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51. Nearby Ly{alpha} quasar absorbers
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/524/536
Title:
Nearby Ly{alpha} quasar absorbers
Short Name:
J/ApJ/524/536
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Spectroscopy of 10 quasars obtained with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is presented. In the 10 sight lines, we detect 357 absorption lines above a significance level of 3{sigma} and 272 lines above a significance level of 4.5{sigma}. Automated software is used to detect and identify the lines, almost all of which are unresolved at the GHRS G140L resolution of 200km/s. After identifying Galactic lines, intervening metal lines, and higher order Lyman lines, we are left with 139 Ly{alpha} absorbers in the redshift range 0<z<0.22 (lines within 900km/s of geocoronal Ly{alpha} are not selected). These diffuse hydrogen absorbers have column densities that are mostly in the range 10^13^-10^15^cm^-2^ for an assumed Doppler parameter of 30km/s. The number density of lines above a rest equivalent width of 0.24{AA}, dN/dz=38.3{+/-}5.3, agrees well with the measurement from the Quasar Absorption-Line Key Project. There is marginal evidence for cosmic variance in the number of absorbers detected among the 10 sight lines.
52. New double stars from HST
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/110/1012
Title:
New double stars from HST
Short Name:
J/PASP/110/1012
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) interferometers, covering 22 months of guide-star acquisition operations, have been analyzed for evidence of stellar duplicity. The data comprise a survey of observed guide stars, all of which are taken from the HST Guide Star Catalog, ranging in magnitude from 9 to 14. The survey results cover a parameter space for the newly found doubles, for the fainter stars, which are of smaller limiting angular separations than in any previous surveys. The normal HST engineering telemetry data from 13,979 acquisitions on 4882 stars have been processed. The FGS guidance data can reveal duplicity with separations ranging from approximately 30mas, for the brighter stars, with small magnitude differences, up to the neighborhood of 500mas, and in some cases to 1000mas. The fraction of guide stars indicating duplicity is a function of the statistical criteria used but is over 5% at a very high level of confidence. It is possible that if some of the brighter and closer pairs could be identified as nearby, then their orbital motions would be rapid enough to allow a mass and distance determination on a timescale of a decade if followed with ground-based interferometric and spectroscopic instruments. A brief catalog of doubles is given, nearly all of which are of certain duplicity. Information for accessing on-line catalogs of large numbers of stars with lesser, but nevertheless strong, probabilities of duplicity and also for the solutions for duplicity from all acquisitions is provided.
53. NGC 1741 HST photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/117/1708
Title:
NGC 1741 HST photometry
Short Name:
J/AJ/117/1708
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera (FOC) ultraviolet (UV) and WFPC2 optical images in conjunction with UV spectroscopic observations taken with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph to examine the star formation history and properties of the interacting galaxy system NGC 1741 in the Hickson Compact Group 31. The high spatial resolution afforded by HST has allowed us to identify a large number of starburst knots, or "superstar clusters" (SSCs), in the starburst regions of this system. Photometry of these SSCs in the UV and optical bands indicates that most of these objects have ages of a few Myr, with a few up to ~100Myr, and masses between 10^4^ and 10^6^M_{sun}_. The estimated age is confirmed by a spectral synthesis analysis of one knot for which we have obtained a UV spectrum. The V-band luminosity function of the SSCs is well represented by a power law {Phi}(L)~L^-{alpha}^ with an index of -1.85, with no evidence of a turnover brighter than the completeness limit. These properties are in good agreement with those found for SSCs in other starburst galaxies. Our results support the suggestion that some of these SSCs may be extremely young globular clusters formed in a relatively recent starburst episode that has been triggered by a merger event.
54. NICMOS star formation history
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/546/694
Title:
NICMOS star formation history
Short Name:
J/ApJ/546/694
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of an extensive analysis of the star formation rates determined from the NICMOS deep images of the northern Hubble Deep Field. We use SED template fitting photometric techniques to determine both the redshift and the extinction for each galaxy in our field. Measurement of the individual extinctions provides a correction for star formation hidden by dust obscuration. We determine star formation rates for each galaxy based on the 1500{AA} UV flux and add the rates in redshift bins of width 1.0 centered on integer redshift values.
