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ProfessorStephenWarren

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Astrophysics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7554s.j.warren Website

 
 
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Location

 

1115Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Ahmed:2019:0004-6361/201834591,
author = {Ahmed, S and Warren, SJ},
doi = {0004-6361/201834591},
journal = {Astronomy and Astrophysics},
title = {A homogeneous sample of 34 000 M7-M9.5 dwarfs brighter than J=17.5 with accurate spectral types},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834591},
volume = {623},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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 effective area of 3070 deg2, to produce a new, bright J(Vega)< 17.5, homogeneous sample of 33 665 M7–M9.5 dwarfs. The typical S/N of each source summed over the six bands is > 100. Classifications are provided to the nearest half spectral subtype. Through a comparison with the classifications in the BOSS Ultracool Dwarfs (BUD) spectroscopic sample, the typing is shown to be accurately calibrated to the BUD classifications and the precision is better than 0.5 subtypes rms; i.e. the photo-type classifications are as precise as good spectroscopic classifications. Sources with large χ2> 20 include several catalogued late-type subdwarfs. The new sample of late M dwarfs is highly complete, but there is a bias in the classification of rare peculiar blue or red objects. For example, L subdwarfs are misclassified towards earlier types by approximately two spectral subtypes. We estimate that this bias affects only ∼1% of the sources. Therefore the sample is well suited to measure the luminosity function and investigate the softening towards the Galactic plane of the exponential variation of density with height.
AU  - Ahmed,S
AU  - Warren,SJ
DO  - 0004-6361/201834591
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0004-6361
TI  - A homogeneous sample of 34 000 M7-M9.5 dwarfs brighter than J=17.5 with accurate spectral types
T2  - Astronomy and Astrophysics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834591
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000461413400002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/68204
VL  - 623
ER  -
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