- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/610/A70
- Title:
- 28 Cygni BRITE and SMEI satellite photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/610/A70
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The BRITE Constellation of nanosatellites obtained mmag photometry of 28 Cygni for 11 months in 2014-2016. Observations with the Solar Mass Ejection Imager in 2003-2010 and 118 H{alpha} line profiles were added. For decades, 28 Cyg has exhibited four large-amplitude frequencies: two closely spaced frequencies of spectroscopically confirmed g modes near 1.5c/d, one slightly lower exophotospheric (Stefl) frequency, and at 0.05c/d the difference frequency between the two g modes. This top-level framework is indistinguishable from eta Cen (Paper I), which is also very similar in spectral type, rotation rate, and viewing angle. The Stefl frequency is the only one that does not seem to be affected by the difference frequency. The amplitude of the latter undergoes large variations; around maximum the amount of near-circumstellar matter is increased, and the amplitude of the Stefl frequency grows by some factor. During such brightenings dozens of transient spikes appear in the frequency spectrum, concentrated in three groups. Only eleven frequencies were common to all years of BRITE observations. Be stars seem to be controlled by several coupled clocks, most of which are not very regular on timescales of weeks to months but function for decades. The combination of g modes to the low difference frequency and/or the atmospheric response to it appears significantly nonlinear. Like in eta Cen, the difference-frequency variability seems the main responsible for the modulation of the star-to-disc mass transfer in 28 Cyg. A hierarchical set of difference frequencies may reach the longest timescales known of the Be phenomenon.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A128
- Title:
- Cygnus OB2 association NIR light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/640/A128
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a J, H, and K photometric variability survey of the central 0.78 square degrees of the young OB association Cygnus OB2. We used data observed with the Wide-Field CAMera at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in 2007 (spanning 217 days) to investigate the light curves of 5083 low mass candidate members in the association and explore the occurrence and main characteristics of their near-infrared variability. We identified 2529 stars (~50% of the sample) with significant variability with time-scales ranging from days to months. We classified the variable stars into the following three groups according to their light curve morphology: periodic variability (1697 stars), occultation variability (124 stars), and other types of variability (726 stars). We verified that the disk-bearing stars in our sample are significantly more variable in the near-infrared than diskless stars, with a steep increase in the disk-fraction among stars with higher variability amplitude. We investigated the trajectories described by variable stars in the color-space and measured slopes for 335 stars describing linear trajectories. Based on the trajectories in the color-space, we inferred that the sample analyzed is composed of a mix of young stars presenting variability due to hot and cold spots, extinction by circumstellar material, and changes in the disk emission in the near-infrared. We contemplated using the use of near- infrared variability to identify disk-bearing stars and verified that 53.4% of the known disk-bearing stars in our sample could have been identified as such based solely on their variability. We present 18 newly identified disk- bearing stars and 14 eclipsing binary candidates among CygOB2 lower-mass members.
1503. Cyg X-1 JK light curves
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PZ/28.7
- Title:
- Cyg X-1 JK light curves
- Short Name:
- J/other/PZ/28.7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of our long-term (13 years) J and K photometry of the X-ray binary Cyg X-1. The object's JK variability amplitudes were less than 0.2mag. The J and K orbital light curves are appreciably asymmetric in quadratures. The secondary minimum is deeper, in comparison to the primary, and it is probable that the star becomes hotter at secondary minima.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/652/A49
- Title:
- CzeV404 Her light curves and spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/652/A49
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new study of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable CzeV404 Her (Porb=0.098d) located in the period gap. This report aims to determine the object's origin, system parameters and probe the system's accretion flow structure. We conducted simultaneous time-resolved photometric and spectroscopic observations of CzeV404 Her. We applied our light curve modeling techniques and the Doppler tomography method to determine the system parameters and analyse the structure of the accretion disk. We found that the system has a massive white dwarf M_WD_=1.00(2)M_{sun}_, a mass ratio of q=0.16, and a relatively hot secondary with an effective temperature T_2_=4100(50)K. The system inclination is 78{deg}. The accretion disk spreads out to the tidal limitation radius and has an extended hot spot/line region. The hot spot/line is hotter than the rest of the disk's outer part in quiescence or intermediate state but does not stand out completely from the disk flux in (super)outbursts. We claim that this object represents a link between two distinct classes of SU UMa-type and SW Sex-type cataclysmic variables. The accretion flow structure in the disk corresponds to the SW Sex systems, but the physical conditions inside the disk passed into behaviors of SU UMa-type objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/411/1585
- Title:
- CZ Lac multiperiodic Blazhko modulation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/411/1585
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A thorough analysis of the multicolour CCD observations of the RRab-type variable, CZ Lacertae, is presented. The observations were carried out in two consecutive observing seasons in 2004 and 2005 within the framework of the Konkoly Blazhko Survey of bright, northern, short-period RRab variables.
