- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/62/219
- Title:
- OGLE: Gaia South Ecliptic Pole Field
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/62/219
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive analysis of the Gaia South Ecliptic Pole (GSEP) field, 5.3 square degrees area around the South Ecliptic Pole on the outskirts of the LMC, based on the data collected during the fourth phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, OGLE-IV. The GSEP field will be observed during the commissioning phase of the ESA Gaia space mission for testing and calibrating the Gaia instruments. We provide the photometric maps of the GSEP region containing the mean VI photometry of all detected stellar objects and their equatorial coordinates. We show the quality and completeness of the OGLE-IV photometry and color-magnitude diagrams of this region. We conducted an extensive search for variable stars in the GSEP field leading to the discovery of 6789 variable stars. In this sample we found 132 classical Cepheids, 686 RR Lyr type stars, 2819 long-period, and 1377 eclipsing variables. Several objects deserving special attention were also selected, including a new classical Cepheid in a binary eclipsing system.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/52/143
- Title:
- OGLE high proper motion stars towards MC
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/52/143
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of high proper motion (HPM) stars detected in the foreground of central parts of the Magellanic Clouds. The Catalog contains 2161 objects in the 4.5 square degree area towards the LMC, and 892 HPM stars in the 2.4 square degree area towards the SMC. The Catalog is based on observations collected during four years of the OGLE-II microlensing survey. The Difference Image Analysis (DIA) of the images provided candidate HPM stars with proper motion as small as 4mas/yr. These appeared as pseudo-variables, and were all measured astrometrically on all CCD images, providing typically about 400 data points per star. The reference frame was defined by the majority of background stars, most of them members of the Magellanic Clouds. The reflex motion due to solar velocity with respect to the local standards of rest is clearly seen. The largest proper motion in our sample is 363mas/yr. Parallaxes were measured with errors smaller than 20% for several stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/322
- Title:
- OGLE-III. Magellanic Clouds stellar proper motions
- Short Name:
- II/322
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of over 6.2million stars with measured proper motions. All these stars are observed in the direction of the Magellanic Clouds within the brightness range 12<I<19mag. Based on these proper motions about 440000 Galactic foreground stars can be selected. Because the proper motions are based on a few hundred epochs collected during eight years, their statistical uncertainties are below 0.5mas/yr for stars brighter than I=18.5mag. The parallaxes are derived with uncertainties down to 1.6mas. For above 13000 objects parallaxes are derived with significance above 3{sigma}, which allows selecting about 270 white dwarfs (WDs). The search for common proper motion binaries among stars presented was performed resulting in over 500 candidate systems. The most interesting ones are candidate halo main sequence star-WD and WD-WD systems. The application of the catalog to the empirically bound Cepheid instability strip is also discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/61
- Title:
- OGLE-III, MCPS and HST VI obs. of LMC & SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a calibration of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ACS F814W system. We use archival HST observations to derive blending corrections and photometric transformations for two ground-based wide-area imaging surveys of the Magellanic Clouds. We show that these surveys are biased bright by up to ~0.1mag in the optical due to blending, and that the bias is a function of local stellar density. We correct the LMC TRGB magnitudes from Jang & Lee (2017ApJ...835...28J) and use the geometric distance from Pietrzynski+ (2019Natur.567..200P) to obtain an absolute TRGB magnitude of M_F814W_=-3.97+/-0.046mag. Applying this calibration to the TRGB magnitudes from Freedman+ (2019ApJ...882...34F) in SN Ia hosts yields a value for the Hubble constant of H_0_=72.4+/-2.0km/s/Mpc for their TRGB+SNe Ia distance ladder. The difference in the TRGB calibration and the value of H_0_ derived here and by Freedman+ primarily results from their overestimate of the LMC extinction, caused by inconsistencies in their different sources of TRGB photometry for the Magellanic Clouds. Using the same source of photometry (OGLE) for both Clouds and applying the aforementioned corrections yields a value for the LMC I-band TRGB extinction that is lower by 0.06mag, consistent with independent OGLE reddening maps used by us and by Jang & Lee to calibrate TRGB and determine H0.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/20
- Title:
- OGLE-III Mira variables in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Period-Luminosity and Period-Luminosity-Color relations at maximum light for Mira variables in the Magellanic Clouds using time-series data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) and Gaia data release 2. The maximum-light relations exhibit a scatter typically up to ~30% smaller than their mean-light counterparts. The apparent magnitudes of oxygen-rich Miras at maximum light display significantly smaller cycle-to-cycle variations than at minimum light. High-precision photometric data for Kepler Mira candidates also exhibit stable magnitude variations at the brightest epochs, while their multi-epoch spectra display strong Balmer emission lines and weak molecular absorption at maximum light. The stability of maximum-light magnitudes for Miras possibly occurs due to the decrease in the sensitivity to molecular bands at their warmest phase. At near-infrared wavelengths, the period-luminosity relations (PLRs) of Miras display similar dispersion at mean and maximum light with limited time-series data in the Magellanic Clouds. A kink in the oxygen-rich Mira PLRs is found at 300 days in the VI-bands, which shifts to longer periods (~350 days) at near-infrared wavelengths. Oxygen-rich Mira PLRs at maximum light provide a relative distance modulus, {Delta}{mu}=0.48+/-0.08mag, between the Magellanic Clouds with a smaller statistical uncertainty than the mean-light relations. The maximum-light properties of Miras can be very useful for stellar atmosphere modeling and distance scale studies provided their stability and the universality can be established in other stellar environments in the era of extremely large telescopes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/323
