- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/879/131
- Title:
- UV-FIR obs. of post-starburst galaxies & dust masses
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/879/131
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive dust masses (M_dust_) from the spectral energy distributions of 58 post-starburst galaxies (PSBs). There is an anticorrelation between specific dust mass (M_dust_/M_*_) and the time elapsed since the starburst ended, indicating that dust was either destroyed, expelled, or rendered undetectable over the ~1Gyr after the burst. The M_dust_/M_*_ depletion timescale, 205_-37_^+58^Myr, is consistent with that of the CO-traced M_H2_/M_*_, suggesting that dust and gas are altered via the same process. Extrapolating these trends leads to the M_dust_/M_*_ and M_H2_/M_*_ values of early-type galaxies (ETGs) within 1-2Gyr, a timescale consistent with the evolution of other PSB properties into ETGs. Comparing Mdust and M_H2_ for PSBs yields a calibration, log M_H2_=0.45logM_dust_+6.02, that allows us to place 33 PSBs on the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) plane, {Sigma}SFR-{Sigma}M_H2_. Over the first ~200-300Myr, the PSBs evolve down and off of the KS relation, as their star formation rate (SFR) decreases more rapidly than M_H2_. Afterwards, M_H2_ continues to decline whereas the SFR levels off. These trends suggest that the star formation efficiency bottoms out at 10^-11^/yr and will rise to ETG levels within 0.5-1.1Gyr afterwards. The SFR decline after the burst is likely due to the absence of gas denser than the CO-traced H2. The mechanism of the M_dust_/M_*_ and M_H2_/M_*_ decline, whose timescale suggests active galactic nucleus/low-ionization nuclear emission-line region feedback, may also be preventing the large CO-traced molecular gas reservoirs from collapsing and forming denser star-forming clouds.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/771/13
- Title:
- UV-IR photometry of SMC stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/771/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still a mystery. While plausible candidates are known for both the single-degenerate and double-degenerate models, the observed numbers fall significantly short of what is required to reproduce the SNe Ia rate. Some of the most promising single-degenerate Type Ia progenitors are recurrent novae and super-soft sources (SSS). White dwarfs (WDs) with higher mass transfer rates can also be SN Ia progenitors. For these rapidly accreting white dwarfs (RAWDs), more material than is needed for steady burning accretes on the WD, and extends the WD's photosphere. Unlike SSS, such objects will likely not be detectable at soft X-ray energies, but will be bright at longer wavelengths, such as the far-ultraviolet (UV). Possible examples include LMC N66 and the V Sagittae stars. We present a survey using multi-object spectrographs looking for RAWDs in the central core of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), from objects selected to be bright in the far-UV and with blue far UV-V colors. While we find some unusual objects, and recover known planetary nebula and Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars, we detect no candidate RAWD. The upper limits from this non-detection depend on our expectations of what an RAWD should look like, as well assumptions about the internal extinction of the SMC. Assuming they resemble LMC N66 or fainter versions of WR stars we set an upper limit of 10-14 RAWDs in the SMC. However, our survey is unlikely to detect objects like V Sge, and hence we cannot set meaningful upper limits if RAWDs generally resemble V Sge.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/503/236
- Title:
- UVIT catalog and membership of 6 open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/503/236
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of six open clusters (Berkeley 67, King 2, NGC 2420, NGC 2477, NGC 2682 and NGC 6940) using the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) aboard ASTROSAT and Gaia EDR3. We present their Gaia EDR3 membership catalogues and UV photometric catalogues along with membership probability. We used a supervised machine learning algorithm along with a Gaussian mixture model and used combinations of astrometric, photometric and systematic parameters to train the algorithm. We classified the stars as members, candidates and field using two such combinations. This generic technique is robust, reproducible, versatile in various cluster environments and is applicable to other data-sets. We could detect 200-2500 additional members using this method with respect to Gaia DR2 studies. We estimated cluster properties such as mean space velocities, distances, number of members and core radii. We detected 3 to 700 member stars, which include blue stragglers, main-sequence and red giants in various UVIT images of six clusters. We created UV-Optical colour-magnitude diagrams to find that majority of the sources in NGC 2682 and a few in NGC 2420, NGC 2477 and NGC 6940 showed excess UV flux. NGC 2682 images have 10 white dwarf detections in far-UV. The massive cluster NGC 2477 has 92/576 members detected in the far-UV/near-UV, which will be useful to study the UV properties of stars in the extended turn-off and in various evolutionary stages from main-sequence to red clump. Future studies will carry out panchromatic analysis of noteworthy members detected in this study.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/883/147
- Title:
- UV-NIR LCs of the energetic H-stripped SN2016coi
