- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/647/A119
- Title:
- Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko FUV aurora
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/647/A119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We aim to determine whether dissociative excitation of cometary neutralsby electron impact is the major source of far-ultraviolet (FUV) emissions at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoin the southern hemisphere at large heliocentric distances, both during quiet conditions and impacts of corotating interaction regions observed in the summer of 2016. We combined multiple datasets from the Rosetta mission through a multi-instrument analysis to complete the first forward modelling of FUV emissions in the southern hemisphere of comet 67P and compared modelled brightnesses to observations with the Alice FUV imaging spectrograph. We modelled the brightness of OI1356, OI1304, Lyman-beta, CI1657, and CII1335 emissions, which are associated with the dissociation products of the four major neutral species in the coma: CO2, H2O, CO, and O2. The suprathermal electron population was probed by the Ion and Electron Sensor of theRosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC/IES) and the neutral column density was constrained by several instruments: the RosettaOrbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA), the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO)and the Visual InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS). The modelled and observed brightnesses of the FUV emission lines agree closely when viewing nadir and dissociative excitation by electron impact is shown to be the dominant source of emissions away from perihelion. The CII1335 emissions are shown to be consistent with the volume mixing ratio of CO derived from ROSINA. When viewing the limb during the impacts of corotating interaction regions, the model reproduces brightnesses of OI1356 and CI1657 well, but resonance scattering in the extended coma may contribute significantly to the observed Lyman-beta and OI1304 emissions. The correlation between variations in the suprathermal electron flux and the observed FUV line brightnesses when viewing the comet's limb suggests electrons are accelerated on large scales and that they originate in the solar wind. This means that the FUV emissions are auroral in nature.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/461/789
- Title:
- Comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang emission lines catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/461/789
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A program of high resolution spectroscopy of comets is being conducted at TNG (Canary Islands) using the echelle spectrograph SARG. The aim of the program is to catalogue emission lines in the visible range of various comets, compare them and possibly identify the many existing unknown lines. As a first step, we catalogued the lines in the spectrum of the comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang and compared them with the lines already listed in existing catalogues. The comet was observed with SARG on the night 19-20 of April, 2002, with a short slit covering the spectral range of 4620-7920{AA} and with a resolving power R=57000, finding 8468 emission lines.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/648/A49
- Title:
- Comet 46P/Wirtanen millimetre-wave spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/648/A49
- Date:
- 08 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a molecular survey of comet 46P/Wirtanen undertaken with the IRAM 30-m and NOEMA radio telescopes in December 2018. Observations at IRAM 30-m during the 12-18 Dec. period comprise a 2mm spectral survey, which covers 25GHz, and a 1mm survey which covers 62GHz. The gas outflow velocity and kinetic temperature have been accurately constrained by the observations. We derive abundances of 11 molecules, some being identified remotely for the first time in a Jupiter-family comet, including complex organic molecules such as formamide, ethylene glycol, acetaldehyde or ethanol. Sensitive upper limits on the abundances of 24 other molecules are obtained. The comet is found to be relatively rich in methanol (3.4% relative to water) but relatively depleted in CO, CS, HNC, HNCO or HCOOH.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/121
- Title:
- Common proper motions stars in AGK3
- Short Name:
- I/121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 326 common proper motion systems that have a ratio angular separation to proper motion smaller than 1000 years are in table1. The number of optical systems is expected to be around 4. Each system fills a 256 byte-length record that may also be considered as two 128 byte-length records for print-out edition. The 113 common proper motion systems that have a ratio angular separation to proper motion between 1000 and 3500 years are in table2. The number of physical systems is expected to be around 68. The presentation is the same as for table1. This table differs from the original printed version, since the the magnitude and the spectral type of the secondary component of the 47th system were corrected. The system 47 was also added to the notes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/835/75
- Title:
- Common proper motion stars in the Kepler field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/835/75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In a search of proper motion catalogs for common proper motion stars in the field of the Kepler spacecraft I identified 93 likely binary systems. A comparison of their rotation periods is a test of the gyrochronology concept. To find their periods I calculated the autocorrelation function (ACF) of the Kepler mission photometry for each star. In most systems for which good periods can be found, the cooler star has a longer period than the hotter component, in general agreement with models. However, there is a wide range in the gradients of lines connecting binary pairs in a period-color diagram. Furthermore, near the solar color, only a few stars have longer periods than the Sun, suggesting that they, and their cooler companions, are not much older than the Sun. In addition, there is an apparent gap at intermediate periods in the period distribution of the late K and early M stars. Either star formation in this direction has been variable, or stars evolve in period at a non-uniform rate, or some stars evolve more rapidly than others at the same mass. Finally, using the ACF as a measure of the activity level, I found that while the F, G, and early K stars become less active as their periods increase, there is no correlation between period and activity for the mid K to early M stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/60/1297
