Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-13-2016

Keywords

Surveys - stars, Abundance - stars, Fundamental parameters - stars, Late-type - stars, Low-mass

Abstract

We present the effective temperatures (Teff), metallicities, and colours in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Two Micron All Sky Survey, and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer filters, of a sample of 3834 late-K and early-M dwarfs selected from the SDSS Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectroscopic survey ASPCAP (APOGEE Stellar Parameters and Chemical Abundances Pipeline) catalogue. We confirm that ASPCAP Teff values between 3550 < Teff < 4200 K are accurate to ∼100 K compared to interferometric Teff values. In that same Teff range, ASPCAP metallicities are accurate to 0.18 dex between −1.0 <[M/H]g − r is not a good indicator of metallicity for near-solar metallicity early-M dwarfs. We confirm that J − KS colour is strongly dependent on metallicity, and find that W1 − W2 colour is a promising metallicity indicator. Comparison of the late-K and early-M dwarf colours, metallicities, and Teff to those from three different model grids shows reasonable agreement in r − z and J − KS colours, but poor agreement in u − g, g − r, and W1 − W2. Comparison of the metallicities of the KM dwarf sample to those from previous colour–metallicity relations reveals a lack of consensus in photometric metallicity indicators for late-K and early-M dwarfs. We also present empirical relations for Teff as a function of r − z colour combined with either [M/H] or W1 − W2 colour, and for [M/H] as a function of r − z and W1 − W2 colour. These relations yield Teff to ∼100 K and [M/H] to ∼0.18 dex precision with colours alone, for Teff in the range of 3550–4200 K and [M/H] in the range of −0.5–0.2

Publication Title

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume

460

Issue

3

First Page

2611

Last Page

2624

DOI

10.1093/mnras/stw1139

Required Publisher's Statement


This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2016 Schmidt, et al. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw1139


Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Dwarf stars; Stars--Evolution; Cool stars

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

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