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721. Exocomets. A Spectroscopic Survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/639/A11
Title:
Exocomets. A Spectroscopic Survey
Short Name:
J/A+A/639/A11
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
While exoplanets are now routinely detected, the detection of small bodies in extrasolar systems remains challenging. Since the discovery of sporadic events, which are interpreted to be exocomets (falling evaporating bodies) around beta Pic in the early 1980s, Monly 20 stars have been reported to host exocomet-like events. We aim to expand the sample of known exocomet-host stars, as well as to monitor the hot-gas environment around stars with previously known exocometary activity. We have obtained high-resolution optical spectra of a heterogeneous sample of 117 main-sequence stars in the spectral type range from B8 to G8. The data were collected in 14 observing campaigns over the course of two years from both hemispheres. We analysed the CaII K&H and NaI D lines in order to search for non-photospheric absorptions that originated in the circumstellar environment and for variable events that could be caused by the outgassing of exocomet-like bodies. We detected non-photospheric absorptions towards 50% of the sample, thus attributing a circumstellar origin to half of the detections (i.e. 26% of the sample). Hot circumstellar gas was detected in the metallic lines inspected via narrow stable absorptions and/or variable blue- and red-shifted absorption events. Such variable events were found in 18 stars in the CaII and/or NaI lines; six of them are reported in the context of this work for the first time. In some cases, the variations we report in the CaII K line are similar to those observed in beta^L Pic. While we do not find a significant trend in the age or location of the stars, we do find that the probability of finding CS gas in stars with larger vsini is higher. We also find a weak trend with the presence of near-infrared excess and with anomalous (lambda Boo-like) abundances, but this would require confirmation by expanding the sample.
722. ExoMol line lists for BeH, MgH and CaH
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/425/34
Title:
ExoMol line lists for BeH, MgH and CaH
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/425/34
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Accurate line lists for three molecules, BeH, MgH and CaH, in their ground electronic states are presented. These line lists are suitable for temperatures relevant to exoplanetary atmospheres and cool stars (up to 2000K). A combination of empirical and ab initio methods is used. The rovibrational energy levels of BeH, MgH and CaH are computed using the programs Level and DPotFit in conjunction with 'spectroscopic' potential energy curves (PECs). The PEC of BeH is taken from the literature, while the PECs of CaH and MgH are generated by fitting to the experimental transition energy levels. Both spin-rotation interactions (except for BeH, for which it is negligible) and non-adiabatic corrections are explicitly taken into account. Accurate line intensities are generated using newly computed ab initio dipole moment curves for each molecule using high levels of theory. Full line lists of rotation-vibration transitions for ^9^BeH, ^24^MgH, ^25^MgH, ^26^MgH and ^40CaH are made available in an electronic form as supplementary data to this article and at www.exomol.com .
723. ExoMol line lists for CH4
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/440/1649
Title:
ExoMol line lists for CH4
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/440/1649
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A new hot line list is calculated for ^12^CH_4_ in its ground electronic state. This line list, called 10to10, contains 9.8 billion transitions and should be complete for temperatures up to 1500K. It covers the wavelengths longer than 1{mu}m and includes all transitions to upper states with energies below hc 18000cm^-1^ and rotational excitation up to J=39. The line list is computed using the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of CH_4_ obtained by variational solution of the SCHR equation for the rotation-vibration motion of nuclei employing program TROVE and a new 'spectroscopic' potential energy surface (PES) obtained by refining an ab initio PES (CCSD(T)-F12c/aug-cc-pVQZ) in a least-squares fitting to the experimentally derived energies with J=0, 1, 2, 3, 4 as extracted from the HITRAN database. The dipole transition probabilities are represented by the Einstein-A coefficients obtained using a previously reported ab initio dipole moment surface (CCSD(T)-F12c/aug-cc-pVTZ). Detailed comparisons with other available sources of methane transitions including HITRAN, experimental compilations and other theoretical line lists show that these sources lack transitions both higher temperatures and near infrared wavelengths. The 10to10 line list is suitable for modelling atmospheres of cool stars and exoplanets.
