- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/658/A109
- Title:
- The SkyMapper DR3 SSOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/658/A109
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The populations of small bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects) are used to constrain the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Their orbital distribution and composition distribution are both required to track the dynamical pathway from their formation regions to their current locations. We aim to increase the sample of Solar System objects (SSOs) that have multifilter photometry and compositional taxonomy. Methods. We searched for moving objects in the SkyMapper Southern Survey. We used the predicted SSO positions to extract photometry and astrometry from the SkyMapper frames. We then applied a suite of filters to clean the catalog from false-positive detections. We finally used the near-simultaneous photometry to assign a taxonomic class to objects. We release a catalog of 880,528 individual observations, consisting of 205515 known and unique SSOs. The catalog completeness is estimated to be about 97% down to V=18mag and the purity is higher than 95% for known SSOs. The near-simultaneous photometry provides either three, two, or a single color that we use to classify 117356 SSOs with a scheme consistent with the widely used Bus-DeMeo taxonomy. The present catalog contributes significantly to the sample of asteroids with known surface properties (about 40% of main-belt asteroids down to an absolute magnitude of 16). We will release more observations of SSOs with future SkyMapper data releases.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/140
- Title:
- The SOS. VII. UBVI photometry of open cluster IC 1590
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/140
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 00:39:36
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Young open clusters are ideal laboratories to understand the star formation process. We present deep UBVI and H{alpha} photometry for the young open cluster IC1590 in the center of the HII region NGC281. Early-type members are selected from UBV photometric diagrams, and low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) members are identified by using H{alpha} photometry. In addition, the published X-ray source list and Gaia astrometric data are also used to isolate probable members. A total of 408 stars are selected as members. The mean reddening obtained from early-type members is <E(B-V)>=0.40{+/-}0.06(s.d.). We confirm the abnormal extinction law for the intracluster medium. The distance modulus to the cluster determined from the zero-age main-sequence fitting method is 12.3{+/-}0.2mag (d=2.88{+/-}0.28kpc), which is consistent with the distance d=2.70_-0.20_^+0.24^kpc from the recent Gaia parallaxes. We also estimate the ages and masses of individual members by means of stellar evolutionary models. The mode of the age of PMS stars is about 0.8Myr. The initial mass function of IC1590 is derived. It appears to be a steeper shape ({Gamma}=-1.49{+/-}0.14) than that of the Salpeter/Kroupa initial mass function for the high-mass regime (m>1M{sun}). The signature of mass segregation is detected from the difference in the slopes of the initial mass functions for the inner (r<2.5') and outer regions of this cluster. We finally discuss the star formation history in NGC281.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/20A
- Title:
- UBV Photometry of O and B Stars in Vela
- Short Name:
- II/20A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photoelectric UBV values, derived from observations made at the Boyden and ESO observatories, are presented for 358 early-type stars in the Vela section of the southern Milky Way. Remarks, accurate positions and notes have been added in July 2016 at CDS (Francois Ochsenbein)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/834/160
- Title:
- ugriz colors of RR Lyrae stars in SDSS Stripe 82
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/834/160
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Investigation of period-color (PC) and amplitude-color (AC) relations at the maximum and minimum light can be used to probe the interaction of the hydrogen ionization front (HIF) with the photosphere and the radiation hydrodynamics of the outer envelopes of Cepheids and RR Lyraes. For example, theoretical calculations indicated that such interactions would occur at minimum light for RR Lyrae and result in a flatter PC relation. In the past, the PC and AC relations have been investigated by using either the (V-R)_MACHO_ or (V-I) colors. In this work, we extend previous work to other bands by analyzing the RR Lyraes in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 Region. Multi-epoch data are available for RR Lyraes located within the footprint of the Stripe 82 Region in five (ugriz) bands. We present the PC and AC relations at maximum and minimum light in four colors: (u-g)_0_, (g-r)_0_, (r-i)_0_, and (i-z)_0_, after they are corrected for extinction. We found that the PC and AC relations for this sample of RR Lyraes show a complex nature in the form of flat, linear or quadratic relations. Furthermore, the PC relations at minimum light for fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars are separated according to the Oosterhoff type, especially in the (g-r)_0_ and (r-i)_0_ colors. If only considering the results from linear regressions, our results are quantitatively consistent with the theory of HIF-photosphere interaction for both fundamental and first overtone RR Lyraes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/127/1
- Title:
- UGRK Photometry in the Hubble Deep field region
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/127/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detection and photometry of sources in the U_n_, G, {R}, and K_s_ bands in a 9x9 arcmin^2^ region of the sky, centered on the Hubble Deep Field, are described. The data permit construction of complete photometric catalogs to roughly U_n_=25, G=26, {R}=25.5, K_s_=20 mag and significant photometric measurements somewhat fainter. Galaxy catalogs selected in the {R} and K_s_ bands are presented, containing 3607 and 488 sources in field areas of 74.8 and 59.4arcmin^2^, to {R}=25.5 and K_s_=20mag.
