- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/809/77
- Title:
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/809/77
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars. Here, we predict the properties of the transiting planets that TESS will detect along with the EB stars that produce false-positive photometric signals. The predictions are based on Monte Carlo simulations of the nearby population of stars, occurrence rates of planets derived from Kepler, and models for the photometric performance and sky coverage of the TESS cameras. We expect that TESS will find approximately 1700 transiting planets from 2x10^5^ pre-selected target stars. This includes 556 planets smaller than twice the size of Earth, of which 419 are hosted by M dwarf stars and 137 are hosted by FGK dwarfs. Approximately 130 of the R<2R_{Earth}_ planets will have host stars brighter than Ks=9. Approximately 48 of the planets with R<2R_{Earth}_ lie within or near the habitable zone (0.2<S/S_{Earth}_<2); between 2 and 7 such planets have host stars brighter than Ks=9. We also expect approximately 1100 detections of planets with radii 2-4R_{Earth}_, and 67 planets larger than 4R_{Earth}_. Additional planets larger than 2R_{Earth}_ can be detected around stars that are not among the pre-selected target stars, because TESS will also deliver full-frame images at a 30-minute cadence. The planet detections are accompanied by over 1000 astrophysical false positives. We discuss how TESS data and ground-based observations can be used to distinguish the false positives from genuine planets. We also discuss the prospects for follow-up observations to measure the masses and atmospheres of the TESS planets.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/497/3790
- Title:
- TRAPPIST-South UCD Transit Survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/497/3790
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We conducted a global analysis of the TRAPPIST Ultra-Cool Dwarf Transit Survey - a prototype of the SPECULOOS transit search conducted with the TRAPPIST-South robotic telescope in Chile from 2011 to 2017 - to estimate the occurrence rate of close-in planets such as TRAPPIST-1b orbiting ultra-cool dwarfs. For this purpose, the photometric data of 40 nearby ultra-cool dwarfs were reanalysed in a self-consistent and fully automated manner starting from the raw images. The pipeline developed specifically for this task generates differential light curves, removes non-planetary photometric features and stellar variability, and searches for transits. It identifies the transits of TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c without any human intervention. To test the pipeline and the potential output of similar surveys, we injected planetary transits into the light curves on a star-by-star basis and tested whether the pipeline is able to detect them. The achieved photometric precision enables us to identify Earth-sized planets orbiting ultra-cool dwarfs as validated by the injection tests. Our planet-injection simulation further suggests a lower limit of 10 per cent on the occurrence rate of planets similar to TRAPPIST-1b with a radius between 1 and 1.3 R_{Earth}_ and the orbital period between 1.4 and 1.8d.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/108
- Title:
- Two-Micron Sky Survey, Nearest SAO Stars on POSS
- Short Name:
- II/108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog is a list of potential guide stars developed for a program to obtain more precise positions of objects in the IRC Two-Micron Sky Survey of Neguebauer and Leighton (1969). For each IRC source (col. 1), it gives: (col. 2) the identification of the star in the SAO catalog which is nearest, (col. 3) the great circle arc distance (in seconds) between the SAO star and the IRC source, (col. 4) the position angle (in degrees) of the IRC source relative to the SAO star, (col. 5) the plate number(s) of the POSS on which the IRC source appears, (col. 6,7) the approximate rectangular coordinates (in mm) of the IRC source on the POSS print area with respect to the Southwest corner, and (col. 8) the modified Luyten Palomar number. The POSS plate numbers given are for the red plates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/2B
- Title:
- Two-Micron Sky Survey (TMSS)
- Short Name:
- II/2B
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog, giving sources of emission in the 2.2-micrometer region for more than 5000 stars, represents a systematic survey of the Northern Hemisphere for stars brighter than third magnitude. The survey was carried out with a telescope at Mount Wilson, California, having a 62-inch diameter and an f/l aluminized epoxy mirror mounted equatorially. Radiation at an effective wavelength of 2.2 micrometers was detected by a lead sulfide photoconductive cell cooled by liquid nitrogen. In addition to the 2.2-micrometer detector array, radiation at an effective wavelength of 0.84 micrometers was detected by a simple silicon photovoltaic cell. The catalog includes right ascension and declination (B1950.0), K and I magnitudes, number of measurements, V magnitude, spectral types, cross identifications to the numbering systems of the General Catalogue, the Durchmusterung catalogs, the Bright Star Catalogue, and star names.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/389/1871
- Title:
- Type Ia supernovae candidates from SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/389/1871
