Bibcode
                                    
                            Scholz, R.-D.; Lodieu, N.; McCaughrean, M. J.
    Referencia bibliográfica
                                    Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.428, p.L25-L28 (2004)
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                        12
            
                        2004
            
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                            Número de citas
                                    45
                            Número de citas referidas
                                    38
                            Descripción
                                    We present the discovery of a new extreme high proper motion object
(˜3.5 arcsec/year) which we classify as an ultracool subdwarf with
[M/H] ˜ -0.5. It has a formal spectral type of sdM9 but also shows
L-type features: while the VO bands are completely absent, it exhibits
extremely strong TiO absorption in its optical spectrum. With a radial
velocity of about -160 km s-1 and a rough distance estimate
of 16-24 pc, it is likely one of the nearest halo members crossing the
Solar neighbourhood with a heliocentric space velocity of
(U,V,W)=(-244,-256,-100)±(32,77,6) km s-1.
Based on archival data from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys, 2MASS, and
DENIS, and observations with the ESO 3.6-m telescope (ESO 072.C-0630)
and VLT (ESO 072.C-0725).