- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/227/12
- Title:
- NGVS XXV. Virgo globular clusters photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/227/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The central region of the Virgo cluster of galaxies contains thousands of globular clusters (GCs), an order of magnitude more than the numbers found in the Local Group. Relics of early star formation epochs in the universe, these GCs also provide ideal targets to test our understanding of the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of old stellar populations. Based on photometric data from the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) and its near-infrared counterpart NGVS-IR, we select a robust sample of ~2000 GCs with excellent photometry and spanning the full range of colors present in the Virgo core. The selection exploits the well defined locus of GCs in the uiK diagram and the fact that the globular clusters are marginally resolved in the images. We show that the GCs define a narrow sequence in 5-dimensional color space, with limited but real dispersion around the mean sequence. The comparison of these SEDs with the predictions of eleven widely used population synthesis models highlights differences between models, and also shows that no single model adequately matches the data in all colors. We discuss possible causes for some of these discrepancies. Forthcoming papers of this series will examine how best to estimate photometric metallicities in this context, and compare the Virgo globular cluster colors with those in other environments.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/300/323
- Title:
- NOT GL survey of multiply imaged quasars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/300/323
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A gravitational lens (GL)-search program, initiated in 1990 at the Nordic Optcal Telescope (NOT), has revealed several possible GL-candidates among a sample of 168 quasars (QSOs), chosen from three lists compiled by C. Hazard, D. Reimers and J. Surdej, respectively. Some of these candidates, selected for having close companions (within 5 arcseconds), were imaged in several filters and their colours compared. Low dispersion spectra of the most promising candidates were also obtained at the NOT and ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT). None of these has proved to be strong candidates of gravitational lensing effects. We present this new sample of QSOs and combine it with previously published optical QSO samples in a statistical analysis to yield constraints on flat cosmologies and galaxy velocity dispersions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/2890
- Title:
- Observation of six NSVS eclipsing binaries
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/2890
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We carried out photometric and low-resolution spectral observations of six eclipsing ultrashort-period binaries with main-sequence (MS)components. The light-curve solutions of the Rozhen observations show that all targets are overcontact systems. We found a well-defined empirical relation between period and semi-major axis for the short-period binaries and used it for estimation of the global parameters of the targets. Our results revealed that NSVS 925605 is quite an interesting target: (i) it is one of a few contact binaries with M components; (ii) it exhibits high activity (emission in the H{alpha} line, X-ray emission, large cool spots, non-Planck energy distribution); (iii) its components differ in temperature by 700 K. All the appearances of high magnetic activity and the huge fill-out factor (0.7) of NSVS 925605 may be a precursor of the predicted merging of close magnetic binaries. Another unusual binary is NSVS 2700153, which reveals considerable long-term variability.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/27
- Title:
- Photoelectric measurements in UcBV system
- Short Name:
- II/27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- All measurements in the literature on the Cape photometric system as of early 1975 have been compiled. The catalog includes measurements from 38 publications as well as 469 unpublished measurements forwarded by Dr. A. W. J. Cousins.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/390/881
- Title:
- Photometric characterization of the CIG sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/390/881
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We perform a detailed photometric analysis (bulge-disc-bar decomposition and Concentration-Asymmetry-Clumpiness (CAS) parametrization) for a well-defined sample of isolated galaxies, extracted from the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies and reevaluated morphologically in the context of the Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies project. We focus on Sb-Sc morphological types, as they are the most representative population among the isolated spiral galaxies. Our analysis yields a large number of important galactic parameters and various correlation plots are used to seek relationships that might shed light on the processes involved in determining those parameters. Assuming that the bulge Sersic index and/or bulge/total luminosity ratios are reasonable diagnostics for pseudo- versus classical bulges, we conclude that the majority of late-type isolated disc galaxies likely host pseudo-bulges rather than classical bulges.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/15
- Title:
- Photometric Measurements in the UBVr 20 System
- Short Name:
- II/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the UBVr photometric system defined by Sandage and Smith (1963), (U-B)20, (B-V)20, and (V-r)20 color indices are given for stars from ten reference lists, along with a LID coded number, V magnitude, number of observations and reference. A list of weighted means is included for stars appearing on more than one list. The reference list and an explanation of the coded numbering system are included in separate files.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/50
