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    WISEA J083011.95+283716.0: A Missing Link Planetary-Mass Object

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    We present the discovery of WISEA J083011.95+283716.0, the first Y dwarf candidate identified through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project. We identified this object as a red, fast-moving source with a faint W2W2 detection in multi-epoch \textit{AllWISE} and unWISE images. We have characterized this object with Spitzer Space Telescope and \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} follow-up imaging. With mid-infrared detections in \textit{Spitzer}'s \emph{ch1} and \emph{ch2} bands and flux upper limits in Hubble Space Telescope F105WF105W and F125WF125W filters, we find that this object is both very faint and has extremely red colors (ch1−ch2=3.25±0.23ch1-ch2 = 3.25\pm0.23 mag, F125W−ch2≥9.36F125W-ch2 \geq 9.36 mag), consistent with a Teff∼300_{eff}\sim300 K source, as estimated from the known Y dwarf population. A preliminary parallax provides a distance of 11.1−1.5+2.011.1^{+2.0}_{-1.5} pc, leading to a slightly warmer temperature of ∼350\sim350 K. The extreme faintness and red Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope colors of this object suggest it may be a link between the broader Y dwarf population and the coldest known brown dwarf WISE J0855−-0714, and highlight our limited knowledge of the true spread of Y dwarf colors. We also present four additional Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 late-T brown dwarf discoveries within 30 pc.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, 5 table
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