Bibcode
Lodieu, N.; Deacon, N. R.; Hambly, N. C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 422, Issue 2, pp. 1495-1511.
Fecha de publicación:
5
2012
Número de citas
55
Número de citas referidas
50
Descripción
We present the results of a deep wide-field near-infrared survey of the
entire Pleiades cluster recently released as part of the UKIRT Infrared
Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey (GCS) Data Release 9
(DR9). We have identified a sample of ˜1000 Pleiades cluster
member candidates combining photometry in five near-infrared passbands
and proper motions derived from the multiple epochs provided by the
UKIDSS GCS DR9. We also provide revised membership for all previously
published Pleiades low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in the past decade
recovered in the UKIDSS GCS DR9 Pleiades survey based on the new
photometry and astrometry provided by the GCS. We find no evidence of
K-band variability in the Pleiades members larger than ˜0.08 mag.
In addition, we infer a substellar binary frequency of 22-31 per cent in
the 0.075-0.03 M&sun; range for separations less than
˜100 au. We employed two independent but complementary methods to
derive the cluster luminosity and mass functions: a probabilistic
analysis and a more standard approach consisting of stricter astrometric
and photometric cuts. We found that the resulting luminosity and mass
functions obtained from both methods are very similar. We derive the
Pleiades mass function in the 0.6-0.03 M&sun; range and found
that it is best reproduced by a lognormal representation with a mean
characteristic mass of 0.20 ± 0.05 M&sun;, in
agreement with earlier studies and the extrapolation of the field mass
function.
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