- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/44
- Title:
- Mira-like variables from the KELT survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 4132 Mira-like variables (red variables with long periods and high amplitudes) in the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) survey. Of these, 376 are new Mira-like detections. We used Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) colors to identify candidate asymptotic giant branch stars. We searched for photometric variability among the candidate asymptotic giant branch stars and identified stars that show periodic variability. We selected variables with high amplitudes and strong periodic behavior using a Random Forest classifier. Of the sample of 4132 Mira-like variables, we estimate that 70% are Miras and 30% are semiregular (SR) variables. We also adopt the method of using (W_RP_-W_Ks_) versus (J-Ks) colors in distinguishing between O-rich and C-rich Miras and find it to be an improvement over 2MASS colors.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/800/80
- Title:
- MIR properties of galaxies in A2199 at z~0.03
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/800/80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the mid-infrared (MIR) properties of the galaxies in the A2199 supercluster at z=0.03 to understand the star formation activity of galaxy groups and clusters in the supercluster environment. Using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data, we find no dependence of mass-normalized integrated star formation rates of galaxy groups/clusters on their virial masses. We classify the supercluster galaxies into three classes in the MIR color-luminosity diagram: MIR blue cloud (massive, quiescent, and mostly early-type), MIR star-forming sequence (mostly late-type), and MIR green valley galaxies. These MIR green valley galaxies are distinguishable from the optical green valley galaxies in the sense that they belong to the optical red sequence. We find that the fraction of each MIR class does not depend on the virial mass of each group/cluster. We compare the cumulative distributions of surface galaxy number density and cluster/group-centric distance for the three MIR classes. MIR green valley galaxies show the distribution between MIR blue cloud and MIR star-forming (SF) sequence galaxies. However, if we fix galaxy morphology, early- and late-type MIR green valley galaxies show different distributions. Our results suggest a possible evolutionary scenario of these galaxies: (1) late-type MIR SF sequence galaxies --> (2) late-type MIR green valley galaxies --> (3) early-type MIR green valley galaxies --> (4) early-type MIR blue cloud galaxies. In this sequence, the star formation of galaxies is quenched before the galaxies enter the MIR green valley, and then morphological transformation occurs in the MIR green valley.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/791/113
- Title:
- MIR-selected quasar parameters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/791/113
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We provide a catalog of 391 mid-infrared-selected (MIR; 24 {mu}m) broad-emission-line (BEL; type 1) quasars in the 22 deg^2^ SWIRE Lockman Hole field. This quasar sample is selected in the MIR from Spitzer MIPS with S_24_> 400 {mu}Jy, jointly with an optical magnitude limit of r(AB) < 22.5 for broad line identification. The catalog is based on MMT and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopy to select BEL quasars, extending the SDSS coverage to fainter magnitudes and lower redshifts, and recovers a more complete quasar population. The MIR-selected quasar sample peaks at z ~ 1.4 and recovers a significant and constant (20%) fraction of extended objects with SDSS photometry across magnitudes, which were not included in the SDSS quasar survey dominated by point sources. This sample also recovers a significant population of z < 3 quasars at i > 19.1. We then investigate the continuum luminosity and line profiles of these MIR quasars, and estimate their virial black hole masses and the Eddington ratios. The supermassive black hole mass shows evidence of downsizing, although the Eddington ratios remain constant at 1 < z < 4. Compared to point sources in the same redshift range, extended sources at z < 1 show systematically lower Eddington ratios. The catalog and spectra are publicly available online.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/1831
- Title:
- M67 Kepler/K2 variable stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/1831
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the third paper of this series we continue the exploitation of Kepler/K2 data in dense stellar fields using our PSF-based method. This work is focused on a ~720-arcmin^2^ region centred on the Solar-metallicity and Solar-age open cluster M 67. We extracted light curves for all detectable sources in the Kepler channels 13 and 14, adopting our technique based on the usage of a high-angular-resolution input catalogue and target-neighbour subtraction. We detrended light curves for systematic errors, and searched for variables and exoplanets using several tools. We found 451 variables, of which 299 are new detection. Three planetary candidates were detected by our pipeline in this field. Raw and detrended light curves, catalogues, and K2 stacked images used in this work will be released to the community.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/69
- Title:
- MK, UBV Time and Latitude Stars
- Short Name:
- V/69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- MK spectral classifications are given for 591 stars which are used for time and latitude observations at Mizusawa and Washington. The classifications in the MK system were made by slit spectrograms of dispersion 73 A/mm at H-gamma which were taken with the 91cm reflector at the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. Photometric observations in UBV were made with the 1-meter reflector at the Flagstaff Station of U.S. Naval Observatory.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/154/623
- Title:
- M31 Long Period Variables : Photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/154/623
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A significant fraction of the disk of M31 has been surveyed for long-period variable stars. We report the results, including near-infrared photometry of almost 2000 variables, and light curves in the i band. The period-luminosity relation suggests that most of the variables are asymptotic giant branch stars, and their luminosity function can be understood in terms of mass-loss rates, which increase with increasing luminosity on the giant branch, and star formation rates, which were a few times higher a billion years ago in M31 than they are today. We see some supergiant long-period variables, but somewhat fewer than expected based on their frequency in M33, and confined to the ring of star formation in M31 seen in the IRAS and 2MASS surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/231
