- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/745/173
- Title:
- UV absorption sight lines of LMC and SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/745/173
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have determined column densities of H I and/or H_2_ for sight lines in the Magellanic Clouds from archival Hubble Space Telescope and Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer spectra of H I Ly{alpha} and H_2_Lyman-band absorption. Together with some similar data from the literature, we now have absorption-based N(H I) and/or N(H_2_) for 285 Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) sight lines (114 with a detection or limit for both species) - enabling more extensive, direct, and accurate determinations of molecular fractions, gas-to-dust ratios, and elemental depletions in these two nearby, low-metallicity galaxies. For sight lines where the N(H I) estimated from 21 cm emission is significantly higher than the value derived from Ly{alpha} absorption (presumably due to emission from gas beyond the target stars), integration of the 21 cm profile only over the velocity range seen in Na I or H_2_absorption generally yields much better agreement. Conversely, N(21 cm) can be lower than N(Ly{alpha}) by factors of 2-3 in some LMC sight lines - suggestive of small-scale structure within the 21 cm beam(s) and/or some saturation in the emission. The mean gas-to-dust ratios obtained from N(H_tot_)/E(B-V) are larger than in our Galaxy, by factors of 2.8-2.9 in the LMC and 4.1-5.2 in the SMC - i.e., factors similar to the differences in metallicity. The N(H_2_)/E(B-V) ratios are more similar in the three galaxies, but with considerable scatter within each galaxy. These data may be used to test models of the atomic-to-molecular transition at low metallicities and predictions of N(H_2_) based on comparisons of 21 cm emission and the IR emission from dust.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/164/38
- Title:
- UV and FIR properties of nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/164/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work presents the main ultraviolet (UV) and far-infrared (FIR) properties of two samples of nearby galaxies selected from the GALEX ({lambda}=2315{AA}, hereafter NUV) and IRAS ({lambda}=60{mu}m) surveys, respectively. They are built in order to obtain detection at both wavelengths for most of the galaxies. Star formation rate (SFR) estimators based on the UV and FIR emissions are compared. Systematic differences are found between the SFR estimators for individual galaxies based on the NUV fluxes corrected for dust attenuation and on the total IR luminosity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/696/924
- Title:
- UV and X-Ray radio-quiet QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/696/924
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We examine the ultraviolet and X-ray properties of 256 radio-quiet Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars (QSOs) observed in X-rays with Chandra and/or XMM-Newton in order to study the relationship between QSOs with broad CIV absorption lines (BALs; width>2000km/s) and those with CIV mini-BALs (here defined to have widths of 1000-2000km/s). Our sample includes 42 BAL and 48 mini-BAL QSOs. The relative X-ray brightness and hard spectral slopes of the mini-BAL population are, on average, intermediate between those of BAL and non-BAL QSOs, as might be expected if narrower and broader absorption line outflows are physically related. However, a significant population of mini-BALs has outflow velocities higher than would be expected for BAL QSOs of the same relative X-ray brightness. Consistently strong X-ray absorption is apparently not required to accelerate at least some mini-BALs to high outflow velocities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/399/728
- Title:
- UV-bright sources behind M31 halo
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/399/728
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have performed a wide-area ultraviolet (UV) imaging survey using the GALaxy Evolution eXplorer to search for bright, point-like UV sources behind M31's extended halo. Our survey consisted of 46 pointings covering an effective area of ~50deg^2^, in both the far-UV and near-UV channels. We combined these data with optical R-band observations acquired with the WIYN Mosaic-1 imager on the Kitt Peak National Observatory 0.9-m WIYN telescope. An analysis of the brightness and colours of sources matched between our photometric catalogues yielded ~100 UV-bright quasar candidates. We have obtained discovery spectra for 76 of these targets with the Kast spectrometer on the Lick 3-m telescope and confirmed 30 active galactic nuclei and quasars, 29 galaxies at z>0.02 including several early-type systems, 16 Galactic stars (hot main-sequence stars) and one featureless source previously identified as a BL Lac object. Future UV spectroscopy of the brightest targets with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope will enable a systematic search for diffuse gas in the extended halo of M31.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/39A
