TY - JOUR
T1 - Project 1640 Observations of Brown Dwarf GJ 758 B
T2 - Near-infrared Spectrum and Atmospheric Modeling
AU - Nilsson, R.
AU - Veicht, A.
AU - Godfrey, P. A.Giorla
AU - Rice, E. L.
AU - Aguilar, J.
AU - Pueyo, L.
AU - Roberts, L. C.
AU - Oppenheimer, R.
AU - Brenner, D.
AU - Luszcz-Cook, S. H.
AU - Bacchus, E.
AU - Beichman, C.
AU - Burruss, R.
AU - Cady, E.
AU - Dekany, R.
AU - Fergus, R.
AU - Hillenbrand, L.
AU - Hinkley, S.
AU - King, D.
AU - Lockhart, T.
AU - Parry, I. R.
AU - Sivaramakrishnan, A.
AU - Soummer, R.
AU - Vasisht, G.
AU - Zhai, C.
AU - Zimmerman, N. T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/3/20
Y1 - 2017/3/20
N2 - The nearby Sun-like star GJ 758 hosts a cold substellar companion, GJ 758 B, at a projected separation of ≲30 au, previously detected in high-contrast multi-band photometric observations. In order to better constrain the companion's physical characteristics, we acquired the first low-resolution (R ∼ 50) near-infrared spectrum of it using the high-contrast hyperspectral imaging instrument Project 1640 on Palomar Observatory's 5 m Hale telescope. We obtained simultaneous images in 32 wavelength channels covering the Y, J, and H bands (∼952-1770 nm), and used data processing techniques based on principal component analysis to efficiently subtract chromatic background speckle-noise. GJ 758 B was detected in four epochs during 2013 and 2014. Basic astrometric measurements confirm its apparent northwest trajectory relative to the primary star, with no clear signs of orbital curvature. Spectra of SpeX/IRTF observed T dwarfs were compared to the combined spectrum of GJ 758 B, with χ 2 minimization suggesting a best fit for spectral type T7.0 ±1.0, but with a shallow minimum over T5-T8. Fitting of synthetic spectra from the BT-Settl13 model atmospheres gives an effective temperature T eff = 741 ±25 K and surface gravity dex (cgs). Our derived best-fit spectral type and effective temperature from modeling of the low-resolution spectrum suggest a slightly earlier and hotter companion than previous findings from photometric data, but do not rule out current results, and confirm GJ 758 B as one of the coolest sub-stellar companions to a Sun-like star to date.
AB - The nearby Sun-like star GJ 758 hosts a cold substellar companion, GJ 758 B, at a projected separation of ≲30 au, previously detected in high-contrast multi-band photometric observations. In order to better constrain the companion's physical characteristics, we acquired the first low-resolution (R ∼ 50) near-infrared spectrum of it using the high-contrast hyperspectral imaging instrument Project 1640 on Palomar Observatory's 5 m Hale telescope. We obtained simultaneous images in 32 wavelength channels covering the Y, J, and H bands (∼952-1770 nm), and used data processing techniques based on principal component analysis to efficiently subtract chromatic background speckle-noise. GJ 758 B was detected in four epochs during 2013 and 2014. Basic astrometric measurements confirm its apparent northwest trajectory relative to the primary star, with no clear signs of orbital curvature. Spectra of SpeX/IRTF observed T dwarfs were compared to the combined spectrum of GJ 758 B, with χ 2 minimization suggesting a best fit for spectral type T7.0 ±1.0, but with a shallow minimum over T5-T8. Fitting of synthetic spectra from the BT-Settl13 model atmospheres gives an effective temperature T eff = 741 ±25 K and surface gravity dex (cgs). Our derived best-fit spectral type and effective temperature from modeling of the low-resolution spectrum suggest a slightly earlier and hotter companion than previous findings from photometric data, but do not rule out current results, and confirm GJ 758 B as one of the coolest sub-stellar companions to a Sun-like star to date.
KW - brown dwarfs
KW - instrumentation: adaptive optics
KW - instrumentation: spectrographs
KW - planets and satellites: detection
KW - stars: individual (GJ 758)
KW - techniques: high angular resolution
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/aa643c
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/aa643c
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85016765002
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 838
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 64
ER -