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What are these two things around WISE 0614+3912

  • DavidSteinour by DavidSteinour

    a deconvolved and cropped image of WISE 0614+3912 scaled by 500% seen on January 15 2015 by nirc2's narrow angle camera with a circle around the second companiona deconvolved and cropped image of WISE 0614+3912 scaled by 500% seen on March 20 2017 by nirc2's narrow angle camera with a circle around the second companion for context, the primary here is a T8 brown dwarf about 50.2 ly away and should be about 0.06 millarcseconds in apparent size. I noticed the thing in the bottom right corner and the thing I circled consistently follow and move around this brown dwarf, I'd say the larger and outer companion takes about 20 to 30 years to orbit around it's primary. My main question is are these two companions brown dwarfs or planets?

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