- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/649/A72
- Title:
- GW190814 observations taken with MeerLICHT
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/649/A72
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories detected a signal on 2019 August 14 during their third observing run, named GW190814. A large number of electromagnetic facilities conducted follow-up campaigns in the search for a possible counterpart to the gravitational wave event, which was made especially promising given the early source classification of a neutron star-black hole merger. We present the results of the GW follow-up campaign taken with the wide-field optical telescope MeerLICHT, located at the South African Astronomical Observatory Sutherland site. We use our results to constrain possible kilonova models. MeerLICHT observed more than 95% of the probability localisation each night for over a week in three optical bands (u,q,i) with our initial observations beginning almost 2 hours after the GW detection. We describe the search for new transients in MeerLICHT data and investigate how our limiting magnitudes can be used to constrain an AT2017gfo-like kilonova. A single new transient was found in our analysis of MeerLICHT data, which we exclude from being the electromagnetic counterpart to GW190814 owing to the existence of a spatially unresolved source at the coordinates of the transient in archival data. Using our limiting magnitudes, the confidence with which we can exclude the presence of an AT2017gfo-like kilonova at the distance of GW190814 was low (<10^-4^).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/1757
- Title:
- GX Gem radial velocities and light curves
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/1757
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 12,155 new differential photometric observations in the V filter made with the Undergraduate Research Studies in Astronomy and NF\Observatory WebScopes, as well as 33 radial velocities from spectroscopic observations of the detached, 4.04 day double-lined eclipsing binary star GX Gem. Absolute dimensions of the components are determined from these new, and also from previously published, data with high precision (less than 0.7% in the masses and radii) for the purpose of testing various aspects of theoretical modeling. We obtain 1.488+/-0.011 solar masses and 2.327+/-0.012 solar radii for the primary, and 1.467+/-0.010 solar masses and 2.238+/-0.012 solar radii for the secondary. The effective temperatures and interstellar reddening of the stars are accurately determined from the spectra, uvby{beta}, and UBV photometry: 6195+/-100K for the primary, 6165+/-100K for the secondary, corresponding to spectral types of F7 and F7 V, and 0.068mag for the color excess E(b-y). Spectral line widths give rotational velocities that are synchronous with the mean orbital motion in a circular orbit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/428/2500
- Title:
- GX 339-4 radio/X-ray flux correlation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/428/2500
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The existing radio and X-ray flux correlation for Galactic black holes in the hard and quiescent states relies on a sample which is mostly dominated by two sources (GX 339-4 and V404 Cyg) observed in a single outburst. In this paper, we report on a series of radio and X-ray observations of the recurrent black hole GX 339-4 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and the Swift satellites. With our new long-term campaign, we now have a total of 88 quasi-simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of GX 339-4 during its hard state, covering a total of seven outbursts over a 15-yr period. Our new measurements represent the largest sample for a stellar mass black hole, without any bias from distance uncertainties, over the largest flux variations and down to a level that could be close to quiescence, making GX 339-4 the reference source for comparison with other accreting sources (black holes, neutrons stars, white dwarfs and active galactic nuclei).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/736/L25
- Title:
- Habitability of Kepler planetary candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/736/L25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This Letter outlines a simple approach to evaluate habitability of terrestrial planets by assuming different types of planetary atmospheres and using corresponding model calculations. Our approach can be applied for current and future candidates provided by the Kepler mission and other searches. The resulting uncertainties and changes in the number of planetary candidates in the habitability zone (HZ) for the Kepler 2011 February data release are discussed. To first order, the HZ depends on the effective stellar flux distribution in wavelength and time, the planet albedo, and greenhouse gas effects. We provide a simple set of parameters which can be used for evaluating future planet candidates from transit searches.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/649/1010
- Title:
- Habitability of known exoplanetary systems
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/649/1010
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Habitable planets are likely to be broadly Earth-like in composition, mass, and size. Masses are likely to be within a factor of a few of the Earth's mass. Currently, we do not have sufficiently sensitive techniques to detect Earth-mass planets, except in rare circumstances. It is thus necessary to model the known exoplanetary systems. In particular, we need to establish whether Earth-mass planets could be present in the classical habitable zone (HZ) or whether the giant planets that we know to be present would have gravitationally ejected Earth-mass planets or prevented their formation. We have answered this question by applying computer models to the 152 exoplanetary systems known by 2006 April 18 that are sufficiently well characterized for our analysis. For systems in which there is a giant planet, inside the HZ, which must have arrived there by migration, there are two cases: (1) where the migration of the giant planet across the HZ has not ruled out the existence of Earth-mass planets in the HZ; and (2) where the migration has ruled out existence. For each case, we have determined the proportion of the systems that could contain habitable Earth-mass planets today, and the proportion for which this has been the case for at least the past 1000Myr (excluding any early heavy bombardment). For case 1 we get 60% and 50%, respectively, and for case 2 we get 7% and 7%, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/598/A26
- Title:
- HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/598/A26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The distribution of exoplanets around low-mass stars is still not well understood. Such stars, however, present an excellent opportunity for reaching down to the rocky and habitable planet domains. The number of current detections used for statistical purposes remains relatively modest and different surveys, using both photometry and precise radial velocities, are searching for planets around M dwarfs. Our HARPS-N red dwarf exoplanet survey is aimed at the detection of new planets around a sample of 78 selected stars, together with the subsequent characterization of their activity properties. Here we investigate the survey performance and strategy. From 2700 observed spectra, we compare the radial velocity determinations of the HARPS-N DRS pipeline and the HARPS-TERRA code, calculate the mean activity jitter level, evaluate the planet detection expectations, and address the general question of how to define the strategy of spectroscopic surveys in order to be most efficient in the detection of planets. We find that the HARPS-TERRA radial velocities show less scatter and we calculate a mean activity jitter of 2.3m/s for our sample. For a general radial velocity survey with limited observing time, the number of observations per star is key for the detection efficiency. In the case of an early M-type target sample, we conclude that approximately 50 observations per star with exposure times of 900s and precisions of approximately 1m/s maximizes the number of planet detections.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A63
- Title:
- HADES VI. GJ 3942b activity with HARPS-N
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Short- to mid-term magnetic phenomena on the stellar surface of M-type stars can resemble the effects of planets in radial velocity data, and may also hide them. We analyze 145 spectroscopic HARPS-N observations of GJ 3942 taken over the past five years and additional photometry in order to disentangle stellar activity effects from genuine Doppler signals as a result of the orbital motion of the star around the common barycenter with its planet. To achieve this, we use the common methods of pre-whitening, and treat the correlated red noise by a first-order moving average term and by Gaussian-process regression following an MCMC analysis. We identify the rotational period of the star at 16.3-days and discover a new super-Earth, GJ 3942b, with an orbital period of 6.9-days and a minimum mass of 7.1M_Earth_. An additional signal in the periodogram of the residuals is present, but at this point we cannot claim with sufficient significance that it is related to a second planet. If confirmed, this planet candidate would have a minimum mass of 6.3M_Earth_ and a period of 10.4-days, which might indicate a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with the inner planet.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A48
- Title:
- HAE229 CO (1-0) ATCA datacube
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It is not yet known if the properties of molecular gas in distant protocluster galaxies are significantly acted by their environment as galaxies are in local clusters. Through a deep, 64 hours of effective on-source integration with the Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), we discovered a massive, M_mol_=2.0+/-0.2x0^11^M_{sun}_, extended, ~40kpc, CO(1-0)-emitting disk in the protocluster surrounding the radio galaxy, MRC1138-262. The galaxy, at z_CO_=2.1478, is a clumpy, massive disk galaxy, M*~5x10^11^M_{sun}_, which lies 250kpc in projection from MRC1138-262 and is a known H{alpha} emitter, named HAE229. This source has a molecular gas fraction of ~30%. The CO emission has a kinematic gradient along its major axis, centered on the highest surface brightness rest-frame optical emission, consistent with HAE229 being a rotating disk. Surprisingly, a significant fraction of the CO emission lies outside of the UV/optical emission. In spite of this, HAE229 follows the same relation between star-formation rate and molecular gas mass as normal field galaxies. HAE229 is the first CO(1-0) detection of an ordinary, star-forming galaxy in a protocluster.We compare a sample of cluster members at z>0.4 that are detected in low-order CO transitions, with a similar sample of sources drawn from the field.We confirm findings that the CO-luminosity and full-width at half maximum (FWHM) are correlated in starbursts and show that this relation is valid for normal high-z galaxies as well as for those in overdensities. We do not find a clear dichotomy in the integrated Schmidt-Kennicutt relation for protocluster and field galaxies. Our results suggest that environment does not have an impact on the "star-formation electronic efficiency" or the molecular gas content of high-redshift galaxies. Not finding any environmental dependence in these characteristics, especially for such an extended CO disk, suggests that environmentally-specific processes such as ram pressure stripping do not operate electronic efficiently in (proto)clusters.
7719. Haffner 9 CT1 photometry
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/2748
- Title:
- Haffner 9 CT1 photometry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/2748
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We turn our attention to Haffner 9, a Milky Way open cluster whose previous fundamental parameter estimates are far from being in agreement. In order to provide with accurate estimates, we present high-quality Washington CT_1_ and Johnson BVI photometry of the cluster field. We put particular care in statistically cleaning the colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) from field star contamination, which was found a common source in previous works for the discordant fundamental parameter estimates. The resulting cluster CMD fiducial features were confirmed from a proper motion membership analysis. Haffner 9 is a moderately young object (age~350Myr), placed in the Perseus arm - at a heliocentric distance of ~3.2kpc - , with a lower limit for its present mass of ~160M_{sun}_ and of nearly metal solar content. The combination of the cluster structural and fundamental parameters suggest that it is in an advanced stage of internal dynamical evolution, possibly in the phase typical of those with mass segregation in their core regions. However, the cluster still keeps its mass function close to that of the Salpeter's law.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RMxAA/38.141
- Title:
- Haffner 19 UBV(RI)_c_ photometry
- Short Name:
- J/other/RMxAA/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present broad-band UBV(RI)_c_ CCD imagery of 334 stars in the direction of the Galactic cluster Haffner 19. The sample is complete to m{lambda}=19 ({lambda} = U, B, V, R, I). We reliably establish the cluster membership for 102 stars based upon their locations in the (V, B-V), (V, V-I), (I, R-I), (U-B, B-V), and (V-R, V-I) diagrams, thus increasing three-fold the number of known cluster members. With the Q-method we determine the MK spectral types of the 33 brightest stars, confirming that 29 belong to the cluster's young population (15 B0-B1 and 14 B2- B9 main sequence stars). Complementary uvby{beta} photoelectric photometry of 6 bright stars independently confirms the distance and reddening to the cluster.