- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/125/3037
- Title:
- RI photometry of NGC 205 carbon stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/125/3037
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a CFH12K survey of the carbon stars in NGC 205 and its surrounding field. We find that the number of C stars in NGC 205 is low (~500) for its luminosity and that very few C stars are seen outside of the 10 isophote, suggesting tidal stripping by M31. Their <M_I_>=-4.54, a magnitude nearly identical to what has been found in other galaxies with numerous C stars. Stars with accurate (R-I) photometry, to I~22.5, are used to determine the outer profile of NGC 205.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/202/19
- Title:
- riz photometry in Cyg OB2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/202/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to fully understand the gravitational collapse of molecular clouds, the star formation process, and the evolution of circumstellar disks, these phenomena must be studied in different Galactic environments with a range of stellar contents and positions in the Galaxy. The young massive association Cygnus OB2, in the Cygnus-X region, is a unique target to study how star formation and the evolution of circumstellar disks proceed in the presence of a large number of massive stars. We present a catalog obtained with recent optical observations in the r, i, z filters with OSIRIS, mounted on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS telescope, which is the deepest optical catalog of CygOB2 to date. The catalog consists of 64,157 sources down to M=0.15M_{sun}_ at the adopted distance and age of Cyg OB2. A total of 38,300 sources have good photometry in all three bands. We combined the optical catalog with existing X-ray data of this region, in order to define the cluster locus in the optical diagrams. The cluster locus in the r-i versus i-z diagram is compatible with an extinction of the optically selected cluster members in the 2.64m<A_V_<5.57m range. We derive an extinction map of the region, finding a median value of A_V_=4.33m in the center of the association, decreasing toward the northwest. In the color-magnitude diagrams, the shape of the distribution of main-sequence stars is compatible with the presence of an obscuring cloud in the foreground ~850+/-25pc from the Sun.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/419/249
- Title:
- RJHKs photometry of sigma Ori low-mass stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/419/249
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Coordinates and photometry of probable cluster members in the sigma Ori cluster. Time series observations of this cluster were carried out using the CCD cameras at the 2m Schmidt telescope of the Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (TLS) and the 1.23m telescope on Calar Alto (CA). From these images, we derived coordinates (columns 2 and 3) as well as photometry in the R- and I-band (columns 5 and 6). Additional near- infrared photometry in J, H, K comes from the 2MASS database (columns 7-9). The cluster member selection is based on (I,I-J) colour magnitude diagrams. The R-I and J-H colours were used to reject contaminating field stars. The column 4 indicates whether the object was identified with the CA photometry (c), the TLS photometry (t), or both. The masses given in column 10 were estimated by comparing the near-infrared photometry with the evolutionary tracks of Baraffe et al. (1998A&A...337..403B). These tracks cover the mass range from 0.02 to 1.4 solar masses, for some objects with lower or higher masses we give upper or lower mass limits. The last two columns contain information about the results of the time series analysis. Column 10 gives the RMS of the CA lightcurve for targets No 1-52 and the RMS of the TLS lightcurve for all others. The last column indicates whether the target is classified as variable (v) and/or periodically variable (p). For a few objects, time series analysis was not possible, because they are either too faint or too bright in most of the images.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/80
- Title:
- R Low-mass stars of beta Pic and AB Dor groups
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/143/80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of our continuing effort to identify new, low-mass members of nearby, young moving groups (NYMGs), we present a list of young, low-mass candidates in the northern hemisphere. We used our proven proper-motion selection procedure and ROSAT X-ray and GALEX-UV activity indicators to identify 204 young stars as candidate members of the {beta} Pictoris and AB Doradus NYMGs. Definitive membership assignment of a given candidate will require a measurement of its radial velocity and distance. We present a simple system of indices to characterize the young candidates and help prioritize follow-up observations. New group members identified in this candidate list will be high priority targets for (1) exoplanet direct imaging searches, (2) the study of post-T-Tauri astrophysics, (3) understanding recent local star formation, and (4) the study of local galactic kinematics. Information available now allows us to identify eight likely new members in the list. Two of these, a late-K and an early-M dwarf, we find to be likely members of the {beta} Pic group. The other six stars are likely members of the AB Dor moving group. These include an M dwarf triple system, and three very cool objects that may be young brown dwarfs, making them the lowest-mass, isolated objects proposed in the AB Dor moving group to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/1125