- Title:
- CO molecular clouds in Carina flare supershell
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/60/1297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of ^12^CO(J=1-0) and ^13^CO(J=1-0) molecular clouds in the spatio-velocity range of the Carina Flare supershell, GSH287+04-17. The data cover a region of ~66 square degrees and were taken with the NANTEN 4m telescope, at spatial and velocity resolutions of ~2.6' and 0.1km/s. Decomposition of the emission results in the identification of 156 ^12^CO clouds and 60 ^13^CO clouds, for which we provide observational and physical parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/53/1081
- Title:
- CO molecular clouds in Lupus
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/53/1081
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Lupus star-forming region has been surveyed for molecular clouds in ^12^CO with the NANTEN radio telescope, and a cloud mass of 1.7x10^4^M_{sun}_ has been revealed. We were able to detect 105 molecular clouds, most of which are relatively small and of low mass. The members of the Sco OB 2 association and the X-ray detected pre-main-sequence stars (PMSs) are distributed all around this region. The OB stars and the molecular clouds show exclusive distributions. Large fractions of the PMSs are located away from the molecular clouds, and are thus isolated. The origin of the isolated PMSs is discussed. About 40% of the PMSs have candidates of their parent clouds less massive than 20M_{sun}_ within 4pc, which suggests in-situ star formation in the small clouds and their rapid dissipation. The separations from the PMSs to the clouds are typically larger than those in the Chamaeleon region, probably because of coexisting OB stars. From the cloud structures and the distributions of the OB stars, PMSs, and H I expanding shell, it is suggested that the molecular clouds have been effectively dissipated by the OB stars and a shock wave, which may also have triggered star formation in Lupus and the {rho} Oph clouds.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/57/917
- Title:
- CO molecular clouds in southern Galactic Warp
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/57/917
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We made an unbiased search for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp. This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l=252{deg} to 266{deg} and b=-5{deg} to -1{deg}, revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 clouds were previously known in this sector at R>~14.5kpc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/867/165
- Title:
- CO molecular clumps in Henize 2-10 dwarf galaxy
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/867/165
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array CO(3-2) observations at 0.3" resolution of He 2-10, a starburst dwarf galaxy and possible high-z galaxy analog. The warm dense gas traced by CO(3-2) is found in clumpy filaments that are kinematically and spatially distinct. The filaments have no preferred orientation or direction; this may indicate that the galaxy is not evolving into a disk galaxy. Filaments appear to be feeding the active starburst; the velocity field in one filament suggests acceleration onto an embedded star cluster. The relative strengths of CO(3-2) and radio continuum vary strongly on decaparsec scales in the starburst. There is no CO(3-2) clump coincident with the nonthermal radio source that has been suggested to be an AGN, nor unusual kinematics. The kinematics of the molecular gas show significant activity that is apparently unrelated to the current starburst. The longest filament, east of the starburst, has a pronounced shear of FWHM ~40km/s across its ~50pc width over its entire ~0.5kpc length. The cause of the shear is not clear. This filament is close in projection to a "dynamically distinct" CO feature previously seen in CO(1-0). The most complex region and the most highly disturbed gas velocities are in a region 200pc south of the starburst. The CO(3-2) emission there reveals a molecular outflow, of line width FWZI~120-140km/s, requiring an energy >~10^53^erg/s. There is at present no candidate for the driving source of this outflow.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/2483
- Title:
- Comoving group associated with HD 141569
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/2483
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for a young stellar moving group associated with the star HD 141569 - a nearby, isolated Herbig AeBe primary member of a 5+/-3Myr-old triple star system on the outskirts of the Sco-Cen complex. Our spectroscopic survey identified a population of 21 Li-rich, >~30Myr-old stars within 30{deg} of HD 141569 which possess similar proper motions with the star. The spatial distribution of these Li-rich stars, however, is not suggestive of a moving group associated with the HD 141569 triplet, but rather this sample appears cospatial with Upper Scorpius (US) and Upper Centaurus Lupus (UCL). We apply a modified moving cluster parallax method to compare the kinematics of these youthful stars with those of the US and UCL. Eight new potential members of US and five new potential members of UCL are identified. A substantial moving group with an identifiable nucleus within 15{deg} (~30pc) of HD 141569 is not found in this sample. Evidently, the HD 141569 system formed ~5Myr ago in relative isolation, tens of parsecs away from the recent sites of star formation in the Ophiucus-Scorpius-Centaurus region.