Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987mnras.227..315b&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 227, July 15, 1987, p. 315-329.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
91
Dwarf Stars, Infrared Spectra, M Stars, Stellar Spectra, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Absorption Spectra, Brown Dwarf Stars, Spectral Energy Distribution, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Temperature, Water
Scientific paper
This paper presents the first systematic spectroscopic observations of M dwarfs beyond 2.2 microns. The coolest dwarfs show strong water absorption in the 3-micron window, and beyond 4 microns, the energy distributions of all the stars fall slightly less steeply than the Rayleigh-Jeans tail of a blackbody. Spectra between 1 and 4 microns are essential in deriving accurate luminosities of M dwarfs, and possibly in deriving accurate effective temperatures. New values reported here are not in general well explained by theoretical models of hydrogen burning stars. This is especially true for those cooler than 3000 K: in the HR diagram they lie closer to brown dwarfs, in contrast to recent results based only on photometry. This result revives the old issues of the nature of the coolest stars and of the accuracy of the theoretical models.
Berriman Graham
Reid Neill
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