- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/634/A10
- Title:
- Chemo-kinematic properties of Aquarius
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/634/A10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dwarf galaxies found in isolation in the Local Group (LG) are unlikely to have interacted with the large LG spirals, and therefore environmental effects such as tidal and ram-pressure stripping should not be the main drivers of their evolution. We aim to provide insight into the internal mechanisms shaping LG dwarf galaxies by increasing our knowledge of the internal properties of isolated systems. Here we focus on the evolved stellar component of the Aquarius dwarf galaxy, whose kinematic and metallicity properties have only recently started to be explored. Spectroscopic data in the region of the near-infrared Ca~II triplet lines has been obtained with FORS2 at the Very Large Telescope for 53 red giant branch (RGB) stars. These data are used to derive line-of-sight velocities and [Fe/H] of the individual RGB stars. We have derived a systemic velocity of -142.2^+1.8^_-1.8_km/s, in agreement with previous determinations from both the HI gas and stars. The internal kinematics of Aquarius appears to be best modelled by a combination of random motions (l.o.s. velocity dispersion of 10.3^+1.6^_-1.3_km/s) and linear rotation (with a gradient -5.0^+1.6^_-1.9_km/s/arcmin) along a P.A.=139_-27_^+17^deg, broadly consistent with the optical projected major axis. This rotation signal is significantly misaligned or even counter-rotating to that derived from the HI gas. We also find the tentative presence of a mild negative metallicity gradient and indications that the metal-rich stars have a colder velocity dispersion than the metal-poor ones. This work represents a significant improvement with respect to previous measurements of the RGB stars of Aquarius, as it doubles the number of member stars already studied in the literature. We speculate that the misaligned rotation between the HI gas and evolved stellar component might have been the result of recent accretion of HI gas, or re-accretion after gas-loss due to internal stellar feedback.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/156
- Title:
- CH(G) index of SDSS evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/156
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have measured the CH G band (CH(G)) index for evolved stars in the globular cluster M3 based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic survey. It is found that there is a useful way to select red giant branch (RGB) stars from the contamination of other evolved stars such as asymptotic giant branch (AGB) and red horizontal branch (RHB) stars by using the CH(G) index versus (g-r)_0_ diagram if the metallicity is known from the spectra. When this diagram is applied to field giant stars with similar metallicity, we establish a calibration of CH(G)=1.625(g-r)_0_-1.174(g-r)^2^_0_-0.934. This method is confirmed by stars with [Fe/H]~-2.3 where spectra of member stars in globular clusters M15 and M92 are available in the SDSS database. We thus extend this kind of calibration to every individual metallicity bin ranging from [Fe/H]~-3.0 to [Fe/H]~0.0 by using field red giant stars with 0.4<=(g-r)_0_<=1.0. The metallicity-dependent calibrations give CH(G)=1.625(g-r)_0_-1.174(g-r)^2^_0_+0.060[Fe/H]-0.830 for -3.0<[Fe/H]<=-1.2 and CH(G)=0.953(g-r)_0_-0.655(g-r)^2^_0_+0.060[Fe/H]-0.650 for -1.2<[Fe/H]<0.0. The calibrations are valid for the SDSS spectroscopic data set, and they cannot be applied blindly to other data sets. With the two calibrations, a significant number of the contaminating stars (AGB and RHB stars) were excluded and thus a clear sample of red giant stars is obtained by selecting stars within +/-0.05mag of the calibration. The sample is published online and it is expected that this large and clean sample of RGB stars will provide new information on the formation and evolution of the Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/414/418
- Title:
- Chromospheric Mg II h+k flux of evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/414/418
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Of a total of 177 cool G, K and M giants and supergiants, we measured the MgII h+k line emission of extended chromospheres in high-resolution (LWR) International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) spectra by using the IUE final data archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and derived the respective stellar surface fluxes. They represent the chromospheric radiative energy losses presumably related to basal heating by the dissipation of acoustic waves, plus a highly variable contribution due to magnetic activity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A100
- Title:
- CMD and mass distribution of Ba stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- With the availability of parallaxes provided by the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution, it is possible to construct the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) of barium and related stars with unprecedented accuracy. A direct result from the derived HRD is that subgiant CH stars occupy the same region as barium dwarfs, contrary to what their designations imply. By comparing the position of barium stars in the HRD with STAREVOL evolutionary tracks, it is possible to evaluate their masses, provided the metallicity is known. We used an average metallicity [Fe/H]=-0.25 and derived the mass distribution of barium giants. The distribution peaks around 2.5M_{sun}_, with a tail at higher masses up to 4.5M_{sun}_. This peak is seen as well in the mass distribution of a sample of normal K and M giants used for comparison and is associated with stars located in the red clump. When we compare these mass distributions, we see a deficit of low-mass (1-2M_{sun}_) barium giants. This is probably because low-mass stars reach large radii at the tip of the red giant branch, which may have resulted in an early binary interaction. Among barium giants, the high-mass tail is however dominated by stars with a barium index (based on a visual inspection of the barium spectral line) less than unity, i.e., with a very moderate barium line strength. We believe that these stars are not genuine barium giants, but rather bright giants (or supergiants) where the barium lines are strengthened because of a positive luminosity effect. Moreover, contrary to previous claims, we do not see differences between the mass distributions of mild and strong barium giants.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/837
