DENIS J081730.0-615520: An overlooked mid-T dwarf in the solar neighborhood

Details DENIS J081730.0-615520: An overlooked mid-T dwarf in the solar neighborhood DENIS J081730.0-615520: An overlooked mid-T dwarf in the solar neighborhood

2010-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3577v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

accepted for publication in ApJL, 3 figures

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Recent wide-field near-infrared surveys have uncovered a large number of cool brown dwarfs, extending the temperature sequence down to less than 500 K and constraining the faint end of the luminosity function. One interesting implication of the derived luminosity function is that the brown dwarf census in the immediate (<10 pc) solar neighborhood is still largely incomplete, and some bright (J<16) brown dwarfs remain to be identified in existing surveys. These objects are especially interesting as they are the ones that can be studied in most detail, especially with techniques that require large fluxes (e.g. time-variability, polarimetry, high-resolution spectroscopy) that cannot realistically be applied to objects uncovered by deep surveys. By cross-matching the DENIS and the 2MASS point-source catalogs, we have identified an overlooked brown dwarf -DENIS J081730.0-615520- that is the brightest field mid-T dwarf in the sky (J = 13.6). We present astrometry and spectroscopy follow-up observations of this brown dwarf. Our data indicate a spectral type T6 and a distance -from parallax measurement- of 4.9\pm0.3 pc, placing this mid-T dwarf among the 3 closest isolated brown dwarfs to the Sun.

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