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2023AJ....166..226B - Astron. J., 166, 226 (2023/December-0)

An Investigation of New Brown Dwarf Spectral Binary Candidates From the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Initiative.

BRAVO A., SCHNEIDER A.C., BARDALEZ GAGLIUFFI D., BURGASSER A.J., MEISNER A.M., KIRKPATRICK J.D., FAHERTY J.K., KUCHNER M.J., CASELDEN D., SAINIO A., HAMLET L. (The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We present three new brown dwarf spectral-binary candidates: CWISE J072708.09-360729.2, CWISE J103604.84-514424.4, and CWISE J134446.62-732053.9, discovered by citizen scientists through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project. Follow-up near-infrared spectroscopy shows that each of these objects is poorly fit by a single near-infrared standard. We constructed binary templates and found significantly better fits, with component types of L7+T4 for CWISE J072708.09-360729.2, L7+T4 for CWISE J103604.84-514424.4, and L7+T7 for CWISE J134446.62-732053.9. However, further investigation of available spectroscopic indices for evidence of binarity and large amplitude variability suggests that CWISE J072708.09-360729.2 may instead be a strong variability candidate. Our analysis offers tentative evidence and characterization of these peculiar brown dwarf sources, emphasizing their value as promising targets for future high-resolution imaging or photometric variability studies.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Brown dwarfs - L dwarfs - T dwarfs - Binary stars

Simbad objects: 27

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