- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/893/56
- Title:
- T Tauri star IR excesses & Ha eq. widths
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/893/56
- Date:
- 19 Jan 2022 11:42:19
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the evolution of the inner few astronomical units of protoplanetary disks around low-mass stars. We consider nearby stellar groups with ages spanning from 1 to 11Myr, distributed into four age bins. Combining PANSTARSS photometry with spectral types, we derive the reddening consistently for each star, which we use (1) to measure the excess emission above the photosphere with a new indicator of IR excess and (2) to estimate the mass accretion rate (dM/dt) from the equivalent width of the H{alpha} line. Using the observed decay of dM/dt as a constraint to fix the initial conditions and the viscosity parameter of viscous evolutionary models, we use approximate Bayesian modeling to infer the dust properties that produce the observed decrease of the IR excess with age, in the range between 4.5 and 24{mu}m. We calculate an extensive grid of irradiated disk models with a two-layered wall to emulate a curved dust inner edge and obtain the vertical structure consistent with the surface density predicted by viscous evolution. We find that the median dust depletion in the disk upper layers is {epsilon}~3x10^-3^ at 1.5Myr, consistent with previous studies, and it decreases to {epsilon}~3x10^-4^ by 7.5Myr. We include photoevaporation in a simple model of the disk evolution and find that a photoevaporative wind mass-loss rate of ~1-3x10^-9^M_{sun}_/yr agrees with the decrease of the disk fraction with age reasonably well. The models show the inward evolution of the H_2_O and CO snowlines.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/105
- Title:
- Two new stellar associations in vicinity of the Sun
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work we report the discovery of two new stellar associations in close vicinity of the Sun at roughly 180 and 150pc. These two associations, u-Tau assoc and e-Tau assoc, were detected based on their clustering in a multi-dimensional parameter space including {alpha}, {delta}, {mu}_{alpha}_, {mu}_{delta}_, and \bar{omega} of Gaia. The fitting of pre-main-sequence model isochrones in their color-magnitude diagrams suggests that the two associations are of about 50Myr old and the group members lower than ~0.8M_{sun}_ are at the stage of post-T Tauri.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/753/156
- Title:
- T/Y brown dwarfs with WISE photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/753/156
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery of another seven Y dwarfs from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Using these objects, as well as the first six WISE Y dwarf discoveries from Cushing et al. (2011ApJ...743...50C), we further explore the transition between spectral types T and Y. We find that the T/Y boundary roughly coincides with the spot where the J-H colors of brown dwarfs, as predicted by models, turn back to the red. Moreover, we use preliminary trigonometric parallax measurements to show that the T/Y boundary may also correspond to the point at which the absolute H (1.6{mu}m) and W2 (4.6{mu}m) magnitudes plummet. We use these discoveries and their preliminary distances to place them in the larger context of the solar neighborhood. We present a table that updates the entire stellar and substellar constituency within 8pc of the Sun, and we show that the current census has hydrogen-burning stars outnumbering brown dwarfs by roughly a factor of six. This factor will decrease with time as more brown dwarfs are identified within this volume, but unless there is a vast reservoir of cold brown dwarfs invisible to WISE, the final space density of brown dwarfs is still expected to fall well below that of stars. We also use these new Y dwarf discoveries, along with newly discovered T dwarfs from WISE, to investigate the field substellar mass function. We find that the overall space density of late-T and early-Y dwarfs matches that from simulations describing the mass function as a power law with slope -0.5<{alpha}<0.0; however, a power law may provide a poor fit to the observed object counts as a function of spectral type because there are tantalizing hints that the number of brown dwarfs continues to rise from late-T to early-Y. More detailed monitoring and characterization of these Y dwarfs, along with dedicated searches aimed at identifying more examples, are certainly required.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/162
- Title:
- Tycho-2 stars in Galactic Bulge Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/761/162
