- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/181
- Title:
- Near Infrared Spectra of Normal Stars
- Short Name:
- III/181
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The authors present digital spectra of O to M stars, luminosity classes V, III, and Ib in the wavelength range 5750-8950{AA}, at 15.5{AA} resolution. The stars follow well defined morphological sequences in both temperature and luminosity. This wavelength region and resolution, combined with the high sensitivity of silicon-based detectors, are very useful for spectral classification. Details of the observations, identifications of the main spectral features, and spectral lines most sensitive to temperature and luminosity are given in the paper.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/640/579
- Title:
- Near-infrared spectra of 27 SDSS quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/640/579
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a near-infrared quasar composite spectrum spanning the wavelength range 0.58-3.5um. The spectrum has been constructed from observations of 27 quasars obtained at the NASA IRTF telescope and satisfying the criteria Ks<14.5 and M_i_<-23; the redshift range is 0.118<z<0.418. The signal-to-noise ratio is moderate, reaching a maximum of 150 between 1.6 and 1.9um. While a power-law fit to the continuum of the composite spectrum requires two breaks, a single power-law slope of alpha=-0.92 plus a 1260K blackbody provides an excellent description of the spectrum from H{alpha} to 3.5um, strongly suggesting the presence of significant quantities of hot dust in this blue-selected quasar sample. We measure intensities and line widths for 10 lines, finding that the Paschen line ratios rule out case B recombination. We compute K-corrections for the J, H, K, and Spitzer 3.6um bands, which will be useful in analyzing observations of quasars up to z=10.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/987
- Title:
- Near-infrared survey of R CrA cloud
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/488/987
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To understand low- to intermediate-mass star-formation in the nearby R CrA molecular cloud, we try to identify the stellar content that is accessible with near-infrared observations. We obtained a JHKs band mosaic of ~10'x60' covering the entire R CrA molecular cloud with unprecedented sensitivity. We present a catalogue of about 3500 near-infrared sources fainter than the saturation limit Ks~10mag, reaching Ks~18mag. We analysed the extended sources by inspecting their morphology and point sources by means of colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams. Additionally, we compared the extinction inferred from the NIR data with the line-of-sight dust emission at 1.2mm. Sources towards high dust emission but relatively low H-Ks show a projected mm-excess; these sources are either immediately surrounded by cold circumstellar material or, if too red to be a true foreground object, they are embedded in the front layer of the 1.2mm emitting dust cloud. In both cases they are most likely associated with the cloud.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/437/1135
- Title:
- Near-IR astrometry of Southern ICRF quasars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/437/1135
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present high quality astrometry, along with J, H, and Ks photometry, for 30 southern International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) quasars observed with the ESO NTT/SOFI at La Silla. Our main purpose is to document the optical counterpart of ICRF quasars, by reporting their position in a stellar reference frame and their near-infrared photometry. Our investigation lies within the scope of extending the (radio) extragalactic reference frame into the optical range. An internal precision generally better than 10mas was obtained in positioning the near-infrared counterpart of these quasars within their stellar surroundings. The actual astrometric accuracy is estimated from the departure between the observed and the radio (VLBI) positions of quasars, and is about 35mas, mainly due to the statistical uncertainties of the stellar reference catalogue (UCAC2, Cat. <I/289>). The positional accuracy was improved to 25mas for a subset of 14 quasars observed with extended fields of view, as obtained from mosaics of overlapping images. The 3-band photometry was achieved with a precision most often better than 0.04mag, based on calibration with the 2MASS magnitudes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/579/A130
- Title:
- Near-IR BN/KL outflow images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/579/A130
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Adaptive optics images are used to test the hypothesis that the explosive BN/KL outflow from the Orion OMC1 cloud core was powered by the dynamical decay of a non-hierarchical system of massive stars. Narrow-band H_2_, [FeII], and broad-band Ks obtained with the Gemini South multi-conjugate adaptive optics (AO) system GeMS and near-infrared imager GSAOI are presented. The images reach resolutions of 0.08 to 0.10" to the 0.07" diffraction limit of the 8-meter telescope at 2.12um. Comparison with previous AO-assisted observations of sub-fields and other ground-based observations enable measurements of proper motions and the investigation of morphological changes in H_2_ and [FeII] features with unprecedented precision. The images are compared with numerical simulations of compact, high-density clumps moving ~10^3^ times their own diameter through a lower density medium at Mach 10^3^.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/481/123