- Title:
- OGLE-III SMC eclipsing binary stars
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/323
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a large sample of eclipsing binary stars detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud fields covering about 14 square degrees that have been monitored for eight years during the third phase of the OGLE survey. This is the largest set of such variables containing 6138 objects, of which 777 are contact and 5361 non-contact binaries. The estimated completeness of this sample is around 82%. We analyze the statistical properties of the sample and present selected interesting objects: 32 systems having eccentric orbit with visible apsidal motion, one Transient Eclipsing Binary, ten RS CVn type stars, 22 still unexplained Double-Periodic Variable stars, and 15 candidates for doubly eclipsing quadruple systems. Based on the OGLE-III proper motions, we classified 47 binaries from our sample as foreground Galactic stars. We also list candidates suitable for the SMC distance determination.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A125
- Title:
- OGLE-III SMC massive stars VI light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a variability study of 4646 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with known spectral types from the catalog of Bonanos et al. (2010, Cat. J/AJ/140/416) using the light curves from the OGLE-III database. The goal is to exploit the time domain information available through OGLE-III to gain insight into the processes that govern the evolution of massive stars. This variability survey of massive stars with known spectral types is larger than any previous survey by a factor of 7. We find that 60% of our sample (2766 stars) show no significant variability and 40% (1880 stars) exhibit variability distributed as follows: 807 stars display low-amplitude stochastic variability with fluctuations in I-band of up to 0.05mag, 443 stars present irregular variability of higher amplitude (76% of these are reported as variables for the first time), 205 are eclipsing binaries (including 101 newly discovered systems), 50 are candidate rotating variables, 126 are classical Cepheids, 188 stars exhibit short-term sinusoidal periodicity (P<3-days) making them candidate 'slowly pulsating B stars' and non-radial Be pulsators, and 61 periodic stars exhibit longer periods. We demonstrate the wealth of information provided in the time domain, by doubling the number of known massive eclipsing binary systems and identifying 189 new candidate early-type Be and 20 Oe stars in the SMC. In addition, we find that ~80% of Be stars are photometrically variable in the OGLE-III time domain and provide evidence that short-term pulsating stars with additional photometric variability are rotating close to their break-up velocity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/54/1
- Title:
- OGLE II SMC eclipsing binaries
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/54/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new version of the OGLE-II catalog of eclipsing binary stars detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud, based on Difference Image Analysis catalog of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds containing data collected from 1997 to 2000. We found 1351 eclipsing binary stars in the central 2.4 square degree area of the SMC. 455 stars are newly discovered objects, not found in the previous release of the catalog. The eclipsing objects were selected with the automatic search algorithm based on the artificial neural network. The full catalog with individual photometry is accessible from the OGLE INTERNET archive, at ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle2/var_stars/smc/ecl . Regular observations of the SMC fields started on June 26, 1997 and covered about 2.4 square degrees of central parts of the SMC. Reductions of the photometric data collected up to the end of May 2000 were performed with the Difference Image Analysis (DIA) package.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/1
- Title:
- OGLE-IV Magellanic Bridge Data supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze two years (mid-2010 to mid-2012) of OGLE-IV data covering ~65deg^2^ of the Magellanic Bridge (the area between the Magellanic Clouds) and find 130 transient events including 126 supernovae (SNe), two foreground dwarf novae and another two SNe-like transients that turned out to be active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We show our SNe detection efficiency as a function of SN peak magnitude based on available SNe rate estimates. It is 100% for SNe peak magnitudes I<18.8mag and drops to 50% at I~19.7mag. With our current observing area between and around the Magellanic Clouds (~600deg^2^), we expect to find 24 SNe peaking above I<18mag, 100 above I<19mag, and 340 above I<20mag, annually. We briefly introduce our on-line near-real-time detection system for SNe and other transients, the OGLE Transient Detection System.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/824/74
- Title:
- OGLE LC classification of MC Cepheids
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/824/74
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The investigation of the nonlinearity of the Leavitt law (LL) is a topic that began more than seven decades ago, when some of the studies in this field found that the LL has a break at about 10 days. The goal of this work is to investigate a possible statistical cause of this nonlinearity. By applying linear regressions to OGLE-II and OGLE-IV data, we find that to obtain the LL by using linear regression, robust techniques to deal with influential points and/or outliers are needed instead of the ordinary least-squares regression traditionally used. In particular, by using M- and MM-regressions we establish firmly and without doubt the linearity of the LL in the Large Magellanic Cloud, without rejecting or excluding Cepheid data from the analysis. This implies that light curves of Cepheids suggesting blending, bumps, eclipses, or period changes do not affect the LL for this galaxy. For the Small Magellanic Cloud, when including Cepheids of this kind, it is not possible to find an adequate model, probably because of the geometry of the galaxy. In that case, a possible influence of these stars could exist.
