SPHEREx Ultracool Dwarf spectrophotometric Atlas (SUDA): Atmospheric and Fundamental Parameters of Ultracool Dwarfs

arXiv:2604.26771 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-04-29 · Read on arXiv

Zhijun Tu, Shu Wang, Haomiao Huang, Xiaodian Chen, Jifeng Liu

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-04-29

Comments: 27 pages, 10 figures, and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Online Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/20659257

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We present the SPHEREx Ultracool Dwarf spectrophotometric Atlas (SUDA), a homogeneous sample of 1675 field ultracool dwarfs with continuous 0.75--5 mu m spectrophotometry from SPHEREx Quick Release 2

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Abstract

We present the SPHEREx Ultracool Dwarf spectrophotometric Atlas (SUDA), a homogeneous sample of 1675 field ultracool dwarfs with continuous 0.75--5 mu m spectrophotometry from SPHEREx Quick Release 2 (QR2). Using the SAND and ATMO2020++ atmospheric grids, we derive atmospheric parameters, compute bolometric luminosities (L bol), and combine T eff and radii with evolutionary tracks to estimate masses, ages, and evolutionary g. For sources at 1700--2500 K, spectroscopic g is systematically lower than evolutionary g, with a median offset of about 1.05 dex, likely driven primarily by cloud-related model uncertainties. We further construct an empirical atlas by binning the measurements in T eff and evolutionary g, producing 57 spectrophotometric templates spanning T eff 700 --3000 K. Molecular indices trace a coherent atmospheric sequence: H 2 O and CH 4 indices strengthen toward lower T eff, while CO and CO 2 indices increase below about 1500 K and turn over near about 1000 K. Model comparisons indicate that CO 2 index is more sensitive to metallicity than gravity at T eff about800 --1200 K. SUDA provides a reference sample linking 0.75--5 mu m spectrophotometric morphology to atmospheric and evolutionary trends in ultracool dwarfs.

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