Properties of the solar neighbor WISE J072003.20-084651.2
2015
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201424883
Context. The severe crowding towards the Galactic plane suggests that the census of nearby stars in that direction may be incomplete. Recently, Scholz reported a new M9 object at an estimated distance d similar or equal to 7 pc (WISE J072003.20-084651.2; hereafter WISE J0720) at Galactic latitude b = 2.3 degrees.