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281. IMF from UV stellar photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/425/122
Title:
IMF from UV stellar photometry
Short Name:
J/ApJ/425/122
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
UV stellar photometry is presented for 1563 stars within a 40' circular field in the LMC, excluding the 10'x10' field centered on R136 investigated earlier by Hill et al. (1993). Magnitudes are computed from images obtained by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope in bands centered at 1615A and 2558A. Stellar masses and extinctions are estimated for the stars in associations using the evolutionary models of Schaerer et al. (1993), assuming the age is 4Myr and that the local LMC extinction follows the Fitzpatrick (1985) 30 Dor extinction curve. The estimated slope of the initial mass function (IMF) for massive stars (>15M_{sun}_) within the Lucke and Hodge (LH) associations is {gamma}=-1.08+/-0.2. Initial masses and extinctions for stars not within LH associations are estimated assuming that the stellar age is either 4Myr or half the stellar lifetime, whichever is larger. The estimated slope of the IMF for massive stars not within LH associations is {gamma}=-1.74+/-0.3 (assuming continuous star formation), compared with {gamma}=-1.35, and {gamma}=-1.7+/-0.5, obtained for the Galaxy by Salpeter (1955) and Scalo (1986), respectively, and {gamma}=-1.6 obtained for massive stars in the Galaxy by Garmany, Conti, & Chiosi (1982). The shallower slope of the association IMF suggests that not only is the star formation rate higher in associations, but that the local conditions favor the formation of higher mass stars there. We make no corrections for binaries or incompleteness.
282. Implications of the Galactic aberration for CRF
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/445/845
Title:
Implications of the Galactic aberration for CRF
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/445/845
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
During the last few years, much attention has been paid to the astrometric implications of the galactic aberration in proper motions (GA). This effect causes systematic errors in astrometric measurements at a {mu}as level. Some authors consider it so serious that it requires redefinition of the Celestial Reference Frame (CRF). We argue that such attention to the GA is exaggerated too much. It is just a small astrometric correction that must be taken into account during highly accurate astrometric and geodetic data processing. The accuracy of this correction depends on the accuracy of the Galactic rotation parameters and, for most applications, on the accuracy of the rotation matrix between Galactic and equatorial systems. Our analysis has shown that our current knowledge of these two factors is sufficient to compute the correction of the GA with an accuracy better than 10 per cent. The remaining effect at the level of a few tenths {mu}as/yr is negligible nowadays. Another consequence of introducing the GA correction is the necessity to return to classical astrometric modelling of the extragalactic radio source position - derived by very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) - by the linear trend model. Changing the current paradigm of the VLBI-derived CRF, based on the assumption of zero motion of radio sources, to classical one leads to bias in the radio source positions of up to several tens of {mu}as for a catalogue at epoch J2000.0.
283. Improved astrometry bor BE74 stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/548/A16
Title:
Improved astrometry bor BE74 stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/548/A16
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Accurate astrometry is required to reliably cross-match 20th-century catalogues against 21st-century surveys. The present work aims to provide such astrometry for the 625 entries of the Bohannan & Epps (BE74; 1974A&AS...18...47B) catalogue of H{alpha} emission-line stars. BE74 targets have been individually identified in digital images and, in most cases, unambiguously matched to entries in the UCAC4 (I/322) astrometric catalogue.
284. Improving the open cluster census. I.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/646/A104
Title:
Improving the open cluster census. I.
