Our Nearest 15 Million Neighbors: The Field Low-Mass Stellar Luminosity and Mass Functions
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Role
Contributor
Publication
Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun
Publisher
AIP Publishing
Standard Number
978-0-7354-0627-8
First Page
977
Last Page
981
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
We report on a new measurement of the luminosity function (LF) and mass function (MF) of field low—mass dwarfs using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. The final catalog is composed of ∼15 million low—mass stars (0.1 M⊙ugriz photometry of nearby low—mass stars with trigonometric parallaxes. The LF is measured with a novel technique, which simultaneously measures Galactic structure and the stellar LF. The resulting LF is compared to previous studies and converted to a MF. The MF is well—described by a log—normal distribution, with M° = 0.27 M⊙.
Repository Citation
John J. Bochanski, Suzanne L. Hawley, I. Neill Reid, Kevin R. Covey, Andrew A. West, David A. Golimowski, and Zeljko Ivezic. "Our Nearest 15 Million Neighbors: The Field Low-Mass Stellar Luminosity and Mass Functions" in Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun. Eric Stempels, Ed. St. Andrews: AIP Publishing. 2009.