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1. Abundances in planetary nebulae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/500/1089
Title:
Abundances in planetary nebulae
Short Name:
J/A+A/500/1089
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present new spectroscopic data (90 objects) and derived plasma diagnostics and abundances of a sample of planetary nebulae in the direction of the Galactic center. The spectra were obtained in 2001/2002 with the 4-m class telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory and the European Southern Observatory.
2. Abundances in planetary nebulae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/427/231
Title:
Abundances in planetary nebulae
Short Name:
J/A+A/427/231
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present new spectroscopic data (43 objects) and derived plasma diagnostics and abundances (164 objects) of a sample of planetary nebulae in the direction of the Galactic center. The spectra were obtained in July 2000 with the 1.9-m telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory. The spectral coverage was 3500-7000{AA} with an average resolution of 1000.
3. Annex to 7th Cat. of Galactic WR Stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/458/453
Title:
Annex to 7th Cat. of Galactic WR Stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/458/453
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper gathers, from the literature and private communication, 72 new Galactic Population I Wolf-Rayet stars and 17 candidate WCLd stars, recognized and/or discovered after the publication of The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars (Cat. III/215). This brings the total number of known Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars to 298, of which 24 (8%) are in open cluster Westerlund 1, and 60 (20%) are in open clusters near the Galactic Center.
4. Carina nebula optically identified YSOs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/567/A109
Title:
Carina nebula optically identified YSOs
Short Name:
J/A+A/567/A109
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The low obscuration and proximity of the Carina nebula make it an ideal place to study the ongoing star formation process and impact of massive stars on low-mass stars in their surroundings. To investigate this process, we have generated a new catalogue of the pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in the Carina west (CrW) region and studied their nature and spatial distribution. We have also determined various parameters (reddening, reddening law, age, mass) which are further used to estimate the initial mass function (IMF) and K-band luminosity function (KLF) for the region under study. We obtained deep UBVRI H{alpha} photometric data of the field situated to the west of the main Carina nebula and centered around WR22. Medium-resolution optical spectroscopy of a subsample of X-ray selected objects along with archival data sets from Chandra, XMM-Newton and 2MASS surveys are used for the present study. Our spectroscopic results indicate that the majority of the X-ray sources are late spectral type stars. The region shows a large amount of differential reddening with minimum and maximum values of E(B-V) as 0.25 and 1.1mag, respectively. Our analysis reveals that the total to selective absorption ratio R_V_ is ~3.7+/-0.1 suggesting an abnormal grain size in the observed region. We identify 467 young stellar objects (YSOs) and study their characteristics. The ages and masses of the 241 optically identified YSOs range from ~0.1 to 10Myr and ~0.3 to 4.8M_{sun}_, respectively. However, the majority of them are younger than 1Myr and have masses below 2M_{sun}_. The high mass star WR22 does not seem to have contributed to the formation of YSOs in the CrW region. The initial mass function slope, Gamma in this region is found to be -1.13+/-0.20 in the mass range of 0.5<M/M_{sun}_<4.8. The K-band luminosity function slope ({alpha}) is also estimated as 0.31+/-0.01. We also performed minimum spanning tree analysis of the YSOs in this region which reveals that there are at least ten YSO cores associated with the molecular cloud and that leads to an average core radius and median branch length 0.43pc and 0.28pc, respectively.
5. CII emission-line stars in LMC with MagE spectra
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/898/85
Title:
CII emission-line stars in LMC with MagE spectra
Short Name:
J/ApJ/898/85
Date:
21 Mar 2022 08:48:14
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a narrowband imaging survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), designed to isolate the CII{lambda}{lambda}7231,7236 emission lines in objects as faint as m_{lambda}7400_~18. The work is motivated by the recent serendipitous discovery in the LMC of the first confirmed extragalactic [WC11] star, whose spectrum is dominated by CII emission, and the realization that the number of such objects is currently largely unconstrained. The survey, which imaged ~50deg^2^ using on-band and off-band filters, will significantly increase the total census of these rare stars. In addition, each new LMC [WC] star has a known luminosity, a quantity quite uncertain in the Galactic sample. Multiple known CII emitters were easily recovered, validating the survey design. We find 38 new CII emission candidates; spectroscopy of the complete sample will be needed to ascertain their nature. In a preliminary spectroscopic reconnaissance, we observed three candidates, finding CII emission in each. One is a new [WC11]. Another shows both the narrow CII emission lines characteristic of a [WC11], but also broad emission of CIV, OV, and HeII characteristic of a much hotter [WC4] star; we speculate that this is a binary [WC]. The third object shows weak CII emission, but the spectrum is dominated by a dense thicket of strong absorption lines, including numerous OII transitions. We conclude it is likely an unusual hot, hydrogen-poor post-AGB star, possibly in transition from [WC] to white dwarf. Even lacking a complete spectroscopic program, we can infer that late [WC] stars do not dominate the central stars of LMC planetary nebulae, and that the detected CII emitters are largely of an old population.
