- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/656/A125
- Title:
- ACV variables in the Zwicky Transient Facility
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/656/A125
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 00:55:18
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The present work presents a case study of known variables from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey, with the aim of investigating the survey's suitability for the detection and study of new ACV variables. Using suitable selection criteria based on the known characteristics of ACV variables, candidate ACV stars were selected from the ZTF Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars. All light curves were inspected in detail to select the most promising candidates. Where available, low-resolution spectra from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) were employed to classify the stars on the MK system and confirm their status as mCP stars. We have identified 86 new promising ACV star candidates. 15 of these stars have LAMOST spectra available, which, in all cases, confirm them as classical mCP stars, which highlights the viability of our approach. We present astrophysical parameters for all sample stars, which can be sorted into four subgroups characterized by distinct light curve shapes. Anti-phase variations in different photometric passbands, in particular, is a unique characteristic of a subset of ACV stars readily usable for their identification. The availability of data in three different passbands (g, r, and i) is a major advantage of the ZTF survey. On the basis of our experience with other photometric surveys and the analysis of light curves, we conclude that the ZTF is well suited for the search for, and the analysis of, ACV variables, which, however, are not considered in the available ZTF variable star catalogues. Further work will be concerned with the development and refinement of a search algorithm to correctly identify these stars in ZTF data and, subsequently, in massive photometric time-series databases in general.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/378/113
- Title:
- Ap stars periodicity
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/378/113
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New data on the periods of Ap stars with references are presented. 161 further stars are introduced for which a periodic variability has recently been discovered or it was known before but it was not reported in previous issues of this catalogue. For many stars also present in previous issues of the catalogue new determinations of the periods are given. Recently attributed variable star names are also quoted.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/59
- Title:
- Catalogue and Bibliography of Mn-Hg Stars
- Short Name:
- III/59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the present catalogue all Ap stars of the type Mn-Hg, Mn or Hg are summarized. Also, the stars which are suspected to be of this type are included. If in the literature two or more classifications of a star indicate the same type (or one with high dispersion) it is listed as of known type. If only doubtful or different classifications exist for a star, it is indicated as suspected.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/AstBu/71.302
- Title:
- CP stars magnetic fields catalog (2009)
- Short Name:
- J/other/AstBu/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of measuring longitudinal magnetic fields (B_e), rotation velocities (v_e_sini), and radial velocities (V_r_) of 44 stars observed with the Main Stellar Spectrograph (MSS) of the 6-m BTA telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in 2009. Observations of standard stars without magnetic fields confirm the absence of systematic errors capable of introducing distortions into the longitudinal-field measurement results. In this work we comment on the results for each of the stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/AstBu/69.427
- Title:
- CP stars magnetic fields catalog (2007)
- Short Name:
- J/other/AstBu/69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog presents the results of magnetic field measurements for 39 chemically peculiar and 3 normal main sequence stars used as standard stars. Observations were carried out with the Main Stellar Spectrograph of the Russian 6-m telescope during 2007. The accuracy analysis for the longitudinal magnetic field measurements of the stars confirms that the systematic errors do not exceed 10-20G and are within the quoted limits. The absence of significant instrumental deviations follows from the measurements of theBD CP stars with well-known B_e_ variation curves.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/AstBu/70.444
- Title:
- CP stars magnetic fields catalog (2008)
- Short Name:
- J/other/AstBu/70
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the magnetic field measurements of 37 chemically peculiar and 4 normal main sequence stars using circularly polarized spectra obtained in 2008 with a Zeeman analyzer on the Main Stellar Spectrograph (MSS) of the Russian 6-m telescope (BTA). Four new magnetic stars have been discovered (HD25999, HD35100, HD96237, and HD279021), the presence of a field was suspected in two stars (HD2887 and BD-12 2366), 16 previously known CP stars were continued to be monitored to study their fields. The results of the longitudinal magnetic field B_e_ measurements show that in stars with narrow spectral lines, systematic errors in B_e_ determination do not exceed 10-20G, which is within the statistical error. Our study of stars with reliable phase curves of the longitudinal field B_e_ show that there are no instrumental effects which can distort the observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A89
