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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/161/394
- Title:
- Low-luminosity companions to white dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/161/394
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents results of a near-infrared imaging survey for low-mass stellar and substellar companions to white dwarfs. A wide-field proper-motion survey of 261 white dwarfs was capable of directly detecting companions at orbital separations between 100 and 5000 AU with masses as low as 0.05M_{sun}_, while a deep near-field search of 86 white dwarfs was capable of directly detecting companions at separations between 50 and 1100AU with masses as low as 0.02M_{sun}_. Additionally, all white dwarf targets were examined for near-infrared excess emission, a technique capable of detecting companions at arbitrarily close separations down to masses of 0.05M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/23
- Title:
- Low-mass fast rotators in the solar neighborhood
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The K2 mission is targeting large numbers of nearby (d<100 pc) GKM dwarfs selected from the SUPERBLINK proper motion survey ({mu}>40 mas/yr, V<20). Additionally, the mission is targeting low-mass, high proper motion stars associated with the local (d<500 pc) Galactic halo population also selected from SUPERBLINK. K2 campaigns 0 through 8 monitored a total of 26518 of these cool main-sequence stars. We used the auto-correlation function to search for fast rotators by identifying short-period photometric modulations in the K2 light curves. We identified 481 candidate fast rotators with rotation periods <4 days that show light-curve modulations consistent with starspots. Their kinematics show low average transverse velocities, suggesting that they are part of the young disk population. A subset (13) of the fast rotators is found among those targets with colors and kinematics consistent with the local Galactic halo population and may represent stars spun up by tidal interactions in close binary systems. We further demonstrate that the M dwarf fast rotators selected from the K2 light curves are significantly more likely to have UV excess and discuss the potential of the K2 mission to identify new nearby young GKM dwarfs on the basis of their fast rotation rates. Finally, we discuss the possible use of local halo stars as fiducial, non-variable sources in the Kepler fields.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/1267
- Title:
- Low-mass members of the Octans association
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/447/1267
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Octans association is one of several young stellar moving groups recently discovered in the Solar neighbourhood and hence a valuable laboratory for studies of stellar, circumstellar disc and planetary evolution. However, a lack of low-mass members or any members with trigonometric parallaxes means the age, distance and space motion of the group are poorly constrained. To better determine its membership and age, we present the first spectroscopic survey for new K- and M-type Octans members, resulting in the discovery of 29 UV-bright K5-M4 stars with kinematics, photometry and distances consistent with existing members. Nine new members possess strong LiI 6708 absorption, which allow us to estimate a lithium age of 30-40Myr, similar to that of the Tucana-Horologium association and bracketed by the firm lithium depletion boundary ages of the beta Pictoris (20Myr) and Argus/IC 2391 (50Myr) associations. Several stars also show hints in our medium-resolution spectra of fast rotation or spectroscopic binarity. More so than other nearby associations, Octans is much larger than its age and internal velocity dispersion imply. It may be the dispersing remnant of a sparse, extended structure which includes some younger members of the foreground Octans-Near association recently proposed by Zuckerman and collaborators.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/408/2457
- Title:
- Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Praesepe
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/408/2457
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Presented are the results of a large and deep optical-near-infrared multi-epoch survey of the Praesepe open star cluster using data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey. Multiple colour-magnitude diagrams were used to select potential members and proper motions were used to assign levels of membership probability. From our sample, 145 objects were designated as high probability members (p>=0.6) with most of these having been found by previous surveys although 14 new cluster members are also identified. Our membership assignment is restricted to the bright sample of objects (Z<18). From the fainter sample, 39 candidates were found from an examination of multiple colour-magnitude plots.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/80
- Title:
- Low-Mass Stars' Membership in Alpha Persei Cluster
- Short Name:
- V/80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog contains the tabulated results of a combined astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic search for low-mass members in the intermediate-age open cluster Alpha Persei. It contains information on 132 new members and likely members, and 16 uncertain members of Alpha Per. The new membership information suggested to the author a revised age of the cluster to approximately 8x10+7yr. Tabulated data include AP number, VBI photometry, 1950 coordinates, relative proper motions with errors, H-alpha equivalent widths, and spectral type. Included are the individual membership determinations, based on H-alpha emission, spectral type, and echelle spectra data. The photometric data were obtained with the Lick Obs. 1-m Nickel Telescope using a TI 500x500 pixel CCD in B, V, and I bands. Low dispersion CCD spectra centered on H-alpha for candidates whose V-I photometry indicated likely membership using the Lick 1-m Nickel and 3-m Shane telescopes. High-dispersion echelle spectra were obtained for many bright candidates using the Hamilton echelle spectrographic with the Shane and Coude auxiliary telescopes.
