- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/598/375
- Title:
- Chandra X-ray observations of NGC 2024
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/598/375
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a sensitive 76ks Chandra observation of the young stellar cluster in NGC 2024, lying at a distance of ~415pc in the Orion B giant molecular cloud. Previous infrared observations have shown that this remarkable cluster contains several hundred embedded young stars, most of which are still surrounded by circumstellar disks. Thus, it presents a rare opportunity to study X-ray activity in a large sample of optically invisible protostars and classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) undergoing accretion. Chandra detected 283 X-ray sources, of which 248 were identified with counterparts at other wavelengths, mostly in the near-infrared. Astrometric registration of Chandra images against the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) resulted in positional offsets of ~0.25" near field center, yielding high confidence identifications of infrared counterparts.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/75
- Title:
- Circumstellar disks in the Upper Sco association
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have performed a survey for new members of the Upper Sco association that have circumstellar disks using mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Through optical and near-infrared spectroscopy, we have confirmed 185 candidates as likely members of Upper Sco with spectral types ranging from mid-K to M9. They comprise ~36% of the known disk-bearing members of the association. We also have compiled all available mid-infrared photometry from WISE and the Spitzer Space Telescope for the known members of Upper Sco, resulting in a catalog of data for 1608 objects. We have used these data to identify the members that exhibit excess emission from disks and we have classified the evolutionary stages of those disks with criteria similar to those applied in our previous studies of Taurus and Upper Sco. Among 484 members with excesses in at least one band (excluding five Be stars), we classify 296 disks as full, 66 as evolved, 19 as transitional, 22 as evolved or transitional, and 81 as evolved transitional or debris. Many of these disks have not been previously reported, including 129 full disks and 50 disks that are at more advanced evolutionary stages.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/194/4
- Title:
- Classification of CCCP X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/194/4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP) provides a sensitive X-ray survey of a nearby starburst region over >1deg^2^ in extent. Thousands of faint X-ray sources are found, many concentrated into rich young stellar clusters. However, significant contamination from unrelated Galactic and extragalactic sources is present in the X-ray catalog. We describe the use of a Naive Bayes classifier to assign membership probabilities to individual sources, based on source location, X-ray properties, and visual/infrared properties. For the particular membership decision rule adopted, 75% of CCCP sources are classified as members, 11% are classified as contaminants, and 14% remain unclassified. The resulting sample of stars likely to be Carina members is used in several other studies, which appear in this special issue devoted to the CCCP.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/403/996
- Title:
- Clusters and associations in SMC and LMC
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/403/996
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the degree of spatial correlation among extended structures in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). To this purpose, we work with subsamples characterized by different properties such as age and size, taken from the updated catalogue of Bica et al. (2008, Cat. J/MNRAS/389/678), or gathered in the present work. The structures are classified as star clusters or non-clusters (basically, nebular complexes and their stellar associations).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/499/175
- Title:
- ^12^CO(2-1) map of NGC 2264-C
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/499/175
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The role played by protostellar feedback in clustered star formation is still a matter of debate. In particular, protostellar outflows have been proposed as a source of turbulence in cluster-forming clumps, which may provide support against global collapse for several free-fall times. Here, we seek to test the above hypothesis in the case of the well-documented NGC 2264-C protocluster, by quantifying the amount of turbulence and support injected in the surrounding medium by protostellar outflows. Using the HERA heterodyne array on the IRAM 30m telescope, we carried out an extensive mapping of NGC 2264-C in the three molecular line transitions ^12^CO(2-1), ^13^CO(2-1), and C^18^O(2-1). We found widespread high-velocity 12 CO emission, testifying to the presence of eleven outflow lobes, closely linked to the compact millimeter continuum sources previously detected in the protocluster. We carried out a detailed analysis of the dynamical parameters of these outflows, including a quantitative evaluation of the overall momentum flux injected in the cluster-forming clump. These dynamical parameters were compared to the gravitational and turbulent properties of the clump. We show that the population of protostellar outflows identified in NGC 2264-C is likely to contribute a significant fraction of the observed turbulence but cannot efficiently support the protocluster against global collapse. Gravity appears to largely dominate the dynamics of the NGC 2264-C clump at the present time ; however it is possible that an increase in the star formation rate during the later evolution of the protocluster will trigger enough outflows to finally halt the contraction of the cloud.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/2483
