- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/17
- Title:
- Massive stars in APOGEE2 Survey. III.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have applied the semi-empirical spectral analysis, developed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-IV/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE2) Massive Star Team, to a large sample of new O- and B-type stars identified along the Sagittarius spiral arm, in the direction of the southern star clusters NGC3603 and NGC3576. We obtained H-band spectra for 265 point sources, using the APOGEE2-S spectrograph at the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory. We analyzed the associated spectral features deriving spectral types, as well as the massive star distribution along the line of sight. From a total of 265 science targets, 95 are classified as mid- to late-O-type stars (for which only 10 O-type stars are previously known in the literature), 38 are found to be early- to mid-B-type stars, and 32 are classified as either yellow or blue supergiants, completing a total of 165 massive stars.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/873/66
- Title:
- Massive stars in SDSS/APOGEE-2. II. W3-W4-W5
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/873/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work, we have applied a semi-empirical spectral classification method for OB-stars using the APOGEE spectrograph to a sample of candidates in the W3-W4-W5 (W345) complexes. These massive star-forming regions span over 200pc across the Perseus arm and have a notorious population of massive stars, from which a large fraction are members of various embedded and young open clusters. From 288 APOGEE spectra showing H-band spectral features typical of O- and B-type sources, 46 probably correspond to previously unknown O-type stars. Therefore, we confirm that Br11-Br13 together with HeII {lambda}16923 (7-12) and HeII {lambda}15723 (7-13) lines contained in the APOGEE spectral bands are useful in providing spectral classification down to one spectral sub-class for massive stars in regions as distant as d~2kpc. The large number of newly found O-type stars as well as the numerous intermediate-mass population confirm that W345 is a very efficient massive star factory, with an integral stellar population probably amounting several thousand solar masses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/1508
- Title:
- 2MASS large-amplitude variable stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/1508
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of variable stars in the near-infrared wavelength detected with overlapping regions of the Two Micron All Sky Survey public images, and discuss their properties. The investigated region is in the direction of the Galactic center (-30{deg}<~l<~20, |b|<~20), which covers the entire bulge. We have detected 136 variable stars, of which six are already known and 118 are distributed in the |b|<5{deg} region. Additionally, 84 variable stars have optical counterparts in Digitized Sky Survey images. The three diagrams (color-magnitude, light variance, and color-color diagrams) indicate that most of the detected variable stars should be large-amplitude and long-period variables such as Mira variables or OH/IR stars. The number density distribution of the detected variable stars implies that they trace the bar structure of the Galactic bulge.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/403/943
- Title:
- Mass-loss rates of galactic AGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/403/943
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We are using the 2002 data-release from the Japanese space experiment IRTS to investigate the spatial distribution of galactic mass-losing (>2x10^-8_M_{sun}_/yr) AGB stars and the relative contribution of C-rich and O-rich ones to the replenishment of the ISM. Our sample contains 126 C-rich and 563 O-rich sources which are sorted on the basis of the molecular bands observed in the range 1.4-4.0{mu}m, and for which we estimate distances and mass loss rates from near-infrared photometry (K and L'). There is a clear dependence on galactocentric distance, with O-rich sources outnumbering C-rich ones for {tau}_GC_<8kpc, and the reverse for {tau}_GC_>10kpc. The contribution to the replenishment of the ISM by O-rich AGB stars relative to C-rich ones follows the same trend. Although they are rare (~10% in our sample), sources with 10^-6^M_{sun}_/yr<dM/dt<10^-5^M_{sun}_/yr dominate the replenishment of the ISM by contributing to ~50% of the total of the complete sample. We find 2 carbon stars at more than 1kpc from the Galactic Plane, that probably belong to the halo of our Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NewA/11.27
- Title:
- 2MASS observation of BL Lac objects
- Short Name:
- J/other/NewA/11.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 2MASS observations of known BL Lac objects are presented in this paper. The 2MASS associations for 511 BL Lac objects are identified. From the 2MASS near infrared two-color diagram it is seen that majority (about 70%) of objects are lying alone with or very close to the power law distribution implying that there is no need to invoke any significant radiation mechanism additional to a power law continuum for those sources. However, many sources (about 30%) are still located very close to the blackbody distribution indicative of the possible contributions from the host galaxies. In addition, the average spectral index derived for the near infrared region is 0.66+/-0.34 that is rather smaller than that from the previous results indicative of the possible influence from the host galaxies and/or from the lack or weakness of the radio emissions from most sources newly discovered by recent X-ray missions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NewA/16.503
- Title:
- 2MASS observation of BL Lac objects II.
