- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/743/149
- Title:
- Color-metallicity relations. II. M87 GCs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/743/149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We here propose a new photometric technique to probe the possible nonlinear nature of globular clusters (GCs) color-metallicity relations (CMRs). In essence, a color distribution of GCs is a "projected" distribution of their metallicities. Since the form of CMRs hinges on which color is used, the shape of color distributions varies depending significantly on the colors. Among other optical colors, the u-band related colors (e.g., u-g and u-z) are theoretically predicted to exhibit significantly less inflected CMRs than other preferred CMRs (e.g., for g-z). As a case study, we performed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/WFPC2 archival u-band photometry for the M87 (NGC 4486) GC system with confirmed color bimodality. We show that the u-band color distributions are significantly different from that of g-z and consistent with our model predictions. With more u-band measurements, this method will support or rule out the nonlinear CMR scenario for the origin of GC color bimodality with high confidence.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/583/A73
- Title:
- Color-period diagram for M48 (NGC2548)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/583/A73
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Rotation periods are increasingly being used to derive ages for cool single field stars. Such ages are based on an empirical understanding of how cool stars spin down, acquired by constructing color-period diagrams (CPDs) for a series of open clusters. Our main aims here are to construct a CPD for M48, to compare this with other clusters of similar age to check for consistency, and to derive a rotational age for M48 using gyrochronology. We monitored M48 photometrically for over 2months with AIP's STELLA.I 1.2m telescope and the WiFSIP 4K imager in Tenerife. Light curves with 3mmag precision for bright (V~14mag) stars were produced and then analysed to provide rotation periods. A cluster CPD has then been constructed. We report 62 rotation periods for cool stars in M48. The CPD displays a clear slow/I-sequence of rotating stars, similar to those seen in the 625Myr-old Hyades and 590Myr-old Praesepe clusters, and below both, confirming that M48 is younger. A similar comparison with the 250Myr-old M34 cluster shows that M48 is older and does not possess any fast/C-sequence G or early K stars like those in M34, although relatively fast rotators do seem to be present among the late-K and M stars. A more detailed comparison of the CPD with rotational evolution models shows that the cluster stars have a mean age of 450Myr, and its (rotating) stars can be individually dated to +/-117Myr (26%). Much of this uncertainty stems from intrinsic astrophysical spread in initial periods, and almost all stars are consistent with a single age of 450Myr. The gyro-age of M48 as a whole is 450+/-50Myr, in agreement with the previously determined isochrone age of 400+/-100Myr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/84
- Title:
- 13-color photometry of 1380 bright stars
- Short Name:
- II/84
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalogue contains observations of essentially all stars brighter than fifth visual magnitude north of declination -20 degrees and brighter than fourth visual magnitude south of declination -20 degrees, in the 13-color medium-narrow-band photometric system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/507/283
- Title:
- Colors and extinction across the disk of M31
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/507/283
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a study of the dust properties in M31. We analyzed Spitzer Space Telescope, GALEX, and SDSS images constraining some basic properties of the dust in M31: (i) the mass of the dust; (ii) the mean intensity of the radiation field heating the dust; (iii) the abundance of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) particles. We also studied which stellar populations are most likely responsible for the dust heating in M31 analyzing optical and infrared colors and comparing our observations with models which account for the age-dependent dust heating. We found that in most of the regions analyzed stars at least a few Gyr old are the major dust heaters. We then derived the extinction map across the disk of M31.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/139/1808
- Title:
- Colors and kinematics of SDSS L dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/139/1808
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 484 L dwarfs, 210 of which are newly discovered from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 spectroscopic database. We combine this sample with known L dwarfs to investigate their izJHKS colors. We present photometric distance relations based on i-z and i-J colors and derive distances to our L dwarf sample. We combine the distances with SDSS/2MASS proper motions in order to examine the tangential velocities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/546/A115
- Title:
- Colors of minor bodies in outer solar system
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/546/A115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photometric colours of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System (MBOSS). This compilation is based on over 2000 measurement epoch extracted from over 100 articles, and is fairly complete as of Dec. 2011. The average colours and additional information are available in the first file. The second file lists the code of the references used for each object. The third file lists the actual references in bibTex format. The methods used to select the data and compute the averages are described in the accompanying paper. The updated lists are available online at http://www.eso.org/~ohainaut/MBOSS Average photometric colours of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System. The table also lists their physico-dynamical class, the number of measurement epochs included in the average, the absolute R-band magnitude R(1,1,{alpha}), and the slope of the spectroscopic gradient (in %/100nm). are presented in table2.dat. For each MBOSS from table2.dat, table3.dat list of the references from which photometric measurements were used. The table also lists the number of measurement epochs included in the average.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/389/641
