Spectroscopic Survey for the Field Subdwarf B Stars Newly Identified from the GALEX

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Aug 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005noao.prop..428r&link_type=abstract

NOAO Proposal ID #2005B-0428

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We propose to carry out medium-resolution spectroscopic follow-up for the subdwarf B (sdB) star candidates chosen from the GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) photometry in Data Release 1, in combination with other optical and near IR photometry. The UV bright, hot sdB stars are considered to be core helium-burning stars of 0.5 M_&sun; with very thin hydrogen envelopes of M_env ≤ 0.02 M_&sun;, and immediate progenitors of white dwarfs. Although their current and post evolutionary status is relatively well understood, very little physics behind their formation/evolution is known. For instance, it is not clear whether such stars are born as single stars or can form only in binary systems. The number ratio of sdB stars in each Galactic stellar population (i.e., thin disk, thick disk, and halo) can give a clue to answer whether major formation mechanism can be explained by binary scenario or RGB peel-off scheme. This approach was hampered by lack of identified sdB stars belonging to thin disk and halo. Thus, of primarily importance is new detection of sdB stars with faint magnitudes and at lower Galactic latitudes. The huge data set of GALEX sdB stars, which reach the entire UV visible Milky Way, will eventually answer most of the remaining questions associated with their formation and evolution mechanism, and Galactic structure.

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