- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/813/12
- Title:
- Empirical methane (CH_4_) line list
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/813/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hot methane is found in many "cool" sub-stellar astronomical sources including brown dwarfs and exoplanets, as well as in combustion environments on Earth. We report on the first high-resolution laboratory absorption spectra of hot methane at temperatures up to 1200K. Our observations are compared to the latest theoretical spectral predictions and recent brown dwarf spectra. The expectation that millions of weak absorption lines combine to form a continuum, not seen at room temperature, is confirmed. Our high-resolution transmittance spectra account for both the emission and absorption of methane at elevated temperatures. From these spectra, we obtain an empirical line list and continuum that is able to account for the absorption of methane in high temperature environments at both high and low resolution. Great advances have recently been made in the theoretical prediction of hot methane, and our experimental measurements highlight the progress made and the problems that still remain.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/420/1684
- Title:
- End of red sequence galaxies in Galaxy Zoo
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/420/1684
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of local post-starburst galaxies (PSGs) using the photometric and spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the results from the Galaxy Zoo project. We find that the majority of our local PSG population have neither early- nor late-type morphologies but occupy a well-defined space within the colour-stellar mass diagram, most notably, the low-mass end of the 'green valley' below the transition mass thought to be the mass division between low-mass star-forming galaxies and high-mass passively evolving bulge-dominated galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/1311
- Title:
- Environments of moderate redshift radio galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/1311
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the local universe, high-power radio galaxies live in lower-density environments than low-luminosity radio galaxies. If this trend continued to higher redshifts, powerful radio galaxies would serve as efficient probes of moderate redshift groups and poor clusters. Photometric studies of radio galaxies at 0.3<~z<~0.5 suggest that the radio luminosity-environment correlation disappears at moderate redshifts, though this could be the result of foreground/background contamination affecting the photometric measures of environment. We have obtained multi-object spectroscopy in the fields of 14 lower luminosity (L_1.4GHz_<4x10^24^W/Hz) and higher luminosity (L_1.4GHz_>1.2x10^25^W/Hz) radio galaxies at z~0.3 to spectroscopically investigate the link between the environment and the radio luminosity of radio galaxies at moderate redshifts. Our results support the photometric analyses; there does not appear to be a correlation between the luminosity of a radio galaxy and its environment at moderate redshifts. Hence, radio galaxies are not efficient signposts for group environments at moderate redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/881/87
- Title:
- 9 epochs spectroscopy of type I supernova SN 201iet
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/881/87
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical photometry and spectroscopy of SN2016iet (=Gaia16bvd=PS17brq), an unprecedented Type I supernova (SNI) at z=0.0676 with no obvious analog in the existing literature. SN2016iet exhibits a peculiar light curve, with two roughly equal brightness peaks (~-19mag) separated by about 100 days, and a subsequent slow decline by about 5mag in 650 rest-frame days. The spectra are dominated by strong emission lines of calcium and oxygen, with a width of only 3400km/s, superposed on a strong blue continuum in the first year. There is no clear evidence for hydrogen or helium associated with the SN at any phase. The nebular spectra exhibit a ratio of L_CaII_/L_OI_~4, much larger than for core-collapse SNe and TypeI superluminous SNe. We model the light curves with several potential energy sources: radioactive decay, a central engine, and ejecta-circumstellar medium (CSM) interaction. Regardless of the model, the inferred progenitor mass near the end of its life (i.e., the CO core mass) is >~55M{sun} and potentially up to 120M{sun}, clearly placing the event in the regime of pulsational pair instability supernovae (PPISNe) or pair instability supernovae (PISNe). The models of CSM interaction provide the most consistent explanation for the light curves and spectra, and require a CSM mass of ~35M{sun} ejected in the final decade before explosion. We further find that SN2016iet is located at an unusually large projected offset (16.5kpc, 4.3 effective radii) from its low-metallicity dwarf host galaxy (Z~0.1Z{sun}, L~0.02L*, M~108.5M{sun}), supporting the interpretation of a PPISN/PISN explosion. In our final spectrum at a phase of about 770 rest-frame days we detect weak and narrow H{alpha} emission at the location of the SN, corresponding to a star formation rate of ~3x10^-4^M{sun}/yr, which is likely due to a dim underlying galaxy host or an HII region. Despite the overall consistency of the SN and its unusual environment with PPISNe and PISNe, we find that the inferred properties of SN2016iet challenge existing models of such events.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/104
- Title:
- {Epsilon} CrA components radial & orbital velocity
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-resolution spectroscopic observations of the W UMa-type binary {Epsilon}CrA obtained as a time-monitoring sequence on four full and four partial nights within two weeks have been used to derive orbital elements of the system and discuss the validity of the Lucy model for description of the radial-velocity data. The observations had more extensive temporal coverage and better quality than similar time-sequence observations of the contact binary AW UMa. The two binaries share several physical properties and show very similar deviations from the Lucy model: the primary component is a rapidly rotating star almost unaffected by the presence of the secondary component, while the latter is embedded in a complex gas flow and appears to have its own rotation-velocity field, in contradiction to the model. The spectroscopic mass ratio is found to be larger than the one derived from the light-curve analysis, as in many other W UMa-type binaries, but the discrepancy for {Epsilon} CrA is relatively minor, much smaller than for AW UMa. The presence of the complex velocity flows contradicting the assumption of solid-body rotation suggests a necessity of modification to the Lucy model, possibly along the lines outlined by Stepien in his concept of energy transfer between the binary components.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/510/A99
