surface gravity L dwarfs show spectral deviations indicating that they are younger than the Pleiades. Therefore using an age range[^1] of $<$ 10-100 Myr and spectral classifications of early-mid type L dwarfs, these objects have masses close to–or in some cases below– the deuterium burning limit, making them exoplanet analogs. Since young brown dwarfs are nearby and isolated, they are ideal laboratories for detailed studies of cool, low-gravity, dusty atmospheres that are similar to directly imaged exoplanets.

In this paper we examine the kinematic, photometric, and spectral features of the low surface gravity L5$\gamma$ dwarf 2MASSJ035523.37+113343.7 (2M0355). In section 2 we review published observations of 2M0355. In section 3 we describe new near-infrared spectral and imaging data, and in section 4 we evaluate indications of youth, including potential membership in nearby young moving groups. In section 5 we discuss the spectral energy distribution (SED) for 2M0355 as well as the near-infrared color-magnitude diagram for the brown dwarf population, highlighting the location of 2M0355 compared to directly imaged exoplanets. Conclusions are presented in section 6.

Published Observations of 2M0355
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2M0355 was discovered by @Reid06 in a search of the 2MASS database for ultracool dwarfs, but its observational peculiarities were not 