Infrared Star Count Models and Their Application to the Subaru Deep Field
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We construct infrared star count models of the Galaxy applicable at faint magnitudes. In addition to dwarfs and subdwarfs, we also take into account L dwarfs, T dwarfs, and white dwarfs of both disk and halo. As a test case of the models, we analyze the infrared imaging data at J and K' obtained during the Subaru Deep Field Survey to study stellar objects. Infrared star count models we have obtained predict that the Next Generation Space Telescope will primarily see T dwarfs, M subdwarfs, and old halo white dwarfs at faint magnitudes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0008004,
title = {Infrared Star Count Models and Their Application to the Subaru Deep Field},
author = {T. Nakajima and F. Iwamuro and T. Maihara and K. Motohara and H. Terada and M. Goto and J. Iwai and H. Tanabe and T. Taguchi and R. Hata and K. Yanagisawa and M. Iye and N. Kashikawa and M. Tamura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0008004},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures. To be published in the November 2000 issue of the Astronomical Journal