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低质量恒星和棕矮星的基本性质

Fundamental Properties of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Michael C. Liu, Keivan G. Stassun, France Allard, Cullen H. Blake, M. Bonnefoy, Ann Marie Cody, A. C. Day-Jones, Trent J. Dupuy, Adam Kraus, Mercedes Lopez-Morales

摘要:

精确测量低质量恒星和褐矮星的基本性质是理解其形成和演化背后的物理学的关键。虽然在过去的十年里,在研究低质量物体的本体分光光度特性方面取得了很大的进展,但直接确定它们的质量,半径和温度的方法非常稀少。因此,低质量演化和超冷大气的理论预测仍有待严格测试。这种情况令人担忧,因为这种模型被广泛使用,从确定初始质量函数的低质量端到描述系外行星的特征。越来越多的质量、半径和年龄测定对低质量物体的物理性质提出了关键性的限制。目前正在采用各种各样的方法,包括食双星研究、天体测量光谱轨道解、干涉测量和基准系统的定性。与此同时,由于新的能力跨越了天空中最宽的区域(全天空调查)和最窄的区域(衍射限制自适应光学),现在正在发现更多适合于协调研究的系统。这个Cool Stars 15分裂会议强调了这个快速发展的精密天体物理学领域目前的成功和局限性。

英文摘要:

Precise measurements of the fundamental properties of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs are key to understanding the physics underlying their formation and evolution. While there has been great progress over the last decade in studying the bulk spectrophotometric properties of low-mass objects, direct determination of their masses, radii, and temperatures have been very sparse. Thus, theoretical predictions of low-mass evolution and ultracool atmospheres remain to be rigorously tested. The situation is alarming given that such models are widely used, from the determination of the low-mass end of the initial mass function to the characterization of exoplanets. An increasing number of mass, radius, and age determinations are placing critical constraints on the physics of low-mass objects. A wide variety of approaches are being pursued, including eclipsing binary studies, astrometric-spectroscopic orbital solutions, interferometry, and characterization of benchmark systems. In parallel, many more systems suitable for concerted study are now being found, thanks to new capabilities spanning both the very widest (all-sky surveys) and very narrowest (diffraction-limited adaptive optics) areas of the sky. This Cool Stars 15 splinter session highlighted the current successes and limitations of this rapidly growing area of precision astrophysics.

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