- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/136
- Title:
- PAH features of star-forming gal. using Spitzer/IRS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission has long been proposed to be a potential star formation rate indicator, as it arises from the photodissociation region bordering the Stromgren sphere of young, massive stars. We apply a recently developed technique of mid-infrared spectral decomposition to obtain a uniform set of PAH measurements from Spitzer low-resolution spectra of a large sample of star-forming galaxies spanning a wide range in stellar mass (M_*_~10^6^-10^11.4^M_{sun}_) and star formation rate (~0.1-2000M_{sun}_/yr). High-resolution spectra are also analyzed to measure [NeII]12.8{mu}m and [NeIII]15.6{mu}m, which effectively trace the Lyman continuum. We present a new relation between PAH luminosity and star formation rate based on the [NeII] and [NeIII] lines. Calibrations are given for the integrated 5-15{mu}m PAH emission, the individual features at 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and 11.3{mu}m, as well as several mid- infrared bandpasses sensitive to PAH. We confirm that PAH emission is suppressed in low-mass dwarf galaxies, and we discuss the possible physical origin of this effect.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/19
- Title:
- Pan-Pacific Planet Search (PPPS). V. 164 stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic stellar parameters for the complete target list of 164 evolved stars from the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a five-year radial velocity campaign using the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. For 87 of these bright giants, our work represents the first determination of their fundamental parameters. Our results carry typical uncertainties of 100K, 0.15dex, and 0.1dex in T_eff_, logg, and [Fe/H] and are consistent with literature values where available. The derived stellar masses have a mean of 1.31_-0.25_^+0.28^M_{Sun}_, with a tail extending to ~2M_{Sun}_, consistent with the interpretation of these targets as "retired" A-F type stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/174
- Title:
- Parameters & abundances for Hyades/Field G-K dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/174
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It has been suggested that Fe abundances of K dwarfs derived from FeI and FeII lines show considerable discrepancies, and oxygen abundances determined from high-excitation OI-7771-5 triplet lines are appreciably overestimated (the problem becoming more serious toward lower Teff), which, however, has not yet been widely confirmed. With the aim of clarifying this issue, we spectroscopically determined the atmospheric parameters of 148 G-K dwarfs (Hyades cluster stars and field stars) by assuming the classical FeI/FeII ionization equilibrium as usual, and determined their oxygen abundances by applying the non-local thermal equilibrium spectrum fitting analysis to OI-7771-5 lines. It turned out that the resulting parameters did not show any significant inconsistency with those determined by other methods (for example, the mean differences in Teff and logg from the well-determined solutions of Hyades dwarfs are mostly <~100K and <~0.1dex). Likewise, the oxygen abundances of Hyades stars are around [O/H]~+0.2dex (consistent with the metallicity of this cluster) without exhibiting any systematic Teff-dependence. Accordingly, we conclude that parameters can be spectroscopically evaluated to a sufficient precision in the conventional manner (based on the Saha-Boltzmann equation for FeI/FeII) and oxygen abundances can be reliably determined from the OI-7771-5 triplet for K dwarfs as far as stars of Teff>~4500K are concerned. We suspect that previously reported strongly Teff-dependent discrepancies may have stemmed mainly from overestimation of weak-line strengths and/or improper Teff scale.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/2464
- Title:
- Parameters and abundances of nearby giants
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/2464
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present parameter and abundance data for a sample of 298 nearby giants. The spectroscopic data for this work have a resolution of R~60000S/N>150, and spectral coverage from 475 to 685nm. Overall trends in the Z>10 abundances are dominated by Galactic chemical evolution, while the light-element abundances are influenced by stellar evolution, as well as Galactic evolution. We find several super-Li stars in our sample and confirm that Li abundances in the first giant branch are related to mixing depths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/254
- Title:
- Parameters for 453 metal-poor stars in NGC5139
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/254
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The most massive and complex globular clusters in the Galaxy are thought to have originated as the nuclear cores of now tidally disrupted dwarf galaxies, but the connection between globular clusters and dwarf galaxies is tenuous with the M54/Sagittarius system representing the only unambiguous link. The globular cluster Omega Centauri ({omega}Cen) is more massive and chemically diverse than M54, and is thought to have been the nuclear star cluster of either the Sequoia or Gaia-Enceladus galaxy. Local Group dwarf galaxies with masses equivalent to these systems often host significant populations of very metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-2.5), and one might expect to find such objects in {omega}Cen. Using high-resolution spectra from Magellan-M2FS, we detected 11 stars in a targeted sample of 395 that have [Fe/H] ranging from -2.30 to -2.52. These are the most metal-poor stars discovered in the cluster, and are five times more metal-poor than {omega}Cen's dominant population. However, these stars are not so metal-poor as to be unambiguously linked to a dwarf galaxy origin. The cluster's metal-poor tail appears to contain two populations near [Fe/H]~-2.1 and -2.4, which are very centrally concentrated but do not exhibit any peculiar kinematic signatures. Several possible origins for these stars are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/6
- Title:
- Parameters of Kepler stars using LAMOST & seismic data
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to precisely determine the evolutionary status and fundamental properties of stars. With the unprecedented precision and nearly continuous photometric data acquired by the NASA Kepler mission, parameters of more than 10^4^ stars have been determined nearly consistently. However, most studies still use photometric effective temperatures (Teff) and metallicities ([Fe/H]) as inputs, which are not sufficiently accurate as suggested by previous studies. We adopted the spectroscopic Teff and [Fe/H] values based on the LAMOST low-resolution spectra (R~1,800), and combined them with the global oscillation parameters to derive the physical parameters of a large sample of stars. Clear trends were found between {Delta}logg(LAMOST-seismic) and spectroscopic Teff as well as logg, which may result in an overestimation of up to 0.5dex for the logg of giants in the LAMOST catalog. We established empirical calibration relations for the logg values of dwarfs and giants. These results can be used for determining the precise distances to these stars based on their spectroscopic parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/791/107