- Title:
- Comoving group associated with HD 141569
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/2483
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for a young stellar moving group associated with the star HD 141569 - a nearby, isolated Herbig AeBe primary member of a 5+/-3Myr-old triple star system on the outskirts of the Sco-Cen complex. Our spectroscopic survey identified a population of 21 Li-rich, >~30Myr-old stars within 30{deg} of HD 141569 which possess similar proper motions with the star. The spatial distribution of these Li-rich stars, however, is not suggestive of a moving group associated with the HD 141569 triplet, but rather this sample appears cospatial with Upper Scorpius (US) and Upper Centaurus Lupus (UCL). We apply a modified moving cluster parallax method to compare the kinematics of these youthful stars with those of the US and UCL. Eight new potential members of US and five new potential members of UCL are identified. A substantial moving group with an identifiable nucleus within 15{deg} (~30pc) of HD 141569 is not found in this sample. Evidently, the HD 141569 system formed ~5Myr ago in relative isolation, tens of parsecs away from the recent sites of star formation in the Ophiucus-Scorpius-Centaurus region.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/257
- Title:
- Comoving stars in Gaia DR1
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/257
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The primary sample of the Gaia Data Release 1 is the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS): {simeq}2 million Tycho-2 sources with improved parallaxes and proper motions relative to the initial catalog. This increased astrometric precision presents an opportunity to find new binary stars and moving groups. We search for high-confidence comoving pairs of stars in TGAS by identifying pairs of stars consistent with having the same 3D velocity using a marginalized likelihood ratio test to discriminate candidate comoving pairs from the field population. Although we perform some visualizations using (bias-corrected) inverse parallax as a point estimate of distance, the likelihood ratio is computed with a probabilistic model that includes the covariances of parallax and proper motions and marginalizes the (unknown) true distances and 3D velocities of the stars. We find 13085 comoving star pairs among 10606 unique stars with separations as large as 10pc (our search limit). Some of these pairs form larger groups through mutual comoving neighbors: many of these pair networks correspond to known open clusters and OB associations, but we also report the discovery of several new comoving groups. Most surprisingly, we find a large number of very wide (>1pc) separation comoving star pairs, the number of which increases with increasing separation and cannot be explained purely by false-positive contamination. Our key result is a catalog of high-confidence comoving pairs of stars in TGAS. We discuss the utility of this catalog for making dynamical inferences about the Galaxy, testing stellar atmosphere models, and validating chemical abundance measurements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/405/1293
- Title:
- Compact star clusters in M81
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/405/1293
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the population of compact star clusters (CSCs) in M81, using the Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images in the filters F435W, F606W and F814W covering, for the first time, the entire optical extent of the galaxy. Our sample contains 435 clusters of full width at half-maximum less than 10 ACS pixels (9pc). The sample shows the presence of two cluster populations, a blue group of 263 objects brighter than B=22mag, and a red group of 172 objects, brighter than B=24mag. On the basis of analysis of colour-magnitude diagrams and making use of simple stellar population models,
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/382/1342
- Title:
- Compact stellar systems around NGC 1399
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/382/1342
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained spectroscopic redshifts of colour-selected point sources in four wide area VLT-FLAMES (Very Large Telescope-Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph) fields around the Fornax cluster giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1399, identifying as cluster members 27 previously unknown faint (-10.5<M_g'_<-8.8) compact stellar systems (CSS), and improving redshift accuracy for 23 previously catalogued CSS.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/551/A46
- Title:
- Compiled photometry for Cham I and II members
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/551/A46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a proper motion study aiming at providing further evidence on the origin of the proposed stellar members of the Chamaeleon I and II clouds and to identify interlopers from the foreground young clusters {epsilon} Cha and {eta} Cha. We compiled lists of spectroscopically confirmed members of the four associations, and of background objects in the same line of sight. Using Virtual Observatory tools, we cross-matched these lists with the UCAC3 (Cat. I/315) catalogue to get proper motions for the objects. In the vector point diagram, we identified the different moving groups, and used this information to study the membership of proposed candidate members of the associations from the literature. For those objects with available radial velocities, we computed their Galactic space velocities. We compiled photometry from public data archives and from the literature for the Cha I and II objects. We looked for correlations between the properties of the objects and their proper motions.