- Title:
- MLSDSS-GaiaDR2 sample of M and L dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/231
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 74216 M and L dwarfs constructed from two existing catalogs of cool dwarfs spectroscopically identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We cross-matched the SDSS catalog with Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345) to obtain parallaxes and proper motions and modified the quality cuts suggested by the Gaia Collaboration to make them suitable for late-M and L dwarfs. We also provide relations between Gaia colors and absolute magnitudes with spectral type and conclude that (G-G_RP_) has the tightest relation to spectral type for M and L dwarfs. In addition, we study magnetic activity as a function of position on the color-magnitude diagram, finding that H{alpha} magnetically active stars have, on average, redder colors and/or brighter magnitudes than inactive stars. This effect cannot be explained by youth alone and might indicate that active stars are magnetically inflated, binaries, and/or high metallicity. Moreover, we find that vertical velocity and vertical action dispersion are correlated with H{alpha} emission, confirming that these two parameters are age indicators. We also find that stars below the main sequence have high tangential velocity, which is consistent with a low metallicity and old population of stars that belong to the halo or thick disk.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/810/158
- Title:
- M,L,T dwarfs fundamental parameters and SEDs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/810/158
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine optical, near-infrared, and mid-infrared spectra and photometry to construct expanded spectral energy distributions for 145 field age (>500 Myr) and 53 young (lower age estimate <500 Myr) ultracool dwarfs (M6-T9). This range of spectral types includes very low mass stars, brown dwarfs, and planetary mass objects, providing fundamental parameters across both the hydrogen and deuterium burning minimum masses for the largest sample assembled to date. A subsample of 29 objects have well constrained ages as probable members of a nearby young moving group. We use 182 parallaxes and 16 kinematic distances to determine precise bolometric luminosities (L_bol_) and radius estimates from evolutionary models give semi-empirical effective temperatures (T_eff_) for the full range of young and field age late-M, L, and T dwarfs. We construct age-sensitive relationships of luminosity, temperature, and absolute magnitude as functions of spectral type and absolute magnitude to disentangle the effects of degenerate physical parameters such as T_eff_, surface gravity, and clouds on spectral morphology. We report bolometric corrections in J for both field age and young objects and find differences of up to a magnitude for late-L dwarfs. Our correction in Ks shows a larger dispersion but not necessarily a different relationship for young and field age sequences. We also characterize the NIR-MIR reddening of low gravity L dwarfs and identify a systematically cooler T_eff_ of up to 300 K from field age objects of the same spectral type and 400 K cooler from field age objects of the same M_H_ magnitude.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/A133
- Title:
- M45, M44 and M67 flare stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/622/A133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The presence and strength of a stellar magnetic field and activity is rooted in a star's fundamental parameters such as mass and age. Can flares serve as an accurate stellar "clock"? To explore if we can quantify an activity-age relation in the form of a flaring-age relation, we measured trends in the flaring rates and energies for stars with different masses and ages. We investigated the time- domain photometry provided by Kepler's follow-up mission K2 and searched for flares in three solar metallicity open clusters with well-known ages, M45 (0.125Gyr), M44 (0.63Gyr), and M67 (4.3Gyr). We updated and employed the automated flare finding and analysis pipeline Appaloosa, originally designed for Kepler. We introduced a synthetic flare injection and recovery subroutine to ascribe detection and energy recovery rates for flares in a broad energy range for each light curve. We collected a sample of 1761 stars, mostly late-K to mid-M dwarfs and found 751 flare candidates with energies ranging from 4x10^32^erg to 6x10^34^erg, of which 596 belong to M45, 155 to M44, and none to M67. We find that flaring activity depends both on Teff, and age. But all flare frequency distributions have similar slopes with alpha from 2.0 to 2.4, supporting a universal flare generation process. We discuss implications for the physical conditions under which flares occur, and how the sample's metallicity and multiplicity affect our results.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/751/55
- Title:
- MMT hypervelocity star survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/751/55
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery of five new unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs) in the outer Milky Way halo. Using a conservative estimate of Galactic escape velocity, our targeted spectroscopic survey has now identified 16 unbound HVSs as well as a comparable number of HVSs ejected on bound trajectories. A Galactic center origin for the HVSs is supported by their unbound velocities, the observed number of unbound stars, their stellar nature, their ejection time distribution, and their Galactic latitude and longitude distribution. Other proposed origins for the unbound HVSs, such as runaway ejections from the disk or dwarf galaxy tidal debris, cannot be reconciled with the observations. An intriguing result is the spatial anisotropy of HVSs on the sky, which possibly reflects an anisotropic potential in the central 10-100pc region of the Galaxy. Further progress requires measurement of the spatial distribution of HVSs over the southern sky. Our survey also identifies seven B supergiants associated with known star-forming galaxies; the absence of B supergiants elsewhere in the survey implies there are no new star-forming galaxies in our survey footprint to a depth of 1-2Mpc.
