Spectroscopic classification of red high proper motion objects in the Southern Sky

Details Spectroscopic classification of red high proper motion objects in the Southern Sky Spectroscopic classification of red high proper motion objects in the Southern Sky

2005-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506257v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted on 06 June 2005 for publication in A&A, 22 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20042456

We present the results of spectroscopic follow-up observations for a sample of 71 red objects with high proper motions in the range 0.08-1.14 arcsec/yr as detected using APM and SSS measurements of multi-epoch photographic Schmidt plates. Red objects were selected by combining the photographic BjRI magnitudes with 2MASS near-infrared JHKs magnitudes. Some 50 of the 71 spectroscopically classified objects turn out to be late-type (>M6) dwarfs and in more detail, the sample includes 35 ultracool dwarfs with spectral types between M8 and L2, some previously reported, as well as five M-type subdwarfs, including a cool esdM6 object, SSSPM J0500-5406. Distance estimates based on the spectral types and 2MASS J magnitudes place almost all of the late-type (>M6) dwarfs within 50 pc, with 25 objects located inside the 25 pc limit of the catalogue of nearby stars. Most of the early-type M dwarfs are located at larger distances of 100-200 pc, suggesting halo kinematics for some of them. All objects with Halpha equivalent widths larger than 10 Angstroms have relatively small tangential velocities (<50 km/s). Finally, some late-type but blue objects are candidate binaries.

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