DIRECT SPECTRUM OF THE BENCHMARK T DWARF HD 19467 B

Journal Article · Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Astrophysical Journal Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/798/2/L43· OSTI ID:22364638

Crepp, Justin R.; Matthews, Christopher T. ^[1]; Rice, Emily L.; Giorla, Paige ^[2]; Veicht, AAron; Nilsson, Ricky; Luszcz-Cook, Statia H.; Oppenheimer, Rebecca; Brenner, Douglas ^[3]; Aguilar, Jonathan; Pueyo, Laurent; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Soummer, Remi ^[4]; Hinkley, Sasha; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. ^[5]; Vasisht, Gautam; Cady, Eric; Lockhart, Thomas; Roberts, Jr., Lewis C. ^[6]; others, and

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1. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 225 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (United States)
2. College of Staten Island, CUNY, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314 (United States)
3. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 (United States)
4. Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
5. Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
6. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)

HD 19467 B is presently the only directly imaged T dwarf companion known to induce a measurable Doppler acceleration around a solar-type star. We present spectroscopy measurements of this important benchmark object taken with the Project 1640 integral field unit at Palomar Observatory. Our high-contrast R ≈ 30 observations obtained simultaneously across the JH bands confirm the cold nature of the companion as reported from the discovery article and determine its spectral type for the first time. Fitting the measured spectral energy distribution to SpeX/IRTF T dwarf standards and synthetic spectra from BT-Settl atmospheric models, we find that HD 19467 B is a T5.5 ± 1 dwarf with effective temperature T{sub eff}=978{sub −43}{sup +20} K. Our observations reveal significant methane absorption affirming its substellar nature. HD 19467 B shows promise to become the first T dwarf that simultaneously reveals its mass, age, and metallicity independent from the spectrum of light that it emits.

• OSTI ID: 22364638
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 798, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 2041-8205
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY
ACCELERATION
BENCHMARKS
DWARF STARS
ENERGY SPECTRA
MAIN SEQUENCE STARS
MASS
METALLICITY
METHANE
RESOLUTION
VISIBLE RADIATION