55. Old Stellar Populations of the SMC
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/562/303
Title:
Old Stellar Populations of the SMC
Short Name:
J/ApJ/562/303
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Photometry is given for six data sets of SMC photometry, all in the V and I bands. Field names in the file summary below are the names used in the STScI archive for the WFPC2 observations. WFPC2 observations of NGC 121 and the SMC fields reach limiting magnitudes of V=26 and I=25.5; ground-based observations cover a square region of 14.5 arcmin on a side and reach V=25.5 and I=24.5.
56. Orion HST survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/111/846
Title:
Orion HST survey
Short Name:
J/AJ/111/846
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report on a survey of the brightest portions of the Orion Nebula made with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 of the Hubble Space Telescope. Fifteen paintings were made, each employing interference filters isolating the principal emission lines of HI, [NII], and [OIII] and another isolating an interval similar to the V bandpass. A careful survey of compact objects of stellar and nearly stellar appearance was made and astrometric solutions for individual fields were used to determine positions accurate to about 0.1". 344 stars were measured, down to about V=22. In addition to structures in several of the previously known Herbig-Haro objects, 145 compact sources that can be classified as proplyds were found. Proplyds are young stars surrounded by circumstellar material which is rendered visible by being in or near an HII region. In the central region, where detection of proplyds is easiest, almost all of the low-mass pre-main-sequence stars have obvious circumstellar material. The fraction falls as one views areas away from the dominant photoionizing star {theta}^1^C Ori. Six new dark disk proplyds are found, bringing the total to seven. These are objects showing only in silhouette against the bright background of the HII region. Most of these are elliptical in form, indicating that they are circumstellar disks. In addition to these compact sources, the new images allow detection of numerous large structures previously unreported from ground-based observations. These include shells and shocks apparently related to Herbig-Haro objects and high velocity outflows from young stellar objects.
57. Photometry in the M31 OB association NGC 206
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/468/633
Title:
Photometry in the M31 OB association NGC 206
Short Name:
J/ApJ/468/633
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
As part of our effort to determine what affects the star formation process by looking at the products of that process, we have obtained broadband Hubble Space Telescope images of the large OB association NGC 206 in the nearby spiral galaxy M31. Our images cover approximately the southern half of the association. We have detected stars down to an F555W magnitude of 25.5 and measure stars on the main sequence in NGC 206 to an M_F555W,0_ of -1 or a mass of ~6M_{sun}_. From a comparison with isochrones, ages up to about 8Myr are plausible, and we adopt an age of 6Myr. For stellar masses 6-15M_{sun}_, we determine an initial mass function slope of -1.4+/-0.5. This is close to the value for a Salpeter mass function, although the uncertainty is large. The uncertainty in the slope represents disagreement among the individual mass bins. In terms of intermediate-mass stars (6-15M_{sun}_) the NGC 206 star formation event appears to be typical of star formation processes in other nearby galaxies, and it is part of a growing number of studies ,that are finding similarities in the products of the star formation processes in a wide variety of star formation events and galactic environments. Nevertheless, the density of stars formed in NGC 206 is much lower than that in giant H II regions such as NGC 604 in M33 or 30 Doradus in the LMC and in typical OB associations.
