- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/867/66
- Title:
- Double-peaked narrow lines in AGN. IV. Mergers
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/867/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Double-peaked narrow emission lines in active galactic nucleus (AGN) spectra can be produced by AGN outflows, rotation, or dual AGNs, which are AGN pairs in ongoing galaxy mergers. Consequently, double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines are useful tracers of the coevolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes, as driven by AGN feedback and AGN fueling. We investigate this concept further with follow-up optical longslit observations of a sample of 95 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies that have double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines. Based on a kinematic analysis of the longslit spectra, we confirm previous work that finds that the majority of double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines are associated with outflows. We also find that eight of the galaxies have companion galaxies with line-of-sight velocity separations <500km/s and physical separations <30kpc. Since we find evidence of AGNs in both galaxies, all eight of these systems are compelling dual AGN candidates. Galaxies with double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines occur in such galaxy mergers at least twice as often as typical active galaxies. Finally, we conclude that at least 3% of SDSS galaxies with double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines are found in galaxy mergers where both galaxies are resolved in SDSS imaging.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/464/641
- Title:
- Double stars CCD photometry and astrometry. III
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/464/641
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent CCD observations were performed in the period 1998-2004 for a large sample of visual double and multiple stars selected from the Hipparcos Catalogue (Cat. <I/239>) and/or from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Cat. <V/70>). Accurate astrometric and photometric data allowing us to characterise the individual components are provided. These data are compared to Hipparcos data or to data from an older epoch to assess the nature of the observed systems. We simultaneously apply a Moffat-Lorentz profile with a similar shape to all detected components and adjust the profile parameters from which we obtain the relative astrometric position (epoch, position angle, angular separation) as well as differential multi-colour photometry (filters (B)VRI).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/L59
- Title:
- Draco II stars gi magnitude & radial velocities
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/L59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first spectroscopic analysis of the faint and compact stellar system Draco II (Dra II, M_V_=-2.9+/-0.8,r_h_=19^+8^_-6_pc), recently discovered in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 3{PI} survey. The observations, conducted with DEIMOS on the Keck II telescope, establish some of its basic characteristics: the velocity data reveal a narrow peak with nine member stars at a systemic heliocentric velocity <v_r_>=-347.6^+1.7^_-1.8_km/s, thereby confirming Dra II is a satellite of the Milky Way; we infer a velocity dispersion with {sigma}_vr_=2.9+/-2.1km/s (<8.4km/s at the 95 per cent confidence level), which implie log_10_(M_1/2_)-5.5^+0.4^_-0.6_ and log_10_((M/L_)1/2_)=2.7^+0.5^_-0.8_, in Solar units; furthermore, very weak calcium triplet lines in the spectra of the high signal-to-noise member stars imply [Fe/H]<-2.1, whilst variations in the line strengths of two stars with similar colours and magnitudes suggest a metallicity spread in Dra II. These new data cannot clearly discriminate whether Draco II is a star cluster or amongst the faintest, most compact, and closest dwarf galaxies. However, the sum of the three - individually inconclusive - pieces of evidence presented here seems to favour the dwarf galaxy interpretation.
1014. Draft EIS Colour Catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/234
- Title:
- Draft EIS Colour Catalog
- Short Name:
- II/234
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is a DRAFT multicolour catalogue resulting from the multi- passband ESO Imaging Survey (EIS, see J/A+A/379/740) in the direction of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), located at RA=03h32m, Dec=-27{deg}48'. The observations were conducted at the ESO/MPG 2.2 m telescope at La Silla using the 8kx8k Wide-Field Imager (WFI).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/3808
- Title:
- DR9-12 SDSS WDMS binaries
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/3808
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an updated version of the spectroscopic catalogue of white dwarf-main-sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We identify 938 WDMS binaries within the data releases (DR) 9-12 of SDSS plus 40 objects from DR 1-8 that we missed in our previous works, 646 of which are new. The total number of spectroscopic SDSS WDMS binaries increases to 3294. This is by far the largest and most homogeneous sample of compact binaries currently available. We use a decomposition/fitting routine to derive the stellar parameters of all systems identified here (white dwarf effective temperatures, surface gravities and masses, and secondary star spectral types). The analysis of the corresponding stellar parameter distributions shows that the SDSS WDMS binary population is seriously affected by selection effects. We also measure the Na I {lambda}{lambda} 8183.27, 8194.81 absorption doublet and H {alpha} emission radial velocities (RV) from all SDSS WDMS binary spectra identified in this work. 98 objects are found to display RV variations, 62 of which are new. The RV data are sufficient enough to estimate the orbital periods of three close binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/82
- Title:
- DS Andromedae radial velocity & photometric data