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/883/147
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present comprehensive observations and analysis of the energetic H-stripped SN 2016coi (a.k.a. ASASSN-16fp), spanning the {gamma}-ray through optical and radio wavelengths, acquired within the first hours to ~420 days post explosion. Our observational campaign confirms the identification of He in the supernova (SN) ejecta, which we interpret to be caused by a larger mixing of Ni into the outer ejecta layers. By modeling the broad bolometric light curve, we derive a large ejecta-mass-to-kinetic-energy ratio (M_ej_~4-7M_{sun}_, E_k_~(7-8)x10^51^erg). The small [CaII]{lambda}{lambda}7291,7324 to [OI]{lambda}{lambda}6300,6364 ratio (~0.2) observed in our late-time optical spectra is suggestive of a large progenitor core mass at the time of collapse. We find that SN 2016coi is a luminous source of X-rays (L_X_>10^39^erg/s in the first ~100 days post explosion) and radio emission (L_8.5GHz_~7x10^27^erg/s/Hz at peak). These values are in line with those of relativistic SNe (2009bb, 2012ap). However, for SN 2016coi, we infer substantial pre-explosion progenitor mass loss with a rate dM/dt~(1-2)x10^-4^M_{sun}_/yr and a sub-relativistic shock velocity v_sh_~0.15c, which is in stark contrast with relativistic SNe and similar to normal SNe. Finally, we find no evidence for a SN- associated shock breakout {gamma}-ray pulse with energy E_{gamma}_>2x10^46^erg. While we cannot exclude the presence of a companion in a binary system, taken together, our findings are consistent with a massive single-star progenitor that experienced large mass loss in the years leading up to core collapse, but was unable to achieve complete stripping of its outer layers before explosion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/892/93
- Title:
- UV-NIR monitoring campaign of NGC 4395
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/892/93
- Date:
- 19 Jan 2022 09:00:14
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a variability study of the lowest-luminosity Seyfert 1 nucleus of the galaxy NGC 4395 based on photometric monitoring campaigns in 2017 and 2018. Using 22 ground-based and space telescopes, we monitored NGC 4395 with a ~5-minute cadence during a period of 10 days and obtained light curves in the ultraviolet (UV), V, J, H, and K/K_s_ bands, as well as narrowband H{alpha}. The rms variability is ~0.13mag in the Swift UVM2 and V filter light curves, decreasing down to ~0.01mag in the K filter. After correcting for the continuum contribution to the H{alpha} narrow band, we measured the time lag of the H{alpha} emission line with respect to the V-band continuum as 55_-31_^+27^-122_-67_^+33^min in 2017 and 49_-14_^+15^-83_-14_^+13^min in 2018, depending on assumptions about the continuum variability amplitude in the H{alpha} narrow band. We obtained no reliable measurements for the continuum-to-continuum lag between UV and V bands and among near-IR bands, owing to the large flux uncertainty of UV observations and the limited time baseline. We determined the active galactic nucleus (AGN) monochromatic luminosity at 5100{AA}, {lambda}L_{lambda}_=(5.75+/-0.40)x10^39^erg/s, after subtracting the contribution of the nuclear star cluster. While the optical luminosity of NGC 4395 is two orders of magnitude lower than that of other reverberation-mapped AGNs, NGC 4395 follows the size-luminosity relation, albeit with an offset of 0.48dex (>=2.5{sigma}) from the previous best-fit relation of Bentz+ 2013ApJ...767..149B
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/851/L21
- Title:
- UV-NIR obs. compilation of GW170817 counterpart
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/851/L21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first effort to aggregate, homogenize, and uniformly model the combined ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared data set for the electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. By assembling all of the available data from 18 different papers and 46 different instruments, we are able to identify and mitigate systematic offsets between individual data sets and to identify clear outlying measurements, with the resulting pruned and adjusted data set offering an opportunity to expand the study of the kilonova. The unified data set includes 647 individual flux measurements, spanning 0.45-29.4d post-merger, and thus has greater constraining power for physical models than any single data set. We test a number of semi-analytical models and find that the data are well modeled with a three-component kilonova model: a "blue" lanthanide-poor component ({kappa}=0.5cm^2^/g) with M_ej_~0.020M_{sun}_ and v_ej_~0.27c; an intermediate opacity "purple" component ({kappa}=3cm^2^/g) with M_ej_~0.047M_{sun}_ and v_ej_~0.15c; and a "red" lanthanide-rich component ({kappa}=10cm^2^/g) with M_ej_~0.011M_{sun}_ and v_ej_~0.14c. We further explore the possibility of ejecta asymmetry and its impact on the estimated parameters. From the inferred parameters we draw conclusions about the physical mechanisms responsible for the various ejecta components, the properties of the neutron stars, and, combined with an up-to-date merger rate, the implications for r-process enrichment via this channel. To facilitate future studies of this keystone event we make the unified data set and our modeling code public.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/900/46
- Title:
- UV, optical and IR light curve of supernova SN2019dge
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/900/46
