- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/108
- Title:
- Stellar populations in the Magellanic bridge
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of a young stellar bridge that forms a continuous connection between the Magellanic Clouds. This finding is based on number density maps for stellar populations found in data gathered by OGLE-IV that fully cover over 270 deg^2^ of the sky in the Magellanic Bridge area. This is the most extensive optical survey of this region to date. We find that the young population is present mainly in the western half of the MBR, which, together with the newly discovered young population in the eastern Bridge, form a continuous stream of stars connecting both galaxies along {delta}~-73.5 deg. The young population distribution is clumped, with one of the major densities close to the SMC and the other fairly isolated and located approximately mid-way between the Clouds, which we call the OGLE island. These overdensities are well matched by H I surface density contours, although the newly found young population in the eastern Bridge is offset by ~2 deg north from the highest H I density contour. We observe a continuity of red clump stars between the Magellanic Clouds which represent an intermediate-age population. Red clump stars are present mainly in the southern and central parts of the Magellanic Bridge, below its gaseous part, and their presence is reflected by a strong deviation from the radial density profiles of the two galaxies. This may indicate either a tidal stream of stars, or that the stellar halos of the two galaxies overlap. On the other hand, we do not observe such an overlap within an intermediate-age population represented by the top of the red giant branch and the asymptotic giant branch stars. We also see only minor mixing of the old populations of the Clouds in the southern part of the Bridge, represented by the lowest part of the red giant branch.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/475/5487
- Title:
- Stellar properties of KIC stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/475/5487
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Investigations of the origin and evolution of the Milky Way disc have long relied on chemical and kinematic identifications of its components to reconstruct our Galactic past. Difficulties in determining precise stellar ages have restricted most studies to small samples, normally confined to the solar neighbourhood. Here, we break this impasse with the help of asteroseismic inference and perform a chronology of the evolution of the disc throughout the age of the Galaxy. We chemically dissect the Milky Way disc population using a sample of red giant stars spanning out to 2 kpc in the solar annulus observed by the Kepler satellite, with the added dimension of asteroseismic ages. Our results reveal a clear difference in age between the low- and high-{alpha} populations, which also show distinct velocity dispersions in the V and W components. We find no tight correlation between age and metallicity nor [{alpha}/Fe] for the high-{alpha} disc stars. Our results indicate that this component formed over a period of more than 2 Gyr with a wide range of [M/H] and [{alpha}/Fe] independent of time. Our findings show that the kinematic properties of young {alpha}-rich stars are consistent with the rest of the high-{alpha} population and different from the low-{alpha} stars of similar age, rendering support to their origin being old stars that went through a mass transfer or stellar merger event, making them appear younger, instead of migration of truly young stars formed close to the Galactic bar.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/476/114
- Title:
- Stellar properties of Kron 3 stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/476/114
- Date:
- 02 Nov 2021 11:26:14
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a spectroscopic study of the intermediate age (~=6.5Gyr) massive cluster Kron 3 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. We measure CN and CH band strengths (at ~=3839 and 4300{AA}, respectively) using VLT FORS2 spectra of 16 cluster members and find a sub-population of five stars enriched in nitrogen. We conclude that this is evidence for multiple populations in Kron 3, the fourth intermediate age cluster, after Lindsay 1, NGC 416 and NGC 339 (ages 6-8Gyr), to display this phenomenon originally thought to be a unique characteristic of old globular clusters. At ~=6.5Gyr this is one of the youngest clusters with multiple populations, indicating that the mechanism responsible for their onset must operate until a redshift of at least 0.75, much later than the peak of globular cluster formation at redshift ~3.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/593/A123
- Title:
- STELLA-SES Radial Velocities of HD 208472
