- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/554/A123
- Title:
- Near-IR catalog of novae in VVV survey area
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/554/A123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Near-infrared data on classical novae contain useful information about the ejected gas mass and the thermal emission by dust formed during eruption, and provide independent methods to classify the objects according to the colour of their progenitors, and the fading rate and features seen after eruption. The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey (VVV) is a near-IR ESO Public Survey mapping the Milky Way bulge and southern plane. Data taken during 2010-2011 covered the entire area in the JHKs bands plus some epochs in Ks-band of the ongoing VVV variability campaign. We used the VVV data to create a near-IR catalogue of the known Galactic novae in the 562 sq. deg. area covered by VVV. We also compiled the information about novae from the variability tables of the VVV variability campaign.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/124/127
- Title:
- Near IR Imaging of Early-Type Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/124/127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An imaging survey of 341 nearby early-type galaxies in the near-infrared K-band atmospheric window (2.2{micron}) is described. The galaxies primarily reside in 13 nearby rich clusters (85%), while some additional galaxies are drawn from loose groups (12%) and the general field (3%). Surface photometry was measured for the entire sample. Detailed corrections were derived from an extensive grid of seeing-convolved r^1/4^ models and then applied to the isophotal surface brightness, aperture magnitude, and ellipticity profiles. Global photometric parameters were derived from this seeing-corrected photometry. More than 25% of the sample has been observed at least twice, and these repeat measurements demonstrate the small internal uncertainties on the derived global photometric parameters. Extensive comparisons with aperture photometry from the literature demonstrate that the photometric system is fully consistent with other photometric systems to <=0.01mag and confirm the estimates of internal random uncertainties. Additional global parameters are drawn from the literature in a homogeneous manner in order to construct a large catalog of galaxy properties: 95% of the galaxies have a velocity dispersion, 69% have a Mg_2_ index, 80% have an optical r_eff_ and {mu}_eff_, 82% have a D_n_, and 81% have a derived optical - infrared color measurement. This large data set provides excellent source material for investigations of the physical origins of the global scaling relations of early-type galaxies, velocity fields in the local universe, and comparisons to higher redshift early-type galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/7
- Title:
- Near-IR imaging of Hipparcos astrometric binaries
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/144/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A subset of 51 Hipparcos astrometric binaries among FG dwarfs within 67pc has been surveyed with the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager adaptive optics system at Gemini-S, directly resolving for the first time 17 subarcsecond companions and 7 wider ones. Using these data together with published speckle interferometry of 57 stars, we compare the statistics of resolved astrometric companions with those of a simulated binary population. The fraction of resolved companions is slightly lower than expected from binary statistics. About 10% of astrometric companions could be "dark" (white dwarfs and close pairs of late M-dwarfs). To our surprise, several binaries are found with companions too wide to explain the acceleration. Re-analysis of selected intermediate astrometric data shows that some acceleration solutions in the original Hipparcos catalog are spurious.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/106/165
- Title:
- Near-IR imaging photometry of NGC 1333
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/106/165
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present near-IR (NIR) J, H and K mosaic images of the active star forming region associated with the optical reflection nebula NGC 1333. These observations cover an area of 10'x10' and are centered on the energetic outflow source SSV 13. From these data, we have obtained NIR photometry of 134 objects down to a 5{sigma} limiting K magnitude of mK=16.2 and a conservative survey completeness limit of mK=16.0. With the addition of new optical R and I band CCD photometry, and both (sub)mm line and continuum maps, we analyse and discuss the region's morphology and spatial source distribution with additional reference to existing multi-wavelength data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/721/1663
- Title:
- Near-IR matches of X-ray sources in Gal. Center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/721/1663