- Title:
- Hvar survey for roAp stars. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/542/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars exhibit short time scale photometric and/or radial velocity variations, which are most important to test current pulsation models as well as our assumptions of the atmospheric structure characteristics. In addition, their chemical peculiarity makes them very interesting for probing stellar formation and evolution in the presence of a global magnetic field. To date, only a limited number of about 45 roAp stars are known. In order to increase the sample, we obtained photometric time series of 20 good roAp candidates to search for pulsations. We present the time series analysis of about 60 hours of CCD photometry taken at the 1 meter Austrian-Croatian Telescope (Hvar Observatory) and derive effective temperatures for the programme objects. The upper amplitude limits of the Fourier spectra are typically below 2mmag in Bessell B with one good candidate for follow-up observations to find possible pulsation. In addition, we present a list of further roAp candidates, worth to be (re)investigated.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/372/1804
- Title:
- Magnetic fields of chem. peculiar stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/372/1804
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectropolarimetric observations of 96 chemically peculiar (CP) main-sequence stars have been carried out at the 6-m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) with the aim of searching for the presence of stellar magnetic fields. The stars selected for investigation were CP stars known to have strong anomalies in the wavelength region of the continuum flux depression around {lambda} 5200{AA}. This selection was conducted with the aid of low-resolution spectral observations, made with the SAO RAS 1-m telescope, and of published differential photometric data. Magnetic fields have been successfully detected in 72 stars of which only three stars were previously known to have magnetic fields. For two stars, the longitudinal component of the magnetic field B_e_exceeds 5kG: HD178892 - 7.4kG, and HD258686 - 6.7kG. We failed to reliably detect the magnetic field in the other 24 CP stars. These stars are mostly fast rotators, a feature which hampers accurate measurements of B_e_. It is demonstrated in this paper that selecting candidate magnetic stars by considering their photometric indices Z or {Delta}alpha}, or alternatively, by inspecting low-resolution spectra around the {lambda}5200{AA} flux depression, considerably increases the detection rate.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/AstBu/75.294
- Title:
- Magnetic fields of CP stars (2012)
- Short Name:
- J/other/AstBu/75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of measuring longitudinal magnetic fields (Be), rotation velocities (v_esini), and radial velocities (VR) of 163 stars observed with the Main Stellar Spectrograph (MSS) of the 6-m BTA telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in 2012. Observations of standard stars without magnetic fields confirm the absence of systematic errors capable of introducing distortions into the longitudinal-field measurement results.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A40
- Title:
- 1002 mCP stars from LAMOST DR4
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/640/A40
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The present work is aimed at identifying new mCP stars using spectra collected by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). Suitable candidates were selected by searching LAMOST DR4 spectra for the presence of the characteristic 5200{AA} flux depression. Spectral classification was carried out with a modified version of the MKCLASS code and the accuracy of the classifications was estimated by comparison with results from manual classification and the literature. Using parallax data and photometry from Gaia DR2, we investigated the space distribution of our sample stars and their properties in the colour-magnitude diagram. Our final sample consists of 1002 mCP stars, most of which are new discoveries (only 59 common entries with the Catalogue of Ap, HgMn and Am stars). Traditional mCP star peculiarities have been identified in all but 36 stars, highlighting the efficiency of the code's peculiarity identification capabilities. The derived temperature and peculiarity types are in agreement with manually derived classifications and the literature. Our sample stars are between 100Myr and 1Gyr old, with the majority having masses between 2M_{sun}_ and 3M_{sun}_. Our results could be considered as strong evidence for an inhomogeneous age distribution among low-mass (M<3M_{sun}_) mCP stars; however, we caution that our sample has not been selected on the basis of an unbiased, direct detection of a magnetic field. We identified several astrophysically interesting objects: the mCP stars LAMOST J122746.05+113635.3 and LAMOST J150331.87+093125.4 have distances and kinematical properties in agreement with halo stars; LAMOST J034306.74+495240.7 is an eclipsing binary system (Porb=5.1435+/-0.0012d) hosting an mCP star component; and LAMOST J050146.85+383500.8 was found to be an SB2 system likely comprising of an mCP star and a supergiant component. With our work, we significantly increase the sample size of known Galactic mCP stars, paving the way for future in-depth statistical studies.