The Subdwarf Luminosity Function

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2003-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304056v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:583,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 29 figures (Figs 4,6,7,11 are low res versions.) Published in MNRAS: minor explanatory additions to text, new subsec

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06842.x

Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release and SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey scans of POSS-I plates we identify a sample of 2600 subdwarfs using reduced proper motion methods and strict selection criteria. This forms one of the largest and most reliable samples of candidate subdwarfs known, and enables us to determine accurate luminosity functions along many different lines of sight. We derive the subdwarf luminosity function with unprecedented accuracy to M_V <= 12.5, finding good agreement with recent local estimates but discrepancy with results for the more distant spheroid. This provides further evidence that the inner and outer parts of the stellar halo cannot be described by a single density distribution. We also find that the form of the inner spheroid density profile within heliocentric distances of 2.5 kpc is closely matched by a power law with an index of -3.15 +/- 0.3.

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