- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/750/97
- Title:
- The yellow and red supergiants of M33
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/750/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Yellow and red supergiants are evolved massive stars whose numbers and locations on the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram can provide a stringent test for models of massive star evolution. Previous studies have found large discrepancies between the relative number of yellow supergiants (YSGs) observed as a function of mass and those predicted by evolutionary models, while a disagreement between the predicted and observed locations of red supergiants (RSGs) on the H-R diagram was only recently resolved. Here, we extend these studies by examining the YSG and RSG populations of M33. Unfortunately, identifying these stars is difficult as this portion of the color-magnitude diagram is heavily contaminated by foreground dwarfs. We identify the RSGs through a combination of radial velocities and a two-color surface gravity discriminant, and after re-characterizing the rotation curve of M33 with our newly selected RSGs, we identify the YSGs through a combination of radial velocities and the strength of the OI{lambda}7774 triplet. We examine ~1300 spectra in total and identify 121 YSGs (a sample that is unbiased in luminosity above log(L/L_{sun}_)~4.8) and 189 RSGs. After placing these objects on the H-R diagram, we find that the latest generation of Geneva evolutionary tracks shows excellent agreement with the observed locations of our RSGs and YSGs, the observed relative number of YSGs with mass, and the observed RSG upper mass limit.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/497/736
- Title:
- The young cluster IC 348.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/497/736
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD photometry in BVRI was obtained for about 260 stars in and around IC 348, and multiobject spectroscopy for 80 of these. A somewhat larger region was surveyed for stars having H{alpha} in emission; over 110 emission-line stars brighter than about R=19 were discovered. Because H{alpha}emission could be detected to a limit near W=3{AA}, division into weak-line (WTTSs) and classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) was possible on purely spectroscopic grounds. There is a steep rise in the number of emission-line stars below W(H{alpha})=10{AA}; the proportion of WTTSs to CTTSs in the area surveyed is 58:51. ROSAT detected only about 58% of the spectroscopic WTTSs and about 65% of the CTTSs, although these numbers are sensitive to the survey thresholds. The bulk of the ages of about 100 stars, read off the theoretical tracks of D'Antona & Mazzitelli (1994ApJS...90..467D), range between about 0.7 and 12Myr, but the emission-line stars, which are most likely to be members of IC 348, have a mean age of 1.3Myr. Allowance for unresolved binaries would increase this somewhat, but there is a firm upper limit at 2.95Myr. There is no indication that the ages of the emission-line stars depend upon W(H{alpha}): the IC 348 WTTSs as a population are not systematically older than the CTTSs, but there is a tendency for the WTTSs to be concentrated toward the center of IC 348, while the CTTSs are more widely distributed. There is a scattering of emission-H{alpha} stars over the entire area surveyed. There are too many to be explained as low-mass members of an earlier generation of star formation in Per OB2 or as foreground dMe stars. The mass frequency function, based on some 125 stars fitted to theoretical tracks, rises from 1.5M_{sun}_; to about 0.2M_{sun}_;, with a slope very much like that of the Scalo initial mass function. The optical cluster IC 348 radius is about 4.0', or 0.37pc. The total mass of optically detectable stars in this volume is 57M_{sun}_;, while the mean space density is about 520 stars/pc^3^. The amount of interstellar material remaining within the cluster is small in comparison. Star formation in the Per OB2/IC 348 region cannot be characterized by one unique age; it appears that stars have been forming in the region now occupied by the association for 10-20Myr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/3636
- Title:
- The young open cluster NGC 7067
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/466/3636
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- NGC 7067 is a young open cluster located in the direction between the first and the second Galactic quadrants and close to the Perseus spiral arm. This makes it useful for studies of the nature of the Milky Way spiral arms. Stromgren photometry taken with the Wide Field Camera at the Isaac Newton Telescope allowed us to compute individual physical parameters for the observed stars and hence to derive the cluster's physical parameters. Spectra from the 1.93-m telescope at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence helped to check and improve the results. We obtained photometry for 1233 stars, individual physical parameters for 515 and spectra for 9 of them. The 139 selected cluster members lead to a cluster distance of 4.4+/-0.4kpc, with an age below log10(t(yr))=7.3 and a present mass of 1260+/-160M_{sun}_. The morphology of the data reveals that the centre of the cluster is at (RA, DE) = (21:24:13.69, +48:00:39.2) J2000, with a radius of 6.1-arcmin. Stromgren and spectroscopic data allowed us to improve the previous parameters available for the cluster in the literature.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/184/218
- Title:
- The zCOSMOS 10k-bright spectroscopic sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/184/218
