- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/239/26
- Title:
- NOFS astrometric measurements for distant WDs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/239/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents new trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions for 214 stars. The measurements were made at the US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station between 1989 and 2017, and the average uncertainty in the parallax values is 0.6mas. We find good agreement with Gaia Data Release 2 measurements for the stars in common, although there may be a small systematic offset similar to what has been found by other investigators. The sample is matched to catalogs and the literature to create a photometric data set that spans the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared. New mid-infrared photometry is obtained for 19 stars from archived Spitzer mosaics. New optical spectroscopy is presented for seven systems and additional spectra were obtained from the literature. We identify a subsample of 179 white dwarfs (WDs) at distances of 25-200pc. Their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are analyzed using model atmospheres. The models reproduce the entire flux-calibrated SED very well and provide the atmospheric chemical composition, temperature, surface gravity, mass, and cooling age of each WD. Twenty-six WDs are newly classified, and 12 systems are presented as candidate unresolved binaries. We confirm one WD+red dwarf system and identify two WDs as candidate dust disk systems. Twelve old and high-velocity systems are identified as candidate thick disk or halo objects. The WDs in the sample generally have Galactic disk-like ages of <8Gyr and masses close to the canonical 0.6M_{sun}_.
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- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/748/14
- Title:
- ONC population data from WFI observations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/748/14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new census of the Orion Nebula Cluster over a large field of view (>~30'x30'), significantly increasing the known population of stellar and substellar cluster members with precisely determined properties. We develop and exploit a technique to determine stellar effective temperatures from optical colors, nearly doubling the previously available number of objects with effective temperature determinations in this benchmark cluster. Our technique utilizes colors from deep photometry in the I band and in two medium-band filters at {lambda}~753 and 770nm, which accurately measure the depth of a molecular feature present in the spectra of cool stars. From these colors we can derive effective temperatures with a precision corresponding to better than one-half spectral subtype, and importantly this precision is independent of the extinction to the individual stars. Also, because this technique utilizes only photometry redward of 750nm, the results are only mildly sensitive to optical veiling produced by accretion. Completing our census with previously available data, we place some 1750 sources in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and assign masses and ages down to 0.02M_{sun}_. At faint luminosities, we detect a large population of background sources which is easily separated in our photometry from the bona fide cluster members. The resulting initial mass function of the cluster has good completeness well into the substellar mass range, and we find that it declines steeply with decreasing mass. This suggests a deficiency of newly formed brown dwarfs in the cluster compared to the Galactic disk population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/722/1092
- Title:
- Optical photometry of the ONC. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/722/1092
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new analysis of the stellar population of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) based on multi-band optical photometry and spectroscopy. We study the color-color diagrams in BVI, plus a narrowband filter centered at 6200{AA}, finding evidence that intrinsic color scales valid for main-sequence dwarfs are incompatible with the ONC in the M spectral-type range, while a better agreement is found employing intrinsic colors derived from synthetic photometry, constraining the surface gravity value as predicted by a pre-main-sequence isochrone. We refine these model colors even further, empirically, by comparison with a selected sample of ONC stars with no accretion and no extinction. We consider the stars with known spectral types from the literature, and extend this sample with the addition of 65 newly classified stars from slit spectroscopy and 182 M-type from narrowband photometry; in this way, we isolate a sample of about 1000 stars with known spectral type. We introduce a new method to self-consistently derive the stellar reddening and the optical excess due to accretion from the location of each star in the BVI color-color diagram. This enables us to accurately determine the extinction of the ONC members, together with an estimate of their accretion luminosities. We adopt a lower distance for the Orion Nebula than previously assumed, based on recent parallax measurements. With a careful choice of also the spectral-type-temperature transformation, we produce the new Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the ONC population, more populated than previous works.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/46
- Title:
- Opt. photometry of SMUDGes ultra-diffuse galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first systematic study of the stellar populations of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the field, integrating the large area search and characterization of UDGs by the SMUDGes survey with the twelve-band optical photometry of the S-PLUS survey. Based on Bayesian modeling of the optical colors of UDGs, we determine the ages, metallicities, and stellar masses of 100 UDGs distributed in an area of ~330deg^2^ in the Stripe 82 region. We find that the stellar masses and metallicities of field UDGs are similar to those observed in clusters and follow the trends previously defined in studies of dwarf and giant galaxies. However, field UDGs have younger luminosity- weighted ages than do UDGs in clusters. We interpret this result to mean that field UDGs have more extended star formation histories, including some that continue to form stars at low levels to the present time. Finally, we examine stellar population scaling relations that show that UDGs are, as a population, similar to other low surface brightness galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/889/L34
