- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/610/A61
- Title:
- SGR 1806-20 & SGR 1900+14 quasi-periodic oscill.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/610/A61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) discovered in the decaying tails of giant flares of magnetars are believed to be torsional oscillations of neutron stars. These QPOs have a high potential to constrain properties of high-density matter. In search for quasi-periodic signals, we study the light curves of the giant flares of SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14, with a non-parametric Bayesian signal inference method called D3PO. The D3PO algorithm models the raw photon counts as a continuous flux and takes the Poissonian shot noise as well as all instrument effects into account. It reconstructs the logarithmic flux and its power spectrum from the data. Using this fully noise-aware method, we do not confirm previously reported frequency lines at {nu}=17Hz because they fall into the noise-dominated regime. However, we find two new potential candidates for oscillations at 9.2Hz (SGR 1806-20) and 7.7Hz (SGR 1900+14). If these are real and the fundamental magneto-elastic oscillations of the magnetars, current theoretical models would favour relatively weak magnetic fields B~6x10^13^-3x10^14^G (SGR 1806-20) and a relatively low shear velocity inside the crust compared to previous findings.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/154
- Title:
- Sgr stream K- & M-giants and BHB stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/154
- Date:
- 07 Dec 2021 13:01:04
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of ~3000 Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars, including K-giants, M-giants, and blue horizontal branch stars (BHBs), selected from SEGUE-2, Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey separately in Integrals-of-Motion space. The orbit of the Sgr stream is quite clear from the velocity vector in the X-Z plane. Stars traced by K-giants and M-giants show that the apogalacticon of the trailing steam is ~100kpc. The metallicity distributions of Sgr K-giants, M-giants, and BHBs indicate that the M-giants are on average the most metal-rich population, followed by K-giants and BHBs. All of the K-giants, M-giants, and BHBs indicate that the trailing arm is on average more metal-rich than the leading arm, and the K-giants show that the Sgr debris is the most metal-poor part. The {alpha}-abundance of Sgr stars exhibits a similar trend with the Galactic halo stars at lower metallicity ([Fe/H]<~-1.0dex), and then evolve down to lower [{alpha}/Fe] than disk stars at higher metallicity, which is close to the evolution pattern of the {alpha}-element of Milky Way dwarf galaxies. We find that VY and metallicity of K-giants have gradients along the direction of the line of sight from the Galactic center in the X-Z plane, and the K-giants show that VY increases with metallicity at [Fe/H]>~-1.5dex. After dividing the Sgr stream into bright and faint streams according to their locations in equatorial coordinates, the K-giants and BHBs show that the bright and faint streams present different VY and metallicities, the bright stream is on average higher in VY and metallicity than the faint stream.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/1963
- Title:
- Silicate crystallinities of O-rich evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/466/1963
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- For decades ever since the early detection in the 1990s of the emission spectral features of crystalline silicates in oxygen-rich evolved stars, there is a long-standing debate on whether the crystallinity of the silicate dust correlates with the stellar mass-loss rate. To investigate the relation between the silicate crystallinities and the mass-loss rates of evolved stars, we carry out a detailed analysis of 28 nearby oxygen-rich stars. We derive the mass-loss rates of these sources by modelling their spectral energy distributions from the optical to the far-infrared. Unlike previous studies in which the silicate crystallinity was often measured in terms of the crystalline-to-amorphous silicate mass ratio, we characterize the silicate crystallinities of these sources with the flux ratios of the emission features of crystalline silicates to that of amorphous silicates. This does not require the knowledge of the silicate dust temperatures, which are the major source of uncertainties in estimating the crystalline-to-amorphous silicate mass ratio. With a Pearson correlation coefficient of ~-0.24, we find that the silicate crystallinities and the mass-loss rates of these sources are not correlated. This supports the earlier findings that the dust shells of low mass-loss rate stars can contain a significant fraction of crystalline silicates without showing the characteristic features in their emission spectra.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/62/391
- Title:
- SiO and H2O masers in Stephenson 2 cluster
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/62/391
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of radio observations of red supergiants in a star cluster, Stephenson (1990AJ.....99.1867S)'s #2 (Cl Stephenson 2), and of candidates for red supergiants in three star clusters, Mercer et al. (2005ApJ...635..560M)'s #4, #8, and #13 ([MCM2005b] 4, [MCM2005b] 8 and [MCM2005b] 13), in the SiO and H_2_O maser lines. The Stephenson's #2 cluster and nearby aggregation at the southwest contain more than 15 red supergiants.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/211/15