- Short Name:
- J/other/NewA/16.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we have searched for the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS, Cat. II/246) counterparts of 1434 BL Lacs. 833 of 1434 BL Lacs (58%) have spatially coincident 2MASS counterparts. Fermi-detected BL Lacs (FBLs) have a much higher 2MASS detection rate than non-Fermi-detected BL Lacs (non-FBLs) (95% vs 49%).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/357/732
- Title:
- 2MASS photometry of galactic planetary nebulae
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/357/732
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The recently published 2MASS all-sky infrared survey (<II/246>) includes JHKs photometry of over 300 million sources. It also provides sizes and aspect ratios for the ~0.55 per cent of objects that appear in the extended-source catalogue. Although most of these detections correspond to galaxies, stars, H II regions, young stellar objects, reflection nebulae and so forth, a number of them also appear to correspond to galactic planetary nebulae (PNe). We have used this survey to determine the near-infrared properties of some 325 known galactic PNe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/867/12
- Title:
- Mass-richness relations for X-ray and SZE clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/867/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the mass-richness relation of 116 spectroscopically confirmed massive clusters at 0.4<z<2 by mining the Spitzer archive. We homogeneously measure the richness at 4.5um for our cluster sample within a fixed aperture of 2' radius and above a fixed brightness threshold, making appropriate corrections for both background galaxies and foreground stars. We have two subsamples, those which have (a) literature X-ray luminosities and (b) literature Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect masses. For the X-ray subsample we re-derive masses adopting the most recent calibrations. We then calibrate an empirical mass-richness relation for the combined sample spanning more than one decade in cluster mass and find the associated uncertainties in mass at fixed richness to be +/-0.25dex. We study the dependence of the scatter of this relation with galaxy concentration, defined as the ratio between richness measured within an aperture radius of 1' and 2'. We find that at fixed aperture radius the scatter increases for clusters with higher concentrations. We study the dependence of our richness estimates with depth of the 4.5um imaging data and find that reaching a depth of at least [4.5]=21(AB)mag is sufficient to derive reasonable mass estimates. We discuss the possible extension of our method to the mid-infrared WISE All Sky Survey data and the application of our results to the Euclid mission. This technique makes richness-based cluster mass estimates available for large samples of clusters at very low observational cost.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/2421
- Title:
- 2MASS-Selected sample of ultracool dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/2421
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the initial results of our effort to create a statistically robust, volume-limited sample of ultracool dwarfs from the Two Micron All Sky Survey Second Incremental Data Release (<II/241>). We are engaged in a multifaceted search for nearby late-type objects, and this is the first installment of our search using purely photometric selection. The goal of this work is a determination of the low-mass star and brown dwarf luminosity function in the infrared. Here we outline the construction of the sample, dubbed 2MU2, and present our first results, including the discovery of 186 M7-L6 dwarfs, 47 of which are likely to be within 20pc of the Sun. These results represent 66% of the ultracool candidates in our sample yet constitute a 127% increase in the number of ultracool dwarfs known within the volume searched (covering 40% of the sky out to 20pc). In addition, we have identified 10 M4-M6.5 objects that are likely to be within 20pc (or within 1{sigma}). Finally, based on these initial data, we present a preliminary luminosity function and discuss several interesting features of the partial sample presented here. Once our sample is complete, we will use our measured luminosity function to constrain the mass function of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/475/343
- Title:
- 2MASS, WISE, and SuperCOSMOS clusters of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/475/343
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify 47600 clusters of galaxies from photometric data of Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and SuperCOSMOS, among which 26125 clusters are recognized for the first time and mostly in the sky outside the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) area. About 90 per cent of massive clusters of M_500_>3x10^14^M_{sun}_ in the redshift range of 0.025<z<0.3 have been detected from such survey data, and the detection rate drops down to 50 per cent for clusters with a mass of M_500_~1x10^14^M_{sun}_. Monte Carlo simulations show that the false detection rate for the whole cluster sample is less than 5 per cent. By cross-matching with ROSAT and XMM-Newton sources, we get 779 new X-ray cluster candidates which have X-ray counterparts within a projected offset of 0.2Mpc.
