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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/373/435
- Title:
- Angular momentum evolution of Algol binaries
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/373/435
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have compiled the well-determined absolute parameters of Algol-type binaries. The lists contain the parameters of 74 detached and 61 semi-detached close binaries. The double-lined eclipsing binaries provide not only the most accurate determinations of stellar mass, radius and temperatures but also distance-independent luminosity for each of their individual components. The distributions of the primary and secondary masses of detached binaries (DBs) are similar, whilst the secondary masses of the semidetached binaries (SDBs) are mostly smaller than 2M_{sun}_ with a peak in the M2-bin (0.21-1.0). The components of the DBs are almost all located in the main-sequence band. On the contrary, the secondary components of the SDBs have larger radii and luminosity with respect to the same mass and the same effective temperature of main-sequence counterparts. They occupy a region of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram between terminal-age main sequence and giants.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/651/L15
- Title:
- Angular-momentum plane for disc galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/651/L15
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The relations between the specific angular momenta (j) and masses (M) of galaxies are often used as a benchmark in analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations as they are considered to be amongst the most fundamental scaling relations. Using accurate measurements of the stellar (j*), gas (jgas), and baryonic (jbar) specific angular momenta for a large sample of disc galaxies, we report the discovery of tight correlations between j, M, and the cold gas fraction of the interstellar medium (fgas). At fixed fgas, galaxies follow parallel power laws in 2D (j, M) spaces, with gas-rich galaxies having a larger j* and jbar (but a lower jgas) than gas-poor ones. The slopes of the relations have a value around 0.7. These new relations are amongst the tightest known scaling laws for galaxies. In particular, the baryonic relation (jbar-Mbar-fgas), arguably the most fundamental of the three, is followed not only by typical discs but also by galaxies with extreme properties, such as size and gas content, and by galaxies previously claimed to be outliers of the standard 2D j-M relations. The stellar relation (j*-M*-fgas) may be connected to the known j*-M* bulge fraction relation; however, we argue that the jbar-Mbar-fgas relation can originate from the radial variation in the star formation efficiency in galaxies, although it is not explained by current disc instability models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/452/4274
- Title:
- Angular sizes of AGN cores at 2-43GHz
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/452/4274
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have measured the angular sizes of radio cores of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and analyzed their sky distributions and frequency dependencies to study synchrotron opacity in AGN jets and the strength of angular broadening in the interstellar medium. We have used archival very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data of more than 3000 compact extragalactic radio sources observed at frequencies, {nu}, from 2 to 43GHz to measure the observed angular size of VLBI cores. We have found a significant increase in the angular sizes of the extragalactic sources seen through the Galactic plane (|b|<10{deg}) at 2, 5 and 8GHz, about 1/3 of which show significant scattering. These sources are mainly detected in directions to the Galactic bar, the Cygnus region, and a region with galactic longitudes 220{deg}<l<260{deg} (the Fitzgerald window). The strength of interstellar scattering of the AGNs is found to correlate with the Galactic H{alpha} intensity, free-electron density, and Galactic rotation measure. The dependence of scattering strengths on source redshift is insignificant, suggesting that the dominant scattering screens are located in our Galaxy. The observed angular size of Sgr-A* is found to be the largest among thousands of AGN observed over the sky; we discuss possible reasons of this strange result. Excluding extragalactic radio sources with significant scattering, we find that angular size of opaque cores in AGN scales typically as {nu}^-1^ confirming predictions of a conical synchrotron jet model with equipartition.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/390/1133
- Title:
- Anisotropic distribution of satellite galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/390/1133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify satellites of isolated galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and examine their angular distribution. Using mock catalogues generated from cosmological N-body simulations, we demonstrate that the selection criteria used to select isolated galaxies and their satellites in large galaxy redshift surveys must be very strict in order to correctly identify systems in which the primary galaxy dominates its environment. We demonstrate that the criteria used in many previous studies instead select predominantly group members. We refine a set of selection criteria for which the group contamination is estimated to be less than 7 per cent and present a catalogue of the resulting sample.
