- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/21
- Title:
- V and Rc light curves of medium-bright PPNe
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 10 years of new photometric monitoring of the light variability of five evolved stars with strong mid-infrared emission from surrounding dust. Three are known carbon-rich proto-planetary nebulae (PPNe) with F-G spectral types; the nature of the other two was previously unknown. For the three PPNe, we determine or refine the pulsation periods of IRAS04296+3429 (71 days), 06530-0213 (80 days), and 23304+6147 (84 days). A secondary period was found for each, with a period ratio P_2_/P_1_ of 0.9. The light variations are small, 0.1-0.2mag. These are similar to values found in other PPNe. The other two are found to be giant stars. IRAS09296+1159 pulsates with a period of only 47 days but reaches pulsational light variations of 0.5mag. Supplemental spectroscopy reveals the spectrum of a CH carbon star. IRAS08359-1644 is a G1III star that does not display pulsational variability; rather, it shows nonperiodic decreases of brightness of up to 0.5mag over this 10 year interval. These drops in brightness are reminiscent of the light curves of R Corona Borealis variables, but with much smaller decreases in brightness and are likely due to transient dust obscuration. Its spectral energy distribution is very similar to that of the unusual oxygen-rich giant star HDE233517, which possesses mid-infrared hydrocarbon emission features. These two non-PPNe turn out to be members of the rare group of giant stars with large mid-infrared excesses due to dust, objects which presumably have interesting evolutionary histories.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/2750
- Title:
- V and R lightcurves of BL Lac object PKS 0537-441
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/2750
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the colour indices V-R of BL Lacertae object PKS 0537-441 on the basis of the photometric data monitored by the Rapid Eye Mounting (REM) telescope located at the ESO Cerro La Silla observatory (Chile). Nearly 700 quasi-simultaneous data groups were collected during the period from 2004 to 2010. Our colour analysis shows the existence of at least two variability mechanisms: one is the long-term chromatic mechanism in which the variation traces a 0.04+/-0.01 slope in the V-R versus V plot, the other is the chromatic mechanism implying the spectral changes during the flares and on intraday time-scales. A general bluer-when-brighter trend is confirmed in both ascent and descent states during the flares and in the 2010 February flare interval, while a much stronger bluer-when-brighter chromatism is observed in both faint and bright states on intraday time-scales. The discrete correlation function analysis reveals the existence of a time-lag of 13^+5.8^_-1.2_ d between colour indices and magnitudes during the period MJD 54404-54453, whereas no measurable time-lag during other periods is found. Our results suggest that geometric effects may be responsible for the long-term achromatic mechanism, while the intrinsic shock-in-jet mechanism may produce the chromatic variability during the flares and on intraday time-scales.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/403/637
- Title:
- V and R light curves of GSC 3822-1056
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/403/637
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Here we present the first Johnson-Cousins VR_C_ light curves of the over-contact binary star GSC 3822-1056. A period study and the light curve solution are also given. An extremely high rate of period increase +11.6sec/century was found. The origin of this period change can be: (i) partly covered light-time effect due to the orbital motion around the mass center of a possible third body; (ii) mass transfer between the components. The light curve was solved by the 1998 Wilson-Devinney Code. We examined the light curve with and without third light. Both solutions yielded a contact configuration with high temperature difference between the components. Despite the high degree of the contact (f=0.57), the temperature difference between the components {Delta}T=T_primary_-T_secondary_=1045K. The high mass-ratio of the system and its other unusual properties suggest that GSC 3822-1056 may be a recently formed contact binary.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/CoSka/40.19
- Title:
- V466 And UBV(RI)c light curves
- Short Name:
- J/other/CoSka/40
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the UBV(RI)C photometry of a new dwarf nova V466 And, discovered during its superoutburst on Sept. 1.6, 2008 and classified as a WZ Sge-type object. In the first 11 days of the superoutburst, the early superhumps with the period of 0.056383d were found. In days 13-23 of the superoutburst, the ordinary superhumps with the period of 0.05713d were exposed. They were replaced by late superhumps with the period of 0.056d in days 24-33 of the superoutburst. After one month, the dwarf nova returned to its pre-outburst state. A list of known WZ Sge-type dwarf novae, including suspected ones, is presented. We determined a mean value of superhump period excess for WZ Sge-type objects as {epsilon}=0.019+/-0.003. The multicolour photometry of the field stars enables us to conclude that there is no appreciable interstellar extinction in the direction of V466 And.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/8
- Title:
- Vanishing and appearing sources using USNO data
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we report the current status of a new research program. The primary goal of the "Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" project is to search for vanishing and appearing sources using existing survey data to find examples of exceptional astrophysical transients. The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations. In this first paper we present new, deeper observations of the tentative candidate discovered by Villarroel et al. (2016AJ....152...76V). We then perform the first searches for vanishing objects throughout the sky by comparing 600 million objects from the US Naval Observatory Catalogue (USNO) B1.0 (Cat. I/284) down to a limiting magnitude of ~20-21 with the recent Pan-STARRS Data Release-1 (DR1, Cat. II/349) with a limiting magnitude of ~23.4. We find about 150000 preliminary candidates that do not have any Pan-STARRS counterpart within a 30" radius. We show that these objects are redder and have larger proper motions than typical USNO objects. We visually examine the images for a subset of about 24000 candidates, superseding the 2016 study with a sample 10 times larger. We find about 100 point sources visible in only one epoch in the red band of the USNO, which may be of interest in searches for strong M-dwarf flares, high-redshift supernovae, or other categories of unidentified red transients.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/505/963
