- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/484/394
- Title:
- AX Mon photometry and UV spectra
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/484/394
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- AX Monocerotis is a 232d, noneclipsing, interacting binary star that consists of a K giant, a Be-like giant, and a large amounts of circumstellar material. The K star is almost certainly a synchronous rotator and is probably in contact with its critical lobe. The Be star was believed to be a rapid rotator based on extremely wide absorption lines, but new spectra show that these lines arise from the circumstellar environment. Hydrogen emission, also circumstellar, is many times stronger than the continuum. Near-ultraviolet light curves exhibit a 0.5 mag dip near phase 0.75, but there is no such variability at longer wavelengths. Gas flow trajectories from the cusp of the K star toward the Be star provide a simple explanation for the photometric and spectroscopic behavior. We may have found a decreasing orbital period, but more data are necessary to confirm this result. We present several models for AX Mon based on (1) new and archival visible photometry, (2) archival ultraviolet spectroscopy, (3) new and archival visible spectroscopy, (4) new visible polarimetry, and (5) new radio photometry. Further observations, including optical interferometry, are proposed.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/138
- Title:
- BANYAN. XIII. Nearby young assoc. with Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/862/138
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we examine the nearest 100pc entries in Data Release 2 of Gaia to identify previously unrecognized candidate members in young associations. We analyze 695952 stars with the BANYAN {Sigma} Bayesian classification software and discover 898 new high-likelihood candidate members that span a wide range of properties, from spectral types B9 to L2, including 104 comoving systems, 111 brown dwarfs, and 31 new bona fide members. Our sample is mostly composed of highly active M dwarfs and will be crucial in examining the low-mass end of the initial mass function of young associations. Our sample includes new candidate members near the Galactic plane where previous surveys suffered from a high rate of contamination. This paper represents the first step toward a full reassessment of young associations in the solar neighborhood with the second data release of the Gaia mission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/43
- Title:
- BANYAN. XII. New members from Gaia-Tycho data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a search for stellar members of young associations within 150pc of the Sun, based on TGAS and an updated version of the BANYAN {Sigma} software to determine Bayesian membership probabilities that includes Gaia-2MASS color-magnitude diagrams. We identify 32 new F0-M3-type bona fide members of the 10-200Myr old Sco-Cen, Carina, Tucana-Horologium, Columba, and Octans associations and the AB Doradus, {beta} Pictoris, and Carina-Near moving groups. These new bona fide members have measurements of their full kinematics and literature data consistent with a young age. We also confirm the membership of 66 previously known candidate members using their Gaia-Tycho trigonometric distances or new literature radial velocities, and identify 219 additional new candidate members, most of which do not yet have a radial velocity measurement. This work is the first step toward a completeness-corrected survey of young association members based on Gaia DR2 in the near future.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/856/23
- Title:
- BANYAN. XI. The BANYAN {Sigma} algorithm
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/856/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- BANYAN {Sigma} is a new Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young stellar associations within 150pc of the Sun. It includes 27 young associations with ages in the range ~1-800Myr, modeled with multivariate Gaussians in six-dimensional (6D) XYZUVW space. It is the first such multi-association classification tool to include the nearest sub-groups of the Sco-Cen OB star-forming region, the IC2602, IC2391, Pleiades and Platais 8 clusters, and the {rho} Ophiuchi, Corona Australis, and Taurus star formation regions. A model of field stars is built from a mixture of multivariate Gaussians based on the Besancon Galactic model. The algorithm can derive membership probabilities for objects with only sky coordinates and proper motion, but can also include parallax and radial velocity measurements, as well as spectrophotometric distance constraints from sequences in color-magnitude or spectral type-magnitude diagrams. BANYAN {Sigma} benefits from an analytical solution to the Bayesian marginalization integrals over unknown radial velocities and distances that makes it more accurate and significantly faster than its predecessor BANYAN II. A contamination versus hit rate analysis is presented and demonstrates that BANYAN {Sigma} achieves a better classification performance than other moving group tools available in the literature, especially in terms of cross-contamination between young associations. An updated list of bona fide members in the 27 young associations, augmented by the Gaia-DR1 release, as well as all parameters for the 6D multivariate Gaussian models for each association and the Galactic field neighborhood within 300 pc are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/368/471
- Title:
- Berkeley 32 BVI photometry and spectroscopy
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/368/471
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained medium- and low-resolution spectroscopy and BVI CCD imaging of Berkeley 32, an old open cluster which lies in the anticentre direction. From the radial velocities of 48 stars in the cluster direction, we found that 31 of them, in crucial evolutionary phases, are probable cluster members, with an average radial velocity of +106.7(sigma=8.5)km/s . From isochrone fitting to the colour-magnitude diagrams of Berkeley 32, we have obtained an age of 6.3Gyr, (m-M)0=12.48 and E(B-V)=0.10. The best fit is obtained with Z=0.008. A consistent distance, (m-M)_0_~=12.6+/-0.1, has been derived from the mean magnitude of red clump stars with confirmed membership; we may assume (m-M)_0_~=12.55+/-0.1. The colour-magnitude diagram of the nearby field observed to check for field stars contamination looks intriguingly similar to that of the Canis Major overdensity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/885/160
- Title:
- Best-fit emission-line properties in NGC 5775
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/885/160
- Date:
