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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/3474
- Title:
- ASAS, NSVS, and LINEAR detached eclipsing binaries
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/453/3474
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Eclipsing binaries provide a unique opportunity to measure fundamental properties of stars. With the advent of all-sky surveys, thousands of eclipsing binaries have been reported, yet their light curves are not fully exploited. The goal of this work is to make use of the eclipsing binary light curves delivered by all-sky surveys. We attempt to extract physical parameters of the binary systems from their light curves and colour. Inspired by the work of Devor et al., we use the Detached Eclipsing Binary Light curve fitter (DEBIL) and the Method for Eclipsing Component Identification (MECI) to derive basic properties of the binary systems reported by the All Sky Automated Survey, the Northern Sky Variability Survey, and the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroids Research. We derive the mass, fractional radius, and age for 783 binary systems. We report a subsample of eccentric systems and compare their properties to the tidal circularization theory. With MECI, we are able to estimate the distance of the eclipsing binary systems and use them to probe the structure of the Milky Way. Following the approach of Devor et al., we demonstrate that DEBIL and MECI are instrumental to investigate eclipsing binary light curves in the era of all-sky surveys, and provide estimates of stellar parameters of both binary components without spectroscopic information.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/62/67
- Title:
- ASAS photometry of ROSAT sources
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/62/67
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photometric data from the ASAS - South (declination less than 29{deg}) survey have been used for identification of bright stars located near the sources from the ROSAT All Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (RBSC). In total 6028 stars brighter than 12.5mag in I- or V-bands have been selected and analyzed for periodicity. Altogether 2302 variable stars have been found with periods ranging from 0.137d to 193d. Most of these stars have X-ray emission of coronal origin with a few cataclysmic binaries and early type stars with colliding winds. Whenever it was possible we collected data available in the literature to verify periods and to classify variable objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/53
- Title:
- ASAS photometry of ROSAT sources. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 307 optical counterparts of the bright ROSAT X-ray sources, identified with the ASAS North survey data and showing periodic brightness variations. They all have declination north of -25{deg}. Other data available from the literature for the listed stars are also included. All the tabulated stars are new variables, except for 13 previously known, for which the revised values of periods are given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/471/4966
- Title:
- ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue 2016
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/471/4966
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue summarizes information for all supernovae discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) and all other bright (m_peak_ <=17), spectroscopically confirmed supernovae discovered in 2016. We then gather the near-infrared through ultraviolet magnitudes of all host galaxies and the offsets of the supernovae from the centres of their hosts from public data bases. We illustrate the results using a sample that now totals 668 supernovae discovered since 2014 May 1, including the supernovae from our previous catalogues, with type distributions closely matching those of the ideal magnitude limited sample from Li et al. This is the third of a series of yearly papers on bright supernovae and their hosts from the ASAS-SN team.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/467/1098
- Title:
- ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue 2015
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/467/1098
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This manuscript presents information for all supernovae discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) during 2015, its second full year of operations. The same information is presented for bright (mV<=17), spectroscopically confirmed supernovae discovered by other sources in 2015. As with the first ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue, we also present redshifts and near-ultraviolet through infrared magnitudes for all supernova host galaxies in both samples. Combined with our previous catalogue, this work comprises a complete catalogue of 455 supernovae from multiple professional and amateur sources, allowing for population studies that were previously impossible. This is the second of a series of yearly papers on bright supernovae and their hosts from the ASAS-SN team.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/464/2672
- Title:
- ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue 2013-2014
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/464/2672
