- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/349/448
- Title:
- Open star clusters. I. NGC 581 (M 103)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/349/448
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present CCD photometry and a proper motion study of the young open star cluster, NGC 581 (M 103). Fitting isochrones to the colour magnitude diagram, we found an age of 16+/-4Myr and a distance of roughly 3kpc for this cluster. The proper motion study identifies 77 stars of V=14.5mag or brighter to be cluster members. We combine membership determination by proper motions and statistical field star subtraction to derive the IMF of the cluster and find a quite steep slope of {Gamma}=-1.80.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/660/704
- Title:
- Optical and X-ray variability of ONC PMS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/660/704
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a statistical analysis of simultaneous optical and X-ray light curves, spanning 600ks, for 814 pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster. The aim of this study is to establish the relationship, if any, between the sites of optical and X-ray variability and thereby to elucidate the origins of X-ray production in PMS stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/664/481
- Title:
- Optical/IR photometry of Collinder 69
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/664/481
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present multiwavelength optical and IR photometry of 170 previously known low-mass stars and brown dwarfs of the 5Myr Collinder 69 cluster ({lambda} Orionis). The new photometry supports cluster membership for most of them, with less than 15% of the previous candidates identified as probable nonmembers. The near-IR photometry allows us to identify stars with IR excesses, and we find that the Class II population is very large, around 25% for stars (in the spectral range M0-M6.5) and 40% for brown dwarfs, down to 0.04M_{sun}_, despite the fact that the H{alpha} equivalent width is low for a significant fraction of them. In addition, there are a number of substellar objects, classified as Class III, that have optically thin disks. The Class II members are distributed in an inhomogeneous way, lying preferentially in a filament running toward the southeast. The IR excesses for the Collinder 69 members range from pure Class II (flat or nearly flat spectra longward of 1um), to transition disks with no near-IR excess but excesses beginning within the IRAC wavelength range, to two stars with excess only detected at 24um. Collinder 69 thus appears to be at an age where it provides a natural laboratory for the study of primordial disks and their dissipation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/ocl
- Title:
- Optically visible open clusters and Candidates
- Short Name:
- B/ocl
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have compiled a new catalogue of open clusters in the Galaxy which updates the previous catalogues of Lynga (1987, Cat. VII/92) and of Mermilliod (1995, in Information and On-Line Data in Astronomy, ed. D. Egret & M. A. Albrecht (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 127) (included in the WEBDA database, http://obswww.unige.ch/webda). New objects and new data, in particular, data on kinematics (proper motions) that were not present in the old catalogues, have been included. Virtually all the clusters (2167) presently known were included, which represents an increment of about 986 objects relative to the Lynga (1987, VII/92) catalogue. The catalogue is presented in a single table containing all the important data, which makes it easy to use. In total, 99.7% of the objects have estimates of their apparent diameters, and 74.5% have distance, E(B-V) and age determinations. Concerning the data on kinematics, 54.7% have their mean proper motions listed, 25% their mean radial velocities, and 24.2% have both information simultaneously.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/722/1092
- Title:
- Optical photometry of the ONC. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/722/1092
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new analysis of the stellar population of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) based on multi-band optical photometry and spectroscopy. We study the color-color diagrams in BVI, plus a narrowband filter centered at 6200{AA}, finding evidence that intrinsic color scales valid for main-sequence dwarfs are incompatible with the ONC in the M spectral-type range, while a better agreement is found employing intrinsic colors derived from synthetic photometry, constraining the surface gravity value as predicted by a pre-main-sequence isochrone. We refine these model colors even further, empirically, by comparison with a selected sample of ONC stars with no accretion and no extinction. We consider the stars with known spectral types from the literature, and extend this sample with the addition of 65 newly classified stars from slit spectroscopy and 182 M-type from narrowband photometry; in this way, we isolate a sample of about 1000 stars with known spectral type. We introduce a new method to self-consistently derive the stellar reddening and the optical excess due to accretion from the location of each star in the BVI color-color diagram. This enables us to accurately determine the extinction of the ONC members, together with an estimate of their accretion luminosities. We adopt a lower distance for the Orion Nebula than previously assumed, based on recent parallax measurements. With a careful choice of also the spectral-type-temperature transformation, we produce the new Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the ONC population, more populated than previous works.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/403/2041
