- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/393/183
- Title:
- Catalogue of calibrator stars for LBSI
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/393/183
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Long baseline stellar interferometry shares with other techniques the need for calibrator stars in order to correct for instrumental and atmospheric effects. We present a catalogue of 374 stars carefully selected to be used for that purpose in the near infrared. Owing to several convergent criteria with the work of Cohen et al. (1999AJ....117.1864C), this catalogue is in essence a subset of their self-consistent all-sky network of spectro-photometric calibrator stars. For every star, we provide the angular limb-darkened diameter, uniform disc angular diameters in the J, H and K bands, the Johnson photometry and other useful parameters. Most stars are type III giants with spectral types K or M0, magnitudes V=3-7 and K=0-3. Their angular limb-darkened diameters range from 1 to 3 mas with a median uncertainty as low as 1.2%. The median distance from a given point on the sky to the closest reference is 5.2{deg}, whereas this distance never exceeds 16.4{deg} for any celestial location.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/120/2638
- Title:
- CCD speckle obs. of binary stars. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/120/2638
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Speckle observations of 145 double stars and suspected double stars are presented and discussed. On the basis of multiple observations, a total of 280 position angle and separation measures are determined, as well as 23 high-quality nondetections. All observations were taken with the (unintensified) Rochester Institute of Technology fast-readout CCD camera mounted on the Lowell-Tololo 61 cm telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory during 1999 October. We find that the measures, when judged as a whole against ephemeris positions of binaries with very well-known orbits, have root mean square deviations of 18+/-03{deg} in position angle and 13+/-2mas in separation. Eleven double stars discovered by Hipparcos were also successfully observed, and the change in position angle and/or separation since the Hipparcos observations was substantial in three cases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A69
- Title:
- 3C 279 Event Horizon Telescope imaging
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/640/A69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 3C 279 is an archetypal blazar with a prominent radio jet that show broadband flux density variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We use an ultra-high angular resolution technique - global Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at 1.3mm (230GHz) - to resolve the innermost jet of 3C 279 in order to study its fine-scale morphology close to the jet base where highly variable gamma-ray emission is thought to originate, according to various models. The source was observed during four days in April 2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) at 230 GHz, including the phased Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), at an angular resolution of ~20uarcsec (at a redshift of z=0.536 this corresponds to ~0.13pc, ~1700 Schwarzschild radii with a black hole mass M_BH_=8x10^8^M_{sun}_). Imaging and model-fitting techniques were applied to the data to parameterize the fine-scale source structure and its variation. We find a multicomponent inner jet morphology with the northernmost component elongated perpendicular to the direction of the jet, as imaged at longer wavelengths. The elongated nuclear structure is consistent on all four observing days and across different imaging methods and model-fitting techniques, and therefore appears robust. Owing to its compactness and brightness, we associate the northern nuclear structure as the VLBI "core". This morphology can be interpreted as either a broad resolved jet base or a spatially bent jet. We also find significant day-to-day variations in the closure phases, which appear most pronounced on the triangles with the longest baselines. Our analysis shows that this variation is related to a systematic change of the source structure. Two inner jet components move non-radially at apparent speeds of ~15c and ~20c (~1.3 and ~1.7uarcsec/day, respectively), which more strongly supports the scenario of traveling shocks or instabilities in a bent, possibly rotating jet. The observed apparent speeds are also coincident with the 3C 279 large-scale jet kinematics observed at longer (cm) wavelengths, suggesting no significant jet acceleration between the 1.3mm core and the outer jet. The intrinsic brightness temperature of the jet components are <~10^10^K, a magnitude or more lower than typical values seen at >=7mm wavelengths. The low brightness temperature and morphological complexity suggest that the core region of 3C279 becomes optically thin at short (mm) wavelengths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/57
