- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/437/1791
- Title:
- RMS survey: molecular observations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/437/1791
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have used the well-selected sample of ~1750 embedded, young, massive stars identified by the Red MSX Source (RMS) survey to investigate the Galactic distribution of recent massive star formation. We present molecular line observations for ~800 sources without existing radial velocities. We describe the various methods used to assign distances extracted from the literature and solve the distance ambiguities towards approximately 200 sources located within the solar circle using archival Hi data. These distances are used to calculate bolometric luminosities and estimate the survey completeness (~2x10^4^L_{sun}_). In total, we calculate the distance and luminosity of ~1650 sources, one third of which are above the survey's completeness threshold. Examination of the sample's longitude, latitude, radial velocities and mid-infrared images has identified ~120 small groups of sources, many of which are associated with well-known star formation complexes, such as G305, G333, W31, W43, W49 and W51. We compare the positional distribution of the sample with the expected locations of the spiral arms, assuming a model of the Galaxy consisting of four gaseous arms. The distribution of young massive stars in the Milky Way is spatially correlated with the spiral arms, with strong peaks in the source position and luminosity distributions at the arms' Galactocentric radii. The overall source and luminosity surface densities are both well correlated with the surface density of the molecular gas, which suggests that the massive star formation rate per unit molecular mass is approximately constant across the Galaxy. A comparison of the distribution of molecular gas and the young massive stars to that in other nearby spiral galaxies shows similar radial dependences. We estimate the total luminosity of the embedded massive star population to be ~0.76x10^8^L_{sun}_, 30 per cent of which is associated with the 10 most active star-forming complexes. We measure the scaleheight as a function of the Galactocentric distance and find that it increases only modestly from ~20-30pc between 4 and 8kpc, but much more rapidly at larger distances.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/1125
- Title:
- RMS survey: NIR spectroscopy of massive YSOs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/1125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Near-infrared H- and K-band spectra are presented for 247 objects, selected from the Red MSX Source (RMS) survey as potential young stellar objects (YSOs). 195 (~80%) of the targets are YSOs, of which 131 are massive YSOs (L_BOL_>5x10^3^L_{sun}_, M>8M_{sun}_). This is the largest spectroscopic study of massive YSOs to date, providing a valuable resource for the study of massive star formation. In this paper, we present our exploratory analysis of the data. The YSOs observed have a wide range of embeddedness (2.7<A_V_<114), demonstrating that this study covers minimally obscured objects right through to very red, dusty sources. Almost all YSOs show some evidence for emission lines, though there is a wide variety of observed properties. The most commonly detected lines are Br{gamma}, H_2_, fluorescent FeII, CO bandhead, [FeII] and HeI 2-1 1S-1P, in order of frequency of occurrence. In total, ~40% of the YSOs display either fluorescent FeII 1.6878{mu}m or CO bandhead emission (or both), indicative of a circumstellar disc; however, no correlation of the strength of these lines with bolometric luminosity was found. We also find that ~60% of the sources exhibit [FeII] or H_2_ emission, indicating the presence of an outflow. Three quarters of all sources have Br{gamma} in emission. A good correlation with bolometric luminosity was observed for both the Br{gamma} and H_2_ emission line strengths, covering 1<L_BOL_<3.5x10^5^L_{sun}_. This suggests that the emission mechanism for these lines is the same for low-, intermediate- and high-mass YSOs, i.e. high-mass YSOs appear to resemble scaled-up versions of low-mass YSOs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/53
- Title:
- ROGUE. I. SDSS galaxies with FIRST
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the catalog of Radio sources associated with Optical Galaxies and having Unresolved or Extended morphologies I (ROGUE I), consisting of 32616 spectroscopically selected galaxies. It is the largest handmade catalog of this kind, obtained by cross-matching galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 and radio sources from both the First Images of Radio Sky at Twenty Centimetre (FIRST) survey and the NRAO Very Large Array Sky Survey, without imposing a limit on the radio flux densities. The catalog provides a visual classification of radio and optical morphologies of galaxies presenting a FIRST core within 3" of the optical position. The radio morphological classification is performed by examining the radio-optical overlays of linear sizes equal to 1Mpc at the source distance, while the 120" image snapshots from the SDSS database are used for optical classification. The results of our search are as follows: (i) single-component unresolved and elongated radio sources constitute the major group in the ROGUE I catalog (~90%), and ~8% exhibit extended morphologies; (ii) samples of 269, 730, and 115 Fanaroff-Riley (FR) type I, II, and hybrid galaxies, respectively, are presented; (iii) we report 55 newly discovered giant/possible giant, 16 double-double, 9 X-shaped, and 25 Z-shaped radio sources; (iv) on the optical front, most galaxies have elliptical morphologies (~62%) while spirals form the second major category (~17%) followed by distorted (~12%) and lenticular (~7%) morphologies; and (v) division between the FR I and the FR II sources in the radio-optical luminosity plane is blurred, in tune with recent studies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/709/884
