- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/211/22
- Title:
- Updated photometry for star clusters in M33
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/211/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The photometric characterization of M33 star clusters is far from complete. In this paper, we present homogeneous UBVRI photometry of 708 star clusters and cluster candidates in M33 based on archival images from the Local Group Galaxies Survey, which covers 0.8deg^2^ along the galaxy's major axis. Our photometry includes 387, 563, 616, 580, and 478 objects in the UBVRI bands, respectively, of which 276, 405, 430, 457, and 363 do not have previously published UBVRI photometry. Our photometry is consistent with previous measurements (where available) in all filters. We adopted Sloan Digital Sky Survey ugriz photometry for complementary purposes, as well as Two Micron All Sky Survey near-infrared JHK photometry where available. We fitted the spectral-energy distributions of 671 star clusters and candidates to derive their ages, metallicities, and masses based on the updated PARSEC simple stellar populations synthesis models. The results of our {chi}^2^ minimization routines show that only 205 of the 671 clusters (31%) are older than 2Gyr, which represents a much smaller fraction of the cluster population than that in M31 (56%), suggesting that M33 is dominated by young star clusters (<1Gyr).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/3061
- Title:
- uz,vz,bz,yz photometry in Coma cluster
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/124/3061
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have observed three fields of the Coma Cluster of galaxies with a narrowband (modified Stroemgren) filter system. Observed galaxies include 31 in the vicinity of NGC 4889, 48 near NGC 4874, and 60 near NGC 4839, complete to M_5500_=-18 in all three subclusters. Spectrophotometric classification finds all three subclusters of Coma to be dominated by red, E-type (elliptical/S0) galaxies with a mean blue fraction, f_B_, of 0.10.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/398/141
- Title:
- Vertical distribution of galactic disk stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/398/141
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Nearly 400 Tycho-2 (Cat. <I/259>) stars have been observed in a 720 square degree field in the direction of the North Galactic Pole with the high resolution echelle spectrograph ELODIE. Absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures, gravities and metallicities have been estimated, as well as distances and 3D velocities. Most of these stars are clump giants and span typical distances from 200pc to 800pc to the galactic mid-plane. This new sample, free of any kinematical and metallicity bias, is used to investigate the vertical distribution of disk stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/180
- Title:
- Very metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's halo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/788/180
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the kinematics and orbital properties of a sample of 323 very metal-poor stars in the halo system of the Milky Way, selected from the high-resolution spectroscopic follow-up studies of Aoki et al. (2013, J/AJ/145/13) and Yong et al (2013, J/ApJ/762/26). The combined sample contains a significant fraction of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars (22% or 29%, depending on whether a strict or relaxed criterion is applied for this definition). Barium abundances (or upper limits) are available for the great majority of the CEMP stars, allowing for their separation into the CEMP-s and CEMP-no subclasses. A new method to assign membership to the inner- and outer-halo populations of the Milky Way is developed, making use of the integrals of motion, and applied to determine the relative fractions of CEMP stars in these two subclasses for each halo component. Although limited by small-number statistics, the data suggest that the inner halo of the Milky Way exhibits a somewhat higher relative number of CEMP-s stars than CEMP-no stars (57% versus 43%), while the outer halo possesses a clearly higher fraction of CEMP-no stars than CEMP-s stars (70% versus 30%). Although larger samples of CEMP stars with known Ba abundances are required, this result suggests that the dominant progenitors of CEMP stars in the two halo components were different; massive stars for the outer halo, and intermediate-mass stars in the case of the inner halo.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/459/423
- Title:
- VI and [Fe/H] of Fornax dSph RGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/459/423
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the DART imaging and CaII triplet (CaT) survey of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) at ESO. We collected hundreds of low resolution spectra of Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars in the CaT region, using VLT/FLAMES in Medusa mode, with the GIRAFFE spectrograph (grating LR8, resolving power R~6500). We list the results for the targets with a S/N per Angstrom >10 and an error in velocity <5km/s, because we found this to be the minimum for an accurate determination of velocity and equivalent width. We checked the sample to weed out any spurious object (e.g., broken fibres, background galaxies, foreground stars, spectra not consistent with RGBs). We use a 2.5sigma cut from the system velocity to derive which stars are probable velocity members of the Fornax dSph. We transform the equivalent width of the CaT lines of probable velocity members into metallicity ([Fe/H]) using the relation derived by Rutledge et al. (1997PASP..109..907R) and combining the CaT lines as in Tolstoy et al. (2001MNRAS.327..918T). The errors in [Fe/H] are based on S/N computations and adjusted to agree with repeated measurements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/443/413
