Discovery of an L dwarf co-moving BD+60 1417 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Faherty J.K.
  2. Gagne J.
  3. Popinchalk M.
  4. Vos J.M.
  5. Burgasser A.J.,Schumann J.
  6. Schneider A.C.
  7. Kirkpatrick J.D.
  8. Meisner A.M.
  9. Kuchner M.J.,Bardalez Gagliuffi D.C.
  10. Marocco F.
  11. Caselden D.
  12. Gonzales E.C.,Rothermich A.
  13. Casewell S.L.
  14. Debes J.H.
  15. Aganze C.
  16. Ayala A.
  17. Hsu C.-C.,Cooper W.J.
  18. Smart R.L.
  19. Gerasimov R.
  20. Theissen C.A.,The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Collaboration
  21. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project we discovered a late-type L dwarf co-moving with the young K0 star BD+60 1417 at a projected separation of 37" or 1662au. The secondary-CWISER J124332.12+600126.2 (W1243)-is detected in both the CatWISE2020 and 2MASS reject tables. The photometric distance and CatWISE proper motion both match that of the primary within ~1{sigma} and our estimates for a chance alignment yield a zero probability. Follow-up near-infrared spectroscopy reveals W1243 to be a very red 2MASS (J-Ks=2.72), low surface gravity source that we classify as L6-L8{gamma}. Its spectral morphology strongly resembles that of confirmed late-type L dwarfs in 10-150Myr moving groups as well as that of planetary mass companions. The position on near- and mid-infrared color-magnitude diagrams indicates the source is redder and fainter than the field sequence, a telltale sign of an object with thick clouds and a complex atmosphere. For the primary we obtained new optical spectroscopy and analyzed all available literature information for youth indicators. We conclude that the LiI abundance, its loci on color-magnitude and color-color diagrams, and the rotation rate revealed in multiple TESS sectors are all consistent with an age of 50-150Myr. Using our re-evaluated age of the primary and the Gaia parallax, along with the photometry and spectrum for W1243, we find Teff=1303+/-31K, log g=4.3+/-0.17cm/s^2^, and a mass of 15+/-5MJup. We find a physical separation of ~1662au and a mass ratio of ~0.01 for this system. Placing it in the context of the diverse collection of binary stars, brown dwarfs, and planetary companions, the BD+60 1417 system falls in a sparsely sampled area where the formation pathway is difficult to assess.

Keywords
  1. brown-dwarfs
  2. l-dwarfs
  3. multiple-stars
  4. infrared-astronomy
  5. spectroscopy
  6. visible-astronomy
  7. k-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...923...48F
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19230048

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2023-07-19T11:42:29Z
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2023-07-19T11:42:29Z
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