Halo common proper motion stars - Subdwarf distance scale, halo binary fraction, and UBVRI colors

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992aj....104.1144r&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 104, no. 3, Sept. 1992, p. 1144-1155. Research supported by NSERC.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Companion Stars, Halos, Stellar Motions, Subdwarf Stars, Ubv Spectra, Astronomical Catalogs, Astronomical Photometry, Main Sequence Stars, Stellar Color

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Common proper motion stars identified by Luyten (1979, 1980) were selected according to reduced proper motion and photometric criteria to produce a list of candidate halo objects. UBVRI photometry was obtained to identify genuine halo parts. About 20 percent of the stars with (Fe/H) less than -1.0 were found to have random errors not less than several x 0.1 mag in distance modulus, in addition to the photometric errors, thought to be due to the existence of close binary companions to some of the common proper motion stars. The implications of these errors for kinematic studies of field Population II stars are considered. Systematic errors of order 16 percent were also detected in distances derived from the U-B,B-V deblanketing technique. It is suggested that Population II field stars did not originate in globular clusters which subsequently disintegrated but formed in less dense environments. Several K subdwarfs were found with very high UV excesses, comparable with those predicted by some synthetic colors.

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