The Low-mass Members of the Ursa Major Association

2020 
We present a set of 5 over-densities in spatial-kinematic space previously identified by Kounkel & Covey (2019) that may constitute extended tidal tails associated with the nearby, 400-Myr old Ursa Major association. This sample of 1599 stars have a main-sequence turnoff point consistent with the age of Ursa Major, and might contain its missing low-mass members. It includes 4 candidate white dwarfs with properties that seem consistent with a total age of about 400 Myr, but we estimate from older white dwarf interlopers that about 33% of the sample may be contaminated by random field stars.
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