Astrometry and Photometry for ≈1000 L, T, and Y Dwarfs from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey
Abstract
We present the positions, proper motions, and near-infrared photometry for 966 known objects with spectral types later than M that were observed as part of the the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS). We augment the photometry and astrometry from UHS with information from Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS DR2, and CatWISE 2020 to produce a database of homogeneous photometry and astrometry for this sample. The multi-epoch survey strategy of UHS allows us to determine the proper motions for most sources, with a median proper motion uncertainty of ~3.6 mas yr-1. Our UHS proper motion measurements are generally in good agreement with those from Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS, and CatWISE 2020, with UHS proper motions typically more precise than those from CatWISE 2020 and Pan-STARRS but not Gaia DR3. We critically analyze the publicly available spectra for 406 members of this sample and provide updated near-infrared spectral types for ~100 objects. We determine typical colors as a function of spectral type and provide absolute magnitude versus spectral type relations for UHS J- and K-band photometry. Using newly determined proper motions, we highlight several objects of interest, such as objects with large tangential velocities, widely separated co-moving companions, and potential members of young nearby associations.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- September 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-3881/ace9bf
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2307.11882
- Bibcode:
- 2023AJ....166..103S
- Keywords:
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- Brown dwarfs;
- L dwarfs;
- T dwarfs;
- Y dwarfs;
- Low mass stars;
- 185;
- 894;
- 1679;
- 1827;
- 2050;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Accepted to AJ