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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/572/A116
- Title:
- The VISTA Carina Nebula Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/572/A116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Carina Nebula is one of the most massive and active star-forming regions in our Galaxy and has been studied with numerous multiwavelength observations in the past five years. However, most of these studies were restricted to the inner parts (<=1 square-degree) of the nebula, and thus covered only a small fraction of the whole cloud complex. Our aim was to conduct a near-infrared survey that covers the full spatial extent (~5 square-degrees) of the Carina Nebula complex and is sensitive enough to detect all associated young stars through extinctions of up to A_V_~~6mag. We used the 4m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) of ESO to map an area of 6.7 square-degrees around the Carina Nebula in the near-infrared J-, H-, Ks-bands.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/367
- Title:
- The VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) catalog DR5
- Short Name:
- II/367
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This multi-band source catalogue provides aperture photometry in four near infrared broad-band filters: Y, J, H and Ks for almost 1.4 billion detections. The total coverage of the VHS survey is almost 17000 square degrees in the South Hemisphere.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/359
- Title:
- The VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) catalog DR4.1
- Short Name:
- II/359
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The first Galactic and extragalactic results from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) are presented. The aim of the VHS is to carry out a near-infrared survey which, when combined with other VISTA public surveys, will result in coverage of the whole southern celestial hemisphere (~20000deg^2^) to a depth 30 times fainter than the Two Micron All Sky Survey in at least two wavebands (J and Ks). The VHS vision includes a deep optical survey over the same area and this is now being realised with the VST surveys and the Dark Energy Survey, which has recently started. A summary of the survey progress is presented, with some follow-up results on low-mass stars and high-redshift quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/21
- Title:
- The VMC survey. XIX. Classical Cepheids in SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/224/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The "VISTA near-infrared YJK_s_ survey of the Magellanic Clouds System" (VMC) is collecting deep K_s_-band time-series photometry of pulsating variable stars hosted by the two Magellanic Clouds and their connecting Bridge. In this paper, we present Y, J, K_s_ light curves for a sample of 4172 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Classical Cepheids (CCs). These data, complemented with literature V values, allowed us to construct a variety of period-luminosity (PL), period-luminosity-color (PLC), and period-Wesenheit (PW) relationships, which are valid for Fundamental (F), First Overtone (FO), and Second Overtone (SO) pulsators. The relations involving the V, J, K_s_ bands are in agreement with their counterparts in the literature. As for the Y band, to our knowledge, we present the first CC PL, PW, and PLC relations ever derived using this filter. We also present the first near-infrared PL, PW, and PLC relations for SO pulsators to date. We used PW(V, K_s_) to estimate the relative SMC-LMC distance and, in turn, the absolute distance to the SMC. For the former quantity, we find a value of {Delta}{mu}=0.55+/-0.04mag, which is in rather good agreement with other evaluations based on CCs, but significantly larger than the results obtained from older population II distance indicators. This discrepancy might be due to the different geometric distributions of young and old tracers in both Clouds. As for the absolute distance to the SMC, our best estimates are {mu}_SMC_=19.01+/-0.05mag and {mu}_SMC_=19.04+/-0.06mag, based on two distance measurements to the LMC which rely on accurate CC and eclipsing Cepheid binary data, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/864/11
- Title:
- The VVV Variables (V^4^) catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/864/11
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Time-varying phenomena are one of the most substantial sources of astrophysical information, and their study has led to many fundamental discoveries in modern astronomy. We have developed an automated tool to search for and analyze variable sources in the near-infrared Ks band using the data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Large Survey. This process relies on the characterization of variable sources using different variability indices calculated from time series generated with point-spread function (PSF) photometry of sources under analysis. In particular, we used two main indices, the total amplitude {Delta}Ks and the eta index {eta}, to identify variable sources. Once the variable objects are identified, periods are determined with generalized Lomb-Scargle periodograms and the information potential metric. Variability classes are assigned according to a compromise between comparisons with VVV templates and the period of the variability. The automated tool is applied on VVV tiles d001 and d002 and led to the discovery of 200 variable sources. We detected 70 irregular variable sources and 130 periodic ones. In addition, nine open-cluster candidates projected in the region are analyzed, and the infrared variable candidates found around these clusters are further scrutinized by cross-matching their locations against emission star candidates from VPHAS+ survey H{alpha} color cuts.
