- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/626/A11
- Title:
- Corona Australis ALMA and X-Shooter data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/626/A11
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In recent years, the disk populations in a number of young star-forming regions have been surveyed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Understanding the disk properties and their correlation with the properties of the central star is critical to understanding planet formation. In particular, a decrease of the average measured disk dust mass with the age of the region has been observed, consistent with grain growth and disk dissipation. We aim to compare the general properties of disks and their host stars in the nearby (d=160pc) Corona Australis (CrA) star forming region to those of the disks and stars in other regions. We conducted high-sensitivity continuum ALMA observations of 43 Class II young stellar objects in CrA at 1.3mm (230GHz). The typical spatial resolution is 0.3''. The continuum fluxes ar e used to estimate the dust masses of the disks, and a survival analysis is performed to estimate the average dust mass. We also obtained new VLT/X-Shooter spectra for 12 of the objects in our sample for which spectral type (SpT) information was missing. Twenty-four disks were detected, and stringent limits have been put on the average dust mass of the nondetections. Taking into account the upper limits, the average disk mass in CrA is 6+/-3M_{sun}_. This value is significantly lower than that of disks in other young (1-3Myr) star forming regions (Lupus, Taurus, Chamaeleon I, and Ophiuchus) and appears to be consistent with the average disk mass of the 5-10Myr-old Upper Sco. The position of the stars in our sample on the Herzsprung-Russel diagram however seems to confirm that CrA has an age similar to Lupus. Neither external photoevaporation nor a lower-than-usual stellar mass distribution can explain the low disk masses. On the other hand, a low-mass disk population could be explained if the disks were small, which could happen if the parent cloud had a low temperature or intrinsic angular momentum, or if the angular momentum of the cloud were removed by some physical mechanism such as magnetic braking. Even in detected disks, none show clear substructures or cavities. Our results suggest that in order to fully explain and understand the dust mass distribution of protoplanetary disks and their evolution, it may also be necessary to take into consideration the initial conditions of star- and disk-formation process. These conditions at the very beginning may potentially vary from region to region, and could play a crucial role in planet formation and evolution.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/520/A66
- Title:
- CoRoT-8b light and RV curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/520/A66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of CoRoT-8b, a dense small Saturn-class exoplanet that orbits a K1 dwarf in 6.2 days, and we derive its orbital parameters, mass, and radius. We analyzed two complementary data sets: the photometric transit curve of CoRoT-8b as measured by CoRoT and the radial velocity curve of CoRoT-8 as measured by the HARPS spectrometer. We find that CoRoT-8b is on a circular orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.063+/-0.001AU. It has a radius of 0.57+/-0.02RJ, a mass of 0.22+/-0.03MJ, and therefore a mean density 1.6+/-0.1g/cm^3^. With 67% of the size of Saturn and 72% of its mass, CoRoT-8b has a density comparable to that of Neptune (1.76g/cm^3^). We estimate its content in heavy elements to be 47-63 Earth masses, and the mass of its hydrogen-helium envelope to be 7-23 Earth masses. At 0.063AU, the thermal loss of hydrogen of CoRoT-8b should be no more than about 0.1% over an assumed integrated lifetime of 3Ga.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/491/889
- Title:
- CoRoT-Exo-3b observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/491/889
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The CoRoT space mission routinely provides high-precision photometric measurements of thousands of stars that have been continuously observed for months. The discovery and characterization of the first very massive transiting planetary companion with a short orbital period is reported. A series of 34 transits was detected in the CoRoT light curve of an F3V star, observed from May to October 2007 for 152 days. The radius was accurately determined and the mass derived for this new transiting, thanks to the combined analysis of the light curve and complementary ground-based observations: high-precision radial-velocity measurements, on-off photometry, and high signal-to-noise spectroscopic observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/523/A91
- Title:
- CoRoT/Exoplanet fields with MATISSE
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/523/A91
