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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/239/27
- Title:
- LEGA-C DR2: galaxies in the COSMOS field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/239/27
- Date:
- 01 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the second data release of the Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (LEGA-C), an ESO 130-night public spectroscopic survey conducted with VIMOS on the Very Large Telescope. We release 1988 spectra with typical continuum S/N~20{AA}^-1^ of galaxies at 0.6<~z<~1.0, each observed for ~20hr and fully reduced with a custom-built pipeline. We also release a catalog with spectroscopic redshifts, emission-line fluxes, Lick/IDS indices, and observed stellar and gas velocity dispersions that are spatially integrated quantities, including both rotational motions and genuine dispersion. To illustrate the new parameter space in the intermediate-redshift regime probed by LEGA-C, we explore relationships between dynamical and stellar population properties. The star-forming galaxies typically have observed stellar velocity dispersions of ~150km/s and strong H{delta} absorption (H{delta}_A_~5{AA}), while passive galaxies have higher observed stellar velocity dispersions (~200km/s) and weak H{delta} absorption (H{delta}_A_~0{AA}). Strong [OIII]5007/H{beta} ratios tend to occur mostly for galaxies with weak H{delta}_A_ or galaxies with higher observed velocity dispersion. Beyond these broad trends, we find a diversity of possible combinations of rest-frame colors, absorption-line strengths, and emission-line detections, illustrating the utility of spectroscopic measurements to more accurately understand galaxy evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/616/A118
- Title:
- Lensed QSOs light curves & spectral monitoring
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/616/A118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the framework of the Gravitational LENses and DArk MAtter (GLENDAMA) project, we present a database of nine gravitationally lensed quasars (GLQs) that have two or four images brighter than r=20mag and are located in the northern hemisphere. This new database consists of a rich variety of follow-up observations included in the GLENDAMA global archive, which is publicly available online and contains 6557 processed astronomical frames of the nine lens systems over the period 1999-2016. In addition to the GLQs, our archive also incorporates binary quasars, accretion-dominated radio-loud quasars, and other objects, where about 50% of the non-GLQs were observed as part of a campaign to identify GLQ candidates. Most observations of GLQs correspond to an ongoing long-term macro-programme with 2-10m telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, and these data provide information on the distribution of dark matter at all scales. We outline some previous results from the database, and we additionally obtain new results for several GLQs that update the potential of the tool for astrophysical studies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A92
- Title:
- Li abundance in solar analogues
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A92
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We want to study the effects of the formation of planets and planetary systems on the atmospheric Li abundance of planet host stars. In this work we present new determinations of lithium abundances for 326 main sequence stars with and without planets in the Teff range 5600-5900K. The 277 stars come from the HARPS sample, the remaining targets were observed with a variety of high-resolution spectrographs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/133/221
- Title:
- Library of ELODIE spectra (F5-K7 stars)
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/133/221
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A library of 211 echelle spectra taken with ELODIE at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence is proposed. It provides a set of spectroscopic standards covering the full range of gravities and metallicities in the effective temperature interval [4000K, 6300K]. The spectra are straightened, wavelength calibrated, cleaned of cosmic ray hits, bad pixels and telluric lines. They cover the spectral range [440nm, 680nm] with an instrumental resolution of 42000. For each star, basic data were compiled from the Hipparcos catalogue (Cat. <I/239>) and the Hipparcos Input Catalogue (Cat. <I/196>) (Table 1). Radial velocities with a precision better than 100m/s are given. Atmospheric parameters Teff, logg, [Fe/H] from the literature are discussed. Because of scattered determinations in the bibliography, even for the most well-known stars, these parameters were adjusted by an iterative process which takes account of common or different spectral features between the standards, using our homogeneous set of spectra. Revised values of effective temperature, gravity and metallicity are proposed in Table 1. They are still consistent with the literature, and also lead to the self-consistency of the library, in the sense that similar spectra have similar atmospheric parameters. This adjustment was performed by using step by step a method based on the least square comparison of carefully prepared spectra, which was originally developed for the on-line estimation of the atmospheric parameters of faint field stars (Katz et al., 1998A&A...338..151K. Paper I.).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/146/217
- Title:
- Library of Spectra (0.5 to 2.5um) of Cool Stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/146/217
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The present catalogue contains 182 low resolution optical spectra, 145 medium resolution (R~1100) near-IR spectra, and 112 merged optical+near-IR spectra that range from about 510 to 2450 nm. The observed stars are luminous cool objects: the sample includes red giants, red supergiants, oxygen rich and carbon rich long period variables (asymptotic giant branch stars), as well as a few Galactic Bulge and LMC/SMC stars. The optical data were acquired on the so-called 74 inch Telescope at Mount Stromlo Observatory. The near-IR data were acquired with the Cryogenic Array Spectrometer and Imager CASPIR on the 2.3 meter Australian National University Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. Optical and near-IR data for variable objects have been merged only when both were taken less than 15 days apart; but both spectral ranges are also provided separately. The spectra are corrected for telluric absorption. However, in regions where the transmission of the Earth atmosphere is close to zero the fluxes recovered remain highly uncertain. The flux calibration is based on a series of reference stars, for which a theoretical intrinsic energy distribution was assumed. An absolute flux calibration (to about 10% accuracy) was only achieved in exceptional cases; in the other cases, the absolute fluxes can be off their real values by an order of magnitude due to slit losses (for the programme star and/or the reference star) and to non-photometric wheather. Uncertainties in the relative values of fluxes along each spectrum are described in the paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/128/485
