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GALEX附近的年轻恒星巡天

The GALEX Nearby Young-Star Survey

David R. Rodriguez, B. Zuckerman, Joel H. Kastner, M. S. Bessel, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Simon J. Murphy

摘要:

我们描述了一种方法,利用GALEX紫外线和WISE和2 MASS红外源目录的数据,结合自行和经验的主序前等时线,以确定候选人附近,年轻,低质量的恒星。在整个GALEX覆盖的天空中应用我们的方法,我们识别出2031颗主要是M型的恒星,假设年龄为10(1亿)百万年,所有恒星都位于地球的~150(~90)pc范围内。在这2000多颗候选的年轻恒星中,M光谱子类的分布在M3-M4范围内达到峰值;这些子类占样本的50%,与对太阳附近M恒星种群的研究一致。我们专注于一个子集的58个这些候选人的年轻M星附近的杜鹃座钟表协会。这58颗候选星中只有20颗是在ROSAT全天X射线巡天中探测到的-反映出GALEX在识别附近活跃的年轻恒星,特别是M4型及以后的恒星方面具有更高的灵敏度。基于对这58颗M星的运动学和/或光谱跟踪的统计分析,我们发现50%(29颗星)确实具有与Tuc-Hor成员资格一致的性质,而12颗是天鸽协的潜在新成员,两颗可能是AB Dor移动群成员。因此,我们的初始子样本的58个候选人的约75%可能是年轻的(年龄约10-40万年)恒星移动集团的成员在100 pc,验证了恒星的颜色和运动学为基础的选择算法这里描述的可以用来有效地隔离附近,年轻,低质量的对象之间的场恒星人口。未来的研究将集中在表征从候选附近的年轻M星列表中选择的额外子样本。

英文摘要:

We describe a method that exploits data from the GALEX ultraviolet and WISE and 2MASS infrared source catalogs, combined with proper motions and empirical pre-main sequence isochrones, to identify candidate nearby, young, low-mass stars. Applying our method across the full GALEX- covered sky, we identify 2031 mostly M-type stars that, for an assumed age of 10 (100) Myr, all lie within ~150 (~90) pc of Earth. The distribution of M spectral subclasses among these ~2000 candidate young stars peaks sharply in the range M3-M4; these subtypes constitute 50% of the sample, consistent with studies of the M star population in the immediate solar neighborhood. We focus on a subset of 58 of these candidate young M stars in the vicinity of the Tucana-Horologium Association. Only 20 of these 58 candidates were detected in the ROSAT All-Sky X-ray Survey -- reflecting the greater sensitivity of GALEX for purposes of identifying active nearby, young stars, particularly for stars of type M4 and later. Based on statistical analysis of the kinematics and/or spectroscopic followup of these 58 M stars, we find that 50% (29 stars) indeed have properties consistent with Tuc-Hor membership, while 12 are potential new members of the Columba Association, and two may be AB Dor moving group members. Hence, ~75% of our initial subsample of 58 candidates are likely members of young (age ~10-40 Myr) stellar moving groups within 100 pc, verifying that the stellar color- and kinematics-based selection algorithms described here can be used to efficiently isolate nearby, young, low-mass objects from among the field star population. Future studies will focus on characterizing additional subsamples selected from among this list of candidate nearby, young M stars.

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