- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/777/132
- Title:
- A search for progenitors of short GRBs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/777/132
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We searched for periodic and quasi-periodic signals in the prompt emission of a sample of 44 bright short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with Fermi/GBM, Swift/BAT, and CGRO/BATSE. The aim was to look for the observational signature of quasi-periodic jet precession, which is expected from black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) mergers, but not from double NS systems. Thus, this kind of search holds the key to identifying the progenitor systems of short GRBs and, in the interim before gravitational wave detectors become on-lines, represents the only direct way to constrain the progenitors. We tailored our search to the nature of the expected signal by properly stretching the observed light curves by an increasing factor with time, after calibrating the technique with synthetic curves. None of our GRBs showed evidence for periodic or quasi-periodic signals. In particular, for the seven unambiguously short GRBs with the best signal-to-noise ratios, we obtained significant upper limits to the amplitude of the possible oscillations. This result suggests that BH-NS systems do not dominate the population of short GRB progenitors, as described by the kinematic model of Stone et al. (2013PhRvD..87h4053S).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/747/L19
- Title:
- A search for SNR 0519-69.0 progenitors
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/747/L19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for an ex-companion star in SNR 0519-69.0, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, based on images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with a limiting magnitude of V=26.05. SNR 0519-69.0 is confidently known to be from a Type Ia supernova based on its light echoes and X-ray spectra. The geometric center of the remnant (based on the H{alpha} and X-ray shell) is at 05:19:34.83, -69:02:06.92 (J2000). Accounting for the measurement uncertainties, the orbital velocity, and the kick velocity, any ex-companion star must be within 4.7" of this position at the 99.73% confidence level. This circle contains 27 main-sequence stars brighter than V=22.7, any one of which could be the ex-companion star left over from a supersoft source progenitor system. The circle contains no post-main-sequence stars, and this rules out the possibility of all other published single-degenerate progenitor classes (including symbiotic stars, recurrent novae, helium donors, and the spin-up/spin-down models) for this particular supernova. The only remaining possibility is that SNR 0519-69.0 was formed from either a supersoft source or a double-degenerate progenitor system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/806/95
- Title:
- A search for ultra-compact HVC counterparts
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/806/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report five Local Volume dwarf galaxies (two of which are presented here for the first time) uncovered during a comprehensive archival search for optical counterparts to ultra-compact high-velocity clouds (UCHVCs). The UCHVC population of HI clouds are thought to be candidate gas-rich, low-mass halos at the edge of the Local Group and beyond, but no comprehensive search for stellar counterparts to these systems has been presented. Careful visual inspection of all publicly available optical and ultraviolet imaging at the position of the UCHVCs revealed six blue, diffuse counterparts with a morphology consistent with a faint dwarf galaxy beyond the Local Group. Optical spectroscopy of all six candidate dwarf counterparts show that five have an H{alpha}-derived velocity consistent with the coincident HI cloud, confirming their association; the sixth diffuse counterpart is likely a background object. The size and luminosity of the UCHVC dwarfs is consistent with other known Local Volume dwarf irregular galaxies. The gas fraction (M_HI_/M_star_) of the five dwarfs are generally consistent with that of dwarf irregular galaxies in the Local Volume, although ALFALFA-Dw1 (associated with ALFALFA UCHVC HVC274.68+74.70-123) has a very high M_HI_/M_star_~40. Despite the heterogeneous nature of our search, we demonstrate that the current dwarf companions to UCHVCs are at the edge of detectability due to their low surface brightness, and that deeper searches are likely to find more stellar systems. If more sensitive searches do not reveal further stellar counterparts to UCHVCs, then the dearth of such systems around the Local Group may be in conflict with {Lambda}CDM simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/244/12
- Title:
- A search for variable stars in M4 with K2 LCs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/244/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We extract light curves for 4554 objects with 9<G<19 in the K2 superstamp observations of the globular cluster M4, including 3784 cluster members, and search for variability. Among cluster-member objects, we detect 66 variables, of which 52 are new discoveries. Among objects not belonging to the cluster, we detect 24 variables, of which 20 are new discoveries. We additionally discover 57 cluster-member suspected variables, 10 cluster-non-member suspected variables, and four variables with ambiguous cluster membership. Our light curves reach sub-millimagnitude precision for the cluster horizontal branch, permitting us to detect asteroseismic activity in six horizontal branch stars outside the instability strip and one inside the strip but with only ~1mmag amplitude variability. Nineteen additional stars along the red giant branch also have detected asteroseismic variability. Several eclipsing binaries are found in the cluster, including a 4.6 day detached eclipsing binary and an EW-class eclipsing binary, as well as an EW with uncertain cluster membership and three other candidate EWs. A 22 day detached eclipsing binary is also found outside the cluster. We identify a candidate X-ray binary that is a cluster member with quiescent and periodic ~20mmag optical variability. We also obtain high-precision light curves for 10 of the previously known RR Lyrae variables in the cluster and identify one as a candidate Blazhko variable with a Blazhko period in excess of 78d.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/802/59
- Title:
- A search for YSO candidates in IRDC G53.2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/802/59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present star formation activity in the infrared dark cloud (IRDC) G53.2, a remarkable IRDC located at Galactic coordinates (l,b)~(53.2{deg},0.0{deg}) based on the census of young stellar object (YSO) candidates. IRDC G53.2 was previously identified as several IRDCs in mid-IR images, but it is in fact a long (>~45pc) cloud, well consistent with a CO cloud at v~23km/s (or at d~1.7kpc). We present a point-source catalog of IRDC G53.2 that contains ~370 sources from our photometry of the Spitzer MIPS 24{mu}m data and Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) Catalog. The classification of the identified sources based on their spectral index and control field analysis to remove field star contamination reveals that IRDC G53.2 is an active star-forming region with ~300 YSO candidates. We compare the YSO classification based on spectral index, mid-IR colors, and the wavelength range used, which results in consistent classification, except for flat-spectrum objects, with some ambiguity between Class I and II. Comparison of the YSO population in IRDC G53.2 with those of other nearby star-forming clusters indicates that they are similar in age; on the other hand, stronger association with mid-IR stellar sources in IRDC G53.2 compared with other IRDCs indicates that IRDC G53.2 is at a later evolutionary stage among IRDCs. Spatial distribution of the YSO candidates in IRDC G53.2 shows a good correlation with ^13^CO column density and far-IR emission, and earlier-class objects tend to be more clustered in the regions with higher density.
