Characterization of M,L and T dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Details Characterization of M,L and T dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Characterization of M,L and T dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2002-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204065v2

Astron.J. 123 (2002) 3409

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

46 pages, 14 figures (24 pages of figures), Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/340697

An extensive sample of M, L and T dwarfs identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been compiled. The sample of 718 dwarfs includes 677 new objects (629 M dwarfs, 48 L dwarfs) together with 41 that have been previously published. All new objects and some of the previously published ones have new optical spectra obtained either with the SDSS spectrographs or with the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m ARC telescope. Spectral types and SDSS colors are available for all objects; approximately 35% also have near-infrared magnitudes measured by 2MASS or on the Mauna Kea system. We use this sample to characterize the color--spectral type and color--color relations of late type dwarfs in the SDSS filters, and to derive spectroscopic and photometric parallax relations for use in future studies of the luminosity and mass functions based on SDSS data. We find that the (i*-z*) and (i*-J) colors provide good spectral type and absolute magnitude (M_i*) estimates for M and L dwarfs. Our distance estimates for the current sample indicate that SDSS is finding early M dwarfs out to about 1.5 kpc, L dwarfs to approximately 100 pc and T dwarfs to near 20 pc. The T dwarf photometric data show large scatter and are therefore less reliable for spectral type and distance estimation.

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