- Title:
- VIKs photometry of NGC4365 globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/443/413
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This table lists VIKs photometry for compact objects in the giant Virgo elliptical NGC 4365. The majority of these objects are globular clusters. V and I magnitudes are measured on images taken with the FORS1 instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope, while the K magnitudes are from the SOFI imager on the ESO New Technology Telescope. No correction for foreground extinction has been applied to the photometry in the table.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/51
- Title:
- VR CCD photometry of variable stars in the GC NGC 4147
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a search for variable stars in a region of the globular cluster NGC 4147 based on photometric observations with a 4Kx4K CCD imager mounted at the axial port of the recently installed 3.6 m Devasthal optical telescope (DOT) at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, India. We performed time series photometry of NGC 4147 in the V and R bands, and identified 42 periodic variables in the region of NGC 4147, 28 of which have been detected for the first time. Seventeen variable stars are located within the half-light radius ~<0.48', of which 10 stars are newly identified variables. Two of the 10 variables are located within the core radius ~<0.09'. Based on their location in the V/(V-R) color-magnitude diagram and variability characteristics, seven, eight, five, and one newly identified probable member variables are classified as RRc, EA/E, EW, and SX Phe, respectively. The metallicity of NGC 4147 estimated from the light curves of RRab and RRc stars with the help of Fourier decomposition is found to be characteristic of Oosterhoff II. The distance derived using the light curves of RRab stars is consistent with that obtained from the observed V/(V-R) color-magnitude diagram.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/840
- Title:
- VRI photometry of Fornax red giants
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/840
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Near-infrared spectra were obtained for 117 red giants in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the FORS1 spectrograph on the VLT, in order to study the metallicity distribution of the stars and to lift the age-metallicity degeneracy of the red giant branch (RGB) in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD). Metallicities are derived from the equivalent widths of the infrared calcium triplet lines at 8498, 8542, and 8662{AA} calibrated with data from globular clusters, the open cluster M67, and the LMC. For a substantial portion of the sample, the strength of the calcium triplet is unexpectedly high, clearly indicating that the main stellar population of Fornax is significantly more metal-rich than could be inferred from the position of its RGB in the CMD.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/179
- Title:
- VVV Survey RR Lyr stars in Southern Galactic plane
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/179
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deep near-IR images from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) Survey were used to search for RR Lyrae stars in the Southern Galactic plane. A sizable sample of 404 RR Lyrae of type ab stars was identified across a thin slice of the fourth Galactic quadrant (295{deg}<l<350{deg}, -2.24{deg}<b<-1.05{deg}). The sample's distance distribution exhibits a maximum density that occurs at the bulge tangent point, which implies that this primarily Oosterhoff type I population of RRab stars does not trace the bar delineated by their red clump counterparts. The bulge RR Lyrae population does not extend beyond l~340{deg}, and the sample's spatial distribution presents evidence of density enhancements and substructure that warrants further investigation. Indeed, the sample may be employed to evaluate Galactic evolution models, and is particularly lucrative since half of the discovered RR Lyrae are within reach of Gaia astrometric observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A138
- Title:
- XSL atmospheric parameters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/627/A138
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is an empirical stellar library at medium spectral resolution covering the wavelength range from 3000 to 24800 angstrom. This library aims to provide a benchmark for stellar population studies. In this work, we present a uniform set of stellar atmospheric parameters, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and iron abundances for 754 spectra of 616 XSL stars. We used the full-spectrum fitting package ULySS with the empirical MILES library as reference to fit the ultraviolet-blue (UVB) and visible (VIS) spectra. We tested the internal consistency and we compared our results with compilations from the literature. The stars cover a range of effective temperature 2900<Teff<38000K, surface gravity 0<logg<5.7, and iron abundance -2.5<[Fe/H]<+1.0, with a couple of stars extending down to [Fe/H]=-3.9. The precisions of the measurements for the G- and K-type stars are 0.9%, 0.14, and 0.06 in Teff, log g and [Fe/H], respectively. For the cool giants with logg<1, the precisions are 2.1%, 0.21, and 0.22, and for the other cool stars these values are 1%, 0.14, and 0.10. For the hotter stars (Teff>6500K), these values are 2.6%, 0.20, and 0.10 for the three parameters.