- Title:
- Oscillations in red giants from TESS data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/889/L34
- Date:
- 17 Jan 2022 00:14:58
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Since the onset of the "space revolution" of high-precision high-cadence photometry, asteroseismology has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for informing Galactic archeology investigations. The launch of the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has enabled seismic-based inferences to go full sky-providing a clear advantage for large ensemble studies of the different Milky Way components. Here we demonstrate its potential for investigating the Galaxy by carrying out the first asteroseismic ensemble study of red giant stars observed by TESS. We use a sample of 25 stars for which we measure their global asteroseimic observables and estimate their fundamental stellar properties, such as radius, mass, and age. Significant improvements are seen in the uncertainties of our estimates when combining seismic observables from TESS with astrometric measurements from the Gaia mission compared to when the seismology and astrometry are applied separately. Specifically, when combined we show that stellar radii can be determined to a precision of a few percent, masses to 5%-10%, and ages to the 20% level. This is comparable to the precision typically obtained using end-of-mission Kepler data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/764/78
- Title:
- Oxygen abundances in nearby FGK stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/764/78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Atmospheric parameters and oxygen abundances of 825 nearby FGK stars are derived using high-quality spectra and a non-local thermodynamic equilibrium analysis of the 777nm OI triplet lines. We assign a kinematic probability for the stars to be thin-disk (P_1_), thick-disk (P_2_), and halo (P_3_) members. We confirm previous findings of enhanced [O/Fe] in thick-disk (P_2_>0.5) relative to thin-disk (P_1_>0.5) stars with [Fe/H]<~-0.2, as well as a "knee" that connects the mean [O/Fe]-[Fe/H] trend of thick-disk stars with that of thin-disk members at [Fe/H]>~-0.2. Nevertheless, we find that the kinematic membership criterion fails at separating perfectly the stars in the [O/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane, even when a very restrictive kinematic separation is employed. Stars with "intermediate" kinematics (P_1_<0.7, P_2_<0.7) do not all populate the region of the [O/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane intermediate between the mean thin-disk and thick-disk trends, but their distribution is not necessarily bimodal. Halo stars (P_3_>0.5) show a large star-to-star scatter in [O/Fe]-[Fe/H], but most of it is due to stars with Galactocentric rotational velocity V<-200km/s; halo stars with V>-200km/s follow an [O/Fe]-[Fe/H] relation with almost no star-to-star scatter. Early mergers with satellite galaxies explain most of our observations, but the significant fraction of disk stars with "ambiguous" kinematics and abundances suggests that scattering by molecular clouds and radial migration have both played an important role in determining the kinematic and chemical properties of solar neighborhood stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/19
- Title:
- Pan-Pacific Planet Search (PPPS). V. 164 stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic stellar parameters for the complete target list of 164 evolved stars from the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a five-year radial velocity campaign using the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. For 87 of these bright giants, our work represents the first determination of their fundamental parameters. Our results carry typical uncertainties of 100K, 0.15dex, and 0.1dex in T_eff_, logg, and [Fe/H] and are consistent with literature values where available. The derived stellar masses have a mean of 1.31_-0.25_^+0.28^M_{Sun}_, with a tail extending to ~2M_{Sun}_, consistent with the interpretation of these targets as "retired" A-F type stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/466/627
- Title:
- Parameters of DA white dwarfs in SDSS-DR1
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/466/627
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The SDSS Data Release 1 includes 1833 DA white dwarfs (WDs) and forms the largest homogeneous sample of WDs. This sample provides the best opportunity to study the statistical properties of WDs. We adopt a recently established theoretical model to calculate the mass and distance of each WD using the observational data. Then we adopt a bin-correction method to correct for selection effects and use the 1/V weight-factor method to calculate the luminosity function, the continuous mass function and the formation rate of these WDs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/6
- Title:
- Parameters of Kepler stars using LAMOST & seismic data
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to precisely determine the evolutionary status and fundamental properties of stars. With the unprecedented precision and nearly continuous photometric data acquired by the NASA Kepler mission, parameters of more than 10^4^ stars have been determined nearly consistently. However, most studies still use photometric effective temperatures (Teff) and metallicities ([Fe/H]) as inputs, which are not sufficiently accurate as suggested by previous studies. We adopted the spectroscopic Teff and [Fe/H] values based on the LAMOST low-resolution spectra (R~1,800), and combined them with the global oscillation parameters to derive the physical parameters of a large sample of stars. Clear trends were found between {Delta}logg(LAMOST-seismic) and spectroscopic Teff as well as logg, which may result in an overestimation of up to 0.5dex for the logg of giants in the LAMOST catalog. We established empirical calibration relations for the logg values of dwarfs and giants. These results can be used for determining the precise distances to these stars based on their spectroscopic parameters.