- Title:
- Near-IR IFU spectroscopy of HH99B
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/481/123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We aim at characterising the morphology and the physical parameters governing the shock physics of the Herbig-Haro object HH99B. We obtained SINFONI-SPIFFI IFU spectroscopy (R~2000-4000) between 1.10 and 2.45{mu}m detecting more than 170 emission lines, that, to a large extent, have never observed before in a Herbig-Haro object. Most of them come from ro-vibrational transitions of molecular hydrogen (v_up_<=7, E_up_~<38000K) and [FeII] (E_up_~<30000K). In addition, we observed several hydrogen and helium recombination lines, along with fine-structure lines of ionic species. All the brightest lines appear resolved in velocity. Intensity ratios of ionic lines were compared with predictions of NLTE models to derive bi-dimensional maps of extinction and electron density, along with estimates of temperature, fractional ionisation, and atomic hydrogen post-shock density. The H2 line intensities were interpreted in the framework of Boltzmann diagrams, from which we have derived extinction and temperature maps of the molecular gas. From the intensity maps of bright lines (i.e. H2 2.122{mu}m and [FeII]1.644{mu}m), the kinematical properties of the shock(s) at work in the region were delineated. Finally, from selected [FeII] lines, constraints on the spontaneous emission coefficients of the 1.257, 1.321, and 1.644{mu}m lines are provided.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A127
- Title:
- Near-IR integral field spectra of 15 M-L dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- At young ages, low surface gravity affects the atmospheric properties of ultracool dwarfs. The impact on medium-resolution near-infrared (NIR) spectra has only been slightly investigated at the M-L transition sofar. We present a library of near-infrared (1.1-2.45um) medium-resolution (R~1500-2000) integral field spectra of 15 young M6-L0 dwarfs. We aim at deriving updated NIR spectral type, luminosity and physical parameters (Teff, logg, M, L/L_{sun}_) of each source. This work also aims at testing the latest generation of BT-SETTL atmospheric models. We estimated spectral types using spectral indices and spectra of reference young objects classified in the optical. We used the 2010 and 2012 releases of the BT-SETTL synthetic spectral grid and cross-checked the results with the DRIFT-PHOENIX models to derive the atmospheric properties of the sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/755/158
- Title:
- Near-IR interferometry of nova Vul 2007
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/755/158
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We used the Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) to resolve 2.2{mu}m emission from the classical nova V458 Vul 2007 over the course of several days following its discovery on 2007 August 8.54 UT. We also obtained K-band photometric data and spectra of the nova during the early days of the outburst. We also used photometric measurements from the AAVSO database. This is a unique data set offering a three-technique approach: high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and photometry. Our analysis shows that the nova ejecta can be modeled as an inclined disk at low inclination, i.e., low ellipticity which is consistent with the nova being in the fireball phase at which the outflowing gas is optically thick, confirmed by the presence of strong P-Cygni Balmer lines in the spectra. The expansion velocity is {approx}1700km/s, derived from the H{alpha} line. By combining the nova's angular expansion rate measured by PTI with the expansion rate measured from spectroscopy, the inferred distance to the nova is 9.9-11.4kpc. We also used the K-band fluxes and the derived size of the emission to estimate the total mass ejected from the nova {approx}4x10^-4^M_{sun}_. The quick transition of the nova from Fe II to He/N class makes V458 Vul 2007 a hybrid nova.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/376/982
- Title:
- Near-IR observations of young binaries
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/376/982
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using near-infrared speckle interferometry we have obtained resolved JHK-photometry for the components of 58 young binary systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/557/A82
- Title:
- Near-IR polarimetry of Galactic center sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/557/A82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Infrared observations of the Galactic center (GC) provide a unique opportunity to study stellar and bow-shock polarization effects in a dusty environment. The goals of this work are to present new Ks- and Lp-band polarimetry on an unprecedented number of sources in the central parsec of the GC, thereby expanding our previous results in the H- and Ks-bands. We use AO-assisted Ks- and Lp-band observations, obtained at the ESO VLT. High precision photometry and the new polarimetric calibration method for NACO allow us to map the polarization in a region of 8"x25" (Ks) resp. 26"x28" (Lp). These are the first polarimetric observations of the GC in the Lp-band in 30 years, with vastly improved spatial resolution compared to previous results. This allows resolved polarimetry on bright bow-shock sources in this area for the first time at this wavelength.