M Dwarfs from Hubble Space Telescope Star Counts. V. The I-band Luminosity Function
Astrophysics
2014-10-13 v1
Abstract
We derive the disk I-band luminosity function from the Zheng et al. sample of \~1400 disk M dwarfs observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. We adopt a Galactic-height-dependent color-magnitude relation to account for the metallicity gradient above the Galactic plane. The resultant I-band luminosity function peaks at M_I~9.5 and drops sharply toward M_I~10.5.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0308359,
title = {M Dwarfs from Hubble Space Telescope Star Counts. V. The I-band Luminosity Function},
author = {Zheng Zheng and Chris Flynn and Andrew Gould and John N. Bahcall and Samir Salim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0308359},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 eps figure, submitted to ApJ