- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/132/K4102
- Title:
- Beamed and unbeamed emission of gamma-ray blazars
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/132/K4102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A two-component model of radio emission has been used to explain some radio observational properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and, in particular, of blazars. In this work, we extend the two-component idea to the {gamma}-ray emission and assume that the total {gamma}-ray output of blazars consists of relativistically beamed and unbeamed components. The basic idea leverages the correlation between the radio core-dominance parameter and the {gamma}-ray beaming factor. To do so, we evaluate this correlation for a large sample of 584 blazars taken from the fourth source catalog of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and correlated their {gamma}-ray core-dominance parameters with radio core-dominance parameters. The {gamma}-ray beaming factor is then used to estimate the beamed and unbeamed components. Our analysis confirms that the {gamma}-ray emission in blazars is mainly from the beamed component.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/645/856
- Title:
- Beamed radio-intermediate quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/645/856
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Whether radio-intermediate quasars possess relativistic jets as radio-loud quasars do is an important issue in the understanding of the origin of radio emission in quasars. In this paper, using the two-epoch radio data obtained during the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST) and NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), we identified 89 radio-variable sources in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among them, more than half are radio-intermediate quasars (RL=f_20cm_/f_2500{AA}_<250). For all objects with available multiple-band radio observations, the radio spectra are either flat or inverted. The brightness temperature inferred from the variability is larger than the synchrotron self-Compton limit for a stationary source in 87 objects, indicating relativistic beaming. Considering the sample selection and the viewing angle effect, we conclude that relativistic jets probably exist in a substantial fraction of radio-intermediate quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/634/A18
- Title:
- Be and Bn stars Balmer discontinuity
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/634/A18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A significant number of Be stars show a second Balmer discontinuity (sBD) attributed to an extended circumstellar envelope (CE). The fast rotational velocity of Be stars undoubtedly plays a significant role in the formation of the CE. However, Bn stars, which are also B-type rapidly rotating stars, do not all present clear evidence of being surrounded by circumstellar material. We aim to characterize the populations of Be and Bn stars, and discuss the appearance of the sBD as a function of the stellar parameters. We expect to find new indices characterizing the properties of CEs in Be stars and properties relating Be and Bn stars. We obtained low- and high-resolution spectra of a sample of Be and Bn stars, derived stellar parameters, characterized the sBD, and measured the emission in the H{alpha} line. Results. Correlations of the aspect and intensity of the sBD and the emission in the H{alpha} line with the stellar parameters and the Vsini are presented. Some Bn stars exhibit the sBD in absorption, which may indicate the presence of rather dense CEs. Six Bn stars show emission in the H{alpha} line, so they are reclassified as Be stars. The sBD in emission appears in Be stars with Vsini<=250km/s, and in absorption in both Be and Bn stars with Vsini>=50km/s Low-mass Be and Bn stars share the same region in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. The distributions of rotational to critical velocity ratios of Be and Bn stars corresponding to the current stellar evolutionary stage are similar, while distributions inferred for the zero-age main sequence have different skewness. We found emission in the H{alpha} line and signs of a CE in some Bn stars, which motivated us to think that Bn and Be stars probably belong to the same population. It should be noted that some of the most massive Bn stars could display the Be phenomenon at any time. The similarities found among Be and Bn stars deserve to be more deeply pursued.
1364. BEAST sample properties
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/646/A164
- Title:
- BEAST sample properties
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/646/A164
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- While the occurrence rate of wide giant planets appears to increase with stellar mass at least up through the A-type regime, B-type stars have so far not been systematically studied in large scale surveys. It therefore remains unclear up to what stellar mass this occurrence trend continues. The B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study (BEAST) is a direct imaging survey with the Extreme Adaptive Optics instrument SPHERE, targeting 85 B-type stars in the young Scorpius-Centaurus (Sco-Cen) region with the aim of detecting giant planets at wide separations and constraining their occurrence rate and physical properties. The statistical outcome of the survey will help determining if and where an upper stellar mass limit for planet formation occurs. Here, we describe the selection and characterization of the BEAST target sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/580/A21
- Title:
