- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/554/A28
- Title:
- Qatar-1 differential light curve
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/554/A28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A long-term multi-purpose observational programme has started with HARPS-N@TNG aimed to characterise the global architectural properties of exoplanetary systems. In this first paper we fully characterise the transiting system Qatar-1. We exploit HARPS-N high-precision radial velocity measurements obtained during a transit to measure the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in the Qatar-1 system, and out-of-transit measurements to redetermine the spectroscopic orbit. New photometric transit light-curves are analysed and a spectroscopic characterisation of the host star atmospheric parameters is performed based on various methods (line equivalent widths ratios, spectral synthesis, spectral energy distribution). We achieved a significant improvement in the accuracy of the orbital parameters and derived the spin-orbit alignment of the system; this information, combined with the spectroscopic determination of the host star properties, allows us to derive the fundamental physical parameters for star and planet (masses and radii). The orbital solution for the Qatar-1 system is consistent with a circular orbit and the system presents a sky-projected obliquity of lambda=-8.4+/-7.1{deg}. The planet, with a mass of 1.33+/-0.05M_J_, is found to be significantly more massive than previously reported. The host star is confirmed to be metal-rich ([Fe/H]=0.20+/-0.10) and slowly rotating (vsini=1.7+/-0.3km/s), though moderately active, as indicated by strong chromospheric emission in the Ca II H&K line cores (logR'_HK_ about -4.60). The system is well aligned and fits well within the general lambda vs Teff trend. We definitely rule out any significant orbital eccentricity. The evolutionary status of the system is inferred based on gyrochronology, and the present orbital configuration and timescale for orbital decay are discussed in terms of star-planet tidal interactions.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/768/127
- Title:
- Q1-11 Kepler light curve of KIC 4862625
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/768/127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery and confirmation of a transiting circumbinary planet (PH1b) around KIC 4862625, an eclipsing binary in the Kepler field. The planet was discovered by volunteers searching the first six Quarters of publicly available Kepler data as part of the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Transits of the planet across the larger and brighter of the eclipsing stars are detectable by visual inspection every ~137 days, with seven transits identified in Quarters 1-11. The physical and orbital parameters of both the host stars and planet were obtained via a photometric-dynamical model, simultaneously fitting both the measured radial velocities and the Kepler light curve of KIC 4862625. The 6.18+/-0.17R_{Earth}_ planet orbits outside the 20 day orbit of an eclipsing binary consisting of an F dwarf (1.734+/-0.044R_{sun}_, 1.528+/-0.087M_{sun}_) and M dwarf (0.378+/-0.023R_{sun}_, 0.408+/-0.024M_{sun}_). For the planet, we find an upper mass limit of 169M_{Earth}_ (0.531 Jupiter masses) at the 99.7% confidence level. With a radius and mass less than that of Jupiter, PH1b is well within the planetary regime. Outside the planet's orbit, at ~1000 AU, a previously unknown visual binary has been identified that is likely bound to the planetary system, making this the first known case of a quadruple star system with a transiting planet.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/618/A144
- Title:
