Physical properties and trigonometric distance of the peculiar dwarf WISE J181005.5$-$101002.3

Abstract

Our goal is to characterise the physical properties of the metal-poor brown dwarf population. In particular, we focus on the recently discovered peculiar dwarf WISE J1810055$-$1010023. We collected optical iz and near-infrared J-band imaging on multiple occasions over 1.5 years to derive accurate trigonometric parallax and proper motion of the metal-depleted ultra-cool dwarf candidate WISE1810. We also acquired low-resolution optical spectroscopy (0.6$-$1.0 $\mu$m) and new infrared (0.9$-$1.3 $\mu$m) spectra of WISE1810 that were combined with our photometry, other existing data from the literature and our trigonometric distance to determine the object's luminosity from the integration of the observed spectral energy distribution covering from 0.6 through 16$\mu$m. We compared the full optical and infrared spectrum with state-of-the-art atmosphere models to further constrain its effective temperature, surface gravity and metallicity. WISE1810 is detected in the $iz$ bands with AB magnitudes of $i$=23.871$\pm$0.104 and $z$=20.147$\pm$0.083 mag in the PanSTARRS system. It does not show any obvious photometric variability beyond 0.1$-$0.2 mag in any of the $z$- and $J$-band filters. The very red $z-J\approx 2.9$ mag colour is compatible with an ultra-cool dwarf nature. Fitting for parallax and proper motion, we measure a trigonometric parallax of 112.5${}_{-8.0}^{+8.1}$ mas for WISE1810, placing the object at only 8.9${}_{-0.6}^{+0.7}$ pc, about three times closer than previously thought. We employed Monte Carlo methods to estimate the error on the parallax and proper motion. The object's luminosity was determined at log$L/L_{\odot }$=$-$5.78$\pm$0.11 dex. From the comparison to atmospheric models, we infer a likely metallicity of [Fe/H] $\approx -1.5$ and an effective temperature cooler than 1000K. Abridged

12 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publications to A&A

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