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Wilson-Devinney program has been used to analyze well-calibrated photometric and new radial velocity data to determine the properties and distance of DS Andromedae, a 1.01 day period, double-lined, totally eclipsing binary system of early-F spectral type and a likely member of the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 752. The determinations of many of the system elements including the distance are robust against modest changes in model assumptions. Third light is present in all passbands at the 10% level. The weighted means of the best-fitting model yield a distance of 477+/-4+/-12 pc, equivalent to (m-M)_0_=8.390+/-0.018+/-0.060 mag, and masses of 1.655+/-0.003+/-0.030 M_Sun_ and 1.087+/-0.005+/-0.040 M_Sun_, radii of 2.086+/-0.003+/-0.013 and 1.255+/-0.005+/-0.012 R_Sun_, and effective temperatures 7056+/-21+/-140 R_Sun_ and 5971+/-33+/-130 K, for components 1 and 2, respectively, where the formal internal uncertainties are followed by conservatively estimated systematic errors. Possible but less satisfactory semidetached models produce more parameter variations and larger mean residuals. The primary star is seen to be at or very close to the main-sequence turnoff at an age of 1.55+/-0.05 Gyr but appears to be too small for its mass, whereas the secondary appears to be too luminous for its temperature and too large for its mass compared to models of single stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/619/A106
- Title:
- 3D shape of Orion A from Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/619/A106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the Gaia DR2 distances of about 700 mid-infrared selected young stellar objects in the benchmark giant molecular cloud Orion A to infer its 3D shape and orientation. We find that Orion A is not the fairly straight filamentary cloud that we see in (2D) projection, but instead a cometary-like cloud oriented toward the Galactic plane, with two distinct components: a denser and enhanced star-forming (bent) Head, and a lower density and star-formation quieter ~75pc long Tail. The true extent of Orion A is not the projected ~40pc but ~90pc, making it by far the largest molecular cloud in the local neighborhood. Its aspect ratio (~30:1) and high column-density fraction (~45%) make it similar to large-scale Milky Way filaments ("bones"), despite its distance to the galactic mid-plane being an order of magnitude larger than typically found for these structures.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/883/10
- Title:
- 3D shapes of extremely metal-poor galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/883/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The three-dimensional (3D) shape of a galaxy inevitably is tied to how it has formed and evolved and to its dark matter halo. Local extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPs; defined as having an average gas-phase metallicity <0.1 solar) are important objects for understanding galaxy evolution largely because they appear to be caught in the act of accreting gas from the cosmic web, and their 3D shape may reflect this. Here, we report on the 3D shape of XMPs as inferred from their observed projected minor-to-major axial ratios using a hierarchical Bayesian inference model, which determines the likely shape and orientation of each galaxy, while simultaneously inferring the average shape and dispersion. We selected a sample of 149 XMPs and divided it into three subsamples according to physical size and found that (1) the stellar component of XMPs of all sizes tends to be triaxial, with an intermediate axis ~0.7 times the longest axis and that (2) smaller XMPs tend to be relatively thicker, with the shortest axis going from ~0.15 times the longest axis for the large galaxies to ~0.4 for the small galaxies. We provide the inferred 3D shape and inclination of the individual XMPs in electronic format. We show that our results for the intermediate axis are not clouded by a selection effect against face-on XMPs. We discuss how an intermediate axis significantly smaller than the longest axis may be produced by several mechanisms, including lopsided gas accretion, non-axisymmetric star formation, or coupling with an elongated dark matter halo. Large relative thickness may reflect slow rotation, stellar feedback, or recent gas accretion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/779/7
- Title:
- dSph satellites of M31. I. Variables in And XIX
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/779/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present B, V time-series photometry of Andromeda XIX (And XIX), the most extended (half-light radius of 6.2') of Andromeda's dwarf spheroidal companions, which we observed with the Large Binocular Cameras at the Large Binocular Telescope. We surveyed a 23'x23' area centered on And XIX and present the deepest color-magnitude diagram (CMD) ever obtained for this galaxy, reaching, at V~26.3mag, about one magnitude below the horizontal branch (HB). The CMD shows a prominent and slightly widened red giant branch, along with a predominantly red HB, which extends to the blue to significantly populate the classical instability strip. We have identified 39 pulsating variable stars, of which 31 are of RR Lyrae type and 8 are Anomalous Cepheids (ACs). Twelve of the RR Lyrae variables and three of the ACs are located within And XIX's half light radius. The average period of the fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars (<P_ab_>{=}0.62days, {sigma}=0.03days) and the period-amplitude diagram qualify And XIX as an Oosterhoff-Intermediate system. From the average luminosity of the RR Lyrae stars (<V(RR)>=25.34mag, {sigma}=0.10mag), we determine a distance modulus of (m-M)_0_=24.52+/-0.23mag in a scale where the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is 18.5+/-0.1mag. The ACs follow a well-defined Period-Wesenheit (PW) relation that appears to be in very good agreement with the PW relationship defined by the ACs in the LMC.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/56
- Title:
- DSSI observations of binary & trinary star systems
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 248 speckle observations of 43 binary and 19 trinary star systems chosen to make progress in two main areas of investigation: the fundamental properties of metal-poor stars and star formation mechanisms. The observations were taken at the Gemini North and South telescopes during the period 2015 July to 2018 April, mainly with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument but also with a few early results from the new 'Alopeke speckle camera at Gemini North. We find that the astrometry and photometry of these observations as a whole are consistent with previous work at Gemini. We present five new visual orbits for systems important in understanding metal-poor stars, three of which have orbital periods of less than 4 yr, and we indicate the degree to which these and future observations can impact our knowledge of stellar properties and star formation. In particular, we find a decrease in mass at fixed spectral type for metal-poor stars versus their solar-metallicity analogs that is consistent with predictions that are made from current stellar models.
