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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 153, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/46
Keywords
brown dwarfs; protoplanetary disks; stars: formation; stars: low-mass; stars: luminosity function , mass function; stars: pre-main sequence
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- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1208239] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Previous studies have found that similar to 1 deg(2) fields surrounding the stellar aggregates in the Taurus star-forming region exhibit a surplus of solar-mass stars relative to denser clusters like IC. 348 and the Orion Nebula Cluster. To test whether this difference reflects mass segregation in Taurus or a variation in the initial mass function, we have performed a survey for members of Taurus across a large field (similar to 40 deg(2)) that was imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We obtained optical and near-infrared spectra of candidate members identified with those images and the Two Micron All Sky Survey, as well as miscellaneous candidates that were selected with several other diagnostics of membership. We have classified 22 of the candidates as new members of Taurus, which includes one of the coolest known members (M9.75). Our updated census of members within the SDSS field shows a surplus of solar-mass stars relative to clusters, although it is less pronounced than in the smaller fields toward the stellar aggregates that were surveyed for previously measured mass functions in Taurus. In addition to spectra of our new members, we include in our study near-IR spectra of roughly half of the known members of Taurus, which are used to refine their spectral types and extinctions. We also present an updated set of near-IR standard spectra for classifying young stars and brown dwarfs at M and L types.
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