WISE 0734−7157 explained

WISE J073444.02−715744.0 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0734−7157) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Volans at approximately 43 light-years from Earth. It is one of the furthest Y0 brown dwarfs known.

Discovery

WISE 0734−7157 was discovered in 2012 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which 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 0734−7157.

Distance

Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 0734−7157 is a trigonometric parallax, published in 2019 by Kirkpatrick et al.: pc, or ly.

See also

The other six discoveries of brown dwarfs, published in Kirkpatrick et al. (2012):

• WISE 0146+4234 (Y0)
• WISE 0350−5658 (Y1)
• WISE 0359−5401 (Y0)
• WISE 0535−7500 (≥Y1)
• WISE 0713−2917 (Y0)
• WISE 2220−3628 (Y0)

Lists:

• List of star systems within 40–45 light-years
• List of Y-dwarfs