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Title:
Meeting the Cool Neighbors. VII. Spectroscopy of Faint Red NLTT Dwarfs
Authors:
Reid, I. Neill; Cruz, Kelle L.; Allen, Peter; Mungall, F.; Kilkenny, D.; Liebert, James; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Fraser, Oliver J.; Covey, Kevin R.; Lowrance, Patrick
Affiliation:
AA(Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218; and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33d Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 ), AB(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33d Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 ; Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. ), AC(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33d Street, Philadelphia, PA; Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.), AD(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33d Street, Philadelphia, PA), AE(South African Astronomical Observatory, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa), AF(Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721 ), AG(Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195), AH(Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195), AI(Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195), AJ(Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, MS 100-22, California Institute of Technology, 770 South Wilson Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91125)
Publication:
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 126, Issue 6, pp. 3007-3016. (AJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
12/2003
Origin:
UCP
Astronomy Keywords:
Galaxy: Stellar Content, Galaxy: Solar Neighborhood, Stars: Distances, Stars: Late-Type
DOI:
10.1086/379173
Bibliographic Code:
2003AJ....126.3007R

Abstract

We present low-resolution optical spectroscopy and BVRI photometry of 453 candidate nearby stars drawn from the NLTT proper-motion catalog. The stars were selected based on optical/near-infrared colors, derived by combining the NLTT photographic data with photometry from the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release. Based on the derived photometric and spectroscopic parallaxes, we identify 111 stars as lying within 20 pc of the Sun, including nine stars with formal distance estimates of less than 10 pc. A further 53 stars have distance estimates within 1 σ of our 20 pc limit. Almost all of those stars are additions to the nearby-star census. In total, our NLTT-based survey has so far identified 496 stars likely to be within 20 pc, of which 195 are additions to nearby-star catalogs. Most of the newly identified nearby stars have spectral types between M4 and M8.

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