- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/589/733
- Title:
- VLBI polarimetry of CJF sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/589/733
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Very Long Baseline Array observations and a statistical analysis of 5GHz VLBI polarimetry data from 177 sources in the Caltech-Jodrell Bank Flat-Spectrum (CJF) survey. The CJF survey, a complete, flux density-limited sample of 293 extragalactic radio sources, gives us the unique opportunity to compare a broad range of source properties for quasars, galaxies, and BL Lacertae objects. We focus primarily on jet properties, specifically, the correlation between the jet axis angle and the polarization angle in the core and jet. A strong correlation is found for the electric vector polarization angle in the cores of quasars to be perpendicular to the jet axis. Contrary to previous claims, no correlation is found between the jet polarization angle and the jet axis in either quasars or BL Lac objects. With this large, homogeneous sample we are also able to investigate cosmological issues and active galactic nucleus evolution.
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23342. VLBI Position Measurements
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/81/1032
- Title:
- VLBI Position Measurements
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/81/1032
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A large number (~2 million) of VLBI observations have been reduced in order to re ne the measured coordinates of the observed radio sources. The data reduction was carried out in the OCCAM package using the least squares colocation method. Corrections to the coordinates of 642 objects were derived. The accuracy of the catalog is no worse than 0.2 milliseconds of arc for stable sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/673/78
- Title:
- VLBI suvey around B0218+357 at 90cm
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/673/78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the first wide-field, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey at 90cm. The survey area consists of two overlapping 28deg^2^ fields centered on the quasar J0226+3421 and the gravitational lens B0218+357. A total of 618 sources were targeted in these fields, based on identifications from Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS) data. Of these sources, 272 had flux densities that, if unresolved, would fall above the sensitivity limit of the VLBI observations. A total of 27 sources were detected as far as 2{deg} from the phase center. The results of the survey suggest that at least 10% of moderately faint (S~100mJy) sources found at 90 cm contain compact components smaller than ~0.1"-0.3" and stronger than 10% of their total flux densities.
23344. V light curve of AzV 73
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/380/258
- Title:
- V light curve of AzV 73
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/380/258
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A CCD V light curve for the eclipsing binary star AzV 73 is presented. This new photometric observations are analysed together with previously published CCD I photometry from Udalski et al. (1998AcA....48..563U) and spectrographic data from Niemela & Bassino (1994ApJ...437..332N), by means of the Wilson-Devinney code. It is found that this system is semi-detached, with an orbital inclination of roughly 86{deg} and a separation of 42R_{sun}_. The sizes and masses are R_1_=11.53 +/-0.5R_{sun}_, M_1_=25.26+/-0.7M_{sun}_, and R_2_=15.46+/-0.4R_{sun}_, M_2_=21.96+/-0.8M_{sun}_ for the primary and secondary components, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/45
- Title:
- V light curve of BZ Camelopardalis
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/145/45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Sequences of spectra of the nova-like cataclysmic variable (CV) BZ Cam were acquired on nine nights in 2005-2006 in order to study the time development of episodes of wind activity known to occur frequently in this star. We confirm the results of Ringwald & Naylor that the P-Cygni absorption components of the lines mostly evolve from higher expansion velocity to lower velocity as an episode progresses. We also commonly find blueshifted emission components in the H{alpha} line profile, whose velocities and durations strongly suggest that they are also due to the wind. Curiously, Ringwald & Naylor reported common occurrences of redshifted H{alpha} emission components in their BZ Cam spectra. We have attributed these emission components in H{alpha} to occasions when gas concentrations in the bipolar wind (both front side and back side) become manifested as emission lines as they move beyond the disk's outer edge. We also suggest, based on changes in the P-Cygni profiles during an episode, that the progression from larger to smaller expansion velocities is due to the higher velocity portions of a wind concentration moving beyond the edge of the continuum light of the disk first, leaving a net redward shift of the remaining absorption profile. We derive a new orbital ephemeris for BZ Cam, using the radial velocity of the core of the HeI{lambda}5876 line, finding P=0.15353(4). Using this period, the wind episodes in BZ Cam are found to be concentrated near the inferior conjunction of the emission line source. This result helps confirm that the winds in nova-like CVs are often phase dependent, in spite of the puzzling implication that such winds lack axisymmetry. We argue that the radiation-driven wind in BZ Cam receives an initial boost by acting on gas that has been lifted above the disk by the interaction of the accretion stream with the disk, thereby imposing flickering timescales onto the wind events, as well as leading to an orbital modulation of the wind due to the non-axisymmetric nature of the stream/disk interaction. Simultaneous photometry and spectroscopy were acquired on three nights in order to test the possible connection between flickering continuum light and the strength of the front-side wind. We found strong agreement on one night, some agreement on another, and no agreement on the third. We suggest that some flickering events lead to only back-side winds which will not have associated P-Cygni profiles.