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The homogeneous spectroscopic determination of the stellar parameters is a mandatory step for transit detections from space. Knowledge of which population the planet hosting stars belong to places constraints on the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. We used the FLAMES/GIRAFFE multi-fiber instrument at ESO to spectroscopically observe samples of stars in three CoRoT/Exoplanet fields, namely the LRa01, LRc01, and SRc01 fields, and characterize their stellar populations. We present accurate atmospheric parameters, Teff, logg, [M/H], and [alpha/Fe] derived for 1227 stars in these fields using the MATISSE algorithm. The latter is based on the spectral synthesis methodology and automatically provides stellar parameters for large samples of observed spectra. We trained and applied this algorithm to FLAMES observations covering the MgIb spectral range. It was calibrated on reference stars and tested on spectroscopic samples from other studies in the literature. The barycentric radial velocities and an estimate of the vsini values were measured using cross-correlation techniques. We corrected our samples in the LRc01 and LRa01 CoRoT fields for selection effects to characterize their FGK dwarf stars population, and compiled the first unbiased reference sample for the in-depth study of planet metallicity relationship in these CoRoT fields. We conclude that the FGK dwarf population in these fields mainly exhibit solar metallicity. We show that for transiting planet finding missions, the probability of finding planets as a function of metallicity could explain the number of planets found in the LRa01 and LRc01 CoRoT fields. This study demonstrates the potential of multi-fiber observations combined with an automated classifier such as MATISSE for massive spectral classification.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/552/A60
- Title:
- CoRoT 102918586 light curve and spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/552/A60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Pulsating stars in eclipsing binary systems are powerful tools to test stellar models. Binarity enables us to constrain the pulsating component physical parameters and this knowledge drastically improves the input physics for asteroseismic studies. The study of stellar oscillations then allows us to improve our understanding of stellar interiors and stellar evolution. The space mission CoRoT discovered several promising objects suitable for these studies. They were photometrically observed with unprecedented accuracy, but needed spectroscopic follow-up. A promising target was the relatively bright eclipsing system CoRoT 102918586, which turned out to be a double-lined spectroscopic binary and also showed clear evidence of Gamma Dor type pulsations. With the aim of combining the information from binarity and pulsation and fully exploiting the potential of CoRoT photometry we obtained phase resolved high-resolution spectroscopy with the Sandiford spectrograph at the McDonald 2.1m telescope and the FEROS spectrograph at the ESO 2.2m telescope. Spectroscopy yielded both the radial velocity curves and, after spectra disentangling, the component effective temperatures, metallicity, and line-of-sight projected rotational velocities. The CoRoT light curve was analyzed with an iterative procedure, devised to disentangle eclipses from pulsations. The eclipsing binary light curve analysis, combined with the spectroscopic results, provided an accurate determination of the system parameters, and the comparison with evolutionary models provided strict constraints on the system age. Finally, the residuals obtained after subtraction of the best fitting eclipsing binary model were analyzed to determine the pulsator properties. We achieved a complete and consistent description of the system. The primary star pulsates with typical gamma Dor frequencies and shows a splitting in period that is consistent with high order g-mode pulsations in a star of the corresponding physical parameters. The value of the splitting, in particular, is consistent with pulsations in l=1 modes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/520/A108
- Title:
- CoRoT 101128793 light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/520/A108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) space mission provides a valuable opportunity to monitor stars with uninterrupted time sampling for up to 150 days at a time. The study of RR Lyrae stars, performed in the framework of the Additional Programmes belonging to the exoplanetary field, will particularly benefit from such dense, long-duration monitoring. We used the CoRoT data of the new RR Lyrae variable CoRoT 101128793 (f_0_=2.119c/d, P=0.4719296d) to provide us with more detailed observational facts to understand the physical process behind the Blazhko phenomenon. The CoRoT data were corrected for one jump and the long term drift. We detected 79 frequencies in the light curve of CoRoT 101128793. The timeseries presented here can be used to identify the main frequency f_0_, its harmonics, the terms related to the Blazhko frequency f_m, two independent terms, and several combination terms. All the 79 frequencies are listed in the file table1.dat. The times of maxima are listed in the file table2.dat.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/533/A4
- Title:
