- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/300
- Title:
- Velocity and light curve analysis of three PPNe
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/300
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained contemporaneous light, color, and radial velocity data for three proto-planetary nebulae (PPNe) over the years 2007 to 2015. The light and velocity curves of each show similar periods of pulsation, with photometric periods of 42 and 50 days for IRAS 17436+5003, 102 days for IRAS 18095+2704, and 35 days for IRAS 19475+3119. The light and velocity curves are complex with multiple periods and small, variable amplitudes. Nevertheless, at least over limited time intervals, we were able to identify dominant periods in the light, color, and velocity curves and compare the phasing of each. The color curves appear to peak with or slightly after the light curves while the radial velocity curves peak about a quarter of a cycle before the light curves. Similar results were found previously for two other PPNe, although for them the light and color appeared to be in phase. Thus, it appears that PPNe are brightest when smallest and hottest. These phase results differ from those found for classical Cepheid variables, where the light and velocity differ by half a cycle, and are hottest at about average size and expanding. However, they do appear to have similar phasing to the larger-amplitude pulsations seen in RV Tauri variables. Presently, few pulsation models exist for PPNe, and these do not fit the observations well, especially the longer periods observed. Model fits to these new light and velocity curves would allow masses to be determined for these post-AGB objects, and thereby provide important constraints to post-AGB stellar evolution models of low- and intermediate-mass stars.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/2268
- Title:
- Velocity dispersions and Mg2 index of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/2268
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present central velocity dispersions and Mg_2_ line indices for an all-sky sample of 1175 elliptical and S0 galaxies, of which 984 had no previous measures. This sample contains the largest set of homogeneous spectroscopic data for a uniform sample of elliptical galaxies in the nearby universe. These galaxies were observed as part of the ENEAR (Redshift-Distance Survey of Nearby Early-Type Galaxies) project, designed to study the peculiar motions and internal properties of the local early-type galaxies. Using 523 repeated observations of 317 galaxies obtained during different runs, the data are brought to a common zero point. These multiple observations, taken during the many runs and different instrumental setups employed for this project, are used to derive statistical corrections to the data and are found to be relatively small, typically <~5% of the velocity dispersion and 0.01mag in the Mg_2_ line strength. Typical errors are about 8% in velocity dispersion and 0.01mag in Mg_2_, in good agreement with values published elsewhere.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/606/A53
- Title:
- Venus mesosphere ALMA observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/606/A53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Water vapor and sulfur compounds are key species in the photochemistry of Venus mesosphere. These species, together with mesospheric temperatures, exhibit drastic temporal variations, both on short timescales (diurnal and day-to-day) as well on long timescales, far from being understood. We targeted CO, SO, H_2_O and SO_2_ transitions in the submillimeter range using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to study their spatial and temporal variations. Four sets of observations were acquired on different dates in November 2011 during the first ALMA Early Science observation Cycle 0. Venus angular diameter was about 11" with an illumination factor of 92%, so that mostly the day side of the planet was mapped. Assuming a nominal CO abundance profile, we retrieved vertical temperature profiles over the entire disk as a function of latitude and local time. Temperature profiles were later used to retrieve SO, SO_2_, and H_2_O. We used H_2_O as a tracer for water assuming a D/H enrichment of 200 times the terrestrial value. We derived 3-D maps of mesospheric temperatures in the altitude range 70-105km. SO, SO_2_, and H_2_O are characterized by a negligible abundance below ~85km followed by an increase with altitude in the upper mesosphere. Disk-averaged SO abundances present a maximum mixing ratio of 15.0+/-3.1ppb on November 26 followed the next day by a minimum value of 9.9+/-1.2ppb. Due to a very low S/N, SO_2_ could only be derived from the disk-averaged spectrum on the first day of observation revealing an abundance of 16.5+/-4.6ppb. We found a SO_2_/SO ratio of 1.5+/-0.4. Global maps of SO reveal strong variations both with latitude and local time and from day to day with abundance ranging from <1 to 15ppb. H_2_O disk-averages retrievals reveal a steady decrease from November 14 to 27, with the abundance varying from 3.6+/-0.6ppm on the first day to 2.9+/-0.7ppm on the last day. H_2_O maps reveal a slightly higher abundance on the evening side compared to the morning side and a strong depletion between the first and the second day of observation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/398/141
