Calibrating the Mass-Luminosity Relation at the End of the Main Sequence

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Jul 2006

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HST Proposal ID #10929. Cycle 15

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We propose to use HST-FGS1R to finish calibrating the mass-luminosity relation for stars less massive than 0.5 Msun, with special emphasis on objects near the stellar/substellar border. Our goals are to determine Mv values to 0.05 magnitude and masses to 5%, and thereby build the fundamental database of stellar masses that we will use to test theoretical models as never before. This program uses the combination of HST-FGS3/FGS1R at optical wavelengths, historical infrared speckle data, ground-based parallax work, metallicity studies, and radial velocity monitoring to examine nearby, subarcsecond binary systems. The high precision separation and position angle measurements with HST-FGS3/FGS1R to 1 mas in the separations for these faint V = 10-15 targets simply cannot be equaled by any ground-based technique. As a result of these measurements, we are deriving high quality luminosities and masses for the components in the systems, and characterizing their spectral energy distributions from 0.5 to 2.2 microns. One of the objects, GJ 1245 C with mass 0.074 +/- 0.002 Msun, is the only object known with an accurate dynamical mass less than 0.10 Msun. The payoff of this proposal is high because the six systems selected for final observations in Cycles 15 and 16 have already been resolved during Cycles 5-13 with HST FGS3/FGS1R and contain most of the reddest objects for which accurate dynamical masses can be determined.

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