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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/203
- Title:
- Emission Lines of the Planetary Nebulae
- Short Name:
- III/203
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The relative intensities of emission lines in the spectra of 32 planetary nebulae in the 3700-7300{AA} region are presented. The spectral observations have been carried out using slit spectrograph with three-cascades image-tube, attached to 70-cm reflector (Alma-Ata). The spectral region is 3700-8500{AA}. The dispersion in the range of 12-200{AA}/mm. The spectral resolution is 0.8-13{AA} in dependence on the dispersion. The errors are less than 10% for the bright lines, 10-15% for the moderate lines and 25-50% for the faintest lines. All measured line intensities were normalised to I(Hbeta)=100.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/832/118
- Title:
- Emission-line spectroscopy in NGC 891
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/832/118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The observed scale heights of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) layers exceed their thermal scale heights by a factor of a few in the Milky Way and other nearby edge-on disk galaxies. Here, we test a dynamical equilibrium model of the eDIG layer in NGC 891, where we ask whether the thermal, turbulent, magnetic field, and cosmic-ray pressure gradients are sufficient to support the layer. In optical emission-line spectroscopy from the SparsePak integral field unit on the WIYN 3.5m telescope, the H{alpha} emission in position-velocity space suggests that the eDIG is found in a ring between galactocentric radii of R_min_<=R<=8kpc, where R_min_>=2kpc. We find that the thermal ({sigma}_th_=11km/s) and turbulent ({sigma}_turb_=25km/s) velocity dispersions are insufficient to satisfy the hydrostatic equilibrium equation given an exponential electron scale height of h_z_=1.0kpc. Using a literature analysis of radio continuum observations from the CHANG-ES survey, we demonstrate that the magnetic field and cosmic-ray pressure gradients are sufficient to stably support the gas at R>=8kpc if the cosmic rays are sufficiently coupled to the system ({gamma}_cr_=1.45). Thus, a stable dynamical equilibrium model is viable only if the eDIG is found in a thin ring around R=8kpc, and nonequilibrium models such as a galactic fountain flow are of interest for further study.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/326/959
- Title:
- Empirical calibration of the near-IR Ca triplet
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/326/959
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- File table contains details of the new near-IR stellar library observed to calibrate the Ca II triplet. It includes the indices CaT*, CaT and PaT measured over the final spectra as well as their corresponding errors. The Henry Draper Catalogue number, other names (mainly HR and BD numbers), coordinates, spectral type, luminosity class, apparent magnitude and atmospheric parameters (as derived in Paper II; Cenarro et al., 2001MNRAS.326..981C) are also given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/813/12
- Title:
- Empirical methane (CH_4_) line list
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/813/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hot methane is found in many "cool" sub-stellar astronomical sources including brown dwarfs and exoplanets, as well as in combustion environments on Earth. We report on the first high-resolution laboratory absorption spectra of hot methane at temperatures up to 1200K. Our observations are compared to the latest theoretical spectral predictions and recent brown dwarf spectra. The expectation that millions of weak absorption lines combine to form a continuum, not seen at room temperature, is confirmed. Our high-resolution transmittance spectra account for both the emission and absorption of methane at elevated temperatures. From these spectra, we obtain an empirical line list and continuum that is able to account for the absorption of methane in high temperature environments at both high and low resolution. Great advances have recently been made in the theoretical prediction of hot methane, and our experimental measurements highlight the progress made and the problems that still remain.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/420/1684
- Title:
- End of red sequence galaxies in Galaxy Zoo
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/420/1684
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of local post-starburst galaxies (PSGs) using the photometric and spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the results from the Galaxy Zoo project. We find that the majority of our local PSG population have neither early- nor late-type morphologies but occupy a well-defined space within the colour-stellar mass diagram, most notably, the low-mass end of the 'green valley' below the transition mass thought to be the mass division between low-mass star-forming galaxies and high-mass passively evolving bulge-dominated galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/1311
- Title:
- Environments of moderate redshift radio galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/1311
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the local universe, high-power radio galaxies live in lower-density environments than low-luminosity radio galaxies. If this trend continued to higher redshifts, powerful radio galaxies would serve as efficient probes of moderate redshift groups and poor clusters. Photometric studies of radio galaxies at 0.3<~z<~0.5 suggest that the radio luminosity-environment correlation disappears at moderate redshifts, though this could be the result of foreground/background contamination affecting the photometric measures of environment. We have obtained multi-object spectroscopy in the fields of 14 lower luminosity (L_1.4GHz_<4x10^24^W/Hz) and higher luminosity (L_1.4GHz_>1.2x10^25^W/Hz) radio galaxies at z~0.3 to spectroscopically investigate the link between the environment and the radio luminosity of radio galaxies at moderate redshifts. Our results support the photometric analyses; there does not appear to be a correlation between the luminosity of a radio galaxy and its environment at moderate redshifts. Hence, radio galaxies are not efficient signposts for group environments at moderate redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/881/87
