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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/791/58
- Title:
- C and O abundances across the Hertzsprung gap
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/791/58
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derived atmospheric parameters and spectroscopic abundances for C and O for a large sample of stars located in the Hertzsprung gap in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in order to detect chemical peculiarities and get a comprehensive overview of the population of stars in this evolutionary state. We have observed and analyzed high-resolution spectra (R = 60,000) of 188 stars in the mass range 2-5 M_{sun}_ with the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope at the McDonald Observatory including 28 stars previously identified as Am/Ap stars. We find that the C and O abundances of the majority of stars in the Hertzsprung gap are in accordance with abundances derived for local lower-mass dwarfs but detect expected peculiarities for the Am/Ap stars. The C and O abundances of stars with T_eff_< 6500 K are slightly lower than for the hotter objects but the C/O ratio is constant in the analyzed temperature domain. No indication of an alteration of the C and O abundances of the stars by mixing during the evolution across the Hertzsprung gap could be found before the homogenization of their atmospheres by the first dredge-up.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/797/21
- Title:
- Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/797/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We revisit the observed frequencies of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars as a function of the metallicity in the Galaxy, using data from the literature with available high-resolution spectroscopy. Our analysis excludes stars exhibiting clear overabundances of neutron-capture elements and takes into account the expected depletion of surface carbon abundance that occurs due to CN processing on the upper red giant branch. This allows for the recovery of the initial carbon abundance of these stars, and thus for an accurate assessment of the frequencies of carbon-enhanced stars. The correction procedure we develop is based on stellar-evolution models and depends on the surface gravity, log g, of a given star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/652/A116
- Title:
- CARMENES time-resolved CaII H&K catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/652/A116
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radial-velocity (RV) jitter caused by stellar magnetic activity is an important factor in state-of-the-art exoplanet discovery surveys such as CARMENES. Stellar rotation, along with heterogeneities in the photosphere and chromosphere caused by activity, can result in false-positive planet detections. Hence, it is necessary to determine the stellar rotation period and compare it to any putative planetary RV signature. Long-term measurements of activity indicators such as the chromospheric emission in the CaII H&K lines enable the identification of magnetic activity cycles. In order to determine stellar rotation periods and study the long-term behavior of magnetic activity of the CARMENES guaranteed time observations (GTO) sample, it is advantageous to extract R'HK time series from archival data, since the CARMENES spectrograph does not cover the blue range of the stellar spectrum containing the Ca II H&K lines. We have assembled a catalog of 11634 archival spectra of 186 M dwarfs acquired by seven different instruments covering the CaII H&K regime: ESPADONS, FEROS, HARPS, HIRES, NARVAL, TIGRE, and UVES. The relative chromospheric flux in these lines, R'HK, was directly extracted from the spectra by rectification with PHOENIX synthetic spectra via narrow passbands around the Ca II H&K line cores. The combination of archival spectra from various instruments results in time series for 186 stars from the CARMENES GTO sample. As an example of the use of the catalog, we report the tentative discovery of three previously unknown activity cycles of M dwarfs. We conclude that the method of extracting R'HK with the use of model spectra yields consistent results for different instruments and that the compilation of this catalog will enable the analysis of long-term activity time series for a large number of M dwarfs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/575/A89
- Title:
- Center-to-limb polarization of FGK stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/575/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Scattering and absorption processes in stellar atmosphere act the center-to-limb variations of the intensity (CLVI) and the linear polarization (CLVP) of stellar radiation. There are several theoretical and observational studies of CLVI using different stellar models, however, most studies of CLVP have concentrated on the solar atmosphere and have not considered the CLVP in cooler non-gray stellar atmospheres at all. In this paper, we present a theoretical study of the CLV of the intensity and the linear polarization in continuum spectra of different spectral type stars. We solve the radiative transfer equations for polarized light iteratively assuming no magnetic field and considering a planeparallel model atmospheres and various opacities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/586/A87
- Title:
- Center-to-limb polarization of FGK stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/586/A87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- One of the necessary parameters needed for the interpretation of the light curves of transiting exoplanets or eclipsing binary stars (as well as interferometric measurements of a star or microlensing events) is how the intensity and polarization of light changes from the center to the limb of a star. Scattering and absorption processes in the stellar atmosphere affect both the center-to-limb variation of intensity (CLVI) and polarization (CLVP). In this paper, we present a study of the CLVI and CLVP in continuum spectra, taking into consideration the different contributions of scattering and absorption opacity for a variety of spectral type stars with spherical atmospheres. We solve the radiative transfer equation for polarized light in the presence of a continuum scattering, taking into consideration the spherical model of a stellar atmosphere. To cross-check our results, we developed two independent codes that are based on Feautrier and short characteristics methods, respectively, We calculate the center-to-limb variation of intensity (CLVI) and polarization (CLVP) in continuum for the Phoenix grid of spherical stellar model atmospheres for a range of effective temperatures (4000-7000K), gravities (logg=1.0-5.5), and wavelengths (4000-7000{AA}). In addition, we present several tests of our codes and compare our calculations for the solar atmosphere with published photometric and polarimetric measurements. We also show that our two codes provide similar results in all considered cases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RNAAS/5.13
- Title:
- CHEOPS limb and gravity-darkening coefficients
- Short Name:
- J/other/RNAAS/5.
