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2171. Radial velocities of Milky Way inner halo stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/813/89
Title:
Radial velocities of Milky Way inner halo stars
Short Name:
J/ApJ/813/89
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We measure the three components of velocity dispersion, {sigma}_R_, {sigma}_{theta}_, {sigma}_{phi}_, for stars within 6<R<30kpc of the Milky Way using a new radial velocity sample from the MMT telescope. We combine our measurements with previously published data so that we can more finely sample the stellar halo. We use a maximum likelihood statistical method for estimating mean velocities, dispersions, and covariances assuming only that velocities are normally distributed. The alignment of the velocity ellipsoid is consistent with a spherically symmetric gravitational potential. From the spherical Jeans equation, the mass of the Milky Way is M(R<=12kpc)=1.3x10^11^M_{sun}_ with an uncertainty of 40%. We also find a region of discontinuity, 15<~R<~25kpc, where the estimated velocity dispersions and anisotropies diverge from their anticipated values, confirming the break observed by others. We argue that this break in anisotropy is physically explained by coherent stellar velocity structure in the halo, such as the Sgr stream. To significantly improve our understanding of halo kinematics will require combining radial velocities with future Gaia proper motions.
2172. Radial velocities of {omega} Centauri members
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/506
Title:
Radial velocities of {omega} Centauri members
Short Name:
J/AJ/136/506
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have used the two-degree field (2dF) multi-fiber spectrograph of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to search for candidate members of the unusual globular cluster omega Centauri at and beyond the cluster tidal radius. Velocities with an accuracy of ~10km/s were obtained for 4105 stars selected to lie in the vicinity of the lower giant branch in the cluster color-magnitude diagram (CMD) and which cover an area on the sky of ~2.4x3.9{deg}^2^ centered on the cluster.
2173. Radial velocities of stars in Bootes I
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/736/146
Title:
Radial velocities of stars in Bootes I
Short Name:
J/ApJ/736/146
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We develop, implement, and characterize an enhanced data reduction approach which delivers precise, accurate, radial velocities from moderate resolution spectroscopy with the fiber-fed VLT/FLAMES+GIRAFFE facility. This facility, with appropriate care, delivers radial velocities adequate to resolve the intrinsic velocity dispersions of the very faint dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. Importantly, repeated measurements let us reliably calibrate our individual velocity errors (0.2km/s<={delta}_V_<=5km/s) and directly detect stars with variable radial velocities. We show, by application to the Bootes I dSph, that the intrinsic velocity dispersion of this system is significantly below 6.5km/s reported by previous studies. Our data favor a two-population model of Bootes I, consisting of a majority "cold" stellar component, with velocity dispersion 2.4^+0.9^_-0.5_km/s, and a minority "hot" stellar component, with velocity dispersion ~9km/s, although we cannot completely rule out a single component distribution with velocity dispersion 4.6^0.8^_-0.6_km/s. We speculate that this complex velocity distribution actually reflects the distribution of velocity anisotropy in Bootes I, which is a measure of its formation processes.
2174. Radial velocities of 108 stars in Ruprecht 147
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/134
Title:
Radial velocities of 108 stars in Ruprecht 147
Short Name:
J/AJ/145/134
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Ruprecht 147 is a hitherto unappreciated open cluster that holds great promise as a standard in fundamental stellar astrophysics. We have conducted a radial velocity survey of astrometric candidates with Lick, Palomar, and MMT observatories and have identified over 100 members, including 5 blue stragglers, 11 red giants, and 5 double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s). We estimate the cluster metallicity from spectroscopic analysis, using Spectroscopy Made Easy (SME), and find it to be [M/H]=+0.07+/-0.03. We have obtained deep CFHT/MegaCam g'r'i'z' photometry and fit Padova isochrones to the (g'-i') and Two Micron All Sky Survey (J-K_S_) color-magnitude diagrams, using the {tau}^2^ maximum-likelihood procedure of Naylor, and an alternative method using two-dimensional cross-correlations developed in this work. We find best fits for Padova isochrones at age t=2.5+/-0.25Gyr, m-M=7.35+/-0.1, and A_V_=0.25+/-0.05, with additional uncertainty from the unresolved binary population and possibility of differential extinction across this large cluster. The inferred age is heavily dependent on our choice of stellar evolution model: fitting Dartmouth and PARSEC models yield age parameters of 3Gyr and 3.25Gyr, respectively. At ~300pc and ~3Gyr, Ruprecht 147 is by far the oldest nearby star cluster.
