- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/114/656
- Title:
- Stellar variability in field stars
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/114/656
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a 5 night wide-field time-series photometric survey that detects variable field stars. We find that the fraction of stars whose light curves show variations depends on color and magnitude, reaching 17% for the brightest stars in this survey (V~4) for which the photometric precision is best. The fraction of stars found to be variable is relatively high at colors bluer than the Sun and relatively low at colors similar to the Sun and increases again for stars redder than the Sun. We present light curves for a sample of the pulsating and eclipsing variables. Most of the stars identified as pulsating variables have low amplitudes ({Delta}V=0.01-0.05), relatively blue colors, and multiple periods. There are 13 stars we identify as either SX Phoenicis or {delta} Scuti stars. These classes represent a significant contribution to the total number of blue variables found in this survey. Another 17 stars are identified as eclipsing variables, which have a wide range in color, magnitude, and amplitude. Two variable giants are observed, and both show night-to-night ~1% variations. We present data for 222 variables in total, most of which are not classified. Implications of surveys for stellar variability and interferometry are briefly discussed. On 2000 March 16-20 UT we observed a time series of images in V and one or two images each in UBRI toward two 59'x59' fields using the NOAO Mosaic Camera at the Kitt Peak 0.9 m telescope.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/659/1241
- Title:
- Stellar variability in Galactic Center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/659/1241
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a diffraction-limited, photometric variability study of the central 5"x5" of the Galaxy conducted over the past 10-years using speckle imaging techniques on the W.M. Keck I 10 m telescope. Within our limiting magnitude of m_K_<16mag for images made from a single night of data, we find a minimum of 15K[2.2um]-band variable stars out of 131 monitored stars. The only periodic source in our sample is the previously identified variable IRS 16SW, for which we measure an orbital period of 19.448+/-0.002-days.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/725/480
- Title:
- Stellar X-ray sources in the COSMOS survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/725/480
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of a sample of solar- and late-type field stars identified in the Chandra Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a deep (160ks) and wide (~0.9deg^2^) extragalactic survey. The sample of 60 sources was identified using both morphological and photometric star/galaxy separation methods. We determine X-ray count rates, extract spectra and light curves, and perform spectral fits to determine fluxes and plasma temperatures. Complementary optical and near-IR photometry is also presented and combined with spectroscopy for 48 of the sources to determine spectral types and distances for the sample. We find distances ranging from 30pc to ~12kpc, including a number of the most distant and highly active stellar X-ray sources ever detected. Overall the sample is typically more luminous than the active Sun, representing the high-luminosity end of the disk and halo X-ray luminosity functions. The halo population appears to include both low-activity spectrally hard sources that may be emitting through thermal bremsstrahlung, as well as a number of highly active sources in close binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/402/963
- Title:
- Stephenson H{alpha} stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/402/963
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of spectroscopic observations for 52 objects from the list of H{alpha} emission stars of Stephenson (1986ApJ...300..779S). Out of six known T Tauri stars observed, five showed H{alpha} in emission and in one (StHa 40), H{alpha} changed from being in absorption to emission over a period of two years, accompanied by photometric and spectral type variability. We confirm the T Tauri nature of one Stephenson object (StHa 48) on the basis of the presence of H{alpha} and H{beta} in emission, Li I {lambda}6708 in absorption, infrared excess and X-ray emission. Among the 52 objects observed, there were other emission line objects: 1 Ke star, 1 BQ[] star, 2 galaxies and 2 Be stars. We present a higher-resolution spectrum of StHa 62 showing permitted and forbidden lines in emission typical of BQ[] stars. Twenty five out of 30 newly observed objects failed to show H{alpha} in emission. We also present 2MASS observations for 112 StHa objects. We suggest three Stephenson objects (StHa 52, 125 and 129) to be YSOs on the basis of 2MASS, IRAS and ROSAT observations. These and all other known YSOs amongst StHa stars are found in regions of star-forming clouds in Taurus, Orion and Ophiuchus. YSOs at high galactic latitudes in other parts of the sky are therefore rare.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/143/409