- Title:
- Role of starburst-AGN composites in LIRG mergers
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/709/884
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the fraction of starbursts, starburst-active galactic nucleus (AGN) composites, Seyferts, and low-ionization narrow emission-line region galaxies (LINERs) as a function of infrared luminosity (LIR) and merger progress for ~500 infrared (IR)-selected galaxies. Using the new optical classifications afforded by the extremely large data set of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we find that the fraction of LINERs in IR-selected samples is rare (<5%) compared with other spectral types. The lack of strong IR emission in LINERs is consistent with recent optical studies suggesting that LINERs contain AGN with lower accretion rates than in Seyfert galaxies. Most previously classified IR-luminous LINERs are classified as starburst-AGN composite galaxies in the new scheme. Starburst-AGN composites appear to "bridge" the spectral evolution from starburst to AGN in ULIRGs. The relative strength of the AGN versus starburst activity shows a significant increase at high IR luminosity. In ULIRGs (LIR>10^12^L_{sun}_), starburst-AGN composite galaxies dominate at early-intermediate stages of the merger, and AGN galaxies dominate during the final merger stages.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/837/96
- Title:
- Rotation-Activity Correlations in K-M dwarfs II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/837/96
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the rotation-activity correlations (RACs) in a sample of stars from spectral type dK4 to dM4. We study RACs using chromospheric data and coronal data. We study the Ca II line surface fluxes-P/sini RACs. We fit the RACs with linear homoscedastic and heteroscedastic regression models. We find that these RACs differ substantially from one spectral sub-type to another. For dM3 and dM4 stars, we find that the RACs cannot be described by a simple model, but instead that there may exist two distinct RAC behaviors for the low-activity and the high-activity stellar sub-samples, respectively. Although these results are preliminary and will need confirmation, the data suggest that these distinct RACs may be associated with different dynamo regimes. We also study R'_HK_ as a function of the Rossby number R_0_. We find (i) for dK4 stars, R'_HK_ as a function of R_0_ agrees well with previous results for F-G-K stars and (ii) in dK6, dM2, dM3, and dM4 stars, at a given R_0_, the values of R'_HK_ lie at a factor of 3, 10, 20, and 90, respectively, below the F-G-K RAC. Our results suggest a significant decrease in the efficiency of the dynamo mechanism(s) as regards chromospheric heating before and at dM3, i.e., before and at the transition to complete convection. We also show that the ratio of coronal heating to chromospheric heating L_X_/L_HK_ increases by a factor of 100 between dK4 and dM4 stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/114/2402
- Title:
- Rotation curves of early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/114/2402
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Optical long-slit rotation curves have been studied for 304 northern Sb-Sc galaxies from the Courteau-Faber (CF) sample designed for Tully-Fischer (TF) applications; r-band photometry exists also for each galaxy of the sample. The procedure of rotation curve (RC) extraction and construction of optical profiles are analogous to 21cm integrated linewidths. More than 20% of the galaxies were observed twice or more, allowing for a proper determination of systematic errors. Various measures of maximum rotational velocity to be used as input in the TF relation are tested on the basis of their repeatability, minimization of TF scatter, and match with 21cm linewidths. The best measure of TF velocity, V2.2 is given at the location of peak rotational velocity of a pure exponential disk. An alternative measure to V2.2 which makes no assumption about the luminosity profile or shape of the rotation curve is Vhist, the 20% width of the velocity histogram, though the match with 21cm linewidths is not good. The paper shows that optical TF calibrations yield internal scatter comparable to, if not smaller than, the best calibrations based on single-dish 21cm radio linewidths. Tables 6 and 7 contain the values of the parameters fitting the rotation curves of two samples of galaxies: the CF (Courteau-Faber) sample (table6) and the MAT (Mathewson et al., 1992ApJS...81..413M) sample (table7). Two fitting models were used: the ArcTan function (Model 1) where the velocity varies as v(r) = v(0) + K . arctan(R) (R being (r-r_0_)/r_t_) and a multi-parameter function (Model 2) modelling the rotation curve close to a solid-body close to the rotation center, and close to a flat rotation at large distances (see section 5 of the paper).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/898/102
- Title:
- Rotation velocity & dynamical mass of gal. from HI sp.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/898/102
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 08:49:45
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The integrated 21cm HI emission profile of a galaxy encodes valuable information on the kinematics, spatial distribution, and dynamical state of its cold interstellar medium. The line width, in particular, reflects the rotation velocity of the galaxy, which, in combination with a size scale, can be used to constrain the dynamical mass of the system. We introduce a new method based on the concept of the curve of growth to derive a set of robust parameters to characterize the line width, asymmetry, and concentration of the integrated HI spectra. We use mock spectra to evaluate the performance of our method, to estimate realistic systematic uncertainties for the proposed parameters, and to correct the line widths for the effects of instrumental resolution and turbulence broadening. Using a large sample of nearby galaxies with available spatially resolved kinematics, we demonstrate that the newly defined line widths can predict the rotational velocities of galaxies to within an accuracy of <~30km/s. We use the calibrated line widths, in conjunction with the empirical relation between the size and mass of HI disks, to formulate a prescription for estimating the dynamical mass within the HI-emitting region of gas-rich galaxies. Our formalism yields dynamical masses accurate to ~0.3dex based solely on quantities that can be derived efficiently and robustly from current and future extragalactic HI surveys. We further extend the dynamical mass calibration to the scale of the dark matter halo.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/898/76
