Faint high latitude carbon stars discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Methods and initial results
- Bruce Margon(,)
- Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. and
- Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept. and
- Naval Observ., Flagstaff and
- Princeton U. Observ. and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study and
- Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys. and
- Fermilab and
- Inst. Systems Biology, Seattle and
- Chile U., Catolica and
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- Apache Point Observ. and
- Eotvos U. and
- Naval Observ., Wash., D.C. and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. and
- Carnegie Mellon U.
- Scott F. Anderson(,)
- Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. and
- Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept. and
- Naval Observ., Flagstaff and
- Princeton U. Observ. and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study and
- Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys. and
- Fermilab and
- Inst. Systems Biology, Seattle and
- Chile U., Catolica and
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- Apache Point Observ. and
- Eotvos U. and
- Naval Observ., Wash., D.C. and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. and
- Carnegie Mellon U.
- Hugh C. Harris(,)
- Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. and
- Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept. and
- Naval Observ., Flagstaff and
- Princeton U. Observ. and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study and
- Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys. and
- Fermilab and
- Inst. Systems Biology, Seattle and
- Chile U., Catolica and
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- Apache Point Observ. and
- Eotvos U. and
- Naval Observ., Wash., D.C. and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. and
- Carnegie Mellon U.
- Michael A. Strauss(,)
- Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. and
- Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept. and
- Naval Observ., Flagstaff and
- Princeton U. Observ. and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study and
- Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys. and
- Fermilab and
- Inst. Systems Biology, Seattle and
- Chile U., Catolica and
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- Apache Point Observ. and
- Eotvos U. and
- Naval Observ., Wash., D.C. and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. and
- Carnegie Mellon U.
- G.R. Knapp()
- Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. and
- Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept. and
- Naval Observ., Flagstaff and
- Princeton U. Observ. and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study and
- Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys. and
- Fermilab and
- Inst. Systems Biology, Seattle and
- Chile U., Catolica and
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- Apache Point Observ. and
- Eotvos U. and
- Naval Observ., Wash., D.C. and
- Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. and
- Carnegie Mellon U.
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- Astron.J. 124 (2002) 1651
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- astro-ph/0206413 [astro-ph]
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- FERMILAB-PUB-02-404-A
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We report the discovery of 39 Faint High Latitude Carbon Stars (FHLCs) from Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning data. The objects, each selected photometrically and verified spectroscopically, range over 16.6 < r* < 20.0, and show a diversity of temperatures as judged by both colors and NaD line strengths. At the completion of the Sloan Survey, there will be many hundred homogeneously selected and observed FHLCs in this sample. We present proper motion measures for each object, indicating that the sample is a mixture of extremely distant (>100 kpc) halo giant stars, useful for constraining halo dynamics, plus members of the recently-recognized exotic class of very nearby dwarf carbon (dC) stars. Motions, and thus dC classification, are inferred for 40-50 percent of the sample, depending on the level of statistical significance invoked. The new list of dC stars presented here, although selected from only a small fraction of the final SDSS, doubles the number of such objects found by all previous methods. (Abstract abridged).Note:
- Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 124, Sep. 2002, 40 pages, 7 figures, AASTeX v5.0 Journal-ref: AJ, 124, 1651, 2002
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