- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/480/409
- Title:
- IPHAS symbiotic stars candidates
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/480/409
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The study of symbiotic stars is essential to understand important aspects of stellar evolution in interacting binaries. Their observed population in the Galaxy is however poorly known, and is one to three orders of magnitudes smaller than the predicted population size. IPHAS, the Isaac Newton Telescope Photometric H{alpha} survey of the Northern Galactic plane, gives us the opportunity to make a systematic, complete search for symbiotic stars in a magnitude-limited volume, and discover a significant number of new systems. A method of selecting candidate symbiotic stars by combining IPHAS and near-IR (2MASS) colours is presented. It allows us to distinguish symbiotic binaries from normal stars and most of the other types of H{alpha} emission line stars in the Galaxy. The only exception are T Tauri stars, which can however be recognized because of their concentration in star forming regions.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/415/103
- Title:
- IPHAS T Tauri candidates in IC 1396
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/415/103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS) is a 1800deg^2^ survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, reaching down to r'~21. We demonstrate how the survey can be used to (1) reliably select classical T Tauri star candidates and (2) constrain the mass accretion rates with an estimated relative uncertainty of 0.6dex. IPHAS is a necessary addition to spectroscopic surveys because it allows large and uniform samples of accretion rates to be obtained with a precise handle on the selection effects. We apply the method on a region of 7deg^2^ towards the HII region IC 1396 in Cepheus OB2 and identify 158 pre-main-sequence candidates with masses between 0.2 and 2.0M_{sun}_ and accretion rates between 10-9.2 and 10-7.0M_{sun}_/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/591/53
- Title:
- I photometry of Cl 0024+16
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/591/53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a new wide-field Hubble Space Telescope survey of the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+16 (z~0.4) consisting of a sparsely sampled mosaic of 39 Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images that extends to a cluster radius of ~5Mpc. Together with extensive ground-based spectroscopy taken from the literature, augmented with over a hundred newly determined redshifts, this unique data set enables us to examine environmental influences on the properties of cluster members from the inner core to well beyond the virial radius (~1.7Mpc). We catalog photometric measures for 22000 objects to I>~25 and assign morphological types for 2181 to I=22.5, of which 195 are spectroscopically confirmed cluster members.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/116/2728
- Title:
- I photometry of early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/116/2728
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of a project to compare the fundamental plane and Tully-Fisher distance scales, we present here I-band CCD photometry for 636 early-type galaxies in eight clusters and groups of galaxies. These are the A262, A1367, Coma (A1656), A2634, Cancer and Pegasus Clusters, and the NGC 383 and NGC 507 Groups. Sample selection, cluster properties, and cluster membership assignment criteria are discussed. We present photometric parameters that are used in the fundamental plane relation, the effective radius r_e_, and the effective surface brightness {mu}_e_, as derived from a r^1/4^ fit to the observed radial photometric profile of each galaxy. A comparison with similar data found in the literature for the Coma Cluster shows that large systematic uncertainties can be introduced in the measurement of r_e_ and {mu}_e_ by the particular method used to derive those parameters. However, the particular combination of these two parameters that enters in the fundamental plane relation is a quantity that can be measured with high accuracy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/502/883
- Title:
- I photometry of very low mass ONC stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/502/883
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Rotational studies at a variety of ages and masses are important for constraining the angular momentum evolution of young stellar objects (YSO). Of particular interest are the very low mass (VLM) stars and brown dwarfs (BDs), because of the significant lack of known rotational periods in that mass range. We aim to extend previous studies well down into the substellar regime, providing for the first time information on rotational periods for a large sample of young VLM stars and BDs. This extensive rotational period study of YSOs in the 1 Myr old Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is based on a deep photometric monitoring campaign using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera on the ESO/MPG 2.2m telescope on La Silla, Chile. Time series data was obtained with about 95 data points spread over 19 nights. Accurate I-band photometry of 2908 stars was obtained within a magnitude range of 13 to 21mag, i.e. extending three magnitudes deeper than previous studies in the ONC. Two different power spectral analysis techniques were used to search for periodic variability. In addition, the chi^2^ variability test was used for the detection of irregular variables.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/207/38
- Title:
- IPN localizations of Konus short GRBs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/207/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Between the launch of the Global Geospace Science Wind spacecraft in 1994 November and the end of 2010, the Konus-Wind experiment detected 296 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (including 23 bursts which can be classified as short bursts with extended emission). During this period, the Interplanetary Network (IPN) consisted of up to 11 spacecraft, and using triangulation, the localizations of 271 bursts were obtained. We present the most comprehensive IPN localization data on these events. The short burst detection rate, ~18/yr, exceeds that of many individual experiments.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/156/217
- Title:
- IPN supplement to BATSE untriggered GRBs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/156/217
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Interplanetary Network (IPN) detection and localization information for 211 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed as untriggered events by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) and published in catalogs by Kommers et al. (Cat. <J/ApJS/134/385>) and Stern et al. (Cat. <J/ApJ/563/80>). IPN confirmations have been obtained by analyzing the data from 11 experiments. For any given burst observed by BATSE and one other distant spacecraft, arrival time analysis (or "triangulation") results in an annulus of possible arrival directions whose half-width varies between 14' and 5.6{deg}, depending on the intensity, time history, and arrival direction of the burst, as well as the distance between the spacecraft. This annulus generally intersects the BATSE error circle, resulting in a reduction of the area of up to a factor of ~650. When three widely separated spacecraft observed a burst, the result is an error box whose area is as much as 30,000 times smaller than that of the BATSE error circle. Because the IPN instruments are considerably less sensitive than BATSE, they generally did not detect the weakest untriggered bursts but did detect the more intense ones, which failed to trigger BATSE when the trigger was disabled. In a few cases, we have been able to identify the probable origin of bursts as soft gamma repeaters. The vast majority of the IPN-detected events, however, are GRBs, and the confirmation of them validates many of the procedures utilized to detect BATSE untriggered bursts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/191/179
- Title:
- IPN supplement to the BeppoSAX GRB catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/191/179
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Between 1996 July and 2002 April, one or more spacecraft of the interplanetary network detected 786 cosmic gamma-ray bursts that were also detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor and/or Wide-Field X-Ray Camera experiments aboard the BeppoSAX spacecraft. During this period, the network consisted of up to six spacecraft, and using triangulation, the localizations of 475 bursts were obtained. We present the localization data for these events.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/207/39
- Title:
- IPN supplement to the Fermi GBM
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/207/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Interplanetary Network (IPN) data for the gamma-ray bursts in the first Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) catalog. Of the 491 bursts in that catalog, covering 2008 July 12 to 2010 July 11, 427 were observed by at least one other instrument in the nine-spacecraft IPN. Of the 427, the localizations of 149 could be improved by arrival time analysis (or "triangulation"). For any given burst observed by the GBM and one other distant spacecraft, triangulation gives an annulus of possible arrival directions whose half-width varies between about 0.4' and 32{deg}, depending on the intensity, time history, and arrival direction of the burst, as well as the distance between the spacecraft. We find that the IPN localizations intersect the 1{sigma} GBM error circles in only 52% of the cases, if no systematic uncertainty is assumed for the latter. If a 6{deg} systematic uncertainty is assumed and added in quadrature, the two localization samples agree about 87% of the time, as would be expected. If we then multiply the resulting error radii by a factor of three, the two samples agree in slightly over 98% of the cases, providing a good estimate of the GBM 3{sigma} error radius. The IPN 3{sigma} error boxes have areas between about 1 arcmin^2^ and 110 deg^2^, and are, on the average, a factor of 180 smaller than the corresponding GBM localizations. We identify two bursts in the IPN/GBM sample that did not appear in the GBM catalog. In one case, the GBM triggered on a terrestrial gamma flash, and in the other, its origin was given as "uncertain." We also discuss the sensitivity and calibration of the IPN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/229/31
- Title:
- IPN supplement to the 2nd Fermi GBM catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/229/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- InterPlanetary Network (IPN) data are presented for the gamma-ray bursts in the second Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) catalog. Of the 462 bursts in that catalog between 2010 July 12 and 2012 July 11, 428, or 93%, were observed by at least 1 other instrument in the 9-spacecraft IPN. Of the 428, the localizations of 165 could be improved by triangulation. For these bursts, triangulation gives one or more annuli whose half-widths vary between about 2'.3{deg} and 16{deg}, depending on the peak flux, fluence, time history, arrival direction, and the distance between the spacecraft. We compare the IPN localizations with the GBM 1{sigma}, 2{sigma}, and 3{sigma} error contours and find good agreement between them. The IPN 3{sigma} error boxes have areas between about 8 square arcminutes and 380 square degrees, and are an average of 2500 times smaller than the corresponding GBM 3{sigma} localizations. We identify four bursts in the IPN/GBM sample whose origins were given as "uncertain," but may in fact be cosmic. This leads to an estimate of over 99% completeness for the GBM catalog.