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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/821/8
- Title:
- Spectroscopic binary population of ONC and NGC2264
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/821/8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We examine the spectroscopic binary population for two massive nearby regions of clustered star formation, the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) and NGC 2264, supplementing the data presented by Tobin et al. (2009, J/ApJ/697/1103) with more recent observations and more extensive analysis. The inferred multiplicity fraction up to 10 au based on these observations is 5.3+/-1.2% for NGC 2264 and 5.8+/-1.1% for the ONC; these values are consistent with the distribution of binaries in the field in the relevant parameter range. Eight of the multiple systems in the sample have enough epochs to perform an initial fit for the orbital parameters. Two of these sources are double-lined spectroscopic binaries; for them, we determine the mass ratio. Our reanalysis of the distribution of stellar radial velocities toward these clusters presents a significantly better agreement between stellar and gas kinematics than was previously thought.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/188/280
- Title:
- Spectroscopic catalog in 24 clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/188/280
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectroscopic catalog of (mostly) red galaxies in 24 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.17<z<0.92 obtained with the LRIS instrument on the Keck I telescope. Here we describe the observations and the galaxy spectra, including the discovery of three cD galaxies with LINER emission spectra, and the spectroscopic discovery of four new galaxy-galaxy lenses in cluster environments. All but two of the galaxy clusters observed as part of this experiment were previously known.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/122/51
- Title:
- Spectroscopic catalog of 10 rich galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/122/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic observations of galaxies in the fields of 10 distant clusters for which we have previously presented deep imaging with WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The clusters span the redshift range z=0.37-0.56 and are the subject of a detailed ground- and space-based study to investigate the evolution of galaxies as a function of environment and epoch. The data presented here include positions, photometry, redshifts, spectral line strengths, and classifications for 657 galaxies in the fields of the 10 clusters. The catalog is composed of 424 cluster members across the 10 clusters and 233 field galaxies, with detailed morphological information from our WFPC2 images for 204 of the cluster galaxies and 71 in the field. We illustrate some basic properties of the catalog, including correlations between the morphological and spectral properties of our large sample of cluster galaxies. A direct comparison of the spectral properties of the high-redshift cluster and field populations suggests that the phenomenon of strong Balmer lines in otherwise passive galaxies (commonly called E + A but renamed here as the k + a class) shows an order-of-magnitude increase in the rich cluster environment compared with a more modest increase in the field population. This suggests that the process or processes involved in producing k + a galaxies are either substantially more effective in the cluster environment or that this environment prolongs the visibility of this phase. A more detailed analysis and modeling of these data is presented in Poggianti et al. (1999ApJ...518..576P).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/538/A52
- Title:
- Spectroscopic data for ionized scandium
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/538/A52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectroscopic data for scandium is sparse, while an extensive set is needed to introduce this element into stellar opacity calculations and, more importantly, into stellar models dealing with radiative diffusion. Our goal is to provide extensive energy levels and radiative transitions data for nineteen ionization stages of scandium relevant to stellar interiors, namely from Sc III to Sc XXI. We used the FAC code. This code provides ab initio theoretical values for energy levels in jj-coupling and oscillator strengths of all permitted transitions. Detailed correspondences are established with compiled data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) database, to locate as much as possible the observed levels and lines at their experimental values and to estimate the quality of our data. Comparisons were also made with the spectroscopic data delivered by Kurucz. The theoretical data retained in tables include 21842 levels and more than two millions transitions. By comparison, the NIST compilation gives a total of 820 levels and 677 gf-values. The good agreement obtained when comparing the new data with those of the NIST compilation demonstrates their quality. This work on scandium shows that the FAC code is efficient in providing spectroscopic data that are unavailable from laboratory analyses but necessary for accurate simulations of stellar plasmas.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/328/551
- Title:
- Spectroscopic data of 4 Herculis
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/328/551
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A collection of spectroscopic data of 4 Her at our disposal (RV and spectrophotometric measurements) consist of spectra obtained at the Ondrejov and Haute Provence Observatories. Table 1 summarizes the measurements of radial velocities and line intensities carried out in the red spectra. In Table 2 a list of the spectra and RV measurements for the violet-blue region is given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/442/211
- Title:
- Spectroscopic distances of 322 NLTT stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/442/211
