- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/682/1205
- Title:
- Fast transients in the Fornax cluster
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/682/1205
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The luminosity gap between novae (M_R_<=-10) and supernovae (M_R_>=-14) has been well known since the pioneering research of Zwicky and Hubble. Nearby galaxy clusters and concentrations offer an excellent opportunity to search for explosions brighter than classical novae and fainter than supernovae. Here we present the results of a B-band survey of 23 member galaxies of the Fornax Cluster, performed at the Las Campanas 2.5m Irenee du Pont telescope. Observations with a cadence of 32 minutes discovered no genuine fast transient to a limiting absolute magnitude of M_B_=-9.3mag. We provide a detailed assessment of the transient detection efficiency and the resulting upper limits on the event rate as function of peak magnitude. Further, we discuss the discoveries of five previously unknown foreground variables which we identified as two flare stars, two W UMa-type eclipsing binaries and a candidate {delta} Scuti/SX Phe star.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/312/111
- Title:
- [Fe/H] from RR Lyrae light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/312/111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an accurate and robust method for the calculation of [Fe/H] from the light curves of RRab stars. The method introduces a considerable improvement relative to our previously published formulae. First of all, it uses an improved and extended data base for the light curves and more accurate, very recent iron abundances. Secondly, the new data base makes it possible to show that the basic relation between [Fe/H] and the Fourier parameters is linear and contains only the period and one of the Fourier phases, most importantly {phi}_31_. Last but not least, we derive interrelations among the Fourier parameters which help us to filter out peculiar stars where more caution is needed in accepting the calculated abundance. The applicability of the method is demonstrated on independent samples of globular cluster stars. Peculiarities encountered in Blazhko variables and in some other cases are also discussed. The Fourier decomposition is defined by the formula: V(t) = A0 + A1*sin(2*pi/P*(t-t0)+phi1) + A2*sin(2*pi*2/P*(t-t0)+phi2) +... + A15*sin(2*pi*15/P*(t-t0)+phi15) V(t) -- light curve in Johnson V P -- period t0 -- Epoch = 2400000.0
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/2418
- Title:
- [Fe/H] of short-period Galactic Cepheids
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/434/2418
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the study of the metallicity dependence of the Fourier amplitude ratios R_21_ and R_31_ for the light curves of short-period Galactic classical Cepheids in B, V, R_C_ and I_C_ bands. Based on the available photometric and spectroscopic data, we determined the relations between the atmospheric iron abundance, [Fe/H], and the Fourier parameters. Using these relations we calculated the photometric [Fe/H] values of all programme Cepheids with an average accuracy of +/-0.15dex. No spectroscopic iron abundance was known before for 14 of these stars. These empirical results provide an alternate method to determine the iron abundance of classical Cepheids too faint for spectroscopic observations. We also checked whether the metal-poor Cepheids of both Magellanic Clouds follow the same relationships, and a good agreement was found.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/381/507
- Title:
- Fe II emission lines of RR Tel
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/381/507
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Files table1.dat and table2.dat contain the permitted and forbidden Fe II emission lines respectively which have been selected from the optical spectrum of RR Tel between 3180 and 9455{AA}. The spectrum was observed by Crawford et al. (1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/139/135>) whose corrected line fluxes and velocity widths we took for further analysis in this work. In the tables there are also values characteristic for the corresponding multiplets and lines such as multiplet numbers, term designations, level excitation potentials and quantum numbers J. The log functions of gf's, line fluxes and wavelengths are relevant for the SAC curves.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/91/299
- Title:
- FF Aql BV light curves
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/91/299
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photographic plates of the Harvard Observatory stacks have been used to obtain 1261 brightness estimates for the low-amplitude Cepheid FF Aql (P=4.47 days). Combined with published visual, photoelectric, and CCD observations, these data enable the construction of an O-C diagram spanning 122 years. The resulting O-C diagram is parabola-shaped, enabling the determination of quadratic brightness elements for the first time. The evolutionary rate of increase of the period, dP/dt=0.072+/-0.011s/year, is in agreement with theoretical computations for the third crossing of the instability strip. The available data, reduced using the technique of by Eddington and Plakidis, reveal the presence of small, random period fluctuations, {epsilon}=0.0061d+/-0.0044d, that do not distort the evolutionary trend of the O-C residuals.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/29/858
- Title:
- FG Sagittae: new observations
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/29/858
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In 1999-2002 the BVRI photometric and spectroscopic observations of FG Sge were made. The star has been in a new R CrB photometric phase since 1992.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/338/581
- Title:
- Field 3 Palomar-Groningen survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/338/581
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Near-infrared photometry (JHKL'M) was obtained for 78 semiregular variables (SRVs) in field #3 of the Palomar-Groningen survey (PG3, l=0{deg}, b=-10{deg}). Together with a sample of Miras in this field a comparison is made with a sample of field SRVs and Miras. The PG3 SRVs form a sequence (period-luminosity & period-colour) with the PG3 Miras, in which the SRVs are the short period extension to the Miras. The field and PG3 Miras follow the same P/(J-K)_0_ relation, while this is not the case for the field and PG3 SRVs. Both the PG3 SRVs and Miras follow the Sgr I period-luminosity relation adopted from Glass et al. (1995MNRAS.273..383G). They are likely pulsating in the fundamental mode and have metallicities spanning the range from intermediate to approximately solar.
