J/ApJS/220/16 SpeX NIR survey of 886 nearby M dwarfs (Terrien+, 2015)
A near-infrared spectroscopic survey of 886 nearby M dwarfs.
Terrien R.C., Mahadevan S., Deshpande R., Bender C.F.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 220, 16 (2015)>
=2015ApJS..220...16T 2015ApJS..220...16T (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Stars, M-type ; Spectra, infrared ; Radial velocities ;
Equivalent widths ; Abundances, [Fe/H] ; Surveys
Keywords: stars: abundances; stars: fundamental parameters; stars: low-mass;
techniques: spectroscopic
Abstract:
We present a catalog of near-infrared (NIR) spectra and associated
measurements for 886 nearby M dwarfs. The spectra were obtained with
the NASA-Infrared Telescope Facility SpeX Spectrograph during a
two-year observing campaign; they have high signal-to-noise ratios
(S/N>100-150), span 0.8-2.4µm, and have R∼2000. Our catalog of
measured values contains useful Teff and composition-sensitive
features, empirical stellar parameter measurements, and kinematic,
photometric, and astrometric properties compiled from the literature.
We focus on measurements of M dwarf abundances ([Fe/H] and [M/H]),
capitalizing on the precision of recently published empirical NIR
spectroscopic calibrations. We explore systematic differences between
different abundance calibrations, and from other similar M dwarf
catalogs. We confirm that the M dwarf abundances we measure show the
expected inverse dependence with kinematic-, activity-, and
color-based age indicators. Finally, we provide updated [Fe/H] and
[M/H] for 16 M dwarf planet hosts. This catalog represents the largest
published compilation of NIR spectra and associated parameters for M
dwarfs. It provides a rich and uniform resource for nearby M dwarfs,
and will be especially valuable for measuring Habitable Zone locations
and comparative abundances of the M dwarf planet hosts that will be
uncovered by upcoming exoplanet surveys.
Description:
Over a period of two years, beginning in 2011 May and concluding in
2013 August, we observed 886 M dwarfs with the SpeX NIR spectrograph
on the NASA-IRTF.
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See also:
I/322 : UCAC4 Catalogue (Zacharias+, 2012)
I/317 : The PPMXL Catalog (Roeser+ 2010)
I/311 : Hipparcos, the New Reduction (van Leeuwen, 2007)
I/298 : LSPM-North Catalog (Lepine+ 2005)
III/198 : Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey (Hawley+ 1997)
III/145 : Radial Velocities in the Cardinal Directions (Sandage+ 1987)
J/ApJ/804/64 : Empirical and model parameters of 183 M dwarfs (Mann+, 2015)
J/A+A/577/A132 : Stellar parameters of early M dwarfs (Maldonado+, 2015)
J/A+A/577/A128 : CARMENES input catalog of M dwarfs. I (Alonso-Floriano+, 2015)
J/ApJ/802/L10 : M dwarf SpeX NIR spectroscopy (Terrien+, 2015)
J/ApJ/800/85 : Teff, radii and luminosities of cool dwarfs (Newton+, 2015)
J/MNRAS/443/2561 : CONCH-SHELL catalog of nearby M dwarfs (Gaidos+, 2014)
J/ApJS/213/5 : Cool KOIs. VI. H- and K- band spectra (Muirhead+, 2014)
J/AJ/147/85 : Solar neighborhood. XXXIII. 45 M dwarfs (Riedel+, 2014)
J/A+A/562/A71 : Abundances of solar neighbourhood dwarfs (Bensby+, 2014)
J/AJ/147/20 : Spectroscopy of 447 nearby M dwarfs (Newton+, 2014)
J/ApJ/779/188 : Spectra of nearby late K and M Kepler stars (Mann+, 2013)
J/AJ/146/156 : APOGEE M-dwarf survey. I. 1st yr velocities (Deshpande+, 2013)
J/MNRAS/435/2161 : Catalogue of bright (K<9) M dwarfs (Frith+, 2013)
