- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A108
- Title:
- Disks around post-AGB binaries fit results
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Post-asymptotic giant branch (pAGB) binaries are surrounded by circumbinary disks of gas and dust that are similar to protoplanetary disks found around young stars. We aim to understand the structure of these disks and identify the physical phenomena at play in their very inner regions. We want to understand the disk-binary interaction and to further investigate the comparison with protoplanetary disks. We conducted an interferometric snapshot survey of 23 post-AGB binaries in the near-infrared (H-band) using VLTI/PIONIER. We fit the multi-wavelength visibilities and closure phases with purely geometrical models with an increasing complexity (including two point-sources, an azimuthally modulated ring, and an over-resolved flux) in order to retrieve the sizes, temperatures, and flux ratios of the different components. All sources are resolved and the different components contributing to the H-band flux are dissected. The environment of these targets is very complex: 13/23 targets need models with thirteen or more parameters to fit the data. We find that the inner disk rims follow and extend the size-luminosity relation established for disks around young stars with an offset toward larger sizes. The measured temperature of the near-infrared circumstellar emission of post-AGB binaries is lower (Tsub~1200K) than for young stars, which is probably due to a different dust mineralogy and/or gas density in the dust sublimation region. The dusty inner rims of the circumbinary disks around post-AGB binaries are ruled by dust sublimation physics. Additionally a significant amount of the circumstellar $H$-band flux is over-resolved (more than 10% of the non-stellar flux is over-resolved in 14 targets). This hints that a source of unknown origin, either a disk structure or outflow. The amount of over-resolved flux is larger than around young stars. Due to the complexity of these targets, interferometric imaging is a necessary tool to reveal the interacting inner regions in a model-independent way.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/615/A9
- Title:
- Distribution of Serpens South protostars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/615/A9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Clusters are common sites of star formation, whose members display varying degrees of mass segregation. The cause may be primordial or dynamical, or a combination both. If mass segregation were to be observed in a very young protostellar cluster, then the primordial case can be assumed more likely for that region. We investigated the masses and spatial distributions of pre-stellar and protostellar candidates in the young, low-mass star forming region Serpens South, where active star formation is known to occur along a predominant filamentary structure. Previous observations used to study these distributions have been limited by two important observational factors: (1) sensitivity limits that leave the lowest-mass sources undetected, or (2) resolution limits that cannot distinguish binaries and/or cluster members in close proximity. Recent millimeter-wavelength interferometry observations can now uncover faint and/or compact sources in order to study a more complete population of protostars, especially in nearby (D<500pc) clusters. Here we present ALMA observations of 1mm (Band 6) continuum in a 3x2-arcminutes region at the center of Serpens South. Our angular resolution of 1-arcsec is equivalent to 400 au, corresponding to scales of envelopes and/or disks of protostellar sources. We detect 52 sources with 1mm continuum, and we measure masses of 0.002-0.9 solar masses corresponding to gas and dust in the disk and/or envelope of the protostellar system. For the deeply embedded (youngest) sources with no IR counterparts, we find evidence of mass segregation and clustering according to: the Minimum Spanning Tree method, distribution of projected separations between unique sources, and concentration of higher-mass sources near to the dense gas at the cluster center. The mass segregation of the mm sources is likely primordial rather than dynamical given the young age of this cluster, compared with segregation time. This is the first case to show this for mm sources in a low-mass protostellar cluster environment.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/56
- Title:
- DSSI observations of binary & trinary star systems
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 248 speckle observations of 43 binary and 19 trinary star systems chosen to make progress in two main areas of investigation: the fundamental properties of metal-poor stars and star formation mechanisms. The observations were taken at the Gemini North and South telescopes during the period 2015 July to 2018 April, mainly with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument but also with a few early results from the new 'Alopeke speckle camera at Gemini North. We find that the astrometry and photometry of these observations as a whole are consistent with previous work at Gemini. We present five new visual orbits for systems important in understanding metal-poor stars, three of which have orbital periods of less than 4 yr, and we indicate the degree to which these and future observations can impact our knowledge of stellar properties and star formation. In particular, we find a decrease in mass at fixed spectral type for metal-poor stars versus their solar-metallicity analogs that is consistent with predictions that are made from current stellar models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A2
- Title:
- Dwarfs & giants surface brightness-colour relations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/640/A2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Surface brightness-colour relations (SBCRs) are used to derive the stellar angular diameters from photometric observations. They have various astrophysical applications, such as the distance determination of eclipsing binaries or the determination of exoplanet parameters. However, strong discrepancies between the SBCRs still exist in the literature, in particular for early and late-type stars. We aim at calibrating new SBCRs as a function of the spectral type and the luminosity class of the stars. Our purpose is also to apply homogeneous criteria for the selection of the reference stars and on the basis of an exhaustive and up-to-date list of interferometric late-type targets. We implement criteria to select measurements in the JMMC Measured Diameters Catalog (JMDC). We then apply additional criteria on the photometric measurements used to build the SBCRs, together with stellar characteristics diagnostics. We build SBCRs for F5/K7-II/III, F5/K7-IV/V, M-II/III and M-V stars, with respective RMS of {sigma}_FV_=0.0022mag, {sigma}_FV_ =0.0044mag, {sigma}_FV_=0.0046mag, and {sigma}_FV_=0.0038mag. This results in a precision on the angular diameter of 1.0%, 2.0%, 2.1% and 1.7%, respectively. These relations cover a large V-K colour range of magnitude, from 1 to 7.5. Our work demonstrates that SBCRs are significantly dependent on the spectral type and the luminosity class of the star. Through a new set of interferometric measurements, we demonstrate the critical importance of the selection criteria proposed for the calibration of SBCR. Finally, using the Gaia photometry for our samples, we obtain (G-K) SBCRs with a precision on the angular diameter between 1.1% and 2.4%. By adopting a refined and homogeneous methodology we show that the spectral type and the class of the star should be considered when applying a SBCR. This is particularly important in the context of PLATO.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/105