- QSO candidates catalog with APOP & ALLWISE (QCC)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/618/A144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasars are spatially stationary, and they are essential objects in astrometry when defining reference frames. However, the census of quasars is far from complete. Mid-infared colors can be used to find quasar candidates because AGNs show a peculiar appearance in mid-infrared color, but these methods are incapable of separating quasars from AGNs.The aim of our study is to use astrometric and mid-infrared methods to select quasars and get a reliable quasar candidates catalog. We used a near-zero proper motion criterion in conjuction with WISE (all-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) [W1-W2] color to select quasar candidates. The [W1-W2] color criterion is defined by the linear boundary of two samples: LAMOST DR5 quasars, which serve as the quasar sample, and LAMOST DR5 stars/galaxies, which serve as the non-quasar sample. The contamination and completeness are evaluated. We present a catalog of 662753 quasar candidates, with a completeness of about 75% and a reliability of 77.2%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/52/241
- Title:
- QSO candidates in OGLE-II data
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/52/241
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A search for faint slowly variable objects was undertaken in the hope of finding QSO candidates behind the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC). This search used the optical variability properties of point sources from the Magellanic Cloud OGLE-II photometric data. Objects bluer than V-I=0.9mag and within 17mag<I<20.5mag were studied. Robust variograms/structure functions have been computed for each time-series and only candidates showing a significantly increasing variability over longer time scales were selected. Several light curves were identified as having probable artifacts and were therefore removed. Stars showing signs of periodicity or small trends in their light curves were also removed and we are left with mostly either Be stars ({gamma} Cas stars) or QSO candidates. We present a list of 25 slowly varying objects for SMC and 155 for LMC, out of 15000 and 53000 variable objects respectively. Of these, about 15 objects for the SMC and 118 objects for the LMC are QSO candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/356/331
- Title:
- QSO-candidates in OGLE-II Galactic bulge fields
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/356/331
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 97 QSO candidates in 48 Galactic bulge fields of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment II (OGLE-II) covering ~11deg^2^, which are selected via their variability. We extend light curves of variable objects which were detected in a 3-yr baseline in the OGLE-II variable star catalogue to fourth year. We search for objects that are faint (16<I_0_<18.5) and slowly variable over 4-yr in this catalogue by using the variogram/structure function. Finding the QSOs in such stellar-crowded and high extinction fields is challenging, but should be useful for the astrometric reference frame. Spectroscopic follow-up observations are required to confirm these QSO candidates. Follow-up observations are being prepared for four of these fields (BUL_SC1, 2, 32 and 45). Follow-up observations for other fields are strongly encouraged. The complete list and light curves of all 97 candidates are available in electronic format at http://www.astro.princeton.edu/sumi/QSO-OGLEII/ .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/747/107
- Title:
- QSO Candidates in the MACHO LMC database
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/747/107
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog the 2566 QSO candidates in the MACHO LMC database. In these catalogs, we complied number of properties of the objects including RA, Dec, crossmatched IDs with several catalogs, magnitudes, photometric redshifts, etc. See Kim et al. (2011ApJ...735...68K) for the SVM (a.k.a. Support Vector Machine, a supervised machine learning algorithm) QSO classification model based on the time variability of lightcurves. We used the model to select the 2566 QSO candidates. In this work, we employed multiple diagnostics such as X-ray flux, mid-IR color and AGN SED fitting in order to select 663 promising QSO candidates among the 2,566 candidates. These candidates are flagged in the catalog. We calibrated the MACHO RA and Dec of the candidates using the UCAC3 catalog and improved the average astrometric accuracy from ~3" to ~0.5".
