- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/574/A109
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae in NGC 5128
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/574/A109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Planetary nebulae (PNe) are excellent tracers of the common low mass stars through their strong and narrow emission lines. The velocities of large numbers of PNe are excellent tracers of galaxy kinematics. NGC 5128, the nearest large early-type galaxy offers the possibility to gather a large PN sample. Imaging and spectroscopic observations of PNe in NGC 5128 were obtained to find PNe and measure their velocities. Combined with literature data, a large sample of high quality kinematic probes is assembled for dynamical studies in NGC 5128. NTT Imaging was obtained in 15 fields in NGC 5128 over 1 degree with EMMI and [OIII] and off-band filters. Newly detected emission sources, combined with literature PN, were used as input for FLAMES multi-fibre spectroscopy in MEDUSA mode. Spectra of the 4600-5100{AA} region were analysed and velocities were measured based on [OIII]4959,5007{AA} and often H{beta}. The chief results are catalogues of 1118 PN candidates and 1267 spectroscopically confirmed PNe in NGC 5128. The catalogue of PN candidates contains 1060 potential PNe discovered with NTT EMMI imaging and 58 from literature surveys. The spectroscopically confirmed PN catalogue has FLAMES radial velocity and emission line measurements for 1135 PNe, of which 486 are newly confirmed here. An additional 132 PN radial velocities are available from the literature. For 629 PNe observed with FLAMES, H-beta was measured in addition to the [OIII] emission lines. Nine targets show double-lined or more complex profiles (19 components in total), and their possible origin is discussed. FLAMES spectra of 48 globular clusters were also targetted, and 11 had emission lines detected (two with multiple components), but only 3 are PNe likely to belong to the host globular. Conclusions. The total of 1267 confirmed PNe in NGC 5128 with radial velocity measurements, of which 1135 have small velocity errors, is the largest such collection of individual kinematic probes in an early-type galaxy. This PN dataset, as well as the catalogue of 1118 PN candidates, are valuable resources for detailed investigation of the kinematics and stellar population of NGC 5128.
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482. SPM 4.0 Catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/320
- Title:
- SPM 4.0 Catalog
- Short Name:
- I/320
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The SPM4 Catalog contains absolute proper motions, celestial coordinates, and B,V photometry for 103,319,647 stars and galaxies between the south celestial pole and -20 degrees declination. The catalog is roughly complete to V=17.5. It is based on photographic and CCD observations taken with the Yale Southern Observatory's double-astrograph at Cesco Observatory in El Leoncito, Argentina. The first-epoch survey, taken from 1965 to 1979, was entirely photographic. The second-epoch survey is approximately 1/3 photographic (taken from 1988 to 1998) and 2/3 CCD-based (taken from 2004 through 2008). Full details about the creation of the SPM4.0 catalog can be found in the paper, and also in the document "spm4_doc.txt" file which describes the original files, accessible from http://www.astro.yale.edu/astrom/spm4cat/
483. SPM Catalog 2.0
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/277
- Title:
- SPM Catalog 2.0
- Short Name:
- I/277
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The SPM Catalog 2.0 provides positions, absolute proper motions and photographic BV photometry for over 320,000 stars and galaxies. The Catalog covers an area of ~3700 square degrees in an irregularly bounded band between declinations of -43 and -22 degrees, with a slight extension near the South Galactic Pole, but excluding fields in the plane of the Milky Way. Stars cover the magnitude range 5<V<18.5. The standard errors for the best measured stars are as follows: 20 mas for positions in each coordinate; 2mas/yr for absolute proper motions and 0.05mag for B and V magnitudes. Standard error estimates of positions, absolute proper motions and magnitudes are given for each individual object. In addition to the Catalog, a list of CCD calibrating sequences is provided. Note that all fields (and objects) contained in the 1.0 version of the Catalog are also included in this version. The values of the astrometric parameters for these objects, however, may be different due to refinements in the reduction procedure, (i.e. the SGP fields were re-reduced for inclusion in the SPM catalog 2.0).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/628/A60
- Title:
- Star cluster formation in a tidal debris
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/628/A60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The formation of globular clusters remains an open debate. Dwarf starburst galaxies are efficient at forming young massive clusters with similar masses as globular clusters and may hold the key to understanding their formation. We study star cluster formation in a tidal debris - including the vicinity of three tidal dwarf galaxies - in a massive gas dominated collisional ring around NGC 5291. These dwarfs have physical parameters which differ significantly from local starbursting dwarfs. They are gas-rich, highly turbulent, have a gas metallicity already enriched up to half-solar, and are expected to be free of dark matter. The aim is to study massive star cluster formation in this as yet unexplored type of environment. We use imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope using broadband filters covering the wavelength range from the near- ultraviolet to the near-infrared. We determine the masses and ages of the cluster candidates by using the spectral energy distribution- fitting code CIGALE, carefully considering age-extinction degeneracy effects on the estimation of the physical parameters. Results. We find that the tidal dwarf galaxies in the ring of NGC 5291 are forming star clusters with an average efficiency of about 40%, comparable to blue compact dwarf galaxies. We also find massive star clusters for which the photometry suggests that they were formed at the very birth of the tidal dwarf galaxies and have survived for several hundred million years. Therefore our study shows that extended tidal dwarf galaxies and compact clusters may be formed simultaneously. In the specific case observed here, the young star clusters are not massive enough to survive for a Hubble time. However one may speculate that similar objects at higher redshift, with higher star formation rate, might form some of the long lived globular clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/602/A89