2175. Radial velocities of UCOs in Fornax
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/383/823
Title:
Radial velocities of UCOs in Fornax
Short Name:
J/A+A/383/823
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The relation between the Ultra Compact Objects (hereafter UCOs) recently discovered in the Fornax cluster (Drinkwater et al., 2000PASA...17..227D; Hilker et al., 1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/134/75>) and the brightest globular clusters associated with the central galaxy NGC 1399 has been investigated. A spectroscopic survey on compact objects in the central region of the Fornax cluster was carried out with the 2.5 m du Pont telescope (LCO) at Las Campanas, in the three nights of 2000/12/30 to 2001/01/01. The magnitude limit was approx. V=21 mag, the spectral resolution approx. 4{AA}. UCOs and the bright NGC 1399 globular clusters with similar brightness were inspected. 12 GCs from the bright end of the globular cluster luminosity function have been identified as Fornax members. Eight are new members, four were known as members from before.
2176. Radial velocities of 2 VY Sculptoris-type CV stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/231
Title:
Radial velocities of 2 VY Sculptoris-type CV stars
Short Name:
J/AJ/156/231
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report observations of the known cataclysmic variable star (CV) V704 And, and also confirm that the optical counterpart of the ROSAT Galactic Plane Survey source RX J2338+431 is a heretofore-neglected CV. Photometric and spectroscopic observations from MDM Observatory show both systems to be nova-like variables that exhibit dips of 4-5 mag from their mean brightnesses, establishing them as members of the VY Scl subclass. From high-state emission-line radial velocities, we determine orbital periods of 0.151424(3) days (3.63 hr) for V704 And and 0.130400(1) days (3.13 hr) for RX J2338+431. In V704 And, we find that the H{alpha} emission-line measures cluster into distinct regions on a plot of equivalent width versus full width at half-maximum, which evidently correspond to high, intermediate, and low photometric states. This allows us to assign spectra to photometric states when contemporaneous photometry is not available, an apparently novel method that may be useful in studies of other novalikes. Our low-state spectra of RX J2338+431 show features of an M-type secondary star, from which we estimate a distance of 890+/-200 pc, in good agreement with the Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345) parallax.
2177. Radial velocities & orbital data, 5 triple stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/251
Title:
Radial velocities & orbital data, 5 triple stars
Short Name:
J/AJ/160/251
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Joint analysis of radial velocities and position measurements of five hierarchical stellar systems is undertaken to determine elements of their inner and outer orbits and, whenever possible, their mutual inclinations. The inner and outer periods are 12.9 and 345yr for HD12376 (ADS1613), 1.14 and ~1500yr for HD19971 (ADS2390), 8.3 and 475yr for HD89795 (ADS7338), 1.11 and 40yr for HD152027, 0.69 and 7.4yr for HD190412. The latter system with its coplanar and quasi-circular orbits belongs to the family of compact planetary-like hierarchies, while the orbits in HD12376 have a mutual inclination of 131{deg}.
2178. Radial Velocities with Astrometric Data
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/239
Title:
Radial Velocities with Astrometric Data
Short Name:
III/239
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The catalogue of radial velocities of Galactic stars with high precision astrometric data (CRVAD) is the result of a merging of star lists from the General Catalog of Mean Radial Velocities (GCRV, Cat. III/213) and from the All-sky Compiled Catalogue of 2.5 Million Stars (ASCC-2.5, Cat. I/280). The cross identification of GCRV and ASCC-2.5 objects was carried out with help of coordinate, magnitude, colour and/or spectral type criteria. Data from the Catalogue of Components of Double and Multiple Stars (CCDM, Cat. I/274) were taken into account for the identification of multiple system components. 34553 stars of the ASCC-2.5 were identified with 33509 stars of the GCRV, i.e. 33509 stars of the GCRV have one entry in the ASCC-2.5, and 1044 objects have two entries. The catalogue includes accurate equatorial coordinates J2000, proper motions and trigonometric parallaxes in the Hipparcos system, B and V magnitudes in Johnson system, spectral classes, multiplicity and variability flags from the ASCC-2.5, and radial velocities, stellar magnitudes and spectra from the GCRV. Stars are sorted in right ascension J2000 order. 3967 stars were selected as radial velocity standard candidates (file rv_std.dat). These stars: - do not have any multiplicity and/or variability flags both in the GCRV and ASCC-2.5; - have standard errors of equatorial coordinates e <= 40 mas; - have standard errors of proper motions e_pm <= 4 mas/yr; - have standard errors of V magnitude e_V <= 0.05 mag and (B-V) colour e_(B-V) <= 0.07 mag; - have standard errors of radial velocity e_RV <= 2 km/s or quality index A or B, which corresponds to e_RV 0.74 and 1.78 km/s; - have at least four RV observations N_RV.