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I), a large fraction of the surveyed area was observed more than once due to field tiling overlap, usually at different epochs. We utilize some of these data to perform a supernova (SN) survey at a mean redshift of z=0.2. Our archival search, in ~5 per cent of the SDSS-I overlap area, produces 29 SN candidates clearly associated with host galaxies. Using the Bayesian photometric classification algorithm of Poznanski et al. (2002PASP..114..833P), and correcting for classification bias, we find 17 of the 29 candidates are likely Type Ia SNe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/799/208
- Title:
- Type IIP supernovae from Pan-STARRS1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/799/208
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe): systematic light-curve studies. We assemble a set of 76 grizy-band Type IIP SN light curves from Pan-STARRS1, obtained over a constant survey program of 4yr and classified using both spectroscopy and machine-learning-based photometric techniques. We develop and apply a new Bayesian model for the full multiband evolution of each light curve in the sample. We find no evidence of a subpopulation of fast-declining explosions (historically referred to as "Type IIL" SNe). However, we identify a highly significant relation between the plateau phase decay rate and peak luminosity among our SNe IIP. These results argue in favor of a single parameter, likely determined by initial stellar mass, predominantly controlling the explosions of red supergiants. This relation could also be applied for SN cosmology, offering a standardizable candle good to an intrinsic scatter of <~0.2mag. We compare each light curve to physical models from hydrodynamic simulations to estimate progenitor initial masses and other properties of the Pan-STARRS1 Type IIP SN sample. We show that correction of systematic discrepancies between modeled and observed SN IIP light-curve properties and an expanded grid of progenitor properties are needed to enable robust progenitor inferences from multiband light-curve samples of this kind. This work will serve as a pathfinder for photometric studies of core-collapse SNe to be conducted through future wide-field transient searches.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/1023
- Title:
- U-band dropouts in Hubble Ultra Deep Field
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/1023
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine data from the extremely deep Hubble Space Telescope U (F300W) image, obtained using WFPC2 as part of the parallel observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field campaign, with BVi images from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey to identify a sample of Lyman break galaxies in the redshift range 2.0<=z<=3.5. We use recent stellar population synthesis models with a wide variety of ages, metallicities, redshifts, and dust content, and a detailed representation of the HI cosmic opacity as a function of redshift to model the colors of galaxies in our combination of WFPC2 and ACS filters. Using these models, we derive improved color selection criteria that provide a clean selection of relatively unobscured star-forming galaxies in this redshift range. Our WFPC2 F300W image is the deepest image ever obtained at that wavelength. The 10 limiting magnitude measured over 0.2arcsec^2^ is 27.5mag in the WFPC2 F300W image, about 0.5mag deeper than the F300W image in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF)-North.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/306/592
- Title:
- UBVR CCD sequences for wide-field surveys. II.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/306/592
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a continuing campaign to secure deep multi-colour CCD sequences for photoelectric calibration in UK Schmidt fields with galactic latitudes |b|>50{deg}. In this paper, we present UBVR photometry in 12 fields and BR photometry in a further 14 fields observed within UK Schmidt survey fields centered at {delta}=-30{deg}. Our observations were carried out with the 0.9m Telecope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/276/33
- Title:
- UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys. I.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/276/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results of a campaign to secure deep UBVRI CCD photometric calibration in all UK Schmidt equatorial fields with galactic latitudes |b|<~50{deg}. In this paper we provide information on deep BVRI sequences (B<22mag) in 14 UK Schmidt survey fields centred at declination=0{deg}. Deep U sequences have been obtained for 11 of these fields.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/2393
- Title:
- UBVRI phot. in seven Local Group dwarfs galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/2393
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained UBVRI images with the Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 4m telescopes and Mosaic cameras of seven dwarfs in (or near) the Local Group, all of which have known evidence of recent star formation: IC 10, NGC 6822, WLM, Sextans B, Sextans A, Pegasus, and Phoenix. We construct color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of these systems, as well as neighboring regions that can be used to evaluate the degree of foreground contamination by stars in the Milky Way.