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory has now discovered nearly 10000 X-ray point sources in the 2{deg}x0.8{deg} region around the Galactic Center. The sources are likely to be a population of accreting binaries in the Galactic Center, but little else is known of their nature. We obtained JHKs imaging of the 17'x17' region around Sgr A*, an area containing 4339 of these X-ray sources, with the ISPI camera on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 4m telescope. We cross-correlate the Chandra and ISPI catalogs to find potential IR counterparts to the X-ray sources. The extreme IR source crowding in the field means that it is not possible to establish the authenticity of the matches with astrometry and photometry alone. We find 2137 IR/X-ray astrometrically matched sources: statistically, we estimate that our catalog contains 289+/-13 true matches to soft X-ray sources and 154+/-39 matches to hard X-ray sources. However, the fraction of true counterparts to candidate counterparts for hard sources is just 11%, compared to 60% for soft sources, making hard source NIR matches particularly challenging for spectroscopic follow-up. We calculate a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) for the matches to hard X-ray sources, and find regions where significant numbers of the IR matches are real. We use their CMD positions to place limits on the absolute Ks-band magnitudes of the potential NIR counterparts to hard X-ray sources. We find regions of the counterpart CMD with 9+/-3 likely Wolf-Rayet/supergiant binaries (with four spectroscopically confirmed in the literature) as well as 44+/-13 candidates that could consist of either main-sequence high mass X-ray binaries or red giants with an accreting compact companion. In order to aid spectroscopic follow-up, we sort the candidate counterpart catalog on the basis of IR and X-ray properties to determine which source characteristics increase the probability of a true match. We find a set of 98 IR matches to hard X-ray sources with reddenings consistent with GC distances which have a 45% probability of being true counterparts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/750/93
- Title:
- Near-IR observations of XMM-LSS J02182-05102
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/750/93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss the structural and morphological properties of galaxies in a z=1.62 proto-cluster using near-IR imaging data from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 data of the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). The cluster galaxies exhibit a clear color-morphology relation: galaxies with colors of quiescent stellar populations generally have morphologies consistent with spheroids, and galaxies with colors consistent with ongoing star formation have disk-like and irregular morphologies. The size distribution of the quiescent cluster galaxies shows a deficit of compact (<~1kpc), massive galaxies compared to CANDELS field galaxies at z=1.6. As a result, the cluster quiescent galaxies have larger average effective sizes compared to field galaxies at fixed mass at greater than 90% significance. Combined with data from the literature, the size evolution of quiescent cluster galaxies is relatively slow from z=~1.6 to the present, growing as (1+z)^-0.6+/-0.1^. If this result is generalizable, then it implies that physical processes associated with the denser cluster region seem to have caused accelerated size growth in quiescent galaxies prior to z=1.6 and slower subsequent growth at z<1.6 compared to galaxies in the lower density field. The quiescent cluster galaxies at z=1.6 have higher ellipticities compared to lower redshift samples at fixed mass, and their surface-brightness profiles suggest that they contain extended stellar disks. We argue that the cluster galaxies require dissipationless (i.e., gas-poor or "dry") mergers to reorganize the disk material and to match the relations for ellipticity, stellar mass, size, and color of early-type galaxies in z<1 clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/564/L9
- Title:
- Near-IR photometry in VVV CL08
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/564/L9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Young massive clusters are key to map the Milky Way's structure, and near-IR large area sky surveys have contributed strongly to the discovery of new obscured massive stellar clusters. We present the third article in a series of papers focused on young and massive clusters discovered in the VVV survey. This article is dedicated to the physical characterization of VVV CL086, using part of its OB-stellar population. We physically characterized the cluster using JHKs near-infrared photometry from ESO public survey VVV images, using the VVV-SkZ pipeline, and near-infrared K-band spectroscopy, following the methodology presented in the first article of the series. Individual distances for two observed stars indicate that the cluster is located at the far edge of the Galactic bar. These stars, which are probable cluster members from the statistically field-star decontaminated CMD, have spectral types between O9 and B0V. According to our analysis, this young cluster (1.0Myr<age<5.0Myr) is located at a distance of 11kpc, and we estimate a lower limit for the cluster total mass of 2800 solar masses. It is likely that the cluster contains even earlier and more massive stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/437/61
- Title:
- Near-IR photometry of AGB stars in NGC 185
