Search for HPM stars in UWISH2 D. Froebrich
Thank you very much for your interest!
Today: Why are HPM Stars interesting? What is UWISH2? How to identify HPMs?
HPM – High Proper Motion > 200mas/yr or 1” in 5yrs or about 60mph at d=10000AU or about 200km/s at 100pc or growing hair seen from 10km
HPM stars are either: very nearby or very fast
Nearby Objects: Low mass stars Brown Dwarfs White Dwarfs Companions to known objects
Nearby Objects: Very incomplete even within 10pc!
Nearby Objects: Very incomplete in Galactic Plane
Nearby White Dwarfs: Incomplete at d>13pc
There are nearby Objects to be found in or near the Galactic Plane
UKIRT Widefield Infrared Survey for H 2 D. Froebrich and the UWISH2 survey team (~40 people)
SPECIFICALLY WE ARE SEARCHING FOR…: Jets and outflows in (high-mass) star forming regions H 2 emission in IRDCs HII regions Highly variable stars (Proto-)Planetary Nebulae Supernova remnants...anything else unusual
3.8 m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii Wide Field Camera (WFCAM)
Four Rockwell Hawaii-II 2048 x 2048 pixel HgCdTe arrays Each array covers a FoV of 13.7’x13.7’ with a pixel scale of 0.4” Four positions on-sky are required to cover a 0.75 sq deg “tile” Filters: K, H S(1) micro-stepping 0.2” pixel scale
4 observations (1,2,3,4) to cover 1 ‘tile’ each observation contains 4 images, one from each detector (w,x,y,z) each observation stored in one MEF file (1 for H2, one for K) (Multi-Extension-FITS file) Naming convention: ‘Tile’ Name: e.g. H2_l15_50: 352 unique for each tile Observation name: e.g. w _01368 (w _ ) four per tile
Coverage in K and H2 : Along the Galactic Plane (+/-1.5°) from l=7° to l=65° about 180 square degrees! or 234 tiles = 3744 images á 4k x 4k pixels (936 MEFs)
Howto search? 1) star.kent.ac.uk 2) Wait for response containing: your login and password tile name and image name to search 3) Search and return results 4) goto point 2) if you like
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