DISCOVERY OF AN UNUSUALLY BLUE L DWARF WITHIN 10 pc OF THE SUN

DISCOVERY OF AN UNUSUALLY BLUE L DWARF WITHIN 10 pc OF THE SUN

We report the discovery of an unusually blue L5 dwarf within 10 pc of the Sun from a search of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra. A spectrophotometric distance estimate of 8.0±1.6 pc places SDSS J141624.08+134826.7 among the six closest known L dwarfs. SDSS 1416+13 was overlooked in infrared c...

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Main Authors: Schmidt, Sarah J. (Author), Burgasser, Adam J. (Contributor), Bochanski, John J. (Contributor), Hawley, Suzanne L. (Author), West, A. A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), West, Andrew A. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2010-06-29T15:04:05Z.
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