- Date:
- 17 Jan 2022 00:43:02
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The goal of this Research Note is to provide the theoretical calculations of the limb-darkening coefficients (LDC) and gravity-darkening coefficients (GDC) for the space mission CHEOPS. We use two stellar atmosphere models: ATLAS (plane-parallel) and PHOENIX with spherical symmetry covering a wide range of effective temperatures, local gravities, and hydrogen/metal. These grids cover 19 metallicities ranging from 10^-5^ up to 10^+1^ solar abundances, 0<=logg<=6.0 and 2300K<=Te<=50000K. The specific intensity distribution was fitted using six approaches: linear, quadratic, square root, logarithmic, power-2, and a series with four terms. The calculations of the gravity darkening coefficient were performed for both stellar atmosphere models adopting an improved formulation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/469/713
- Title:
- Chromospherically active stars in CoRoT fields
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/469/713
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we report the results of the spectroscopic survey we carried out to detect chromospheric activity of late-type stars in the fields of view of the CoRoT space mission. We give an accurate MK classification of all targets, which is valuable information on both the main CoRoT project and additional science programs, by means of cross-correlation with MK standard stars, by using artificial neural networks. The presence or absence of excess H{alpha} emission, determined using spectral subtraction technique, is used to characterize the chromospheric activity level. In most cases our MK classification agrees with the spectral classification reported in the SIMBAD database; however, there are a few stars that are found to have very different MK classes. Our survey reveals that ~7% of late-type stars in our sample indeed possess a very active chromosphere. The measured H{alpha} excess and the presence of the 6708{AA}, Li line allow us to confirm the membership of 5 targets in the young open cluster NGC 2264.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/152/261
- Title:
- Chromospheric Ca II emission in nearby stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/152/261
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present chromospheric CaII H and K activity measurements, rotation periods, and ages for ~1200 F, G, K, and M type main-sequence stars from ~18000 archival spectra taken at Keck and Lick Observatories as a part of the California and Carnegie Planet Search Project. We have calibrated our chromospheric S-values against the Mount Wilson chromospheric activity data. From these measurements we have calculated median activity levels and derived R'_HK_, stellar ages, and rotation periods from general parameterizations for 1228 stars, ~1000 of which have no previously published S-values. We also present precise time series of activity measurements for these stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/111/439
- Title:
- Chromospheric emission in late-type stars.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/111/439
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- More than 800 southern stars within 50pc have been observed for chromospheric emission in the cores of the Ca II H and K lines. Most of the sample targets were selected to be G dwarfs on the basis of colors and spectral types. The bimodal distribution in stellar activity first noted in a sample of northern stars by Vaughan and Preston (1980PASP...92..385V) is confirmed, and the percentage of active stars, about 30%, is remarkably consistent between the northern and southern surveys. This is especially compelling given that we have used an entirely different instrumental setup and stellar sample than used in the previous study. Comparisons to the Sun, a relatively inactive star, show that most nearby solar-type stars have a similar activity level, and presumably a similar age. We identify two additional subsamples of stars -- a very active group, and a very inactive group. The very active group may be made up of young stars near the Sun, accounting for only a few percent of the sample, and appears to be less than ~0.1Gyr old. Included in this high-activity tail of the distribution, however, is a subset of very close binaries of the RS CVn or W UMa types. The remaining members of this population may be undetected close binaries or very young single stars. The very inactive group of stars, contributing ~5%-10% to the total sample, may be those caught during a Maunder Minimum type phase. If the observations of the survey stars are considered to be a sequence of snapshots of the Sun during its life, we might expect that the Sun will spend about 10% of the remainder of its main sequence life in a Maunder Minimum phase.
