- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/507/417
- Title:
- Oxygen lines in solar granulation. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/507/417
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We seek to provide additional tests of the line formation of theoretical 3D solar photosphere models. In particular, we set out to test the spatially-resolved line formation at several viewing angles, from the solar disk-centre to the limb and focusing on atomic oxygen lines. The purpose of these tests is to provide additional information on whether the 3D model is suitable to derive the solar oxygen abundance. We also aim to empirically constrain the NLTE recipes for neutral hydrogen collisions, using the spatially-resolved observations of the OI 777nm lines.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/508/1403
- Title:
- Oxygen lines in solar granulation. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/508/1403
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- There is a lively debate about the solar oxygen abundance and the role of 3D models in its recent downward revision. These models have been tested using high-resolution solar atlases of flux and disk-centre intensity. Further testing can be done using centre-to-limb variations. Using high-resolution and high S/N observations of neutral oxygen lines across the solar surface, we seek to test that the 3D and 1D models reproduce their observed centre-to-limb variation. In particular we seek to assess whether the latest generation of 3D hydrodynamical solar model atmospheres and NLTE line formation calculations are appropriate to derive the solar oxygen abundance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/612/A48
- Title:
- 4 oxygen-rich evolved stars NH3 spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/612/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The circumstellar ammonia (NH_3_) chemistry in evolved stars is poorly understood. Previous observations and modelling showed that NH_3_ abundance in oxygen-rich stars is several orders of magnitude above that predicted by equilibrium chemistry. We would like to characterise the spatial distribution and excitation of NH_3_ in the oxygen-rich circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of four diverse targets: IK Tau, VY CMa, OH 231.8+4.2, and IRC +10420. We observed NH_3_ emission from the ground state in the inversion transitions near 1.3cm with the Very Large Array (VLA) and submillimetre rotational transitions with the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) aboard Herschel Space Observatory from all four targets. For IK Tau and VY CMa, we observed NH_3_ rovibrational absorption lines in 2 band near 10.5um with the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).We also attempted to search for the rotational transition within the excited vibrational state (v_2_=1) near 2mm with the IRAM 30m Telescope. Non-LTE radiative transfer modelling, including radiative pumping to the vibrational state, was carried out to derive the radial distribution of NH_3_ in the CSEs of these targets. We detected NH_3_ inversion and rotational emission in all four targets. IK Tau and VY CMa show blueshifted absorption in the rovibrational spectra. We did not detect vibrationally excited rotational transition from IK Tau. Spatially resolved VLA images of IK Tau and IRC +10420 show clumpy emission structures; unresolved images of VY CMa and OH 231.8+4.2 indicate that the spatial-kinematic distribution of NH_3_ is similar to that of assorted molecules, such as SO and SO2, that exhibit localised and clumpy emission. Our modelling shows that the NH_3_ abundance relative to molecular hydrogen is generally of the order of 10^-7^, which is a few times lower than previous estimates that were made without considering radiative pumping and is at least ten times higher than that in the carbon-rich CSE of IRC +10216. NH_3_ in OH 231.8+4.2 and IRC +10420 is found to emit in gas denser than the ambient medium. Incidentally, we also derived a new period of IK Tau from its V-band light curve. NH_3_ is again detected in very high abundance in evolved stars, especially the oxygen-rich ones. Its emission mainly arises from localised spatial-kinematic structures that are probably denser than the ambient gas. Circumstellar shocks in the accelerated wind may contribute to the production of NH_3_. Future mid-infrared spectroscopy and radio imaging studies are necessary to constrain the radii and physical conditions of the formation regions of NH_3_.