317. LSPM-North Catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/298
- Title:
- LSPM-North Catalog
- Short Name:
- I/298
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The LSPM catalog is a comprehensive list of 61,977 stars north of the J2000 celestial equator that have proper motions larger than 0.15"/yr (local-background-stars frame). The catalog has been generated primarily as a result of our systematic search for high proper motion stars in the Digitized Sky Surveys using our SUPERBLINK software. At brighter magnitudes, the catalog incorporates stars and data from the Tycho-2 Catalogue (I/259) and also, to a lesser extent, from the All-Sky Compiled Catalogue of 2.5million stars (ASCC-2.5, Cat. I/280). The LSPM catalog considerably expands over the old Luyten (Luyten Half-Second [LHS, Cat. I/87] and New Luyten Two-Tenths [NLTT, Cat. I/98]) catalogs, superseding them for northern declinations. Positions are given with an accuracy of <~100 mas at the 2000.0 epoch, and absolute proper motions are given with an accuracy of ~8 mas/yr. Corrections to the local-background-stars proper motions have been calculated, and absolute proper motions in the extragalactic frame are given. Whenever available, we also give optical BT and VT magnitudes (from Tycho-2, ASCC-2.5), photographic BJ, RF, and IN magnitudes (from USNO-B1 catalog, I/284), and infrared J, H, and Ks magnitudes (from 2MASS, Cat. II/246). We also provide an estimated V magnitude and V-J color for nearly all catalog entries, useful for initial classification of the stars. The catalog is estimated to be over 99% complete at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>15{deg}) and over 90% complete at low Galactic latitudes (|b|>15{deg}), down to a magnitude V=19.0, and has a limiting magnitude V=21.0. All the northern stars listed in the LHS and NLTT catalogs have been reidentified, and their positions, proper motions, and magnitudes reevaluated. The catalog also lists a large number of completely new objects, which promise to expand very significantly the census of red dwarfs, subdwarfs, and white dwarfs in the vicinity of the Sun. All Luyten's NLTT stars north of the J2000 celestial equator that do not appear in the LSPM catalog are given in table3, with an explanation as to why they were not included in the LSPM catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1680
- Title:
- LSPM-North proper-motion catalog nearby stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1680
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A list of 4131 dwarfs, subgiants, and giants located or suspected to be located within 33pc of the Sun is presented. All the stars are drawn from the new Lepine Shara Proper Motion (LSPM)-North catalog (Cat. <I/298>) of 61,976 stars with annual proper motions larger than 0.15"/yr. Trigonometric parallax measurements are found in the literature for 1676 of the stars in the sample; photometric and spectroscopic distance moduli are found for another 783 objects. The remaining 1672 objects are reported here as nearby star candidates for the first time. Photometric distance moduli are calculated for the new stars based on the (M_V_, V-J) relationship, calibrated with the subsample of stars that have trigonometric parallaxes. The list of new candidates includes 539 stars that are suspected to be within 25pc of the Sun, including 63 stars estimated to be within only 15pc.
- 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/A+A/529/A108
- Title:
- Lupus clouds proper motion study with VO
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/529/A108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Lupus dark cloud complex is a well-known, nearby low-mass star-forming region, probably associated with the Gould Belt. In recent years, the number of stellar and substellar Lupus candidate members has been remarkably increased thanks to the Cores to Disks (c2d) Spitzer Legacy Program and other studies. However, most of these newly discovered objects still lack confirmation that they belong to the dark clouds. By using available kinematical information, we test the membership of the new Lupus candidate members proposed by the c2d program and by a complementary optical survey. We also investigate the relationship between the proper motions and other properties of the objects, in order to get some clues about their formation and early evolution. We compiled a list of members and possible members of Lupus 1, 3, and 4, together with all available information on their spectral types, disks, and physical parameters. Using Virtual Observatory tools, we cross-matched this list with the available astrometric catalogues to get proper motions for our objects. Our final sample contains sources with magnitudes I<16mag and estimated masses >~0.1M_{sun}_.
