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1261. Spectroscopy of 64 K red giants
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/735/L46
Title:
Spectroscopy of 64 K red giants
Short Name:
J/ApJ/735/L46
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan telescopes, we present detailed elemental abundances for 20 red giant stars in the outer Galactic disk, located at Galactocentric distances between 9 and 13kpc. The outer disk sample is complemented with samples of red giants from the inner Galactic disk and the solar neighborhood, analyzed using identical methods. For Galactocentric distances beyond 10kpc, we only find chemical patterns associated with the local thin disk, even for stars far above the Galactic plane. Our results show that the relative densities of the thick and thin disks are dramatically different from the solar neighborhood, and we therefore suggest that the radial scale length of the thick disk is much shorter than that of the thin disk. We make a first estimate of the thick disk scale length of L_thick_=2.0kpc, assuming L_thin_=3.8kpc for the thin disk. We suggest that radial migration may explain the lack of radial age, metallicity, and abundance gradients in the thick disk, possibly also explaining the link between the thick disk and the metal-poor bulge.
1262. Spectroscopy of Leo I red giants
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/657/241
Title:
Spectroscopy of Leo I red giants
Short Name:
J/ApJ/657/241
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present low-resolution spectroscopy of 120 red giants in the Galactic satellite dwarf spheroidal (dSph) Leo I, obtained with GeminiN GMOS and Keck DEIMOS. We find stars with velocities consistent with membership of Leo I out to 1.3 King tidal radii. By measuring accurate radial velocities with a median measurement error of 4.6km/s, we find a mean systemic velocity of 284.2km/s with a global velocity dispersion of 9.9km/s. The dispersion profile is consistent with being flat out to the last data point.
1263. Spectroscopy of 6 LMC RR Lyrae and 3 SMC RR Lyrae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/88
Title:
Spectroscopy of 6 LMC RR Lyrae and 3 SMC RR Lyrae
Short Name:
J/AJ/144/88
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present for the first time a detailed spectroscopic study of chemical element abundances of metal-poor RR Lyrae stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC). Using the MagE echelle spectrograph at the 6.5m Magellan telescopes, we obtain medium resolution (R~2000-6000) spectra of six RR Lyrae stars in the LMC and three RR Lyrae stars in the SMC. These stars were chosen because their previously determined photometric metallicities were among the lowest metallicities found for stars belonging to the old populations in the Magellanic Clouds. We find the spectroscopic metallicities of these stars to be as low as [Fe/H]_spec_=-2.7dex, the lowest metallicity yet measured for any star in the Magellanic Clouds. We confirm that for metal-poor stars, the photometric metallicities from the Fourier decomposition of the light curves are systematically too high compared to their spectroscopic counterparts. However, for even more metal-poor stars below [Fe/H]_phot_<-2.8dex this trend is reversed and the spectroscopic metallicities are systematically higher than the photometric estimates. We are able to determine abundance ratios for 10 chemical elements (Fe, Na, Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Sr, and Ba), which extend the abundance measurements of chemical elements for RR Lyrae stars in the Clouds beyond [Fe/H] for the first time. For the overall [{alpha}/Fe] ratio, we obtain an overabundance of 0.36dex, which is in very good agreement with results from metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo as well as from the metal-poor tail in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Comparing the abundances with those of the stars in the Milky Way halo we find that the abundance ratios of stars of both populations are consistent with another. Therefore, we conclude that from a chemical point of view early contributions from Magellanic-type galaxies to the formation of the Galactic halo as claimed in cosmological models are plausible.
1264. Spectroscopy of low-metallicity star candidates
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/870/122
Title:
Spectroscopy of low-metallicity star candidates
Short Name:
J/ApJ/870/122
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present results from an observing campaign to identify low-metallicity stars in the Best & Brightest Survey. From medium-resolution (R~1200-2000) spectroscopy of 857 candidates, we estimate the stellar atmospheric parameters (T_eff_, logg, and [Fe/H]), as well as carbon and {alpha}-element abundances. We find that 69% of the observed stars have [Fe/H]<=-1.0, 39% have [Fe/H]<=-2.0, and 2% have [Fe/H]<=-3.0. There are also 133 carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in this sample, with 97 CEMP Group I and 36 CEMP Group II stars identified in the A(C) versus [Fe/H] diagram. A subset of the confirmed low-metallicity stars were followed-up with high-resolution spectroscopy, as part of the R-process Alliance, with the goal of identifying new highly and moderately r-process-enhanced stars. Comparison between the stellar atmospheric parameters estimated in this work and from high-resolution spectroscopy exhibit good agreement, confirming our expectation that medium-resolution observing campaigns are an effective way of selecting interesting stars for further, more targeted, efforts.