- BEER analysis of CoRoT light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/580/A21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The BEER algorithm, introduced by Faigler & Mazeh (2011MNRAS.415.3921F), searches stellar lightcurves for the BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection (BEER) photometric modulations that are caused by a short-period companion. These three effects are typically of very low amplitude, and can mainly be detected in lightcurves from space-based photometers. Unlike eclipsing binaries, these effects are not limited to edge-on inclinations. Applying the algorithm to wide-field photometric surveys such as CoRoT and Kepler offers an opportunity to better understand the statistical properties of short-period binaries. It also widens the window for detecting intrinsically rare systems, like short-period brown-dwarf and massive- planetary companions to main-sequence stars. Applying the search to the first five long-run center CoRoT fields, we identified 481 non-eclipsing candidates with periodic flux amplitudes of 0.5-87mmag. Optimizing the Anglo-Australian-Telescope pointing coordinates and the AAOmega fiber-allocations with dedicated softwares, we acquired 6-7 medium-resolution spectra of 281 candidates in a seven-night campaign. Analysis of the red-arm AAOmega spectra, which covered the range of 8342-8842{AA}, yielded a radial-velocity precision of ~1 km/s. Spectra containing lines of more than one star were analyzed with the two- dimensional correlation algorithm TODCOR. The measured radial velocities confirmed the binarity of seventy of the BEER candidates, 45 single-line binaries, 18 double-line binaries, and 7 diluted binaries. We show that red giants introduce a major source of false candidates and demonstrate a way to improve BEER's performance in extracting higher fidelity samples from future searches of CoRoT lightcurves. The periods of the confirmed binaries span a range of 0.3-10days and show a rise in the number of binaries per logP bin toward longer periods. The estimated mass ratios of the double-line binaries and the mass ratios assigned to the single-line binaries, assuming an isotropic inclination distribution, span a range of 0.03-1. On the low-mass end we have detected two brown-dwarf candidates on a ~1day period orbit. This is the first time non-eclipsing beaming binaries are detected in CoRoT data, and we estimate that ~300 such binaries can be detected in the CoRoT long-run lightcurves.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/112/2769
- Title:
- Behlen Observatory Survey. IV.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/112/2769
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Finding charts, accurate coordinates, and light curves are presented for 106 variable stars including 6 which are newly discovered. Parameters descriptive of the light curves are tabulated including periods for 16 stars which lacked them. The periods from the General Catalog of Variable Stars for ten stars were found to be seriously in error. The classification of the stars is discussed. Revisions or refinements of the classifications from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars are suggested for 20 stars and classifications are given for 7 which were previously unclassified. 15%-23% of the Bailey type ab RR Lyrae stars show scatter in their light curves which is suggestive of the Blazhko effect.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/BOBeo/155.3
- Title:
- Belgrade meridian circle catalog
- Short Name:
- J/other/BOBeo/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The authors present an observational catalogue containing the positions of 351 stars situated in the vicinity of radio sources (RRS2, Tel'nyuk-Adamchuk & Kumkova, 1991, IAU Colloq. 127, 363) worked out by differential method in the FK5 system. The (O-C) corrections to the positions of 267 fundamental stars used in the determination of the instrument parameters are also presented. The star positions are derived from the observations with the Belgrade Large Meridian Circle during 1991-1993.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/79/77
- Title:
- Bell Lab. H I Survey - High Velocity Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/79/77
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The sky north of declination -40 deg. was observed in the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen with the FWHM = 2 deg. beam of the 20 foot horn reflector at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill. The survey covers a velocity range of 654 km/s centered on the Galactic standard of rest, with 5.3 km/s wide filters. This survey is distinguished by its sensitivity to low surface brightness features (antenna temperature about 50 mK) and relative freedom from sidelobe contamination. The high-velocity cloud list was extracted and catalogued automatically from the survey data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/10
- Title:
- Bell Laboratories H I Profiles
- Short Name:
- VIII/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This survey consists of H I 21-cm spectra covering galactic latitudes |b|>10degrees, North of Declination -40deg, observed with the 20-foot horn reflector at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill. The instrument beam is 2{deg} (FWHM). The data consist of 124-channel profiles sorted in Galactic latitude and longitude; each channel has a width of 5.3km/s. The data were obtained by holding the telescope fixed and letting the sky drift through. Then the natural coordinate system for the data is in equatorial coordinates, so the data are not gridded in Galactic coordinates. Note that this catalog represents the Bell Laboratories H I Survey in a preliminary version; it is superseded by Catalog VIII/28.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/437/1241
- Title:
- Be 81, NGC 1917 and NGC 2141 BVI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/437/1241
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we analyse the evolutionary status of three open clusters: NGC 1817, NGC 2141 and Berkeley 81. They are all of intermediate age, two are located in the Galactic anticentre direction while the third one is located in the Galactic Centre direction. All of them were observed with Large Binocular Camera at Large Binocular Telescope using the Bessel B, V and I filters. The cluster parameters have been obtained using the synthetic colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) method, i.e. the direct comparison of the observational CMDs with a library of synthetic CMDs generated with different evolutionary sets (Padova, FRANEC and FST). This analysis shows that NGC 1817 has subsolar metallicity, age between 0.8 and 1.2Gyr, reddening E(B-V) in the range 0.21 and 0.34 and distance modulus (m-M)_0_ of about 10.9; NGC 2141 is older, with age in the range 1.25 and 1.9Gyr, E(B-V) between 0.36 and 0.45, (m-M)_0_ between 11.95 and 12.21 and subsolar metallicity; Berkeley 81 has metallicity about solar, with age between 0.75 and 1.0Gyr, has reddening E(B-V)~0.90 and distance modulus (m-M)_0~12.4. Exploiting the large field of view of the instrument we derive the structure parameters for NGC 2141 and Berkeley 81 by fitting a King profile to the estimated density profile. Combining this information with the synthetic CMD technique we estimate a lower limit for the cluster total mass for these two systems.