- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/146/103
- Title:
- CaII H&K to CaII IRT echelle spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/146/103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the third paper of a series aimed at studying the chromosphere of active binary systems using the information provided for several optical spectroscopic features. High resolution echelle spectra including all the optical chromospheric activity indicators from the CaII H&K to CaII IRT lines are analysed here for 16 systems. The chromospheric contribution in these lines has been determined using the spectral subtraction technique. Very broad wings have been found in the subtracted H{alpha} profile of the very active star HU Vir. These profiles are well matched using a two-component Gaussian fit (narrow and broad) and the broad component can be interpreted as arising from microflaring. Red-shifted absorption features in the H{alpha} line have been detected in several systems and excess emission in the blue wing of FG UMa was also detected. These features indicate that several dynamical processes, or a combination of them, may be involved. Using the E_H{alpha}_/E_H{beta}_ ratio as a diagnostic we have detected prominence-like extended material viewed off the limb in many stars of the sample, and prominences viewed against the disk at some orbital phases in the dwarfs OU Gem and BF Lyn. The He I D_3_ line has been detected as an absorption feature in mainly all the giants of the sample. Total filling-in of the He I D_3_, probably due to microflaring activity, is observed in HU Vir. Self-absorption with red asymmetry is detected in the CaII H&K lines of the giants 12 Cam, FG UMa and BM CVn. All the stars analysed show clear filled-in CaII IRT lines or even notable emission reversal. The small values of the E_8542_/E_8498_ ratio we have found indicate CaII IRT emission arises from plage-like regions. Orbital phase modulation of the chromospheric emission has been detected in some systems, in the case of HU Vir evidence of an active longitude area has been found.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/1039
- Title:
- CaII index of SMC red giant branch stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/1039
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present stellar metallicities derived from Ca II triplet spectroscopy in over 350 red giant branch stars in 13 fields distributed in different positions in the Small Magellanic Cloud, ranging from ~1{deg} to ~4{deg} from its center. In the innermost fields, the average metallicity is [Fe/H]~-1. This value decreases when we move away toward outermost regions. This is the first detection of a spectroscopic metallicity gradient in this galaxy. We show that the metallicity gradient is related to an age gradient, in the sense that more metal-rich stars, which are also younger, are concentrated in the central regions of the galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/327/918
- Title:
- CaII in extragalactic red giants
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/327/918
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectroscopic abundance determinations for stars spanning a Hubble time in age are necessary in order to determine unambiguously the evolutionary histories of galaxies. Using FORS1 in multi-object spectroscopy mode on ANTU (UT1) at the ESO VLT on Paranal, we have obtained near-infrared spectra from which we have measured the equivalent widths of the two strongest Ca II triplet lines to determine metal abundances for a sample of red giant branch stars, selected from ESO NTT optical (I, V-I) photometry of three nearby Local Group galaxies: the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal, the Fornax dwarf spheroidal and the dwarf irregular NGC 6822. The summed equivalent width of the two strongest lines in the Ca II triplet absorption-line feature, centred at 8500{AA}, can be readily converted into an [Fe/H] abundance using the previously established calibrations by Armandroff & Da Costa (1991AJ....101.1329A) and Rutledge, Hesser & Stetson (1997, Cat. <J/PASP/109/883>). We have measured metallicities for 37 stars in Sculptor, 32 stars in Fornax and 23 stars in NGC 6822, yielding more precise estimates of the metallicity distribution functions for these galaxies than it is possible to obtain photometrically. In the case of NGC 6822, this is the first direct measurement of the abundances of the intermediate-age and old stellar populations. We find metallicity spreads in each galaxy which are broadly consistent with the photometric width of the red giant branch, although the abundances of individual stars do not always appear to correspond to their colour. This is almost certainly predominantly due to a highly variable star formation rate with time in these galaxies, which results in a non-uniform, non-globular-cluster-like evolution of the Ca/Fe ratio.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/582/A59
- Title:
- CaIIK spectra of 7 Galactic and MC open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/582/A59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The large and small-scale (pc) structure of the Galactic interstellar medium can be investigated by utilising spectra of early- type stellar probes of known distances in the same region of the sky. This paper determines the variation in line strength of CaII at 3933.661{AA} as a function of probe separation for a large sample of stars, including a number of sightlines in the Magellanic Clouds. FLAMES-GIRAFFE data taken with the Very Large Telescope towards early-type stars in 3 Galactic and 4 Magellanic open clusters in CaII are used to obtain the velocity, equivalent width, column density, and line width of interstellar Galactic calcium for a total of 657 stars, of which 443 are Magellanic Cloud sightlines. In each cluster there are between 43 and 111 stars observed. Additionally, FEROS and UVES CaII K and NaI D spectra of 21 Galactic and 154 Magellanic early-type stars are presented and combined with data from the literature to study the calcium column density - parallax relationship.