2367. The WIRED survey. II.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/197/38
- Title:
- The WIRED survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/197/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- With the launch of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a new era of detecting planetary debris and brown dwarfs (BDs) around white dwarfs (WDs) has begun with the WISE InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED) Survey. The WIRED Survey is sensitive to substellar objects and dusty debris around WDs out to distances exceeding 100pc, well beyond the completeness level of local WDs. In this paper, we present a cross-correlation of the preliminary Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) WD catalog between the WISE, Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), and SDSS DR7 photometric catalogs. From ~18000 input targets, there are WISE detections comprising 344 "naked" WDs (detection of the WD photosphere only), 1020 candidate WD+M dwarf binaries, 42 candidate WD+BD systems, 52 candidate WD+dust disk systems, and 69 targets with indeterminate infrared excess. We classified all of the detected targets through spectral energy distribution model fitting of the merged optical, near-IR, and WISE photometry. Some of these detections could be the result of contaminating sources within the large (~6") WISE point-spread function; we make a preliminary estimate for the rates of contamination for our WD+BD and WD+disk candidates and provide notes for each target of interest.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/234/23
- Title:
- The WISE AGN candidates catalogs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/234/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present two large catalogs of active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates identified across 30,093deg^2^ of extragalactic sky from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer's AllWISE Data Release. Both catalogs are selected purely using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) W1 and W2 bands. The R90 catalog consists of 4,543,530 AGN candidates with 90% reliability, while the C75 catalog consists of 20,907,127 AGN candidates with 75% completeness. These reliability and completeness figures were determined from a detailed analysis of UV- to near-IR spectral energy distributions of ~10^5^ sources in the 9deg^2^ Bootes field. The AGN selection criteria are based on those of Assef+ (2013, J/ApJ/772/26) recalibrated to the AllWISE data release. We provide a detailed discussion of potential artifacts and excise portions of the sky close to the Galactic Center, Galactic Plane, nearby galaxies, and other expected contaminating sources. These catalogs are expected to enable a broad range of science, and we present a few illustrative cases. From the R90 sample, we identify 45 highly variable AGNs lacking radio counterparts in the FIRST survey. One of these sources, WISEA J142846.71+172353.1, is a changing-look quasar at z=0.104, which has changed from having broad H{alpha} to being a narrow-lined AGN. We characterize our catalogs by comparing them to large, wide-area AGN catalogs in the literature. We identify four ROSAT X-ray sources that are each matched to three WISE-selected AGNs in the R90 sample within 30". Spectroscopy reveals that one of these systems, 2RXS J150158.6+691029, consists of a triplet of quasars at z=1.133+/-0.004, suggestive of a rich group or forming galaxy cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/716/348
- Title:
- The XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/716/348
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the final optical identifications of the medium-depth (~60ks), contiguous (2deg^2^) XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field. XMM-Newton has detected ~1800 X-ray sources down to limiting fluxes of ~5x10^-16^, ~3x10^-15^, and ~7x10^-15^erg/cm^2^/s in the 0.5-2keV, 2-10keV, and 5-10keV bands, respectively (~1x10^-15^, ~6x10^-15^, and ~1x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s, in the three bands, respectively, over 50% of the area). The work is complemented by an extensive collection of multiwavelength data from 24um to UV, available from the COSMOS survey, for each of the X-ray sources, including spectroscopic redshifts for >~50% of the sample, and high-quality photometric redshifts for the rest. The XMM and multiwavelength flux limits are well matched: 1760 (98%) of the X-ray sources have optical counterparts, 1711 (~95%) have IRAC counterparts, and 1394 (~78%) have MIPS 24um detections. Spectroscopically identified obscured and unobscured AGNs, as well as normal and star-forming galaxies, present well-defined optical and infrared properties. We devised a robust method to identify a sample of ~150 high-redshift (z>1), obscured AGN candidates for which optical spectroscopy is not available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/497/736
- Title:
- The young cluster IC 348.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/497/736
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD photometry in BVRI was obtained for about 260 stars in and around IC 348, and multiobject spectroscopy for 80 of these. A somewhat larger region was surveyed for stars having H{alpha} in emission; over 110 emission-line stars brighter than about R=19 were discovered. Because H{alpha}emission could be detected to a limit near W=3{AA}, division into weak-line (WTTSs) and classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) was possible on purely spectroscopic grounds. There is a steep rise in the number of emission-line stars below W(H{alpha})=10{AA}; the proportion of WTTSs to CTTSs in the area surveyed is 58:51. ROSAT detected only about 58% of the spectroscopic WTTSs and about 65% of the CTTSs, although these numbers are sensitive to the survey thresholds. The bulk of the ages of about 100 stars, read off the theoretical tracks of D'Antona & Mazzitelli (1994ApJS...90..467D), range between about 0.7 and 12Myr, but the emission-line stars, which are most likely to be members of IC 348, have a mean age of 1.3Myr. Allowance for unresolved binaries would increase this somewhat, but there is a firm upper limit at 2.95Myr. There is no indication that the ages of the emission-line stars depend upon W(H{alpha}): the IC 348 WTTSs as a population are not systematically older than the CTTSs, but there is a tendency for the WTTSs to be concentrated toward the center of IC 348, while the CTTSs are more widely distributed. There is a scattering of emission-H{alpha} stars over the entire area surveyed. There are too many to be explained as low-mass members of an earlier generation of star formation in Per OB2 or as foreground dMe stars. The mass frequency function, based on some 125 stars fitted to theoretical tracks, rises from 1.5M_{sun}_; to about 0.2M_{sun}_;, with a slope very much like that of the Scalo initial mass function. The optical cluster IC 348 radius is about 4.0', or 0.37pc. The total mass of optically detectable stars in this volume is 57M_{sun}_;, while the mean space density is about 520 stars/pc^3^. The amount of interstellar material remaining within the cluster is small in comparison. Star formation in the Per OB2/IC 348 region cannot be characterized by one unique age; it appears that stars have been forming in the region now occupied by the association for 10-20Myr.
