The Discovery of Two Nearby Carbon Dwarfs

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2003-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301376v1

Astrophys.J. 584 (2003) L95-L98

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 4 figs, Accepted by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/373986

The comparison of optical and 2MASS near-infrared photometry for large samples of catalogued proper motion stars has the potential to discover previously unrecognized nearby objects of rare type. In this paper we present the discovery of two new carbon dwarfs, LSR 2105+2514 and LP 758-43, which were drawn from proper motion lists and which lie in a sparsely populated part of optical/near-IR color-color space. Their optical spectra, exhibiting absorptions by C_2 and/or CN, are discussed. LSR 2105+2514 is believed to lie within 200 pc and would have M_(K_s) < 6.7, making it lower in luminosity than any carbon dwarf with a measured trigonometric parallax. LP 758-43, which is not as red but still probably cooler than the best studied carbon dwarfs, is believed to lie within 360 pc. Using our optical/near-infrared selection technique on published lists of proper motion stars, we hope in the near future to expand further the current sample of carbon dwarfs, which numbers only 31 objects at this writing.

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