- Title:
- SiO and H2O maser survey toward AGB & post-AGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/211/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Simultaneous observations of SiO(v=1,2,J=1-0) ^29^SiO(v=0,J=1-0) (43.122080GHz, 42.820587GHz and 42.879916GHz) and H_2_O(6_16_-5_23_) (22.235080GHz) maser lines were performed with three KVN (Korean VLBI Network) 21m single-dish radio telescopes (at Yonsei University campus, Ulsan University campus, and Tamna University campus) toward the 164 post-AGB and 143 AGB stars. Observations were carried out from 2011 February to 2012 March.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/642/A213
- Title:
- SiO maser emission in evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/642/A213
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We aim to study the time evolution of the SiO maser lines in Mira-type and semi-regular variables at short timescales. We observed the SiO maser lines at 7mm and 3mm using the 40m Yebes antenna and the 30m IRAM telescope, respectively, with a minimum spacing of 1 day. We studied the semi-regular variables RX Boo and RT Vir and the Mira-type variables U Her, R LMi, R Leo, and chi Cyg.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/62/525
- Title:
- SiO maser survey off the Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/62/525
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A group of Mira variables in the solar neighborhood shows unusual spatial motion in the Galaxy. To study this motion on a much larger scale in the Galaxy, we newly surveyed 134 evolved stars off the Galactic plane by SiO maser lines, obtaining accurate radial velocities of 84 detected stars. Together with the past data of SiO maser sources, we analyzed the radial-velocity data of a large sample of sources distributed in a distance range of about 0.3-6kpc in the first Galactic quadrant. At Galactic longitudes between 20{deg} and 40{deg}, we found a group of stars with large negative radial velocities, which deviate by more than 100km/s from the Galactic rotation. We show that these deviant motions of maser stars are created by periodic gravitational perturbation of the Bulge bar, and that the effect appears most strongly at radii between corotation and outer Lindblad resonances. The resonance effect can explain the displacement of positions from the Galactic plane as well.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/27
- Title:
- SNe IIP progenitors. I. LMC giant comparison sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the evolution of massive star progenitors of supernovae of type IIP. We take the example of the nearby and well-studied SN2013ej. We explore how convective overshoot affects the stellar structure, surface abundances, and effective temperature of massive stars, using the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics. In particular, models with moderate overshoot (f=0.02-0.031) show the presence of blue loops in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with a red to blue excursion (log_10_[Teff/K] from <3.6 to >4.0) and transition back to red, during the core helium-burning phase. Models with overshoot outside this range of f values kept the star in the red supergiant state throughout the post-helium-ignition phases. The surface CNO abundance shows enrichment post-main-sequence and again around the time when helium is exhausted in the core. These evolutionary changes in surface CNO abundance are indistinguishable in the currently available observations due to large observational uncertainties. However, these observations may distinguish between the ratio of surface nitrogen to oxygen at different evolutionary stages of the star. We also compare the effects of convective overshoot on various parameters related to likelihood of explosion of a star as opposed to collapse to a black hole. These parameters are the compactness parameter, M_4_, and {mu}_4_. The combination {mu}_4_xM_4_, and {mu}_4_ have similar variations with f and both peak at f=0.032. We find that all of our 13M_{sun}_ models are likely to explode.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/525/A131
- Title:
- Solar-like oscillations in Kepler red giants
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/525/A131
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The large number of stars for which uninterrupted high-precision photometric timeseries data are being collected with Kepler and CoRoT initiated the development of automated methods to analyse the stochastically excited oscillations in main-sequence, subgiant and red-giant stars. We investigate the differences in results for global oscillation parameters of G and K red-giant stars due to different methods and definitions. We also investigate uncertainties originating from the stochastic nature of the oscillations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/506/465
- Title:
- Solar-like oscillations in red giants
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/506/465
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a statistical study of solar-like oscillations in red-giant stars observed with CoRoT in its exoplanet field during the first long run (LRc01) when the satellite was pointed towards the galactic centre. From the approximately 11400 stars observed, the giants are selected using infrared colours (not dereddened) and the solar-like oscillation signature (a broad envelope with oscillation power at frequencies below 120 microHz). This oscillation power is either detected by a semi-automatic procedure (sap), or by a manual inspection by eye (man).
