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Evolutionary and atmospheric models have become available for young ultralow-mass objects. These models are being used to determine fundamental parameters from observational properties. TiO bands are used to determine effective temperatures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ansgar Reiners

We investigate the frequency of high carbon-to-oxygen (C/O $= 0.9$) M dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood. Using synthetic spectra, we find that such M dwarfs would have weaker TiO bands relative to hydride features. Similar weakening…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 John E. Gizis , Zachary Marks , Peter H. Hauschildt

Recent studies of the stellar population in the solar neighborhood (<20 pc) suggest that there are undetected white dwarfs (WDs) in multiple systems with main sequence companions. Detecting these hidden stars and obtaining a more complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ira Bar , Paul Vreeswijk , Avishay Gal-Yam , Eran O. Ofek , Gijs Nelemans

We present a large forward-modeling analysis for 55 late-T (T7-T9) dwarfs, using low-resolution ($R\approx150$) near-infrared spectra and cloudless Sonora-Bobcat model atmospheres. We derive the objects' effective temperatures, surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Zhoujian Zhang , Michael C. Liu , Mark S. Marley , Michael R. Line , William M. J. Best

The photospheres of the coolest helium-atmosphere white dwarfs are characterized by fluid-like densities. Under those conditions, standard approximations used in model atmosphere codes are no longer appropriate. Unfortunately, the majority…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Simon Blouin , Patrick Dufour , Nicole F. Allard

Bayesian atmospheric retrieval tools can place constraints on the properties of brown dwarfs and hot Jupiters atmospheres. To fully exploit these methods, high signal-to-noise spectral libraries with well-understood uncertainties are…

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

About 70-80% of stars in our solar and galactic neighborhood are M dwarfs. They span a range of low masses and temperatures relative to solar-type stars, facilitating molecule formation throughout their atmospheres. Standard stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Aishwarya R. Iyer , Michael R. Line , Philip S. Muirhead , Jonathan J. Fortney , Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad

Brown dwarf spectra offer vital testbeds for our understanding of the chemical and physical processes that sculpt substellar atmospheres. Recently, atmospheric retrieval approaches have been applied to a number of low-resolution (R~100)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Callie E. Hood , Jonathan J. Fortney , Michael R. Line , Jacqueline K. Faherty

Characterizing the atmospheres of planets orbiting M dwarfs requires understanding the spectral energy distributions of M dwarfs over planetary lifetimes. Surveys like MUSCLES, HAZMAT, and FUMES have collected multiwavelength spectra across…

We compare high resolution infrared observations of the CO 3-1 bands in the 2.297-2.310 micron region of M dwarfs and one L dwarf with theoretical expectations. We find a good match between the observational and synthetic spectra throughout…

We present a spectroscopic and photometric calibration to derive effective temperatures $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and metallicities [Fe/H] for M dwarfs, based on a Principal Component Analysis of 147 spectral indices measured off moderate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 E. Costa-Almeida , G. F. Porto de Mello , R. E. Giribaldi , D. Lorenzo Oliveira , M. L. Ubaldo-Melo

We collected near-infrared spectra of 65 cool stars with the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF) and analyze them to calculate accurate metallicities and stellar parameters. The sample of 55 M dwarfs and 10 K dwarfs includes 25 systems…

We present new infrared photometry for 61 halo and disk stars around the stellar/substellar boundary. These data are combined with available optical photometry and astrometric data to produce color--color and absolute magnitude--color…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 S. K. Leggett , F. Allard , P. H. Hauschildt

Ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs) present excellent targets for atmospheric characterisation. Their hot dayside temperatures (T $\gtrsim$ 2200 K) strongly suppress the formation of condensates, leading to clear and highly-inflated atmospheres…

Heavy metal subdwarfs are a class of hot subdwarfs with very high abundances of heavy elements, typically around 10 000 times solar. They include stars which are strongly enhanced in either lead or zirconium, as well as other elements.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 L. J. A. Scott , C. S. Jeffery , C. M. Byrne , M. Dorsch

The relativley large spread in the derived metallicities ([Fe/H]) of M dwarfs shows that various approaches have not yet converged to consistency. The presence of strong molecular features, and incomplete line lists for the corresponding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anna Önehag , Ulrike Heiter , Bengt Gustafsson , Nikolai Piskunov , Bertrand Plez , Ansgar Reiners

Observational facilities allow now the detection of optical and IR spectra of young M- and L-dwarfs. This enables empirical comparisons with old M- and L- dwarfs, and detailed studies in comparison with synthetic spectra. While classical…

Atmospheric parameters for hot DB (helium atmosphere) white dwarfs near effective temperatures of 25000K are extremely difficult to determine from optical spectroscopy. This is particularly unfortunate, because this is the range of variable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Detlev Koester , Judi Provencal , Boris T. Gänsicke

To understand the parameter degeneracy of M subdwarf spectra at low resolution, we assemble a large number of spectral features in the wavelength range of 0.6-2.5 {\mu}m with band strength quantified by narrowband indices. Based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Shuo Zhang , Hua-Wei Zhang , Georges Comte , Derek Homeier , Rui Wang , Neda Hejazi , Yin-Bi Li , A-Li Luo
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