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青少年超冷侏儒

Juvenile Ultracool Dwarfs

Emily L. Rice, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Kelle Cruz, Travis Barman, Dagny Looper, Lison Malo, Eric E. Mamajek, Stanimir Metchev, Evgenya L. Shkolnik

摘要:

幼年超冷矮星是晚期光谱型天体(晚于~M6),年龄在1000万年到几百万年之间。它们与年龄有关的性质介于附近恒星形成区的极低质量天体(年龄为1- 500万年)和作为盘族成员的场星和褐矮星(年龄为1- 500万年)之间。附近年龄在10-100百万年之间的年轻恒星的运动学协会为青少年超冷矮星提供了来源。这些星系群中质量最小的成员是晚M矮星。已知有几颗明显年轻的L型矮星和几颗T型矮星,但它们在运动学上并没有与任何星系群相关联。规范化的领域IMF的高质量人口这些群体表明,更多的低质量(主要是晚M和可能L矮星)的成员还没有被发现。这些群体的最低质量的成员,随着低质量的同伴,以已知的年轻恒星,提供基准对象的光谱年龄指标的青少年ultracool矮星可以校准和评估。在此过程中,我们总结了目前使用的方法来识别青少年超冷侏儒,并讨论了最常用的年龄指标的适当性和可靠性。

英文摘要:

Juvenile ultracool dwarfs are late spectral type objects (later than ~M6) with ages between 10 Myr and several 100 Myr. Their age-related properties lie intermediate between very low mass objects in nearby star-forming regions (ages 1-5 Myr) and field stars and brown dwarfs that are members of the disk population (ages 1-5 Gyr). Kinematic associations of nearby young stars with ages from ~10-100 Myr provide sources for juvenile ultracool dwarfs. The lowest mass confirmed members of these groups are late-M dwarfs. Several apparently young L dwarfs and a few T dwarfs are known, but they have not been kinematically associated with any groups. Normalizing the field IMF to the high mass population of these groups suggests that more low mass (mainly late-M and possibly L dwarf) members have yet to be found. The lowest mass members of these groups, along with low mass companions to known young stars, provide benchmark objects with which spectroscopic age indicators for juvenile ultracool dwarfs can be calibrated and evaluated. In this proceeding, we summarize currently used methods for identifying juvenile ultracool dwarfs and discuss the appropriateness and reliability of the most commonly used age indicators.

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