Y-class dwarfs are among the coldest of all brown dwarfs.[1] WISE 2220-3628 was observed with JWST and found to be very similar to CWISEP J1935-1546, with the difference of having no signature of an aurora and no temperature inversion in its atmosphere.[2]
Distance
The most accurate distance estimate of WISE 2220−3628 was a trigonometric parallax, published in 2014 by Beichman et al.: 0.136 ± 0.017 arcsec, corresponding to a distance of 7.4 ± 0.9 pc (24.1 ± 2.9 ly).[5] Later the parallax measurement was improved revealing a larger distance of about 34 light years.[4]
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