- Title:
- Stock 2 CCD photometry and proper motions
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/143/409
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the first CCD BVRI photometric and proper motion study of late-type stars in the young open cluster Stock 2. Twenty-one fields of approximately 5'x5' size have been observed photometrically, from which we have identified 118 candidate members based on their positions on colour-magnitude diagrams relative to theoretical isochrones. From a comparison of the known star density of the Pleiades, we estimate the contamination of this selection process due to background stars to be as large as ~50%. However, only 22 of those 118 candidate members have proper motions consistent with membership, suggesting that the contamination is of the order of 80%. Additional candidate members were found by means of a proper motion analysis of Schmidt plate material for a 3{deg}x3{ deg} field containing the cluster. The cluster proper motion allows us to separate members from background and foreground stars. We have found 634 stars with a membership probability >=50% down to a limiting magnitude of B=~20, corresponding to late-M dwarfs at the distance of Stock 2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/850/66
- Title:
- Stripe 82X survey multiwavelength catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/850/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Multiwavelength surveys covering large sky volumes are necessary to obtain an accurate census of rare objects such as high-luminosity and/or high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Stripe 82X is a 31.3 X-ray survey with Chandra and XMM-Newton observations overlapping the legacy Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 field, which has a rich investment of multiwavelength coverage from the ultraviolet to the radio. The wide-area nature of this survey presents new challenges for photometric redshifts for AGNs compared to previous work on narrow-deep fields because it probes different populations of objects that need to be identified and represented in the library of templates. Here we present an updated X-ray plus multiwavelength matched catalog, including Spitzer counterparts, and estimated photometric redshifts for 5961 (96% of a total of 6181) X-ray sources that have a normalized median absolute deviation, {sigma}_nmad_=0.06, and an outlier fraction, {eta}=13.7%. The populations found in this survey and the template libraries used for photometric redshifts provide important guiding principles for upcoming large-area surveys such as eROSITA and 3XMM (in X-ray) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (optical).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/439/788
- Title:
- Stromgren and Washington photometry in Boo I
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/439/788
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new Stromgren and Washington data sets for the Bootes I dwarf galaxy, and combine them with the available Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry. The goal of this project is to refine a ground-based, practical, accurate method to determine age and metallicity for individual stars in Bootes I that can be selected in an unbiased imaging survey, without having to take spectra. With few bright upper red giant branch stars and distances of about 35-250kpc, the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UDFs) present observational challenges in characterizing their stellar population. Other recent studies have produced spectra and proper motions, making Bootes I an ideal test case for our photometric methods. We produce photometric metallicities from Stromgren and Washington photometry, for stellar systems with a range of -1.0>[Fe/H]>-3.5. Needing to avoid the collapse of the metallicity sensitivity of the Stromgren m1-index on the lower red giant branch, we replace the Stromgren v filter with the broader Washington C filter to minimize observing time. We construct two indices: m*=(C-T1)0-(T1-T2)0 and m**=(C-b)0-(b-y)0. We find that CT1by is the most successful filter combination, for individual stars with [Fe/H] < -2.0, to maintain ~0.2dex [Fe/H]-resolution over the whole red giant branch. The m**-index would be the best choice for space-based observations because the (C-y) colour is not sufficient to fix metallicity alone in an understudied system. Our photometric metallicites of stars in the central regions of Bootes I confirm that there is a metallicity spread of at least -1.9>[Fe/H]>-3.7. The best-fitting Dartmouth isochrones give a mean age, for all the Bootes I stars in our data set, of 11.5+/-0.4Gyr. From ground-based telescopes, we show that the optimal filter combination is CT1by, avoiding the v filter entirely. We demonstrate that we can break the isochrones' age-metallicity degeneracy with the CT1by filters, using stars with logg=2.5-3.0, which have less than a 2percent change in their (C-T1) colour due to age, over a range of 10^-14^Gyr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/706/1277
