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Substellar Hyades Candidates from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2022-05-11 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We have used data from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS) to search for substellar members of the Hyades cluster. Our search recovered several known substellar Hyades members, and two known brown dwarfs that we suggest may be members based on a new kinematic analysis. We uncovered thirteen new substellar Hyades candidates, and obtained near-infrared follow-up spectroscopy of each with IRTF/SpeX. Six candidates with spectral types between M7 and L0 are ruled out as potential members based on their photometric distances (\gtrsim100 pc). The remaining seven candidates, with spectral types between L5 and T4, are all potential Hyades members, with five showing strong membership probabilities based on BANYAN Σ\Sigma and a convergent point analysis. Distances and radial velocities are still needed to confirm Hyades membership. If confirmed, these would be some of the lowest mass free-floating members of the Hyades yet known, with masses as low as \sim30 MJupM_{\rm Jup}. An analysis of all known substellar Hyades candidates shows evidence that the full extent of the Hyades has yet to be probed for low-mass members, and more would likely be recovered with deeper photometric and astrometric investigations.

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@article{arxiv.2203.11090,
  title  = {Substellar Hyades Candidates from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey},
  author = {Adam C. Schneider and Frederick J. Vrba and Jeffrey A. Munn and Scott E. Dahm and Justice Bruursema and Stephen J. Williams and Byran N. Dorland and Jacqueline K. Faherty and Austin Rothermich and Emily Calamari and Michael C. Cushing and Dan Caselden and Martin Kabatnik and William Pendrill and Arttu Sainio and Nikolaj Stevnbak Andersen and Christopher Tanner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11090},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted to AJ