- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/880/7
- Title:
- Census of the Local Universe survey. I. CLU-Halpha
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/880/7
- Date:
- 03 Nov 2021 07:51:08
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Census of the Local Universe (CLU) narrowband survey to search for emission-line (H{alpha}) galaxies. CLU-H{alpha} has imaged ~3{pi} of the sky (26470deg^2^) with four narrowband filters that probe a distance out to 200Mpc. We have obtained spectroscopic follow-up for galaxy candidates in 14 preliminary fields (101.6deg^2^) to characterize the limits and completeness of the survey. In these preliminary fields, CLU can identify emission lines down to an H{alpha} flux limit of 10^-14^erg/s/cm^2^ at 90% completeness, and recovers 83% (67%) of the H{alpha} flux from cataloged galaxies in our search volume at the {Sigma}=2.5 ({Sigma}=5) color excess levels. The contamination from galaxies with no emission lines is 61% (12%) for {Sigma}=2.5 ({Sigma}=5). Also, in the regions of overlap between our preliminary fields and previous emission-line surveys, we recover the majority of the galaxies found in previous surveys and identify an additional ~300 galaxies. In total, we find 90 galaxies with no previous distance information, several of which are interesting objects: 7 blue compact dwarfs, 1 green pea, and a Seyfert galaxy; we also identify a known planetary nebula. These objects show that the CLU-H{alpha} survey can be a discovery machine for objects in our own Galaxy and extreme galaxies out to intermediate redshifts. However, the majority of the CLU-H{alpha} galaxies identified in this work show properties consistent with normal star-forming galaxies. CLU-H{alpha} galaxies with new redshifts will be added to existing galaxy catalogs to focus the search for the electromagnetic counterpart to gravitational wave events.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/52
- Title:
- Census of variable stars toward Serpens Main
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/52
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 06:55:43
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We monitored a 3deg^2^ area toward Serpens Main in the Pan-STARRS1 r, i, and z bands from 2016 April to September. Light curves of more than 11000 stars in each band were obtained, and 143 variables have been identified. Among those, 119 variables are new discoveries, while 24 variables were previously known. We present variability classes and periods of 99 stars. Of these, 81 are located in the upper giant branch, displaying long periods, while the remaining 18 variables are pre-main-sequence objects with short periods. We also identify eight eclipsing binary systems, including the known binary V0623Ser, and derive their physical parameters. According to a clustering analysis of Gaia DR2 stars in the observed field, there are 10 variable members in Serpens Main, where six members have been classified as young stellar objects in previous studies. Here we provide color-magnitude and color-color diagrams for these variables. The color variability of most variables in the color-magnitude diagrams produces the expected displacements, while the movements of cluster members point in different directions; this behavior may be associated with accretion spots or circumstellar disks.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/170/95
- Title:
- Centaurus Cluster catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/170/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of all galaxies with V<=22.0 and R_iso_>3" within a 0.83deg^2^ region centered on the Centaurus Cluster (Abell 3526) at RA=12h48m, DE=-41{deg}18'. V-band total magnitudes along with other photometric parameters were obtained from the detection programs FOCAS and SExtractor and also from fitting curve-of-growth Sersic functions to the galaxy profiles. Central surface brightnesses, half-light radii, ellipticity, and position angles are presented, along with (B-V) aperture colors where B-band data were obtained. This work is part of a larger program to study the cluster-to-cluster variation in the faint end of the LF based on the study of eight clusters, including Centaurus. We discuss our data reduction methods in this paper. More detailed analyses and science results will be presented in subsequent papers.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/2138
- Title:
- Centers of early-type galaxies with HST
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/2138
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present observations of 77 early-type galaxies imaged with the PC1 CCD of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2. "Nuker-law" parametric fits to the surface brightness profiles are used to classify the central structure into "core" or "power-law" forms.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/1236
- Title:
- Central black holes of spiral galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/1236
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Central black hole masses for 117 spiral galaxies representing morphological stages S0/a through Sc and taken from the large spectroscopic survey of Ho et al. (Cat. <J/ApJS/112/315>) are derived using Ks-band data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey. Black hole masses are found using a calibrated black hole-Ks bulge luminosity relation, while bulge luminosities are measured by means of a two-dimensional bulge-disk decomposition routine.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/638/A103
- Title:
- Central stars of planetary nebulae in Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/638/A103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Accurate distance measurements are fundamental to the study of planetary nebulae (PNe) but they have long been elusive. The most accurate and model-independent distance measurements for galactic PNe come from the trigonometric parallaxes of their central stars, which were only available for a few tens of objects prior to the Gaia mission. The accurate identification of PN central stars (CSPNe) in the Gaia source catalogues is a critical prerequisite for leveraging the unprecedented scope and precision of the trigonometric parallaxes measured by Gaia. Our aim is to build a complete sample of PN central star detections with minimal contamination. We developed and applied an automated technique based on the likelihood ratio method to match candidate central stars in Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) to known PNe in the Hong Kong/AAO/Strasbourg H{alpha} (HASH) PN catalogue (Parker et al. 2016, 2016JPhCS.728c2008P), taking into account the BP-RP colours of the Gaia sources as well as their positional offsets from the nebula centres. These parameter distributions for both true central stars and background sources were inferred directly from the data. We present a catalogue of over 1000 Gaia sources that our method has automatically identified as likely PN central stars. We demonstrate how the best matches enable us to trace nebula and central star evolution and to validate existing statistical distance scales, and we discuss the prospects for further refinement of the matching based on additional data. We also compare the accuracy of our catalogue to that of previous works.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/1362
- Title:
- Century Survey Galactic Halo Project. I.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/1362
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project is a photometric and spectroscopic survey from which we select relatively blue stars (V-R<0.30mag) as probes of the Milky Way halo. The survey strip spans the range of Galactic latitude 35{deg}<b<88{deg}, allowing us to study the nature of populations of stars and their systematic motions as a function of Galactic latitude. One of our primary goals is to use blue horizontal-branch stars to trace potential star streams in the halo, and to test the hierarchical model for the formation of the Galaxy. In this paper we discuss spectroscopy and multipassband photometry for a sample of 764 blue stars in the Century Survey region. Our sample consists predominantly of A- and F-type stars. We describe our techniques for determination of radial velocities, effective temperatures, metallicities, and surface gravities. Based on these measurements, we derive distance estimates by comparison with a set of calibrated isochrones. We devote special attention to the classification of blue horizontal-branch stars, and compare the results obtained from the application of the techniques of Kinman et al. 1994, Cat. <J/AJ/108/1722>, Wilhelm et al. (1999, Cat. <J/AJ/117/2308>), and Clewley et al. (2002MNRAS.337...87C). We identify 55 blue horizontal-branch stars. Our large sample of stars also uncovers a number of unusual objects, including three carbon-enhanced stars, a late B-type star located 0.8kpc above the Galactic plane, and a DZ white dwarf.
858. Cep A X-Ray sources
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/626/272
- Title:
- Cep A X-Ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/626/272
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of X-rays from both components of Cepheus A, East and West, with the XMM-Newton observatory. HH 168 joins the ranks of other energetic Herbig-Haro objects that are sources of T>=10^6^K X-ray emission. We detect 102 X-ray sources, many presumed to be premain-sequence stars on the basis of the reddening of their optical and IR counterparts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/171
- Title:
- Cepheid abund.: multiphase results & spatial gradients
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/171
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Parameters and abundances have been derived for 435 Cepheids based on an analysis of 1127 spectra. Results from five or more phases are available for 52 of the program stars. The latter set of stars span periods between 1.5 and 68 days. The parameters and abundances show excellent consistency across phase. For iron, the average range in the determined abundance is 0.11 from these 52 stars. For 163 stars with more than one phase available the average range is 0.07. The variation in effective temperature tracks well with phase, as does the total broadening velocity. The gravity and microturbulent velocity follow phase, but with less variation and regularity. Abundance gradients have been derived using Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345) parallax data, as well as Bayesian distance estimates based upon Gaia DR2 from Bailer-Jones et al. (2018, Cat. I/347). The abundance gradient derived for iron is d[Fe/H]/dR=-0.05 dex/kpc, similar to gradients derived in previous studies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/885/161
- Title:
- 90 cepheid candidates nearby NGC 6814
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/885/161
- Date:
- 08 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a Cepheid-based distance to the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC6814 from Hubble Space Telescope observations. We obtained F555W and F814W imaging over the course of 12 visits with logarithmic time spacing in 2013 August-October. We detected and made photometric measurements for 16469 unique sources across all images in both filters, from which we identify 90 excellent Cepheid candidates spanning a range of periods of 13-84days. We find evidence for incompleteness in the detection of candidates at periods <21days. Based on the analysis of Cepheid candidates above the incompleteness limit, we determine a distance modulus for NGC6814 relative to the LMC of {mu}_rel,LMC_=13.200_-0.031_^+0.031^mag. Adopting the recent constraint of the distance modulus to the LMC determined by Pietrzynski et al., we find m-M=31.677_-0.041_^+0.041^ which gives a distance of 21.65{+/-}0.41Mpc to NGC6814.