- 08 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The structure and kinematics of gaseous, disk-halo interfaces are imprinted with the processes that transfer mass, metals, and energy between galactic disks and their environments. We study the extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) layer in the interacting, star-forming galaxy NGC5775 to better understand the consequences of star formation feedback on the dynamical state of the thick-disk interstellar medium. Combining emission-line spectroscopy from the Robert Stobie Spectrograph on the Southern African Large Telescope with radio continuum observations from Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies-an EVLA Survey, we ask whether thermal, turbulent, magnetic field, and cosmic-ray pressure gradients can stably support the eDIG layer in dynamical equilibrium. This model fails to reproduce the observed exponential electron scale heights of the eDIG thick disk and halo on the northeast (h_z,e_=0.6,7.5kpc) and southwest (h_z,e_=0.8,3.6kpc) sides of the galaxy at R<11kpc. We report the first definitive detection of an increasing eDIG velocity dispersion as a function of height above the disk. Blueshifted gas along the minor axis at large distances from the midplane hints at a disk-halo circulation and/or ram pressure effects caused by the ongoing interaction with NGC5774. This work motivates further integral field unit and/or Fabry-Perot spectroscopy of galaxies with a range of star formation rates to develop a spatially resolved understanding of the role of star formation feedback in shaping the kinematics of the disk-halo interface.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/312/879
- Title:
- Beta Lyr radial velocities and UBV data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/312/879
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A preliminary analysis of an extensive collection of interferometric, spectroscopic and photometric observations of the bright Be star {beta} Lyr lead to the following main conclusions: (1) The bulk of the H{alpha} and He I 6678 emission seems to originate in jets of material perpendicular to the orbital plane of the binary. The jets are associated with the more massive component of the binary (star 1) and probably emanate from the `hot spot' in the disk, i.e. the region of interaction of the gas stream flowing from the Roche-lobe filling B6-8II component (star 2) toward star 1. Some contribution to the emission also comes from a region located between the two stars (the gas stream and the `hot spot') and from the `pseudoatmosphere' of the accretion disk around star 1. (2) The 282-d cyclic variation of the light curve of {beta} Lyr is confirmed on the basis of 2852 homogenized V-band observations covering an interval of 36yrs. We find, however, that the amplitude and phase of these variations vary with the orbital phase: the long-term modulation of the light curve almost disappears near orbital phases 0.25P and 0.50P (elongation and secondary eclipse). (3) Pronounced line-profile variations of the H{alpha} and He I 6678 lines on a time scale shorter than one orbital period were clearly detected. They may be periodic, with a period near 4.70-4.75d, and this periodicity may be related to the 282-d change via the orbital period.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/731/119
- Title:
- BHB candidates in Sagittarius stream
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/731/119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use a sample of blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (Cat. II/294) to explore the structure of the tidal tails from the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. We use a method yielding BHB star candidates with up to ~70% purity from photometry alone. The resulting sample has a distance precision of roughly 5% and can probe distances in excess of 100kpc. Using this sample, we identify a possible extension to the trailing arm at distances of 60-80kpc from the Sun with an estimated significance of at least 3.8{sigma}. Current models predict that a distant "returning" segment of the debris stream should exist, but place it substantially closer to the Sun where no debris is observed in our data. Exploiting the distance precision of our tracers, we estimate the mean line-of-sight thickness of the leading arm to be ~3kpc, and show that the two "bifurcated" branches of the debris stream differ by only 1-2kpc in distance. With a spectroscopic very pure BHB star subsample, we estimate the velocity dispersion in the leading arm, 37km/s, which is in reasonable agreement with models of Sgr disruption. We finally present a sample of high-probability Sgr BHB stars in the leading arm of Sgr, selected to have distances and velocities consistent with Sgr membership, to allow further study.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/684/1143
- Title:
- BHB candidates in the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/684/1143
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive new constraints on the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo, based on 2401 rigorously selected blue horizontal-branch halo stars from SDSS DR6. This sample enables construction of the full line-of-sight velocity distribution at different galactocentric radii. To interpret these distributions, we compare them to matched mock observations drawn from two different cosmological galaxy formation simulations designed to resemble the Milky Way. This procedure results in an estimate of the Milky Way's circular velocity curve to ~60kpc, which is found to be slightly falling from the adopted value of 220km/s at the Sun's location, and implies M(<60kpc)=(4.0+/-0.7)x10^11^M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/97/733
- Title:
- Binary Star Pop. with Common Proper Motion
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/97/733
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a homogeneous catalog compilation of common proper motion stars based on GaiaDR2. A preliminary list of all pairs of stars within the radius of 100pc around the Sun with a separation less than a parsec was compiled. Also, a subset of comoving pairs, wide binary stars, was selected. The clusters and systems with multiplicity larger than 2 were excluded from consideration. The resulting catalog contains 10358 pairs of stars. The catalog selectivity function was estimated by comparison with a set of randomly selected field stars and with a model sample obtained by population synthesis. The estimates of the star masses in the catalogued objects, both components of which belong to the main-sequence, show an excess of ''twins'', composed by stars with similar masses. This excess decreases with increasing separation between components. It is shown that such an effect cannot be a consequence of the selectivity function only and does not appear in the model where star formation of similar masses is not artificially preferred. The article is based on the talk presented at the conference ''Astrometry yesterday, today, tomorrow'' (Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, October 14 - 16, 2019).