Meeting the neighbours: NStars and 2MASS


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LHS 2924, POSS I and POSS II


2. Proper motion stars


  1. Background information
    • Introduction
    • Large-scale Proper Motion Surveys
    • Proper Motion Surveys, 2MASS and NStars
  2. Candidate nearby dwarfs in the NLTT (1) sample selection
    • Identifying dwarfs within 20-parsecs: Sample 1
    • 2MASS/NLTT stars with prior observations - Sample 1
    • Identifying dwarfs within 20-parsecs: Sample 2, wide pairings
    • 2MASS/NLTT stars with prior observations - Sample 2
  3. Candidate nearby dwarfs in the NLTT (2) Spectroscopic follow-up
    • Northern stars: KPNO Spectroscopy
    • Southern stars: CTIO spectroscopy
  4. Candidate nearby dwarfs in the NLTT (2) Photometric follow-up
    • Southern stars: SAAO photometry
    • Northern stars: APO photometry

Other useful links

  1. The PMSU survey
    • The original survey PMSU1 & PMSU2; low resolution spectroscopy of nearby M dwarfs
    • PMSU3 echelle spectroscopy: binaries and activity
    • PMSU4 The mass function and local kinematics
  2. The 8-parsec sample
  3. Colour-magnitude data for nearby stars with accurate parallaxes
  4. L dwarf and T dwarf classification
  5. Spectra f late-M and L dwarfs
  6. Davy Kirkpatrick's L dwarf archive

Links to published papers from these programmes are given on this page



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page by Neill Reid, last updated 26/02/2002