86. UMa Group
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/226
- Title:
- UMa Group
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/226
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Ursa Major Group (UMaG) is studied as a test case for the authenticity of Stellar Kinematic Groups, using Coravel radial velocities, recent compilations of astrometric data and new spectroscopic observations. Spectroscopic age indicators, particularly indices of the strength of chromospheric emission, are applied to solar-type candidate members of UMaG, and it is shown that stars that meet the spectroscopic criteria also have kinematics that agree better with the space motions of the nucleus of UMaG than does the starting sample as a whole. The primary limitation on the precision of kinematics is now parallaxes instead of radial velocities. These more restrictive kinematic criteria are then applied to other UMaG candidates and a list summarizing membership is presented. UMaG is also examined as a cluster, confirming its traditional age of 0.3 Gyr and a mean [Fe/H] of -0.08 +/- 0.09 for those stars most likely to be bona fide members.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/245/14
- Title:
- 8um cores in the spiral arms of nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/245/14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spitzer Space Telescope observations of 15 spiral galaxies show numerous dense cores at 8{mu}m that are revealed primarily in unsharp mask images. The cores are generally invisible in optical bands because of extinction, and they are also indistinct at 8{mu}m alone because of contamination by more widespread diffuse emission. Several hundred core positions, magnitudes, and colors from the four InfraRed Array Camera bands are measured and tabulated for each galaxy. The larger galaxies, which tend to have longer and more regular spiral arms, often have their infrared cores aligned along these arms, with additional cores in spiral arm spurs. Galaxies without regular spirals have their cores in more irregular spiral-like filaments, with typically only one or two cores per filament. Nearly every elongated emission feature has 8{mu}m cores strung out along its length. The occurrence of dense cores in long and thin filaments is reminiscent of filamentary star formation in the solar neighborhood, although on a scale 100 times larger in galaxies. The cores most likely form by gravitational instabilities and cloud agglomeration in the filaments. The simultaneous occurrence of several cores with regular spacings in some spiral arms suggests that in these cases, all of the cores formed at about the same time and the corresponding filaments are young. Total star formation rates for the galaxies correlate with the total embedded stellar masses in the cores with an average ratio corresponding to a possible age between 0.2 and 2Myr. This suggests that the identified cores are the earliest phase for most star formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/2750
- Title:
- V and R lightcurves of BL Lac object PKS 0537-441
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/2750
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the colour indices V-R of BL Lacertae object PKS 0537-441 on the basis of the photometric data monitored by the Rapid Eye Mounting (REM) telescope located at the ESO Cerro La Silla observatory (Chile). Nearly 700 quasi-simultaneous data groups were collected during the period from 2004 to 2010. Our colour analysis shows the existence of at least two variability mechanisms: one is the long-term chromatic mechanism in which the variation traces a 0.04+/-0.01 slope in the V-R versus V plot, the other is the chromatic mechanism implying the spectral changes during the flares and on intraday time-scales. A general bluer-when-brighter trend is confirmed in both ascent and descent states during the flares and in the 2010 February flare interval, while a much stronger bluer-when-brighter chromatism is observed in both faint and bright states on intraday time-scales. The discrete correlation function analysis reveals the existence of a time-lag of 13^+5.8^_-1.2_ d between colour indices and magnitudes during the period MJD 54404-54453, whereas no measurable time-lag during other periods is found. Our results suggest that geometric effects may be responsible for the long-term achromatic mechanism, while the intrinsic shock-in-jet mechanism may produce the chromatic variability during the flares and on intraday time-scales.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/A149
- Title:
