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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/568/A119
- Title:
- Stellar physical parameters for young stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/568/A119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A uvbyH{beta} Stromgren photometric survey covering 16 square degrees in the anticenter direction was carried out using the Wide Field Camera at the Isaac Newton Telescope. Physical parameters like stellar distances and extinctions for the young stars of our survey are presented here. We developed a new method for deriving physical parameters from Stromgren photometry and also implemented and tested it. This is a model-based method that uses the most recent available stellar atmospheric models and evolutionary tracks to interpolate in a 3D grid of the unreddened indexes [m1], [c1] and H{beta}. Distances derived from both this method and the classical pre-Hipparcos calibrations were tested against Hipparcos parallaxes and found to be accurate. Furthermore, a shift in the atmospheric grids in the range Teff=[7000,9000]K was detected and a correction is proposed. The two methods were used to compute distances and reddening for around 12000 OBA-type stars in our Stromgren anticenter survey. Data from the IPHAS and 2MASS catalogs were used to complement the detection of emission line stars and to break the degeneracy between early and late photometric regions. We note that photometric distances can differ by more than 20%, those derived from the empirical calibrations being smaller than those derived with the new method, which agree better with the Hipparcos data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/206
- Title:
- Stellar Polarization Bibliography
- Short Name:
- II/206
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This preliminary version of Bibliographic Catalogue of Stellar Polarization (BCSP) contains data about polarization measurements of more than 1600 galactic objects published during the period 1977-1981. All the information included in the Catalogue has been taken from original papers published during this period. The main goal of the Catalogue is to present necessary bibliography to explorers studying a certain object and to give them some primary polarization data concerning with it. See the full documentation in file "bcsp.doc" (or bcsp.tex)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/226
- Title:
- Stellar polarization catalogs agglomeration
- Short Name:
- II/226
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an agglomeration of stellar polarization catalogs with results for 9286 stars. We have endeavoured to eliminate errors, provide accurate positions, sensibly weight multiple observations of the same star, and provide reasonable distances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/471/795
- Title:
- Stellar population ages and metallicities from colors
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/471/795
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Two important stellar-population parameters (age and metallicity) of the dominant stellar populations (DSPs) of galaxies are usually estimated by comparing the observed absorption line indices or colors to predictions of some simple stellar population models. However, some studies show that there is actually recent star formation in galaxies, including early type ones. This suggests that we may not be obtaining accurate the two stellar-population parameters for the DSPs of galaxies. This is obvious when we estimate the two parameters by colors, because the youngest populations dominate the light and make the fitted stellar populations younger and richer in metal. We study how young populations (YSPs) in composite stellar populations (CSPs) affect the colors of star systems and to analyze how the stellar ages and metallicities derived from colors possibly deviate from those of the DSPs. It is found that the age and mass fraction of a YSP affect colors of a mixed star system significantly, but the former is stronger. In addition, our results show that the stellar ages and metallicities derived directly from a pair of colors are about 2.14Gyr younger, while 0.0027 more metal rich on average than those of the DSPs of composite stellar systems. Some possible distributions of the differences between stellar-population parameters determined by colors and those of DSPs of CSPs are presented. The possible distributions of the differences between colors of CSPs and those of their DSPs are also shown. Stellar ages and metallicities measured by colors and line-strength indices are compared in the work, with a sample of 18 galaxies. Furthermore, the YSPs may affect the fundamental plane and Kormendy relation of early type galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/474/1081
- Title:
- Stellar population gradients in bulges. I
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/474/1081
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the first paper presenting our long-term project aimed at studying the nature of bulges through analyzing their stellar population gradients. We present deep spectroscopic observations along the minor axis and the data reduction for a sample of 32 bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies. We explain in detail our procedures for measuring their dynamical parameters (rotation curves and velocity dispersion profiles) and line-strength indices, including the conversion to the Lick/IDS system. Tables giving the values of the dynamical parameters and line-strength indices at each galactocentric radius are presented (in electronic form) for each galaxy of the sample. The derived line-strength gradients from this dataset will be analyzed in a forthcoming paper to set constraints on the different scenarios for the formation of the bulges.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/474/763
- Title:
- Stellar population gradients in bulges. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/474/763
