- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/3482
- Title:
- Accretion history of massive stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/496/3482
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mass growth of protostars is a central element to the determination of fundamental stellar population properties such as the initial mass function. Constraining the accretion history of individual protostars is therefore an important aspect of star formation research. The goal of the study presented here is to determine whether high-mass (proto)stars gain their mass from a compact (<0.1pc) fixed-mass reservoir of gas, often referred to as dense cores, in which they are embedded, or whether the mass growth of high-mass stars is governed by the dynamical evolution of the parsec-scale clump that typically surrounds them. To achieve this goal, we performed a 350micron continuum mapping of 11 infrared dark clouds, along side some of their neighbouring clumps, with the ArTeMiS camera on APEX. By identifying about 200 compact ArTeMiS sources, and matching them with Herschel Hi-GAL 70micron sources, we have been able to produce mass vs. temperature diagrams. We compare the nature (i.e. starless or protostellar) and location of the ArTeMiS sources in these diagrams with modelled evolutionary tracks of both core-fed and clump-fed accretion scenarios. We argue that the latter provide a better agreement with the observed distribution of high-mass star-forming cores. However, a robust and definitive conclusion on the question of the accretion history of high-mass stars requires larger number statistics.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/140/968
- Title:
- A cluster of compact radio sources in W40
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/140/968
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep 3.6 cm radio continuum observations of the HII region W40 obtained using the Very Large Array (VLA) in its A and B configurations. We detect a total of 20 compact radio sources in a region of 4'x4', with 11 of them concentrated in a band with 30" of extent. We also present JHK photometry of the W40 cluster taken with the QUIRC instrument on the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope. These data reveal that 15 of the 20 VLA sources have infrared counterparts, and 10 show radio variability with periods less than 20 days. Based on these combined radio and IR data, we propose that eight of the radio sources are candidate ultracompact HII regions, seven are likely to be young stellar objects, and two may be shocked interstellar gas.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/407/791
- Title:
- ACO 370, 2218 and 2390 fluxes at 7 and 15um
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/407/791
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was used to perform a deep survey with ISOCAM through three massive gravitationally lensing clusters of galaxies. The total area surveyed depends on source flux, with nearly seventy square arcminutes covered for the brighter flux levels in maps centred on the three clusters Abell 370, Abell 2218 and Abell 2390. We present maps and photometry at 6.7um (hereafter 7um) and 14.3um (hereafter 15um), showing a total of 145 mid-infrared sources and the associated source counts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/115/81
- Title:
- A CS(2-1) survey of UC HII regions
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/115/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have made a complete survey of the CS(2-1) emission toward IRAS point sources in the galactic plane. The sources observed were selected according to their far infrared (FIR) colors, which are characteristic of UC HII regions. They have 25{mu}m/12{mu}m flux ratios larger than 3.7 and 60{mu}m/12{mu}m flux ratios larger than 19.3. The survey covered a region from b=-2deg to b=2deg from l=300deg to l=0deg and from l=0deg to l=60deg, and from b=-4deg to b=4deg elsewhere. We detected 843 sources out of 1427 sources observed. The distributions of detected and undetected sources in a FIR color-color diagram show some differences, suggesting that more than one type of object is present in our observed sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/502/6117
- Title:
- A faint companion around CrA-9
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/502/6117
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Understanding how giant planets form requires observational input from directly imaged protoplanets. We used VLT/NACO and VLT/SPHERE to search for companions in the transition disc of 2MASS J19005804-3645048 (hereafter CrA-9), an accreting M0.75 dwarf with an estimated age of 1-2Myr. We found a faint point source at ~0.7-arcsec separation from CrA-9 (~108au projected separation). Our 3-epoch astrometry rejects a fixed background star with a 5{sigma} significance. The near-IR absolute magnitudes of the object point towards a planetary-mass companion. However, our analysis of the 1.0-3.8um spectrum extracted for the companion suggests it is a young M5.5 dwarf, based on both the 1.13um Na index and comparison with templates of the Montreal Spectral Library. The observed spectrum is best reproduced with high effective temperature (3057^+119^_-36_K) BT-DUSTY and BT-SETTL models, but the corresponding photometric radius required to match the measured flux is only 0.60^+0.01^_-0.04_ Jovian radius. We discuss possible explanations to reconcile our measurements, including an M-dwarf companion obscured by an edge-on circum-secondary disc or the shock-heated part of the photosphere of an accreting protoplanet. Follow-up observations covering a larger wavelength range and/or at finer spectral resolution are required to discriminate these two scenarios.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/234/33
- Title:
- A GBT survey of large Galactic HII regions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/234/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of our ongoing HII Region Discovery Survey (HRDS), we report the Green Bank Telescope detection of 148 new angularly large Galactic HII regions in radio recombination line (RRL) emission. Our targets are located at a declination of {delta}>-45{deg}, which corresponds to 266{deg}>l>-20{deg} at b=0{deg}. All sources were selected from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Catalog of Galactic HII Regions, and have infrared angular diameters >=260". The Galactic distribution of these "large" HII regions is similar to that of the previously known sample of Galactic HII regions. The large HII region RRL line width and peak line intensity distributions are skewed toward lower values, compared with that of previous HRDS surveys. We discover seven sources with extremely narrow RRLs <10km/s. If half the line width is due to turbulence, these seven sources have thermal plasma temperatures <1100K. These temperatures are lower than any measured for Galactic HII regions, and the narrow-line components may arise instead from partially ionized zones in the HII region photodissociation regions. We discover G039.515+00.511, one of the most luminous HII regions in the Galaxy. We also detect the RRL emission from three HII regions with diameters >100pc, making them some of the physically largest known HII regions in the Galaxy. This survey completes the HRDS HII region census in the Northern sky, where we have discovered 887 HII regions and more than doubled the size of the previously known census of Galactic HII regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/100