- Title:
- UV Bright Star Spectrophotometric Catalog
- Short Name:
- III/39A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue contains observations carried out by the S2/68 Ultraviolet Sky Survey Telescope (UVSST) aboard the ESRO Satellite TD-1, which measured the absolute ultraviolet flux distribution between 2740A (274nm) and 1350A (135nm). The data presented in this catalogue were obtained during the first observation period, which lasted from 19 March 1972 to 31 October 1972, and contains the brightest objects, for which the signal is good enough to give valuable spectrophotometric information. The Faint Star Catalogue, which contains the photometric data of the stars up to the limit of detectability of the instrument, is known as the "Catalogue of Ultraviolet Fluxes", by Thompson et al. (catalog <II/59>) The S2/68 experiment has been described by Boksenberg et al. (=1973MNRAS.163..291B) and the absolute calibration by Humphries et al. (=1976A&A....49..389H).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/83
- Title:
- UV continuum for z~4-7 star-forming galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/754/83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Ultra-deep Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and WFC3/IR HUDF+HUDF09 data, along with the wide-area GOODS+ERS+CANDELS data over the CDF-S GOODS field, are used to measure UV colors, expressed as the UV-continuum slope {beta}, of star-forming galaxies over a wide range of luminosity (0.1L*_z=3_ to 2L*_z=3_) at high redshift (z~7 to z~4). {beta} is measured using all ACS and WFC3/IR passbands uncontaminated by Ly{alpha} and spectral breaks. Extensive tests show that our {beta} measurements are only subject to minimal biases. Using a different selection procedure, Dunlop et al. (2012MNRAS.420..901D) recently found large biases in their {beta} measurements. To reconcile these different results, we simulated both approaches and found that {beta} measurements for faint sources are subject to large biases if the same passbands are used both to select the sources and to measure {beta}. High-redshift galaxies show a well-defined rest-frame UV color-magnitude (CM) relationship that becomes systematically bluer toward fainter UV luminosities. No evolution is seen in the slope of the UV CM relationship in the first 1.5 Gyr, though there is a small evolution in the zero point to redder colors from z~7 to z~4. This suggests that galaxies are evolving along a well-defined sequence in the L_UV_-color ({beta}) plane (a "star-forming sequence"?). Dust appears to be the principal factor driving changes in the UV color {beta} with luminosity. These new larger {beta} samples lead to improved dust extinction estimates at z~4-7 and confirm that the extinction is essentially zero at low luminosities and high redshifts. Inclusion of the new dust extinction results leads to (1) excellent agreement between the star formation rate (SFR) density at z~4-8 and that inferred from the stellar mass density; and (2) to higher specific star formation rates (SSFRs) at z>~4, suggesting that the SSFR may evolve modestly (by factors of ~2) from z~4-7 to z~2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A22
- Title:
- UVES spectra of Feige 46 and LSIV -14 116
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hot subdwarf stars of spectral types O and B represent a poorly understood phase in the evolution of low-mass stars, in particular of close compact binaries. A variety of phenomena are observed, which make them important tools for several astronomical disciplines. For instance, the richness of oscillations of many subdwarfs are important for asteroseismology. Furthermore, hot subdwarfs are among the most chemically peculiar stars known. Two intermediate He-rich hot subdwarf stars, LSIV -14 116 and Feige 46, are particularly interesting, because they show extreme enrichments of heavy elements such as Ge, Sr, Y, and Zr, strikingly similar in both stars. In addition, both stars show light oscillations at periods incompatible with standard pulsation theory and form the class of V366 Aqr variables. We investigate whether the similar chemical compositions extend to more complete abundance patterns in both stars and validate the pulsations in Feige 46 using its recent TESS light curve. High-resolution optical and near-ultraviolet spectroscopy are combined with non-local-thermodynamical-equilibrium model atmospheres and synthetic spectra calculated with Tlusty and Synspec to determine detailed metal abundance patterns in both stars consistently. Many previously unidentified lines are identified for the first time with transitions originating from GaIII, GeIII-IV, SeIII, KrIII, SrII-III, YIII, ZrIII-IV, and SnIV, most of which