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of the radial gradients of stellar absorption lines in a sample of 32 bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies, spanning nearly the full Hubble sequence (from S0 to Sc types), and a large range of velocity dispersion (from about 60 to 300km/s). Different diagnostics such as index-index, gradient-gradient diagrams, and simple stellar population models are used to tackle the origin of the variation of the bulge stellar population. We find that the vast majority of bulges show older age, lower metallicity and higher [alpha/Fe] in their outer regions than in their central parts. The radial gradients in [Fe/H] are 2 to 3 times larger than in Log(age). The relation between gradient and bulge velocity dispersion is interpreted as a gradual build up of the gradient mean values and their dispersions from high to low velocity dispersion, rather than a pure correlation. The bulge effective radii and the Hubble type of the parent galaxies seem to play a more minor role in causing the observed spatial distributions. At a given velocity dispersion, bulges and ellipticals share common properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/173/104
- Title:
- Stellar population in Chamaeleon I
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/173/104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- I present a new census of the stellar population in the ChamaeleonI star-forming region. Using optical and near-IR photometry and follow-up spectroscopy, I have discovered 50 new members of ChamaeleonI, expanding the census of known members to 226 objects. Fourteen of these new members have spectral types later than M6, which doubles the number of known members that are likely to be substellar. I have estimated extinctions, luminosities, and effective temperatures for the known members, used these data to construct an H-R diagram for the cluster, and inferred individual masses and ages with the theoretical evolutionary models of Baraffe and Chabrier. The low-mass stars are more widely distributed than members at other masses in the northern subcluster, but this is not the case in the southern subcluster. Meanwhile, the brown dwarfs have the same spatial distribution as the stars out to a radius of 3{deg} (8.5pc) from the center of ChamaeleonI.
14809. Stellar population in M53
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/288
- Title:
- Stellar population in M53
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/288
- Date:
- 18 Jan 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a study of 94 red giant stars in the globular cluster M53. We use low-resolution spectra to measure the strength of CN and CH features at ~3800 and 4300{AA}, respectively. The strengths of these features are used to classify stars into a CN-enhanced and CN-normal population and to measure C and N abundances in all 94 stars. We find the red giant branch stars to be evenly split between the two populations identified, and observe the presence of CN-enhanced stars on the asymptotic giant branch. In addition, we identify five CH star candidates based on the strength of their CN and CH band features, and the presence of a P-branch in their CH band. We compare our identification of multiple populations to those based on the Na-O anticorrelation and pseudo-color indices in Hubble Space Telescope UV photometry, and find general agreement between all three methods. Our large sample size also allows us to study the radial distribution of each population, and we find that the CN-enhanced population is more centrally concentrated. We use our C and N measurements to compare the evolutionary changes in these elements as a function of magnitude between the two populations, and show that both populations experience similar evolutionary changes to the surface abundances of C and N. Finally, we calculate C+N+O abundances for each population and compare them to similar measurements made in M10; we find that in both clusters, CN-enhanced stars have a slightly enhanced C+N+O ({Delta}(C+N+O)~0.2dex).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/438/813
- Title:
- Stellar population in {rho} Oph cloud core
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/438/813
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This contribution reports the results of an infrared imaging survey aimed at characterizing the stellar populations associated with the three densest star-forming cores in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex. The survey has sufficient sensitivity at J, H, and K (at 5{sigma} limits of 16.5, 15.4 and 14.2) to provide a complete census of embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) with masses greater than the hydrogen-burning limit, provided that their ages are less than 3 Myr and that they are obscured by no more than ~18 mag of visual extinction. Our data suggest (1) a large fraction (>70%) of the sources located within the cores are still surrounded by circumstellar disks and/or envelopes; and (2) the shape of the initial mass function for masses, M<1M_sun_, appears to be consistent with that derived from the solar neighborhood. We also report the results of a deeper imaging survey of centimeter continuum sources (14 sources) in these star-forming cores and in the larger Ophiuchus complex (eight sources). A large fraction 11/14) of the radio sources associated with the cores appear to have infrared excesses diagnostic of circumstellar accretion disks and/or infalling circumstellar envelopes. In these cases, the centimeter continuum radiation most likely diagnoses the ionized component of energetic winds or jets which characterize YSOs during the disk accretion phase. By contrast, of the eight radio sources located outside dense cores, only two show infrared excesses. For the sources which lack infrared excesses, the centimeter continuum emission is probably produced by gyrosynchrotron radiation arising in the stellar magnetospheres of weak emission T Tauri stars. There is some evidence that the frequency of binary companions among the sample of centimeter continuum sources in the molecular cores may be higher (by as much as a factor of 3-4) than that among the older, distributed population of young stars in the larger Ophiuchus cloud complex.