COLORS AND KINEMATICS OF L DWARFS FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
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Schmidt, Sarah J.
Hawley, Suzanne L.
Pineda, J. Sebastian
West, A. A.
Date Issued
March 2010
Journal
The Astronomical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Schmidt, Sarah J., Andrew A. West, Suzanne L. Hawley, and J. Sebastian Pineda. “COLORS AND KINEMATICS OF L DWARFS FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY.” The Astronomical Journal 139, no. 5 (March 23, 2010): 1808–1821. © 2010 The American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
We present a sample of 484 L dwarfs, 210 of which are newly discovered from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 spectroscopic database. We combine this sample with known L dwarfs to investigate their izJHK[subscript S] colors. Our spectroscopically selected sample has ~0.1 mag bluer median J – K[subscript S] color at a given spectral type (for L0-L4) than previously known L dwarfs, which reflects a bias toward redder L dwarfs in past selection criteria. We present photometric distance relations based on i – z and i – J colors and derive distances to our L dwarf sample. We combine the distances with SDSS/2MASS proper motions in order to examine the tangential velocities. For the majority of our spectroscopic sample, we measured radial velocities and present three-dimensional kinematics. We also provide Hα detections for the fraction of our sample with sufficient quality spectra. Comparison of the velocities of our L dwarf sample to a kinematic model shows evidence for both cold and hot dynamical populations, consistent with young and old disk components. The dispersions of these components are similar to those found for M dwarfs. We also show that J – K[subscript S] color is correlated with velocity dispersion, confirming a relationship between J – K[subscript S] color and age.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/5/1808