J/A+A/556/A15 : Effective temperature scale of M dwarfs (Rajpurohit+, 2013)
J/AJ/145/102 : Spec. of bright M dwarfs in the northern sky (Lepine+, 2013)
J/A+A/551/A36 : Metallicity of M dwarfs. III. (Neves+, 2013)
J/AJ/145/52 : Abundances of late K & M dwarfs in binary syst. (Mann+, 2013)
J/ApJ/758/56 : Young M dwarfs within 25pc. II. Kinematics (Shkolnik+, 2012)
J/ApJ/757/112 : Stellar diameters. II. K and M-stars (Boyajian+, 2012)
J/ApJ/750/L37 : Stellar parameters of low-mass KOIs (Muirhead+, 2012)
J/ApJ/748/93 : K-band spectra for 133 nearby M dwarfs (Rojas-Ayala+, 2012)
J/AJ/143/93 : Rotational velocities in early-M stars (Reiners+, 2012)
J/AJ/142/138 : All-sky catalog of bright M dwarfs (Lepine+, 2011)
J/A+A/530/A138 : Geneva-Copenhagen survey re-analysis (Casagrande+, 2011)
J/AJ/141/97 : SDSS DR7 M dwarfs (West+, 2011)
J/AJ/141/21 : CCD distance estimates of SCR targets (Winters+, 2011)
J/ApJ/720/1290 : Abundances of stars hosting planets (Ghezzi+, 2010)
J/AJ/139/2566 : SLoWPoKES catalog (Dhital+, 2010)
J/PASP/121/117 : Fe & Ti abundances of low-metallicity M stars (Woolf+, 2009)
J/AJ/136/452 : Astrometric studies of GAT stars (Gatewood, 2008)
J/AJ/132/1517 : Spectroscopy of M dwarfs in Praesepe (Kafka+, 2006)
J/AJ/132/866 : New M dwarfs in solar neighborhood (Riaz+, 2006)
J/ApJ/622/1102 : The planet-metallicity correlation. (Fischer+, 2005)
J/ApJS/159/141 : Spectroscopic properties of cool stars. I. (Valenti+, 2005)
J/ApJS/150/455 : New HIP-based parallaxes for 424 faint stars (Gould+, 2004)
J/AJ/123/3356 : Palomar/MSU nearby star spec. survey. III. (Gizis+, 2002)
J/AJ/105/1571 : USNO Photographic Parallaxes IX (Harrington+ 1993)
J/AJ/103/638 : USNO Photographic Parallaxes. I. (Monet+, 1992)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 18 A18 --- 2MASS 2MASS Identifier (HHMMSSss+DDMMSSs; J2000)
20- 27 F8.4 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
29- 36 F8.4 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
38- 42 F5.2 mag Jmag [3.8/12.4] 2MASS J magnitude
44- 48 F5.2 mag Hmag 2MASS H magnitude
50- 54 F5.2 mag Ksmag [3.2/11.6] 2MASS Ks magnitude
56- 59 F4.2 mag e_Jmag [0.02/0.3]? Error in Jmag
61- 64 F4.2 mag e_Hmag ? Error in Hmag
66- 69 F4.2 mag e_Ksmag [0.01/0.2]? Error in Ksmag
71- 73 A3 --- 2MQF 2MASS quality flag
75- 79 F5.2 mag Amag [7.3/16.2]? UCAC aperture magnitude (579-642nm)
81- 84 F4.2 mag e_Amag [0.01/0.9]? Error in Amag
86- 90 I5 mas/yr pmRA [-4328/3386] Proper motion in Right Ascension
92- 96 I5 mas/yr pmDEC [-3747/10327] Proper motion in Declination
98-104 A7 --- r_pm Reference for proper motion (1)
106-111 F6.2 mas plx [10.9/549]? Parallax
113-118 F6.2 mas e_plx [0.3/15]? Error in parallax
120-126 A7 --- r_plx Reference for parallax (1)
128-132 F5.2 mag Vmag [6.7/16]? V magnitude from UCAC4
134-140 I7 m/s RVel [-143337/153479] Radial Velocity
142-148 I7 m/s e_RVel [957/29287] Error in RVel (2)
150-156 I7 m/s BC [-29770/29998] Barycentric correction
158-162 F5.3 --- MH2OJ [0.8/1.5] Mann+ (2013, J/AJ/145/52) H2O-J index
164-168 F5.3 --- CH2OH [0.7/1] Covey+ (2010ApJ...722..971C 2010ApJ...722..971C) H2O-H index
170-174 F5.3 --- RH2OK2 [0.7/1.1] Rojas-Ayala+ (2012, J/ApJ/748/93)
H2O-K2 index
176-180 F5.3 --- MJI [0.8/1.4] Mann+ (2013, J/ApJ/779/188) J index
182-186 F5.3 --- MHI [0.5/1] Mann+ (2013, J/ApJ/779/188) H index
188-192 F5.3 --- MKI [0.7/1.4] Mann+ (2013, J/ApJ/779/188) K index
194-198 F5.2 --- NSpT [-0.2/8.3] Newton+ (2014, J/AJ/147/20)
