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The First AllWISE Proper Motion Discovery: WISEA J070720.50+170532.7

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(2013)cite arxiv:1310.6717Comment: Submitted to the Astronomical Journal, 10 pages LaTex with 9 embedded figures.

Abstract

While quality checking a new motion-aware co-addition of all 12.5 months of WISE data, the source WISE J070720.48+170533.0 was found to have moved 0.9 arc-sec in 6 months. Backtracking this motion allowed us to identify this source as 2MASS J07071961+1705464 and with several entries in the USNO B catalog. An astrometric fit to these archival data gives a proper motion of 1793 +/- 2 mas/yr and a parallax of 37 +/- 42 mas. Photometry from WISE, 2MASS and the POSS can be fit reasonably well by a blackbody with T = 3680 K and an angular radius of 4.34E-11 radians. No clear evidence of H_2 collision-induced absorption is seen in the near-IR. An optical spectrum shows broad deep CaH bands at 638 and 690 nm, broad deep Na D at 598.2 nm, and weak or absent TiO, indicating that this source is an ultra-subdwarf M star with a radial velocity about -21 +/- 18 km/sec relative to the Sun. Given its apparent magnitude, the distance is about 46 +/- 12 pc and the tangential velocity is probably about 400 km/sec, but a more precise parallax is needed to be certain.

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