- Title:
- RMS survey: NIR spectroscopy of massive YSOs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/1125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Near-infrared H- and K-band spectra are presented for 247 objects, selected from the Red MSX Source (RMS) survey as potential young stellar objects (YSOs). 195 (~80%) of the targets are YSOs, of which 131 are massive YSOs (L_BOL_>5x10^3^L_{sun}_, M>8M_{sun}_). This is the largest spectroscopic study of massive YSOs to date, providing a valuable resource for the study of massive star formation. In this paper, we present our exploratory analysis of the data. The YSOs observed have a wide range of embeddedness (2.7<A_V_<114), demonstrating that this study covers minimally obscured objects right through to very red, dusty sources. Almost all YSOs show some evidence for emission lines, though there is a wide variety of observed properties. The most commonly detected lines are Br{gamma}, H_2_, fluorescent FeII, CO bandhead, [FeII] and HeI 2-1 1S-1P, in order of frequency of occurrence. In total, ~40% of the YSOs display either fluorescent FeII 1.6878{mu}m or CO bandhead emission (or both), indicative of a circumstellar disc; however, no correlation of the strength of these lines with bolometric luminosity was found. We also find that ~60% of the sources exhibit [FeII] or H_2_ emission, indicating the presence of an outflow. Three quarters of all sources have Br{gamma} in emission. A good correlation with bolometric luminosity was observed for both the Br{gamma} and H_2_ emission line strengths, covering 1<L_BOL_<3.5x10^5^L_{sun}_. This suggests that the emission mechanism for these lines is the same for low-, intermediate- and high-mass YSOs, i.e. high-mass YSOs appear to resemble scaled-up versions of low-mass YSOs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/476/1019
- Title:
- RMS survey of southern candidate massive YSOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/476/1019
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Red MSX Source (RMS) survey is an ongoing effort to return a large, well-selected sample of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) within our Galaxy. 2000 candidates have been colour-selected from the Mid-course Space Experiment (MSX) point source catalogue (PSC). A series of ground-based follow-up observations are being undertaken in order to remove contaminant objects (ultra-compact HII (UCHII) regions, planetary nebulae (PN), evolved stars), and to begin characterising these MYSOs. As a part of these follow-up observations, high resolution (~1") mid-IR imaging aids the identification of contaminant objects which are resolved (UCHII regions, PN) as opposed to those which are unresolved (YSOs, evolved stars) as well as identifying YSOs near UCHII regions and other multiple sources. We present 10.4{mu}m imaging observations for 346 candidate MYSOs in the RMS survey in the Southern Hemisphere, primarily outside the region covered by the GLIMPSE Spitzer Legacy Survey. These were obtained using TIMMI2 on the ESO 3.6m telescope in La Silla, Chile. Our photometric accuracy is of order 0.05Jy, and our astrometric accuracy is 0.8", which is an improvement over the nominal 2" accuracy of the MSX PSC.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/51
- Title:
- Robo-AO binary star systems in 3 open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify and roughly characterize 66 candidate binary star systems in the Pleiades, Praesepe, and NGC 2264 star clusters, based on robotic adaptive optics imaging data obtained using Robo-AO at the Palomar 60" telescope. Only ~10% of our imaged pairs were previously known. We detect companions at red optical wavelengths, with physical separations ranging from a few tens to a few thousands of au. A three-sigma contrast curve generated for each final image provides upper limits to the brightness ratios for any undetected putative companions. The observations are sensitive to companions with a maximum contrast of ~6^m^ at larger separations. At smaller separations, the mean (best) raw contrast at 2" is 3.8^m^ (6^m^), at 1" is 3.0^m^ (4.5^m^), and at 0.5" is 1.9^m^ (3^m^). Point-spread function subtraction can recover nearly the full contrast in the closer separations. For detected candidate binary pairs, we report separations, position angles, and relative magnitudes. Theoretical isochrones appropriate to the Pleiades and Praesepe clusters are then used to determine the corresponding binary mass ratios, which range from 0.2 to 0.9 in q=m_2_/m_1_. For our sample of roughly solar-mass (FGK type) stars in NGC 2264 and sub-solar-mass (K and early M-type) primaries in the Pleiades and Praesepe, the overall binary frequency is measured at ~15.5%+/-2%. However, this value should be considered a lower limit to the true binary fraction within the specified separation and mass ratio ranges in these clusters, given that complex and uncertain corrections for sensitivity and completeness have not been applied.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/34
- Title:
- Robo-AO Kepler asteroseismic survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/888/34
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 10:08:41