have not been observed so far in any star. The abundance patterns of 19 metals in both stars are almost identical, light metals being only slightly more abundant in Feige 46 while Zr, Sn, and Pb are slightly less enhanced compared to LSIV -14 116. Both abundance patterns are distinctively different from those of normal He-poor hot subdwarfs of similar temperature. The extreme enrichment in heavy metals of more than 4 dex compared to the Sun is likely the result of strong atmospheric diffusion processes that operate similarly in both stars while their similar patterns of C, N, O, and Ne abundances might provide clues to their as yet unclear evolutionary history. Finally, we find that the periods of the pulsation modes in Feige 46 are stable to better than dP/dt~=10^-8^s/s. This is is not compatible with dP/dt predicted for pulsations driven by the epsilon-mechanism and excited by helium-shell flashes in a star which is evolving, for example, onto the extended horizontal branch.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/420/1115
- Title:
- UV-excess sources from UVEX
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/420/1115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first catalogue of point-source ultraviolet (UV)-excess sources selected from the UV-Excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX). UVEX images the Northern Galactic Plane in the U, g, r and HeI{lambda}5875 bands in the Galactic latitude range -5<b<+5{deg}. Through an automated algorithm, which works on a field-to-field basis, we select blue UV-excess sources in 211 square degrees from the (U-g) versus (g-r) colour-colour diagram and the g versus (U-g) and g versus (g-r) colour-magnitude diagrams. The UV-excess catalogue covers the magnitude range 14<g<22.5, contains 2170 sources and consists of a mix of white dwarfs, post-common-envelope objects, interacting binaries, quasars and active galactic nuclei. Two other samples of outliers were found during the selection: (i) a "subdwarf" sample, consisting of no less than 9872 candidate metal-poor stars or lightly reddened main-sequence stars, and (ii) a "purple" sample consisting of 803 objects, most likely a mix of reddened late M giants, T Tauri stars, planetary nebulae, symbiotic stars and carbon stars. Cross-matching the selected UV-excess catalogue with other catalogues aids with the first classification of the different populations and shows that more than 99 per cent of our selected sources are unidentified sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/426/1235
- Title:
- UVEX sources spectroscopic follow-up
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/426/1235
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the first spectroscopic follow-up of 132 optically blue ultraviolet (UV)-excess sources selected from the UV-Excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX). The UV-excess spectra are classified into different populations and grids of model spectra are fitted to determine spectral types, temperatures, surface gravities and reddening. From this initial spectroscopic follow-up 95 per cent of the UV-excess candidates turn out to be genuine UV-excess sources such as white dwarfs, white dwarf binaries, subdwarf types O and B, emission-line stars and quasi stellar objects. The remaining sources are classified as slightly reddened main-sequence stars with spectral types later than A0V. The fraction of DA white dwarfs is 47 per cent with reddening smaller than E(B-V)<=0.7mag. Relations between the different populations and their UVEX photometry, Galactic latitude and reddening are shown. A larger fraction of UVEX white dwarfs is found at magnitudes fainter than g>17 and Galactic latitude smaller than |b|<4 compared to main-sequence stars, blue horizontal branch stars and subdwarfs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/756/164
- Title:
- UV galaxies in CANDELS from z=8 to z=4
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/756/164
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the evolution of galaxy rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) colors in the epoch 4<~z<~8. We use new wide-field near-infrared data in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-South field from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey, Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) 2009, and Early Release Science programs to select galaxies via photometric redshift measurements. Our sample consists of 2812 candidate galaxies at z>~3.5, including 113 at z=~7-8. We fit the observed spectral energy distribution to a suite of synthetic stellar population models and measure the value of the UV spectral slope ({beta}) from the best-fit model spectrum. We run simulations to show that this measurement technique results in a smaller scatter on {beta} than other methods, as well as a reduced number of galaxies with catastrophically incorrect {beta} measurements (i.e., {Delta}{beta}>1).
