- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/551/A59
- Title:
- Velocity monitoring for 3 stars with HARPS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/551/A59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The vast diversity of planetary systems detected to date is defying our capability of understanding their formation and evolution. Well-defined volume-limited surveys are the best tool at our disposal to tackle the problem, via the acquisition of robust statistics of the orbital elements. We are using the HARPS spectrograph to conduct our survey of 850 nearby solar-type stars, and in the course of the past nine years we have monitored the radial velocity of HD 103774, HD 109271, and BD-061339. In this work we present the detection of five planets orbiting these stars, with msini between 0.6 and 7 Neptune masses, four of which are in two multiple systems, comprising one super-Earth and one planet within the habitable zone of a late-type dwarf. Although for strategic reasons we chose efficiency over precision in this survey, we have the capability to detect planets down to the Neptune and super-Earth mass range as well as multiple systems, provided that enough data points are made available.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/526/A141
- Title:
- Velocity monitoring of Gl 676A and HIP 12961
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/526/A141
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Fewer giants planets are found around M dwarfs than around more massive stars, and this dependence of planetary characteristics on the mass of the central star is an important observational diagnostic of planetary formation theories. In part to improve on those statistics, we are monitoring the radial velocities of nearby M dwarfs with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6m telescope. We present here the detection of giant planets around two nearby M0 dwarfs: planets, with minimum masses of respectively 5 Jupiter masses and 1 Saturn mass, orbit around Gl 676A and HIP 12961.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/622/187
- Title:
- Velocity of eight RASSCALS galaxy groups
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/622/187
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the distribution of gas pressure and entropy in eight groups of galaxies belonging to the ROSAT All-Sky Survey/Center for Astrophysics Loose Systems (RASSCALS, Cat. <J/ApJ/534/114>). We use archival and proprietary XMM-Newton observations, supplementing the X-ray data with redshifts derived from the literature; we also list 125 new redshifts measured with the Gemini North telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/580/A75
- Title:
- Velocity precision in the Gaia-ESO Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/580/A75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey at the European Southern Observatory Very LargeTelescope. A key aim is to provide precise radial velocities (RVs) and projected equatorial velocities (vsini) for representative samples of Galactic stars, which will complement information obtained by the Gaia astrometry satellite. We present an analysis to empirically quantify the size and distribution of uncertainties in RV and vsini using spectra from repeated exposures of the same stars. We show that the uncertainties vary as simple scaling functions of signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and vsini, that the uncertainties become larger with increasing photospheric temperature, but that the dependence on stellar gravity, metallicity and age is weak. The underlying uncertainty distributions have extended tails that are better represented by Students t-distributions than by normal distributions. Parametrised results are provided, which enable estimates of the RV precision for almost all GES measurements, and estimates of the vsini precision for stars in young clusters, as a function of S/N, vsini and stellar temperature. The precision of individual high S/N GES RV measurements is 0.22-0.26km/s, dependent on instrumental configuration.
20695. Velocity profile of NGC 4151
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/670/105
- Title:
- Velocity profile of NGC 4151
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/670/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a stellar dynamical estimate of the black hole (BH) mass in the Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 4151. We analyze ground-based spectroscopy as well as imaging data from the ground and space, and we construct three-integral axisymmetric models in order to constrain the BH mass and mass-to-light ratio.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/30
- Title:
- Velocity Vectors of B and A stars
- Short Name:
- V/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A compilation of proper motions, radial velocities, and apparent magnitudes of B and A stars is combined with the absolute magnitudes and colour excesses from the "Catalogue of estimated astrophysical parameters" by Philip and Egret (at. V/14).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/606/A53
- Title:
