The Gaia ultracool dwarf sample - I. Known L and T dwarfs and the first Gaia data release
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
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Marocco, F.
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Caballero, J. A.
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Jones, H. R. A.
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Barrado, D.
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Beamín, J. C.
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Pinfield, D. J.
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Sarro, L. M.
Abstract
We identify and investigate known ultracool stars and brown dwarfs that are being observed or indirectly constrained by the Gaia mission. These objects will be the core of the Gaia ultracool dwarf sample composed of all dwarfs later than M7 that Gaia will provide direct or indirect information on. We match known L and T dwarfs to the Gaia first data release, the Two Micron All Sky Survey and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer AllWISE survey and examine the Gaia and infrared colours, along with proper motions, to improve spectral typing, identify outliers and find mismatches. There are 321 L and T dwarfs observed directly in the Gaia first data release, of which 10 are later than L7. This represents 45 per cent of all the known LT dwarfs with estimated Gaia G magnitudes brighter than 20.3 mag. We determine proper motions for the 321 objects from Gaia and the Two Micron All Sky Survey positions. Combining the Gaia and infrared magnitudes provides useful diagnostic diagrams for the determination of L and T dwarf physical parameters. We then search the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution, Gaia first data release subset, to find any objects with common proper motions to known L and T dwarfs and a high probability of being related. We find 15 new candidate common proper motion systems.
Volume
469
Issue
1
Start page
401
Issn Identifier
0035-8711
Ads BibCode
2017MNRAS.469..401S
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open.access
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