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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 153, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/14
Keywords
parallaxes; solar neighborhood; stars: distances; stars: low-mass; stars: statistics
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- NSF [AST 05-07711, AST 09-08402, AST 14-12026]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1412026] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present 160 new trigonometric parallaxes for 151 M dwarf systems from the REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars (RECONS) group's long-term astrometry/photometry program at the CTIO/SMARTS 0.9 m telescope. Most systems (124 or 82%) are found to lie within 25 pc. The stars have 119 mas yr(-1) <= mu <= 828 mas yr(-1) and 3.85 <= (V - K) <= 8.47. Among these are 58 systems from the SuperCOSMOS-RECONS search, discovered via our proper motion trawls of the SuperCOSMOS digitized archival photographic plates, while the remaining stars were suspected via photometric distance estimates to lie nearby. Sixteen systems were newly discovered via astrometric perturbations to be binaries, many of which are ideal for accurate mass determinations due to their proximity and orbital periods on the order of a decade. A variability analysis of the stars presented, two-thirds of which are new results, shows six of the stars to vary by more than 20 mmag. This effort brings the total number of parallaxes for M dwarf systems measured by RECONS to nearly 500 and increases by 26% the number of southern M dwarf systems with accurate trigonometric parallaxes placing them within 25 pc.
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