- Title:
- Star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/602/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To produce an homogeneous catalog of astrophysical parameters of 239 resolved star clusters located in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, observed in the Washington photometric system. The cluster sample was processed with the recently introduced Automated Stellar Cluster Analysis (ASteCA) package, which ensures both an automatized and a fully reproducible treatment, together with a statistically based analysis of their fundamental parameters and associated uncertainties. The fundamental parameters determined with this tool for each cluster, via a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis, are: metallicity, age, reddening, distance modulus, and total mass. We generated an homogeneous catalog of structural and fundamental parameters for the studied cluster sample, and performed a detailed internal error analysis along with a thorough comparison with values taken from twenty-six published articles. We studied the distribution of cluster fundamental parameters in both Clouds, and obtained their age-metallicity relationships. The ASteCA package can be applied to an unsupervised determination of fundamental cluster parameters; a task of increasing relevance as more data becomes available through upcoming surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/894
- Title:
- Star formation in DDO 210 and NGC 3109
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/894
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The method proposed in Paper I [Tosi et al., AJ, 102, 951 (1991)] to study the star formation histories in nearby irregulars is here applied to the galaxies DDO 210 and NGC 3109. To this purpose we have obtained deep CCD photometry of two regions in DDO 210 and three regions in NGC 3109, reaching V = 24 with the required accuracy of Sigma(V) <= 0.1 mag. Major information on the stellar populations, star formation rates, and initial mass functions of these regions in the last 1 Gyr are derived from the comparison of the observational color-magnitude diagrams and luminosity functions, with the corresponding synthetic diagrams and luminosity functions generated by a numerical simulation code based on stellar evolutionary tracks. In general, for both galaxies we find that in the last 1 Gyr the star formation activity has been rather continuous, possibly occurring in long episodes of moderate activity separated by short quiescent periods. According to our models the metallicity should be fairly low (in the range 0.05 <= Z/Zsun <= 0.5) and the initial mass function exponent in the vicinity of Salpeter's value, i.e., slightly flatter than in the solar neighborhood. The studied regions of NGC 3109 appear to contain different stellar populations (i.e., with slightly different metallicity and star formation histories), whereas those of DDO 210 seem to have fairly similar stellar contents, although for this galaxy the interpretation is more uncertain. As a by-product of our method we find that the distance modulus to DDO 210 should be (m-M)0 approx. 28, which places this galaxy beyond the edge of the Local Group.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/1360
- Title:
- Star-forming knots in NGC 4194 center
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/1360
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report high-resolution ultraviolet and visible-wavelength imaging of the blue compact galaxy NGC 4194 (the Medusa) using the Hubble Space Telescope. A complete sample of 38 UV-bright knots is identified.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/103/1205
- Title:
- Stellar Content of LH 9 and 10 in the LMC
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/103/1205
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present CCD photometry and spectroscopy for stars in Lucke-Hodge 9 and 10, two adjacent OB association in the northwest corner of the LMC. Our catalog contains UBV photometry (complete to ~18mag in all three filters) for 795 stars and BV-only photometry (complete to ~19mag in both filters) for an additional 434 stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/98/1305
- Title:
- Stellar content of NGC 346
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/98/1305
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using CCD UBV photometry and spectroscopy, we have investigated the stellar content of NGC 346, the brightest H II region in the SMC. Spectra of 42 stars confirm that 33 are of O type, of which 11 are of type O6.5 or earlier; this is as many early-type O stars as is known in the rest of the SMC. From the spectroscopy and photometry we are able to construct an H-R diagram which is essentially complete down to ~10M_{sun}_. We find an initial mass-function slope {GAMMA}=-1.9, similar to that found for massive stars near the Sun and in the LMC: the presence of six stars in the mass range 40-85M_{sun}_ suggests that the upper-mass limit of the IMF is also not appreciably lower in the SMC than it is in the Galaxy. Our photometry has identified five probable red supergiants of which one was previously known. These stars, plus two B supergiants, are evolved stars of considerably lower mass (15M_{sun}_) than many of the unevolved cluster members. Most of these lower-mass, evolved stars form a spatially distinct subgroup; we believe that NGC 346 thus provides an example of sequential star formation in the SMC. We also have identified a background field population of 5M_{sun}_ stars. We find that the ionizing flux from the hot stars is consistent with the previously known Half nebular luminosity. Finally, we discuss the enigmatic W-R binary HD 5980, which our point-spread-function fitting has identified as a close visual double.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/980
- Title:
- Stellar content of Tr 14 and Tr 16
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/980
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The stellar content of the region around {eta} Car is investigated using CCD photometry and spectroscopy.