- Title:
- Rot. velocities of APOGEE stars in Kepler field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/898/76
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 08:47:46
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use 5337 spectroscopic vsini measurements of Kepler dwarfs and subgiants from the APOGEE survey to study stellar rotation trends. We find a detection threshold of 10km/s, which allows us to explore the spindown of intermediate-mass stars leaving the main sequence, merger products, young stars, and tidally synchronized binaries. We see a clear distinction between blue stragglers and the field turnoff in {alpha}-rich stars, with a sharp rapid rotation cutoff for blue stragglers consistent with the Kraft break. We also find rapid rotation and radial velocity variability in a sample of red straggler stars, considerably cooler than the giant branch, lending credence to the hypothesis that these are active, tidally synchronized binaries. We see clear evidence for a transition between rapid and slow rotation on the subgiant branch in the domain predicted by modern angular momentum evolution models. We find substantial agreement between the spectroscopic and photometric properties of KIC targets added by Huber+ (2014, J/ApJS/211/2) based on Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry. For the unevolved lower main sequence, we see the same concentration toward rapid rotation in photometric binaries as that observed in rotation period data, but at an enhanced rate. We attribute this difference to unresolved near-equal-luminosity spectroscopic binaries with velocity displacements on the order of the APOGEE resolution. Among cool unevolved stars we find an excess rapid rotator fraction of 4% caused by pipeline issues with photometric binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/249/30
- Title:
- R-Process Alliance: metal-poor star spectroscopy
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/249/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This compilation is the fourth data release from the R-Process Alliance (RPA) search for r-process-enhanced stars and the second release based on "snapshot" high-resolution (R~30000) spectra collected with the du Pont 2.5m Telescope. In this data release, we propose a new delineation between the r-I and r-II stellar classes at [Eu/Fe]=+0.7, instead of the empirically chosen [Eu/Fe]=+1.0 level previously in use, based on statistical tests of the complete set of RPA data released to date. We also statistically justify the minimum level of [Eu/Fe] for definition of the r-I stars, [Eu/Fe]>+0.3. Redefining the separation between r-I and r-II stars will aid in the analysis of the possible progenitors of these two classes of stars and determine whether these signatures arise from separate astrophysical sources at all. Applying this redefinition to previous RPA data, the number of identified r-II and r-I stars changes to 51 and 121, respectively, from the initial set of data releases published thus far. In this data release, we identify 21 new r-II, 111 new r-I (plus 3 re-identified), and 7 new (plus 1 re-identified) limited-r stars out of a total of 232 target stars, resulting in a total sample of 72 new r-II stars, 232 new r-I stars, and 42 new limited-r stars identified by the RPA to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/868/110
- Title:
- R-Process Alliance: 1st release in Galactic halo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/868/110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the detailed abundances and r-process classifications of 125 newly identified metal-poor stars as part of an ongoing collaboration, the R-Process Alliance. The stars were identified as metal-poor candidates from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) and were followed up at high spectral resolution (R~31500) with the 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory. The atmospheric parameters were determined spectroscopically from FeI lines, taking into account <3D> non-LTE corrections and using differential abundances with respect to a set of standards. Of the 125 new stars, 124 have [Fe/H]{<}-1.5, 105 have [Fe/H]{<}-2.0, and 4 have [Fe/H]{<}-3.0. Nine new carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars have been discovered, three of which are enhanced in r-process elements. Abundances of neutron-capture elements reveal 60 new r-I stars (with +0.3<=[Eu/Fe]<=+1.0 and [Ba/Eu]<0) and 4 new r-II stars (with [Eu/Fe]>+1.0). Nineteen stars are found to exhibit a "limited-r" signature ([Sr/Ba]>+0.5, [Ba/Eu]<0). For the r-II stars, the second- and third-peak main r-process patterns are consistent with the r-process signature in other metal-poor stars and the Sun. The abundances of the light, {alpha}, and Fe-peak elements match those of typical Milky Way (MW) halo stars, except for one r-I star that has high Na and low Mg, characteristic of globular cluster stars. Parallaxes and proper motions from the second Gaia data release yield UVW space velocities for these stars that are consistent with membership in the MW halo. Intriguingly, all r-II and the majority of r-I stars have retrograde orbits, which may indicate an accretion origin.