6. Classification of WR planetary nebulae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/403/659
Title:
Classification of WR planetary nebulae
Short Name:
J/A+A/403/659
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We analyse 42 emission-line nuclei of Planetary Nebulae (PNe), in the framework of a large spectrophotometric survey of [WC] nuclei of PNe conducted since 1994, using low/medium resolution spectra obtained at ESO and at OHP. We construct a grid of selected line-intensities (normalized to C IV-5806{AA}=100) ordered by decreasing ionisation potential going from 871 to 24eV. In this grid, the stars appear to belong clearly to prominent O (hot [WO1-4] types) or C (cooler [WC4-11] types) line-sequences, in agreement with the classification of massive WR stars applied to Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae (CSPNe) by Crowther et al. (1998MNRAS.296..367C, CMB98). We propose 20 selected line ratios and the FWHM of CIV and CIII lines as classification diagnostics, which agree well with the 7 line ratios and the FWHM proposed by CMB98.
7. Galactic massive stars with AstraLux
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/518/A1
Title:
Galactic massive stars with AstraLux
Short Name:
J/A+A/518/A1
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Massive stars have high-multiplicity fractions, and many of them have still undetected components, thus hampering the study of their properties. I study a sample of massive stars with high angular resolution to better characterize their multiplicity. I observed 138 fields that include at least one massive star with AstraLux, a lucky imaging camera at the 2.2m Calar Alto telescope. I also used observations of 3 of those fields with ACS/HRC on HST to obtain complementary information and to calibrate the AstraLux data. The results were compared with existing information from the Washington Double Star Catalog, Tycho-2, 2MASS, and other literature results.
8. He II emission from Wolf-Rayet stars in MW & LMC
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/192
Title:
He II emission from Wolf-Rayet stars in MW & LMC
Short Name:
J/AJ/158/192
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We calibrated a technique to measure dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies. The technique utilizes the stellar-wind lines in Wolf-Rayet stars, which are widely observed in galaxy spectra. The He II 1640 and 4686 features are recombination lines whose ratio is largely determined by atomic physics. Therefore they can serve as a stellar dust probe in the same way as the Balmer lines are used as a nebular probe. We measured the strength of the He II 1640 line in 97 Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The reddening corrected fluxes follow a tight correlation with a fixed ratio of 7.76 for the He II 1640 to 4686 line ratio. Dust attenuation decreases this ratio. We provide a relation between the stellar E(B-V) and the observed line ratio for several attenuation laws. Combining this technique with the use of the nebular Balmer decrement allows the determination of the stellar and nebular dust attenuation in galaxies and can probe its effects at different stellar age and mass regimes, independently of the initial mass function and the star formation history. We derived the dust reddening from the He II line fluxes and compared it to the reddening from the Balmer decrement and from the slope of the ultraviolet continuum in two star-forming galaxies. The three methods result in dust attenuations which agree to within the errors. Future application of this technique permits studies of the stellar dust attenuation compared to the nebular attenuation in a representative galaxy sample.
9. IR photometry of massive LMC stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/1003
Title:
IR photometry of massive LMC stars
Short Name:
J/AJ/138/1003
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a catalog of 1750 massive stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with accurate spectral types compiled from the literature, and a photometric catalog for a subset of 1268 of these stars, with the goal of exploring their infrared properties. The photometric catalog consists of stars with infrared counterparts in the Spitzer SAGE survey database, for which we present uniform photometry from 0.3 to 24um in the UBVIJHKs+IRAC+MIPS24 bands. The resulting infrared color-magnitude diagrams illustrate that the supergiant B[e], red supergiant, and luminous blue variable (LBV) stars are among the brightest infrared point sources in the LMC, due to their intrinsic brightness, and at longer wavelengths, due to dust. We detect infrared excesses due to free-free emission among ~900 OB stars, which correlate with luminosity class. We confirm the presence of dust around 10 supergiant B[e] stars, finding the shape of their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to be very similar, in contrast to the variety of SED shapes among the spectrally variable LBVs. The similar luminosities of B[e] supergiants (log L/L_{sun}_>=4) and the rare, dusty progenitors of the new class of optical transients (e.g., SN 2008S and NGC 300 OT), plus the fact that dust is present in both types of objects, suggests a common origin for them. We find the infrared colors for Wolf-Rayet stars to be independent of spectral type and their SEDs to be flatter than what models predict.
10. IR photometry of massive stars in the SMC
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/140/416
Title:
IR photometry of massive stars in the SMC
Short Name:
J/AJ/140/416
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a catalog of 5324 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), with accurate spectral types compiled from the literature, and a photometric catalog for a subset of 3654 of these stars, with the goal of exploring their infrared properties. The photometric catalog consists of stars with infrared counterparts in the Spitzer SAGE-SMC survey database, for which we present uniform photometry from 0.3 to 24um in the UBVIJHKs+IRAC+MIPS24 bands.

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