Published April 2014 | Version v1
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The solar neighborhood. XXXIII. Parallax results from the CTIOPI 0.9 m program: trigonometric parallaxes of Nearby low-mass active and young systems

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, The City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (United States)
  • 2. Astrometry Department, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC 20392 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5060, Atlanta, GA 30302-5060 (United States)
  • 4. United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 (United States)
  • 5. Département de Physique et Observatoire du Mont-Megantic, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7 (Canada)
  • 6. Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Las Condes, Santiago (Chile)
  • 7. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
  • 8. Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 (United States)
  • 9. Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 (United States)

Description

We present basic observational data and association membership analysis for 45 young and active low-mass stellar systems from the ongoing Research Consortium On Nearby Stars photometry and astrometry program at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Most of these systems have saturated X-ray emission (log (LX /L bol) > –3.5) based on X-ray fluxes from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, and many are significantly more luminous than main-sequence stars of comparable color. We present parallaxes and proper motions, Johnson-Kron-Cousins VRI photometry, and multiplicity observations from the CTIOPI program on the CTIO 0.9 m telescope. To this we add low-resolution optical spectroscopy and line measurements from the CTIO 1.5 m telescope, and interferometric binary measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensors. We also incorporate data from published sources: JHKS photometry from the Two Micron All Sky Survey point source catalog, X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, and radial velocities from literature sources. Within the sample of 45 systems, we identify 21 candidate low-mass pre-main-sequence members of nearby associations, including members of β Pictoris, TW Hydrae, Argus, AB Doradus, two ambiguous ≈30 Myr old systems, and one object that may be a member of the Ursa Major moving group. Of the 21 candidate young systems, 14 are newly identified as a result of this work, and six of those are within 25 pc of the Sun.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/147/4/85

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Journal Title
Astronomical Journal (New York, N.Y. Online)
Journal Volume
147
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
[23 p.]
ISSN
1538-3881