2179. Radial velocity and g-i color in M85 globular clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/903/110
Title:
Radial velocity and g-i color in M85 globular clusters
Short Name:
J/ApJ/903/110
Date:
15 Mar 2022
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a study on the stellar population and kinematics of globular clusters (GCs) in the peculiar galaxy M85. We obtain optical spectra of 89 GCs at 8kpc<R<160kpc using the MMT/Hectospec. We divide them into three groups, blue/green/red GCs (B/G/RGCs), with their (g-i)0 colors. All GC subpopulations have mean ages of about 10Gyr, but showing differences in metallicities. The BGCs and RGCs are the most metal-poor ([Z/H]~-1.49) and metal-rich ([Z/H]~-0.45), respectively, and the GGCs are in between. We find that the inner GC system exhibits a strong overall rotation that is entirely due to a disklike rotation of the RGC system. The BGC system shows little rotation. The GGCs show kinematic properties clearly distinct among the GC subpopulations, having higher mean velocities than the BGCs and RGCs and being aligned along the major axis of M85. This implies that the GGCs have an origin different from the other GC subpopulations. The rotation-corrected velocity dispersion of the RGC system is much lower than that of the BGC system, indicating the truncation of the red halo of M85. The BGCs have a flat velocity dispersion profile out to R=67kpc, reflecting the dark matter extent of M85. Using the velocity dispersion of the BGC system, we estimate the dynamical mass of M85 to be 3.8x1012M{sun}. We infer that M85 has undergone merging events lately, resulting in the peculiar kinematics of the GC system.
2180. Radial velocity and photometry in NGC 4372
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/567/A69
Title:
Radial velocity and photometry in NGC 4372
Short Name:
J/A+A/567/A69
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the first in-depth study of the kinematic properties and derive the structural parameters of NGC 4372 based on the fit of a Plummer profile and a rotating, physical model. We explore the link between internal rotation to different cluster properties and together with similar studies of more GCs, we put these in the context of globular cluster formation and evolution. We present radial velocities for 131 cluster member stars measured from high-resolution FLAMES/GIRAFFE observations. Their membership to the GC is additionally confirmed from precise metallicity estimates. Using this kinematic data set we build a velocity dispersion profile and a systemic rotation curve. Additionally, we obtain an elliptical number density profile of NGC 4372 based on optical images using a MCMC fitting algorithm. From this we derive the cluster's half-light radius and ellipticity as r_h_=3.4'+/-0.04' and e=0.08+/-0.01. Finally, we give a physical interpretation of the observed morphological and kinematic properties of this GC by fitting an axisymmetric, differentially rotating, dynamical model. Our results show that NGC 4372 has an unusually high ratio of rotation amplitude to velocity dispersion (1.2 vs. 4.5km/s) for its metallicity. This, however, puts it in line with two other exceptional, very metal-poor GCs - M 15 and NGC 4590. We also find a mild flattening of NGC 4372 in the direction of its rotation. Given its old age, this suggests that the flattening is indeed caused by the systemic rotation rather than tidal interactions with the Galaxy. Additionally, we estimate the dynamical mass of the GC M_dyn=2.0+/-0.5 x 10^5 M_Sun based on the dynamical model, which constrains the mass-to-light ratio of NGC 4372 between 1.4 and 2.3 M_Sun/L_Sun, representative of an old, purely stellar population.