1924. OzDES DR1
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/472/273
- Title:
- OzDES DR1
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/472/273
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results for the first three years of OzDES, a six-year program to obtain redshifts for objects in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova fields using the 2dF fibre positioner and AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. OzDES is a multi-object spectroscopic survey targeting multiple types of targets at multiple epochs over a multi-year baseline, and is one of the first multi-object spectroscopic surveys to dynamically include transients into the target list soon after their discovery. At the end of three years, OzDES has spectroscopically confirmed almost 100 supernovae, and has measured redshifts for 17,000 objects, including the redshifts of 2,566 supernova hosts. We examine how our ability to measure redshifts for targets of various types depends on signal-to-noise, magnitude, and exposure time, finding that our redshift success rate increases significantly at a signal-to-noise of 2 to 3 per 1-Angstrom bin. We also find that the change in signal-to-noise with exposure time closely matches the Poisson limit for stacked exposures as long as 10 hours. We use these results to predict the redshift yield of the full OzDES survey, as well as the potential yields of future surveys on other facilities such as 4MOST, PFS, and MSE. This work marks the first OzDES data release, comprising 14,693 redshifts. OzDES is on target to obtain over 30,000 redshifts over the six-year duration of the survey, including a yield of approximately 5,700 supernova host-galaxy redshifts.
1925. PAH features of AGN
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/470/3071
- Title:
- PAH features of AGN
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/470/3071
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectral features from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules observed in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) range are typically used to infer the amount of recent and ongoing star formation on kiloparsec scales around active galactic nuclei (AGN) where more traditional methods fail. This method assumes that the observed PAH features are excited predominantly by star formation. With current ground-based telescopes and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, much smaller spatial scales can be probed and we aim at testing if this assumption still holds in the range of few tens to few hundreds of parsecs. For that, we spatially map the emitted 11.3um PAH surface flux as a function of distance from 0.4-4 arcsec from the centre in 28 nearby AGN using ground-based high-angular-resolution mid-IR spectroscopy. We detect and extract the 11.3um PAH feature in 13 AGN. The fluxes within each aperture are scaled to a luminosity-normalized distance from the nucleus to be able to compare intrinsic spatial scales of AGN radiation spanning about two orders of magnitude in luminosity. For this, we establish an empirical relation between the absorption-corrected X-ray luminosity and the sublimation radius in these sources. Once normalized, the radial profiles of the emitted PAH surface flux show similar radial slopes, with a power-law index of approximately -1.1, and similar absolute values, consistent within a factor of a few of each other as expected from the uncertainty in the intrinsic scale estimate. We interpret this as evidence that the profiles are caused by a common compact central physical process, either the AGN itself or circumnuclear star formation linked in strength to the AGN power. A photoionization-based model of an AGN exciting dense clouds in its environment can reproduce the observed radial slope and confirms that the AGN radiation field is strong enough to explain the observed PAH surface fluxes within ~10-500pc of the nucleus. Our results advice caution in the use of PAH emission as a star formation tracer within a kpc around AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/136
- Title:
- PAH features of star-forming gal. using Spitzer/IRS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission has long been proposed to be a potential star formation rate indicator, as it arises from the photodissociation region bordering the Stromgren sphere of young, massive stars. We apply a recently developed technique of mid-infrared spectral decomposition to obtain a uniform set of PAH measurements from Spitzer low-resolution spectra of a large sample of star-forming galaxies spanning a wide range in stellar mass (M_*_~10^6^-10^11.4^M_{sun}_) and star formation rate (~0.1-2000M_{sun}_/yr). High-resolution spectra are also analyzed to measure [NeII]12.8{mu}m and [NeIII]15.6{mu}m, which effectively trace the Lyman continuum. We present a new relation between PAH luminosity and star formation rate based on the [NeII] and [NeIII] lines. Calibrations are given for the integrated 5-15{mu}m PAH emission, the individual features at 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, and 11.3{mu}m, as well as several mid- infrared bandpasses sensitive to PAH. We confirm that PAH emission is suppressed in low-mass dwarf galaxies, and we discuss the possible physical origin of this effect.
