WISE 0359−5401 [SEP] constellation
WISE 0359−5401
WISE J035934.06−540154.6 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0359−5401) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Reticulum. Estimated to be approximately 22.5 light-years from Earth, it is one of the Sun's nearest neighbors.
Discovery.
WISE 0359−5401 was discovered in 2012 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick and colleagues from data collected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in the infrared at a wavelength of 40 cm (16 in), whose mission lasted from December 2009 to
February 2011. In 2012 Kirkpatrick et al. published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal, where they presented discovery of seven new found by WISE brown dwarfs of spectral type Y, among which also was WISE 0359−5401.
Distance.
The trigonometric parallax of WISE 0359−5401 is arcsec, corresponding to a direct inversion distance of , or .
See also.
The other six discoveries of brown dwarfs, published in "Kirkpatrick et al. (2012)":
- WISE 0146+4234 (Y0)
-