- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/20
- Title:
- OGLE-III Mira variables in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Period-Luminosity and Period-Luminosity-Color relations at maximum light for Mira variables in the Magellanic Clouds using time-series data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) and Gaia data release 2. The maximum-light relations exhibit a scatter typically up to ~30% smaller than their mean-light counterparts. The apparent magnitudes of oxygen-rich Miras at maximum light display significantly smaller cycle-to-cycle variations than at minimum light. High-precision photometric data for Kepler Mira candidates also exhibit stable magnitude variations at the brightest epochs, while their multi-epoch spectra display strong Balmer emission lines and weak molecular absorption at maximum light. The stability of maximum-light magnitudes for Miras possibly occurs due to the decrease in the sensitivity to molecular bands at their warmest phase. At near-infrared wavelengths, the period-luminosity relations (PLRs) of Miras display similar dispersion at mean and maximum light with limited time-series data in the Magellanic Clouds. A kink in the oxygen-rich Mira PLRs is found at 300 days in the VI-bands, which shifts to longer periods (~350 days) at near-infrared wavelengths. Oxygen-rich Mira PLRs at maximum light provide a relative distance modulus, {Delta}{mu}=0.48+/-0.08mag, between the Magellanic Clouds with a smaller statistical uncertainty than the mean-light relations. The maximum-light properties of Miras can be very useful for stellar atmosphere modeling and distance scale studies provided their stability and the universality can be established in other stellar environments in the era of extremely large telescopes.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/323
- Title:
- OGLE-III SMC eclipsing binary stars
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/323
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a large sample of eclipsing binary stars detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud fields covering about 14 square degrees that have been monitored for eight years during the third phase of the OGLE survey. This is the largest set of such variables containing 6138 objects, of which 777 are contact and 5361 non-contact binaries. The estimated completeness of this sample is around 82%. We analyze the statistical properties of the sample and present selected interesting objects: 32 systems having eccentric orbit with visible apsidal motion, one Transient Eclipsing Binary, ten RS CVn type stars, 22 still unexplained Double-Periodic Variable stars, and 15 candidates for doubly eclipsing quadruple systems. Based on the OGLE-III proper motions, we classified 47 binaries from our sample as foreground Galactic stars. We also list candidates suitable for the SMC distance determination.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A125
- Title:
- OGLE-III SMC massive stars VI light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a variability study of 4646 massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with known spectral types from the catalog of Bonanos et al. (2010, Cat. J/AJ/140/416) using the light curves from the OGLE-III database. The goal is to exploit the time domain information available through OGLE-III to gain insight into the processes that govern the evolution of massive stars. This variability survey of massive stars with known spectral types is larger than any previous survey by a factor of 7. We find that 60% of our sample (2766 stars) show no significant variability and 40% (1880 stars) exhibit variability distributed as follows: 807 stars display low-amplitude stochastic variability with fluctuations in I-band of up to 0.05mag, 443 stars present irregular variability of higher amplitude (76% of these are reported as variables for the first time), 205 are eclipsing binaries (including 101 newly discovered systems), 50 are candidate rotating variables, 126 are classical Cepheids, 188 stars exhibit short-term sinusoidal periodicity (P<3-days) making them candidate 'slowly pulsating B stars' and non-radial Be pulsators, and 61 periodic stars exhibit longer periods. We demonstrate the wealth of information provided in the time domain, by doubling the number of known massive eclipsing binary systems and identifying 189 new candidate early-type Be and 20 Oe stars in the SMC. In addition, we find that ~80% of Be stars are photometrically variable in the OGLE-III time domain and provide evidence that short-term pulsating stars with additional photometric variability are rotating close to their break-up velocity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/54/1
- Title:
- OGLE II SMC eclipsing binaries
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/54/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new version of the OGLE-II catalog of eclipsing binary stars detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud, based on Difference Image Analysis catalog of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds containing data collected from 1997 to 2000. We found 1351 eclipsing binary stars in the central 2.4 square degree area of the SMC. 455 stars are newly discovered objects, not found in the previous release of the catalog. The eclipsing objects were selected with the automatic search algorithm based on the artificial neural network. The full catalog with individual photometry is accessible from the OGLE INTERNET archive, at ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle2/var_stars/smc/ecl . Regular observations of the SMC fields started on June 26, 1997 and covered about 2.4 square degrees of central parts of the SMC. Reductions of the photometric data collected up to the end of May 2000 were performed with the Difference Image Analysis (DIA) package.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/1
- Title:
