The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. VI. The Fundamental Properties of 1000+ Ultracool Dwarfs and Planetary-mass Objects Using Optical to Mid-infrared Spectral Energy Distributions and Comparison to BT-Settl and ATMO 2020 Model Atmospheres
Abstract
We derive the bolometric luminosities (L bol) of 865 field-age and 189 young ultracool dwarfs (spectral types M6-T9, including 40 new discoveries presented here) by directly integrating flux-calibrated optical to mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The SEDs consist of low-resolution (R ~ 150) near-infrared (NIR; 0.8-2.5μm) spectra (including new spectra for 97 objects), optical photometry from the Pan-STARRS1 survey, and MIR photometry from the CatWISE2020 survey and Spitzer/IRAC. Our L bol calculations benefit from recent advances in parallaxes from Gaia, Spitzer, and UKIRT, as well as new parallaxes for 19 objects from CFHT and Pan-STARRS1 presented here. Coupling our L bol measurements with a new uniform age analysis for all objects, we estimate substellar masses, radii, surface gravities, and effective temperatures (T eff) using evolutionary models. We construct empirical relationships for L bol and T eff as functions of spectral type and absolute magnitude, determine bolometric corrections in optical and infrared bandpasses, and study the correlation between evolutionary model-derived surface gravities and NIR gravity classes. Our sample enables a detailed characterization of BT-SETTL and ATMO 2020 atmospheric model systematics as a function of spectral type and position in the NIR color-magnitude diagram. We find the greatest discrepancies between atmospheric and evolutionary model-derived T eff (up to 800 K) and radii (up to 2.0 R Jup) at the M/L spectral type transition boundary. With 1054 objects, this work constitutes the largest sample to date of ultracool dwarfs with determinations of their fundamental parameters.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2309.03082
- Bibcode:
- 2023ApJ...959...63S
- Keywords:
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- Fundamental parameters of stars;
- Astrometry;
- Exoplanet atmospheres;
- Stellar evolutionary models;
- Bolometric correction;
- Photometry;
- Spectral energy distribution;
- Brown dwarfs;
- T dwarfs;
- M dwarf stars;
- L dwarfs;
- Stellar atmospheres;
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Resubmitted to The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) after a positive referee report. 51 pages, 29 figures, 7 tables. Data presented in this work: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8315643. Scripts associated with methods: https://github.com/cosmicoder/HIPPVI-Code