- Venus mesosphere ALMA observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/606/A53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Water vapor and sulfur compounds are key species in the photochemistry of Venus mesosphere. These species, together with mesospheric temperatures, exhibit drastic temporal variations, both on short timescales (diurnal and day-to-day) as well on long timescales, far from being understood. We targeted CO, SO, H_2_O and SO_2_ transitions in the submillimeter range using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to study their spatial and temporal variations. Four sets of observations were acquired on different dates in November 2011 during the first ALMA Early Science observation Cycle 0. Venus angular diameter was about 11" with an illumination factor of 92%, so that mostly the day side of the planet was mapped. Assuming a nominal CO abundance profile, we retrieved vertical temperature profiles over the entire disk as a function of latitude and local time. Temperature profiles were later used to retrieve SO, SO_2_, and H_2_O. We used H_2_O as a tracer for water assuming a D/H enrichment of 200 times the terrestrial value. We derived 3-D maps of mesospheric temperatures in the altitude range 70-105km. SO, SO_2_, and H_2_O are characterized by a negligible abundance below ~85km followed by an increase with altitude in the upper mesosphere. Disk-averaged SO abundances present a maximum mixing ratio of 15.0+/-3.1ppb on November 26 followed the next day by a minimum value of 9.9+/-1.2ppb. Due to a very low S/N, SO_2_ could only be derived from the disk-averaged spectrum on the first day of observation revealing an abundance of 16.5+/-4.6ppb. We found a SO_2_/SO ratio of 1.5+/-0.4. Global maps of SO reveal strong variations both with latitude and local time and from day to day with abundance ranging from <1 to 15ppb. H_2_O disk-averages retrievals reveal a steady decrease from November 14 to 27, with the abundance varying from 3.6+/-0.6ppm on the first day to 2.9+/-0.7ppm on the last day. H_2_O maps reveal a slightly higher abundance on the evening side compared to the morning side and a strong depletion between the first and the second day of observation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A82
- Title:
- Venus photometric flux and los velocities
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/627/A82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Measuring Venus' atmospheric circulation at different altitudes is important for understanding its complex dynamics, in particular the mechanisms driving the super-rotation. Observationally, Doppler imaging spectroscopy is in principle be the most reliable way to measure wind speeds of planetary atmospheres because it directly provides the projected speed of atmospheric particles. However, high-resolution imaging-spectroscopy is challenging, especially in the visible domain, and most of the knowledge about atmospheric dynamics has been obtained with cloud-tracking technique. The objective of the present work is to measure the global properties of Venus' atmospheric dynamics at the altitude of the uppermost clouds, which is probed by reflected solar lines in the visible domain. Our results are based on high-resolution spectroscopic observations with the long slit spectrometer of the solar telescope THEMIS. We present the first instantaneous "radial-velocity snapshot" of any planet of the solar system in the visible domain, i.e., a complete RV map of the planet obtained by stacking data on less than 10% of its rotation period. From this, we measure the properties of the zonal and meridional winds, which we unambiguously detect. We identify a wind circulation pattern that significantly differs from previous knowledge about Venus. The zonal wind displays a "hot spot" structure, featuring about 200m/s at sunrise and 70m/s at noon in the equatorial region. Regarding meridional winds, we detect an equator-to-pole meridional flow peaking at 45m/s at mid latitudes, i.e., which is about twice as large as what was reported so far.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/2487
- Title:
- VERA 22GHz Fringe Search Survey
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/2487
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents results of a survey search for bright compact radio sources at 22GHz with the VERA radio interferometer. Each source from a list of 2494 objects was observed in one scan for 2 minutes. The purpose of this survey was to find compact extragalactic sources bright enough at 22GHz to be useful as phase calibrators. Observed sources were either (1) within 6{deg} of the Galactic plane, or (2) within 11{deg} of the Galactic center, or (3) within 2{deg} of known water masers. Among the observed sources, 549 were detected, including 180 extragalactic objects that were not previously observed with the very long baseline interferometry technique. Estimates of the correlated flux densities of the detected sources are presented. It was found that the probability of detecting a 200mJy source with 120s of integration time is 60%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/4400
- Title:
- Veritas family members Yarkovsky drift rates
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/4400
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The age of a young asteroid family can be determined by tracking the orbits of family members backward in time and showing that they converge at some time in the past. Here we consider the Veritas family. We find that the membership of the Veritas family increased enormously since the last detailed analysis of the family. Using backward integration, we confirm the convergence of nodal longitudes {Omega}, and, for the first time, also obtain a simultaneous convergence of pericenter longitudes {varpi}. The Veritas family is found to be 8.23^+0.37^_-0.31_Myr old. To obtain a tight convergence of {Omega} and {varpi}, as expected from low ejection speeds of fragments, the Yarkovsky effect needs to be included in the modeling of the past orbital histories of Veritas family members. Using this method, we compute the Yarkovsky semi-major axis drift rates, d_a_/dt, for 274 member asteroids. The distribution of d_a_/dt values is consistent with a population of C-type objects with low densities and low thermal conductivities. The accuracy of individual d_a_/dt measurements is limited by the effect of close encounters of member asteroids to (1) Ceres and other massive asteroids, which cannot be evaluated with confidence.
