SDSS absolute magnitudes for thin-disc stars based on trigonometric parallaxes

Bilir, S.; Karaali, S.; Ak, S.; Coşkunoğlu, K. B.; Yaz, E.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 396, Issue 3, pp. 1589-1595.

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2009
Number of authors
6
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
16
Refereed citations
15
Description
We present a new luminosity-colour relation based on trigonometric parallaxes for thin-disc main-sequence stars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. We matched stars from the newly reduced Hipparcos catalogue with the ones taken from Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) All-Sky Catalogue of Point Sources, and applied a series of constraints, i.e. relative parallax errors (σπ/π <= 0.05), metallicity (-0.30 <= [M/H] <= 0.20dex), age (0 <= t <= 10Gyr) and surface gravity (logg > 4), and obtained a sample of thin-disc main-sequence stars. Then, we used our previous transformation equations (Bilir et al. 2008a) between SDSS and 2MASS photometries and calibrated the Mg absolute magnitudes to the (g - r)0 and (r - i)0 colours. The transformation formulae between 2MASS and SDSS photometries along with the absolute magnitude calibration provide space densities for bright stars which saturate the SDSS magnitudes.
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