1236. Asiago Catalogue of QSOs
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/69
- Title:
- Asiago Catalogue of QSOs
- Short Name:
- VII/69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Asiago Catalog of 2004 Quasi Stellar Objects (QSOs) is an updated version of that published by Barbieri, Capaccioli and Zambon in 1975 (1975MmSAI..46..461B). Most of the information of these objects are taken from the literature published before Dec. 31, 1981. Specifically, the catalog.dat file contains names, equatorial and galactic coordinates, photometry, redshifts, information on radio emission, variability, morphology, presence of absorption lines, for 2004 QSOs. The indexed references (in refs.dat) and further detailed information (in remarks.dat) concerning absorption spectra, X-ray properties, and cross-reference tables are also provided.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/2540
- Title:
- Asiago-ESO/RASS QSO survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/119/2540
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the first results of a survey for bright quasars (V<14.5 and R<15.4) covering the northern hemisphere at Galactic latitudes |b|>30{deg}. The photometric database is derived from the Guide Star and USNO catalogs. Quasars are identified on the basis of their X-ray emission measured in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. The surface density of quasars brighter than 15.5mag turns out to be (10+/-2)x10^-3^deg^-2^, about 3 times higher than that estimated by the Palomar-Green (PG) survey. The quasar optical luminosity function (LF) at 0.04<z<=0.3 is computed and shown to be consistent with a luminosity-dependent luminosity evolution of the type derived by La Franca & Cristiani (1997AJ....113.1517L) in the range 0.3<z<=2.2. The predictions of semianalytical models of hierarchical structure formation agree remarkably well with the present observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/2955
- Title:
- Asiago-ESO/RASS QSO survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/124/2955
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the second paper of a series describing the Asiago-ESO/RASS QSO survey, a project aimed at the construction of an all-sky, statistically well defined sample of very bright QSOs (BJ<=15). Such a survey is required to remove the present uncertainties about the properties of the local QSO population and constitutes an homogeneous database for detailed evolutionary studies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We present here the complete southern sample, which comprises 243 bright (12.60<=BJ<=15.13) QSO candidates at high galactic latitudes (|b_gal_|>=30{deg}). The area covered by the survey is 5660deg^2^. Spectroscopy for the 137 still unidentified objects has been obtained. The total number of AGNs turns out to be 11163 of which are new identifications. The properties of the selection are discussed. The completeness and the success rate for this survey at the final stage are 63% and 46%, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/asiagosn
- Title:
- Asiago Supernova Catalog (Dynamic Version)
- Short Name:
- ASIAGOSN
- Date:
- 14 Feb 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the dynamic version of the Asiago Supernova Catalog. It supersedes the original 1999 version by Barbon et al. (1999A&AS..139..531B, Cat. II/227), and contains data about the supernovae observed since 1885 and their parent galaxies through a few days prior to the most recent update. In addition to the list of newly discovered SNe, the literature has been searched for new information on past SNe as well. The data for the parent galaxies have also been homogenized. This table was created by the HEASARC based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/B/sn">CDS Catalog B/sn</a>. The CDS updates it regularly, and this HEASARC version is accordingly updated within a week of such updates. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/sn
- Title:
- Asiago Supernova Catalogue
- Short Name:
- B/sn
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue supersedes the previous version by Barbon et al. (1999A&AS..139..531B, Cat. II/227), and contains data about the supernovae observed since 1895 and their parent galaxies, and is regularly updated. In addition to the list of newly discovered SNe, the literature has been searched for new information on past SNe as well. The data for the parent galaxies have also been homogenized.
