WISE 1506+7027
Location of WISE 1506+7027 in the constellation Ursa Minor | |
| Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Ursa Minor |
| Right ascension | 15h 06m 52.4403s |
| Declination | 70° 27′ 25.1182″ |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | T6 |
| Apparent magnitude (J (2MASS filter system)) | 14.328±0.095 |
| Apparent magnitude (J (MKO filter system)) | 13.56±0.05 |
| Apparent magnitude (H (2MASS filter system)) | 14.150±0.203 |
| Apparent magnitude (H (MKO filter system)) | 13.91±0.04 |
| Apparent magnitude (KS (2MASS filter system)) | 14.048±0.136 |
| Astrometry | |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −1,194.085 mas/yr Dec.: 1,044.300 mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 193.5±0.6 mas |
| Distance | 16.86 ± 0.05 ly (5.17 ± 0.02 pc) |
| Other designations | |
| WISEPC J150649.97+702736.0 WISE J1506+7027 WISE 1506+7027 | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
WISEPC J150649.97+702736.0 (designation abbreviated to WISE 1506+7027, or WISE J1506+7027) is a brown dwarf star of spectral class T6, located in constellation Ursa Minor. It is one of the Sun's nearest neighbors, at a distance of 16.85 light-years. Brown dwarfs closer to the Sun include Luhman 16, WISE 0855−0714, ε Indi Ba and ε Indi Bb.
WISE 1506+7027 was discovered in 2011 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 2011, Kirkpatrick and colleagues 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 1506+7027.
The first trigonometric parallax of WISE 1506+7027, which was published in 2013 by Marsh et al., is 0.310″±0.042″, corresponding to a distance 3.4+0.7
−0.4 pc, or 11.1+2.3
−1.3 ly. The Gaia spacecraft determined an updated parallax of 193.5 milliarcseconds leading to a distance of 16.85 light years. WISE 1506+7027 has a large proper motion of about 1,623 milliarcseconds per year.