724. ExoMol line lists for formaldehyde H_2_CO
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/1704
Title:
ExoMol line lists for formaldehyde H_2_CO
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/448/1704
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A computed line list for formaldehyde, H_2_^12^C^16^O, applicable to temperatures up to T=1500K is presented. An empirical potential energy and ab initio dipole moment surfaces are used as the input to nuclear motion program TROVE. The resulting line list, referred to as AYTY, contains 10.3 million rotational-vibrational states and around 10 billion transition frequencies. Each transition includes associated Einstein- A coefficients and absolute transition intensities, for wavenumbers below 10000cm^-1^ and rotational excitations up to J=70. Room-temperature spectra are compared with laboratory measurements and data currently available in the HITRAN database. These spectra show excellent agreement with experimental spectra and highlight the gaps and limitations of the HITRAN data. The full line list is available from the CDS database as well as at www.exomol.com.
725. ExoMol line lists for phosphine (PH_3_)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/2337
Title:
ExoMol line lists for phosphine (PH_3_)
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/446/2337
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A comprehensive hot line list is calculated for ^31^PH_3_ in its ground electronic state. This line list, called SAlTY, contains almost 16.8 billion transitions between 7.5 million energy levels and it is suitable for simulating spectra up to temperatures of 1500K. It covers wavelengths longer than 1um and includes all transitions to upper states with energies below hc.18000cm^-1^ and rotational excitation up to J=46. The line list is computed by variational solution of the Schrodinger equation for the rotation-vibration motion employing the nuclear-motion program TROVE. A previously reported ab initio dipole moment surface is used as well as an updated 'spectroscopic' potential energy surface (PES), obtained by refining an existing ab initio surface through least-squares fitting to the experimentally derived energies. Detailed comparisons with other available sources of phosphine transitions confirms SAlTY's accuracy and illustrates the incompleteness of previous experimental and theoretical compilations for temperatures above 300K. Atmospheric models are expected to severely underestimate the abundance of phosphine in disequilibrium environments, and it is predicted that phosphine will be detectable in the upper troposphere of many substellar objects. This list is suitable for modelling atmospheres of many astrophysical environments, namely carbon stars, Y dwarfs, T dwarfs, hot Jupiters and solar system gas giant planets. It is available in full as supplementary data to the article and at www.exomol.com.
726. ExoMol line lists for SiO
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/1469
Title:
ExoMol line lists for SiO
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/434/1469
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Accurate rotation-vibration line lists are calculated for silicon monoxide. Line lists are presented for the main isotopologue, ^28^Si^16^O, and four monosubstituted isotopologues ^29^Si^16^O, ^30^Si^16^O, ^28^Si^17^O and ^28^Si^18^O, in their ground electronic states. These line lists are suitable for high temperatures (up to 9000K) including those relevant to exoplanetary atmospheres and cool stars. A combination of empirical and ab initio methods is used: the potential energy curves are determined to high accuracy by fitting to extensive data from analysis of both laboratory and sunspot spectra; a high quality ab initio dipole moment curve is calculated at the large basis set, multi-reference configuration interaction (MRCI) level. A partition function plus full line lists of rotation-vibration transitions are made available in an electronic form as supplementary data to this article and at www.exomol.com.
727. Expansive components in HII regions
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/430/911
Title:
Expansive components in HII regions
Short Name:
J/A+A/430/911
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the presence of low intensity high velocity components, which we have termed wing features in the integrated Halpha emission line profiles of the HII region populations of the spiral barred galaxies NGC 1530, NGC 3359 and NGC 6951. We find that more than a third of the HII region line profiles in each galaxy show these components.
