Nearby low-mass stars proper motions Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Theissen C.A.
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    CDS
Abstract

This paper uses the multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to demonstrate a method to measure proper motions and trigonometric parallaxes with precisions of ~4mas/yr and ~7mas, respectively, for low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. This method relies on WISE single exposures (Level 1b frames) and a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. The limitations of Gaia in observing very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs are discussed, and it is shown that WISE will be able to measure astrometry past the 95% completeness limit and magnitude limit of Gaia (L, T, and Y dwarfs fainter than G~=19 and G=21, respectively). This method is applied to WISE data of 20 nearby (<=17pc) dwarfs with spectral types between M6-Y2 and previously measured trigonometric parallaxes. Also provided are WISE astrometric measurements for 23 additional low-mass dwarfs with spectral types between M6-T7 and estimated photometric distances <17pc. Only nine of these objects contain parallaxes within Gaia Data Release 2.

Keywords
  1. late-type-stars
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. trigonometric-parallax
  4. proper-motions
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018ApJ...862..173T
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/862/173
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/173
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18620173

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History

2018-09-14T11:27:31Z
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2018-09-14T11:27:31Z
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2018-09-17T07:05:53Z
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