2MASS J00303013-1450333

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Brown dwarf
2MASS J00303013-1450333
Observation
dates equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Constellation whale
Right ascension 00 h 30 m 30.13 s
declination -14 ° 50 ′ 33.3 ″
parallax (37.4 ± 4.5) mas
distance approx. 90  ly
(approx. 30  pc )
Typing
Spectral class L7
Physical Properties
Effective temperature 1545 +190−154 K
Other names
and catalog entries
Further designations:

2MASSW J0030300-145033
2MASSI J0030300-145033
GO Ceti

2MASS J00303013-1450333 is a brown dwarf in the constellation Whale, about 100 light-years from Earth . It was published in 2000 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. discovered.

2MASS J00303013-1450333 belongs to the spectral class L7; its surface temperature is likely to be around 1500 Kelvin .

Its position shifts by 0.25 arc seconds annually due to its own motion .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Cf. FJ Vrba, AA Henden, CB Luginbuhl, HH Guetter, JA Munn, B. Canzian, AJ Burgasser, JD Kirpatrick, X. Fan, TR Geballe, DA Golimowski, GR Knapp, SK Leggett, DP Schneider, J Brinkman: Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the US Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program , in: Astrophysical Journal 127 (2004) 2948-2968; J. Davy Kirkpatrick: New Spectral Types L and T (PDF; 1.0 MB), in: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 43 (2005), 195-245, here 212.