WISE 0734−7157

WISE J073444.02−715744.0 is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Volans at approximately 43 light-years from Earth. It is one of the furthest Y0 brown dwarfs known.

Discovery

WISE 0734−7157 was discovered in 2012 by J. [Davy Kirkpatrick] et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite—National Aeronautics and [Space Administration|NASA] infrared-wavelength 40 cm space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. In 2012 Kirkpatrick et al. published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal, where they presented discovery of seven new found by WISE brown dwarfs of spectral type Y, among which also was WISE 0734−7157.

Distance

Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 0734−7157 is a trigonometric parallax, published in 2019 by Kirkpatrick et al.: pc, or ly.