- Title:
- Photometric Standard Stars
- Short Name:
- II/50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The non-variable stars brighter than 5.0 mag in the equatorial zone between declinations +10{deg} and -10{deg} were adopted by IAU Commission 25 in 1970 as primary standards for the Johnson and Morgan UBV system of 1966. Fainter HR stars in the same zone were chosen as secondary standards. Data for the primary standards are taken from a Cape Royal Observatory Mimeogram and are presented in table2.dat. It gives the weighted mean V magnitudes and B-V colors based upon the best series available up to the end of 1966. The table is believed to provide a consistent UBV system over the southern sky. Most of the secondary standard star data, given in table4.dat, were published in Mon. Notes Astron. Soc. S. Afr. (22,23).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/1167
- Title:
- Photometry of bulges at intermediate z
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/488/1167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Analysis of bulges to redshifts of up to z=1 have provided ambiguous results as to whether bulges as a class are old structures akin to elliptical galaxies or younger products of the evolution of their host disks. We aim to define a sample of intermediate-z disk galaxies harbouring central bulges, and a complementary sample of disk galaxies without measurable bulges. We intend to provide colour profiles for both samples, as well as measurements of nuclear, disk, and global colours, which may be used to constrain the relative ages of bulges and disks. We select a diameter-limited sample of galaxies in images from the HST/WFPC2 (Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 at the Hubble Space Telescope) Groth Strip survey, which is divided into two subsamples of higher and lower inclination to assess the role of dust in the measured quantities. Mergers are visually identified and excluded. We take special care to control the pollution by ellipticals. The bulge sample is defined with a criterion based on nuclear surface brightness excess over the inward extrapolation of the exponential law fitted to the outer regions of the galaxies. We extract colour profiles on the semi-minor axis least affected by dust in the disk, and measure nuclear colours at 0.85kpc from the centre over those profiles. Disk colours are measured on major axis profiles; global colours are obtained from 2.6" diameter apertures. Colour transformations and K-corrections are calculated using SEDs covering bands UBVIJK, from the GOYA photometric survey. We obtain a parent sample containing 248 galaxies with known redshifts, spectroscopic or photometric, spanning 0.1<z<1.2. The bulge subsample comprises 54 galaxies (21.8% of the total), while the subsample with no measureable bulges is 55.2% of the total (137 galaxies). The remainder (23%) is composed of mergers. We list nuclear, disk, and global colours (observed and rest-frame) and magnitudes (apparent and absolute), as well as galaxy colour gradients for the samples with and without bulges, and make them available in electronic format. We also provide images, colour maps, plots of spectral energy distributions, major-axis surface brightness profiles, and minor-axis colour profiles for both samples.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/651/A102
- Title:
- Photometry of M31 globular cluster EXT8
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/651/A102
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We recently found the globular cluster (GC) EXT8 in M31 to have an extremely low metallicity of [Fe/H]=-2.91+/-0.04 using high-resolution spectroscopy. Here we present a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) for EXT8, obtained with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Compared with the CMDs of metal-poor Galactic GCs, we find that the upper red giant branch (RGB) of EXT8 is about 0.03mag bluer in F606W-F814W and slightly steeper, as expected from the low spectroscopic metallicity. The observed colour spread on the upper RGB is consistent with being caused entirely by the measurement uncertainties, and we place an upper limit of sigma(F606W-F814W)=0.015mag on any intrinsic colour spread. The corresponding metallicity spread can be up to sigma([Fe/H])=0.2dex or >0.7dex, depending on the isochrone library adopted. The horizontal branch (HB) is located mostly on the blue side of the instability strip and has a tail extending to at least M(F606W)=+3, as in the Galactic GC M15. We identify two candidate RR Lyrae variables and several UV-luminous post-HB/post-AGB star candidates, including one very bright (M(F300X)=-3.2) source near the centre of EXT8. The surface brightness of EXT8 out to a radius of 25 arcsec is well fitted by a Wilson-type profile with an ellipticity of epsilon=0.20, a semi-major axis core radius of 0.25", and a central surface brightness of 15.2mag per square arcsec in the F606W band, with no evidence of extra-tidal structure. Overall, EXT8 has properties consistent with it being a "normal", but very metal-poor GC, and its combination of relatively high mass and very low metallicity thus remains challenging to explain in the context of GC formation theories operating within the hierarchical galaxy assembly paradigm.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/45
- Title:
- Photometry of strong CN stars
- Short Name:
- II/45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A group of 185 late G and K giants, selected from the US Naval Observatory Catalog of Photoelectric Observations (Cat. II/4) because they had Ultraviolet deficiences, were observed with the intermediate band photometric system of the David Dunlap Observatory (defined by McClure and van den Bergh 1968AJ.....73..313M). The DDO photometry is included in Cat. II/17.
