Teide 1
relative sizes
Estimated relative size of the planet Jupiter and the brown dwarfs WISE 1828+2650, Gliese 229B, and Teide 1 compared to the Sun and a red dwarf.
Credit: MPIA/V. Joergens.
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Taurus
Right ascension 03h 47m 17.915s[1]
Declination +24° 22′ 31.75″[1]
Characteristics
Spectral type M8[2]
Apparent magnitude (J) 16.215[3]
Apparent magnitude (H) 15.591[3]
Apparent magnitude (K) 15.096[3]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: 21.681±2.695 mas/yr[1]
Dec.: −43.254±1.485 mas/yr[1]
Parallax (π)7.5777 ± 1.7015 mas[1]
Distanceapprox. 430 ly
(approx. 130 pc)
Details
Mass55 ± 15[4] MJup
Luminosity0.0008–0.0005[5] L☉
Temperature2,584 ± 150[4] K
Age0.105 ± 0.035[5] Gyr
Other designations
Melotte 22 Teide 1, Melotte 22 BPL 137, Melotte 22 NPL 39, EPIC 211088076, 2MASS J03471792+2422317[2]
Database references
SIMBADdata

Teide 1 is a brown dwarf located ~430 light years away. It was the first brown dwarf to be verified, in 1995.[6] Its surface temperature is 2,600 ± 150 K,[4] which is about half that of the Sun. Its luminosity is 0.08–0.05% of that of the Sun.[5] It is located in the Pleiades cluster, approximately 400 light-years (120 pc) from Earth, and is estimated to have about the same age as it, giving a plausible range from 70 to 140 Myr.[5]

Discovery

Teide 1 was detected by Rafael Rebolo López, María R. Zapatero-Osorio and Eduardo L. Martín in optical images obtained in January 1994 with the 0.80 meter diameter telescope (IAC-80) from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, located at the Teide Observatory on the island of Tenerife. Its cold nature was confirmed in December 1994 with the William Herschel telescope (WHT) of the Roque de los Muchachos observatory in La Palma. On May 22, 1995, the article reporting their discovery was submitted to the journal Nature, which published it on September 14, 1995. Meanwhile, a similar object, Calar 3, was discovered. The brown dwarf nature of Teide 1 and Calar 3 was confirmed in 1996 following spectroscopic observations with the 10-meter diameter telescope of the W. M. Keck observatory of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

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References

  1. ^ a b c d Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674: A1. arXiv:2208.00211. Bibcode:2023A&A...674A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940. S2CID 244398875. Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. ^ a b "2MASS J03471792+2422317". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
  3. ^ a b c Cutri, Roc M.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Beichman, Charles A.; Carpenter, John M.; Chester, Thomas; Cambresy, Laurent; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Huchra, John P.; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Light, Robert M.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Stiening, Rae; Sykes, Matthew J.; Weinberg, Martin D.; Wheaton, William A.; Wheelock, Sherry L.; Zacarias, N. (2003). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)". CDS/ADC Collection of Electronic Catalogues. 2246: II/246. Bibcode:2003yCat.2246....0C.
  4. ^ a b c Mid-IR Observations of the Pleiades Brown Dwarfs Teide 1 & Calar 3 (Leech 2000)
  5. ^ a b c d R. Rebolo; E. L. Martín; G. Basri; G. W. Marcy; M. R. Zapatero-Osorio (1996). "Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades Cluster Confirmed by the Lithium Test". The Astrophysical Journal. 469: 53–56. arXiv:astro-ph/9607002. Bibcode:1996ApJ...469L..53R. doi:10.1086/310263. S2CID 119485127.
  6. ^ Rebolo, Rafael (2014), "Teide 1 and the Discovery of Brown Dwarfs", in Joergens, Viki (ed.), 50 Years of Brown Dwarfs – From Prediction to Discovery to Forefront of Research, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 401, Springer, pp. 25–50, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01162-2_4, ISBN 978-3-319-01162-2

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