2335. CaII & MgII data base
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/108/611
- Title:
- CaII & MgII data base
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/108/611
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/111/335
- Title:
- CaII-M_v_ Correlation (Wilson-Bappu Effect)
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/111/335
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hipparcos parallaxes were used to derive absolute visual magnitudes of G, K, and M stars with Ca II emission line widths previously measured by O.C. Wilson. A linear relationship similar to the one derived originally by Wilson & Bappu and improved by Lutz & Kelker was found from M_v_=+7 to -2. For stars brighter than M_v_=-2 a substantial number of stars show Ca II emission lines that are broader than expected from the linear fit. Most of those stars are bright giants and supergiants of type G.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/1630
- Title:
- CaII spectroscopy in Magellanic Cloud clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/1630
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the FORS2 instrument on the Very Large Telescope, we have obtained near-infrared spectra for more than 200 stars in 28 populous LMC clusters. This cluster sample spans a large range of ages (~113Gyr) and metallicities (-0.3>~[Fe/H]>~-2.0) and has good areal coverage of the LMC disk. The strong absorption lines of the Ca II triplet are used to derive cluster radial velocities and abundances. We determine mean cluster velocities to typically 1.6km/s and mean metallicities to 0.04dex (random error). For eight of these clusters, we report the first spectroscopically determined metallicities based on individual cluster stars, and six of these eight have no published radial velocity measurements. Combining our data with archival Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 photometry, we find that the newly measured cluster, NGC 1718, is one of the most metal-poor ([Fe/H]~-0.80) intermediate-age (~2Gyr) inner disk clusters in the LMC. Similar to what was found by previous authors, this cluster sample has radial velocities consistent with that of a single rotating disk system, with no indication that the newly reported clusters exhibit halo kinematics. In addition, our findings confirm previous results that show that the LMC lacks the metallicity gradient typically seen in non-barred spiral galaxies, suggesting that the bar is driving the mixing of stellar populations in the LMC.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/139/1168
- Title:
- CaII spectroscopy of SMC fields stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/139/1168
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained metallicities of ~360 red giant stars distributed in 15 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) fields from near-infrared spectra covering the CaII triplet lines using the VLT + FORS2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/517
- Title:
- CaII spectroscopy of SMC red giants
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/517
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained near-infrared spectra covering the CaII triplet lines for a large number of stars associated with 16 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) clusters using the VLT + FORS2. These data compose the largest available sample of SMC clusters with spectroscopically derived abundances and velocities. Our clusters span a wide range of ages and provide good areal coverage of the galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/154
- Title:
- CaII spectroscopy of SMC red giants. III.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/149/154
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We obtained spectra of red giants in 15 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) clusters in the region of the CaII lines with FORS2 on the Very Large Telescope. We determined the mean metallicity and radial velocity with mean errors of 0.05dex and 2.6km/s, respectively, from a mean of 6.5 members per cluster. One cluster (B113) was too young for a reliable metallicity determination and was excluded from the sample. We combined the sample studied here with 15 clusters previously studied by us using the same technique, and with 7 clusters whose metallicities determined by other authors are on a scale similar to ours. This compilation of 36 clusters is the largest SMC cluster sample currently available with accurate and homogeneously determined metallicities. We found a high probability that the metallicity distribution is bimodal, with potential peaks at -1.1 and -0.8dex. Our data show no strong evidence of a metallicity gradient in the SMC clusters, somewhat at odds with recent evidence from CaII triplet spectra of a large sample of field stars. This may be revealing possible differences in the chemical history of clusters and field stars. Our clusters show a significant dispersion of metallicities, whatever age is considered, which could be reflecting the lack of a unique age-metallicity relation in this galaxy. None of the chemical evolution models currently available in the literature satisfactorily represents the global chemical enrichment processes of SMC clusters.
