WISE 1828+2650
WISE 1828+2650 (full designation WISEPA J182831.08+265037.8) is a possibly binary[5] brown dwarf or rogue planet[2] of spectral class >Y2,[2] located in constellation Lyra at approximately 32.5 light-years from Earth.[3] It is the "archetypal member" of the Y spectral class.[4]
Observation data Epoch MJD 55467.61[1] Equinox J2000[1] | |
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Constellation | Lyra |
Right ascension | 18h 28m 31.10s[1] |
Declination | 26° 50′ 37.79″[1] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | >Y2V[2] |
Apparent magnitude (J (MKO filter system)) | 23.57 ± 0.35[1] |
Apparent magnitude (H (MKO filter system)) | 22.45 ± 0.08[2] |
Astrometry | |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: 1016.5±0.8 mas/yr[3] Dec.: 169.3±0.8 mas/yr[3] |
Parallax (π) | 100.3 ± 2.0 mas[3] |
Distance | 32.5 ± 0.6 ly (10.0 ± 0.2 pc) |
Details | |
Mass | 3–6 or 0.5–20[2] MJup |
Temperature | 406±88[3] K |
Age | 2–4 or 0.1–10[2] Gyr |
Other designations | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
History of observations
Discovery
WISE 1828+2650 was discovered in 2011 from data collected by NASA's 40 cm (16 in) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope at infrared wavelength. WISE 1828+2650 has two discovery papers: Kirkpatrick et al. (2011) and Cushing et al. (2011), however, basically with the same authors and published nearly simultaneously.[1][4]
- Kirkpatrick et al. presented discovery of 98 new found by WISE brown dwarf systems with components of spectral types M, L, T and Y, among which also was WISE 1828+2650 – coolest of them.[1][~ 1]
- Cushing et al. presented discovery of seven brown dwarfs – one of T9.5 type, and six of Y-type – first members of the Y spectral class, ever discovered and spectroscopically confirmed, including "archetypal member" of the Y spectral class – WISE 1828+2650.[4] These seven objects are also the faintest seven of 98 brown dwarfs, presented in Kirkpatrick et al. (2011).[1]
Distance
Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 1828+2650 is a trigonometric parallax, published in 2021 by Kirkpatrick et al.: 100.3±2.0 mas, corresponding to a distance of 10.0±0.2 pc, or 32.5±0.6 ly.[3]
Source | Parallax (mas) | Distance (pc) | Distance (ly) | Ref |
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Kirkpatrick et al. (2011) (Table 6) | – | <9.4 | <30.7 | [1] |
Beichman et al. (2013) (according to Kirkpatrick et al. (2012)) | 122 ± 13 | 8.2+1.0 −0.8 | 26.7+3.2 −2.6 | [6] |
Beichman et al. (2013) | 90 ± 9.5[~ 2] | 11.2+1.3 −1.0 | 36.5+4.2 −3.3 | [2] |
Dupuy & Kraus (2013) | 70 ± 14[~ 3] | 14.3+3.6 −2.4 | 46.6+11.6 −7.8 | [7] |
Beichman et al. (2014) | 106 ± 7 | 9.4+0.7 −0.6 | 30.8+2.2 −1.9 | [8] |
Non-trigonometric distance estimates are marked in italic. The most precise estimate is marked in bold. |
Proper motion
WISE 1828+2650 has a proper motion of 1,030.5±1.1 milliarcseconds per year.[3]
Source | μ mas/yr | P. A. ° | μRA mas/yr | μDEC mas/yr | Ref |
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Kirkpatrick et al. (2011) | 1084 | 84 | 1078 ± 327 | 118 ± 409 | [1] |
Beichman et al. (2013) | 966 | 81 | 954 ± 11 | 153 ± 12.5 | [2] |
Dupuy & Kraus (2013) | 1034 ± 15 | 80.4 ± 0.9 | 1020 ± 15 | 173 ± 16 | [7] |
Beichman et al. (2014) | 1039 | 80.4 | 1024 ± 7 | 174 ± 6 | [8] |
The best estimate is marked in bold. |
Physical properties
Until the discovery of WISE 0855−0714 in 2014 WISE 1828+2650 was considered as the coldest currently known brown dwarf or the first example of free-floating planet (it is not currently known if it is a brown dwarf or a free-floating planet).[2] It has a temperature in the range 250–400 K (−23–127 °C; −10–260 °F)[2] and was initially estimated below 300 K,[4] or about 27 °C (81 °F). It has been assigned the latest known spectral class (>Y2,[2] initially estimated as >Y0[4]).