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Kepler Space Telescope observed over 15000 stars for asteroseismic studies. Of these, 75% of dwarfs (and 8% of giants) were found to show anomalous behavior, such as suppressed oscillations (low amplitude) or no oscillations at all. The lack of solar-like oscillations may be a consequence of multiplicity, due to physical interactions with spectroscopic companions or due to the dilution of oscillation amplitudes from "wide" (AO detected; visual) or spectroscopic companions introducing contaminating flux. We present a search for stellar companions to 327 of the Kepler asteroseismic sample, which were expected to display solar-like oscillations. We used direct imaging with Robo-AO, which can resolve secondary sources at ~0.15", and followed up detected companions with Keck AO. Directly imaged companion systems with both separations of <=0.5" and amplitude dilutions >10% all have anomalous primaries, suggesting these oscillation signals are diluted by a sufficient amount of excess flux. We also used the high-resolution spectrometer ESPaDOnS at the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope to search for spectroscopic binaries. We find tentative evidence for a higher fraction of spectroscopic binaries with high radial velocity scatter in anomalous systems, which would be consistent with previous results suggesting that oscillations are suppressed by tidal interactions in close eclipsing binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/18
- Title:
- Robo-AO Kepler planetary candidate survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We initiated the Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey in 2012 to observe each Kepler exoplanet candidate host star with high angular resolution, visible light, laser adaptive optics (AOs) imaging. Our goal is to find nearby stars lying in Kepler's photometric apertures that are responsible for the relatively high probability of false-positive exoplanet detections and that cause underestimates of the size of transit radii. Our comprehensive survey will also shed light on the effects of stellar multiplicity on exoplanet properties and will identify rare exoplanetary architectures. In this second part of our ongoing survey, we observed an additional 969 Kepler planet candidate hosts and we report blended stellar companions up to {Delta}m{approx}6 that contribute to Kepler's measured light curves. We found 203 companions within ~4'' of 181 of the Kepler stars, of which 141 are new discoveries. We measure the nearby star probability for this sample of Kepler planet candidate host stars to be 10.6%+/-1.1% at angular separations up to 2.5'', significantly higher than the 7.4%+/-1.0% probability discovered in our initial sample of 715 stars; we find the probability increases to 17.6%+/-1.5% out to a separation of 4.0''. The median position of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) observed in this survey are 1.1{deg} closer to the galactic plane, which may account for some of the nearby star probability enhancement. We additionally detail 50 Keck AO images of Robo-AO observed KOIs in order to confirm 37 companions detected at a <5{sigma} significance level and to obtain additional infrared photometry on higher significance detected companions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/799/4
- Title:
- Robo-AO observations of binary stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/799/4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We conducted a survey of nearby binary systems composed of main sequence stars of spectral types F and G in order to improve our understanding of the hierarchical nature of multiple star systems. Using Robo-AO, the first robotic adaptive optics instrument, we collected high angular resolution images with deep and well-defined detection limits in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey i' band. A total of 695 components belonging to 595 systems were observed. We prioritized observations of faint secondary components with separations over 10" to quantify the still poorly constrained frequency of their subsystems. Of the 214 secondaries observed, 39 contain such subsystems; 19 of those were discovered with Robo-AO. The selection-corrected frequency of secondary subsystems with periods from 10^3.5^ to 10^5^ days is 0.12+/-0.03, the same as the frequency of such companions to the primary. Half of the secondary pairs belong to quadruple systems where the primary is also a close pair, showing that the presence of subsystems in both components of the outer binary is correlated. The relatively large abundance of 2+2 quadruple systems is a new finding, and will require more exploration of the formation mechanism of multiple star systems. We also targeted close binaries with periods less than 100 yr, searching for their distant tertiary components, and discovered 17 certain and 2 potential new triples. In a subsample of 241 close binaries, 71 have additional outer companions. The overall frequency of tertiary components is not enhanced, compared to all (non-binary) targets, but in the range of outer periods from 10^6^ to 10^7.5^ days (separations on the order of 500AU), the frequency of tertiary components is 0.16+/-0.03, exceeding the frequency of similar systems among all targets (0.09) by almost a factor of two. Measurements of binary stars with Robo-AO allowed us to compute first orbits for 9 pairs and to improve orbits of another 11 pairs.