- Title:
- Library of UES spectra late-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/128/485
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a library of Utrecht echelle spectrograph (UES) observations of a sample of F, G, K and M field dwarf stars covering the spectral range from 4800{AA} to 10600{AA} with a resolution of 55000. These spectra include some of the spectral lines most widely used as optical and near-infrared indicators of chromospheric activity such as H{beta}, MgI b triplet, NaI D{1}, D{2}, HeI D{3}, H{alpha}, and CaII IRT lines, as well as a large number of photospheric lines which can also be affected by chromospheric activity. The spectra have been compiled with the aim of providing a set of standards observed at high-resolution to be used in the application of the spectral subtraction technique to obtain the active-chromosphere contribution to these lines in chromospherically active single and binary stars. This library can also be used for spectral classification purposes. A digital version with all the spectra is available via ftp and the World Wide Web (WWW) (http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/Astrof/fgkmsl/UESfgkmsl.html) in FITS format.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/90
- Title:
- Li, C and O abundances of FGK stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/90
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Abundances of lithium, carbon, and oxygen have been derived using spectral synthesis for a sample of 249 bright F, G, and K Northern Hemisphere dwarf stars from the high-resolution spectra acquired with the Vilnius University Echelle Spectrograph (VUES) at the Moletai Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University. The sample stars have metallicities, effective temperatures, and ages between -0.7-0.4dex, 5000-6900K, 1-12Gyr, accordingly. We confirm a so far unexplained lithium abundance decrease at supersolar metallicities --A(Li) in our sample stars, which drop by 0.7dex in the [Fe/H] range from +0.10 to +0.55dex. Furthermore, we identified stars with similar ages, atmospheric parameters, and rotational velocities, but with significantly different lithium abundances, which suggests that additional specific evolutionary factors should be taken into account while interpreting the stellar lithium content. Nine stars with predominantly supersolar metallicities, i.e., about 12% among 78 stars with C and O abundances determined, have the C/O number ratios larger than 0.65, thus may form carbon-rich rocky planets. Ten planet-hosting stars, available in our sample, do not show a discernible difference from the stars with no planets detected regarding their lithium content.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/217/26
- Title:
- Lick AGN monitoring 2011: light curves
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/217/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the Spring of 2011 we carried out a 2.5 month reverberation mapping campaign using the 3m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory, monitoring 15 low-redshift Seyfert 1 galaxies. This paper describes the observations, reductions and measurements, and data products from the spectroscopic campaign. The reduced spectra were fitted with a multicomponent model in order to isolate the contributions of various continuum and emission-line components. We present light curves of broad emission lines and the active galactic nucleus (AGN) continuum, and measurements of the broad H{beta} line widths in mean and rms spectra. For the most highly variable AGNs we also measured broad H{beta} line widths and velocity centroids from the nightly spectra. In four AGNs exhibiting the highest variability amplitudes, we detect anticorrelations between broad H{beta} width and luminosity, demonstrating that the broad-line region "breathes" on short timescales of days to weeks in response to continuum variations. We also find that broad H{beta} velocity centroids can undergo substantial changes in response to continuum variations; in NGC 4593, the broad H{beta} velocity shifted by ~250km/s over a 1 month period. This reverberation-induced velocity shift effect is likely to contribute a significant source of confusion noise to binary black hole searches that use multi-epoch quasar spectroscopy to detect binary orbital motion. We also present results from simulations that examine biases that can occur in measurement of broad-line widths from rms spectra due to the contributions of continuum variations and photon-counting noise.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/442/220
- Title:
- Lick indices for FGK stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/442/220
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present FEROS-Lick/SDSS, an empirical data base of Lick/SDSS spectral indices of FGK stars to be used in population synthesis projects for discriminating different stellar populations within the integrated light of galaxies and globular clusters. From about 2500 FEROS stellar spectra obtained from the European Southern Observatory Science Archive Facility, we computed line-strength indices for 1085 non-supergiant stars with atmospheric parameter estimates from the AMBRE project. Two samples of 312 dwarfs and of 83 subgiants} with solar chemical composition and no significant {alpha}-element abundance enhancement are used to compare their observational indices with the predictions of the Lick/SDSS library of synthetic indices. In general, the synthetic library reproduces very well the behaviour of observational indices as a function of temperature, but in the case of low-temperature (T_eff_<~5000K) dwarfs; low-temperature subgiants are not numerous enough to derive any conclusion. Several possible causes of the disagreement are discussed and promising theoretical improvements are presented.
