OPTICAL BVRI PHOTOMETRY OF COMMON PROPER MOTION F/G/K plus M WIDE SEPARATION BINARIES Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present optical (BVRI) photometric measurements of a sample of 76 common proper motion wide separation main-sequence binary pairs. The pairs are composed of a F-, G-, or K-type primary star and an M-type secondary. The sample is selected from the revised NLTT catalog and the LSPM catalog. The photometry is generally precise to 0.03 mag in all bands. We separate our sample into two groups, dwarf candidates and subdwarf candidates, using the reduced proper motion diagram constructed with our improved photometry. The M subdwarf candidates in general have larger V - R colors than the M dwarf candidates at a given V - I color. This is consistent with an average metallicity difference between the two groups, as predicted by the PHOENIX/BT-Settl models. The improved photometry will be used as input into a technique to determine the metallicities of the M-type stars.

published proceedings

  • ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Li, T., Marshall, J. L., Lepine, S., Williams, P., & Chavez, J.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Li, Ting||Marshall, Jennifer L||Lépine, Sébastien||Williams, Patrick||Chavez, Joy

publication date

  • August 2014