Short Name:
J/A+A/646/A104
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The census of open clusters in the Milky Way is in a never-before seen state of flux. Recent works have reported hundreds of new open clusters thanks to the incredible astrometric quality of the Gaia satellite, but other works have also reported that many open clusters discovered in the pre Gaia era may be associations. We aim to conduct a comparison of clustering algorithms used to detect open clusters, attempting to statistically quantify their strengths and weaknesses by deriving the sensitivity, specificity, and precision of each as well as their true positive rate against a larger sample. We selected DBSCAN, HDBSCAN, and Gaussian mixture models for further study, owing to their speed and appropriateness for use with Gaia data. We developed a preprocessing pipeline for Gaia data and developed the algorithms further for the specific application to open clusters. We derived detection rates for all 1385 open clusters in the fields in our study as well as more detailed performance statistics for 100 of these open clusters. DBSCAN was sensitive to 50%-62% of the true positive open clusters in our sample, with generally very good specificity and precision. HDBSCAN traded precision for a higher sensitivity of up to 82%, especially across different distances and scales of open clusters. Gaussian mixture models were slow and only sensitive to 33% of open clusters in our sample, which tended to be larger objects. Additionally, we report on 41 new open cluster candidates detected by HDBSCAN, three of which are closer than 500pc. When used with additional post-processing to mitigate its false positives, we have found that HDBSCAN is the most sensitive and effective algorithm for recovering open clusters in Gaia data. Our results suggest that many more new and already reported open clusters have yet to be detected in Gaia data.
285. Infrared photometry of binaries in Orion OB1
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/268
Title:
Infrared photometry of binaries in Orion OB1
Short Name:
J/AJ/160/268
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Statistics of low-mass pre-main-sequence binaries in the Orion OB1 association with separations ranging from 0.6" to 20" (220 to 7400au at 370pc) are studied using images from the VISTA Orion mini survey and astrometry from Gaia. The input sample based on the CVSO catalog contains 1137 stars of K and M spectral types (masses between 0.3 and 0.9M{odot}), 1021 of which are considered to be association members. There are 135 physical binary companions to these stars with mass ratios above ~0.13. The average companion fraction is 0.09{+/-}0.01 over 1.2 decades in separation, slightly less than, but still consistent with, the field. We found a difference between the Ori OB1a and OB1b groups, the latter being richer in binaries by a factor of 1.6{+/-}0.3. No overall dependence of the wide- binary frequency on the observed underlying stellar density is found, although in the Ori OB1a off-cloud population, these binaries seem to avoid dense clusters. The multiplicity rates in Ori OB1 and in sparse regions like Taurus differ significantly, hinting that binaries in the field may originate from a mixture of diverse populations.
286. International Celestial Reference Frame 2, ICRF2
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/323
Title:
International Celestial Reference Frame 2, ICRF2
Short Name:
I/323
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This Technical Note describes the generation by an international team of the second realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF2) at radio wavelengths using nearly 30 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. ICRF2 contains precise positions of 3414 compact radio astronomical sources, more than five times the number as in the first ICRF, hereafter ICRF1. Further, the ICRF2 is found to have a noise floor of only 40{mu}as, some 5-6 times better than ICRF1, and an axis stability of 10{mu}as, nearly twice as stable as ICRF1. Alignment of ICRF2 with the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) was made using 138 stable sources common to both ICRF2 and ICRF1-Ext2. Future maintenance of ICRF2 will be made using a set of 295 new "defining" sources selected on the basis of positional stability and the lack of extensive intrinsic source structure. The stability of these 295 defining sources, and their more uniform sky distribution eliminates the two largest weaknesses of ICRF1.
