- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/267
- Title:
- Gravitational Wave Galaxy Catalogue
- Short Name:
- VII/267
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a list of galaxies within 100Mpc, which we call the Gravitational Wave Galaxy Catalogue (GWGC), that is currently being used in follow-up searches of electromagnetic counterparts from gravitational wave searches. Due to the time constraints of rapid follow-up, a locally available catalogue of reduced, homogenized data is required. To achieve this we used four existing catalogues: an updated version of the Tully Nearby Galaxy Catalog (cat. VII/145), 145 the Catalog of Neighboring Galaxies (Karachentsev et al. 2004, Cat. J/AJ/127/2031), the V8k catalogue (Tully et al. 2009AJ....138..323T, http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu/) and HyperLEDA (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/). The GWGC contains information on sky position, distance, blue magnitude, major and minor diameters, position angle, and galaxy type for 53,255 galaxies. Errors on these quantities are either taken directly from the literature or estimated based on our understanding of the uncertainties associated with the measurement method. By using the PGC numbering system developed for HyperLEDA, the catalogue has a reduced level of degeneracies compared to catalogues with a similar purpose and is easily updated. We also include 150 Milky Way globular clusters. Finally, we compare the GWGC to previously used catalogues, and find the GWGC to be more complete within 100 Mpc due to our use of more up-to-date input catalogues and the fact that we have not made a blue luminosity cut.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/785/119
- Title:
- Gravitational waves from known pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/785/119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/713/671
- Title:
- Gravitational waves from pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/713/671
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of 7 below the spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational waves to be less than ~2% of the available spin-down power. For the X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars, several of the measured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3x10^-26^ for J1603-7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0x10^-8^ for J2124-3358.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/839/12
- Title:
- Gravitational waves search from known PSR with LIGO
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/839/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values. For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit, and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve on previous limits by more than a factor of two.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/527/879
- Title:
- Gravities for late-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/527/879
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Chemical analyses of late-type stars are usually carried out following the classical recipe: LTE line formation and homogeneous, plane-parallel, flux-constant, and LTE model atmospheres. We review different results in the literature that have suggested significant inconsistencies in the spectroscopic analyses, pointing out the difficulties in deriving independent estimates of the stellar fundamental parameters and hence, detecting systematic errors. The trigonometric parallaxes measured by the Hipparcos mission provide accurate appraisals of the stellar surface gravity for nearby stars, which are used here to check the gravities obtained from the photospheric iron ionization balance. We find an approximate agreement for stars in the metallicity range -1.0{<~}[Fe/H]{<~}0, but the comparison shows that the differences between the spectroscopic and trigonometric gravities decrease toward lower metallicities for more metal-deficient dwarfs (-2.5{<~}[Fe/H]{<~}-1.0), which casts a shadow upon the abundance analyses for extreme metal-poor stars that make use of the ionization equilibrium to constrain the gravity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/814/1
- Title:
- GRB 120326A, 100418A & 100901A multi-wavelength obs.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/814/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present multi-wavelength observations and modeling of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that exhibit a simultaneous re-brightening in their X-ray and optical light curves, and are also detected at radio wavelengths. We show that the re-brightening episodes can be modeled by injection of energy into the blastwave and that in all cases the energy injection rate falls within the theoretical bounds expected for a distribution of energy with ejecta Lorentz factor. Our measured values of the circumburst density, jet opening angle, and beaming-corrected kinetic energy are consistent with the distribution of these parameters for long-duration GRBs at both z~1 and z>~6, suggesting that the jet launching mechanism and environment of these events are similar to that of GRBs that do not have bumps in their light curves. However, events exhibiting re-brightening episodes have lower radiative efficiencies than average, suggesting that a majority of the kinetic energy of the outflow is carried by slow-moving ejecta, which is further supported by steep measured distributions of the ejecta energy as a function of Lorentz factor. We do not find evidence for reverse shocks over the energy injection period, implying that the onset of energy injection is a gentle process. We further show that GRBs exhibiting simultaneous X-ray and optical re-brightenings are likely the tail of a distribution of events with varying rates of energy injection, forming the most extreme events in their class. Future X-ray observations of GRB afterglows with Swift and its successors will thus likely discover several more such events, while radio follow-up and multi-wavelength modeling of similar events will unveil the role of energy injection in GRB afterglows.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/607/A29
- Title:
- GRB 120327A afterglow colour variations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/607/A29
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of the long Swift GRB120327A afterglow data to investigate the possible causes of the observed early time colour variations. We collected data from various instruments/telescopes in X-ray, ultra-violet, optical and near-infrared bands and determined the shapes of the afterglow early-time light curves. We studied the overall temporal behaviour and the spectral energy distributions from early to late times. The ultra-violet, optical, and near-infrared light curves can be modelled with a single power-law component between 200 and 2x10^4^s after the burst event. The X-ray light curve shows a canonical steep-shallow-steep behaviour, typical of long gamma-ray bursts. At early times a colour variation is observed in the ultra-violet/optical bands, while at very late times a hint of a re-brightening is visible. The observed early time colour change can be explained as a variation in the intrinsic optical spectral index, rather than an evolution of the optical extinction.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/557/A18
- Title:
- GRB 120815A afterglow spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/557/A18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery of molecular hydrogen (H_2_), including the presence of vibrationally-excited H_2^*^_ in the optical spectrum of the afterglow of GRB 120815A at z=2.36 obtained with X-shooter at the VLT. Simultaneous photometric broad-band data from GROND and X-ray observations by Swift/XRT place further constraints on the amount and nature of dust along the sightline. The galactic environment of GRB 120815A is characterized by a strong DLA with would allow statistical studies, and, coupled with host follow-up and sub-mm spectroscopy, provide unprecedented insights into the process and conditions of star-formation at high redshift.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/564/A38
- Title:
- GRB 120327A afterglow VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/564/A38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the environment of the Swift long gamma-ray burst GRB 120327A at z~2.8 through optical spectroscopy of its afterglow. We analyzed medium-resolution, multi-epoch spectroscopic observations (R~7000-12000, corresponding to ~15-23km/s, S/N=15-30 and wavelength range 3000-25000{AA}) of the optical afterglow of GRB 120327A, taken with X-shooter at the VLT 2.13 and 27.65hr after the GRB trigger.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/421/1874
- Title:
- GRB 100901A and GRB 100906A light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/421/1874
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the prompt, early and afterglow optical observations of five {gamma}-ray bursts (GRBs): GRB 100901A, GRB 100902A, GRB 100905A, GRB 100906A and GRB 101020A. These observations were made with the Mobile Astronomical System of TElescope-Robots in Russia (MASTER-II Net), the 1.5-m telescope of the Sierra Nevada Observatory and the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope.