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野外鉴定的年轻L型矮星:从L0到L5的初步低重力光谱序列

Young L Dwarfs Identified in the Field: A Preliminary Low-Gravity, Optical Spectral Sequence from L0 to L5

Kelle L. Cruz, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Adam J. Burgasser

摘要:

我们分析了23个光谱显示出不寻常特征的L矮星。在我们使用2微米全天巡天搜索附近的晚型天体时发现了21个,而文献中发现了2个。不寻常的光谱特征,特别是弱的FeH分子吸收和弱的Na I和K I双峰,可归因于低重力,并表明这些L矮星是年轻的低质量棕矮星。我们使用这些数据来扩展光谱分类方案的L0到L5型矮星,包括三个重力类。大多数低重力的L型矮星都有偏南的赤纬,距离估计在60秒差距以内。它们隐含的年轻性、天空分布和距离表明它们是附近、中等年龄(~10- 1亿年)、松散协会的成员,例如绘架座β移动群、杜鹃花/钟表协会和AB剑鱼移动群。在3000万年的年龄和有效温度从1500至2400 K,演化模型预测这些物体的质量为11-30 M_木星。其中一个天体2 M 0355+11,J-K_s=2.52+/-0.03,是在该区域发现的最红的L矮星,其晚期光谱类型和光谱特征表明其重力非常低,这表明它可能也是质量最低的L矮星。然而,在这些低重力L型矮星的年龄和质量被确定之前,还需要额外的运动学观测来确认星团成员。

英文摘要:

We present an analysis of 23 L dwarfs whose optical spectra display unusual features. Twenty-one were uncovered during our search for nearby, late-type objects using the Two Micron All-Sky Survey while two were identified in the literature. The unusual spectral features, notably weak FeH molecular absorption and weak Na I and K I doublets, are attributable to low-gravity and indicate that these L dwarfs are young, low-mass brown dwarfs. We use these data to expand the spectral classification scheme for L0 to L5-type dwarfs to include three gravity classes. Most of the low-gravity L dwarfs have southerly declinations and distance estimates within 60 pc. Their implied youth, on-sky distribution, and distances suggest that they are members of nearby, intermediate-age (~10-100 Myr), loose associations such as the Beta Pictoris moving group, the Tucana/Horologium association, and the AB Doradus moving group. At an age of 30 Myr and with effective temperatures from 1500 to 2400 K, evolutionary models predict masses of 11-30 M_Jupiter for these objects. One object, 2M 0355+11, with J-K_s=2.52+/-0.03, is the reddest L dwarf found in the field and its late spectral type and spectral features indicative of a very low gravity suggest it might also be the lowest-mass field L dwarf. However, before ages and masses can be confidently adopted for any of these low-gravity L dwarfs, additional kinematic observations are needed to confirm cluster membership.

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