- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/547/A62
- Title:
- A catalogue of Paschen-line profiles
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/547/A62
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have assembled an atlas of line profiles of the Paschen Delta (P-{delta}) line at 10049{AA} for the use of stellar modelling. For a few stars we have substituted the Paschen Gamma (P-{gamma}) line at 10938{AA} because the P-{delta} line blends with other features. Most of the targets are standard stars of spectral types from B to M. A few metal-poor stars have been included. For many of the stars we have also observed the Hydrogen Alpha (H-{alpha}) line so as to compare the profiles of lines originating from the meta-stable n=2 level with lines originating from the n=3 level. The greatest difference in line profile is found for high luminosity and cool stars where the departures from LTE in the population of the n=2 level is expected to be the greatest. For a few stars, sample line profiles have been calculated in the LTE approximation to demonstrate the usefulness of the tabulated and displayed catalogue.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/505/405
- Title:
- A catalogue of Spitzer dark clouds
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/505/405
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The majority of stars form in clusters. Therefore a comprehensive view of star formation requires understanding the initial conditions for cluster formation. The goal of our study is to shed light on the physical properties of infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) and the role they play in the formation of stellar clusters. This article, the first of a series dedicated to the study of IRDCs, describes techniques developed to establish a complete catalogue of Spitzer IRDCs in the Galaxy. We have analysed Spitzer GLIMPSE and MIPSGAL data to identify a complete sample of IRDCs in the region of Galactic longitude and latitude 10{deg}<|l|<65{deg} and |b|<1{deg}. From the 8um observations we have constructed opacity maps and used a newly developed extraction algorithm to identify structures above a column density of N_H2_=1x10^22^cm^-2^. The 24um data are then used to characterize the star formation activity of each extracted cloud. A total of 11303 clouds have been extracted. A comparison with the existing MSX based catalogue of IRDCs shows that 80% of these Spitzer dark clouds were previously unknown. The algorithm also extracts ~20000 to 50000 fragments within these clouds, depending on detection threshold used.A first look at the MIPSGAL data indicates that between 20% and 68% of these IRDCs show 24um point-like association. This new database provides an important resource for future studies aiming to understand the initial conditions of star formation in the Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/412/127
- Title:
- ACCESS. II. Shapley galaxies FUV-FIR photometry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/412/127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present panoramic Spitzer/MIPS mid- and far-infrared (MIR/FIR) and GALEX ultraviolet imaging of the most massive and dynamically active system in the local Universe, the Shapley supercluster at z=0.048, covering the five clusters that make up the supercluster core. We combine these data with existing spectroscopic data from 814 confirmed supercluster members to produce the first study of a local rich cluster including both ultraviolet and infrared luminosity functions (LFs).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/561/A2
- Title:
- 36 accreting YSOs emission lines
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/561/A2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present VLT/X-shooter observations of a sample of 36 accreting low-mass stellar and substellar objects (YSOs) in the Lupus star-forming region, spanning a range in mass from ~0.03 to ~1.2M_{sun}_, but mostly with 0.1M_{sun}_<M*<0.5M_{sun}_. Our aim is twofold: firstly, to analyse the relationship between excess-continuum and line emission accretion diagnostics, and, secondly, to investigate the accretion properties in terms of the physical properties of the central object. The accretion luminosity (L_acc_), and in turn the accretion rate (dM/dt_acc_), was derived by modelling the excess emission from the UV to the near-infrared as the continuum emission of a slab of hydrogen. We computed the flux and luminosity (L_line_) of many emission lines of H, He, and CaII, observed simultaneously in the range from ~330nm to 2500nm.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/3482
- Title:
- Accretion history of massive stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/496/3482
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mass growth of protostars is a central element to the determination of fundamental stellar population properties such as the initial mass function. Constraining the accretion history of individual protostars is therefore an important aspect of star formation research. The goal of the study presented here is to determine whether high-mass (proto)stars gain their mass from a compact (<0.1pc) fixed-mass reservoir of gas, often referred to as dense cores, in which they are embedded, or whether the mass growth of high-mass stars is governed by the dynamical evolution of the parsec-scale clump that typically surrounds them. To achieve this goal, we performed a 350micron continuum mapping of 11 infrared dark clouds, along side some of their neighbouring clumps, with the ArTeMiS camera on APEX. By identifying about 200 compact ArTeMiS sources, and matching them with Herschel Hi-GAL 70micron sources, we have been able to produce mass vs. temperature diagrams. We compare the nature (i.e. starless or protostellar) and location of the ArTeMiS sources in these diagrams with modelled evolutionary tracks of both core-fed and clump-fed accretion scenarios. We argue that the latter provide a better agreement with the observed distribution of high-mass star-forming cores. However, a robust and definitive conclusion on the question of the accretion history of high-mass stars requires larger number statistics.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/710/597
- Title:
- Accretion in disks in Cep OB2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/710/597
