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New Cold Subdwarf Discoveries from Backyard Worlds and a Metallicity Classification System for T Subdwarfs

  • Authors: Adam J. Burgasser, Adam C. Schneider, Aaron M. Meisner, Dan Caselden, Chih-Chun Hsu, Roman Gerasimov, Christian Aganze, Emma Softich, Preethi Karpoor, Christopher A. Theissen, Hunter Brooks, Thomas P. Bickle, Jonathan Gagné, Ètienne Artigau, Michaël Marsset, Austin Rothermich, Jacqueline K. Faherty, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Marc J. Kuchner, Nikolaj Stevnbak Andersen, Paul Beaulieu, Guillaume Colin, Jean Marc Gantier, Leopold Gramaize, Les Hamlet, Ken Hinckley, Martin Kabatnik, Frank Kiwy, David W. Martin, Diego H. Massat, William Pendrill, Arttu Sainio, Jörg Schümann, Melina Thévenot, Jim Walla, Zbigniew Wędracki

Adam J. Burgasser et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal 982 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Left panel: selection of candidate T subdwarfs from BYW targets (small gray dots). Semitransparent circles indicate disk late-M and -L dwarfs (green), T dwarfs (magenta), and Y dwarfs (red) from the compilation of W. M. J. Best et al. (2018), while opaque circles indicate metal-poor objects from that compilation and from Z. H. Zhang et al. (2018a). We label previously identified late-L (green triangles) and -T (magenta triangles) subdwarf comparison sources and some of the benchmark companions (blue stars) from our spectroscopic sample (Tables 2 and 3). We delineate our selection criteria of J − W2≥ 2.25 mag and HJ ≥ 20.5 mag with dashed lines. All candidates are indicated by large magenta circles, while those with spectroscopic observations reported in this study are further highlighted by black outlines. Right panel: W1 − W2 vs. J − W2 color–color diagram of the same sample. Note that sources without W1 detections are not shown in this plot.

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