1265. Spectroscopy of 447 nearby M dwarfs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/147/20
Title:
Spectroscopy of 447 nearby M dwarfs
Short Name:
J/AJ/147/20
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present metallicities, radial velocities, and near-infrared (NIR) spectral types for 447 M dwarfs determined from moderate resolution (R{approx}2000) NIR spectra obtained with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)/SpeX. These M dwarfs are primarily targets of the MEarth Survey, a transiting planet survey searching for super Earths around mid-to-late M dwarfs within 33pc. We present NIR spectral types for each star and new spectral templates for the IRTF in the Y, J, H, and K-bands, created using M dwarfs with near-solar metallicities. We developed two spectroscopic distance calibrations that use NIR spectral type or an index based on the curvature of the K-band continuum. Our distance calibration has a scatter of 14%. We searched 27 NIR spectral lines and 10 spectral indices for metallicity sensitive features, taking into account correlated noise in our estimates of the errors on these parameters. We calibrated our relation using 36 M dwarfs in common proper pairs with an F-, G-, or K-type star of known metallicity. We validated the physical association of these pairs using proper motions, radial velocities, and spectroscopic distance estimates. Our resulting metallicity calibration uses the sodium doublet at 2.2{mu}m as the sole indicator for metallicity. It has an accuracy of 0.12dex inferred from the scatter between the metallicities of the primaries and the estimated metallicities of the secondaries. Our relation is valid for NIR spectral types from M1V to M5V and for -1.0dex<[Fe/H]<+0.35dex. We present a new color-color metallicity relation using J-H and J-K colors that directly relates two observables: the distance from the M dwarf main sequence and equivalent width of the sodium line at 2.2{mu}m. We used radial velocities of M dwarf binaries, observations at different epochs, and comparison between our measurements and precisely measured radial velocities to demonstrate a 4km/s accuracy.
1266. Spectroscopy of NGC 7789
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/15
Title:
Spectroscopy of NGC 7789
Short Name:
J/AJ/149/15
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have obtained high-resolution spectra of 32 giants in the open cluster NGC 7789 using the Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO Hydra spectrograph. We explore differences in atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances caused by the use of the linelist developed for the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) compared to one based on Arcturus used in our previous work. [Fe/H] values decrease when using the GES linelist instead of the Arcturus-based linelist; these differences are probably driven by systematically lower (~-0.1dex) GES surface gravities. Using the GES linelist we determine abundances for 10 elements--Fe, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Na, Ni, Zr, Ba, and La. We find the cluster's average metallicity [Fe/H]=0.03+/-0.07dex, in good agreement with literature values, and a lower [Mg/Fe] abundance than has been reported before for this cluster (0.11+/-0.05dex). We also find the neutron-capture element barium to be highly enhanced--[Ba/Fe]=+0.48+/-0.08--and disparate from cluster measurements of neutron-capture elements La and Zr (-0.08+/-0.05 and 0.08+/-0.08, respectively). This is in accordance with recent discoveries of supersolar Ba enhancement in young clusters along with more modest enhancement of other neutron-capture elements formed in similar environments.
1267. Spectroscopy of red giants in 12 open clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/393/272
Title:
Spectroscopy of red giants in 12 open clusters
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/393/272
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Near-infrared spectra of 133 red giant stars from 10 Galactic open clusters and two Galactic globular clusters spanning 2.2dex in metallicity and 11Gyr in age are presented. We combine this sample with 10 clusters from Cole and collaborators (2004MNRAS.347..367C) to investigate the CaII triplet line strengths and their relation to cluster metallicity and position along the red giant branch. We show that characterizing the stellar surface gravity using K_s_-band photometry (relative to the horizontal branch) taken from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey allows for metallicity measurements at least as precise as those derived using V- or I-band data. This has the great advantage that uniform photometry and reliable astrometry are available for a large number of clusters. Using K_s_-band photometry also reduces the effect of differential reddening within a given cluster. We find no significant evidence for age or metallicity effects to the linear CaII triplet-metallicity relationship over the small range in magnitudes studied when homogeneous reference metallicities are used. We derive the first spectroscopic metallicity and new radial velocity estimates for five open clusters: Berkeley 81, Berkeley 99, IC 1311, King 2 and NGC7044. King2 has an anomalous radial velocity compared with the local disc population. We discuss the possibility that it is part of the Monoceros tidal stream.
