SLoWPoKES
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
The Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES) catalog was recently announced, containing 1,342 common proper motion pairs (i.e. binaries) which are all low mass stars in the mid-K and mid-M stellar classes in other words, orange and red dwarves.