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AstraLux大M矮星巡天

The AstraLux large M dwarf survey

Felix Hormuth, Wolfgang Brandner, Markus Janson, Stefan Hippler, Thomas Henning

摘要:

AstraLux是位于拉西拉的Calar Alto 2.2米望远镜和3.5米NTT的幸运成像相机。它允许以最小的技术努力在SDSS i'和z'波段对像i '= 15.5等这样微弱的物体进行几乎衍射极限的成像。AstraLux正在进行的观测计划之一是对光谱类型为K7至M8的晚型恒星进行双星调查,覆盖了北半球和南半球的1000多个目标。该调查旨在完善二进制统计,特别是二进制分数对光谱类型的依赖性。SDSS i'和z'滤波器的选择允许获得分辨双星的光谱类型和质量估计。由于观测效率通常为每小时6个目标,我们预计将在2009年年中完成调查。将对选定的目标进行天体测量和光度测量,有助于校准主序红端和可见波长的质量-光度关系。

英文摘要:

AstraLux is the Lucky Imaging camera for the Calar Alto 2.2-m telescope and the 3.5-m NTT at La Silla. It allows nearly diffraction limited imaging in the SDSS i' and z' bands of objects as faint as i'=15.5mag with minimum technical effort. One of the ongoing AstraLux observing programs is a binarity survey among late-type stars with spectral types K7 to M8, covering more than 1000 targets on the northern and southern hemisphere. The survey is designed to refine binarity statistics and especially the dependency of binarity fraction on spectral type. The choice of the SDSS i' and z' filters allows to obtain spectral type and mass estimates for resolved binaries. With an observing efficiency of typically 6 targets per hour we expect to complete the survey in mid-2009. Selected targets will be followed up astrometrically and photometrically, contributing to the calibration of the mass-luminosity relation at the red end of the main sequence and at visible wavelengths.

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