- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/571/A36
- Title:
- M dwarfs in b201 tile of VVV survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/571/A36
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The intrinsically faint M dwarfs are the most numerous stars in the Galaxy, have main-sequence lifetimes longer than the Hubble time, and host some of the most interesting planetary systems known to date. Their identification and classification throughout the Galaxy is crucial to unraveling the processes involved in the formation of planets, stars, and the Milky Way. The ESO Public Survey VVV is a deep near-IR survey mapping the Galactic bulge and southern plane. The VVV b201 tile, located in the border area of the bulge, was specifically selected for the characterisation of M dwarfs. We used VISTA photometry to identify M dwarfs in the VVV b201 tile, to estimate their subtypes, and to search for transit-like light curves from the first 26 epochs of the survey.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/124
- Title:
- M dwarfs-long-term photometric variability
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report findings from a long-term photometric variability study of M dwarfs carried out at the SMARTS 0.9 m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. As part of a multi-faceted effort to investigate the range of luminosities of M dwarfs of a given color on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, 76 M dwarfs have been observed for 3-17 years in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins V band. We find that stars elevated above the center of the main sequence distribution tend to have higher levels of variability, likely caused by magnetic activity, than their fainter counterparts below the center. This study provides insight into how the long-term magnetic activity of these stars may be affecting their sizes, luminosities, and thus positions on the H-R Diagram.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/1844
- Title:
- M dwarfs rotation-activity relation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/1844
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the relation between stellar rotation and magnetic activity for a sample of 134 bright, nearby M dwarfs observed in the Kepler Two-Wheel (K2) mission during campaigns C0 to C4. The K2 lightcurves yield photometrically derived rotation periods for 97 stars (79 of which without previous period measurement), as well as various measures for activity related to cool spots and flares. We find a clear difference between fast and slow rotators with a dividing line at a period of ~10d at which the activity level changes abruptly. All photometric diagnostics of activity (spot cycle amplitude, flare peak amplitude and residual variability after subtraction of spot and flare variations) display the same dichotomy, pointing to a quick transition between a high-activity mode for fast rotators and a low-activity mode for slow rotators. This unexplained behavior is reminiscent of a dynamo mode-change seen in numerical simulations that separates a dipolar from a multipolar regime. A substantial number of the fast rotators are visual binaries. A tentative explanation is accelerated disk evolution in binaries leading to higher initial rotation rates on the main-sequence and associated longer spin-down and activity lifetimes. We combine the K2 rotation periods with archival X-ray and UV data. X-ray, FUV and NUV detections are found for 26, 41, and 11 stars from our sample, respectively. Separating the fast from the slow rotators, we determine for the first time the X-ray saturation level separately for early- and for mid-M stars.
3884. M dwarfs with IR excess
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/794/146
- Title:
- M dwarfs with IR excess
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/794/146
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) spectroscopic catalog, we searched the WISE AllWISE catalog to investigate the occurrence of warm dust, as inferred from IR excesses, around field M dwarfs (dMs). We developed SDSS/WISE color selection criteria to identify 175 dMs (from 70841) that show IR flux greater than the typical dM photosphere levels at 12 and/or 22{mu}m, including seven new stars within the Orion OB1 footprint. We characterize the dust populations inferred from each IR excess and investigate the possibility that these excesses could arise from ultracool binary companions by modeling combined spectral energy distributions. Our observed IR fluxes are greater than levels expected from ultracool companions (>3{sigma}). We also estimate that the probability the observed IR excesses are due to chance alignments with extragalactic sources is <0.1%. Using SDSS spectra we measure surface gravity-dependent features (K, Na, and CaH 3) and find <15% of our sample indicates low surface gravities. Examining tracers of youth (H{alpha}, UV fluxes, and Li absorption), we find <3% of our sample appear young, indicating we are observing a population of field stars >~1Gyr, likely harboring circumstellar material. We investigate age-dependent properties probed by this sample, studying the disk fraction as a function of Galactic height. The fraction remains small and constant to |Z|~700pc and then drops, indicating little to no trend with age. Possible explanations for disks around field dMs include (1) collisions of planetary bodies, (2) tidal disruption of planetary bodies, or (3) failed planet formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/818/153
