Palomar/MSU and SDSS-DR7 M dwarfs with GALEX obs.

DOI

We present a catalog of Galaxy Evolution Explorer Near-UV (NUV) and Far-UV (FUV) photometry for the Palomar/MSU and SDSS DR7 spectroscopic M dwarf catalogs. The catalog contains NUV measurements matched to 577 spectroscopically confirmed M dwarfs and FUV measurements matched to 150 spectroscopically confirmed M dwarfs. Using these data, we find that NUV and FUV luminosities strongly correlate with H{alpha} emission, a typical indicator of magnetic activity in M dwarfs. We also examine the fraction of M dwarfs with varying degrees of strong line emission at NUV wavelengths. Our results indicate that the frequency of M dwarf NUV emission peaks at intermediate spectral types, with at least ~30% of young M4-M5 dwarfs having some level of activity. For mid-type M dwarfs, we show that NUV emission decreases with distance from the Galactic plane, a proxy for stellar age. Our complete matched source catalog is available online.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/817/1/table2 (DR7 M dwarfs found in GALEX)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/817/1/table3 (Palomar/MSU M dwarfs found in GALEX)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18170001
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/817/1
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/817/1
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/817/1
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/817/1
Provenance
Creator Jones D.O.; West A.A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2016
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy