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SDSS M矮星的统计视差分析

Statistical Parallax Analysis of SDSS M Dwarfs

Suzanne L. Hawley, John J. Bochanski, Andrew A. West

摘要:

我们使用统计视差方法对~ 22,000 M矮星进行了分析。这种技术采用了最大似然公式,同时解决绝对星等,速度椭球参数和反射太阳运动的均匀恒星样本,并已被应用到银河RR天琴座和造父变星人口和帕洛玛/密歇根州立大学(PMSU)调查附近的低质量恒星。我们分析了斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)中最新的M矮星光谱目录的子样本,以确定绝对星等和运动学特性作为光谱类型,颜色,色球活动和金属丰度的函数。我们发现新的,独立的光谱类型的绝对星等关系,和颜色的绝对星等关系的SDSS过滤器,并比较从其他方法中发现的。M0-M4型的活跃星有较亮的绝对星等,而较低金属丰度的恒星有较暗的绝对星等。我们的运动学分析证实了以前的太阳运动和速度色散的结果,更遥远的恒星拥有更大的特殊运动,和色球活跃(年轻)的恒星有较小的速度色散比他们不活跃的同行。我们发现了一些证据,系统的平均U和W速度的样品细分颜色的差异。

英文摘要:

We report on the analysis of ~22,000 M dwarfs using a statistical parallax method. This technique employs a maximum-likelihood formulation to simultaneously solve for the absolute magnitude, velocity ellipsoid parameters and reflex solar motion of a homogeneous stellar sample, and has previously been applied to Galactic RR Lyrae and Cepheid populations and to the Palomar/Michigan State University (PMSU) survey of nearby low-mass stars. We analyze subsamples of the most recent spectroscopic catalog of M dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to determine absolute magnitudes and kinematic properties as a function of spectral type, color, chromospheric activity and metallicity. We find new, independent spectral type-absolute magnitude relations, and color-absolute magnitude relations in the SDSS filters, and compare to those found from other methods. Active stars have brighter absolute magnitudes and lower metallicity stars have fainter absolute magnitudes for stars of type M0-M4. Our kinematic analysis confirms previous results for the solar motion and velocity dispersions, with more distant stars possessing larger peculiar motions, and chromospherically active (younger) stars having smaller velocity dispersions than their inactive counterparts. We find some evidence for systematic differences in the mean U and W velocities of samples subdivided by color.

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