Abstract
We present a curated sample of 6688 resolved binaries containing M and L dwarf companions within 400 pc of the Sun, including 121 systems within 100 pc. These sources were selected from the Gaia EDR3 compilation of El-Badry et al., and further vetted using photometric and astrometric data from SDSS, Pan-STARRS, 2MASS, UKIDSS, and WISE, as well as visual examination of imaged fields. Only 13% of these systems were reported as co-moving pairs prior to Gaia, and only 4% of the primaries and 1% of the secondaries have published spectral classifications, including just 9 of 109 late-M and L dwarf secondaries within 100 pc. Follow-up of this expanded low-mass companion sample will provide valuable benchmark systems for precisely calibrating empirical diagnostics of the physical properties of the lowest-mass stars and brown dwarfs.
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