- Title:
- 9 epochs spectroscopy of type I supernova SN 201iet
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/881/87
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical photometry and spectroscopy of SN2016iet (=Gaia16bvd=PS17brq), an unprecedented Type I supernova (SNI) at z=0.0676 with no obvious analog in the existing literature. SN2016iet exhibits a peculiar light curve, with two roughly equal brightness peaks (~-19mag) separated by about 100 days, and a subsequent slow decline by about 5mag in 650 rest-frame days. The spectra are dominated by strong emission lines of calcium and oxygen, with a width of only 3400km/s, superposed on a strong blue continuum in the first year. There is no clear evidence for hydrogen or helium associated with the SN at any phase. The nebular spectra exhibit a ratio of L_CaII_/L_OI_~4, much larger than for core-collapse SNe and TypeI superluminous SNe. We model the light curves with several potential energy sources: radioactive decay, a central engine, and ejecta-circumstellar medium (CSM) interaction. Regardless of the model, the inferred progenitor mass near the end of its life (i.e., the CO core mass) is >~55M{sun} and potentially up to 120M{sun}, clearly placing the event in the regime of pulsational pair instability supernovae (PPISNe) or pair instability supernovae (PISNe). The models of CSM interaction provide the most consistent explanation for the light curves and spectra, and require a CSM mass of ~35M{sun} ejected in the final decade before explosion. We further find that SN2016iet is located at an unusually large projected offset (16.5kpc, 4.3 effective radii) from its low-metallicity dwarf host galaxy (Z~0.1Z{sun}, L~0.02L*, M~108.5M{sun}), supporting the interpretation of a PPISN/PISN explosion. In our final spectrum at a phase of about 770 rest-frame days we detect weak and narrow H{alpha} emission at the location of the SN, corresponding to a star formation rate of ~3x10^-4^M{sun}/yr, which is likely due to a dim underlying galaxy host or an HII region. Despite the overall consistency of the SN and its unusual environment with PPISNe and PISNe, we find that the inferred properties of SN2016iet challenge existing models of such events.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/104
- Title:
- {Epsilon} CrA components radial & orbital velocity
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-resolution spectroscopic observations of the W UMa-type binary {Epsilon}CrA obtained as a time-monitoring sequence on four full and four partial nights within two weeks have been used to derive orbital elements of the system and discuss the validity of the Lucy model for description of the radial-velocity data. The observations had more extensive temporal coverage and better quality than similar time-sequence observations of the contact binary AW UMa. The two binaries share several physical properties and show very similar deviations from the Lucy model: the primary component is a rapidly rotating star almost unaffected by the presence of the secondary component, while the latter is embedded in a complex gas flow and appears to have its own rotation-velocity field, in contradiction to the model. The spectroscopic mass ratio is found to be larger than the one derived from the light-curve analysis, as in many other W UMa-type binaries, but the discrepancy for {Epsilon} CrA is relatively minor, much smaller than for AW UMa. The presence of the complex velocity flows contradicting the assumption of solid-body rotation suggests a necessity of modification to the Lucy model, possibly along the lines outlined by Stepien in his concept of energy transfer between the binary components.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/510/A99
- Title:
- Epsilon Indi Ba and Bb IR spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/510/A99
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The discovery of epsilon Indi Ba, Bb, a binary brown dwarf system very close to the Sun, makes possible a concerted campaign to characterise the physical parameters of two T dwarfs. Recent observations suggest substellar atmospheric and evolutionary models may be inconsistent with observations, but there have been few conclusive tests to date. We therefore aim to characterise these benchmark brown dwarfs to place constraints on such models. We have obtained high angular resolution optical, near-infrared, and thermal-infrared imaging and medium-resolution (up to R~5000) spectroscopy of epsilon Indi Ba, Bb with the ESO VLT and present VRIzJHKL'M' broad-band photometry and 0.63-5.1 micron spectroscopy of the individual components. The photometry and spectroscopy of the two partially blended sources were extracted with a custom algorithm. Furthermore, we use deep AO-imaging to place upper limits on the (model-dependent) mass of any further system members. We derive luminosities of log L/L_{sun}=-4.699+/-0.017 and -5.232+/-0.020 for epsilon Indi Ba, Bb, respectively, and using the dynamical system mass and COND03 evolutionary models predict a system age of 3.7-4.3Gyr, in excess of previous estimates and recent predictions from observations of these brown dwarfs. Moreover, the effective temperatures of 1352-1385K and 976-1011K predicted from the COND03 evolutionary models, for epsilon Indi Ba and Bb respectively, are in disagreement with those derived from the comparison of our data with the BT-Settl atmospheric models where we find effective temperatures of 1300-1340K and 880-940K, for epsilon Indi Ba and Bb respectively, with surface gravities of logg=5.25 and 5.50. Finally, we show that spectroscopically determined effective temperatures and surface gravities for ultra-cool dwarfs can lead to underestimated masses even where precise luminosity constraints are available.
