NIR spectroscopy of new L and T dwarf candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kellogg K.
  2. Metchev S.
  3. Miles-Paez P.A.
  4. Tannock M.E.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the final results from a targeted search for brown dwarfs with unusual near-infrared colors. From a positional cross-match of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) catalogs, we have identified 144 candidate peculiar L and T dwarfs. Spectroscopy confirms that 20 of the objects are peculiar or are candidate binaries. Of the 420 objects in our full sample 9 are young (<~200Myr; 2.1%) and another 8 (1.9%) are unusually red, with no signatures of youth. With a spectroscopic J-K_s_ color of 2.58+/-0.11mag, one of the new objects, the L6 dwarf 2MASS J03530419+0418193, is among the reddest field dwarfs currently known and is one of the reddest objects with no signatures of youth known to date. We have also discovered another potentially very-low-gravity object, the L1 dwarf 2MASS J00133470+1109403, and independently identified the young L7 dwarf 2MASS J00440332+0228112, which was first reported by Schneider and collaborators. Our results confirm that signatures of low gravity are no longer discernible in low to moderate resolution spectra of objects older than ~200Myr. The 1.9% of unusually red L dwarfs that do not show other signatures of youth could be slightly older, up to ~400Myr. In this case a red J-K_s_ color may be more diagnostic of moderate youth than individual spectral features. However, its is also possible that these objects are relatively metal-rich, and thus have enhanced atmospheric dust content.

Keywords
  1. l-dwarfs
  2. dwarf-stars
  3. stellar-spectral-types
  4. infrared-astronomy
  5. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017AJ....154..112K
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/154/112
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/112
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51540112

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History

2018-02-07T12:53:14Z
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2018-02-07T12:53:14Z
Created
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