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/593/A123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- HD 208472 is among the most active RS CVn binaries with cool starspots. Decade-long photometry had shown that the spots seem to change their longitudinal appearance with a period of about six years, coherent with brightness variations. Our aim is to spatially resolve the stellar surface of HD 208472 and related the photometric results to the true longitudinal and latitudinal spot appearance. Furthermore, we investigate surface differential rotation pattern of the star. We employ three years of high resolution, high S/N spectroscopic data from the STELLA robotic observatory and determine new and more precise stellar physical parameters. Pre-calculated synthetic spectra are fit to each of these spectra and new spot-corrected orbital elements are given. A sample of 34 absorption lines per spectrum is used to calculate mean line profiles with a S/N of several hundred. A total of 13 temperature Doppler images are reconstructed from these line profiles with the inversion code iMap. Differential rotation is investigated by cross-correlating successive Doppler images in each observing season. Spots on HD 208472 are distributed preferably at high latitudes and less occasionally around mid-to-low latitudes. No polar-cap like structure is seen at any epoch. We observed a flip-flop event between 2009 and 2010, manifested as a flip of the spot activity from phase 0.0 to phase 0.5, while the overall brightness of the star continued to increase and reached an all-time maximum in 2014. Cross-correlation of successive Doppler images suggests a solar-like differential rotation which is ~15 times weaker in strength compared to the Sun.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/49
- Title:
- Stroemgren photometry in the field of NGC 1978
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the spread of [Fe/H] values in the massive Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 1978, recently confirmed to harbor multiple populations of nearly the same age. We used accurate Stroemgren photometry of carefully selected cluster red giant branch stars along with a high-dispersion spectroscopy-based calibration of the metallicity-sensitive index m_1_. Once we accounted for the photometry quality, assessed from extensive artificial star tests to trace the photometric uncertainties as a function of the position of the cluster's center as well as the stellar brightness, and those from the metallicity calibration, we found that NGC 1978 exhibits a small metallicity spread of 0.035 dex (+/-0.019-0.023), depending on whether stars with individual {sigma}[Fe/H]=<0.15 dex or those located in the cluster's outer areas are considered. Such a spread in [Fe/H] is consistent with a cluster formation model with self-enrichment, if mass loss higher than 90% due to stellar evolutionary and galactic tidal effects is assumed. Nevertheless, scenarios in which the apparent [Fe/H] variation reflects CN abundance anomalies or less extreme mass-loss models with environmentally dependent self-enrichment should not be ruled out.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/810/116
- Title:
- S-type AGB stars in SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/810/116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have identified a new class of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC/LMC) using optical to infrared photometry, light curves, and optical spectroscopy. The strong dust production and long-period pulsations of these stars indicate that they are at the very end of their AGB evolution. Period-mass-radius relations for the fundamental-mode pulsators give median current stellar masses of 1.14M_{sun}_ in the LMC and 0.94M_{sun}_ in the SMC (with dispersions of 0.21 and 0.18M_{sun}_, respectively), and models suggest initial masses of <1.5M_{sun}_ and <1.25 M_{sun}_, respectively. This new class of stars includes both O-rich and C-rich chemistries, placing the limit where dredge-up allows carbon star production below these masses. A high fraction of the brightest among them should show S star characteristics indicative of atmospheric C/O~1, and many will form O-rich dust prior to their C-rich phase. These stars can be separated from their less-evolved counterparts by their characteristically red J-[8] colors.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/605/A111
- Title:
- Surface rotation of Kepler red giant stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/605/A111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Kepler allows the measurement of starspot variability in a large sample of field red giants for the first time. With a new method that combines autocorrelation and wavelet decomposition, we measure 361 rotation periods from the full set of 17,377 oscillating red giants in our sample. This represents 2.08% of the stars, consistent with the fraction of spectroscopically detected rapidly rotating giants in the field. The remaining stars do not show enough variability to allow us to measure a reliable surface rotation period. Because the stars with detected rotation periods have measured oscillations, we can infer their global properties, e.g. mass and radius, and quantitatively evaluate the predictions of standard stellar evolution models as a function of mass. Consistent with results for cluster giants, when we consider only the 4881 intermediate-mass stars, M>2.0M_{sun}_from our full red giant sample, we do not find the enhanced rates of rapid rotation one would expect from angular momentum conservation. We therefore suggest that either enhanced angular momentum loss or radial differential rotation must be occurring in these stars. Finally, when we examine the 575 low-mass (M<1.1M_{sun}_) red clump stars in our sample, which we would have expected to exhibit slow (non-detectable) rotation, 15% of them actually have detectable rotation. This suggests a high rate of interactions and stellar mergers on the red giant branch.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/687/230
