English

Nearby Young, Active, Late-type Dwarfs in Gaia's First Data Release

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-05-31 v3

Abstract

The Galex Nearby Young Star Survey (GALNYSS) has yielded a sample of \sim2000 UV-selected objects that are candidate nearby (D<D \stackrel{<}{\sim}150 pc), young (age \sim10--100 Myr), late-type stars. Here, we evaluate the distances and ages of the subsample of (19) GALNYSS stars with Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) parallax distances D120D \le 120 pc. The overall youth of these 19 mid-K to early-M stars is readily apparent from their positions relative to the loci of main sequence stars and giants in Gaia-based color-magnitude and color-color diagrams constructed for all Galex- and WISE-detected stars with parallax measurements included in DR1. The isochronal ages of all 19 stars lie in the range \sim10--100 Myr. Comparison with Li-based age estimates indicates a handful of these stars may be young main-sequence binaries rather than pre-main sequence stars. Nine of the 19 objects have not previously been considered as nearby, young stars, and all but one of these are found at declinations north of ++30^\circ. The Gaia DR1 results presented here indicate that the GALNYSS sample includes several hundred nearby, young stars, a substantial fraction of which have not been previously recognized as having ages <\stackrel{<}{\sim}100 Myr.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01185,
  title  = {Nearby Young, Active, Late-type Dwarfs in Gaia's First Data Release},
  author = {Joel H. Kastner and Germano Sacco and David Rodriguez and Kristina Punzi and B. Zuckerman and Laura Vican Haney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01185},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages, 4 tables, 7 figures; to appear in The Astrophysical Journal; 1st replacement to correct typos/omissions in Table 3 and acknowledgments; 2nd replacement to incorporate corrections to ApJ proofs