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present basic statistics for all supernovae discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) during its first year-and-a-half of operations, spanning 2013 and 2014. We also present the same information for all other bright (m_V_<=17), spectroscopically confirmed supernovae discovered from 2014 May 1 through the end of 2014, providing a comparison to the ASAS-SN sample starting from the point where ASAS-SN became operational in both hemispheres. In addition, we present collected redshifts and near-UV through IR magnitudes, where available, for all host galaxies of the bright supernovae in both samples. This work represents a comprehensive catalogue of bright supernovae and their hosts from multiple professional and amateur sources, allowing for population studies that were not previously possible because the all-sky emphasis of ASAS-SN redresses many previously existing biases. In particular, ASAS-SN systematically finds bright supernovae closer to the centres of host galaxies than either other professional surveys or amateurs, a remarkable result given ASAS-SN's poorer angular resolution. This is the first of a series of yearly papers on bright supernovae and their hosts that will be released by the ASAS-SN team.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/366
- Title:
- ASAS-SN catalog of variable stars
- Short Name:
- II/366
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is the first optical survey to routinely monitor the whole sky with a cadence of ~2-3d down to V<~17mag. ASAS-SN has monitored the whole sky since 2014, collecting ~100-500 epochs of observations per field. The V-band light curves for candidate variables identified during the search for supernovae are classified using a random forest classifier and visually verified. In Paper I (Jayasinghe+ 2018MNRAS.477.3145J), we present a catalogue of 66179 bright, new variable stars discovered during our search for supernovae, including 27479 periodic variables and 38700 irregular variables. In paper II (Jayasinghe+ 2019MNRAS.486.1907J), We extracted the ASAS-SN light curves of ~412000 variable stars previously discovered by other surveys and in the VSX catalogue. In paper III (Jayasinghe+ 2019MNRAS.485..961J), we extracted the ASAS-SN light curves of ~1.3 million sources within 18deg of the Southern Ecliptic Pole. These sources are within the southern TESS CVZ and will have well-sampled TESS light curves.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/610/A14
- Title:
- ASASSN-15lh MUSE host spectroscopy
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/610/A14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The progenitors of astronomical transients are linked to a specific stellar population and galactic environment, and observing their host galaxies hence constrains the physical nature of the transient itself. Here, we use imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope, and spatially resolved, medium-resolution spectroscopy from the Very Large Telescope obtained with X-shooter and MUSE to study the host of the very luminous transient ASASSN-15lh. The dominant stellar population at the transient site is old (around 1 to 2Gyr) without signs of recent star formation. We also detect emission from ionized gas, originating from three different, time invariable, narrow components of collisionally excited metal and Balmer lines. The ratios of emission lines in the Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich diagnostic diagram indicate that the ionization source is a weak active galactic nucleus with a black hole mass of M_BH_=5_-3_^+8^x10^8^M_{sun}_, derived through the M*-{sigma} relation. The narrow line components show spatial and velocity offsets on scales of 1kpc and 500km/s, respectively; these offsets are best explained by gas kinematics in the narrow-line region. The location of the central component, which we argue is also the position of the supermassive black hole, aligns with that of the transient within an uncertainty of 170pc. Using this positional coincidence as well as other similarities with the hosts of tidal disruption events, we strengthen the argument that the transient emission observed as ASASSN-15lh is related to the disruption of a star around a supermassive black hole, most probably spinning with a Kerr parameter a_BH_>=0.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/3813
- Title:
- ASASSN-15oi UBVI M2W1W2 light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/3813
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ground-based and Swift photometric and spectroscopic observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-15oi, discovered at the centre of 2MASX J20390918-3045201 (d~=216Mpc) by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae. The source peaked at a bolometric luminosity of L~=1.3x10^44^erg/s and radiated a total energy of E~=6.6x10^50^ erg over the first ~3.5 months of observations. The early optical/UV emission of the source can be fit by a blackbody with temperature increasing from T~=2x10^4^K to T~=4x10^4^K while the luminosity declines from L~=1.3x10^44^erg/s to L~=2.3x10^43^erg/s, requiring the photosphere to be shrinking rapidly. The optical/UV luminosity decline during this period is most consistent with an exponential decline, L{prop.to}e^-(t-t_0)/tau_^, with {tau}~=46.5d for t_0_~=57241.6 (MJD), while a power-law decline of L{prop.to}(t-t_0_)^-{alpha}^ with t_0_~=57212.3 and {alpha}=1.62 provides a moderately worse fit. ASASSN-15oi also exhibits roughly constant soft X-ray emission that is significantly weaker than the optical/UV emission. Spectra of the source show broad helium emission lines and strong blue continuum emission in early epochs, although these features fade rapidly and are not present ~3 months after discovery. The early spectroscopic features and colour evolution of ASASSN-15oi are consistent with a TDE, but the rapid spectral evolution is unique among optically selected TDEs.
