A full-sky census of brown dwarfs within 20pc

We present final Spitzer trigonometric parallaxes for 361 L, T, and Y dwarfs. We combine these with prior studies to build a list of 525 known L, T, and Y dwarfs within 20pc of the Sun, 38 of which are presented here for the first time. Using published photometry and spectroscopy as well as our own follow-up, we present an array of color-magnitude and color-color diagrams to further characterize census members, and we provide polynomial fits to the bulk trends. Using these characterizations, we assign each object a Teff value and judge sample completeness over bins of Teff and spectral type. Except for types >=T8 and Teff<600K, our census is statistically complete to the 20pc limit. We compare our measured space densities to simulated density distributions and find that the best fit is a power law (dN/dM{propto}M^-{alpha}^) with {alpha}=0.6+/-0.1. We find that the evolutionary models of Saumon & Marley correctly predict the observed magnitude of the space density spike seen at 1200K

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Provenance
Creator Kirkpatrick J.D.; Gelino C.R.; Faherty J.K.; Meisner A.M.; Caselden D.,Schneider A.C.; Marocco F.; Cayago A.J.; Smart R.L.; Eisenhardt P.R.,Kuchner M.J.; Wright E.L.; Cushing M.C.; Allers K.N.; BardalezGagliuffi D.C.; Burgasser A.J.; Gagne J.; Logsdon S.E.; Martin E.C.,Ingalls J.G.; Lowrance P.J.; Abrahams E.S.; Aganze C.; Gerasimov R.,Gonzales E.C.; Hsu C.-C.; Kamraj N.; Kiman R.; Rees J.; Theissen C.,Ammar K.; Andersen N.S.; Beaulieu P.; Colin G.; Elachi C.A.; Goodman S.J.,Gramaize L.; Hamlet L.K.; Hong J.; Jonkeren A.; Khalil M.; Martin D.W.,Pendrill W.; Pumphrey B.; Rothermich A.; Sainio A.; Stenner A.; Tanner C.,Thevenot M.; Voloshin N.V.; Walla J.; Wedracki Z.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2023
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy