Name:Fajardo-Acosta, Sergio
Email:fajardo@ipac.caltech.edu
Institution:Caltech / IPAC
Title:Spectroscopic Follow-Up of a Very Unusual AllWISE High Proper Motion Object
Topic:Extreme Sources
Abstract:We discuss spectroscopy observations as part of on-going follow-up
studies of high motion objects measured in the AllWISE survey. Our
observations reveal a few very unusual systems whose spectra are not fitted
by any known brown dwarf models. One such system has characteristics of a
late-M or early-L dwarf, but with discrepant color temperature and with
spectral features indicative of a very different type of object. Various
possibilities may explain our observations, including an unusual multiple
system, variability, or atmospheric phenomena not previously known.