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Astrophysics and Astronomy

2015

Stars: late-type

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The Strange Evolution Of The Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Ogle-Lmc-Cep1812, Hilding R. Neilson, Robert G. Izzard, Nobert Langer, Richard Ignace Sep 2015

The Strange Evolution Of The Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Ogle-Lmc-Cep1812, Hilding R. Neilson, Robert G. Izzard, Nobert Langer, Richard Ignace

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Classical Cepheids are key probes of both stellar astrophysics and cosmology as standard candles and pulsating variable stars. It is important to understand Cepheids in unprecedented detail in preparation for upcoming Gaia, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and extremely-large telescope observations. Cepheid eclipsing binary stars are ideal tools for achieving this goal, however there are currently only three known systems. One of those systems, OGLE-LMC-CEP1812, raises new questions about the evolution of classical Cepheids because of an apparent age discrepancy between the Cepheid and its red giant companion. We show that the Cepheid component is actually the product of a …


Boss Ultracool Dwarfs I: Colors And Magnetic Activity Of M And L Dwarfs, Sarah J. Schmidt, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, John J. Bochanski, James R. A. Davenport, Jian Ge, Doanld P. Schneider Apr 2015

Boss Ultracool Dwarfs I: Colors And Magnetic Activity Of M And L Dwarfs, Sarah J. Schmidt, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, John J. Bochanski, James R. A. Davenport, Jian Ge, Doanld P. Schneider

Physics & Astronomy

We present the colors and activity of ultracool (M7–L8) dwarfs from the Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We combine previous samples of SDSS M and L dwarfs with new data obtained from the Baryon Oscillation Sky Survey (BOSS) to produce the BOSS Ultracool Dwarf (BUD) sample of 11820 M7–L8 dwarfs. By combining SDSS data with photometry from 2MASS and the Wide-field Infrared Sky Explorer (WISE) mission, we present ultracool dwarf colors from to as a function of spectral type, and extend the SDSS–2MASS–WISE color locus to include ultracool dwarfs. The , , …