1506. Dahlmark variables
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/238
- Title:
- Dahlmark variables
- Short Name:
- II/238
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Since 1967 32 fields in the Milky Way were observed for variable stars. * New variable stars in Cygnus (1982IBVS.2157....1D) [8/65] Survey of an area of 20{deg}x15{deg} centered at 20h50m, +45{deg} in Cygnus. This area has been followed photographically in two colours during the period 1967 to 1981. As a rule one observation per summer was obtained. * New variable stars in Cassiopeia (1986IBVS.2878....1D) [66/105] Survey in an area 20{deg}x15{deg} centered at 1h06m, +60{deg}01'. Seventeen plate pairs exposed in the period 1967 to 1981 were collected and treated in the same way as described in the previous report. These observations provide approximate B and V magnitudes. In addition, six exposures were obtained in the period August 8 to September 23, 1985 on Technical Pan film. * New variable stars in Cygnus, Lyra and Vulpecula (1993IBVS.3855....1D) [106/185] Area of 20{deg}x15{deg} centred at 19h46m +30{deg}. * New variable stars in Cygnus, Lacerta and Andromeda (1996IBVS.4329....1D) [186/220] Area of 20{deg}x15{deg} centered at 20h40m, +45{deg} (1950). * New variable stars in the northern Milky Way (1997IBVS.4458....1D) [221/280] Area of 20{deg}x15{deg} centered at 22h42m, +60{deg} (1950) * New variable stars in the northern Milky Way (1998IBVS.4642....1D) [281/315] Results of a variable-star search in the 20{deg}x15{deg} area centered at 20h18m, +60{deg} (1950). * New variable stars in Andromeda and Cassiopeia (1999IBVS.4734....1D [316/341] Results of a variable-star search in the 20{deg}x15{deg} area centered at 0h30m, +45{deg} (1950). * New variable stars in Lyra and Cygnus (2000IBVS.4898....1D) [342/366] Results of a variable-star search in the 20{deg}x15{deg} area centered at 19h00m/+45{deg} (1950). * New variable stars along the northern Milky way (2001IBVS.5181....1D) [367/420] Results of a variable-star search in the 20{deg}x15{deg} area centered at 21h22m/+{deg} (1950).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/575/A120
- Title:
- DANCe study of M35 (NGC 2168)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/575/A120
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Messier 35 (NGC 2168) is an important young nearby cluster. Its age, richness and relative proximity make it a privileged target for stellar evolution studies. The Kepler K2 mission recently observed it and provided high accuracy photometric time series of a large number of sources in this area of the sky. Identifying the cluster's members is therefore of high importance to optimize the interpretation and analysis of the Kepler K2 data. We aim at identifying the cluster's members by deriving membership probabilities for the sources within 1 degree of the cluster's center, going further away than equivalent previous studies. We measure accurate proper motions and multi-wavelength (optical and near-infrared) photometry using ground based archival images of the cluster. We use these measurements to compute membership probabilities. The list of candidate members from Barrado y Navascues et al. (2001ApJ...546.1006B, Cat. J/ApJ/546/1006) is used as training set to identify the cluster's locus in a multi-dimensional space made of proper motions, luminosities and colors. The final catalog includes 338892 sources with multi-wavelength photometry. Approximately half (194452) were detected at more than two epochs and we measured their proper motion and used it to derive membership probability. A total of 4349 candidate members with membership probabilities greater than 50% are found in this sample in the luminosity range between 10 and 22mag. The slow proper motion of the cluster and the overlap of its sequence with the field and background sequences in almost all color-magnitude and color-color diagrams complicate the analysis and the contamination level is expected to be significant. Our study nevertheless provides a coherent and quantitative membership analysis of Messier 35 based on a large fraction of the best ground-based data sets obtained over the past 18 years. As such, it represents a valuable input for follow-up studies using in particular the Kepler K2 photometric time series.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/850/83
- Title:
- DANCING-ALMA. I. submm/mm continuum sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/850/83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the large statistics of the galaxy effective radius Re in the rest-frame far-infrared (FIR) wavelength R_e(FIR)_ obtained from 1627 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1mm band maps that become public by 2017 July. Our ALMA sample consists of 1034 sources with the star formation rate ~100-1000M_{sun}_/yr and the stellar mass ~10^10^-10^11.5^M_{sun}_ at z=0-6. We homogeneously derive R_e(FIR)_ and FIR luminosity LFIR of our ALMA sources via the uv-visibility method with the exponential disk model, carefully evaluating selection and measurement incompletenesses by realistic Monte-Carlo simulations. We find that there is a positive correlation between R_e(FIR)_ and LFIR at the >99% significance level. The best-fit power-law function, R_e(FIR)_{propto}L_FIR_^{alpha}^, provides {alpha}=0.28+/-0.07, and shows that R_e(FIR)_ at a fixed LFIR decreases toward high redshifts. The best-fit {alpha} and the redshift evolution of R_e(FIR)_ are similar to those of Re in the rest-frame UV (optical) wavelength R_e(UV)_ (R_e(Opt)_) revealed by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) studies. We identify that our ALMA sources have significant trends of R_e(FIR)_<~R_e(UV)_ and R_e(Opt)_, which suggests that the dusty starbursts take place in compact regions. Moreover, R_e(FIR)_ of our ALMA sources is comparable to R_e(Opt)_ of quiescent galaxies at z~1-3 as a function of stellar mass, supporting the evolutionary connection between these two galaxy populations. We also investigate rest- frame UV and optical morphologies of our ALMA sources with deep HST images, and find that ~30%-40% of our ALMA sources are classified as major mergers. This indicates that dusty starbursts are triggered by not only the major mergers but also the other mechanism(s).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/545/A54
- Title:
- Danks 1, Danks 2, and RCW 79 variables
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/545/A54
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ESO Public Survey "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea"' (VVV) provides deep multi-epoch infrared observations for unprecedented 562 sq. degrees of the Galactic bulge, and adjacent regions of the disk. The VVV observations will foster the construction of a sample of Galactic star clusters with reliable and homogeneously derived physical parameters (e.g., age, distance, and mass, etc.). In this first paper in a series, the methodology employed to establish cluster parameters for the envisioned database are elaborated upon by analysing four known young open clusters: Danks1, Danks2, RCW79, and DBS132. The analysis offers a first glimpse of the information that can be gleaned from the VVV observations for clusters in the final database. Wide-field, deep JHK_s_ VVV observations, combined with new infrared spectroscopy, are employed to constrain fundamental parameters for a subset of clusters. Results are inferred from VVV near-infrared photometry and numerous low resolution spectra (typically more than 10 per cluster). The high quality of the spectra and the deep wide-field VVV photometry enables us to precisely and independently determine the characteristics of the clusters studied, which we compare to previous determinations. An anomalous reddening law in the direction of the Danks clusters is found, specifically E(J-H)/E(H-Ks)=2.20+/-0.06, which exceeds published values for the inner Galaxy. The G305 star forming complex, which includes the Danks clusters, lies beyond the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm and occupies the Centaurus arm. Finally, the first deep infrared colour-magnitude diagram of RCW79 is presented, which reveals a sizeable pre-main sequence population. A list of candidate variable stars in G305 region is reported. This study demonstrates the strength of the dataset and methodology employed, and constitutes the first step of a broader study which shall include reliable parameters for a sizeable number of poorly characterised and/or newly discovered clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/152
- Title:
- Dark spots on Neptune from 25 years of HST images
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/152
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We scoured the full set of blue-wavelength Hubble Space Telescope images of Neptune, finding one additional dark spot in new Hubble data beyond those discovered in 1989, 1994, 1996, and 2015. We report the complete disappearance of the SDS-2015 dark spot, using new Hubble data taken on 2018 September 9-10, as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program. Overall, dark spots in the full Hubble data set have lifetimes of at least one to two years, and no more than six years. We modeled a set of dark spots randomly distributed in time over the latitude range on Neptune that is visible from Earth, finding that the cadence of archival Hubble images would have detected about 70% of these spots if their lifetimes are only one year, or about 85%-95% of simulated spots with lifetimes of two or more years. Based on the Hubble data set, we conclude that dark spots have average occurrence rates of one dark spot every four to six years. Many numerical models to date have simulated much shorter vortex lifetimes, so our findings provide constraints that may lead to improved understanding of Neptune's wind field, stratification, and humidity.