- Title:
- Vanishing natural coronagraph of eta Car
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/505/963
- Date:
- 17 Jan 2022 00:16:02
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Eta Carinae is a massive interacting binary system shrouded in a complex circumstellar environment whose evolution is the source of the long-term brightening observed during the last 80yr. An occulter, acting as a natural coronagraph, impacts observations from our perspective, but not from most other directions. Other sight-lines are visible to us through studies of the Homunculus reflection nebula. The coronagraph appears to be vanishing, decreasing the extinction towards the central star, and causing the star's secular brightening. In contrast, the Homunculus remains at an almost constant brightness. The coronagraph primarily suppresses the stellar continuum, to a lesser extent the wind lines, and not the circumstellar emission lines. This explains why the absolute values of equivalent widths (EWs) of the emission lines in our direct view are larger than those seen in reflected by the Homunculus, why the direct view absolute EWs are decreasing with time, and why lower-excitation spectral wind lines formed at larger radii (e.g FeII 4585{AA}) decrease in intensity at a faster pace than higher excitation lines that form closer to the star (e.g. H{delta}). Our main result is that the star, despite its 10-fold brightening over two decades, is relatively stable. A vanishing coronagraph that can explain both the large flux evolution and the much weaker spectral evolution. This is contrary to suggestions that the long-term variability is intrinsic to the primary star that is still recovering from the Great Eruption with a decreasing mass-loss rate and a polar wind that is evolving at a slower pace than at the equator.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A125
- Title:
- (174567) Varda multi-chord stellar occultation
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present here results of the first-ever recorded stellar occultation by the large trans-Neptunian object (174567) Varda that was observed on September 10th, 2018. Varda belongs to the high-inclination dynamically excited population, and has a satellite, Ilmare, which is half the size of Varda.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/377/945
- Title:
- Variability and spectra of LMC giants
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/377/945
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first cross-identifications of sources in the near-infrared DENIS survey and in the micro-lensing EROS survey in a field of about 0.5 square degrees around the optical center (OC) of the Large Magellanic Cloud. We analyze the photometric history of these stars in the EROS data base and obtain light-curves for about 800 variables. Most of the stars are long period variables (Miras and Semi-Regulars); a few Cepheids are also present. We also present new spectroscopic data on 126 asymptotic giant branch stars in the OC field, 30 previously known and 96 newly discovered by the DENIS survey. The visible spectra are used to assign a carbon- (C-) or oxygen-rich (O-rich) nature to the observed stars on the basis of the presence of molecular bands of TiO, VO, CN, C_2_. For the remaining of the stars we used the (J-K_S_) color to determine whether they are O-rich or C-rich. Plotting Log(period) versus K_S_ we find three very distinct period-luminosity relations, mainly populated by Semi-Regular stars of type a (SRa), b (SRb) and Mira variables. Carbon-rich stars occupy mostly the upper part of these relations. We find that 65% of the asymptotic giant branch population are long period variables (LPVs).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/72/291
- Title:
- Variability at Frequencies 3.9 and 7.5 GHz
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/72/291
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A complete sample of radio sources from the Zelenchukskii survey with fluxes S(3.9GHz)>200mJy and declination range from +4 till +6 degrees were observed at 3.9 and 7.5GHz over the course of seven years. There are one hundred and eighty radio sources in the sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/550/A120
- Title:
- Variability classification of CoRoT targets
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/550/A120
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an improved method for automated stellar variability classification, using fundamental parameters derived from high resolution spectra, with the goal to improve the variability classification obtained using information derived from CoRoT light curves only. Although we focus on Giraffe spectra and CoRoT light curves in this work, the methods are much more widely applicable. In order to improve the variability classification obtained from the photometric time series, only rough estimates of the stellar physical parameters (Teff and logg) are needed because most variability types that overlap in the space of time series parameters, are well separated in the space of physical parameters (e.g. {gamma} Dor/SPB or {delta} Sct/{beta} Cep). In this work, several state-of-the-art machine learning techniques are combined to estimate these fundamental parameters from high resolution Giraffe spectra. Next, these parameters are used in a multi-stage Gaussian-Mixture classifier to perform an improved supervised variability classification of CoRoT light curves. The variability classifier can be used independently of the regression module that estimates the physical parameters, so that non-spectroscopic estimates derived e.g. from photometric colour indices can be used instead. Teff and logg are derived from Giraffe spectra, for 6832 CoRoT targets. The use of those parameters in addition to information extracted from the CoRoT light curves, significantly improves the results of our previous automated stellar variability classification. Several new pulsating stars are identified with high confidence levels, including hot pulsators such as SPB and {beta} Cep, and several {gamma} Dor-{delta} Sct hybrids. From our samples of new {gamma} Dor and {delta} Sct stars, we find strong indications that the instability domains for both types of pulsators are larger than previously thought.
