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昴星团L-型棕矮星的近红外低分辨光谱

Near-infrared low-resolution spectroscopy of Pleiades L-type brown dwarfs

G. Bihain, R. Rebolo, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, V. J. S. Béjar, J. A. Caballero

摘要:

褐矮星的基本性质随着年龄的增长而变化。描述光度和有效温度演化的模型,在其他物理参数中,可以使用在星团中的各种质量的棕矮星以及确定的年龄和金属丰度的经验约束。我们的目标是对1.2亿年前的昴星团疏散星团中的低质量棕矮星进行光谱和光度学的表征。我们利用测光和自行方法获得了J=17.4-18.8等的L-型棕矮星候选者BRB Z 28和35,BRB 17,21,23和29的低分辨率近红外光谱。我们还获得了著名的J=15.4-16.1等M型星系团成员PP 11,Teide 1和Calar 3的光谱。我们发现,前六个对象具有早期到中期的L光谱类型,并确认先前报道的M型的其他三个对象。L0型BRB 17和BRB Z 28的光谱呈现三角形的H波段连续体形状,表明这种特殊的光谱特征至少持续到昂宿星团的时代。我们在我们的样品中加入了36个已报道的M5-L0型星系团成员,收集了它们的I_c和UKIDSS ZYJHK带光度。我们证实了JHK绝对星等与光谱类型图中的昴星团和L型序列可能交错,并将昴星团J-K的颜色略微变红量化为0.12+-0.20等,可能与变红和年轻有关。利用场矮辐射热校正和有效温度谱型关系,我们得到了昴星团样品的赫兹-罗素图。理论模型很好地再现了M5.5-9的光谱序列,但似乎高估了光度或低估了L0-5的有效温度。对于昴星团早期到中期的L型棕矮星,我们估计理论质量在0.025-0.035 M_Sol的范围内。

英文摘要:

The fundamental properties of brown dwarfs evolve with age. Models describing the evolution of luminosities and effective temperatures, among other physical parameters, can be empirically constrained using brown dwarfs of various masses in star clusters of well determined age and metallicity. We aim to carry out a spectroscopic and photometric characterization of low-mass brown dwarfs of the ~120 Myr old Pleiades open cluster. We obtained low-resolution near-infrared spectra of the J=17.4-18.8 mag candidate L-type brown dwarfs PLIZ 28 and 35, BRB 17, 21, 23, and 29, which are Pleiades members by photometry and proper motion. We also obtained spectra of the well-known J=15.4-16.1 mag late M-type cluster members PPl 1, Teide 1, and Calar 3. We find that the former six objects have early- to mid-L spectral types and confirm previously reported M-types for the other three objects. The spectra of the L0-type BRB 17 and PLIZ 28 present a triangular H-band continuum shape, indicating that this peculiar spectral feature persists until at least the age of the Pleiades. We add to our sample 36 reported M5-L0-type cluster members, collecting their I_c - and UKIDSS ZYJHK-band photometry. We confirm a possible interleaving of the Pleiades and field L-type sequences in the JHK absolute magnitude versus spectral type diagrams, and quantify marginally redder Pleiades J-K colours, by 0.12+-0.20 mag, possibly related to both reddening and youth. Using field dwarf bolometric correction - and effective temperature - spectral type relations, we obtain the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the Pleiades sample. Theoretical models reproduce well the spectral sequence at M5.5-9, but appear to overestimate the luminosity or underestimate the effective temperature at L0-5. For the Pleiades early- to mid L-type brown dwarfs, we estimate theoretical masses to be in the range 0.025-0.035 M_Sol.

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