287. International Reference Stars (IRS)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/172
Title:
International Reference Stars (IRS)
Short Name:
I/172
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The IRS is an all-sky catalog of positions and proper motions that is based on the AGK3R (Corbin 1977, 1978) in the Northern Hemisphere and on the newly completed SRS (Smith et al. 1990) in the south. The data for the 36027 stars of the IRS were compiled in B1950.0 FK4 and then transformed to J2000.0 FK5. The IRS was compiled by matching 122 meridian circle catalogs with the AGK3R and SRS to provide the data base. Catalogs whose stars had been observed using screens to minimize the magnitude equation and that contained FK4 (Fricke and Kopff 1963) stars were used to form a preliminary system. These catalogs were reduced to the FK4 by direct comparison; the resulting positions and proper motions were then used to reduce all of the other catalogs. Thus, the IRS is a differential catalog compiled from 164,917 positions reduced to the FK4 system. The IRS is divided into two parts. Part 1 contains the stars having better observational histories and, therefore, more reliable positions and proper motions. This part constitutes 81 percent of the catalog; mean errors of the proper motions are 0.43 and 0.44 seconds of arc/century (4.3 and 4.4 mas/yr) in right ascension and declination, respectively. The stars in Part 2 have poor observational histories and consist mostly of objects for which only two catalog positions in one or both coordinates were available when the proper motions were computed. Where accuracy is the primary consideration, it is best to use only the stars in Part 1, while if the highest possible density is desired, the two parts should be combined, as they are systematically the same. The data included are catalog part, IRS number, equatorial coordinates (equinox, equator, epoch B1950.0 and J2000.0), centennial proper motions (B1950.0 and J2000.0), original epochs, weights for right ascension and declination, and reference data such as DM numbers (BD, CD, CPD), AGK3 and CPC2 designations, and an IAU-recommended IRS identifier (based on coordinates).
288. IPN supplement to the BeppoSAX GRB catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/191/179
Title:
IPN supplement to the BeppoSAX GRB catalog
Short Name:
J/ApJS/191/179
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Between 1996 July and 2002 April, one or more spacecraft of the interplanetary network detected 786 cosmic gamma-ray bursts that were also detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor and/or Wide-Field X-Ray Camera experiments aboard the BeppoSAX spacecraft. During this period, the network consisted of up to six spacecraft, and using triangulation, the localizations of 475 bursts were obtained. We present the localization data for these events.
289. Keck/NIRC2 obs. of the Galactic Center
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/873/65
Title:
Keck/NIRC2 obs. of the Galactic Center
Short Name:
J/ApJ/873/65
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Precision measurements of the stars in short-period orbits around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center are now being used to constrain general relativistic effects, such as the gravitational redshift and periapse precession. One of the largest systematic uncertainties in the measured orbits has been errors in the astrometric reference frame, which is derived from seven infrared-bright stars associated with SiO masers that have extremely accurate radio positions, measured in the Sgr A*-rest frame. We have improved the astrometric reference frame within 14" of the Galactic Center by a factor of 2.5 in position and a factor of 5 in proper motion. In the new reference frame, Sgr A* is localized to within a position of 0.645mas and proper motion of 0.03mas/yr. We have removed a substantial rotation (2.25{deg} per decade), that was present in the previous less-accurate reference frame used to measure stellar orbits in the field. With our improved methods and continued monitoring of the masers, we predict that orbital precession predicted by general relativity will become detectable in the next ~5yr.
290. KELT transit false positive catalog for TESS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/234
Title:
KELT transit false positive catalog for TESS
Short Name:
J/AJ/156/234
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project has been conducting a photometric survey of transiting planets orbiting bright stars for over 10 years. The KELT images have a pixel scale of ~23"/pixel very similar to that of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) - as well as a large point-spread function, and the KELT reduction pipeline uses a weighted photometric aperture with radius 3'. At this angular scale, multiple stars are typically blended in the photometric apertures. In order to identify false positives and confirm transiting exoplanets, we have assembled a follow-up network (KELT-FUN) to conduct imaging with spatial resolution, cadence, and photometric precision higher than the KELT telescopes, as well as spectroscopic observations of the candidate host stars. The KELT-FUN team has followed-up over 1600 planet candidates since 2011, resulting in more than 20 planet discoveries. Excluding ~450 false alarms of non-astrophysical origin (i.e., instrumental noise or systematics), we present an all-sky catalog of the 1128 bright stars (6<V<13) that show transit-like features in the KELT light curves, but which were subsequently determined to be astrophysical false positives (FPs) after photometric and/or spectroscopic follow-up observations. The KELT-FUN team continues to pursue KELT and other planet candidates and will eventually follow up certain classes of TESS candidates. The KELT FP catalog will help minimize the duplication of follow-up observations by current and future transit surveys such as TESS.

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