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/396/223
- Title:
- QSO candidates selection in VO era
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/396/223
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a method for the photometric selection of candidate quasars in multiband surveys. The method makes use of a priori knowledge derived from a subsample of spectroscopic confirmed quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) to map the parameter space. The disentanglement of QSOs candidates and stars is performed in the colour space through the combined use of two algorithms, the probabilistic principal surfaces and the negative entropy clustering, which are for the first time used in an astronomical context. Both methods have been implemented in the voneural package on the Astrogrid Virtual Observatory platform. Even though they belong to the class of the unsupervised clustering tools, the performances of the method are optimized by using the available sample of confirmed quasars and it is therefore possible to learn from any improvement in the available 'base of knowledge'. The method has been applied and tested on both optical and optical plus near-infrared data extracted from the visible Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and infrared United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey-Large Area Survey public data bases. In all cases, the experiments lead to high values of both efficiency and completeness, comparable if not better than the methods already known in the literature. A catalogue of optical candidate QSOs extracted from the SDSS Data Release 7 Legacy photometric data set has been produced.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/3856
- Title:
- QSO-galaxy pairs from SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/447/3856
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present photometric and spectroscopic measurements of 53 QSO-galaxy pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), where nebular emission lines from a 0<z<0.84 foreground galaxy are detected in the fibre spectra of a background QSO, bringing the overall sample to 103 QSO-galaxy pairs detected in the SDSS. We here study the nature of these systems. Detected foreground galaxies appear at impact parameters between 0.37 and 12.68 kpc. The presence of oxygen and Balmer emission lines allows us to determine the emission line metallicities for our sample, which are on average supersolar in value. Star formation rates for our sample are in the range 0.01-12M_{sun}_/yr. We utilize photometric redshift fitting techniques to estimate the M* values of our galaxies (logM*=7.34-11.54), and extrapolate this relationship to those galaxies with no imaging detections. Where available, we measure the absorption features present in the QSO spectrum due to the foreground galaxy and the relationships between their rest equivalent widths. We report an anticorrelation between impact parameter and E(B-V)(g-i), as well as a correlation between galaxy colour (u- r) and E(B-V)(g-i). We find that our sample is one of late-type, star-forming galaxies comparable to field galaxies in a similar redshift range, providing important clues to better understand absorption systems. These galaxies represent a sample of typical galaxies in the local Universe for which abundances, extinction, morphology, and absorption properties may be measured using background QSOs with great potential for follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/106/848
- Title:
- QSO MgII absorption line systems
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/106/848
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of a large R-band imaging survey of 71 bright (m(V)<18) quasars are presented. The quasars were chosen from published samples which have intermediate resolution optical spectroscopy available, so the presence of low redshift Mg II absorption lines can be determined. We have searched our data for galaxies close to the line-of-sight to the quasars, which we might be able to identify with the absorption systems. We find a high coincidence between galaxies very near the line-of-sight and quasars showing absorption systems in their spectra, a result consistent with other studies. These galaxies have a mean luminosity of 0.5L_star_ (assuming they lie at the absorption redshift). The distribution of impact parameters between the galaxies and the quasars extends with a flat distribution to large radii (>30h^-1^kpc). This suggests that the absorption systems may not be gravitationally bound to the observed galaxies, but may be part of larger extended systems. We also find a significant number of galaxies near the line-of-sight to the quasar where no absorption is seen in the quasar spectrum. The selection of our quasars is unbiased with respect to galaxies near the line-of-sight, so we can compare the observed number of absorption systems to that predicted by a simple model with a constant covering factor in Mg II absorbing gas within a maximum radius of each detected galaxy. The model is consistent with a covering factor of unity, but allowing for incompleteness in the detection of galaxies, the covering factor is less than unity. The redshifts of the galaxies are required to confirm this result.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/637/A89
- Title:
- QSO 2237+0305 photometry and light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/637/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasar microlensing offers a unique opportunity to resolve tiny sources in distant active galactic nuclei and study compact object populations in lensing galaxies. We therefore searched for microlensing-induced variability of the gravitationally lensed quasar QSO 2237+0305 (Einstein Cross) using 4374 optical frames taken with the 2.0m Liverpool Telescope and the 1.5m Maidanak Telescope. These gVrRI frames over the 2006-2019 period were homogeneously processed to generate accurate long-term multi-band light curves of the four quasar images A-D. Through difference light curves, we found strong microlensing signatures. We then focused on the analytical modelling of two putative caustic-crossing events in image C, finding compelling evidence that this image experienced a double caustic crossing. Additionally, our overall results indicate that a standard accretion disc accounts reasonably well for the brightness profile of UV continuum emission sources and for the growth in source radius when the emission wavelength increases: R_{lambda}_{prop.to}{lambda}^{alpha}^, {alpha}=1.33+/-0.09. However, we caution that numerical microlensing simulations are required before firm conclusions can be reached on the UV emission scenario because the VRI-band monitoring during the first caustic crossing and one of our two {alpha} indicators lead to a few good solutions with {alpha}~~1.