The Solar Neighborhood XII: Discovery of New High Proper Motion Stars with 1.0"/yr > mu >= 0.4"/yr between Declinations -90 degrees and -47 degrees

Details The Solar Neighborhood XII: Discovery of New High Proper Motion Stars with 1.0"/yr > mu >= 0.4"/yr between Declinations -90 degrees and -47 degrees The Solar Neighborhood XII: Discovery of New High Proper Motion Stars with 1.0"/yr > mu >= 0.4"/yr between Declinations -90 degrees and -47 degrees

2004-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409505v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

45 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal (January 2005)

Scientific paper

10.1086/426334

We report the discovery of 141 new high proper motion systems (1.0"/yr > mu >= 0.4"/yr) in the southern sky (Declination = -90 degrees to -47 degrees) brighter than UKST plate R_{59F} = 16.5 via our SuperCOSMOS-RECONS (SCR) search. When combined with the nine systems having mu >= 1.0"/yr and/or late spectral type from the initial phases of this effort (Hambly et al. 2004, Henry et al. 2004), we find that 73 of the 150 total systems are moving faster than 0.5"/yr, and are therefore new members of the classic "LHS" (Luyten Half Second) sample. These constitute a 21% increase in the sample of stars with mu >= 0.5"/yr in the declination region searched, thereby comprising an important addition to this long-neglected region of the sky. Distance estimates are provided for the entire sample, based upon a combination of photographic plate magnitudes and 2MASS photometry, using the relations presented in Hambly et al. (2004) for the presumed main sequence stars. Three systems are anticipated to be within 10 pc, and an additional 15 are within 25 pc. Eight of these 18 nearby systems have proper motions falling between 0.4"/yr and 0.6"/yr, hinting at a large population of nearby stars with fast, but not extremely high, proper motions that have not been thoroughly investigated.

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