- Title:
- Epsilon Indi Ba and Bb IR spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/510/A99
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The discovery of epsilon Indi Ba, Bb, a binary brown dwarf system very close to the Sun, makes possible a concerted campaign to characterise the physical parameters of two T dwarfs. Recent observations suggest substellar atmospheric and evolutionary models may be inconsistent with observations, but there have been few conclusive tests to date. We therefore aim to characterise these benchmark brown dwarfs to place constraints on such models. We have obtained high angular resolution optical, near-infrared, and thermal-infrared imaging and medium-resolution (up to R~5000) spectroscopy of epsilon Indi Ba, Bb with the ESO VLT and present VRIzJHKL'M' broad-band photometry and 0.63-5.1 micron spectroscopy of the individual components. The photometry and spectroscopy of the two partially blended sources were extracted with a custom algorithm. Furthermore, we use deep AO-imaging to place upper limits on the (model-dependent) mass of any further system members. We derive luminosities of log L/L_{sun}=-4.699+/-0.017 and -5.232+/-0.020 for epsilon Indi Ba, Bb, respectively, and using the dynamical system mass and COND03 evolutionary models predict a system age of 3.7-4.3Gyr, in excess of previous estimates and recent predictions from observations of these brown dwarfs. Moreover, the effective temperatures of 1352-1385K and 976-1011K predicted from the COND03 evolutionary models, for epsilon Indi Ba and Bb respectively, are in disagreement with those derived from the comparison of our data with the BT-Settl atmospheric models where we find effective temperatures of 1300-1340K and 880-940K, for epsilon Indi Ba and Bb respectively, with surface gravities of logg=5.25 and 5.50. Finally, we show that spectroscopically determined effective temperatures and surface gravities for ultra-cool dwarfs can lead to underestimated masses even where precise luminosity constraints are available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/2404
- Title:
- Equivalent width of 21 RR Lyrae stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/447/2404
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have analysed a sample of 18 RR Lyrae stars (17 fundamental-mode - RRab - and one first overtone - RRc) and three Population II Cepheids (two BL Her stars and one W Vir star), for which high-resolution (R>=30000), high signal-to-noise (S/N>=30) spectra were obtained with either SARG at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (La Palma, Spain) or UVES at the ESO Very Large Telescope (Paranal, Chile). Archival data were also analyzed for a few stars, sampling >~3 phases for each star. We obtained atmospheric parameters (T_eff_, logg, v_t_, and [M/H]) and abundances of several iron-peak and {alpha}-elements (Fe, Cr, Ni, Mg, Ca, Si, and Ti) for different pulsational phases, obtaining <[{alpha}/Fe]>=+0.31+/-0.19dex over the entire sample covering -2.2<[Fe/H]<-1.1dex. We find that silicon is indeed extremely sensitive to the phase, as reported by previous authors, and cannot be reliably determined. Apart from this, metallicities and abundance ratios are consistently determined, regardless of the phase, within 0.10-0.15 dex, although caution should be used in the range 0<~{phi}<~0.15. Our results agree with literature determinations for both variable and non-variable field stars, obtained with very different methods, including low and high-resolution spectroscopy. W Vir and BL Her stars, at least in the sampled phases, appear indistinguishable from RRab from the spectroscopic analysis point of view. Our large sample, covering all pulsation phases, confirms that chemical abundances can be obtained for RR Lyrae with the classical EW-based technique and static model atmospheres, even rather close to the shock phases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/42
- Title:
- Equivalent widths and atomic data for GCs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/42
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detailed chemical abundances for five stars in two Galactic globular clusters, NGC 5466 and NGC 5024, are presented from high-resolution optical (from the Hobby-Eberley Telescope) and infrared spectra (from the SDSS-III APOGEE survey). We find [Fe/H]=-1.97+/-0.13 dex for NGC 5466, and [Fe/H]=-2.06+/-0.13 dex for NGC 5024, and the typical abundance pattern for globular clusters for the remaining elements, e.g. both show evidence for mixing in their light element abundance ratios (C, N), and asymptotic giant branch contributions in their heavy element abundances (Y, Ba, and Eu). These clusters were selected to examine chemical trends that may correlate them with the Sgr dwarf galaxy remnant, but at these low metallicities no obvious differences from the Galactic abundance pattern are found. Regardless, we compare our results from the optical and infrared analyses to find that oxygen and silicon abundances determined from the infrared spectral lines are in better agreement with the other {alpha}-element ratios and with smaller random errors.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/42/391
- Title:
- Equivalent Widths in Pollux
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/42/391
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/126/461
- Title:
- Equivalent Widths in the Spectrum of Sirius
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/126/461
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The equivalent widths of total 546 lines (26 elements are included) in the spectrum of the bright Am star Sirius from 380 to 930 nm are tabulated. The high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectrum was obtained with the Coude Echelle Spectrograph attached to the 2.16 m telescope at Beijing Astronomical Observatory (Xinglong, China). Here we also give the results of the equivalent widths comparison between our measurements and those of Strom et al. (=1966ApJ...146..880S) and Sadakane & Ueta (=1989PASJ...41..279S). Table 1. Observation Journal of Sirius: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spectral Range Exposure Time Geocentric Radial Velocity (nm) Obs. Date (s) (km s-1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 386.5-572.1 1997 Feb 18/19 180 12.75 (0.45) 383.3-661.9 1997 Feb 18/19 40+40+30 12.37 (0.96) 378.9-551.6 1997 Feb 18/19 40+40 12.31 (0.82) 380.7-649.3 1997 Feb 18/19 40+40 12.42 (0.93) 623.8-922.7 1999 Apr 01/02 300+300 15.49 (0.52) 624.8-930.4 1999 Apr 01/02 300+300 15.58 (0.69) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