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Distance estimates based on low-resolution spectroscopy and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS, Cat. <II/246>) J magnitudes are presented for 322 nearby candidates from Luyten's NLTT catalogue (<I/98>). Mainly relatively bright (typically 7<Ks<11) and red high proper motion stars have been selected according to their 2MASS magnitudes and optical-to-infrared colours (+1<R-Ks<+7). Some LHS stars previously lacking spectroscopy have also been included. We have classified the majority of the objects as early-M dwarfs (M2-M5). More than 70% of our targets turned out to lie within the 25pc horizon of the catalogue of nearby stars, with 50 objects placed within 15pc and 8 objects being closer than 10pc. Three objects in the 10pc sample have no previously published spectral type: LP 876-10 (M4), LP 870-65 (M4.5), and LP 869-26 (M5). A large fraction of the objects in our sample (57%) ave independent distance estimates, mainly by the recent efforts of Reid and collaborators. Our distance determinations are generally in good agreement with theirs. 11 rather distant (d>100pc) objects have also been identified, including a probable halo, but relatively hot (Teff=13000K) white dwarf (LHS 1200) and 10 red dwarfs with extremely large tangential velocities (250<v_t_<1150km/s). Altogether, there are 11 red dwarfs (including one within 70pc) with tangential velocities larger than about 250km/s. All these objects are suspected to be in fact subdwarfs, if so, their distances would be only about half of our original estimates. The three most extreme objects in that respect are the K and early M dwarfs LP 323-168, LHS 5343 and LP 552-21 with corrected distances between 180pc and 400pc and resulting tangential velocities still larger than about 400km/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/770/43
- Title:
- Spectroscopic [Fe/H] of Kepler stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/770/43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It has been shown that F, G, and early K dwarf hosts of Neptune-sized planets are not preferentially metal-rich. However, it is less clear whether the same holds for late K and M dwarf planet hosts. We report metallicities of Kepler targets and candidate transiting planet hosts with effective temperatures below 4500K. We use new metallicity calibrations to determine [Fe/H] from visible and near-infrared spectra. We find that the metallicity distribution of late K and M dwarfs monitored by Kepler is consistent with that of the solar neighborhood. Further, we show that hosts of Earth- to Neptune-sized planets have metallicities consistent with those lacking detected planets and rule out a previously claimed 0.2dex offset between the two distributions at 6{sigma} confidence. We also demonstrate that the metallicities of late K and M dwarfs hosting multiple detected planets are consistent with those lacking detected planets. Our results indicate that multiple terrestrial and Neptune-sized planets can form around late K and M dwarfs with metallicities as low as 0.25 solar. The presence of Neptune-sized planets orbiting such low-metallicity M dwarfs suggests that accreting planets collect most or all of the solids from the disk and that the potential cores of giant planets can readily form around M dwarfs. The paucity of giant planets around M dwarfs compared to solar-type stars must be due to relatively rapid disk evaporation or a slower rate of planet accretion, rather than insufficient solids to form a core.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/898/84
- Title:
- Spectroscopic follow-up of 100pc WDs in SDSS & Gaia
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/898/84
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 07:21:33
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present follow-up spectroscopy of 711 white dwarfs within 100pc, and we present a detailed model atmosphere analysis of the 100pc white dwarf sample in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint. Our spectroscopic follow-up is complete for 83% of the white dwarfs hotter than 6000K, where the atmospheric composition can be constrained reliably. We identify 1508 DA white dwarfs with pure hydrogen atmospheres. The DA mass distribution has an extremely narrow peak at 0.59M_{sun}_ and reveals a shoulder from relatively massive white dwarfs with M=0.7-0.9M_{sun}_. Comparing this distribution with binary population synthesis models, we find that the contribution from single stars that form through mergers cannot explain the overabundance of massive white dwarfs. In addition, the mass distribution of cool DAs shows a near absence of M>1M_{sun}_ white dwarfs. The pile-up of 0.7-0.9M_{sun}_ and the disappearance of M>1M_{sun}_ white dwarfs is consistent with the effects of core crystallization. Even though the evolutionary models predict the location of the pile-up correctly, the delay from the latent heat of crystallization by itself is insufficient to create a significant pile-up, and additional cooling delays from related effects like phase separation are necessary. We also discuss the population of infrared-faint (ultracool) white dwarfs and demonstrate for the first time the existence of a well-defined sequence in color and magnitude. Curiously, this sequence is connected to a region in the color-magnitude diagrams where the number of white dwarfs with a helium- dominated atmosphere is low. This suggests that the infrared-faint white dwarfs likely have mixed H/He atmospheres.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/250/26
- Title:
- Spectroscopic follow-up of the QUBRICS quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/250/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the spectroscopic follow-up of the QUasars as BRIght beacons for Cosmology in the Southern Hemisphere (QUBRICS; Calderone+ 2019, J/ApJ/887/268) survey. The selection method is based on a machine-learning approach applied to photometric catalogs, covering an area of ~12400deg^2^ in the Southern Hemisphere. The spectroscopic observations started in 2018 and identified 55 new, high-redshift (z>=2.5), bright (i<=18) quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), with the catalog published in late 2019. Here we report the current status of the survey, bringing the total number of bright QSOs at z>=2.5 identified by QUBRICS to 224. The success rate of the QUBRICS selection method, in its most recent training, is estimated to be 68%. The predominant contaminant turns out to be lower-z QSOs at z<2.5. This survey provides a unique sample of bright QSOs at high z available for a number of cosmological investigations. In particular, carrying out the redshift drift measurements (Sandage Test) in the Southern Hemisphere, using the High Resolution Spectrograph at the 39m Extremely Large Telescope appears to be possible with less than 2500hr of observations spread over 30 targets in 25yr.