- Title:
- MEarth photometry: nearby M-dwarf magnitudes
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/818/153
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The MEarth Project is a photometric survey systematically searching the smallest stars near the Sun for transiting rocky planets. Since 2008, MEarth has taken approximately two million images of 1844 stars suspected to be mid-to-late M dwarfs. We have augmented this survey by taking nightly exposures of photometric standard stars and have utilized this data to photometrically calibrate the MEarth system, identify photometric nights, and obtain an optical magnitude with 1.5% precision for each M dwarf system. Each optical magnitude is an average over many years of data, and therefore should be largely immune to stellar variability and flaring. We combine this with trigonometric distance measurements, spectroscopic metallicity measurements, and 2MASS infrared magnitude measurements in order to derive a color-magnitude-metallicity relation across the mid-to-late M dwarf spectral sequence that can reproduce spectroscopic metallicity determinations to a precision of 0.1 dex. We release optical magnitudes and metallicity estimates for 1567 M dwarfs, many of which did not have an accurate determination of either prior to this work. For an additional 277 stars without a trigonometric parallax, we provide an estimate of the distance, assuming solar neighborhood metallicity. We find that the median metallicity for a volume-limited sample of stars within 20pc of the Sun is [Fe/H]=-0.03+/-0.008, and that 29/565 of these stars have a metallicity of [Fe/H]=-0.5 or lower, similar to the low-metallicity distribution of nearby G dwarfs. When combined with the results of ongoing and future planet surveys targeting these objects, the metallicity estimates presented here will be important for assessing the significance of any putative planet-metallicity correlation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/L21
- Title:
- Measured photometry of SN 2014J from HST
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/788/L21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The wavelength dependence of the extinction of Type Ia SN 2014J in the nearby galaxy M82 has been measured using UV to near-IR photometry obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Nordic Optical Telescope, and the Mount Abu Infrared Telescope. This is the first time that the reddening of an SN Ia is characterized over the full wavelength range of 0.2-2 {mu}m. A total-to-selective extinction, R_V_>= 3.1, is ruled out with high significance. The best fit at maximum using a Galactic type extinction law yields R_V_=1.4+/-0.1. The observed reddening of SN 2014J is also compatible with a power-law extinction, A_{lambda}_/A_V_=({lambda}/{lambda}_V_)^p^ as expected from multiple scattering of light, with p=-2.1+/-0.1. After correcting for differences in reddening, SN 2014J appears to be very similar to SN 2011fe over the 14 broadband filter light curves used in our study.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/857/51
- Title:
- Measuring dark energy properties with PS1 SNe. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/857/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use 1169 Pan-STARRS supernovae (SNe) and 195 low-z (z<0.1) SNe Ia to measure cosmological parameters. Though most Pan-STARRS SNe lack spectroscopic classifications, in a previous paper we demonstrated that photometrically classified SNe can be used to infer unbiased cosmological parameters by using a Bayesian methodology that marginalizes over core-collapse (CC) SN contamination. Our sample contains nearly twice as many SNe as the largest previous SN Ia compilation. Combining SNe with cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints from Planck, we measure the dark energy equation-of-state parameter w to be -0.989+/-0.057 (stat+sys). If w evolves with redshift as w(a)=w0+wa(1-a), we find w0=-0.912+/-0.149 and wa=-0.513+/-0.826. These results are consistent with cosmological parameters from the Joint Light-curve Analysis and the Pantheon sample. We try four different photometric classification priors for Pan-STARRS SNe and two alternate ways of modeling CC SN contamination, finding that no variant gives a w differing by more than 2% from the baseline measurement. The systematic uncertainty on w due to marginalizing over CC SN contamination, {sigma}_w_^CC^=0.012, is the third-smallest source of systematic uncertainty in this work. We find limited (1.6{sigma}) evidence for evolution of the SN color-luminosity relation with redshift, a possible systematic that could constitute a significant uncertainty in future high-z analyses. Our data provide one of the best current constraints on w, demonstrating that samples with ~5% CC SN contamination can give competitive cosmological constraints when the contaminating distribution is marginalized over in a Bayesian framework.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/103
