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Discovery of a Nearby Young Brown Dwarf Disk
M. C. Schutte, K. D. Lawson, J. P. Wisniewski +15
We report the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf with a disk at 102 pc from the Sun, WISEA~J120037.79-784508.3 (W1200-7845), via the Disk Detective citizen science project. We e…
Peter Pan Disks: Long-lived Accretion Disks Around Young M Stars
Steven M. Silverberg, John P. Wisniewski, Marc J. Kuchner +12
WISEA J080822.18-644357.3, an M star in the Carina association, exhibits extreme infrared excess and accretion activity at an age greater than the expected accretion disk lifetime.…
Follow-up Imaging of Disk Candidates from the Disk Detective Citizen Science Project: New Discoveries and False-Positives in WISE Circumstellar Disk Surveys
Steven M. Silverberg, Marc J. Kuchner, John P. Wisniewski +17
The Disk Detective citizen science project aims to find new stars with excess 22-m emission from circumstellar dust in the AllWISE data release from the Wide-field Infrared Surv…
The First Brown Dwarf Discovered by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
Marc J. Kuchner, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Adam C. Schneider +9
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a powerful tool for finding nearby brown dwarfs and searching for new planets in the outer solar system, especially with the incor…