- Vienna survey in Orion. III.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/622/A149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have extended and refined the existing young stellar object (YSO) catalogs for the Orion A molecular cloud, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth. This updated catalog is driven by the large spatial coverage (18.3deg^2^, ~950pc^2^), seeing limited resolution (~0.7''), and sensitivity (K_s_<19mag) of the ESO-VISTA near-infrared survey of the Orion A cloud (VISION). Combined with archival mid- to far-infrared data, the VISTA data allow for a refined and more robust source selection. We estimate that among previously known protostars and pre-main-sequence stars with disks, source contamination levels (false positives) are at least ~6.4% and ~2.3%, respectively, mostly due to background galaxies and nebulosities. We identify 274 new YSO candidates using VISTA/Spitzer based selections within previously analyzed regions, and VISTA/WISE based selections to add sources in the surroundings, beyond previously analyzed regions. The WISE selection method recovers about 59% of the known YSOs in Orion A's low-mass star-forming part L1641, which shows what can be achieved by the all-sky WISE survey in combination with deep near-infrared data in regions without the influence of massive stars. The new catalog contains 2980 YSOs, which were classified based on the de-reddened mid-infrared spectral index into 188 protostars, 185 flat-spectrum sources, and 2607 pre-main-sequence stars with circumstellar disks. We find a statistically significant difference in the spatial distribution of the three evolutionary classes with respect to regions of high dust column-density, confirming that flat-spectrum sources are at a younger evolutionary phase compared to Class IIs, and are not a sub-sample seen at particular viewing angles.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/577/A35
- Title:
- Visible colors of Centaurs and KBOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/577/A35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Since the discovery of the Kuiper Belt, broadband surface colors were thoroughly studied as a first approximation to the objects reflectivity spectra. Visible colors (BVRI) have proven to be a reasonable proxy for real spectra, which are rather linear in this range. On the contrary, near-IR colors (JHK bands) could be misleading when absorption features of ices are present in the spectra. Although the physical and chemical information provided by colors are rather limited, broadband photometry remains the best tool for establishing the bulk surface properties of KBOs and Centaurs. In this work, we explore for the first time general, recurrent effects in the study of visible colors that could affect the interpretation of the scientific results: i) how a correlation could be missed or weaken due to the data error bars, ii) the "risk" of missing-out an existing trend due to low sampling, and the possibility to make quantified predictions on the sample size needed to detect a trend at a given significance level, assuming the sample is unbiased, iii) the use of partial correlations to disentangle the mutual effect of two or more (physical) parameters, iv) the sensitivity of the "reddening line" tool to the central wavelength of the filters used. To illustrate and apply these new tools, we have compiled the visible colors and orbital parameters of about 370 objects available in the literature, assumed, by default, as unbiased samples, and carried-out the "traditional" analysis per dynamical family. Our results show in particular how: a) data error-bars impose a limit on the detectable correlations regardless of sample size and, therefore, once that limit is achieved it is important to diminish the error-bars but pointless to enlarge the sampling with the same or larger errors; b) almost all dynamical families still require larger samplings to "ensure" the detection of correlations stronger than +/-0.5, i.e. correlations that may "explain" ~25% or more of the color variability; c) the correlation strength between (V-R) vs. (R-I) is systematically lower than the one between (B-V) vs. (V-R) and not related with error-bar differences between these colors; d) it is statistically equivalent to use any of the different "flavors" of orbital excitation or collisional velocity parameters regarding the famous color-inclination correlation among Classical KBOs --- which no longer evidences to be a strong correlation --- whereas the inclination and Tisserand parameter relative to Neptune cannot be separated from one another; and e) Classical KBOs are the only dynamical family which evidences for neither (B-V) vs. (V-R) nor (V-R) vs. (R-I) correlations, being, therefore, the family with the most unpredictable visible surface reflectivities.