ULAS J150547.89 + 070316.6

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Brown dwarf
ULAS J150547.89 + 070316.6
Observation
dates equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Constellation Virgin
Right ascension 15 h 05 m 47.89 s
declination + 07 ° 03 ′ 16.6 ″
Typing
Spectral class T4
Physical Properties

ULAS J150547.89 + 070316.6 is a brown dwarf in the constellation Virgo . Its spectral class is approximately T4 and its distance is estimated to be a few dozen parsecs . The object was designed by Pinfield et al. Identified as a T dwarf in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey.

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  • Pinfield et al .: Fifteen new T dwarfs discovered in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey ; in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 390, No. 1, pp. 304ff. (2008), bibcode : 2008MNRAS.390..304P