- Title:
- Medium-band photometry RM of 5 nearby AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Reverberation mapping (RM) is one of the most efficient ways to investigate the broad-line region around the central supermassive black holes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A common way of performing the RM is to perform a long term spectroscopic monitoring of AGNs, but the spectroscopic monitoring campaign of a large number of AGNs requires an extensive amount of observing time of medium to large size telescopes. As an alternative way, we present the results of photometric RM with medium-band photometry. As the widths of medium-band filters match well with the widths of AGN broad emission lines, the medium-band observation with small telescopes can be a cost-effective way to perform RM. We monitored five nearby AGNs with available spectroscopic RM results showing days to weeks scale variability. Observations were performed for ~3 months with an average of 3 days cadence using three medium-band filters on a 0.43m telescope. The time lags between the continuum and the H{alpha} emission line light curves are calculated using the JAVELIN software and the discrete correlation function. We find time lags of 1.5-15.9d for these AGNs, which are consistent with the time lags derived from previous spectroscopic RM measurements. This result demonstrates that even a 0.5m class telescope can perform RM with medium-bands. Furthermore, we show that RM for tens of thousands AGNs is possible with a dedicated 1m class telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/65
- Title:
- MegaCam survey of outer halo satellites. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/65
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a deep, systematic imaging study of satellites in the outer halo of the Milky Way. Our sample consists of 58 stellar overdensities --i.e., substructures classified as either globular clusters, classical dwarf galaxies, or ultra-faint dwarf galaxies-that are located at Galactocentric distances of R_GC_>=25kpc (outer halo) and out to ~400kpc. This includes 44 objects for which we have acquired deep, wide-field, g- and r-band imaging with the MegaCam mosaic cameras on the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the 6.5m Magellan-Clay telescope. These data are supplemented by archival imaging, or published gr photometry, for an additional 14 objects, most of which were discovered recently in the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe the scientific motivation for our survey, including sample selection, observing strategy, data reduction pipeline, calibration procedures, and the depth and precision of the photometry. The typical 5{sigma} point-source limiting magnitudes for our MegaCam imaging-which collectively covers an area of ~52deg^2^ --are g_lim_~25.6 and r_lim_~25.3 AB mag. These limits are comparable to those from the coadded DES images and are roughly a half-magnitude deeper than will be reached in a single visit with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Our photometric catalog thus provides the deepest and most uniform photometric database of Milky Way satellites available for the foreseeable future. In other papers in this series, we have used these data to explore the blue straggler populations in these objects, their density distributions, star formation histories, scaling relations, and possible foreground structures.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/126
- Title:
- MEGA-H proper motion catalog
- Short Name:
- V/126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalogue MEGA-H is a result of a merging of star lists from the catalogue of stellar proper motions with respect to galaxies in 47 selected areas near the Main Meridional Section of the Galaxy (MEGA-G) (Kharchenko 1987) and from All-sky Compiled Catalogue of 2.5 Million Stars (ASCC-2.5) (Cat. <I/280>). Proper motions from the catalogue MEGA-G were reduced to the Hipparcos system by means of common with the ASCC-2.5 stars. The compiled proper motions in the Hipparcos system and their standard errors were computed as the weighted means. Equatorial coordinates are reduced to the equinox J2000 and epoch 1991.25. The catalogue MEGA-H contains 18169 stars. Stars are sorted in right ascension J2000 order.