23346. V light curve of RW Aur
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/112
- Title:
- V light curve of RW Aur
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/146/112
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- RW Aur A is a classical T Tauri star, believed to have undergone a reconfiguration of its circumstellar environment as a consequence of a recent flyby of its stellar companion, RW Aur B. This interaction stripped away part of the circumstellar disk of RW Aur A, leaving a tidally disrupted "arm" and a short truncated circumstellar disk. We present photometric observations of the RW Aur system from the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope survey showing a long and deep dimming that occurred from 2010 September until 2011 March. The dimming has a depth of ~2mag, a duration of ~180 days, and was confirmed by archival observations from American Association of Variable Star Observers. We suggest that this event is the result of a portion of the tidally disrupted disk occulting RW Aur A, specifically a fragment of the tidally disrupted arm. The calculated transverse linear velocity of the occulter is in excellent agreement with the measured relative radial velocity of the tidally disrupted arm. Using simple kinematic and geometric arguments, we show that the occulter cannot be a feature of the RW Aur A circumstellar disk, and we consider and discount other hypotheses. We also place constraints on the thickness and semimajor axis of the portion of the arm that occulted the star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/486/505
- Title:
- V light curve of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/486/505
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We observed a new cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 to study the origin of long-term variability found in its light curve. Multi-longitude, time-resolved, photometric observations were acquired to analyze this uncommon behavior, which has been found in two newly discovered CVs. This study of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 concerns primarily the understanding of the nature of the observed, double-humped, light curve and its relation to a cyclic brightening that occurs during quiescence. The observations were obtained early in 2007, when the object was at about V~17.1, about 0.4mag brighter than the pre-outburst magnitude. The light curve shows a sinusoidal variability with an amplitude of about 0.07mag and a periodicity of 42.48min, which is half of the orbital period of the system. We observed in addition two "mini-outbursts" of the system of up to 0.6mag, which have a duration of about 4days each. The "mini-outburst" has a symmetric profile and is repeated in approximately every 32days. Subsequent monitoring of the system shows a cyclical behavior of such "mini-outbursts" with a similar recurrence period. The origin of the double-humped light curve and the periodic brightening is discussed in the light of the evolutionary state of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2.
23348. V light curve of V567 Oph
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/394/943
- Title:
- V light curve of V567 Oph
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/394/943
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present differential CCD photometry for the high-amplitude delta Scuti star V567 Ophiuchi obtained in the Johnson V-band. It was observed on 15 nights in two consecutive years in order to resolve the long-standing ambiguity related to its secondary period. A frequency analysis of almost 5000 individual single-filtered measurements resulted in two independent frequencies (f_1_=6.6879c/d and f_2_=11.8266c/d) with a ratio of f_1_/f_2_=0.565. The presented photometric data are differential magnitudes relative to the comparison star C_1_ (GSC 00417-01714) from Powell et al. (1990PASP..102.1131P)
23349. V light curve of WR 123
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/530/A151
- Title:
- V light curve of WR 123
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/530/A151
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- What is the origin of the large-amplitude variability in Wolf-Rayet WN8 stars in general and WR123 in particular? A dedicated spectroscopic campaign targets the ten-hour period previously found in the high-precision photometric data obtained by the MOST satellite. In June-August 2003 we obtained a series of high signal-to-noise, mid-resolution spectra from several sites in the {lambda}{lambda}4000-6940{AA} domain. We also followed the star with occasional broadband (Johnson V) photometry. The acquired spectroscopy allowed a detailed study of spectral variability on timescales from ~5 minutes to months.
23350. V light curve of WR29
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/506/1269
- Title:
- V light curve of WR29
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/506/1269
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- WR 29 is a known WN7h+O double-lined binary system with a rather short period (3.164-days). We search for light variations to determine the inclination of the system and thus the absolute masses of both components. We observed photometrically the field of WR 29 between December, 2002 and February, 2006. We find that the V light of WR 29 varies in phase with the spectroscopic period of 3.16412-days, presenting two minima corresponding to the conjunctions of the binary components. Numerical models fitted to the light curve indicate an orbital inclination of about 44{deg}, and masses of 53M_{sun}_ and 42M_{sun}_ for the O- and WN-type components, respectively.
