- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/689/1295
- Title:
- Lithium test implications for brown dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/689/1295
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using a large sample of optical spectra of late-type dwarfs, we identify a subset of late-M through L field dwarfs that, because of the presence of low-gravity features in their spectra, are believed to be unusually young. From a combined sample of 303 field L dwarfs, we find observationally that 7.6+/-1.6% are younger than 100Myr. This percentage is in agreement with theoretical predictions once observing biases are taken into account. We find that these young L dwarfs tend to fall in the southern hemisphere (DEC<0{deg}) and may be previously unrecognized, low-mass members of nearby, young associations like Tucana-Horologium, TW Hydrae, {beta} Pictoris, and AB Doradus. We use a homogeneously observed sample of ~150 optical spectra to examine lithium strength as a function of L/T spectral type and further corroborate the trends noted by Kirkpatrick and coworkers. We use our low-gravity spectra to investigate lithium strength as a function of age. The data weakly suggest that for early- to mid-L dwarfs the line strength reaches a maximum for a fewx100Myr, whereas for much older (few Gyr) and much younger (<100Myr) L dwarfs the line is weaker or undetectable.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/421/763
- Title:
- Liverpool-Edinburgh High Proper Motion Catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/421/763
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a machine selected catalogue of 11289 objects with proper motions exceeding 0.18arcsec/yr and an R-band faint magnitude limit of 19.5mag. The catalogue was produced using SuperCOSMOS digitized R-Band ESO and UK Schmidt Plates in 287 Schmidt fields covering almost 7000 square degrees (~17% of the whole sky) at the South Galactic Cap. The catalogue includes UK Schmidt BJ and I magnitudes for all of the stars as well as 2MASS magnitudes for 10447 of the catalogue stars. We also show that the NLTT is ~95% complete for DE>-32.5{deg}.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/397/575
- Title:
- Liverpool-Edinburgh high proper motion survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/397/575
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of 6206 stars which have proper motions exceeding 0.18 arcsec/yr with an R-band faint magnitude limit of 19.5mag. This catalogue has been produced using SuperCOSMOS digitized R-Band ESO and UK Schmidt Plates in 131 Schmidt fields covering more than 3,000 square degrees (>7.5% of the whole sky) at the South Galactic Cap. The survey is >90% complete within the nominal limits of the Luyten Two Tenths Catalogue of m_R_<18.5mag and 0.2<{mu}<2.5arcsec/yr, and is >80% complete for m_R_<19.5mag and {mu}<2.5arcsec/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/609/A114
- Title:
- Local Group AGB stars and red supergiants
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/609/A114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Mass loss is one of the fundamental properties of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, and through the enrichment of the interstellar medium, AGB stars are key players in the life cycle of dust and gas in the universe. However, a quantitative understanding of the mass-loss process is still largely lacking. To investigate mass loss and luminosity in a large sample of evolved stars in several Local Group galaxies with a variety of metallicities and star-formation histories: the Small and Large Magellanic Cloud, and the Fornax, Carina, and Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). Dust radiative transfer models are presented for 225 carbon stars and 171 oxygen-rich evolved stars in several Local Group galaxies for which spectra from the Infrared Spectrograph on Spitzer are available. The spectra are complemented with available optical and infrared photometry to construct spectral energy distributions. A minimisation procedure is used to determine luminosity and mass-loss rate (MLR). Pulsation periods are derived for a large fraction of the sample based on a re-analysis of existing data. New deep K-band photometry from the VMC survey and multi-epoch data from IRAC (at 4.5 micron) and AllWISE and NEOWISE have allowed us to derive pulsation periods longer than 1000 days for some of the most heavily obscured and reddened objects. We derive (dust) MLRs and luminosities for the entire sample. The estimated MLRs can differ significantly from estimates for the same objects in the literature due to differences in adopted optical constants (up to factors of several) and details in the radiative transfer modelling. Updated parameters for the super-AGB candidate MSX SMC 055 (IRAS 00483-7347) are presented. Its current mass is estimated to be 8.5 +- 1.6 solar mass, suggesting an initial mass well above 8 solar mass in agreement with estimates based on its large Rubidium abundance. Using synthetic photometry, we present and discuss color-color and color-magnitude diagrams which can be expected from the James Webb Space Telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/510/4308
- Title:
- Local main-sequence stars with phot. metallicities
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/510/4308
- Date:
- 26 Jan 2022 00:36:57
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of 551214 main-sequence stars in the local (d<2kpc) Galactic thick disk and halo, based on a search of stars with large proper motions (>40.0mas/yr) in the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We derive photometric metallicity calibrated from the colour-luminosity-metallicity distribution of 20047 stars with spectroscopic metallicities, collected from various spectroscopic surveys, including SDSS SEGUE/APOGEE, GALAH DR3, and LAMOST DR6. We combine these results to construct an empirical colour- magnitude-metallicity grid, which can be used to estimate photometric metallicities for low-mass metal-poor stars of K and M subtypes from their absolute G magnitude and colour values. We find that low-mass, high-velocity stars in our catalogue share similar kinematics as reported in recent studies of more luminous Galactic halo stars. The pseudo-kinematic analysis of our sample recovers the main local halo structures, including the Gaia-Enceladus Stream and the Helmi stream; aside from these the local halo stars appear to show a remarkably smooth distribution in velocity space. Since the future Gaia data release will provide radial velocity measurements for only a small number of our sample, our catalogue provides targets of high interest for the future spectroscopic observation programs.