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present accretion rates for a large number of solar-type stars in the Cep OB2 region, based on U-band observations. Our study comprises 95 members of the ~4Myr old cluster Tr 37 (including 20 "transition" objects (TOs)), as well as the only classical T Tauri star (CTTS) in the ~12Myr old cluster NGC 7160. The stars show different disk morphologies, with the majority of them having evolved and flattened disks. The typical accretion rates are about 1 order of magnitude lower than in regions aged 1-2Myr, and we find no strong correlation between disk morphology and accretion rates. Although half of the TOs are not accreting, the median accretion rates of normal CTTS and accreting "transition" disks are similar (~3x10^-9^ and 2x10^-9^M_{sun}_/yr, respectively). Comparison with other regions suggests that the TOs observed at different ages do not necessarily represent the same type of objects, which is consistent with the fact that the different processes that can lead to reduced IR excess/inner disk clearing (e.g., binarity, dust coagulation/settling, photoevaporation, giant planet formation) do not operate on the same timescales.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/579/A66
- Title:
- Accretion in {rho}-Ophiucus
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/579/A66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new VLT/X-Shooter optical and near-infrared spectra of a sample of 17 candidate young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs located in the {rho}-Ophiucus cluster. We derived the spectral type and extinction for all the targets, and then we determined their physical parameters. All the objects but one have M_*_<~0.6M_{sun}_, and eight have mass below or close to the hydrogen-burning limit. Using the intensity of various permitted emission lines present in their spectra, we determined the accretion luminosity and mass accretion rates ({dot}(M)_acc_) for all the objects. When compared with previous works targeting the same sample, we find that, in general, these objects are not as strongly accreting as previously reported, and we suggest that the reason is our more accurate estimate of the photospheric parameters. We also compare our findings with recent works in other slightly older star-forming regions, such as Lupus, to investigate possible differences in the accretion properties, but we find that the accretion properties for our targets have the same dependence on the stellar and substellar parameters as in the other regions. This leads us to conclude that we do not find evidence for a different dependence of {dot}(M)_acc_ with M_*_ when comparing low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. Moreover, we find a similar small (<~1dex) scatter in the {dot}(M)_acc_-M_*_ relation as in some of our recent works in other star-forming regions, and no significant differences in {dot}(M)_acc_ due to different ages or properties of the regions. The latter result suffers, however, from low statistics and sample selection biases in the current studies. The small scatter in the {dot}(M)_acc_-M_*_ correlation confirms that mass accretion rate measurements in the literature based on uncertain photospheric parameters and single accretion indicators, such as the H{alpha} width, can lead to a scatter that is unphysically large. Our studies show that only broadband spectroscopic surveys coupled with a detailed analysis of the photospheric and accretion properties allows us to properly study the evolution of disk accretion rates in star-forming regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/769/21
- Title:
- Accretion luminosities of young stars from Pf{beta}
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/769/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work, we introduce the use of HI Pfund {beta} (Pf{beta}; 4.6538{mu}m) as a tracer of mass accretion from protoplanetary disks onto young stars. Pf{beta} was serendipitously observed in NIRSPEC and CRIRES surveys of CO fundamental emission, amounting to a sample size of 120 young stars with detected Pf{beta} emission. Using a subsample of disks with previously measured accretion luminosities, we show that Pf{beta} line luminosity is well correlated with accretion luminosity over a range of at least three orders of magnitude. We use this correlation to derive accretion luminosities for all 120 targets, 65 of which are previously unreported in the literature. The conversion from accretion luminosity to accretion rate is limited by the availability of stellar mass and radius measurements; nevertheless, we also report accretion rates for 67 targets, 16 previously unmeasured. Our large sample size and our ability to probe high extinction values allow for relatively unbiased comparisons between different types of disks.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/586/A47
- Title:
- Accretion process in NGC 2264
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/586/A47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- NGC 2264 is a young stellar cluster (~3Myr) with hundreds of low-mass accreting stars that allow a detailed analysis of the accretion process taking place in the pre-main sequence. Our goal is to relate the photometric and spectroscopic variability of classical T Tauri stars to the physical processes acting in the stellar and circumstellar environment, within a few stellar radii from the star. NGC 2264 was the target of a multiwavelength observational campaign with CoRoT, MOST, Spitzer, and Chandra satellites and photometric and spectroscopic observations from the ground. We classified the CoRoT light curves of accreting systems according to their morphology and compared our classification to several accretion diagnostics and disk parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ChA+A/32.351
- Title:
- Accretion rate distributions of AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/other/ChA+A/32
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The redshift, central black hole mass and accretion rate are important parameters when studying the AGN evolution. The central black hole masses for 172 quasars and Seyfert galaxies are calculated in this paper using the reverberation mapping method. The distributions of central black hole masses, redshifts and the Eddington accretion rates are analyzed, to verify the transition from the quasar to the Seyfert galaxy in the course of evolution.