- Title:
- CHARA array angular diameters of HR 8799
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/761/57
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- HR 8799 is an hF0 mA5 {gamma} Doradus-, {lambda} Bootis-, Vega-type star best known for hosting four directly imaged candidate planetary companions. Using the CHARA Array interferometer, we measure HR 8799's limb-darkened angular diameter to be 0.342+/-0.008mas (an error of only 2%). By combining our measurement with the star's parallax and photometry from the literature, we greatly improve upon previous estimates of its fundamental parameters, including stellar radius (1.44+/-0.06R_{sun}_), effective temperature (7193+/-87K, consistent with F0), luminosity (5.05+/-0.29L_{sun}_), and the extent of the habitable zone (HZ; 1.62-3.32AU). These improved stellar properties permit much more precise comparisons with stellar evolutionary models, from which a mass and age can be determined, once the metallicity of the star is known. Considering the observational properties of other {lambda} Bootis stars and the indirect evidence for youth of HR 8799, we argue that the internal abundance, and what we refer to as the effective abundance, is most likely near solar. Finally, using the Yonsei-Yale evolutionary models with uniformly scaled solar-like abundances, we estimate HR 8799's mass and age considering two possibilities: 1.516^+0.038^_-0.024_M_{sun}_ and 33^+7^_-13.2_Myr if the star is contracting toward the zero-age main sequence or 1.513^+0.023^_-0.024_M_{sun}_ and 90^+381^_-50_Myr if it is expanding from it. This improved estimate of HR 8799's age with realistic uncertainties provides the best constraints to date on the masses of its orbiting companions, and strongly suggests they are indeed planets. They nevertheless all appear to orbit well outside the HZ of this young star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/858/71
- Title:
- CHARA array obs. of 13 AB Dor moving group stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/858/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present interferometric measurements obtained with the CHARA Array of 13 adolescent-age stars in nearby moving groups. The motivation was to spatially resolve the largest stars and to search for binary companions. Nine stars have diameters smaller than the resolution limit and no evidence for companions within 0.5-50mas and {Delta}H<2.0mag. The diameters of three stars were spatially resolved: GJ 159 (0.582+/-0.016mas) and GJ 393 (0.564+/-0.021mas) in the AB Dor moving group, and former member HD 89744 (0.556+/-0.032mas). Combining the angular diameters with their distances and bolometric fluxes, we measured radii and effective temperatures. The temperatures of GJ 159 (6286+/-123K) and GJ 393 (3515+/-68K) are consistent with spectroscopic measurements. Comparisons with evolutionary models show that HD 89744 has evolved off the main sequence. GJ 159 and GJ 393 lie within 1.5{sigma} of the zero-age main sequence, complicating their age estimates because it is unclear whether the stars are contracting or expanding. GJ 159 has a mass of 1.2+/-0.1M_{sun}_ with an age spanning 0.021-3.0Gyr. Its debris disk and lithium abundance favor a young age. GJ 393 has a mass of 0.42+/-0.03M_{sun}_ and a lower limit on its age 0.06Gyr. This overlaps with the age of the moving group; however, an older age would be more consistent with its slow rotation, low activity, and luminosity, suggesting that GJ 393 is a kinematic interloper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/683/424
- Title:
- CHARA observations of 3 late-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/683/424
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the longest baselines of the CHARA Array, we have measured the angular diameter of the G5V subdwarf {mu} Cas A, the first such determination for a halo population star. We compare this result to new diameters for the higher metallicity K0V stars, {sigma} Dra and HR 511, and find that the metal-poor star, {mu} Cas A, has an effective temperature (T_eff_=5297+/-32K), radius (R=0.791+/-0.008R_{sun}_), and absolute luminosity (L=0.442+/-0.014L_{sun}_) comparable to those of the other two stars with later spectral types. We show that stellar models show a discrepancy in the predicted temperature and radius for {mu} Cas A, and we discuss these results and how they provide a key to understanding the fundamental relationships for stars with low metallicity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/148/48
- Title:
- CHARA obs. of omega And, HD 178911, xi Cep
