Photometric Monitoring of the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf with the Spitzer Space Telescope

Taran Esplin, Kevin Luhman, Michael Cushing +4

Because WISE J085510.83$-$071442.5 (hereafter WISE 0855-0714) is the coldest known brown dwarf ($\sim 250$ K) and one of the Sun's closest neighbors (2.2 pc), it offers a unique opp…