- CoRoT photometry of three O-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/533/A4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The detection of pulsational frequencies in stellar photometry is required as input for asteroseismological modelling. The second short run (SRa02) of the CoRoT mission has provided photometric data of unprecedented quality and time-coverage for a number of O-type stars. We analyse the CoRoT data corresponding to three hot O-type stars, describing the properties of their light curves and we search for pulsational frequencies, which we then compare to theoretical model predictions. We determine the amplitude spectrum of the data, using the Lomb-Scargle and a multifrequency HMM-like technique. Frequencies are extracted by prewhitening, and their significance is evaluated under the assumption that the light curve is dominated by red noise. We search for harmonics, linear combinations and regular spacings among these frequencies. We use simulations with the same time sampling as the data as a powerful tool to judge the significance of our results. From the theoretical point of view, we use the MAD non-adiabatic pulsation code to determine the expected frequencies of excited modes. A substantial number of frequencies is listed, but none can be convincingly identified as being connected to pulsations. The amplitude spectrum is dominated by red noise. Theoretical modelling shows that all three O-type stars can have excited modes but the relation between the theoretical frequencies and the observed spectrum is not obvious. The dominant red noise component in the hot O-type stars studied here clearly points to a different origin than the pulsations seen in cooler O stars. The physical cause of this red noise is unclear, but we speculate on the possibility of sub-surface convection, granulation, or stellar wind inhomogeneities being responsible.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/597/A55
- Title:
- Corot photometry of TYC 455-791-1
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/597/A55
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery and analysis of very narrow transits in the eccentric spectroscopic binary TYC 455-791-1=HSS 348 (IC 4756). We obtained high-precision CoRoT photometry over two long runs and multi-epoch high-resolution echelle spectroscopy and imaging with STELLA. Standard radial-velocity extraction, spectrum synthesis, Fourier analysis, and light-curve inversions are applied to the data. HSS 348 is found to be an eccentric (e=0.18) double-lined spectroscopic binary with a period of 12.47 d in which at least the primary component is a peculiar B star of the HgMn class. The orbital elements are such that the system undergoes a grazing eclipse with the primary in front but no secondary eclipse. The out-of-eclipse light variations show four nearly equidistant but unequal minima stable in shape and amplitude throughout our observations. Their individual photometric periods are all harmonics of the same fundamental period which happens to agree with the transit period to within the errors. We interpret the fundamental period to be the rotation period of at least one if not both stars due to surface inhomogeneities. Due to the non-zero eccentricity of the orbit the two components are rotating sub-synchronously. It appears that HSS 348 is not a member of the IC 4756 cluster but a background B8+B8.5 binary system. Its sharp eclipses every 12.47 days just mimic a small-body transit but are in reality the grazing eclipses of a B-star binary and thus a classical false positive. The system seems to be pre-main sequence with the primary possibly just arrived on the ZAMS. The light curve with four unequal minima can be explained with four cool spots of different size equidistantly positioned in longitude. Our data do not allow to uniquely assign the spots to either of the two stars.
1439. CoRoT space mission. I.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/482/L17
- Title:
- CoRoT space mission. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/482/L17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The pioneer space mission for photometric planet searches, CoRoT, steadily monitors about 12000 stars in each of its fields of view. Transit candidates can be detected early in the processing of the data and before the end of a run of observation. We report the detection of the first planet discovered by CoRoT and characterizing it with the help of follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/142
- Title:
- Corrected photometry for GJ 1132 for all eclipses
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/142
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for additional bodies in the GJ 1132 system through two methods: photometric transits and transit timing variations of GJ 1132b. We collected 21 transit observations of GJ 1132b with the MEarth-South array. We obtained 100 near-continuous hours of observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope, including two transits of GJ 1132b and spanning 60% of the orbital phase of the maximum (6.9-day) period at which bodies coplanar with GJ 1132b would transit. We exclude transits of additional Mars-sized bodies, such as a second planet or a moon, with a confidence of 99.7%. We find that the planet-to-star radius ratio inferred from the MEarth and Spitzer light curves are discrepant at the 3.7{sigma} level, which we ascribe to the effects of starspots and faculae. When we combine the mass estimate of the star (obtained from its parallax and apparent K_s_ band magnitude) with the stellar density inferred from our high-cadence Spitzer light curve (assuming zero eccentricity), we measure the stellar radius of GJ 1132 to be 0.2105_-0.0085_^+0.0102^ R_{sun}_, and we refine the radius measurement of GJ 1132b to 1.130+/-0.056 R_{Earth}_. Combined with HARPS RV measurements, we determine the density of GJ 1132b to be 6.2+/-2.0 g/cm^3^. We refine the ephemeris of the system (improving the period determination by an order of magnitude) and find no evidence for transit timing variations, which would be expected if there was a second planet near an orbital resonance with GJ 1132b.