- Title:
- Ages and alpha-abundances of population in K2
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/100
- Date:
- 19 Jan 2022 13:30:38
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the relationships between the chemistry, ages, and locations of stars in the Galaxy using asteroseismic data from the K2 mission and spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment survey. Previous studies have used giant stars in the Kepler field to map the relationship between the chemical composition and the ages of stars at the solar circle. Consistent with prior work, we find that stars with high [{alpha}/Fe] have distinct, older ages in comparison to stars with low [{alpha}/Fe]. We provide age estimates for red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Kepler field, which support and build upon previous age estimates by taking into account the effect of {alpha}-enrichment on opacity. Including this effect for [{alpha}/Fe]-rich stars results in up to 10% older ages for low- mass stars relative to corrected solar mixture calculations. This is a significant effect that Galactic archeology studies should take into account. Looking beyond the Kepler field, we estimate ages for 735 RGB stars from the K2 mission, mapping age trends as a function of the line of sight. We find that the age distributions for low- and high-[{alpha}/Fe] stars converge with increasing distance from the Galactic plane, in agreement with suggestions from earlier work. We find that K2 stars with high [{alpha}/Fe] appear to be younger than their counterparts in the Kepler field, overlapping more significantly with a similarly aged low-[{alpha}/Fe] population. This observation may suggest that star formation or radial migration proceeds unevenly in the Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/901/109
- Title:
- Ages & [Fe/H] of the MW bulge using APOGEE
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/901/109
- Date:
- 18 Feb 2022 00:39:30
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present stellar age distributions of the Milky Way bulge region using ages for ~6000 high-luminosity (log(g)<2.0), metal-rich ([Fe/H]>=-0.5) bulge stars observed by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. Ages are derived using The Cannon label-transfer method, trained on a sample of nearby luminous giants with precise parallaxes for which we obtain ages using a Bayesian isochrone-matching technique. We find that the metal-rich bulge is predominantly composed of old stars (>8Gyr). We find evidence that the planar region of the bulge (|Z_GC_|<=0.25kpc) is enriched in metallicity, Z, at a faster rate (dZ/dt~0.0034Gyr^-1^) than regions farther from the plane (dZ/dt~0.0013Gyr^-1^ at |Z_GC_|>1.00kpc). We identify a nonnegligible fraction of younger stars (age ~2-5Gyr) at metallicities of +0.2<[Fe/H]<+0.4. These stars are preferentially found in the plane (|Z_GC_|<=0.25kpc) and at R_cy_~2-3kpc, with kinematics that are more consistent with rotation than are the kinematics of older stars at the same metallicities. We do not measure a significant age difference between stars found inside and outside the bar. These findings show that the bulge experienced an initial starburst that was more intense close to the plane than far from the plane. Then, star formation continued at supersolar metallicities in a thin disk at 2kpc<~R_cy_<~3kpc until ~2Gyr ago.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/248/3
- Title:
- A 4-6GHz RRL survey in the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/248/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We performed a radio recombination line (RRL) survey to construct a high-mass star-forming region (HMSFR) sample in the Milky Way based on the all-sky Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer point-source catalog. The survey was observed with the Shanghai 65m Tianma radio telescope covering 10 hydrogen RRL transitions ranging from H98{alpha} to H113{alpha} (corresponding to the rest frequencies of 4.5-6.9GHz) simultaneously. Out of 3348 selected targets, we identified an HMSFR sample consisting of 517 sources traced by RRLs; a large fraction of this sample (486) is located near the Galactic Plane (|b|<2{deg}). In addition to the hydrogen RRLs, we also detected helium and carbon RRLs toward 49 and 23 sources, respectively. We crossmatch the RRL detections with the 6.7 methanol maser sources built up in previous works for the same target sample. As a result, 103 HMSFR sources were found to harbor both emissions. In this paper, we present the HMSFR catalog accompanied by the measured RRL line properties and a correlation with our methanol maser sample, which is believed to trace massive stars at earlier stages. The construction of an HMSFR sample consisting of sources in various evolutionary stages indicated by different tracers is fundamental for future studies of high-mass star formation in such regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/91/347
- Title:
- A 5-GHz VLA Survey of the Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/91/347
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have used the VLA to survey the inner Galaxy (|b|<0.4{deg}, l=350-40{deg}) at 5GHz to a limiting sensitivity of between 2.5 and 10mJy. The survey has resulted in a catalog of 1272 discrete sources (including 100 sources outside the formal survey area) of which we have tentatively identified ~450 as ultracompact H II regions and ~45 as planetary nebulae. Approximately 30% of the radio sources are detected in the IRAS Point Source Catalog. The results confirm a scale height of only 30pc for ultracompact H II regions. We show that source lists generated from the IRAS Point Source Catalog alone suffer serious effects; the combination of the IRAS and radio surveys allows us to produce a much more complete census of the regions of massive star formation in our Galaxy.