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/592/A48
- Title:
- Annotations to the second Planck cluster catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/592/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an all sky map of the y-type distortion calculated from the full mission Planck HFI (High Frequency Instrument) data using the recently proposed approach to component separation based on parametric model fitting and model selection. This simple model selection approach allows us to distinguish between carbon monoxide (CO) line emission and y-type distortion, something that is not possible using the internal linear combination based methods. We create a mask to cover the regions of significant CO emission relying on the information in the {chi}^2^ map obtained when fitting for the y-distortion and CO emission to the lowest four HFI channels. We revisit the second Planck cluster catalog and try to quantify the quality of the cluster candidates in an approach that is similar in spirit to Aghanim et al. (2015A&A...580A.138A). We find that at least 93% of the clusters in the cosmology sample are free of CO contamination. We also find that 59% of unconfirmed candidates may have significant contamination from molecular clouds. We agree with Planck Collaboration et al. (2016, A&A, in press., arXiv:1502.01598) for the worst offenders. We suggest an alternative validation strategy of measuring and subtracting the CO emission from the Planck cluster candidates using radio telescopes thus improving the reliability of the catalog. Our CO mask and annotations to the Planck cluster catalog identifying cluster candidates with possible CO contamination are made publicly available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/626/A69
- Title:
- An old nova remnant in M22
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/626/A69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A nova is a cataclysmic event on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary system that increases the overall brightness by several orders of magnitude. Although binary systems with a white dwarf are expected to be overabundant in globular clusters (GCs) compared to the Galaxy, only two novae from Galactic globular clusters have been observed. We present the discovery of an emission nebula in the Galactic globular cluster M 22 (NGC 6656) in observations made with the integral-field spectrograph MUSE. We extract the spectrum of the nebula and use the radial velocity determined from the emission lines to confirm that the nebula is part of NGC 6656. Emission-line ratios are used to determine the electron temperature and density. It is estimated to have a mass of 1 to 17x10^-5^ solar masses. This mass and the emission-line ratios indicate that the nebula is a nova remnant. Its position coincides with the reported location of a 'guest star', an ancient Chinese term for transients, observed in May 48 BCE. With this discovery, this nova may be one of the oldest confirmed extrasolar events recorded in human history.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/615/A42
- Title:
- Anomalous extinction sightlines stars polarisation
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/615/A42
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Highly reddened type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with low total-to-selective visual extinction ratio values, RV, also show peculiar linear polarization wavelength dependencies with peak polarizations at short wavelengths ({lambda}_max_<~0.4um). It is not clear why sightlines to SNe Ia display such different continuum polarization profiles from interstellar sightlines in the Milky Way with similar RV values. We investigate polarization profiles of a sample of Galactic stars with low RV values, along anomalous extinction sightlines, with the aim to find similarities to the polarization profiles that we observe in SN Ia sightlines. We undertook spectropolarimetry of 14 stars, used archival data for 3 additional stars, and ran dust extinction and polarization simulations (by adopting the picket-fence alignment model) to infer a simple dust model (size distribution, alignment) that can reproduce the observed extinction and polarization curves. Our sample of Galactic stars with low RV values and anomalous extinction sightlines displays normal polarization profiles with an average {lambda}_max_~0.53um, and is consistent within 3{sigma} to a larger coherent sample of Galactic stars from the literature. Despite the low RV values of dust toward the stars in our sample, the polarization curves do not show any similarity to the continuum polarization curves observed toward SNe Ia with low RV values. There is a correlation between the best-fit Serkowski parameters K and {lambda}_max_, but we did not find any significant correlation between RV and {lambda}_max_. Our simulations show that the K-{lambda}_max_ relationship is an intrinsic property of polarization. Furthermore, we have shown that in order to reproduce polarization curves with normal {lambda}_max_ and low RV values, a population of large (a >=0.1um) interstellar silicate grains must be contained in the dust composition.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/1332
- Title:
- Anomalous RRd stars in Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/1332
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of a new subclass of double-mode RR Lyrae stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The sample of 22 pulsating stars has been extracted from the latest edition of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment collection of RR Lyrae variables in the Magellanic System. The stars pulsating simultaneously in the fundamental (F) and first-overtone (1O) modes have distinctly different properties than regular double-mode RR Lyrae variables (RRd stars). The P_1O_/P_F_ period ratios of our anomalous RRd stars are within a range of 0.725-0.738, while 'classical' double-mode RR Lyrae variables have period ratios in the range of 0.742-0.748. In contrast to the typical RRd stars, in the majority of the anomalous pulsators, the F-mode amplitudes are higher than the 1O-mode amplitudes. The light curves associated with the F-mode in the anomalous RRd stars show different morphology than the light curves of, both, regular RRd stars and single-mode RRab stars. Most of the anomalous double-mode stars show long-term modulations of the amplitudes (Blazhko-like effect). Translating the period ratios into the abundance parameter, Z, we find for our stars Z{in}(0.002, 0.005) - an order of magnitude higher values than typical for RR Lyrae stars. The mass range of the RRd stars inferred from the W_I_ versus P_F_ diagram is (0.55-0.75)M_{sun}_. These parameters cannot be accounted for with single star evolution assuming a Reimers-like mass-loss. Much greater mass-loss caused by interaction with other stars is postulated. We blame the peculiar pulsation properties of our stars to the parametric resonance instability of the 1O-mode to excitation of the F- and 2O-modes as with the inferred parameters of the stars 2{omega}_1O_~={omega}_F_+{omega}_2O_.