The mass of WISE 1828+2650 is in the range 0.5–20 MJup for ages of 0.1–10 Gyr.[2]
High tangential velocity of WISE 1828+2650, characteristic of an old disk population, indicates possible age of WISE 1828+2650 in the range 2–4 Gyr, leading to mass estimate of about 3–6 MJup.[2][~ 4]
WISE 1828+2650 is similar in appearance to the other Y-type object WD 0806-661 B. WD 0806-661 B could have formed as a planet close to its primary, WD 0806-661 A, and later, when the primary became a white dwarf and lost most of its mass, have migrated into a larger orbit of 2500 AU, and similarity between WD 0806-661 B and WISE 1828+2650 may indicate that WISE 1828+2650 had formed in the same way.[2]
Possible binarity
Comparison between WISE 1828+2650 and WD 0806-661 B may suggest that WISE 1828+2650 is a system of two equal-mass objects. Observations with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Keck-II LGS-AO system had not revealed binarity, suggesting that if any such companion exists, it would have an orbit less than 0.5 AU, and no direct evidence for binarity yet exists.[2] However, the spectrum of the system best fits a pair of brown dwarfs, each with an effective temperature of about 325 K and a mass of about 5 MJ.[5]
JWST NIRCam imaging observations did not find a companion at a separation larger than 0.5 astronomical units.[9] NIRSpec low resolution prism observations cannot be explained with existing Sonora Bobcat models of planetary objects, neither single nor multiple.[10] The binary model fails to provide an improved fit for the existing photometric data.[9]
Comparison
See also
The other six discoveries of brown dwarfs, published by Cushing et al. in 2011:[4]
- WISE 0148−7202 (T9.5)
- WISE 0410+1502 (Y0)
- WISE 1405+5534 (Y0 (pec?))
- WISE 1541−2250 (Y0.5)
- WISE 1738+2732 (Y0)
- WISE 2056+1459 (Y0)
Notes
- These 98 brown dwarf systems are only among first, not all brown dwarf systems, discovered from data, collected by WISE: six discoveries were published earlier (however, also listed in Kirkpatrick et al. (2011)) in Mainzer et al. (2011) and Burgasser et al. (2011), and the other discoveries were published later.
- According to Dupuy & Kraus (2013), this measurement uncertainty is likely underestimated.
- Relative parallax.
- This may indicate that WISE 1828+2650 is more likely a free-floating planet, not a brown dwarf, since it is below the lower mass limit for brown dwarfs (~13 MJup, see brown dwarf).
References
- Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Cushing, Michael C.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Griffith, Roger L.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Wright, Edward L.; Mainzer, Amy K.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; McLean, Ian S.; Thompson, Maggie A.; Bauer, James M.; Benford, Dominic J.; Bridge, Carrie R.; Lake, Sean E.; Petty, Sara M.; Stanford, Spencer Adam; Tsai, Chao-Wei; Bailey, Vanessa; Beichman, Charles A.; Bloom, Joshua S.; Bochanski, John J.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Capak, Peter L.; Cruz, Kelle L.; Hinz, Philip M.; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Knox, Russell P.; Manohar, Swarnima; Masters, Daniel; Morales-Calderon, Maria; Prato, Lisa A.; Rodigas, Timothy J.; Salvato, Mara; Schurr, Steven D.; Scoville, Nicholas Z.; Simcoe, Robert A.; Stapelfeldt, Karl R.; Stern, Daniel; Stock, Nathan D.; Vacca, William D. (2011). "The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 197 (2): 19. arXiv:1108.4677v1. Bibcode:2011ApJS..197...19K. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/19. S2CID 16850733.
