- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/437/3603
- Title:
- NIR proper motion catalogue from UKIDSS-LAS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/437/3603
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) began in 2005, with the start of the UKIDSS programme as a 7 year effort to survey roughly 4000deg^2^ at high Galactic latitudes in Y, J, H and K bands. The survey also included a significant quantity of two epoch J band observations, with an epoch baseline greater than 2 years to calculate proper motions. We present a near-infrared proper motion catalogue for the 1500deg^2^ of the two epoch LAS data, which includes 135625 stellar sources and a further 88324 with ambiguous morphological classifications, all with motions detected above the 5{sigma} level. We developed a custom proper motion pipeline which we describe here. Our catalogue agrees well with the proper motion data supplied for a 300deg^2^ subset in the current Wide Field Camera Science Archive (WSA) 10th data release (DR10) catalogue, and in various optical catalogues, but it benefits from a larger matching radius and hence a larger upper proper motion detection limit. We provide absolute proper motions, using LAS galaxies for the relative to absolute correction. By using local second-order polynomial transformations, as opposed to linear transformations in the WSA, we correct better for any local distortions in the focal plane, not including the radial distortion that is removed by the UKIDSS pipeline. We present the results of proper motion searches for new brown dwarfs and white dwarfs. We discuss 41 sources in the WSA DR10 overlap with our catalogue with proper motions >300mas/yr, several of which are new detections. We present 15 new candidate ultracool dwarf binary systems.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/190/100
- Title:
- NIR proper motion survey using 2MASS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/190/100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a 4030deg^2^ near-infrared proper motion survey using multi-epoch data from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). We find 2778 proper motion candidates, 647 of which are not listed in SIMBAD. After comparison to Digitized Sky Survey images, we find that 107 of our proper motion candidates lack counterparts at B, R, and I bands and are thus 2MASS-only detections. We present results of spectroscopic follow-up of 188 targets that include the infrared-only sources along with selected optical-counterpart sources with faint reduced proper motions or interesting colors. We also establish a set of near-infrared spectroscopic standards with which to anchor near-infrared classifications for our objects. Among the discoveries are six young field brown dwarfs, five "red L" dwarfs, three L-type subdwarfs, twelve M-type subdwarfs, eight "blue L" dwarfs, and several T dwarfs. We further refine the definitions of these exotic classes to aid future identification of similar objects. We examine their kinematics and find that both the "blue L" and "red L" dwarfs appear to be drawn from a relatively old population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/194/10
- Title:
- NIR properties of YSO in the CCCP
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/194/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Great Nebula in Carina (NGC 3372) is the best target to study in detail the process of violent massive star formation and the resulting feedback effects of cloud dispersal and triggered star formation. While the population of massive stars is rather well studied, the associated low-mass stellar population was largely unknown up to now. The near-infrared study in this paper builds on the results of the Chandra Carina Complex Project, that detected 14368 X-ray sources in the 1.4deg^2^ survey region, an automatic source classification study that classified 10714 of these X-ray sources as very likely young stars in Carina, and an analysis of the clustering properties of the X-ray-selected Carina members. In order to determine physical properties of the X-ray-selected stars, most of which were previously unstudied, we used HAWK-I at the ESO Very Large Telescope to conduct a very deep near-IR survey with subarcsecond angular resolution, covering an area of about 1280arcmin^2^. The HAWK-I images reveal more than 600000 individual infrared sources, whereby objects as faint as J~23, H~22, and Ks~21 are detected at signal-to-noise ratio (S/N)>=3. While less than half of the Chandra X-ray sources have counterparts in the Two Micron All Sky Survey catalog, the ~5mag deeper HAWK-I data reveal infrared counterparts to 6636 (=88.8%) of the 7472 Chandra X-ray sources in the HAWK-I field. We analyze near-infrared color-color and color-magnitude diagrams to derive information about the extinctions, infrared excesses (as tracers for circumstellar disks), ages, and masses of the X-ray-selected objects.