196. Lowell GR* red stars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/316
- Title:
- Lowell GR* red stars
- Short Name:
- I/316
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/167
- Title:
- Low-mass stars in {sigma} Ori and {lambda} Ori
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/488/167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We performed a detailed membership selection and studied the accretion properties of low-mass stars in the two apparently very similar young (1-10Myr) clusters {sigma} Ori and {lambda} Ori. We observed 98 and 49 low-mass (0.2-1.0M_{sun}_stars in {sigma} Ori and {lambda} Ori respectively, using the multi-object optical spectrograph FLAMES at the VLT, with the high-resolution (R~17000) HR15N grating (6470-6790{AA}). We used radial velocities, Li and H{alpha} to establish cluster membership and H{alpha} and other optical emission lines to analyze the accretion properties of members. We identified 65 and 45 members of the {sigma} Ori and {lambda} Ori clusters, respectively, and discovered 16 new candidate binary systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/559/A3
- Title:
- Low-mass stars in Trumpler 37
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/559/A3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of accretion and protoplanetary disks around M-type stars in the 4 Myr-old cluster Tr 37. With a well-studied solar-type population, Tr 37 is a benchmark for disk evolution. We used low-resolution spectroscopy to identify and classify 141 members (78 new ones) and 64 probable members, mostly M-type stars. H{alpha} emission provides information about accretion. Optical, 2MASS, Spitzer, and WISE data are used to trace the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and search for disks. We construct radiative transfer models to explore the structures of full-disks, pre-transition, transition, and dust-depleted disks.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/814/118
- Title:
- L/T transition dwarfs search with PS1 & WISE. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/814/118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The evolution of brown dwarfs from L to T spectral types is one of the least understood aspects of the ultracool population, partly for lack of a large, well-defined, and well-characterized sample in the L/T transition. To improve the existing census, we have searched ~28000deg^2^ using the Pan-STARRS1 and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer surveys for L/T transition dwarfs within 25pc. We present 130 ultracool dwarf discoveries with estimated distances ~9-130pc, including 21 that were independently discovered by other authors and 3 that were previously identified as photometric candidates. Seventy-nine of our objects have near-IR spectral types of L6-T4.5, the most L/T transition dwarfs from any search to date, and we have increased the census of L9-T1.5 objects within 25pc by over 50%. The color distribution of our discoveries provides further evidence for the "L/T gap", a deficit of objects with (J-K)_MKO_~0.0-0.5mag in the L/T transition, and thus reinforces the idea that the transition from cloudy to clear photospheres occurs rapidly. Among our discoveries are 31 candidate binaries based on their low-resolution spectral features. Two of these candidates are common proper motion companions to nearby main sequence stars; if confirmed as binaries, these would be rare benchmark systems with the potential to stringently test ultracool evolutionary models. Our search also serendipitously identified 23 late-M and L dwarfs with spectroscopic signs of low gravity implying youth, including 10 with vl-g or int-g gravity classifications and another 13 with indications of low gravity whose spectral types or modest spectral signal-to-noise ratio do not allow us to assign formal classifications. Finally, we identify 10 candidate members of nearby young moving groups (YMG) with spectral types L7-T4.5, including three showing spectroscopic signs of low gravity. If confirmed, any of these would be among the coolest known YMG members and would help to determine the effective temperature at which young brown dwarfs cross the L/T transition.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/439
- Title:
- Luminosity function of M7-L8 ultracool dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/439
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a 20pc, volume-limited sample of M7-L8 dwarfs created through spectroscopic follow-up of sources selected from the Two Micron All Sky Survey Second Incremental Release Point Source Catalog. In this paper we present optical spectroscopy of 198 candidate nearby ultracool dwarfs, including 12 late-M and L dwarfs likely to be within 20pc of the Sun and 94 more distant late-type dwarfs. We have also identified five ultracool dwarfs with spectral signatures of low gravity. Combining these data with previous results, we define a sample of 99 ultracool dwarfs in 91 systems within 20pc. These are used to estimate the J- and K-band luminosity functions for dwarfs with optical spectral types between M7 and L8 (10.5<M_J_<15, 9.5<M_Ks_<13). We find a space density of 4.9x10^-3^/pc^3^ for late-M dwarfs (M7-M9.5) and a lower limit of 3.8x10^-3^/pc^3^ for L dwarfs.
