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- ItemOpen AccessCharacterization of the nearby L/T binary brown dwarf wise J104915.57–531906.1 at 2 pc from the sun(2013) Kniazev, A Y; Väisänen, P; Mužić, K; Mehner, A; Boffin, H M J; Kurtev, R; Melo, C; Ivanov, V D; Girard, J; Mawet, D; Schmidtobreick, L; Huelamo, N; Borissova, J; Minniti, D; Ishibashi, K; Potter, S B; Beletsky, Y; Buckley, D A H; Crawford, S; Gulbis, A A S; Kotze, P; Miszalski, B; Pickering, T E; Romero-Colmenero, E; Williams, T BWISE J104915.57$-$531906.1 is a L/T brown dwarf binary located 2pc from the Sun. The pair contains the closest known brown dwarfs and is the third closest known system, stellar or sub-stellar. We report comprehensive follow-up observations of this newly uncovered system. We have determined the spectral types of both components (L8+/-1, for the primary, agreeing with the discovery paper; T1.5+/-2 for the secondary, which was lacking spectroscopic type determination in the discovery paper) and, for the first time, their radial velocities (V_rad~23.1, 19.5 km/s) using optical spectra obtained at the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and other facilities located at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). The relative radial velocity of the two components is smaller than the range of orbital velocities for theoretically predicted masses, implying that they form a gravitationally bound system. We report resolved near-infrared JHK_S photometry from the IRSF telescope at the SAAO which yields colors consistent with the spectroscopically derived spectral types. The available kinematic and photometric information excludes the possibility that the object belongs to any of the known nearby young moving groups or associations. Simultaneous optical polarimetry observations taken at the SAAO 1.9-m give a non-detection with an upper limit of 0.07%. For the given spectral types and absolute magnitudes, 1Gyr theoretical models predict masses of 0.04--0.05 M_odot for the primary, and 0.03--0.05 M_odot for the secondary.
- ItemOpen AccessMid-infrared selection of active galactic nuclei with the wide-field infrared survey explorer. II. properties of wise -selected active galactic nuclei in the NDWFS Boötes field(2013) Assef, R J; Stern, D; Kochanek, C S; Blain, A W; Brodwin, M; Brown, M J I; Donoso, E; Eisenhardt, P R M; Jannuzi, B T; Jarrett, T H; Stanford, S A; Tsai, C W; Wu, J; Yan, LStern et al. presented a study of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) selection of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the 2 deg2 COSMOS field, finding that a simple criterion W1-W2 ≥ 0.8 provides a highly reliable and complete AGN sample for W2 < 15.05, where the W1 and W2 passbands are centered at 3.4 μm and 4.6 μm, respectively. Here we extend this study using the larger 9 deg2 NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Boötes field which also has considerably deeper WISE observations than the COSMOS field, and find that this simple color cut significantly loses reliability at fainter fluxes. We define a modified selection criterion combining the W1–W2 color and the W2 magnitude to provide highly reliable or highly complete AGN samples for fainter WISE sources. In particular, we define a color-magnitude cut that finds 130 ± 4 deg–2 AGN candidates for W2 < 17.11 with 90% reliability. Using the extensive UV through mid-IR broadband photometry available in this field, we study the spectral energy distributions of WISE AGN candidates. We find that, as expected, the WISE AGN selection can identify highly obscured AGNs, but that it is biased toward objects where the AGN dominates the bolometric luminosity output. We study the distribution of reddening in the AGN sample and discuss a formalism to account for sample incompleteness based on the step-wise maximum-likelihood method of Efstathiou et al. The resulting dust obscuration distributions depend strongly on AGN luminosity, consistent with the trend expected for a receding torus. At L AGN ~ 3 × 1044 erg s–1, 29% ± 7% of AGNs are observed as Type 1, while at ~4 × 1045 erg s–1 the fraction is 64% ± 13%. The distribution of obscuration values suggests that dust in the torus is present as both a diffuse medium and in optically thick clouds.