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WISEPA J171104.60+350036.8 (designation abbreviated to WISE 1711+3500, or WISE J1711+3500) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T8, located in constellation Hercules at approximately 60 light-years from Earth.

Discovery
WISE 1711+3500 was discovered in 2011 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. In 2011 Kirkpatrick et al. published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, where they presented discovery of 98 new found by WISE brown dwarf systems with components of spectral types M, L, T and Y, among which also was WISE 1711+3500.

Distance
Trigonometric parallax of WISE 1711+3500 is not yet measured. Therefore, there are only distance estimates of this object, obtained by indirect — spectrofotometric — means (see table).

WISE 1711+3500 distance estimates

Non-trigonometric distance estimates are marked in italic.