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Coordinates: Sky map 17h 11m 04.59s, +35° 00′ 36.73″
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WISEPA J171104.60+350036.8
Observation data
Epoch MJD 55437.93[1]      Equinox J2000[1]
Constellation Hercules
Right ascension 17h 11m 04.59s[1]
Declination 35° 00′ 36.73″[1]
Characteristics
Spectral type T8[1][2]
Apparent magnitude (J (2MASS filter system)) 17.886 ± 0.130[1]
Apparent magnitude (H (2MASS filter system)) >18.12[1]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: -71 ± 251[1] mas/yr
Dec.: -108 ± 185[1] mas/yr
Distance~ 60.3[2] ly
(~ 18.5[2] pc)
Other designations
WISEPA J171104.60+350036.8[1]
WISE J1711+3500[1]
WISE 1711+3500[1]

WISEPA J171104.60+350036.8 (designation abbreviated to WISE 1711+3500, or WISE J1711+3500) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T8,[1][2] located in constellation Hercules at approximately 60 light-years from Earth.[2]

Discovery

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WISE 1711+3500 was discovered in 2011 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satelliteNASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. In 2011 Kirkpatrick et al. published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, where they 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 1711+3500.[1][note 1]

Distance

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Trigonometric parallax of WISE 1711+3500 is not yet measured. Therefore, there are only distance estimates of this object, obtained by indirect — spectrofotometric — means (see table).

WISE 1711+3500 distance estimates

Source Parallax, mas Distance, pc Distance, ly Ref.
Kirkpatrick et al. (2011) ~17.0 ~55.4 [1]
Kirkpatrick et al. (2012) ~18.5 ~60.3 [2]

Non-trigonometric distance estimates are marked in italic.

Notes

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  1. ^ This 98 brown dwarf systems are only among first, not all brown dwarf systems, discovered from data, collected by WISE: six discoveries was published earlier (however, also listed in Kirkpatrick et al. (2011)) in Mainzer et al. (2011) and Burgasser et al. (2011), and the other discoveries was published later.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Davy Kirkpatrick, J.; Cushing, Michael C.; Gelino, Christopher R.; Griffith, Roger L.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; Wright, Edward L.; Mainzer, A.; 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, S. A.; 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; et al. (2011). "The First Hundred Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ( Wise )". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 197 (2): 19. arXiv:1108.4677. Bibcode:2011ApJS..197...19K. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/19. S2CID 16850733.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Davy Kirkpatrick, J.; 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, Amanda K.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Tinney, C. 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.

Category:T-type brown dwarfs Category:Hercules (constellation) Category:WISE objects