- Title:
- CN and CO observations toward AGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/690/837
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A survey of the ^12^C/^13^C ratio toward circumstellar envelopes has been conducted at millimeter wavelengths using the facilities of the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO). The ratios were obtained for a sample of 18 local C- and O-rich asymptotic giant branch and supergiant stars from observations of the ^12^C and ^13^C isotopologues of CO and CN, respectively. The J=1->0 transitions of both molecules were observed at {lambda}=3mm using the ARO 12m telescope, while the J=2->1 lines of the two species were measured using the ARO Sub-Millimeter Telescope (SMT) at {lambda}=1mm. The ^12^C/^13^C ratios were determined from the CO data by modeling both transitions simultaneously with a circumstellar radiative transfer code, which can account for the high opacities present in the emission from this species. In the case of CN, the hyperfine structure was used to evaluate opacity effects. Ratios obtained independently from CO and CN are in good agreement.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/319/235
- Title:
- CN in circumstellar envelopes survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/319/235
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We list in Table 1 the observed stars together with some of their characteristics. Distances, expansion velocities, mass loss rates, and spectral types are taken from the compilations of Bujarrabal et al. (1994) <J/A+A/285/247> and Loup et al. (1993A&AS...99..291). The sample includes C-rich and O-rich objects, some S-stars, a few proto-PN, and a young PN (NGC7027). See paper for more details. In Table 2, we give some of the observational parameters. A_low_ and A_high_ refer to the integrated intensity of the low-frequency and high-frequency fine-structure groups. The intrinsic intensity ratios, R=A_high_/A_low_, are R(1-0)=2 and R(2-1)=1.8. In principle, the observation of several components with different intrinsic strengths allows an estimate of the line optical depth, and the value of R gives an estimate of the envelope thickness.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/489/1271
- Title:
- CO and OH abundances of 23 K-M giants
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/489/1271
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Based on the high resolution infrared spectra observed with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) at the 4m telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), ro-vibrational lines of ^12^C^16^O, ^13^C^16^O, ^12^C^17^O, and ^16^OH were measured. Some details of the observed spectra including the resolution, S/N ratio, and data of observation are given in table2. The spectroscopic and equivalent width data are given in table3 for 23 red giant stars. The resulting data are used to investigate the nature of the infrared spectra of K-M giant stars. It is found that only the weak lines (log(W/nu)<-4.75) carry the information on the photosphere and hence can be used to extract the nature of the photosphere such as the stellar abundances. The intermediate-strength (-4.75<log(W/nu)<-4.40) as well as the strong (log(W/nu)>-4.4) lines are badly disturbed by the lines of non-photospheric origin. In other words, most lines dominating the infrared spectra, except for the weak lines, are actually hybrid of at least two different kinds of lines originating in the photosphere and in an extra molecular layers outside of photosphere. The nature of the extra layers is not known well, but it may be related to the molecular envelope producing H_2_O lines, not only in late M but also in early M giants as well. Also, the intermediate-strength lines include those with LEP as high as 2eV and hence the extra molecular layer should be quite warm. For the reason outlined above, we determine C, O, and their isotopic abundances using only the weak lines, but we listed the measured data not only of the weak lines but also of the stronger lines as well in table3, with the hope that these data can be of some use to clarify the nature of the warm extra molecular layers.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/504/543
- Title:
- ^12^C^16^O lines in Arcturus IR spectrum
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/504/543
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the infrared spectrum of Arcturus to clarify the nature of the cool component of its atmosphere, referred to as the CO-mosphere, and its relationship to the warm molecular envelope or the MOLsphere in cooler M (super)giant stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/3802
- Title:
- Compact binary systems around Kepler red giants
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/3802
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of 168 oscillating red giants from NASA's Kepler mission that exhibit anomalous peaks in their Fourier amplitude spectra. These peaks result from ellipsoidal variations that are indicative of binary star systems, at frequencies such that the orbit of any stellar companion would be within the convective envelope of the red giant. Alternatively, the observed phenomenon may be due to a close binary orbiting a red giant in a triple system, or chance alignments of foreground or background binary systems contaminating the target pixel aperture. We identify 87 stars in the sample as chance alignments using a combination of pixel Fourier analysis and difference imaging. We find that in the remaining 81 cases, the anomalous peaks are indistinguishable from the target star to within 4 arcsec, suggesting a physical association. We examine a GALAXIA model of the Kepler field of view to estimate background star counts and find that it is highly unlikely that all targets can be explained by chance alignments. From this, we conclude that these stars may comprise a population of physically associated systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/547/A108
- Title:
- Comparative modelling of cool giants spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/547/A108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Our ability to extract information from the spectra of stars depends on reliable models of stellar atmospheres and appropriate techniques for spectral synthesis. The corresponding paper aims to compare a wide variety of model codes and strategies for the analysis of stellar spectra that are available today. The online tables list spectral lines used during the analysis together with the basic line parameters.
