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斯隆数字巡天DR7光谱M矮星表II:统计视差分析

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Spectroscopic M Dwarf Catalog II: Statistical Parallax Analysis

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

摘要:

我们提出了一个统计视差分析的低质量矮星从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)。我们计算了r带绝对星等(M_r)随颜色和光谱类型的变化,并研究了M_r随银河系位置的变化。我们发现,在相同的颜色或光谱类型下,磁活动的M矮星的M_r比它们的非活动矮星的M_r更亮。由zeta代表的金属丰度也会影响M_r,在相同的颜色或光谱类型下,贫金属恒星的绝对星等比高金属丰度的M矮星要暗。此外,我们还测量了M矮星的速度椭球和太阳反射运动。我们发现我们测量的太阳特有的运动和以前的结果相似的人口,以及一些证据的不同运动的早期和晚期M型人口在U和W的速度,不能归因于不对称漂移之间的良好协议。反射太阳运动和速度色散都表明,年轻的人口,跟踪磁活动和位置附近的银河平面,经历了较少的动力加热。我们引入了一个新的参数,独立的位置高度(IPA),调查人口作为从银河平面的垂直高度的函数。M矮星在所有类型的表现出增加的速度色散时,在可比IPA分组分析。

英文摘要:

We present a statistical parallax analysis of low-mass dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We calculate absolute r-band magnitudes (M_r) as a function of color and spectral type, and investigate changes in M_r with location in the Milky Way. We find that magnetically active M dwarfs are intrinsically brighter in M_r than their inactive counterparts at the same color or spectral type. Metallicity, as traced by the proxy zeta, also affects M_r, with metal poor stars having fainter absolute magnitudes than higher metallicity M dwarfs at the same color or spectral type. Additionally, we measure the velocity ellipsoid and solar reflex motion for each subsample of M dwarfs. We find good agreement between our measured solar peculiar motion and previous results for similar populations, as well as some evidence for differing motions of early and late M type populations in U and W velocities that cannot be attributed to asymmetric drift. The reflex solar motion and the velocity dispersions both show that younger populations, as traced by magnetic activity and location near the Galactic plane, have experienced less dynamical heating. We introduce a new parameter, the independent position altitude (IPA), to investigate populations as a function of vertical height from the Galactic plane. M dwarfs at all types exhibit an increase in velocity dispersion when analyzed in comparable IPA subgroups.

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