728. Experimental spectrum of methanol (CH_3_OH)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/56
Title:
Experimental spectrum of methanol (CH_3_OH)
Short Name:
J/ApJ/795/56
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The spectrum of methanol (CH_3_OH) has been characterized between 214.6 and 265.4 GHz for astrophysically significant temperatures. Four hundred and eighty-six spectra with absolute intensity calibration recorded between 240 and 389 K provided a means for the calculation of the complete experimental spectrum (CES) of methanol as a function of temperature. The CES includes contributions from v_t_=3 and other higher states that are difficult to model quantum mechanically (QM). It also includes the spectrum of the ^13^C isotopologue in terrestrial abundance. In general the QM models provide frequencies that are within 1 MHz of their experimental values, but there are several outliers that differ by tens of MHz. As in our recent work on methanol in the 560-654 GHz region, significant intensity differences between our experimental intensities and cataloged values were found. In this work these differences are explored in the context of several QM analyses. The experimental results presented here are analyzed to provide a frequency point-by-point catalog that is well suited for the simulation of crowded and overlapped spectra. Additionally, a catalog in the usual line frequency, line strength, and lower state energy format is provided.
729. Exploring 6 AGN dusty torus models. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/11
Title:
Exploring 6 AGN dusty torus models. II.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/884/11
Date:
04 Dec 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This is the second in a series of papers devoted to exploring a set of six dusty models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with available spectral energy distributions. These models are the smooth torus by Fritz+ (2006MNRAS.366..767F), the clumpy torus by Nenkova+ (2008ApJ...685..147N and 2008ApJ...685..160N), the clumpy torus by Honig & Kishimoto (2010A&A...523A..27H), the two-phase torus by Siebenmorgen+ (2015A&A...583A.120S), the two-phase torus by Stalevski+ (2012MNRAS.420.2756S and 2016MNRAS.458.2288S), and the wind model by Honig & Kishimoto (2017ApJ...838L..20H). The first paper explores discrimination among models and the parameter restriction using synthetic spectra. Here we perform spectral fitting of a sample of 110 AGN drawn from the Swift/BAT survey with Spitzer/IRS spectroscopic data. The aim is to explore which is the model that describes better the data and the resulting parameters. The clumpy wind-disk model by Honig & Kishimoto provides good fits for ~50% of the sample, and the clumpy torus model by Nenkova+ is good at describing ~30% of the objects. The wind-disk model by Honig & Kishimoto is better for reproducing the mid-infrared spectra of type 1 Seyferts (with 60% of the type 1 Seyferts well reproduced by this model compared to the 10% well represented by the clumpy torus model by Nenkova+), while type 2 Seyferts are equally fitted by both models (roughly 40% of the type 2 Seyferts). Large residuals are found irrespective of the model used, indicating that the AGN dust continuum emission is more complex than predicted by the models or that the parameter space is not well sampled. We found that all the resulting parameters for our AGN sample are roughly constrained to 10%-20% of the parameter space. Contrary to what is generally assumed, the derived outer radius of the torus is smaller (reaching up to a factor of ~5 smaller for 10pc tori) for the smooth torus by Fritz+ and the two-phase torus by Stalevski+ than the one derived from the clumpy torus by Nenkova+ Covering factors and line-of-sight viewing angles strongly depend on the model used. The total dust mass is the most robust derived quantity, giving equivalent results for four of these models.
730. Exploring the SDSS data set. I. EMP & CV stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/228/19
Title:
Exploring the SDSS data set. I. EMP & CV stars
Short Name:
J/ApJS/228/19
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of a search for extremely metal-poor (EMP), carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP), and cataclysmic variable (CV) stars using a new exploration tool based on linked scatter plots (LSPs). Our approach is especially designed to work with very large spectrum data sets such as the SDSS, LAMOST, RAVE, and Gaia data sets, and it can be applied to stellar, galaxy, and quasar spectra. As a demonstration, we conduct our search using the SDSS DR10 data set. We first created a 3326-dimensional phase space containing nearly 2 billion measures of the strengths of over 1600 spectral features in 569738 SDSS stars. These measures capture essentially all the stellar atomic and molecular species visible at the resolution of SDSS spectra. We show how LSPs can be used to quickly isolate and examine interesting portions of this phase space. To illustrate, we use LSPs coupled with cuts in selected portions of phase space to extract EMP stars, CEMP stars, and CV stars. We present identifications for 59 previously unrecognized candidate EMP stars and 11 previously unrecognized candidate CEMP stars. We also call attention to 2 candidate He II emission CV stars found by the LSP approach that have not yet been discussed in the literature.

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