Measuring the Milky Way in M-dwarfs

Authors

  • Isabel van Vledder Leiden University
  • Dieuwertje van der Vlugt Leiden University

Abstract

We report 274 M-dwarfs found in the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) survey for high redshift galaxies. Using these, we fitted a model for the disk and halo with a fixed scale length at h = 2.6 kpc. We found a scale height z0 of 0.60±0.03 kpc, flattening parameter κ of 0.45±0.04 and a powerlaw-index p of 2.4±0.07. For the total number of M-dwarfs in the disk and halo we found 26.7_(-6.2)^(+9.3)×10^9. The upper limit for the halo fraction of M-dwarfs in the halo is 7_(-4)^(+5) %. The total mass upper limit was determined to be 1.99_(-0.5)^(+0.73)×10^9 Solar masses.

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2015-11-20

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van Vledder, I., & van der Vlugt, D. (2015). Measuring the Milky Way in M-dwarfs. Student Undergraduate Research E-Journal!, 1. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/sure/article/view/1083

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Vol. 1 (2015): Student Research Conference 2015

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Economics & Social Sciences

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