2074. NIR sources in S106
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/1608
- Title:
- NIR sources in S106
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/1608
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of deep near-infrared observations searching for very low mass young stellar objects (YSOs) in the massive star-forming region of S106 taken with the Subaru Telescope. The survey, whose limiting magnitude exceeds 20mag in the JHK' bands, is sensitive enough to provide unprecedented details in the two nebular lobes. In addition, it reveals a census of the stellar population down to objects below the deuterium-burning limit, a fiducial boundary between brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects. Based on color-color diagrams, nearly 600 embedded YSO candidates with near-infrared excesses have been identified in an area of ~5'x5' that are not uniformly distributed but centrally concentrated.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/222/2
- Title:
- NIR sources in the northeastern part of LMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/222/2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a near-infrared band-merged photometric and polarimetric catalog for the 39'x69' fields in the northeastern part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which were observed using SIRPOL, an imaging polarimeter of the InfraRed Survey Facility. This catalog lists 1858 sources brighter than 14mag in the H band with a polarization signal-to-noise ratio greater than three in the J, H, or K_s_ bands. Based on the relationship between the extinction and the polarization degree, we argue that the polarization mostly arises from dichroic extinctions caused by local interstellar dust in the LMC. This catalog allows us to map polarization structures to examine the global geometry of the local magnetic field, and to show a statistical analysis of the polarization of each field to understand its polarization properties. In the selected fields with coherent polarization position angles, we estimate magnetic field strengths in the range of 3-25{mu}G using the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method. This implies the presence of large-scale magnetic fields on a scale of around 100 parsecs. When comparing mid- and far-infrared dust emission maps, we confirmed that the polarization patterns are well aligned with molecular clouds around the star-forming regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/808/106
- Title:
- NIR spectroscopic obs. in the Galactic Center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/808/106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the outer edges of the young stellar cluster around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. The observations show a break in the surface density profile of young stars at ~13" (0.52pc). These observations spectroscopically confirm previous suggestions of a break based on photometry. Using Gemini North's Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer, we are able to detect and separate early- and late-type stars with a 75% completeness at K_s_=15.5. We sample a region with radii between 7" and 23" (0.28-0.92pc) from Sgr A* and present new spectral classifications of 144 stars brighter than K_s_=15.5, where 140 stars are late-type (>1Gyr) and only four stars are early-type (young, 4-6Myr). A broken power-law fit of the early-type surface density matches well with our data and previously published values. The projected surface density of late-type stars is also measured and found to be consistent with previous results. We find that the observed early-type surface-density profile is inconsistent with the theory of young stars originating from a tightly bound infalling cluster, as no significant trail of young stars is found at radii above 13". We also note that either a simple disk instability criterion or a cloud-cloud collision could explain the location of the outer edge, though we lack information to make conclusive remarks on either alternative. If this break in surface density represents an edge to the young stellar cluster, it would set an important scale for the most recent episode of star formation at the Galactic center.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/149
- Title:
- NIR spectroscopy of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/143/149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We are continuing a J, K and narrowband imaging survey of 300{deg}^2^ of the plane of the Galaxy, searching for new Wolf-Rayet (W-R) stars. Our survey spans 150{deg} in Galactic longitude and reaches 1{deg} above and below the Galactic plane. The survey has a useful limiting magnitude of K=15 over most of the observed Galactic plane, and K=14 (due to severe crowding) within a few degrees of the Galactic center. Thousands of emission-line candidates have been detected. In spectrographic follow-ups of 146 relatively bright W-R star candidates, we have re-examined 11 previously known WC and WN stars and discovered 71 new W-R stars, 17 of type WN and 54 of type WC. Our latest image analysis pipeline now picks out W-R stars with a 57% success rate. Star subtype assignments have been confirmed with the K-band spectra and distances approximated using the method of spectroscopic parallax. Some of the new W-R stars are among the most distant known in our Galaxy. The distribution of these new W-R stars is beginning to trace the locations of massive stars along the distant spiral arms of the Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/452/2858
