THE LUMINOSITY AND MASS FUNCTIONS OF LOW-MASS STARS IN THE GALACTIC DISK. II. THE FIELD
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Bochanski, John J.
Hawley, Suzanne L.
Covey, Kevin R.
Reid, I. Neill
Golimowski, David A.
Ivezic, Zeljko
West, A. A.
Date Issued
May 2010
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The Astronomical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Bochanski, John J., Suzanne L. Hawley, Kevin R. Covey, Andrew A. West, I. Neill Reid, David A. Golimowski, and Zeljko Ivezic. “THE LUMINOSITY AND MASS FUNCTIONS OF LOW-MASS STARS IN THE GALACTIC DISK. II. THE FIELD.” The Astronomical Journal 139, no. 6 (May 13, 2010): 2679–2699. © 2010 The American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
We report on new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) and mass function (MF) of field low-mass dwarfs derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 photometry. The analysis incorporates ~15 million low-mass stars (0.1 M[subscript ʘ] < M < 0.8 M[subscript ʘ]), spread over 8400 deg[superscript 2]. Stellar distances are estimated using new photometric parallax relations, constructed from ugriz photometry of nearby low-mass stars with trigonometric parallaxes. We use a technique that simultaneously measures Galactic structure and the stellar LF from 7 < M[subscript r] < 16. We compare the LF to previous studies and convert to an MF using the mass-luminosity relations of Delfosse et al. The system MF, measured over –1.0< log M/M[subscript ʘ] <–0.1, is well described by a lognormal distribution with M[subscript ο] = 0.25 M[subscript ʘ]. We stress that our results should not be extrapolated to other mass regimes. Our work generally agrees with prior low-mass stellar MFs and places strong constraints on future theoretical star formation studies.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/139/6/2679