- Date:
- 11 Mar 2022 14:13:09
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present observations of ZTF18abfcmjw (SN2019dge), a helium-rich supernova with a fast-evolving light curve indicating an extremely low ejecta mass (~0.33M{sun}) and low kinetic energy (~1.3x1050erg). Early-time (<4days after explosion) photometry reveals evidence of shock cooling from an extended helium-rich envelope of ~0.1M{sun} located ~1.2x1013cm from the progenitor. Early-time HeII line emission and subsequent spectra show signatures of interaction with helium-rich circumstellar material, which extends from >~5x1013cm to >~2x1016cm. We interpret SN2019dge as a helium-rich supernova from an ultra-stripped progenitor, which originates from a close binary system consisting of a mass-losing helium star and a low-mass main-sequence star or a compact object (i.e., a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole). We infer that the local volumetric birth rate of 19dge-like ultra-stripped SNe is in the range of 1400-8200/Gpc^3^/yr (i.e., 2%-12% of core-collapse supernova rate). This can be compared to the observed coalescence rate of compact neutron star binaries that are not formed by dynamical capture.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/813/30
- Title:
- UV-Optical light curves of the SNIa iPTF14bdn
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/813/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ultraviolet (UV) and optical photometry and spectra of the 1999aa-like supernova (SN) iPTF14bdn. The UV data were observed using the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) and constitute the first UV spectral series of a 1999aa-like SN. From the photometry, we measure {Delta}m_15_(B)=0.84+/-0.05mag and blue UV colors at epochs earlier than -5 days. The spectra show that the early-time blue colors are the result of less absorption between 2800-3200{AA} than is present in normal SNe Ia. Using model spectra fits of the data at -10 and +10days, we identify the origin of this spectral feature to be a temperature effect in which doubly ionized iron group elements create an opacity "window". We determine that the detection of high temperatures and large quantities of iron group elements at early epochs imply the mixing of a high Ni mass into the outer layers of the SN ejecta. We also identify the source of the I-band secondary maximum in iPTF14bdn to be the decay of FeIII to FeII, as is seen in normal SNe Ia.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/1921
- Title:
- UV/optical/NIR photometry for Type Ibn SNe
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/1921
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared data of the Type Ibn supernovae (SNe) 2010al and 2011hw. SN 2010al reaches an absolute magnitude at peak of M_R_=-18.86+/-0.21. Its early light curve shows similarities with normal SNe Ib, with a rise to maximum slower than most SNe Ibn. The spectra are dominated by a blue continuum at early stages, with narrow P-Cygni HeI lines indicating the presence of a slow-moving, He-rich circumstellar medium. At later epochs, the spectra well match those of the prototypical SN Ibn 2006jc, although the broader lines suggest that a significant amount of He was still present in the stellar envelope at the time of the explosion. SN 2011hw is somewhat different. It was discovered after the first maximum, but the light curve shows a double peak. The absolute magnitude at discovery is similar to that of the second peak (M_R_=-18.59+/-0.25), and slightly fainter than the average of SNe Ibn. Though the spectra of SN 2011hw are similar to those of SN 2006jc, coronal lines and narrow Balmer lines are clearly detected. This indicates substantial interaction of the SN ejecta with He-rich, but not H-free, circumstellar material. The spectra of SN 2011hw suggest that it is a transitional SN Ibn/IIn event similar to SN 2005la. While for SN 2010al the spectrophotometric evolution favours a H-deprived Wolf-Rayet progenitor (of WN-type), we agree with the conclusion of Smith et al. that the precursor of SN 2011hw was likely in transition from a luminous blue variable to an early Wolf-Rayet (Ofpe/WN_9_) stage.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/872/198
- Title:
- UV-Opt LC of tidal disruption flare AT2018zr
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/872/198
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) observations of the tidal disruption flare AT2018zr/PS18kh reported by Holoien+ (2019ApJ...880..120H) and detected during ZTF commissioning. The ZTF light curve of the tidal disruption event (TDE) samples the rise-to-peak exceptionally well, with 50 days of g- and r-band detections before the time of maximum light. We also present our multi-wavelength follow-up observations, including the detection of a thermal (kT~100eV) X-ray source that is two orders of magnitude fainter than the contemporaneous optical/UV blackbody luminosity, and a stringent upper limit to the radio emission. We use observations of 128 known active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to assess the quality of the ZTF astrometry, finding a median host-flare distance of 0.2" for genuine nuclear flares. Using ZTF observations of variability from known AGNs and supernovae we show how these sources can be separated from TDEs. A combination of light-curve shape, color, and location in the host galaxy can be used to select a clean TDE sample from multi-band optical surveys such as ZTF or the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
