- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/201/19
- Title:
- Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/201/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Astrometry and photometry for 318 ultracool dwarfs in 265 systems that have measured trigonometric parallaxes. To be included in this tabulation, an object must have a spectral type >=M6 or a K-band absolute magnitude >8.5mag. Parallaxes, proper motions, and coordinates at a specified epoch are given for all objects. Photometric measurements in MKO, 2MASS, Spitzer, and WISE systems are given when available. Various other flags that provide additional information about the object or photometry are included.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/833/96
- Title:
- Hawaii infrared parallax program. II. Ultracool dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/833/96
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a large, uniform analysis of young (~10-150Myr) ultracool dwarfs, based on new high-precision infrared (IR) parallaxes for 68 objects. We find that low-gravity (VL-G) late-M and L dwarfs form a continuous sequence in IR color-magnitude diagrams, separate from the field population and from current theoretical models. These VL-G objects also appear distinct from young substellar (brown dwarf and exoplanet) companions, suggesting that the two populations may have a different range of physical properties. In contrast, at the L/T transition, young, old, and spectrally peculiar objects all span a relatively narrow range in near-IR absolute magnitudes. At a given spectral type, the IR absolute magnitudes of young objects can be offset from ordinary field dwarfs, with the largest offsets occurring in the Y and J bands for late-M dwarfs (brighter than the field) and mid-/late-L dwarfs (fainter than the field). Overall, low-gravity (VL-G) objects have the most uniform photometric behavior, while intermediate gravity (INT-G) objects are more diverse, suggesting a third governing parameter beyond spectral type and gravity class. We examine the moving group membership for all young ultracool dwarfs with parallaxes, changing the status of 23 objects (including 8 previously identified planetary-mass candidates) and fortifying the status of another 28 objects. We use our resulting age-calibrated sample to establish empirical young isochrones and show a declining frequency of VL-G objects relative to INT-G objects with increasing age. Notable individual objects in our sample include high-velocity (>~100km/s) INT-G objects, very red late-L dwarfs with high surface gravities, candidate disk-bearing members of the MBM20 cloud and {beta} Pic moving group, and very young distant interlopers. Finally, we provide a comprehensive summary of the absolute magnitudes and spectral classifications of young ultracool dwarfs, using a combined sample of 102 objects found in the field and as substellar companions to young stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/148/64
- Title:
- HAZMAT. I. FUV and NUV emission in early M stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/148/64
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The spectral energy distribution, variability, and evolution of the high-energy radiation from an M dwarf planet host is crucial in understanding the planet's atmospheric evolution and habitability and in interpreting the planet's spectrum. The star's extreme-UV (EUV), far-UV (FUV), and near-UV (NUV) emission can chemically modify, ionize, and erode the atmosphere over time. This makes determining the lifetime exposure of such planets to stellar UV radiation critical for both the evolution of a planet's atmosphere and our potential to characterize it. Using the early M star members of nearby young moving groups, which sample critical ages in planet formation and evolution, we measure the evolution of the GALEX NUV and FUV flux as a function of age. The median UV flux remains at a "saturated" level for a few hundred million years, analogous to that observed for X-ray emission. By the age of the Hyades Cluster (650Myr), we measure a drop in UV flux by a factor of 2-3 followed by a steep drop from old (several Gyrs) field stars. This decline in activity beyond 300Myr follows roughly t^-1^. Despite this clear evolution, there remains a wide range, of 1-2 orders of magnitude, in observed emission levels at every age. These UV data supply the much-needed constraints to M dwarf upper-atmosphere models, which will provide empirically motivated EUV predictions and more accurate age-dependent UV spectra as inputs to planetary photochemical models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/122
- Title:
- HAZMAT. III. Low-mass stars GALEX photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Low-mass stars are currently the most promising targets for detecting and characterizing habitable planets in the solar neighborhood. However, the ultraviolet (UV) radiation emitted by such stars can erode and modify planetary atmospheres over time, drastically affecting their habitability. Thus, knowledge of the UV evolution of low-mass stars is critical for interpreting the evolutionary history of any orbiting planets. Shkolnik & Barman (2014, J/AJ/148/64) used photometry from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to show how UV emission evolves for early-type M stars (>0.35 M_{sun}_). In this paper, we extend their work to include both a larger sample of low-mass stars with known ages as well as M stars with lower masses. We find clear evidence that mid- and late-type M stars (0.08-0.35 M_{sun}_) do not follow the same UV evolutionary trend as early-Ms. Lower-mass M stars retain high levels of UV activity up to field ages, with only a factor of 4 decrease on average in GALEX NUV and FUV flux density between young (<50 Myr) and old (~5 Gyr) stars, compared to a factor of 11 and 31 for early-Ms in NUV and FUV, respectively. We also find that the FUV/NUV flux density ratio, which can affect the photochemistry of important planetary biosignatures, is mass- and age-dependent for early-Ms, but remains relatively constant for the mid- and late-type Ms in our sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/67
- Title:
- HAZMAT. II. Low-mass stars with GALEX UV observations
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/67
