In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO

Details In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO

Aug 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999noao.prop...11h&link_type=abstract

NOAO Proposal ID #1999B-0011

Physics

Scientific paper

We propose to initiate a three-year program at CTIO to determine parallaxes for stars in the solar neighborhood. The program will target faint, missing members of the nearby star sample --- primarily white, red and brown dwarfs. The results will allow us to improve the luminosities, colors, and temperatures for these common Galactic constituents, broaden the database used to investigate the luminosity function, mass function, kinematics, and multiplicity of stars in the solar neighborhood, estimate the age of the Galactic disk via the white dwarf luminosity function, and provide targets for upcoming extrasolar planetary searches. For this survey, nearby is defined as being within 20 parsecs, the horizon of NASA's NStars Project, which is a new initiative to provide high quality data for targets that will be observed in future space missions.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and In Search of Nearby Stars: A Parallax Program at CTIO will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1015699