M Spectral Subtype
200-204 F5.3 --- PSpT [0.08/4.5]? Newton+ (2014, J/AJ/147/20)
PMSU Spectral Type
206-209 I4 K MTeffJ [3003/4866]? Effective temperature
from J index (3)
211-214 I4 K MTeffH Effective temperature from H index (3)
216-219 I4 K MTeffK [3276/4523] Effective temperature
from K index (3)
221-225 F5.2 [-] MFeHJ [-0.6/0.8]? The [Fe/H] from J-band (3)
227-231 F5.2 [-] MFeHH [-0.7/0.6]? The [Fe/H] from H-band (3)
233-237 F5.2 [-] MFeHK [-0.7/0.9]? The [Fe/H] from K-band (3)
239-243 F5.2 [-] MMHJ [-0.4/1.1]? The [M/H] from J-band (3)
245-249 F5.2 [-] MMHH [-0.5/0.5]? The [M/H] from H-band (3)
251-255 F5.2 [-] MMHK [-0.6/0.6]? The [M/H] from K-band (3)
257-261 F5.2 [-] MFeHL [-0.5/0.3]? The [Fe/H] for late-type
M dwarfs (4)
263-267 F5.2 [-] NFeH [-0.8/0.4]? Newton+ (2014, J/AJ/147/20) [Fe/H]
269-273 F5.2 [-] T12FeH [-0.7/0.5]? Terrien+ (2012ApJ...747L..38T 2012ApJ...747L..38T) [Fe/H]
from H-band
275-279 F5.2 0.1nm EWNa [1.2/9.6] Equivalent width of
820nm Na doublet (in Angstroms)
281-285 F5.2 0.1nm EWCa [-2.6/7] Equivalent width of
860nm Ca triplet (in Angstroms)
287-291 F5.2 0.1nm NMg148 [-0.3/3.2] Equivalent width of
1.48um Mg feature (5)
293-297 F5.2 0.1nm NMg150 [-0.4/8.3] Equivalent width of
1.50um Mg feature (5)
299-303 F5.2 0.1nm NK151 [0.1/2.4] Equivalent width of
1.51um K feature (5)
305-309 F5.2 0.1nm NMG157 [-1/5.9] Equivalent width of
1.57um Mg feature (5)
311-315 F5.2 0.1nm NSi158 [-0.7/5] Equivalent width of
1.58um Si feature (5)
317-321 F5.2 0.1nm NCO161 [-0.1/3.1] Equivalent width of
1.61um CO feature (5)
323-327 F5.2 0.1nm NCO162 [0.3/1] Equivalent width of
1.62um CO feature (5)
329-333 F5.2 0.1nm Nl167A [0.2/2.1] Equivalent width of
1.67um Al-a feature (5)
335-339 F5.2 0.1nm Nl167B [0.1/3.2] Equivalent width of
1.67um Al-b feature (5)
341-345 F5.2 0.1nm NMg171 [-0.2/4.1] Equivalent width of
1.71um Mg feature (5)
347-350 I4 K NTeff [3201/4754]? Newton+ (2015, J/ApJ/800/85)
calibration effective temperature
352-357 F6.4 Rsun NRad [0.1/0.8]? Newton+ (2015, J/ApJ/800/85)
calibration stellar radius
359-365 F7.4 [Lsun] NLogL [-2.5/-0.5]? Log Newton+ (2015, J/ApJ/800/85)
calibration stellar luminosity
366-418 A53 --- Notes Additional notes
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Note (1): Reference as follows:
D14 = Dittman et al. (2014ApJ...784..156D 2014ApJ...784..156D)
R14 = Riedel et al. (2014, J/AJ/147/85)
VF05 = Valenti & Fischer (2005, J/ApJS/159/141)
R10 = Riedel et al. (2010AJ....140..897R 2010AJ....140..897R)
UCAC4 = Zacharias et al. (2012, I/322)
L07 = van Leeuwen et al. (2007, I/311)
M92 = Monet et al. (1992, J/AJ/103/638)
L09 = Lepine et al. (2009AJ....137.4109L 2009AJ....137.4109L)
H06 = Henry et al. (2006AJ....132.2360H 2006AJ....132.2360H)
LS05 = Lepine & Shara (2005, I/298)
PPMXL = Roeser et al. (2010, I/317)
H93 = Harrington et al. (1993, J/AJ/105/1571)
G08 = Gatewood et al. (2008, J/AJ/136/452)
A95 = van Altena et al. (1995, I/238)
G05 = Gould et al. (2004, J/ApJS/150/455)
J05 = Jao et al. (2005AJ....129.1954J 2005AJ....129.1954J)
LG11 = Lepine & Gaidos (2011, J/AJ/142/138)
AE12 = Anglada Escude et al. (2012ApJ...746...37A 2012ApJ...746...37A)
Note (2): Scatter among spectral orders.
Note (3): Defined by Mann et al. 2013, J/ApJ/779/188
Note (4): Defined by Mann et al. 2014AJ....147..160M 2014AJ....147..160M
Note (5): Defined in Newton et al. 2015, J/ApJ/800/85 , in Angstroms.
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