Estimating accurate reddening values of LAMOST M dwarfs

Abstract

M dwarfs are the dominating type of stars in the solar neighbourhood. They serve as excellent tracers for the study of the distribution and properties of the nearby interstellar dust. In this work, we aim to obtain high accuracy reddening values of M dwarf stars from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Data Release 8 (DR8). Combining the LAMOST spectra with the high-quality optical photometry from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3), we have estimated the reddening values $E(G_{\mathrm{BP}}-G_{\mathrm{RP}})$ of 641,426 M dwarfs with the machine-learning algorithm Random Forest regression. The typical reddening uncertainty is only 0.03 mag in $E(G_{\mathrm{BP}}-G_{\mathrm{RP}})$. We have obtained the reddening coefficient $R_{(G_{\mathrm{BP}}-G_{\mathrm{RP}})}$, which is a function of the stellar intrinsic colour $(G_{\mathrm{BP}}-G_{\mathrm{RP}}{)}_0$ and reddening value $E(B-V)$. The values of $E(B-V)$ are also provided for the individual stars in our catalogue. Our resultant high accuracy reddening values of M dwarfs, combined with the Gaia parallaxes, will be very powerful to map the fine structures of the dust in the solar neighbourhood.

8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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