- Title:
- Stromgren photometry in {omega} Cen
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/706/1277
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new intermediate-band Stromgren photometry based on more than 300 u, v, b, y images of the Galactic globular cluster {omega} Cen. Optical data were supplemented with new multiband near-infrared (NIR) photometry (350 J, H, Ks images). The final optical-NIR catalog covers a region of more than 20x20arcmin squared across the cluster center. We use different optical-NIR color-color planes together with proper-motion data available in the literature to identify candidate cluster red-giant (RG) stars. By adopting different Stromgren metallicity indices, we estimate the photometric metallicity for ~4000 RGs, the largest sample ever collected. We identify four distinct subpopulations, namely, MP ([Fe/H]<=-1.49), metal-intermediate (MI; -1.49<[Fe/H]<=-0.93), metal-rich (MR; -0.95<[Fe/H]<=-0.15), and solar metallicity ([Fe/H]~0). The last group includes only a small fraction of stars (~8%+/-5%) and should be confirmed spectroscopically. Moreover, using the difference in metallicity based on different photometric indices, we find that the 19%+/-1% of RGs are candidate CN-strong stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/243/17
- Title:
- Strong DES lens candidates from neural networks
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/243/17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We search Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 imaging for galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural networks, extending previous work with new training sets and covering a wider range of redshifts and colors. We train two neural networks using images of simulated lenses, then use them to score postage-stamp images of 7.9 million sources from DES chosen to have plausible lens colors based on simulations. We examine 1175 of the highest-scored candidates and identify 152 probable or definite lenses. Examining an additional 20000 images with lower scores, we identify a further 247 probable or definite candidates. After including 86 candidates discovered in earlier searches using neural networks and 26 candidates discovered through visual inspection of blue-near-red objects in the DES catalog, we present a catalog of 511 lens candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/654/A135
- Title:
- 12 strong galactic bars CO spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/654/A135
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- While some galactic bars show recent massive star formation (SF) along them, some others present a lack of it. Whether bars with low level of SF are a consequence of low star formation efficiency, low gas inflow rate, or dynamical effects, remains a matter of debate. In order to study the physical conditions that enable or prevent SF, we perform a multi-wavelength analysis of 12 strongly barred galaxies with total stellar masses log10(M*/M_{sun}_){in}[10.2,11], chosen to host different degrees of SF along the bar major axis without any prior condition on gas content. We observe the CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission within bars with the IRAM-30m telescope (beam sizes of 1.7-3.9kpc and 0.9-2.0kpc, respectively; 7-8 pointings per galaxy on average). We estimate molecular gas masses (Mmol) from the CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emissions. SF rates (SFR) are calculated from GALEX near-ultraviolet (UV) and WISE 12um images within the beam-pointings, covering the full bar extent (SFRs are also derived from far-UV and 22um). Results. We detect molecular gas along the bars of all probed galaxies. Molecular gas and SFR surface densities span the ranges log10({Sigma}_mol_/[M_{sun}_/pc^2^]){in}[0.4,2.4] and log10({Sigma}_SFR_/[M_{sun}_/pc/kpc^2^]){in}[-3.25,-0.75], respectively. The star formation efficiency (SFE=SFR/Mmol) in bars varies between galaxies by up to an order of magnitude (SFE{in}[0.1,1.8]Gyr^-1^). On average, SFEs are roughly constant along bars. SFEs are not significantly different from the mean value in spiral galaxies reported in the literature (~0.43Gyr^-1^), regardless of whether we estimate Mmol from CO(1-0) or CO(2-1). Interestingly, the higher the total stellar mass of the host galaxy, the lower the SFE within their bars. In particular, the two galaxies in our sample with lowest SFE and {Sigma}_SFR_ (NGC 4548 and NGC 5850, SFE<=0.25Gyr^-1^, {Sigma}_SFR_<=10^-2.25^M_{sun}_/yr/kpc^2^, M*<=10^10.7^M_{sun}_) are also the ones hosting massive bulges and signs of past interactions with nearby companions. We present a statistical analysis of the SFE in bars for a sample of 12 galaxies. The SFE in strong bars is not systematically inhibited (either in the central, mid- or end-parts of the bar). Both environmental and internal quenching are likely responsible for the lowest SFEs reported in this work.