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/148/48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- When observed with optical long-baseline interferometers, components of a binary star that are sufficiently separated produce their own interferometric fringe packets; these are referred to as separated fringe packet (SFP) binaries. These SFP binaries can overlap in angular separation with the regime of systems resolvable by speckle interferometry at single, large-aperture telescopes and can provide additional measurements for preliminary orbits lacking good phase coverage, help constrain elements of already established orbits, and locate new binaries in the undersampled regime between the bounds of spectroscopic surveys and speckle interferometry. In this process, a visibility calibration star is not needed, and the SFPs can provide an accurate vector separation. In this paper, we apply the SFP approach to {omega} Andromeda, HD 178911, and {xi} Cephei with the CLIMB three-beam combiner at the CHARA Array. For these systems we determine component masses and parallax of 0.963+/-0.049M_{sun}_ and 0.860+/-0.051M_{sun}_ and 39.54+/-1.85mas for {omega} Andromeda, for HD 178911 of 0.802+/-0.055M_{sun}_and 0.622+/-0.053M_{sun}_with 28.26+/-1.70mas, and masses of 1.045+/-0.031M_{sun}_and 0.408+/-0.066M_{sun}_and 38.10+/-2.81mas for {xi} Cephei.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/431/773
- Title:
- CHARM2, an updated of CHARM catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/431/773
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an update of the Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements (CHARM, Richichi & Percheron, 2002, Cat. <J/A+A/386/492>), which includes results available until July 2004. CHARM2 is a compilation of direct measurements by high angular resolution methods, as well as indirect estimates of stellar diameters. Its main goal is to provide a reference list of sources which can be used for calibration and verification observations with long-baseline optical and near-IR interferometers. Single and binary stars are included, as are complex objects from circumstellar shells to extragalactic sources. The present update provides an increase of almost a factor of two over the previous edition. Additionally, it includes several corrections and improvements, as well as a cross-check with the valuable public release observations of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). A total of 8231 entries for 3238 unique sources are now present in CHARM2. This represents an increase of a factor of 3.4 and 2.0, respectively, over the contents of the previous version of CHARM.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/702/1615
- Title:
- CH_3_OH maser survey of EGOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/702/1615
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a high angular resolution Very Large Array (VLA) Class I 44GHz and Class II 6.7GHz CH_3_OH maser survey of a sample of ~20 massive young stellar object (MYSO) outflow candidates selected on the basis of extended 4.5um emission in Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire images. These 4.5um selected candidates are referred to as extended green objects (EGOs), for the common coding of this band as green in three-color Infrared Array Camera images. The detection rate of 6.7GHz Class II CH_3_OH masers, which are associated exclusively with massive YSOs, toward EGOs is >~64% - nearly double the detection rate of surveys using other MYSO selection criteria. The detection rate of Class I 44GHz CH_3_OH masers, which trace molecular outflows, is ~89% toward EGOs associated with 6.7GHz CH_3_OH masers.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/639/L13
- Title:
- 4C 41.17 IRAM/NOEMA data cubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/639/L13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new, spatially resolved [CI]1-0, [CI]2-1, CO(7-6), and dust continuum observations of 4C 41.17 at z=3.8. This is one of the best-studied radio galaxies in this epoch and is arguably the best candidate of jet-triggered star formation at high redshift currently known in the literature. 4C 41.17 shows a narrow ridge of dust continuum extending over 15kpc near the radio jet axis. Line emission is found within the galaxy in the region with signatures of positive feedback. Using the [CI]1-0 line as a molecular gas tracer, and multifrequency observations of the far-infrared dust heated by star formation, we find a total gas mass of 7.6x10^10^M_{sun}_, which is somewhat greater than that previously found from CO(4-3). The gas mass surface density of 10^3^M_{sun}_/yr/pc^2^ and the star formation rate surface density of 10M_{sun}_/yr/kpc^2^ were derived over the 12 kpc8 kpc area, where signatures of positive feedback have previously been found. These densities are comparable to those in other populations of massive, dusty star-forming galaxies in this redshift range, suggesting that the jet does not currently enhance the efficiency with which stars form from the gas. This is consistent with expectations from simulations, whereby radio jets may facilitate the onset of star formation in galaxies without boosting its efficiency over longer timescales, in particular after the jet has broken out of the interstellar medium, as is the case in 4C 41.17. The release includes Gaussian line fits to the [CI]1-0, [CI]2-1, and CO(7-6) emission lines in the radio galaxy 4C 41.17 at z=3.8, as well as the interferometric data cubes.
