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L Dwarfs Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Imaging Data
Ist Teil von
The Astronomical journal, 2000-02, Vol.119 (2), p.928-935
Ort / Verlag
United States: IOP Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
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EZB Electronic Journals Library
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This paper describes the discovery of seven dwarf objects of spectral type L (objects cooler than the latest M dwarfs) in commissioning imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Low-resolution spectroscopy shows that they have spectral types from L0 to L8. Comparison of the SDSS and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) photometry for several of these objects indicates the presence of significant opacity at optical wavelengths. This comparison also demonstrates the high astrometric accuracy (better than 1{sup ''} for these faint sources) of both surveys. The L dwarfs are shown to occupy a distinctive region of color-color space as measured in the SDSS filters, which should enables their identification in a straightforward way. This should lead eventually to a complete sample of many hundreds of these low-mass objects, or about 1 per 15 deg2 to i{sup '} {approx_equal}20, in the complete SDSS data set. (c) (c) 2000. The American Astronomical Society.