1268. Spectroscopy of 400 red giants in the Bulge
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/546/A57
Title:
Spectroscopy of 400 red giants in the Bulge
Short Name:
J/A+A/546/A57
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The presence of two stellar populations in the Milky Way bulge has been reported recently, based on observations of giant and dwarf stars in the inner an intermediate bulge. We aim at studying the abundances and kinematics of stars in the outer Galactic bulge, thereby providing additional constraints on formation models of the bulge. Spectra of 401 red giant stars in a field at (l,b)=(0,-10) were obtained with the FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectrograph at the VLT. Stars of luminosities down to below the two bulge red clumps are included in the data set. From these spectra we measure general metallicities, abundances of iron and the alpha-elements, and radial velocities of the stars. The abundances are derived from an interpolation and fitting procedure within a grid of COMARCS model atmospheres and spectra. These measurements as well as photometric data are compared to simulations with the Besancon and TRILEGAL models of the Galaxy. We confirm the presence of two populations among our sample stars: i) a metal-rich one at [M/H]~+0.3, comprising about 30% of the sample, with low velocity dispersion and low alpha-abundance, and ii) a metal-poor population at [M/H]~-0.6 with high velocity dispersion and high alpha-abundance. The metallicity difference between the two populations, a systematically and statistically robust figure, is Delta[M/H]=0.87+-0.03. The metal-rich population could be connected to the Galactic bar. We identify this population as the carrier of the double red clump feature. We do not find a significant difference in metallicity or radial velocity between the two red clumps, a small difference in metallicity being probably due to a selection effect and contamination by the metal-poor population. The velocity dispersion agrees well with predictions of the Besancon Galaxy model, but the metallicity of the "thick bulge" model component should be shifted to lower metallicity by 0.2 to 0.3dex to well reproduce the observations. We present evidence that the metallicity distribution function depends on the evolutionary state of the sample stars, suggesting that enhanced mass loss preferentially removes metal-rich stars. We also confirm the decrease of alpha-element over-abundance with increasing metallicity. Conclusions: Our sample is consistent with the existence of two populations, one being a metal-rich bar, the second one being more like a metal-poor classical bulge with larger velocity dispersion.
1269. Spectroscopy of red giants in the LMC bar
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/1465
Title:
Spectroscopy of red giants in the LMC bar
Short Name:
J/AJ/129/1465
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report metallicities and radial velocities derived from spectra at the near-infrared calcium triplet for 373 red giants in a 200arcmin^2^ area at the optical center of the LMC bar. These are the first spectroscopic abundance measurements of intermediate-age and old field stars in the high surface brightness heart of the LMC. The metallicity distribution is sharply peaked at the median value [Fe/H]=-0.40, with a small tail of stars extending down to [Fe/H]<=-2.1; 10% of the red giants are observed to have [Fe/H]<=-0.7.
1270. Spectroscopy of Reticulum II
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/808/95
Title:
Spectroscopy of Reticulum II
Short Name:
J/ApJ/808/95
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present Magellan/M2FS, Very Large Telescope/GIRAFFE, and Gemini South/GMOS spectroscopy of the newly discovered Milky Way satellite Reticulum II. Based on the spectra of 25 Ret II member stars selected from Dark Energy Survey imaging, we measure a mean heliocentric velocity of 62.8+/-0.5km/s and a velocity dispersion of 3.3+/-0.7km/s. The mass-to-light ratio of Ret II within its half-light radius is 470+/-210M_{sun}_/L_{sun}_, demonstrating that it is a strongly dark matter-dominated system. Despite its spatial proximity to the Magellanic Clouds, the radial velocity of Ret II differs from that of the LMC and SMC by 199 and 83km/s, respectively, suggesting that it is not gravitationally bound to the Magellanic system. The likely member stars of Ret II span 1.3dex in metallicity, with a dispersion of 0.28+/-0.09dex, and we identify several extremely metal-poor stars with [Fe/H]<-3. In combination with its luminosity, size, and ellipticity, these results confirm that Ret II is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy. With a mean metallicity of [Fe/H]=-2.65+/-0.07, Ret II matches Segue 1 as the most metal-poor galaxy known. Although Ret II is the third-closest dwarf galaxy to the Milky Way, the line-of-sight integral of the dark matter density squared is log_10_(J)=18.8+/-0.6GeV^2^/cm^5^ within 0.2{deg}, indicating that the predicted gamma-ray flux from dark matter annihilation in Ret II is lower than that of several other dwarf galaxies.

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