- Title:
- Optical polarization in NGC 6124
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/403/2041
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained optical multicolour (UBVRI) linear polarimetric data for 46 of the brightest stars in the area of the open cluster NGC 6124 in order to investigate the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) that lies along the line of sight towards the cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1733
- Title:
- Optical spectroscopy of {rho} Oph stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1733
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of optical spectroscopy of 139 stars obtained with the Hydra multiobject spectrograph. The objects extend over a 1.3{deg}^2^ area surrounding the main cloud of the {rho} Oph complex. The objects were selected from narrowband images to have H{alpha} in emission. Using the presence of strong H{alpha} emission, lithium absorption, location in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, or previously reported X-ray emission, we were able to identify 88 objects as young stars associated with the cloud. Strong H{alpha} emission was confirmed in 39 objects with line widths consistent with their origin in magnetospheric accretion columns. Two of the strongest emission-line objects are young, X-ray-emitting brown dwarf candidates with M8 spectral types. Comparisons of the bolometric luminosities and effective temperatures with theoretical models suggest a median age for this population of 2.1Myr, which is significantly older than the ages derived for objects in the cloud core. It appears that these stars formed contemporaneously with low-mass stars in the Upper Scorpius subgroup, likely triggered by massive stars in the Upper Centaurus subgroup.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/140
- Title:
- Optical spectroscopy of {rho} Oph stars. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/140
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have completed an optical spectroscopic survey of an unbiased, extinction-limited sample of candidate young stars covering 1.3deg^2^ of the {rho} Ophiuchi star-forming region. While infrared, X-ray, and optical surveys of the cloud have identified many young stellar objects (YSOs), these surveys are biased toward particular stages of stellar evolution and are not optimal for studies of the disk frequency and initial mass function. We have obtained over 300 optical spectra to help identify 135 association members based on the presence of H{alpha} in emission, lithium absorption, X-ray emission, a mid-infrared excess, a common proper motion, reflection nebulosity, and/or extinction considerations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/230/3
- Title:
- Optical & Spitzer photometry in IC 1805
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/230/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep wide-field optical CCD photometry and mid-infrared Spitzer/IRAC and MIPS 24{mu}m data for about 100000 stars in the young open cluster IC 1805. The members of IC 1805 were selected from their location in the various color-color and color-magnitude diagrams, and the presence of H{alpha} emission, mid-infrared excess emission, and X-ray emission. The reddening law toward IC 1805 is nearly normal (R_V_=3.05+/-0.06). However, the distance modulus of the cluster is estimated to be 11.9+/-0.2mag (d=2.4+/-0.2kpc) from the reddening-free color-magnitude diagrams, which is larger than the distance to the nearby massive star-forming region W3(OH) measured from the radio VLBA astrometry. We also determined the age of IC 1805 ({tau}_MSTO_=3.5Myr). In addition, we critically compared the age and mass scale from two pre-main-sequence evolution models. The initial mass function with a Salpeter-type slope of {Gamma}=-1.3+/-0.2 was obtained and the total mass of IC 1805 was estimated to be about 2700+/-200M_{sun}_. Finally, we found our distance determination to be statistically consistent with the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution Data Release 1, within the errors. The proper motion of the B-type stars shows an elongated distribution along the Galactic plane, which could be explained by some of the B-type stars being formed in small clouds dispersed by previous episodes of star formation or supernova explosions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/6
- Title:
- Opt-NIR HST photometry of cluster candidates in M82
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/216/6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using high-resolution, multiple-passband Hubble Space Telescope images spanning the entire optical/near-infrared wavelength range, we obtained a statistically complete U-band-selected sample of 846 extended star clusters across the disk of the nearby starburst galaxy M82 (NGC3034). Based on a careful analysis of the clusters' spectral energy distributions, we determined their galaxy-wide age and mass distributions. The M82 clusters exhibit three clear peaks in their age distribution, thus defining relatively young, log(t/yr)<=7.5, intermediate-age, log(t/yr){isin}[7.5,8.5], and old samples, log(t/yr)>=8.5. Comparison of the completeness-corrected mass distributions offers a firm handle on the galaxy's star cluster disruption history. The most massive star clusters in the young and old samples are (almost) all concentrated in the most densely populated central region, while the intermediate-age sample's most massive clusters are more spatially dispersed, which may reflect the distribution of the highest-density gas throughout the galaxy's evolutionary history, combined with the solid-body nature of the galaxy's central region.