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ultraviolet (UV) light from a host star influences a planet's atmospheric photochemistry and will affect interpretations of exoplanetary spectra from future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope. These effects will be particularly critical in the study of planetary atmospheres around M dwarfs, including Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone. Given the higher activity levels of M dwarfs compared to Sun-like stars, time-resolved UV data are needed for more accurate input conditions for exoplanet atmospheric modeling. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) provides multi-epoch photometric observations in two UV bands: near-ultraviolet (NUV; 1771-2831{AA}) and far-ultraviolet (FUV; 1344-1786{AA}). Within 30pc of Earth, there are 357 and 303 M dwarfs in the NUV and FUV bands, respectively, with multiple GALEX observations. Simultaneous NUV and FUV detections exist for 145 stars in both GALEX bands. Our analyses of these data show that low-mass stars are typically more variable in the FUV than the NUV. Median variability increases with later spectral types in the NUV with no clear trend in the FUV. We find evidence that flares increase the FUV flux density far more than the NUV flux density, leading to variable FUV to NUV flux density ratios in the GALEX bandpasses.The ratio of FUV to NUV flux is important for interpreting the presence of atmospheric molecules in planetary atmospheres such as oxygen and methane as a high FUV to NUV ratio may cause false-positive biosignature detections. This ratio of flux density in the GALEX bands spans three orders of magnitude in our sample, from 0.008 to 4.6, and is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude higher than for G dwarfs like the Sun. These results characterize the UV behavior for the largest set of low-mass stars to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/182
- Title:
- HDE Charts: positions, proper motions
- Short Name:
- III/182
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- of Paper: The Henry Draper Extension Charts (Cannon et al., 1949), published in the form of finding charts, provide spectral classification for some 87000 stars mostly between 10th and 11th magnitude. This data, being highly valuable, as yet was practically unusable for modern computer-based astronomy. An earlier pilot project (Roeser et al. 1991) demonstrated a possibility to convert this into a star catalogue, using measurements of cartesian coordinates of stars on the charts and positions of the Astrographic Catalogue (AC) for subsequent identification. We present here a final HDEC catalogue comprising accurate positions, proper motions, magnitudes and spectral classes for 86933 stars of the Henry Draper Extension Charts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/192
- Title:
- He II emission from Wolf-Rayet stars in MW & LMC
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/192
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We calibrated a technique to measure dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies. The technique utilizes the stellar-wind lines in Wolf-Rayet stars, which are widely observed in galaxy spectra. The He II 1640 and 4686 features are recombination lines whose ratio is largely determined by atomic physics. Therefore they can serve as a stellar dust probe in the same way as the Balmer lines are used as a nebular probe. We measured the strength of the He II 1640 line in 97 Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The reddening corrected fluxes follow a tight correlation with a fixed ratio of 7.76 for the He II 1640 to 4686 line ratio. Dust attenuation decreases this ratio. We provide a relation between the stellar E(B-V) and the observed line ratio for several attenuation laws. Combining this technique with the use of the nebular Balmer decrement allows the determination of the stellar and nebular dust attenuation in galaxies and can probe its effects at different stellar age and mass regimes, independently of the initial mass function and the star formation history. We derived the dust reddening from the He II line fluxes and compared it to the reddening from the Balmer decrement and from the slope of the ultraviolet continuum in two star-forming galaxies. The three methods result in dust attenuations which agree to within the errors. Future application of this technique permits studies of the stellar dust attenuation compared to the nebular attenuation in a representative galaxy sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/885/74
- Title:
- 1340 Helium rich white dwarfs in the Gaia era
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/885/74
- Date:
- 09 Mar 2022 22:00:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of 1023 DBZ/DZ(A) and 319 DQ white dwarf stars taken from the Montreal White Dwarf Database. This represents a significant increase over the previous comprehensive studies on these types of objects. We use new trigonometric parallax measurements from the Gaia second data release, together with photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Pan-STARRS, Gaia, or BVRI from the literature, which allow the determination of the mass for the majority of the objects in our sample. We use the photometric and spectroscopic techniques with our recently improved model atmospheres code, which include high-density effects, to accurately determine the effective temperature, surface gravity, and heavy-element abundances for each object. We study the abundance of hydrogen in DBZ/DZ white dwarfs and the properties of the accreted planetesimals. We explore the nature of the second sequence of DQ stars using proper motions from Gaia and highlight evidence of crystallization in massive DQ stars. We also present mass distributions for both spectral types. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings in the context of the spectral evolution of white dwarfs and provide the atmospheric parameters for each star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/135A
- Title:
- Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension
- Short Name:
- III/135A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An updated, corrected, and extended machine-readable version of The Henry Draper Catalogue (HD, Cannon & Pickering 1918-1924) is available with documentation from the Astronomical Data Center (ADC) as of April 1989. Published and unpublished errors discovered in the previous version have been corrected; letters indicating supplemental stars in the BD have been moved to a new byte to distinguish them from double-star components; and the machine-readable portion of The Henry Draper Extension (HDE) (HA 100; Cannon 1925-1936) has been converted to the same format as the main catalog with additional data added as necessary. The catalog lists HD numbers, Durchmusterung numbers, positions for equinox B1900, photovisual and photographic magnitudes, spectral types, codes for the intensity of the spectra used, and remarks.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/136/429
- Title:
- Herbig Ae/Be stars candidates
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/136/429
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have observed 42 Herbig Ae/Be stars candidates in both hemispheres using the high resolution spectrographs AURELIE and ELODIE at OHP, and CES at ESO. Table 1 present the journal of our spectroscopic observations.
