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We present a comprehensive analysis of DB white dwarfs drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, based on model fits to $ugriz$ photometry and medium resolution spectroscopy from the SDSS. We also take advantage of the exquisite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 C. Genest-Beaulieu , P. Bergeron

We present evidence that there is an M dwarf problem similar to the previously identified G dwarf and K dwarf problems: the number of low-metallicity M dwarfs is not sufficient to match simple closed-box models of local Galactic chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vincent M. Woolf , Andrew A. West

We present five new satellites of the Milky Way discovered in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data, four of which were followed-up with either the Subaru or the Isaac Newton Telescopes. They include four probable new dwarf galaxies…

The spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the largest and most homogeneous sample of compact binary stars currently known. However, because of selection effects, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , C. Agurto-Gangas , M. R. Schreiber , B. T. Gaensicke , D. Koester

We present the results from a spectroscopic study of 1080 nearby active M dwarfs, selected by correlating the 2MASS and ROSAT catalogs. We have derived the spectral types and estimated distances for all of our stars. The spectral types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Basmah Riaz , John E. Gizis , James Harvin

In addition to optical photometry of unprecedented quality, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is also producing a massive spectroscopic database. We discuss determination of stellar parameters, such as effective temperature, gravity and…

We have obtained infrared (1 to 2.5 micron) spectroscopy for 42 halo and disk dwarfs with spectral type M1 to M6.5. These data are compared to synthetic spectra generated by the latest model atmospheres of Allard & Hauschildt. Photospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. K. Leggett , F. Allard , Conard Dahn , P. H. Hauschildt , T. H. Kerr , J. Rayner

We present an analysis of spectroscopic and photometric data for cool DQ white dwarfs based on improved model atmosphere calculations. In particular, we revise the atmospheric parameters of the trigonometric parallax sample of Bergeron et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Dufour , P. Bergeron , G. Fontaine

We have compiled a sample of 3041 spiral galaxies with multi-band gri imaging from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 and available galaxy rotational velocities derived from HI line widths. We compare the data products…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Melanie Hall , Stephane Courteau , Aaron A. Dutton , Michael McDonald , Yucong Zhu

We present a catalog of 1,172,157 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of i=21.3 from 8417 sq. deg. of imaging from…

Although originally conceived as primarily an extragalactic survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I), and its extensions SDSS-II and SDSS-III, continue to have a major impact on our understanding of the formation and evolution of our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Timothy C. Beers

The space density of late M dwarfs, subtypes M7-M9.5, is not well determined. We applied the photo-type method to $iz$ photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and $YJHK$ photometry from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey, over an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 S. Ahmed , S. J. Warren

We report on the identification of 22 new cool DO-type white dwarfs (WD) detected in Data Release 10 (DR10) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among them, we found one more member of the so-called hot-wind DO WDs, which show ultrahigh…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 N. Reindl , T. Rauch , K. Werner , S. O. Kepler , B. T. Gänsicke , N. P. Gentile Fusillo

We present a spectroscopic analysis of over 38,000 low-mass stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5). Analysis of this unprecedentedly large sample confirms the previously detected decrease in the fraction of…

We present a description of the Dragonfly Wide Field Survey (DWFS), a deep photometric survey of a wide area of sky. The DWFS covers 330 $\mathrm{deg}^2$ in the equatorial GAMA fields and the Stripe 82 fields in the SDSS $g$ and $r$ bands.…

We present results from the Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES) catalog of ultra-wide (10^3-10^5.5 AU), low-mass (K5-M7) common proper motion binaries. We constructed a Galactic model, based on empirical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Saurav Dhital , Andrew A. West , Keivan G. Stassun , Nicholas M. Law

We use the number density distributions of K and M dwarf stars with vertical height from the Galactic disk, determined using observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, to probe the structure of the Milky Way disk across the survey's…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Deborah Ferguson , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny

In this paper, we limit the stellar content of 13 high-velocity clouds (HVCs; including 1 compact HVC) using the detection limits of a new survey for resolved Milky Way satellite galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release…

We present a catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for ~660,000 galaxies in the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These masses are based on a homogeneous catalog of g- and r-band photometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Trevor Mendel , Luc Simard , Michael Palmer , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton

We have conducted a survey of 61 southern white dwarfs searching for magnetic fields using Zeeman spectropolarimetry. Our objective is to obtain a magnetic field distribution for these objects and, in particular, to find white dwarfs with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kawka , S. Vennes , G. D. Schmidt , D. T. Wickramasinghe , R. Koch