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1211. Obscured AGN at 1.5<z<3.0
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/626/A9
Title:
Obscured AGN at 1.5<z<3.0
Short Name:
J/A+A/626/A9
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We select a sample of 90 obscured (type 2) AGN with 1.45<z<3.05 from the zCOSMOS-deep galaxy sample by 5 sigma-detection of the high-ionization CIV {lambda}1549 narrow emission line. The presence of this feature in a galaxy spectrum is often associated with nuclear activity, and the selection effectiveness has been also confirmed by ultraviolet (UV) emission line ratio diagnostic diagrams. Applying the same selection technique, a sample of 102 unobscured (type 1) AGN was collected. Taking advantage of the large amount of multi-band data available in the COSMOS field, we investigate the properties of the CIV-selected type 2 AGN, focusing on their host galaxies, X-ray emission and UV emission lines. Finally, we investigate the physical properties of the ionized gas in the Narrow Line Region (NLR) of this type 2 AGN sample, combining the analysis of strong UV emission lines with predictions from photo-ionization models. We find that, in order to successfully reproduce the relative intensity of UV emission lines of the selected high-z type 2 AGN, two new ingredients in the photo-ionization models are fundamental,i.e. small inner radii of the NLR (~90pc for LAGN=10^45^erg/s) and the internal dissipative micro-turbulence of the gas emitting clouds (with v_micr_~100km/s). With these modified models, we compute the gas-phase metallicity of the NLR, and our measurements indicate a statistically significant evolution of the metal content with redshift. Finally, we do not observe, in our CIV-selected type 2 AGN sample, a strong relationship between the NLR gas metallicity and the stellar mass of the host galaxy.
1212. Observation & radial velocity of WASP-150 & WASP-176
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/255
Title:
Observation & radial velocity of WASP-150 & WASP-176
Short Name:
J/AJ/159/255
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the discovery of two transiting exoplanets from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey, WASP-150b and WASP-176b. WASP-150b is an eccentric (e=0.38) hot Jupiter on a 5.6day orbit around a V=12.03, F8 main-sequence host. The host star has a mass and radius of 1.4M_{sun}_ and 1.7R_{sun}_ respectively. WASP-150b has a mass and radius of 8.5M_J_ and 1.1R_J_, leading to a large planetary bulk density of 6.4{rho}_J_. WASP-150b is found to be ~3Gyr old, well below its circularization timescale, supporting the eccentric nature of the planet. WASP-176b is a hot Jupiter planet on a 3.9day orbit around a V=12.01, F9 sub-giant host. The host star has a mass and radius of 1.3M{sun} and 1.9R{sun}. WASP-176b has a mass and radius of 0.86M_J_ and 1.5R_J_, respectively, leading to a planetary bulk density of 0.23{rho}_J_.
1213. Observations of binary stars with the DSSI. IX.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/233
Title:
Observations of binary stars with the DSSI. IX.
Short Name:
J/AJ/159/233
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report 370 measures of 170 components of binary and multiple-star systems, obtained from speckle imaging observations made with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI) at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope in 2015 through 2017. Of the systems studied, 147 are binary stars, 10 are seen as triple systems, and 1 quadruple system is measured. Seventy-six high-quality nondetections and 15 newly resolved components are presented in our observations. The uncertainty in relative astrometry appears to be similar to our previous work at Lowell, namely, linear measurement uncertainties of approximately 2mas, and the relative photometry appears to be uncertain at the 0.1-0.15mag level. Using these measures and those in the literature, we calculate six new visual orbits, including one for the Be star 66Oph and two combined spectroscopic-visual orbits. The latter two orbits, which are for HD22451 (YSC127) and HD185501 (YSC135), yield individual masses of the components at the level of 2% or better, and independent distance measures that in one case agrees with the value found in the Gaia DR2 and in the other disagrees at the 2{sigma} level. We find that HD22451 consists of an F6V+F7V pair with orbital period of 2401.1{+/-}3.2days and masses of 1.342{+/-}0.029 and 1.236{+/-}0.026M_{sun}_. For HD185501, both stars are G5 dwarfs that orbit one another with a period of 433.94{+/-}0.15days, and the masses are 0.898{+/-}0.012 and 0.876{+/-}0.012M_{sun}_. We discuss the details of both the new discoveries and the orbit objects.
