Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21830601w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #306.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has produced the largest photometric and spectroscopic samples of low-mass stars ever assembled. These catalogs, which contain more than 50 million and 70,000 stars respectively, have been used to examine the statistical properties of both low-mass stars and the Galaxy. Because low-mass dwarfs constitute the majority of the Milky Way's stellar population, and have main sequence lifetimes that are longer than the age of the Universe, they are excellent probes of the structure, kinematics, and evolution of the local Galaxy. I will present highlights from a number of stellar and Galactic studies that have incorporated SDSS low-mass star data. These highlights with focus on the derivation of the stellar initial mass function, the flaring and magnetic activity properties of low-mass stars, as well as the structure, kinematics, and dust content of the local Milky Way.
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