- Title:
- Electromagnetic follow-up with LIGO/Virgo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We anticipate the first direct detections of gravitational waves (GWs) with Advanced LIGO and Virgo later this decade. Though this groundbreaking technical achievement will be its own reward, a still greater prize could be observations of compact binary mergers in both gravitational and electromagnetic channels simultaneously. During Advanced LIGO and Virgo's first two years of operation, 2015 through 2016, we expect the global GW detector array to improve in sensitivity and livetime and expand from two to three detectors. We model the detection rate and the sky localization accuracy for binary neutron star (BNS) mergers across this transition. We have analyzed a large, astrophysically motivated source population using real-time detection and sky localization codes and higher-latency parameter estimation codes that have been expressly built for operation in the Advanced LIGO/Virgo era. We show that for most BNS events, the rapid sky localization, available about a minute after a detection, is as accurate as the full parameter estimation. We demonstrate that Advanced Virgo will play an important role in sky localization, even though it is anticipated to come online with only one-third as much sensitivity as the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find that the median 90% confidence region shrinks from ~500 deg^2^ in 2015 to ~200 deg^2^ in 2016. A few distinct scenarios for the first LIGO/Virgo detections emerge from our simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/1057
- Title:
- EoR0 central field source catalog
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/1057
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Experiments that pursue detection of signals from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are relying on spectral smoothness of source spectra at low frequencies. This article empirically explores the effect of foreground spectra on EoR experiments by measuring high-resolution full-polarization spectra for the 586 brightest unresolved sources in one of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) EoR fields using 45h of observation. A novel peeling scheme is used to subtract 2500 sources from the visibilities with ionospheric and beam corrections, resulting in the deepest, confusion-limited MWA image so far. The resulting spectra are found to be affected by instrumental effects, which limit the constraints that can be set on source-intrinsic spectral structure. The sensitivity and power-spectrum of the spectra are analysed, and it is found that the spectra of residuals are dominated by point spread function sidelobes from nearby undeconvolved sources. We release a catalogue describing the spectral parameters for each measured source.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/434/1201
- Title:
- ESO VLTI Calibrators Program
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/434/1201
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is one of the leading interferometric facilities. It is equiped with several 8.2 and 1.8m telescopes, a large number of baselines up to 200m, and with several subsystems designed to enable high quality measurements and to improve significantly the limits of sensitivities currently available to long-baseline interferometry. For this, a large number of observations of potential calibrators have been obtained during the commissioning phase of the VLTI. These data are publicly available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/594/A106
- Title:
- eta Car velocity-resolved imaging
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/594/A106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mass loss from massive stars is not understood well. eta Carinae is a unique object for studying the massive stellar wind during the luminous blue variable phase. It is also an eccentric binary with a period of 5.54yr. The nature of both stars is uncertain, although we know from X-ray studies that there is a wind-wind collision whose properties change with orbital phase. We want to investigate the structure and kinematics of eta Car's primary star wind and wind-wind collision zone with a high spatial resolution of ~6mas (~14au) and high spectral resolution of R=12000. Observations of eta Car were carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and the AMBER instrument between approximately five and seven months before the August 2014 periastron passage. Velocity-resolved aperture-synthesis images were reconstructed from the spectrally dispersed interferograms. Interferometric studies can provide information on the binary orbit, the primary wind, and the wind collision.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/586/A94
- Title:
- Exoplanetary parameters for 18 bright stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/586/A94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the interferometric angular diameters of 18 bright stars: HD3651 , HD9826, HD19994, HD75732, HD167042, HD170693, HD173416, HD185395, HD190360, HD217014, HD221345, HD1367, HD1671, HD154633, HD161178, HD161151, HD209369, HD218560. The first 11 host exoplanets (except HD185395). We combined these angular diameters {theta}_LD_ with the stellar distances to estimate the stellar radii. We perform SED fitting of the photometry to derive the stars bolometric flux Fbol with and without stellar extinction Av. We then give the effective temperature Teff_SED_ and angular diameter {theta}_SED_ from this SED fit, considering fixed Av, metallicity [Fe/H] and gravity log(g). Then, taking into account the stellar extinction, we derived from the bolometric flux and the measured angular diameters the effective temperature and luminosity to place the stars on the H-R diagram. We then used the PARSEC models to derive the best fit ages and masses of the stars, with error bars derived from Monte Carlo calculations. Typically, for main sequence stars, two distinct sets of solutions appear (an old and a young age). For stars that host known exoplanets, we also derive the exoplanets parameters considering the two different solutions (old and young): semi-major axis, planetary minimum mass and habitable zone of the host stars. Finally, we give the true mass, radius and density of the transiting exoplanet 55 Cnc e using the inteferometric radius and photometry.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/176
- Title:
- Exoplanet host stars. II. Speckle interferometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/176
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A study of the host stars to exoplanets is important for understanding their environment. To that end, we report new speckle observations of a sample of exoplanet host primaries. The bright exoplanet host HD 8673 (= HIP 6702) is revealed to have a companion, although at this time we cannot definitively establish the companion as physical or optical. The observing lists for planet searches and for these observations have for the most part been pre-screened for known duplicity, so the detected binary fraction is lower than what would otherwise be expected. Therefore, a large number of double stars were observed contemporaneously for verification and quality control purposes, to ensure that the lack of detection of companions for exoplanet hosts was valid. In these additional observations, 10 pairs are resolved for the first time and 60 pairs are confirmed.