1214. Observed red supergiants in the inner Galaxy
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/822/L5
Title:
Observed red supergiants in the inner Galaxy
Short Name:
J/ApJ/822/L5
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this Letter, we present a search for Galactic red supergiant stars (RSGs) in the direction of the inner Galaxy. A total of 94 targets selected from the 2MASS (Cat. VII/233) and GLIMPSE I North (Benjamin et al. 2003, Cat. II/293; Churchwell et al. 2009PASP..121..213C) catalogs - via their blue extinction-free Q1 and Q2 colors - were spectroscopically observed at infrared wavelengths (in the H- and K-bands at R~1000), and an extraordinary high detection rate of RSGs (>61%) was found. We identified spectroscopically 58 RSGs, based on their flat continua and large equivalent widths of the CO-band at 2.293 {mu}m (EW>45 {AA}). This increase corresponds to about 25% of previously known RSGs in the Galactic region 10{deg}<l<60{deg}, -1.1{deg}<b<1.1{deg}. In order to confirm the location of the new RSGs in the inner Galaxy, distances were estimated for a subsample of 47 stars with the clump method and found to range from 3.6+/-0.4 to 8.6+/-0.7 kpc. The large new sample will allow us to investigate Galactic metallicity gradients as a function of galactocentric distances and azimuthal angles. Such information is currently an highly disputed issue to constrain models of Galaxy formation and evolution.
1215. OB stars from the LAMOST DR5 spectra
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/241/32
Title:
OB stars from the LAMOST DR5 spectra
Short Name:
J/ApJS/241/32
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present 22901 OB spectra of 16032 stars identified from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope data release 5 (LAMOST DR5) data set. A larger sample of OB candidates are first selected from the distributions in the spectral line indices' space. Then, all 22901 OB spectra are identified by manual inspection. Based on a subsample validation, we find that the completeness of the OB spectra reaches about 89+/-22% for the stars with spectral types earlier than B7, while around 57+/-16% B8-B9 stars are identified. The smaller completeness for late B stars will lead to the difficulty in discriminating them from A0-A1-type stars. The subclasses of the OB samples are determined using the software package MKCLASS. With a careful validation using 646 subsamples, we find that MKCLASS can give fairly reliable subtypes and luminosity classes for most of the OB stars. The uncertainty of the spectral subtype is around 1 subtype, and the uncertainty of the luminosity class is around 1 level. However, about 40% of the OB stars fail to be assigned to any class by MKCLASS, and a few spectra are significantly misclassified by MKCLASS. This is likely because the template spectra of MKCLASS are selected from nearby stars in the solar neighborhood, while the OB stars in this work are mostly located in the outer disk and may have lower metallicities. The rotation of the OB stars may also be responsible for the misclassifications. Moreover, we find that the spectral and luminosity classes of the OB stars located in the Galactic latitude larger than 20{deg} are substantially different with those located in the latitude smaller than 20{deg}, which may either be due to the observational selection effect or may hint a different origin of the high Galactic latitude OB stars.
1216. OB stars observed with high dispersion by IUE
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/105/305
Title:
OB stars observed with high dispersion by IUE
Short Name:
J/A+AS/105/305
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
An atlas on microfiche is described containing nearly 7000 high-dispersion spectra of OB stars obtained during the first 10 years with the IUE satellite. The data set is nearly complete for the selected time interval. The plotted wavelength range is from 1160 to 1890 A at the original IUE sampling intervals. The atlas is available by request.
1217. OB stars TESS phot. & high-resolution spectroscopy
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A36
Title:
OB stars TESS phot. & high-resolution spectroscopy
Short Name:
J/A+A/640/A36
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Massive stars are predicted to excite internal gravity waves (IGWs) by turbulent core convection and from turbulent pressure fluctuations in their near-surface layers. These IGWs are extremely efficient at transporting angular momentum and chemical species within stellar interiors, but they remain largely unconstrained observationally. We aim to characterise the photometric detection of IGWs across a large number of O and early-B stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, and explain the ubiquitous detection of stochastic variability in the photospheres of massive stars. We combined high-precision time-series photometry from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite with high-resolution ground-based spectroscopy of 70 stars with spectral types O and B to probe the relationship between the photometric signatures of IGWs and parameters such as spectroscopic mass, luminosity, and macroturbulence. A relationship is found between the location of a star in the spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and the amplitudes and frequencies of stochastic photometric variability in the light curves of massive stars. Furthermore, the properties of the stochastic variability are statistically correlated with macroturbulent velocity broadening in the spectral lines of massive stars. The common ensemble morphology for the stochastic low-frequency variability detected in space photometry and its relationship to macroturbulence is strong evidence for IGWs in massive stars, since these types of waves are unique in providing the dominant tangential velocity field required to explain the observed spectroscopy.