1927. PAH hypothesis
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/319/318
- Title:
- PAH hypothesis
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/319/318
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- IR spectra of anthracene and pyrene derivatives, serving as models for isolated, linear and isolated, compact PAHs, respectively, have been calculated using ab-initio quantum mechanical methods. The separate and combined effects of ionization and multiple dehydrogenation have been studied. This study confirms and refines the trends of our preliminary paper on the smallest possible PAH, naphthalene. If small PAHs are responsible for any UIR bands, they should be ionized and partially dehydrogenated, with a few triple bonds at the periphery of the carbon skeleton. In the appendix are given the complete IR spectra of all the isomers of the derivatives of anthracene and pyrene calculated for the purpose of this study. Tables I are for anthracene and Tables II for pyrene. Positions of the the missing hydrogens in the dehydrogenated species are referred as in Figures 1 and 2 of the original publication.
1928. PAH in galaxies at z~0.1
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/705/885
- Title:
- PAH in galaxies at z~0.1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/705/885
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) spectra of a sample of 92 typical star-forming galaxies at 0.03<z<0.2 observed with the Spitzer intensified Reticon spectrograph (IRS). We compare the relative strengths of PAH emission features with Sloan Digital Sky Survey optical diagnostics to probe the relationship between PAH grain properties and star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) activity. Short-to-long wavelength PAH ratios, and in particular the 7.7um-to-11.3um feature ratio, are strongly correlated with the star formation diagnostics D_n_(4000) and H{alpha} equivalent width, increasing with younger stellar populations. This ratio also shows a significant difference between active and non-active galaxies, with the active galaxies exhibiting weaker 7.7um emission. A hard radiation field as measured by [OIII]/H{beta} and [NeIII]_15.6um_/[NeII]_12.8um_ effects PAH ratios differently depending on whether this field results from starburst activity or an AGN. Our results are consistent with a picture in which larger PAH molecules grow more efficiently in richer media and in which smaller PAH molecules are preferentially destroyed by the AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/198
- Title:
- Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey
- Short Name:
- III/198
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Gliese & Jahreiss, "Preliminary Version of the third Catalogue of Nearby Stars" (CNS3), 1991, catalog <V/70>) includes over 1850 stars which lie north of Dec.= -30{deg} and are either identified as spectral type M, or are unclassified but with an absolute visual magnitude estimate M_V_ > +8.0. Although there is no uniformity in selection criteria, and many of the stars lack basic data (radial velocities, spectral types, accurate photometry), the observational properties of these stars underlie most estimates of the fundamental characteristics of the Galactic Disk. We have obtained optical spectroscopy of 1746 of the 1876 stars -- the remaining 130 are binary companions of brighter stars and inaccessible to our observations. These spectra allow us, first, to exclude 61 stars as either degenerates or as misclassified earlier-type (B-K) stars lying beyond the 25 pc limit; to establish radial velocities accurate to +/-10km/s for all stars confirmed as late-type dwarfs; to determine spectral types and absolute magnitudes from the TiO bandstrength, allowing more accurate distance estimates for stars with inaccurate (or no) trigonometric parallax measurements; and to identify stars with H{alpha} emission (chromospherically active stars) and with strong CaH absorption (perhaps including some metal-poor disk subdwarfs). We have determined the nearby-star luminosity function from complete samples derived by applying both the distance limits defined by Wielen (1974, Highlights of Astron. 3, 395) and by using limits derived from our own analysis. Spectroscopic data for the southern stars (Dec.<-30{deg}) in the PMSU survey are also presented. The data were combined with the data from paper I to obtain a list of all the magnetically active dMe stars in the survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/123/3356
- Title:
- Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey. III.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/123/3356
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopy of 676 nearby M dwarfs. Our measurements include radial velocities, equivalent widths of important chromospheric emission lines, and rotational velocities for rapidly rotating stars. We identify several distinct groups by their H{alpha} properties and investigate variations in chromospheric activity among early (M0-M2.5) and mid (M3-M6) dwarfs. Using a volume-limited sample together with a relationship between age and chromospheric activity, we show that the rate of star formation in the immediate solar neighborhood has been relatively constant over the last 4Gyr. In particular, our results are inconsistent with recent large bursts of star formation. We use the correlation between H{alpha} activity and age as a function of color to set constraints on the properties of L and T dwarf secondary components in binary systems. We also identify a number of interesting stars, including rapid rotators, radial velocity variables, and spectroscopic binaries.