- Title:
- NIR spectroscopy of Galactic WR stars. III
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/452/2858
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A new method of image subtraction is applied to images from a J, K, and narrow-band imaging survey of 300 deg2 of the plane of the Galaxy, searching for new Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. Our survey spans 150{deg} in Galactic longitude and reaches b=+/-1{deg} with respect to the Galactic plane. The survey has a useful limiting magnitude of K=15 over most of the observed Galactic plane, and K=14 (due to severe crowding) within a few degrees of the Galactic Centre. The new image subtraction method described here (better than aperture or even point-spread-function photometry in very crowded fields) detected several thousand emission-line candidates. In 2011 and 2012 June and July, we spectroscopically followed up on 333 candidates with MDM-TIFKAM and Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)-SpeX, discovering 89 emission-line sources. These include 49 WR stars, 43 of them previously unidentified, including the most distant known Galactic WR stars, more than doubling the number on the far side of the Milky Way. We also demonstrate our survey's ability to detect very faint planetary nebulae and other NIR emission objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/854/117
- Title:
- NIR stellar populations in Sextans A and Leo A
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/854/117
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present JHKs observations of the metal-poor ([Fe/H]{<}-1.40) dwarf-irregular galaxies, Leo A and Sextans A, obtained with the WIYN High-resolution Infrared Camera at Kitt Peak. Their near-IR stellar populations are characterized by using a combination of color-magnitude diagrams and by identifying long-period variable stars. We detected red giant and asymptotic giant branch stars, consistent with membership of the galaxy's intermediate-age populations (2-8Gyr old). Matching our data to broadband optical and mid-IR photometry, we determine luminosities, temperatures, and dust-production rates (DPR) for each star. We identify 32 stars in LeoA and 101 stars in Sextans A with a DPR>10^-11^M_{sun}_/yr, confirming that metal-poor stars can form substantial amounts of dust. We also find tentative evidence for oxygen-rich dust formation at low metallicity, contradicting previous models that suggest oxygen-rich dust production is inhibited in metal-poor environments. The total rates of dust injection into the interstellar medium of Leo A and Sextans A are (8.2+/-1.8)x10^-9^M_{sun}_/yr and (6.2+/-0.2)x10^-7^M_{sun}/yr, respectively. The majority of this dust is produced by a few very dusty evolved stars and does not vary strongly with metallicity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/821/52
- Title:
- NIR survey of Spitzer YSOs in Orion Mol. Cloud
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/821/52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a near-infrared survey for the visual multiples in the Orion molecular clouds region at separations between 100 and 1000au. These data were acquired at 1.6um with the NICMOS and WFC3 cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope. Additional photometry was obtained for some of the sources at 2.05um with NICMOS and in the L' band with NSFCAM2 on NASA's InfraRed Telescope Facility. Toward 129 protostars and 197 pre-main-sequence stars with disks observed with WFC3, we detect 21 and 28 candidate companions between the projected separations of 100-1000au, of which less than 5 and 8, respectively, are chance line-of-sight coincidences. The resulting companion fraction (CF) after the correction for the line-of-sight contamination is 14.4_-1.3_^+1.1^ for protostars and 12.5_-0.8_^+1.2^ for the pre-main-sequence stars. These values are similar to those found for main-sequence stars, suggesting that there is little variation in the CF with evolution, although several observational biases may mask a decrease in the CF from protostars to the main-sequence stars. After segregating the sample into two populations based on the surrounding surface density of young stellar objects, we find that the CF in the high stellar density regions ({Sigma}_YSO_>45pc^-2^) is approximately 50% higher than that found in the low stellar density regions ({Sigma}_YSO_<45pc^-2^). We interpret this as evidence for the elevated formation of companions at 100-1000 au in the denser environments of Orion. We discuss possible reasons for this elevated formation.
