The trigonometric parallax of DENIS-P J104814.7-395606.1

被引:16
作者
Deacon, NR [1 ]
Hambly, NC [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Astron, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, Midlothian, Scotland
来源
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | 2001年 / 380卷 / 01期
关键词
astrometry; stars : low mass; stars : individual : DENIS 1048-39;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361:20011290
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the trigonometric parallax for a nearby very low mass star recently discovered by Delfosse et al. (2001). Using schmidt plates measured on the SuperCOSMOS plate scanning machine we find a parallax of pi = 192 +/- 37 mas, giving a distance of d = 5.2(-0.8)(+1.2) pc. Using this distance we find the absolute magnitude and kinematics for the object to be consistent with an intermediate-age disk object of mass 0.08 M-circle dot. This star is clearly nearby and is on these measurements between the 30th and 86th closest known stellar system to the Sun; it could be the closest M9 dwarf to the Sun.
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