- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/657/A54
- Title:
- Local Group Gaia eDR3 systemic motions
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/657/A54
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We perform a comprehensive determination of the systemic proper motions of 74 dwarf galaxies and dwarf galaxy candidates in the Local Group based on Gaia early data release 3. The outputs of the analysis for each galaxy, including probabilities of membership, will be made publicly available. The analysis is augmented by a determination of the orbital properties of galaxies within 500kpc. We adopt a flexible Bayesian methodology presented in the literature, which takes into account the location of the stars on the sky, on the colour-magnitude diagram, and on the proper motion plane. We applied some modifications, in particular to the way the colour-magnitude diagram and spectroscopic information are factored in, for example, by including stars in several evolution phases. The bulk motions were integrated in three gravitational potentials: two where the Milky Way was treated in isolation and has a mass 0.9 & 1.6x10^12^M_{sun}_, and a time-varying potential, which includes the infall of a massive Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We were able to determine bulk proper motions for 73 systems, and we consider 66 to be reliable measurements. For the first time, systemic motions are presented for galaxies out to a distance of 1.4Mpc in the NGC 3109 association. The inclusion of the infall of a massive LMC significantly modifies the orbital trajectories of the objects, with respect to orbit integration in static Milky-Way-only potentials, and this leads to six galaxies likely being associated with the LMC, three possibly being associated with it, and one recently captured object. We discuss the results of the orbit integration in the context of the relation of the galaxies to the system of Milky Way satellites, implications for the too-big-to-fail problem, the impact on star formation histories, and tidal disruption.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/122
- Title:
- Local structure & star formation history of the MW
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/122
- Date:
- 09 Mar 2022 22:00:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345) provides unprecedented precision in measurements of the distance and kinematics of stars in the solar neighborhood. Through applying unsupervised machine learning on DR2's 5D data set (3D position + 2D velocity), we identify a number of clusters, associations, and comoving groups within 1 kpc and |b|<30{deg} (many of which have not been previously known). We estimate their ages with the precision of ~0.15 dex. Many of these groups appear to be filamentary or string-like, oriented in parallel to the Galactic plane, and some span hundreds of parsec in length. Most of these string lack a central cluster, indicating that their filamentary structure is primordial, rather than the result of tidal stripping or dynamical processing. The youngest strings (<100 Myr) are orthogonal to the Local Arm. The older ones appear to be remnants of several other arm-like structures that cannot be presently traced by dust and gas. The velocity dispersion measured from the ensemble of groups and strings increase with age, suggesting a timescale for dynamical heating of ~300 Myr. This timescale is also consistent with the age at which the population of strings begins to decline, while the population in more compact groups continues to increase, suggesting that dynamical processes are disrupting the weakly bound string populations, leaving only individual clusters to be identified at the oldest ages. These data shed a new light on the local galactic structure and a large-scale cloud collapse.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/353/1311
- Title:
- Long-term timing observations of 374 pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/353/1311
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present pulsar timing solutions for 374 pulsars. Each ephemeris was obtained by analysing archival data stored at Jodrell Bank Observatory. This data archive contains over 5600yr of pulsar rotational history with individual data-spans of up to 34yr. A new method has been developed to mitigate the effects of timing noise by whitening the pulsar timing residuals.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/79
- Title:
- Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Northern Stars
- Short Name:
- I/79
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog contains a summary of many individual papers published in the Lowell Observatory Bulletins in the years 1958 to 1970. The data in the machine-readable version include observed positions, proper motions, estimated photographic magnitudes and colors, and references to identifications in other catalogs. Photoelectric data on the UBV system are included for many stars, but no attempt was made to find all existing photometry. The notes.dat file was computerized at the ADC by keying the notes directly to disk storage.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/112A
- Title:
- Lowell Proper Motion Survey - Southern Hemisphere
- Short Name:
- I/112A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog contains a summary of the Lowell Proper Motion Survey for the southern hemisphere. The catalog gives the position, motion, magnitude, and color of 2827 stars from the Lowell program.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/161/394
- Title:
- Low-luminosity companions to white dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/161/394