58. Properties of low z QSO absorption systems
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/122/355
Title:
Properties of low z QSO absorption systems
Short Name:
J/ApJS/122/355
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
(Partial): We examine the clustering properties of low-redshift Ly{alpha} and heavy-element QSO absorption line systems seen in the spectra of 13 QSOs at the Galactic poles. This is the densest sample of ~1 degree separated QSOs observed spectroscopically with the Hubble Space Telescope to date. At the median redshift of the Ly{alpha} sample (z{=~}0.7), the QSO lines of sight are separated on transverse scales from about 15 to 200h^-1^Mpc (q_0_=0.5, H=100h.km/s/Mpc), allowing the three-dimensional clustering of the absorbers to be examined on those scales. The Galactic poles are also regions where relatively deep and wide-field galaxy redshift surveys have taken place, so the distributions of galaxies and Ly{alpha} systems can be compared within the same volume of space. There are 545 total absorption lines detected in the complete sample from 13 QSOs. We identify 307 Ly{alpha} systems, of which 18 contain heavy-element lines. We confirm the relatively slow redshift number density evolution for Ly systems at z{<=}1. There are also five likely C IV doublets in our sample, for which the Ly{alpha} line is not accessible.
59. rho Ophiuchus (Lynds 1688) cluster NICMOS imaging
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/566/993
Title:
rho Ophiuchus (Lynds 1688) cluster NICMOS imaging
Short Name:
J/ApJ/566/993
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a catalog of near-infrared photometry of young stars associated with the Ophiuchus molecular cloud based on observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS3 camera at 1.1 and 1.6{mu}m. Our survey covers 0.02deg^2^ centered on the dense molecular cores in Lynds 1688. We detect 165 sources at 1.6{mu}m and 65 sources at 1.1{mu}m within our estimated completeness limits of 21.0 and 21.5mag, respectively.
60. RK photometry in 3C 336 field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/480/568
Title:
RK photometry in 3C 336 field
Short Name:
J/ApJ/480/568
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present very deep WFPC2 images and FOS spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) together with numerous supporting ground-based observations of the field of the quasar 3C 336 (z_em_=0.927). The observations are designed to investigate the nature of galaxies producing metal-line absorption systems in the spectrum of the QSO. Along a single line of sight, we find at least six metal-line absorption systems (of which three are newly discovered) ranging in redshift from 0.317 to 0.892. Through an extensive program of optical and IR imaging, QSO spectroscopy, and faint galaxy spectroscopy, we have identified five of the six metal-line absorption systems with luminous (L_K_>=0.1L^*^_K_) galaxies. These have morphologies ranging from very late-type spiral to S0, and they exhibit a wide range of inclination and position angles with respect to the QSO sight line. The only unidentified absorber, despite our intensive search, is a damped Lyman-{alpha} system at z_abs_=0.656. Analysis of the absorption spectrum suggests that the metal abundances ([Fe/H]=-1.2) in this system are similar to those in damped systems at z~2 and to the two other damped systems for which abundances have been determined at z<1. The absorption line system must either be associated with an underluminous, late-type spiral galaxy, which we find at a projected disk impact parameter of ~120h^-1^kpc, or with an as yet unseen, extremely faint galaxy (L<0.05L^*^_K_) near the QSO sight line that eludes detection despite our deep HST and high-resolution ground-based near-IR images. We have found no examples of intrinsically faint galaxies (L<0.1L^*^) at small impact parameters that might have been missed as absorber candidates in our previous ground-based imaging and spectroscopic programs on Mg II absorbing galaxies. We have, however, identified several intrinsically faint galaxies within ~50h^-1^kpc of the QSO sight line that do not produce detectable metal-line absorption. There are no bright galaxies (L>0.1L_K_) within 50h^-1^kpc that do not produce detectable metal lines (of Mg II {lambda}{lambda}2796, 2803 and/or C IV {lambda}{lambda}1548, 1550) in the QSO spectrum. All of these results generally support the inferences we have previously reached from a larger survey for absorption-selected galaxies at z<1. There are several other galaxies with redshifts near that of 3C 336, suggesting that the QSO is situated in an overdense region, perhaps a galaxy cluster. Previously published reports of a cluster around 3C 336 were largely misled by the presence of many foreground galaxies seen in projection near the QSO. It is possible that a reported measurement of weak shear gravitational lensing in this field may be produced by the QSO cluster itself, since there appear to be no other groups or clusters in the foreground. We find no evidence for a normal, bright QSO host galaxy, although there are several faint objects very close to the quasar and at similar redshift that might either be companions or part of a disorganized QSO host.