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic redshifts of a large sample of galaxies with I_AB_<22.5 in the COSMOS field, measured from spectra of 10644 objects that have been obtained in the first two years of observations in the zCOSMOS-bright redshift survey. These include a statistically complete subset of 10109 objects. The average accuracy of individual redshifts is 110km/s, independent of redshift. The reliability of individual redshifts is described by a Confidence Class that has been empirically calibrated through repeat spectroscopic observations of over 600 galaxies. There is very good agreement between spectroscopic and photometric redshifts for the most secure Confidence Classes. For the less secure Confidence Classes, there is a good correspondence between the fraction of objects with a consistent photometric redshift and the spectroscopic repeatability, suggesting that the photometric redshifts can be used to indicate which of the less secure spectroscopic redshifts are likely right and which are probably wrong, and to give an indication of the nature of objects for which we failed to determine a redshift. Using this approach, we can construct a spectroscopic sample that is 99% reliable and which is 88% complete in the sample as a whole, and 95% complete in the redshift range 0.5<z<0.8. The luminosity and mass completeness levels of the zCOSMOS-bright sample of galaxies is also discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/189A
- Title:
- 12th General Catalogue of MK Classifications
- Short Name:
- III/189A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A file of MK spectral types and UBV photometry maintained at Dearborn Observatory is presented here. It is based on an extensive literature search and is up to date as of early 1995.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/223
- Title:
- 12th General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification
- Short Name:
- III/223
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the twelfth in a series of catalogs of MK spectral types and UBV photometry issued from Dearborn Observatory. It is based on an extensive search of literature published up to early 1995. Each catalog is essentially self-contained, with its separate selection of stars listed in order of increasing right ascension. Some classifications (indicated between parentheses) are inferred from photometric or astrometric considerations. The preferred identification is from the Henry Draper Catalog or the General Catalog of Variable Stars, with a Durchmusterung or other alternative as space permits.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/222
- Title:
- 14th General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification
- Short Name:
- III/222
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the fourteenth in a series of catalogs of MK spectral types and UBV photometry issued from Dearborn Observatory. It is based on an extensive search of the literature published from ~1997 to 1999. Each catalog is essentially self-contained, with its separate selection of stars listed in order of increasing right ascension. Some classifications (indicated between parentheses) are inferred from photometric or astrometric considerations. The preferred identification is from the Henry Draper Catalog or the General Catalog of Variable Stars, with a Durchmusterung or other alternative as space permits.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/206
- Title:
- 13th General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification
- Short Name:
- III/206
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A file of MK spectral types and UBV photometry maintained at Dearborn Observatory is presented here. It is based on an extensive literature search. The annex files (various clusters and associations, and SMC) are from the revised 12th catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/525/A90
- Title:
- Thick disc vertical properties
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/525/A90
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work investigates the properties (metallicity and kinematics) and interfaces of the Galactic thick disc as a function of height above the Galactic plane. The main aim is to study the thick disc in a place where it is the main component of the sample. We take advantage of former astrometric work in two fields of several square degrees in which accurate proper motions were measured down to V-magnitudes of 18.5 in two directions, one near the north galactic pole and the other at a galactic latitude of 46{deg} and galactic longitude near 0{deg}. Spectroscopic observations have been acquired in these two fields for a total of about 400 stars down to magnitude 18.0, at spectral resolutions of 3.5 to 6.25{AA}. The spectra have been analysed with the code ETOILE, comparing the target stellar spectra with a grid of 1400 reference stellar spectra. This comparison allowed us to derive the parameters effective temperature, gravity, [Fe/H] and absolute magnitude for each target star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/109/1095
- Title:
- Thick Disk Chemical Abundance Distribution
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/109/1095
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a determination of the thick disk iron abundance distribution obtained from an in situ sample of F/G stars. These stars are faint, 15<=V=<18, selected on the basis of color, being a subset of the larger survey of Gilmore and Wyse designed to determine the properties of the stellar populations several kiloparsecs from the Sun. The fields studied in the present paper probe the iron abundance distribution of the stellar populations of the galaxy at 500-3000pc above the plane, at the solar Galactocentric distance. The derived chemical abundance distributions are consistent with no metallicity gradients in the thick disk over this range of vertical distance, and with an iron abundance distribution for the thick disk that has a peak at -0.7dex. The lack of a vertical gradient argues against slow, dissipational settling as a mechanism for the formation of the thick disk. The photometric and metallicity data support a turn-off of the thick disk that is comparable in age to the metal-rich globular clusters, or >=12Gyr, and are consistent with a spread to older ages.