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents results of a near-infrared imaging survey for low-mass stellar and substellar companions to white dwarfs. A wide-field proper-motion survey of 261 white dwarfs was capable of directly detecting companions at orbital separations between 100 and 5000 AU with masses as low as 0.05M_{sun}_, while a deep near-field search of 86 white dwarfs was capable of directly detecting companions at separations between 50 and 1100AU with masses as low as 0.02M_{sun}_. Additionally, all white dwarf targets were examined for near-infrared excess emission, a technique capable of detecting companions at arbitrarily close separations down to masses of 0.05M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/23
- Title:
- Low-mass fast rotators in the solar neighborhood
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The K2 mission is targeting large numbers of nearby (d<100 pc) GKM dwarfs selected from the SUPERBLINK proper motion survey ({mu}>40 mas/yr, V<20). Additionally, the mission is targeting low-mass, high proper motion stars associated with the local (d<500 pc) Galactic halo population also selected from SUPERBLINK. K2 campaigns 0 through 8 monitored a total of 26518 of these cool main-sequence stars. We used the auto-correlation function to search for fast rotators by identifying short-period photometric modulations in the K2 light curves. We identified 481 candidate fast rotators with rotation periods <4 days that show light-curve modulations consistent with starspots. Their kinematics show low average transverse velocities, suggesting that they are part of the young disk population. A subset (13) of the fast rotators is found among those targets with colors and kinematics consistent with the local Galactic halo population and may represent stars spun up by tidal interactions in close binary systems. We further demonstrate that the M dwarf fast rotators selected from the K2 light curves are significantly more likely to have UV excess and discuss the potential of the K2 mission to identify new nearby young GKM dwarfs on the basis of their fast rotation rates. Finally, we discuss the possible use of local halo stars as fiducial, non-variable sources in the Kepler fields.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/1267
- Title:
- Low-mass members of the Octans association
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/447/1267
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Octans association is one of several young stellar moving groups recently discovered in the Solar neighbourhood and hence a valuable laboratory for studies of stellar, circumstellar disc and planetary evolution. However, a lack of low-mass members or any members with trigonometric parallaxes means the age, distance and space motion of the group are poorly constrained. To better determine its membership and age, we present the first spectroscopic survey for new K- and M-type Octans members, resulting in the discovery of 29 UV-bright K5-M4 stars with kinematics, photometry and distances consistent with existing members. Nine new members possess strong LiI 6708 absorption, which allow us to estimate a lithium age of 30-40Myr, similar to that of the Tucana-Horologium association and bracketed by the firm lithium depletion boundary ages of the beta Pictoris (20Myr) and Argus/IC 2391 (50Myr) associations. Several stars also show hints in our medium-resolution spectra of fast rotation or spectroscopic binarity. More so than other nearby associations, Octans is much larger than its age and internal velocity dispersion imply. It may be the dispersing remnant of a sparse, extended structure which includes some younger members of the foreground Octans-Near association recently proposed by Zuckerman and collaborators.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/408/2457
- Title:
- Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Praesepe
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/408/2457
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Presented are the results of a large and deep optical-near-infrared multi-epoch survey of the Praesepe open star cluster using data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Clusters Survey. Multiple colour-magnitude diagrams were used to select potential members and proper motions were used to assign levels of membership probability. From our sample, 145 objects were designated as high probability members (p>=0.6) with most of these having been found by previous surveys although 14 new cluster members are also identified. Our membership assignment is restricted to the bright sample of objects (Z<18). From the fainter sample, 39 candidates were found from an examination of multiple colour-magnitude plots.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/80
- Title:
- Low-Mass Stars' Membership in Alpha Persei Cluster
- Short Name:
- V/80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog contains the tabulated results of a combined astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic search for low-mass members in the intermediate-age open cluster Alpha Persei. It contains information on 132 new members and likely members, and 16 uncertain members of Alpha Per. The new membership information suggested to the author a revised age of the cluster to approximately 8x10+7yr. Tabulated data include AP number, VBI photometry, 1950 coordinates, relative proper motions with errors, H-alpha equivalent widths, and spectral type. Included are the individual membership determinations, based on H-alpha emission, spectral type, and echelle spectra data. The photometric data were obtained with the Lick Obs. 1-m Nickel Telescope using a TI 500x500 pixel CCD in B, V, and I bands. Low dispersion CCD spectra centered on H-alpha for candidates whose V-I photometry indicated likely membership using the Lick 1-m Nickel and 3-m Shane telescopes. High-dispersion echelle spectra were obtained for many bright candidates using the Hamilton echelle spectrographic with the Shane and Coude auxiliary telescopes.