- Title:
- Survey of M31 with Spitzer
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/687/230
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the stellar population of M31 in a Spitzer Space Telescope survey utilizing IRAC and MIPS observations. Red supergiants are the brightest objects seen in the infrared; they are a prominent evolutionary phase. Due to their circumstellar envelopes, many of these radiate the bulk of their luminosity at IRAC wavelengths and do not stand out in the near-infrared or optically. Going fainter, we see large numbers of luminous asymptotic giant branch stars (AGB), many of which are known long-period variables. Relative to M33 the AGB carbon star population of M31 appears sparse, but this needs to be spectroscopically confirmed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/253/44
- Title:
- Survey of SiO maser emission in oxygen-rich stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/253/44
- Date:
- 01 Mar 2022 00:16:35
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Circumstellar environments of oxygen-rich stars are among the strongest SiO maser emitters. Physical processes such as collisions, infrared pumping, and overlaps favor the inversion of level population and produce maser emission at different vibrational states. Despite numerous observational and theoretical efforts, we still do not have a unified picture including all of the physical processes involved in SiO maser emission. The aim of this work is to provide homogeneous data in a large sample of oxygen-rich stars. We present a survey of 67 oxygen-rich stars from 7 to 1mm, in their rotational transitions from J=1-0 to J=5-4, for vibrational numbers v from 0 to 6 in the three main SiO isotopologs. We have used one of the 34 m NASA antennas at Robledo and the IRAM 30m radio telescope. The first tentative detection of a v=6 line is reported, as well as the detection of new maser lines. The highest vibrational levels seem confined to small volumes, presumably close to the stars. The J=1-0, v=2 line flux is greater than the corresponding v=1 in almost half of the sample, which may confirm a predicted dependence on the pulsation cycle. This database is potentially useful in models which should consider most of the physical agents, time dependency, and mass-loss rates. As a by-product, we report detections of 27 thermal rotational lines from other molecules, including isotopologs of SiS, H_2_S, SO, SO_2_, and NaCl.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/454/2863
- Title:
- Teff against colours calibrations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/454/2863
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present empirical metallicity-dependent calibrations of effective temperature against colours for dwarfs of luminosity classes IV and V and for giants of luminosity classes II and III, based on a collection from the literature of about two hundred nearby stars with direct effective temperature measurements of better than 2.5 per cent. The calibrations are valid for an effective temperature range 3100-10000K for dwarfs of spectral types M5 to A0 and 3100-5700K for giants of spectral types K5 to G5. A total of 21 colours for dwarfs and 18 colours for giants of bands of four photometric systems, i.e. the Johnson (UBVR_J_I_J_JHK), the Cousins (R_C_I_C_), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (gr) and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (JHKs), have been calibrated. Restricted by the metallicity range of the current sample, the calibrations are mainly applicable for disc stars ([Fe/H]>~-1.0). The normalized percentage residuals of the calibrations are typically 2.0 and 1.5 per cent for dwarfs and giants, respectively. Some systematic discrepancies at various levels are found between the current scales and those available in the literature (e.g. those based on the infrared flux method or spectroscopy). Based on the current calibrations, we have re-determined the colours of the Sun. We have also investigated the systematic errors in effective temperatures yielded by the current on-going large-scale low- to intermediate-resolution stellar spectroscopic surveys. We show that the calibration of colour (g-Ks) presented in this work provides an invaluable tool for the estimation of stellar effective temperature for those on-going or upcoming surveys.