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/437/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- J, H and K' images obtained with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope were used to investigate the stellar contents of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) in the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 185. The bright parts of (K, J-K) and (K, H-K) color-magnitude diagrams consist of a group of brights blue stars, a dominant populations of M-giants, and a red C star population. There were 73 C stars with a mean magnitude of <K>=16.26+/-0.38, corresponding to <M_K_>=-7.93 and mean colors of <(J-k)_0_>=2.253 and <(H-K)_0_>=0.865. The number ratio of C stars to M-giants was estimated to be 0.11+/-0.04 without any radial gradient from the center of NGC 185. The (J-K) and (H-K) color distributions of AGB stars showed an M-giant pick, blue and red tails, where the latter two correspond to AGB stars younger than those along M-giant peak and C stars. The bolometric luminosity functions of M-giants and C stars indicated that the M-giant AGB sequence has terminated at M_bol_=-6.2, while the most luminous C star very similar to that of Nowotny et al. (2003, Cat. <J/A+A/403/93>) which was derived from VI band photometry. The logarithmic slope of the luminosity function for bright M-giant stars was estimated to be 0.83+/-0.02 in K band. Theoritical isochrone models, compared with the observed near-infrared photometric properties of AGB stars, indicated that the star formation in NGC 185 has a wide range of age span with possibly two different epochs of star formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/454/717
- Title:
- Near-IR photometry of C and AGB stars in NGC 6822
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/454/717
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Images of JHK and gi obtained with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope are used to investigate the stellar contents of the resolved asymptotic giant branch (AGB) population in the area of 3.6'x6.3' on the central bar of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. The upper envelope of near-infrared (J-K, K) and (H-K, K) color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) shows four components of main-sequence stars, foreground stars, massive supergiants, and AGB stars. These components are also noticeable in the bright part of (g-i, g) CMD. We select AGB stars in NGC 6822 from the (g-K, g) CMD, which has a long spectral wavelength base line in the color index. There are 141 C stars with a mean absolute magnitude of <M_K_>=-7.60+/-0.50, and with mean colors of <(J-K)_o_>=1.77+/-0.41, and <(H-K)_o_>=0.75+/-0.28. The number ratio of C stars to M-giants (C/M) is estimated as 0.27+/-0.03, while the northern part of the bar has a somewhat lower C/M ratio than the southern part. The (J-K) and (H-K) color distributions of AGB stars contain a main peak of M-giant stars and a red tail of C stars. The broad color distributions for M-giants indicate that NGC 6822 has a wide range of intermediate ages with a peak at log(t_yr_)~9.0. The M_K_ luminosity function (LF) for C stars in the central bar of NGC 6822 is likely to be a Gaussian distribution, while the LF of C stars in the southern part is slightly skewed to the brighter side than in northern part. The mean bolometric magnitude of 141 C stars in NGC 6822 is <M_bol_>=-4.36+/-0.54. The bolometric LF for M-giants extends up to M_bol_=-6.5, while the one for C stars spans -5.8<M_bol_<-3.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/543/A35
- Title:
- Near-IR photometry of C stars in NGC 205
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/543/A35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigated the distribution of resolved asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars over a much larger area than covered by previous near-infrared studies in the nearby dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 205. Using data obtained with the WIRCam near-infrared imager of the CFHT, we selected the AGB stars in the JHKs color - magnitude diagrams, and separated the C stars from M-giant stars in the JHKs color - color diagram. We identified 1,550 C stars in NGC 205 with a mean absolute magnitude of <M_Ks>=-7.49+/-0.54, and colors of <(J-K)_0>=1.81+/-0.41 and <(H-Ks)_0>=0.76+/-0.24. The ratio of C stars to M-giant stars was estimated to be 0.15+/-0.01 in NGC 205, and the local C/M ratios for the southern region are somewhat lower than those for the northern region. The (J-K) color distributions of AGB stars contain the main peak of the M-giant stars and the red tail of the C stars. A comparison of the theoretical isochrone models with the observed color distribution indicates that most of the bright M-giant stars in NGC 205 were formed at log(t_yr_)~9.0-9.7. The logarithmic slope of the M_Ks_ luminosity function for M-giant stars was estimated to be 0.84+/-0.01, which is comparable with dwarf elliptical galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185. Furthermore, we found that the logarithmic slopes of the M_Ks_ luminosity function for C and M-giant stars are different to places, implying a different star formation history within NGC 205. The bolometric luminosity function for M-giant stars extends to M_bol_=-6.0mag, and that for C stars spans -5.6<M_bol_<-3.0. The bolometric luminosity function of C stars is unlikely to be a Gaussian distribution and the mean bolometric magnitude of C stars is estimated to be M_bol_=-4.24+/-0.55, which is consistent with our results for dwarf elliptical galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185.
