- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/779/L6
- Title:
- 3D kinematic observations of stars in Galactic Centre
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/779/L6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present three-dimensional (3D) kinematic observations of stars within the central 0.5pc of the Milky Way (MW) nuclear star cluster (NSC) using adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy from the Keck telescopes. Recent observations have shown that the cluster has a shallower surface density profile than expected for a dynamically relaxed cusp, leading to important implications for its formation and evolution. However, the true 3D profile of the cluster is unknown due to the difficulty in de-projecting the stellar number counts. Here, we use spherical Jeans modeling of individual proper motions and radial velocities to constrain, for the first time, the de-projected spatial density profile, cluster velocity anisotropy, black hole mass (M_BH_), and distance to the Galactic center (R_0_) simultaneously. We find that the inner stellar density profile of the late-type stars, {rho}(r){prop.to}r^-{gamma}^, have a power law slope {gamma}=0.05_-0.60^+0.29^, much more shallow than the frequently assumed Bahcall-Wolf slope of {gamma}=7/4. The measured slope will significantly affect dynamical predictions involving the cluster, such as the dynamical friction time scale. The cluster core must be larger than 0.5 pc, which disfavors some scenarios for its origin. Our measurement of M_BH_=5.76_-1.26_^+1.76^x10^6^M_{sun}_ and R_0_=8.92_-0.55_^+0.58^kpc is consistent with that derived from stellar orbits within 1" of Sgr A*. When combined with the orbit of S0-2, the uncertainty on R_0_ is reduced by 30% (8.46_-0.38_^+0.42^kpc). We suggest that the MW NSC can be used in the future in combination with stellar orbits to significantly improve constraints on R_0_.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/650/A157
- Title:
- Dolidze 25 Chandra/ACIS-I X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/650/A157
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The dispersal of protoplanetary disks sets the timescale available for planets to assemble, and thus it is one of the fundamental parameters in theories of planetary formation. Disk dispersal is determined by several properties of the central star, the disk itself, and the surrounding environment. In particular, the metallicity of disks may impact their evolution, even if to date controversial results exist: in low-metallicity clusters disks seem to rapidly disperse, while in the Magellanic Clouds some evidence supports the existence of accreting disks few tens of Myrs old. In this paper we study the dispersal timescale of disks in Dolidze 25, the young cluster in proximity of the Sun with lowest metallicity, with the aim of understanding whether disk evolution is impacted by the low-metallicity of the cluster. We have analyzed Chandra/ACIS-I observations of the cluster and combined the resulting source catalog with existing optical and infrared catalogs of the region. We selected the disk-bearing population in a 1 degree circular region centered on Dolidze~25 from criteria based on infrared colors, and the disk-less population within a smaller central region among the X-ray sources with OIR counterpart. In both cases, criteria are applied to discard contaminating sources in the foreground/background. We have derived stellar parameters from isochrones fitted to color-magnitude diagrams. We derived a disk fraction of about 34% and a median age of the cluster of 1.2Myrs. To minimize the impact of incompleteness and spatial inhomogeneity of the list of members, we restricted this calculation to stars in a magnitude range where our selection of cluster members is fairly complete and by adopting different cuts in stellar masses. By comparing this estimate with existing estimates of the disk fraction of clusters younger than 10Myrs, our study suggests that the disk fraction of Dolidze 25 is lower than what is expected from its age alone. Even if our results are not conclusive given the intrinsic uncertainty on stellar ages estimated from isochrones fitting to color-magnitude diagrams, we suggest that disk evolution in Dolidze 25 may be impacted by the environment. Given the poor O star population and low stellar density of the cluster, it is more likely that disks dispersal timescale is dictated more by the low metallicity of the cluster rather than external photoevaporation or dynamical encounters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/187A
- Title:
- 30 Doradus OB Associations
- Short Name:
- II/187A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Johnson UBV photometry is presented for 2395 stars in the OB associations of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The CCD fields cover an area of 50 square arcminutes in the central region. The entire catalog (exclusive of the dense core cluster R136) is photometrically complete to V=B=18mag and U=17mag, although the completeness magnitudes are fainter for regions with less nebular contamination.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/836/115
- Title:
- Double-component model fitting of elliptical gal.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/836/115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate two-dimensional image decomposition of nearby, morphologically selected early-type galaxies (ETGs). We are motivated by recent observational evidence of significant size growth of quiescent galaxies and theoretical development advocating a two-phase formation scenario for ETGs. We find that a significant fraction of nearby ETGs show changes in isophotal shape that require multi-component models. The characteristic sizes of the inner and outer component are ~3 and ~15kpc. The inner component lies on the mass-size relation of ETGs at z~0.25-0.75, while the outer component tends to be more elliptical and hints at a stochastic buildup process. We find real physical differences between single- and double-component ETGs, with double-component galaxies being younger and more metal-rich. The fraction of double-component ETGs increases with increasing {sigma} and decreases in denser environments. We hypothesize that double-component systems were able to accrete gas and small galaxies until later times, boosting their central densities, building up their outer parts, and lowering their typical central ages. In contrast, the oldest galaxies, perhaps due to residing in richer environments, have no remaining hints of their last accretion episode.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/2985
- Title:
- Double-lobed radio sources catalog
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/2985