- OGLE-IV Magellanic Bridge Data supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze two years (mid-2010 to mid-2012) of OGLE-IV data covering ~65deg^2^ of the Magellanic Bridge (the area between the Magellanic Clouds) and find 130 transient events including 126 supernovae (SNe), two foreground dwarf novae and another two SNe-like transients that turned out to be active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We show our SNe detection efficiency as a function of SN peak magnitude based on available SNe rate estimates. It is 100% for SNe peak magnitudes I<18.8mag and drops to 50% at I~19.7mag. With our current observing area between and around the Magellanic Clouds (~600deg^2^), we expect to find 24 SNe peaking above I<18mag, 100 above I<19mag, and 340 above I<20mag, annually. We briefly introduce our on-line near-real-time detection system for SNe and other transients, the OGLE Transient Detection System.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/824/74
- Title:
- OGLE LC classification of MC Cepheids
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/824/74
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The investigation of the nonlinearity of the Leavitt law (LL) is a topic that began more than seven decades ago, when some of the studies in this field found that the LL has a break at about 10 days. The goal of this work is to investigate a possible statistical cause of this nonlinearity. By applying linear regressions to OGLE-II and OGLE-IV data, we find that to obtain the LL by using linear regression, robust techniques to deal with influential points and/or outliers are needed instead of the ordinary least-squares regression traditionally used. In particular, by using M- and MM-regressions we establish firmly and without doubt the linearity of the LL in the Large Magellanic Cloud, without rejecting or excluding Cepheid data from the analysis. This implies that light curves of Cepheids suggesting blending, bumps, eclipses, or period changes do not affect the LL for this galaxy. For the Small Magellanic Cloud, when including Cepheids of this kind, it is not possible to find an adequate model, probably because of the geometry of the galaxy. In that case, a possible influence of these stars could exist.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/65/297
- Title:
- OGLE4 LMC and SMC Cepheids
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/65/297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present here a nearly complete census of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic System. The sample extends the set of Cepheids published in the past by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) to the outer regions of the Large (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The entire collection consists of 9535 Cepheids of which 4620 belong to the LMC and 4915 are members of the SMC. We provide the I- and V-band time-series photometry of the published Cepheids, their finding charts, and basic observational parameters. Based on this unique OGLE sample of Cepheids we present updated period-luminosity relations for fundamental, first, and second mode of pulsations in the I- and V-bands and for the WI extinction-free Wesenheit index. We also show the distribution of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic System. The OGLE collection contains several classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Bridge - the region of interaction between the Magellanic Clouds. The discovery of classical Cepheids and their estimated ages confirm the presence of young stellar population between these galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/50/307
- Title:
- OGLE LMC BVI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/50/307
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the BVI photometric maps of the Large Magellanic Cloud. They contain BVI photometry and astrometry of more than 7 million stars from the central parts of the LMC. The data were collected during the second phase of the OGLE microlensing project. We discuss the accuracy of the data and present color-magnitude diagrams of all 26 fields observed by OGLE in the LMC. The BVI maps of the LMC are accessible electronically for the astronomical community from the OGLE Internet archive.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/49/543
- Title:
- OGLE LMC & SMC Cepheids VI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/49/543
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Cepheids located in the close neighborhood of star clusters from the Magellanic Clouds. 204 and 132 such stars were found in the LMC and SMC, respectively. The lists of objects were constructed based on catalogs of Cepheids and star clusters, recently published by the OGLE-II collaboration. Location of selected Cepheids on the sky indicates that many of them are very likely cluster members. Photometric data of Cepheids and clusters are available from the OGLE Internet archive at URL: ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle2/clusters/cepheids/
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/50/337
- Title:
- OGLE LMC star clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/50/337
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of age determination based on the standard procedure of isochrone fitting for about 600 star clusters younger than about 1.2Gyr from the central parts of the LMC. Comparison of age distributions of star clusters from the LMC and the SMC shows that cluster formation histories are different in these galaxies. The age distribution of the LMC clusters reveals bursty nature of cluster formation in this galaxy, with contrast to the relatively uniform distribution of cluster ages in the SMC. We detected three extended peaks in the distribution of ages of LMC clusters, located at about 7Myr, 125Myr and 0.8Gyr. All detected peaks have complex structure. While the structure of the youngest and the oldest peaks may be spurious due to accuracy of age determination, in the middle peak two evident sub-peaks at 100Myr and 160Myr are clearly seen. Similar peaks are seen in the distribution of ages of clusters from the SMC, which indicates that increased cluster formation ratio during these periods might be caused by the last encounter between the Magellanic Clouds. The sample of clusters from the LMC is overabundant in very young (<10Myr) anal old (>400Myr) clusters, and underabundant in clusters having ages in the range from 80 to 15Myr with respect to the studied sample of clusters from the SMC.