1218. OB-type spectroscopic binaries
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/598/A84
Title:
OB-type spectroscopic binaries
Short Name:
J/A+A/598/A84
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Massive binaries play a crucial role in the Universe. Knowing the distributions of their orbital parameters is important for a wide range of topics from stellar feedback to binary evolution channels and from the distribution of supernova types to gravitational wave progenitors, yet no direct measurements exist outside the Milky Way. The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring project was designed to help fill this gap by obtaining multi-epoch radial velocity (RV) monitoring of 102 massive binaries in the 30 Doradus region. In this paper we analyze 32 FLAMES/GIRAFFE observations of 93 O- and 7 B-type binaries. We performed a Fourier analysis and obtained orbital solutions for 82 systems: 51 single-lined (SB1) and 31 double-lined (SB2) spectroscopic binaries. Results. Overall, the binary fraction and orbital properties across the 30 Doradus region are found to be similar to existing Galactic samples. This indicates that within these domains environmental effects are of second order in shaping the properties of massive binary systems. A small difference is found in the distribution of orbital periods, which is slightly flatter (in log space) in 30 Doradus than in the Galaxy, although this may be compatible within error estimates and differences in the fitting methodology. Also, orbital periods in 30 Doradus can be as short as 1.1d, somewhat shorter than seen in Galactic samples. Equal mass binaries (q>0.95) in 30 Doradus are all found outside NGC 2070, the central association that surrounds R136a, the very young and massive cluster at 30 Doradus's core. Most of the differences, albeit small, are compatible with expectations from binary evolution. One outstanding exception, however, is the fact that earlier spectral types (O2-O7) tend to have shorter orbital periods than later spectral types (O9.2-O9.7). Our results point to a relative universality of the incidence rate of massive binaries and their orbital properties in the metallicity range from solar (Z_{sun}_) to about half solar. This provides the first direct constraints on massive binary properties in massive star-forming galaxies at the Universe's peak of star formation at redshifts z~1 to 2 which are estimated to have Z~0.5 Z_{sun}_.
1219. OCCAM. IV. Open cluster abundances using APOGEE DR16
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/199
Title:
OCCAM. IV. Open cluster abundances using APOGEE DR16
Short Name:
J/AJ/159/199
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to constrain key Galactic dynamical and chemical evolution parameters by the construction of a large, comprehensive, uniform, infrared-based spectroscopic data set of hundreds of open clusters. This fourth contribution from the OCCAM survey presents analysis using Sloan Digital Sky Survey/APOGEE DR16 of a sample of 128 open clusters, 71 of which we designate to be "high quality" based on the appearance of their color-magnitude diagram. We find the APOGEE DR16 derived [Fe/H] abundances to be in good agreement with previous high-resolution spectroscopic open cluster abundance studies. Using the high-quality sample, we measure Galactic abundance gradients in 16 elements, and find evolution of some of the [X/Fe] gradients as a function of age. We find an overall Galactic [Fe/H] versus Rgc gradient of -0.068{+-}0.001dex/kpc over the range of 6<Rgc<13.9kpc; however, we note that this result is sensitive to the distance catalog used, varying as much as 15%. We formally derive the location of a break in the [Fe/H] abundance gradient as a free parameter in the gradient fit for the first time. We also measure significant Galactic gradients in O, Mg, S, Ca, Mn, Cr, Cu, Na, Al, and K, some of which are measured for the first time. Our large sample allows us to examine four well-populated age bins in order to explore the time evolution of gradients for a large number of elements and comment on possible implications for Galactic chemical evolution and radial migration.
1220. Offset AGN Candidates
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/789/112
Title:
Offset AGN Candidates
Short Name:
J/ApJ/789/112
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are AGNs that are in ongoing galaxy mergers, which produce kinematic offsets in the AGNs relative to their host galaxies. Offset AGNs are also close relatives of dual AGNs. We conduct a systematic search for offset AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by selecting AGN emission lines that exhibit statistically significant line-of-sight velocity offsets relative to systemic. From a parent sample of 18,314 Type 2 AGNs at z < 0.21, we identify 351 offset AGN candidates with velocity offsets of 50 km/s <|{Delta}v| < 410 km/s. When we account for projection effects in the observed velocities, we estimate that 4%-8% of AGNs are offset AGNs. We designed our selection criteria to bypass velocity offsets produced by rotating gas disks, AGN outflows, and gravitational recoil of supermassive black holes, but follow-up observations are still required to confirm our candidates as offset AGNs. We find that the fraction of AGNs that are offset candidates increases with AGN bolometric luminosity, from 0.7% to 6% over the luminosity range 43 < log (L_bol_) [erg/s] <46. If these candidates are shown to be bona fide offset AGNs, then this would be direct observational evidence that galaxy mergers preferentially trigger high-luminosity AGNs. Finally, we find that the fraction of AGNs that are offset AGN candidates increases from 1.9% at z = 0.1 to 32% at z = 0.7, in step with the growth in the galaxy merger fraction over the same redshift range.