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Current wide-area radio surveys are dominated by active galactic nuclei, yet many of these sources have no identified optical counterparts. Here we investigate whether one can constrain the nature and properties of these sources, using Fanaroff-Riley type II (FR II) radio galaxies as probes. These sources are easy to identify since the angular separation of their lobes remains almost constant at some tens of arcseconds for z>1. Using a simple algorithm applied to the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm survey, we obtain the largest FR II sample to date, containing over 104 double-lobed sources. A subset of 459 sources is matched to Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars. This sample yields a statistically meaningful description of the fraction of quasars with lobes as a function of redshift and luminosity. This relation is combined with the bolometric quasar luminosity function and a disc-lobe correlation to obtain a robust prediction for the density of FR IIs on the radio sky. We find that the observed density can be explained by the population of known quasars, implying that the majority of powerful jets originate from a radiatively efficient accretion flow with a linear jet-disc coupling. Finally, we show that high-redshift jets are more often quenched within 100kpc, suggesting a higher efficiency of jet-induced feedback into their host galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/78
- Title:
- Double & multiple star systems from GaiaDR2
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Binary and multiple stars have long provided an effective empirical method of testing stellar formation and evolution theories. In particular, the existence of wide binary systems (separations >20000 au) is particularly challenging to binary formation models as their physical separations are beyond the typical size of a collapsing cloud core (~5000-10000 au). We mined the recently published Gaia-DR2 catalog (Cat. I/345) to identify bright comoving systems in the five-dimensional space (sky position, parallax, and proper motion). We identified 3741 comoving binary and multiple stellar candidate systems, out of which 575 have compatible radial velocities for all the members of the system. The candidate systems have separations between ~400 and 500000 au. We used the analysis tools of the Virtual Observatory to characterize the comoving system members and to assess their reliability. The comparison with previous comoving systems catalogs obtained from TGAS showed that these catalogs contain a large number of false systems. In addition, we were not able to confirm the ultra-wide binary population presented in these catalogs. The robustness of our methodology is demonstrated by the identification of well known comoving star clusters and by the low contamination rate for comoving binary systems with projected physical separations <50000 au. These last constitute a reliable sample for further studies. The catalog is available online at the Spanish Virtual Observatory portal (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/vocats/v2/comovingGaiaDR2/).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/464/641
- Title:
- Double stars CCD photometry and astrometry. III
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/464/641
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent CCD observations were performed in the period 1998-2004 for a large sample of visual double and multiple stars selected from the Hipparcos Catalogue (Cat. <I/239>) and/or from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Cat. <V/70>). Accurate astrometric and photometric data allowing us to characterise the individual components are provided. These data are compared to Hipparcos data or to data from an older epoch to assess the nature of the observed systems. We simultaneously apply a Moffat-Lorentz profile with a similar shape to all detected components and adjust the profile parameters from which we obtain the relative astrometric position (epoch, position angle, angular separation) as well as differential multi-colour photometry (filters (B)VRI).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/3008
- Title:
- Double star speckle measures
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/3008
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 549 observations of 181 primarily southern binary stars. Of these, 32 are high-quality nondetections, meaning that, if binary, the system had a separation below the diffraction limit at the time of the observation, and relative astrometry is presented for the remaining 517 observations. In addition, a magnitude difference measure is reported in 312 cases in which the observation was judged to be of sufficient quality to have little decorrelation of the speckle pattern of the secondary relative to the primary star. These data were obtained from speckle observations taken at the Lowell-Tololo 0.6m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory using a fast-readout CCD detector during 2001 November.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/L59
- Title:
- Draco II stars gi magnitude & radial velocities
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/L59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first spectroscopic analysis of the faint and compact stellar system Draco II (Dra II, M_V_=-2.9+/-0.8,r_h_=19^+8^_-6_pc), recently discovered in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 3{PI} survey. The observations, conducted with DEIMOS on the Keck II telescope, establish some of its basic characteristics: the velocity data reveal a narrow peak with nine member stars at a systemic heliocentric velocity <v_r_>=-347.6^+1.7^_-1.8_km/s, thereby confirming Dra II is a satellite of the Milky Way; we infer a velocity dispersion with {sigma}_vr_=2.9+/-2.1km/s (<8.4km/s at the 95 per cent confidence level), which implie log_10_(M_1/2_)-5.5^+0.4^_-0.6_ and log_10_((M/L_)1/2_)=2.7^+0.5^_-0.8_, in Solar units; furthermore, very weak calcium triplet lines in the spectra of the high signal-to-noise member stars imply [Fe/H]<-2.1, whilst variations in the line strengths of two stars with similar colours and magnitudes suggest a metallicity spread in Dra II. These new data cannot clearly discriminate whether Draco II is a star cluster or amongst the faintest, most compact, and closest dwarf galaxies. However, the sum of the three - individually inconclusive - pieces of evidence presented here seems to favour the dwarf galaxy interpretation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/375/831
- Title:
- Draco MegaCam, INT and HST photometry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/375/831
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph), with its apparent immense mass-to-light ratio and compact size, holds many clues to the nature of the enigmatic dark matter. Here we present deep photometric studies of this dwarf galaxy, undertaken with the MegaCam Camera at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the Wide Field Camera at the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The new photometric data cover the entirety of the galaxy, and reach i'=24.5 at 50 per cent completeness, significantly deeper than previous panoramic studies, allowing searches for tidal disturbances of much lower surface brightness than has been possible before. With these improved statistics, we find no evidence for asymmetric disturbances or tidal tails that possess more than 3 per cent of the stars found within the centre of the galaxy. We find that the central stellar density, as probed by the HST data, rises into the central 0.5arcmin. Uncertainties in the position of the centroid of the galaxy do not allow us to determine whether the apparent flattening of the profile interior to 0.5arcmin is reliable or not. Draco is therefore a flawless dwarf galaxy, featureless and apparently unaffected by Galactic tides.