- Beichman, Charles A.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Barman, Travis S.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Cushing, Michael C.; Wright, Edward L. (2013). "The Coldest Brown Dwarf (or Free-floating Planet)?: The Y Dwarf WISE 1828+2650". The Astrophysical Journal. 764 (1): 101. arXiv:1301.1669. Bibcode:2013ApJ...764..101B. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/101. S2CID 118575478.
- Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; et al. (March 2021). "The Field Substellar Mass Function Based on the Full-sky 20 pc Census of 525 L, T, and Y Dwarfs". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 253 (1): 7. arXiv:2011.11616. Bibcode:2021ApJS..253....7K. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abd107. S2CID 227126954.
- Cushing, Michael C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Griffith, Roger L.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Mainzer, Amy K.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Beichman, Charles A.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Prato, Lisa A.; Simcoe, Robert A.; Marley, Mark S.; Saumon, Didier; Freedman, Richard S.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; Wright, Edward L. (2011). "The Discovery of Y Dwarfs using Data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)". The Astrophysical Journal. 743 (1): 50. arXiv:1108.4678. Bibcode:2011ApJ...743...50C. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/50. S2CID 286881.
- Cushing, Michael C.; Schneider, Adam C.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Morley, Caroline V.; Marley, Mark S.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Mace, Gregory N.; Wright, Edward L.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Marsh, Kenneth A. (2021). "An Improved Near-infrared Spectrum of the Archetype Y Dwarf WISEP J182831.08+265037.8". The Astrophysical Journal. 920 (1): 20. arXiv:2107.00506. Bibcode:2021ApJ...920...20C. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac12cb. S2CID 235694398.
- Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gelino, Christopher R.; Cushing, Michael C.; Mace, Gregory N.; Griffith, Roger L.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Wright, Edward L.; Eisenhardt, Peter R.; McLean, Ian S.; Mainzer, Amy K.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Tinney, Chris G.; Parker, Stephen; Salter, Graeme (2012). "Further Defining Spectral Type "Y" and Exploring the Low-mass End of the Field Brown Dwarf Mass Function". The Astrophysical Journal. 753 (2): 156. arXiv:1205.2122. Bibcode:2012ApJ...753..156K. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/156. S2CID 119279752.
- Dupuy, Trent J.; Kraus, Adam L. (2013). "Distances, Luminosities, and Temperatures of the Coldest Known Substellar Objects". Science. 341 (6153): 1492–5. arXiv:1309.1422. Bibcode:2013Sci...341.1492D. doi:10.1126/science.1241917. PMID 24009359. S2CID 30379513.
- Beichman, Charles A.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Cushing, Michael C.; Dodson-Robinson, Sally; Marley, Mark S.; Morley, Caroline V.; Wright, Edward 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. S2CID 119302072.
- De Furio, Matthew; Lew, Ben; Beichman, Charles; Roellig, Thomas; Bryden, Geoffrey; Ciardi, David; Meyer, Michael; Rieke, Marcia; Greenbaum, Alexandra; Leisenring, Jarron; Llop-Sayson, Jorge; Ygouf, Marie; Albert, Loic; Boyer, Martha; Eisenstein, Daniel (2023-05-01). "JWST Observations of the Enigmatic Y-Dwarf WISE 1828+2650. I. Limits to a Binary Companion". The Astrophysical Journal. 948: 92. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acbf1e. ISSN 0004-637X.
- Beichman, Charles; De Furio, Matthew; Roellig, Thomas; Lew, Ben; Greene, Thomas; Leisenring, Jarron; Misselt, Karl; Stansberry, John; Boyer, Martha; Rieke, Marcia; Meyer, Michael; Albert, Loic; Kelly, Douglas; Greenbaum, Alexendra; Bryden, Geoffrey (2023-01-01). "JWST Observations of the Enigmatic Y Dwarf WISE 1828+2650". 55: 345.05.
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External links
- Choi, Charles Q. (August 26, 2011). "Y dwarf star? Because they're cool, that's Y!". Space.com. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
- NASA news release
- Science news
- NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Infrared image of WISE 1828+2650 (30 August 2011)
- Solstation.com (New Objects within 20 light-years)