- Title:
- Colors of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/389/641
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a compilation of all available colors for 104 Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System (MBOSSes); for each object, the original references are listed. The measurements were combined in a way that does not introduce rotational color artifacts. We then derive the slope, or reddening gradient, of the low resolution reflectance spectra obtained from the broad-band color for each object. A set of color-color diagrams, histograms and cumulative probability functions are presented as a reference for further studies, and are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/243/12
- Title:
- Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/243/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey is acquiring near-simultaneous g, r, and J photometry of unprecedented precision with the Gemini North Telescope, targeting nearly 100 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) brighter than m_r_=23.6mag discovered in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. Combining the optical and near-infrared photometry with the well-characterized detection efficiency of the Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey target sample will provide the first flux-limited compositional dynamical map of the outer solar system. In this paper, we describe our observing strategy and detail the data reduction processes we employ, including techniques to mitigate the impact of rotational variability. We present optical and near-infrared colors for 35 TNOs. We find two taxonomic groups for the dynamically excited TNOs, the neutral and red classes, which divide at g-r~0.75. Based on simple albedo and orbital distribution assumptions, we find that the neutral class outnumbers the red class, with a ratio of 4:1 and potentially as high as 11:1. Including in our analysis constraints from the cold classical objects, which are known to exhibit unique albedos and r-z colors, we find that within our measurement uncertainty our observations are consistent with the primordial solar system protoplanetesimal disk being neutral class dominated, with two major compositional divisions in grJ color space.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/1424
- Title:
- Color-temperature relations of M giants
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/119/1424
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of a project to model the integrated spectra and colors of elliptical galaxies through evolutionary synthesis, we have refined our synthetic spectrum calculations of M giants. After critically assessing three effective temperature scales for M giants, we adopted the relation of Dyck et al. for our models. Using empirical spectra of field M giants as a guide, we then calculated MARCS stellar atmosphere models (Gustafsson et al. 1975; Bell et al. 1976) and SSG synthetic spectra (Bell & Gustafsson 1978; Gustafsson & Bell 1979) of these cool stars, adjusting the band absorption oscillator strengths of the TiO bands to better reproduce the observational data. The resulting synthetic spectra are found to be in very good agreement with the K-band spectra of stars of the appropriate spectral type taken from Kleinmann & Hall (1986) as well. Spectral types estimated from the strengths of the TiO bands and the depth of the band head of CO near 2.3 {mu}m quantitatively confirm that the synthetic spectra are good representations of those of field M giants. The broadband colors of the models match the field relations of K and early-M giants very well; for late-M giants, differences between the field star and synthetic colors are probably caused by the omission of spectral lines of VO and H_2_O in the spectrum synthesis calculations. Here, we present four grids of K-band bolometric corrections and colors - Johnson U-V and B-V, Cousins V-R and V-I, Johnson-Glass V-K, J-K, and H-K, and CIT/CTIO V-K, J-K, H-K, and CO - for models having 3000 K {<=} Teff {<=} 4000 K and -0.5 {<=} log(g) {<=} 1.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/94
- Title:
- Col-OSSOS: Properties of outer solar system objects
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Both physical and dynamical properties must be considered to constrain the origins of the dynamically excited distant solar system populations. We present high-precision (g-r) colors for 25 small (H_r_>5) dynamically excited trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs acquired as part of the Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. We combine our data set with previously published measurements and consider a set of 229 colors of outer solar system objects on dynamically excited orbits. The overall color distribution is bimodal and can be decomposed into two distinct classes, termed gray and red, that each has a normal color distribution. The two color classes have different inclination distributions: red objects have lower inclinations than the gray ones. This trend holds for all dynamically excited TNO populations. Even in the worst-case scenario, biases in the discovery surveys cannot account for this trend; it is intrinsic to the TNO population. Considering that TNOs are the precursors of centaurs, and that their inclinations are roughly preserved as they become centaurs, our finding solves the conundrum of centaurs being the only outer solar system population identified so far to exhibit this property. The different orbital distributions of the gray and red dynamically excited TNOs provide strong evidence that their colors are due to different formation locations in a disk of planetesimals with a compositional gradient.