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify 69 X-ray sources discovered by the Galactic Bulge Survey (GBS) that are coincident with or very close to bright stars in the Tycho-2 catalog. Additionally, two other GBS sources are resolved binary companions to Tycho-2 stars where both components are separately detected in X-rays. Most of these are likely to be real matches, but we identify nine objects with large and significant X-ray-to-optical offsets as either detections of resolved binary companions or chance alignments. We collate known spectral types for these objects, and also examine Two Micron All Sky Survey colors, variability information from the All-Sky Automated Survey, and X-ray hardness ratios for the brightest objects. Nearly a third of the stars are found to be optically variable, divided roughly evenly between irregular variations and periodic modulations. All fall among the softest objects identified by the GBS. The sample forms a very mixed selection, ranging in spectral class from O9 to M3. In some cases, the X-ray emission appears consistent with normal coronal emission from late-type stars, or wind emission from early-types, but the sample also includes one known Algol, one W UMa system, two Be stars, and several X-ray bright objects likely to be coronally active stars or binaries. Surprisingly, a substantial fraction of the spectroscopically classified, non-coincidental sample (12 out of 38 objects) have late B or A type counterparts. Many of these exhibit redder near-IR colors than expected for their spectral type and/or variability, and it is likely that the X-rays originate from a late-type companion star in most or all of these objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/46
- Title:
- UBVIc photometry in Westerlund 1
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/145/46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Westerlund 1 is the most important starburst cluster in the Galaxy due to its massive star content. We have performed BVI_C_ and JK_S_ photometry to investigate the initial mass function (IMF). By comparing the observed color with the spectral-type-intrinsic-color relation, we obtain the mean interstellar reddening of <E(B-V)>=4.19+/-0.23 and <E(J-K_S_)>=1.70+/-0.21. Due to the heavy extinction toward the cluster, the zero-age main sequence fitting method based on optical photometry proved to be inappropriate for the distance determination, while the near-infrared photometry gave a reliable distance to the cluster, 3.8kpc from the empirical relation. Using the recent theoretical stellar evolution models with rotation, the age of the cluster is estimated to be 5.0+/-1.0Myr. We derived the IMF in the massive part and obtained a fairly shallow slope of {Gamma}=-0.8+/-0.1. The integration of the IMF gave a total mass for the cluster in excess of 5.0x10^4^M_{sun}_. The IMF shows a clear radial variation indicating the presence of mass segregation. We also discuss the possible star formation history of Westerlund 1 from the presence of red supergiants and relatively low luminosity yellow hypergiants.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/46
- Title:
- UBV photometry of stars in Berkeley 55
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/143/46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present UBV photometry of the highly reddened and poorly studied open cluster Berkeley 55 (= C 2115+515), revealing an important population of B-type stars and several evolved stars of high luminosity. Intermediate-resolution far-red spectra of several candidate members confirm the presence of one F-type supergiant and six late supergiants or bright giants. The brightest blue stars are mid-B giants. Spectroscopic and photometric analyses indicate an age 50+/-10Myr. The cluster is located at a distance d~4kpc, consistent with other tracers of the Perseus Arm in this direction. Berkeley 55 is thus a moderately young open cluster with a sizable population of candidate red (super)giant members, which can provide valuable information about the evolution of intermediate-mass stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/19
- Title:
- 827 ultracool dwarfs with K2
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The occurrence of planets orbiting ultracool dwarfs is poorly constrained. We present results from a guest observer program on NASA's K2 spacecraft to search for transiting planets orbiting a sample of 827 ultracool dwarfs. Having found no transiting planets in our sample, we determined an upper limit on the occurrence of planets. We simulated planets orbiting our sample for a range of orbital periods and sizes. For the simulated planets that transit their host, we injected the transit light curve into the real K2 light curves, then attempted to recover the injected planets. For a given occurrence rate, we calculated the probability of seeing no planets, and use the results to place an upper limit on planet occurrence as a function of planet radius and orbital period. We find that short-period, mini-Neptune and Jupiter-sized planets are rare around ultracool dwarfs, consistent with results for early and mid-type M dwarf stars. We constrain the occurrence rate {eta} for planets between 0.5 and 10 R{earth} with orbital periods between 1 and 26.3days.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/144
- Title:
