WISE 1506+7027


WISEPC J150649.97+702736.0 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 and WISE 0855−0714. Other brown dwarfs that may be closer to the Sun include ε Indi Ba and ε Indi Bb at 11.8 light-years and WISE 0350-5658 at light-years.

Discovery

WISE 1506+7027 was discovered in 2011 from data collected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer in the infrared at a wavelength of 40 cm, 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.

Distance

The first Trigonometric parallax of WISE 1506+7027, which was published in 2013 by Marsh et al., is, corresponding to a distance, or. The Gaia spacecraft determined an updated parallax of 193.5 milliarcseconds leading to a distance of 16.85 light years.

Space motion

WISE 1506+7027 has a large proper motion of about 1623 milliarcseconds per year.