408. Field RR Lyrae stars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/459/4360
- Title:
- Field RR Lyrae stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/459/4360
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents an extensive overview of known and proposed RR Lyrae stars in binaries. The aim is to revise and extend the list with new Galactic field systems. We utilized maxima timings for 11 RRab type stars with suspicious behaviour from the GEOS database, and determined maxima timings from data of sky surveys and our own observations. This significantly extended the number of suitable maxima timings. We modelled the proposed Light Time Effect (LiTE) in O-C diagrams to determine orbital parameters for these systems. In contrast to recent studies, our analysis focused on decades-long periods instead of periods in the order of years. Secondary components were found to be predominantly low-mass objects. However, for two of the stars, RZ Cet and AT Ser, the mass of the suspected companion of more than one solar mass suggests that it is a massive white dwarf, a neutron star or even a black hole. We found that the semi-major axes of the proposed orbits are between 1 and 20au. Because the studied stars belong to the closest RR Lyraes, maximal angular distances between components during orbit should at least be between 1 and 13mas and this improves the chance to detect both stars using current telescopes and interferometers. However, our interpretation of the O-C diagrams as a consequence of the LiTE should be considered as preliminary without reliable spectroscopic measurements. On the other hand, our models give a prediction of the period and radial velocity evolution which should be sufficient for plausible proof of binarity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/246
- Title:
- First Byurakan Survey Late Type Stars catalog
- Short Name:
- III/246
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The First Byurakan Survey (FBS), also known as the Markarian survey, covers about 17000 sq. deg. It has been used by Markarian and his collaborators to search for UV excess galaxies (see Cat. VII/172), by Abrahamyan and his collaborators to search for late type stars and UV excess or emission line point sources (stars and starlike objects). The identification, classification, and investigation of late type stars and blue stellar objects constitutes the second part of the First Byurakan Survey and is a natural continuation of it. For this second program, at the present time, a catalogue of 1103 blue objects has been built (see Cat. II/223). In a series of 14 papers, referenced in the "References" section below, have been published lists of 1000 late M type and carbon stars, selected on the FBS plates. We have revised and updated this 14 lists with the new data from recently published optical and infrared catalogs to give access to all available data. As a result, the catalog of the First Byurakan Survey (FBS) Late Type Stars, was compiled. In this catalogue are presented high accurate coordinates, proper motions, spectral, photometric and infrared dates about of 995 FBS late M type and carbon stars. Are given cross-identifications of FBS late type stars with their counterparts from the most popular catalogs (2MASS, USNO-B1, NOMAD, UCAC2, GCVS4.2, NSVS, ASAS, IRAS PS and IRAS FS). On the base of 2MASS (J-K) color indices were determined a luminosity classes for 988 of them. For the 55 stars were determined a spectral classes, and for the another 129 were determined a spectral subclasses on the base of DFBS (http://byurakan.phys.uniroma1.it/) These data were not presented in original lists.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/489/2030
- Title:
- First Byurakan Survey of Late-Type Stars - v2
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/489/2030
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A total of 18 lists of the First Byurakan Survey of Late-Type Stars (FBS LTS) were published between 1990 and 2016. The stars were found on FBS low-dispersion spectroscopic plates. A systematic search and selection were carried out on a surface of ~16000deg^2^ on almost the whole area of the FBS. As a result, the "Revised and Updated Catalogue of the First Byurakan Survey of Late-Type Stars" was generated (FBS LTS v1; see Cat. III/266 -- 1045 objects). We present the second version of the catalogue of FBS LTS with new data (FBS LTS v2), comprising 1471 objects. It is a homogeneous and complete data base for high-Galactic-latitude, late-type stars, including M and C types. Since 2007, all FBS low-resolution spectral plates have been digitized. All digitized FBS (DFBS) spectral plates have been analysed with FITSVIEW and SAO IMAGE DS9, and numerous relatively faint LTSs have been discovered. We have performed cross-correlations with DFBS, USNO-B1.0, 2MASS, AllWISE, IRAS PSC/FSC, AKARI, ROSAT BSC/FSC, GCVS, SDSS and added updated SIMBAD data. For numerous new detected objects, we present accurate DSS2 positions, approximate spectral subtypes refined from the DFBS low-dispersion spectra, luminosity classes estimated from 2MASS colours, and available proper motions for 1471 FBS LTSs. The Revised and Updated Catalogue v2 lists a large number of completely new objects, which promises to extend very significantly the census of M giants, faint N-type asymptotic giant branch carbon stars, CH-type carbon giants at high Galactic latitudes, and M dwarfs in the Solar vicinity up to 16.0-17.0mag in the visual. Some important data from Gaia DR2 and supplementary spectra from the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory 2.6m and LAMOST telescopes are presented.