- ULX candidates in nearby Arp galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/143/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a statistical analysis of the ultra-luminous X-ray point sources (ULXs; L_X_>=10^39^erg/s) in a sample of galaxies selected from the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1996, Cat. VII/192; Webb, 1996, Cat. VII/192). We find a possible enhancement of a factor of ~2-4 in the number of ULXs per blue luminosity for the strongly interacting subset. Such an enhancement would be expected if ULX production is related to star formation, as interacting galaxies tend to have enhanced star formation rates on average. For most of the Arp galaxies in our sample, the total number of ULXs compared to the far-infrared luminosity is consistent with values found earlier for spiral galaxies. This suggests that for these galaxies, ULXs trace recent star formation. However, for the most infrared-luminous galaxies, we find a deficiency of ULXs compared to the infrared luminosity. For these very infrared-luminous galaxies, active galactic nuclei may contribute to powering the far-infrared; alternatively, ULXs may be highly obscured in the X-ray in these galaxies and therefore not detected by these Chandra observations. We determined local UV/optical colors within the galaxies in the vicinity of the candidate ULXs using Galaxy Evolution Explorer UV and Sloan Digitized Sky Survey optical images. In most cases, the distributions of colors are similar to the global colors of interacting galaxies. However, the u-g and r-i colors at the ULX locations tend to be bluer on average than these global colors, suggesting that ULXs are preferentially found in regions with young stellar populations. In the Arp sample there is a possible enhancement of a factor of ~2-5 in the fraction of galactic nuclei that are X-ray-bright compared to more normal spirals.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/750/98
- Title:
- 24um observations of AFGKM stars of 3 clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/750/98
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use Spitzer Space Telescope 24 {mu}m data to search for debris disks among 122 AFGKM stars from the ~670 Myr clusters Hyades, Coma Ber, and Praesepe, utilizing a number of advances in data reduction and determining the intrinsic colors of main-sequence stars. For our sample, the 1{sigma} dispersion about the main-sequence V-K_S_, K_S_-[24] locus is approximately 3.1%. We identify seven debris disks at 10% or more ( >=3{sigma} confidence level) above the expected K_S_-[24] for purely photospheric emission. The incidence of excesses of 10% or greater in our sample at this age is 5.7^+3.1^_-1.7_%. Combining with results from the literature, the rate is 7.8^+4.2^_-2.1_% for early-type (B9-F4) stars and 2.7^+3.3^_-1.7_% for solar-like (F5-K9) stars. Our primary sample has strict criteria for inclusion to allow comparison with other work; when we relax these criteria, three additional debris disks are detected. They are all around stars of solar-like type and hence reinforce our conclusion that disks around such stars are still relatively common at 670Myr and are similar to the rate around early-type stars. The apparently small difference in decay rates between early-type and solar-like stars is inconsistent with the first-order theoretical predictions that the later type stellar disks would decay an order of magnitude more quickly than the earlier type ones.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/211
- Title:
- Unresolved binaries in TESS with speckle imaging
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/211
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is conducting a two-year wide-field survey searching for transiting exoplanets around nearby bright stars that will be ideal for follow-up characterization. To facilitate studies of planet compositions and atmospheric properties, accurate and precise planetary radii need to be derived from the transit light curves. Since 40%-50% of exoplanet host stars are in multiple star systems, however, the observed transit depth may be diluted by the flux of a companion star, causing the radius of the planet to be underestimated. High angular resolution imaging can detect companion stars that are not resolved in the TESS Input Catalog, or by seeing-limited photometry, to validate exoplanet candidates and derive accurate planetary radii. We examine the population of stellar companions that will be detectable around TESS planet candidate host stars, and those that will remain undetected, by applying the detection limits of speckle imaging to the simulated host star populations of Sullivan et al. (2015, J/ApJ/809/77) and Barclay et al. (2018, J/ApJS/239/2). By detecting companions with contrasts of {Delta}m~<7-9 and separations of ~0.02"-1.2", speckle imaging can detect companion stars as faint as early M stars around A-F stars and stars as faint as mid-M around G-M stars, as well as up to 99% of the expected binary star distribution for systems located within a few hundred parsecs.
