dwarfs". Astronomy & Astrophysics 562 (127). arXiv:1306.3709. Bibcode:2014A&A...562A.127B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201118270.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Joergens, V.; Bonnefoy, M.; Liu, Y.; Bayo, A.; Wolf, S.; Chauvin, G.; Rojo, P. (2013). "OTS 44: Disk and accretion at the planetary border". Astronomy & Astrophysics 558 (7). arXiv:1310.1936. Bibcode:2013A&A...558L...7J. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322432.
  4. ↑ Luhmann, K. L.; Peterson, D. E.; Megeath, S. T. (2004). "Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Least Massive Known Brown Dwarf in Chamaeleon". The Astrophysical Journal 617 (1). arXiv:astro-ph/0411445. Bibcode:2004ApJ...617..565L. doi:10.1086/425228.
  5. ↑ Tamura, M.; Itoh, Y.; Oasa, Y.; Nakajima, T. (1998). "Isolated and Companion Young Brown Dwarfs in the Taurus and Chamaeleon Molecular Clouds". Science 282 (5391): 1095. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.1095T. doi:10.1126/science.282.5391.1095.
  6. ↑ Oasa, Y.; Tamura, M.; Sugitani, K. (1999). "A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Chamaeleon I Dark Cloud Core". The Astrophysical Journal 526 (1): 336–343. Bibcode:1999ApJ...526..336O. doi:10.1086/307964.
  7. ↑ "Blurring the lines between stars and planets: Lonely planets offer clues to star formation". MPIA Science Release 2013-09. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

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