- Title:
- Parameters of NGC 5139 SGBs stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/791/107
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- {omega} Centauri is a peculiar globular cluster formed by a complex stellar population. To investigate it, we studied 172 stars belonging to the five SGBs that we can identify in our photometry, in order to measure their [Fe/H] content as well as estimate their age dispersion and the age-metallicity relation. The first important result is that all of these SGBs have a distribution in metallicity with a spread that exceeds the observational errors and typically displays several peaks that indicate the presence of several subpopulations. We were able to identify at least six of them based on their mean [Fe/H] content. These metallicity-based subpopulations are seen to varying extents in each of the five SGBs. Taking advantage of the age sensitivity of the SGB, we showed that, first of all, at least half of the subpopulations have an age spread of at least 2 Gyr. Then, we obtained an age-metallicity relation that is the most complete to date for this cluster. Interpretation of the age-metallicity relation is not straightforward, but it is possible that the cluster (or what we can call its progenitor) was initially composed of two populations with different metallicities. Because of their age, it is very unlikely that the most metal-rich derives from the most metal-poor by some kind of chemical evolution process, so they can be assumed to be two independent primordial objects, or perhaps two separate parts of a single larger object, that merged in the past to form the present-day cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/1020
- Title:
- Parent stars of extrasolar planets. XIV.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/1020
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of our analysis of new high-resolution spectra of 30 late-F to early-G dwarf field stars for the purpose of deriving their Li abundances. They were selected from the subsample of stars in the Valenti and Fischer compilation that are lacking detected planets. These new data serve to expand our comparison sample used to test whether stars with Doppler-detected giant planets display Li abundance anomalies. Our results continue to show that Li is deficient among stars with planets when compared to very similar stars that lack such planets. This conclusion is strengthened when we add literature data to ours in a consistent way. We present a table of stars with planets paired with very similar stars lacking planets, extending the recent similar results of Delgado Mena et al. (2014A&A...562A..92D, Cat. J/A+A/562/A92).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/100
- Title:
- PAST. II. LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler catalog of 35835 stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/100
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 06:40:51
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Kepler telescope has discovered over 4000 planets (candidates) by searching ~200000 stars over a wide range of distance (order of kpc) in our Galaxy. Characterizing the kinematic properties (e.g., Galactic component membership and kinematic age) of these Kepler targets (including the planet candidate hosts) is the first step toward studying Kepler planets in the Galactic context, which will reveal fresh insights into planet formation and evolution. In this paper, the second part of the Planets Across the Space and Time (PAST) series, by combining the data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and Gaia and then applying the revised kinematic methods from PAST I, we present a catalog of kinematic properties (i.e., Galactic positions, velocities, and the relative membership probabilities among the thin disk, thick disk, Hercules stream, and the halo) as well as other basic stellar parameters for 35835 Kepler stars. Further analyses of the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler catalog demonstrate that our derived kinematic age reveals the expected stellar activity-age trend. Furthermore, we find that the fraction of thin (thick) disk stars increases (decreases) with the transiting planet multiplicity (N_p_=0,1,2 and3+) and the kinematic age decreases with N_p_, which could be a consequence of the dynamical evolution of planetary architecture with age. The LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler catalog will be useful for future studies on the correlations between the exoplanet distributions and the stellar Galactic environments as well as ages.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/589/A83
- Title:
- PCA-based inversion of stellar parameters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/589/A83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an automated procedure that simultaneously derives the effective temperature Teff, surface gravity logg, metallicity [Fe/H], and equatorial projected rotational velocity vsini for "normal" A and Am stars. The procedure is based on the principal component analysis (PCA) inversion method, which we published in a recent paper. A sample of 322 high-resolution spectra of F0-B9 stars, retrieved from the Polarbase, SOPHIE, and ELODIE databases, were used to test this technique with real data. We selected the spectral region from 4400-5000 Ang as it contains many metallic lines and the Balmer H{beta} line. Using three data sets at resolving powers of R=42000, 65000 and 76000, about ~6.6x10^6 synthetic spectra were calculated to build a large learning database. The Online Power Iteration algorithm was applied to these learning data sets to estimate the principal components (PC). The projection of spectra onto the few PCs offered an efficient comparison metric in a low-dimensional space. The spectra of the well-known A0- and A1-type stars, Vega and Sirius A, were used as control spectra in the three databases. Spectra of other well-known A-type stars were also employed to characterize the accuracy of the inversion technique. We inverted all of the observational spectra and derived the atmospheric parameters. After removal of a few outliers, the PCA-inversion method appeared to be very efficient in determining Teff, [Fe/H], and vsini for A/Am stars. The derived parameters agree very well with previous determinations. Using a statistical approach, deviations of around 150K, 0.35dex, 0.15dex, and 2km/s were found for Teff, logg, [Fe/H], and vsini with respect to literature values for A-type stars. The PCA inversion proves to be a very fast, practical, and reliable tool for estimating stellar parameters of FGK and A stars and for deriving effective temperatures of M stars.