- Title:
- Vertical distribution of galactic disk stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/398/141
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Nearly 400 Tycho-2 (Cat. <I/259>) stars have been observed in a 720 square degree field in the direction of the North Galactic Pole with the high resolution echelle spectrograph ELODIE. Absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures, gravities and metallicities have been estimated, as well as distances and 3D velocities. Most of these stars are clump giants and span typical distances from 200pc to 800pc to the galactic mid-plane. This new sample, free of any kinematical and metallicity bias, is used to investigate the vertical distribution of disk stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/878/21
- Title:
- Vertical motions of APOGEE & Gaia red clump stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/878/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It has long been known that the vertical motions of Galactic disk stars increase with stellar age, commonly interpreted as vertical heating through orbit scattering. Here we map the vertical actions of disk stars as a function of age ({tau}<=8Gyr) and across a large range of Galactocentric radii, R_GC_, drawing on APOGEE and Gaia data. We fit J_z_(R_GC,{tau}_) as a combination of the vertical action at birth, J_z,0_, and the subsequent heating {Delta}J_z,1Gyr_(R_GC_), which scales as {tau}^{gamma}(R_GC_)^. The inferred birth temperature, J_z,0_(R_GC_) is 1kpc.km/s for 3kpc<R_GC_<10kpc, consistent with the ISM velocity dispersion, but it rapidly rises outward, to 8kpc.km/s for R_GC_=14kpc, likely reflecting the stars' birth in a warped or flared gas disk. We find the heating rate {Delta}J_z,1Gyr_ to be modest and nearly constant across all radii, 1.6kpc.km/s/Gyr. The stellar age dependence {gamma} gently grows with Galactocentric radius, from {gamma}~1 for R_GC_<~R_{sun}_ to {gamma}~1.3 at R_GC_=14kpc. The observed J_z_-{tau} relation at all radii is considerably steeper ({gamma}>~1) than the time dependence theoretically expected from orbit scattering, J_z_{propto}t^0.5^. We illustrate how this conundrum can be resolved if we also account for the fact that at earlier epochs, the scatterers were more common, and the restoring force from the stellar disk surface mass density was low. Our analysis may reinstate gradual orbital scattering as a plausible and viable mechanism to explain the age-dependent vertical motions of disk stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A89
- Title:
- Very metal poor stars in MW halo
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) abundances of up to 10 chemical species in a sample of 59 very metal-poor (VMP, -4<=[Fe/H]<~-2) stars in seven dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and in the Milky Way (MW) halo. Our results are based on high-resolution spectroscopic datasets and homogeneous and accurate atmospheric parameters determined in Paper I. We show that once the NLTE effects are properly taken into account, all massive galaxies in our sample, that is, the MW halo and the classical dSphs Sculptor, Ursa Minor, Sextans, and Fornax, reveal a similar plateau at [alpha/Fe]=0.3 for each of the alpha-process elements: Mg, Ca, and Ti. We put on a firm ground the evidence for a decline in alpha/Fe with increasing metallicity in the Bootes I ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD), that is most probably due to the ejecta of type Ia supernovae. For Na/Fe, Na/Mg, and Al/Mg, the MW halo and all dSphs reveal indistinguishable trends with metallicity, suggesting that the processes of Na and Al synthesis are identical in all systems, independent of their mass. The dichotomy in the [Sr/Ba] versus [Ba/H] diagram is observed in the classical dSphs, similarly to the MW halo, calling for two different nucleosynthesis channels for Sr. We show that Sr in the massive galaxies is better correlated with Mg than Fe and that its origin is essentially independent of Ba, for most of the [Ba/H] range. Our three UFDs, that is Bootes I, UMa II, and Leo IV, are depleted in Sr and Ba relative to Fe and Mg, with very similar ratios of [Sr/Mg]=-1.3 and [Ba/Mg]=-1 on the entire range of their Mg abundances. The subsolar Sr/Ba ratios of Bootes I and UMa II indicate a common r-process origin of their neutron-capture elements. Sculptor remains the classical dSph, in which the evidence for inhomogeneous mixing in the early evolution stage, at [Fe/H]<-2, is the strongest.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/180
- Title:
- Very metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's halo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/788/180
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the kinematics and orbital properties of a sample of 323 very metal-poor stars in the halo system of the Milky Way, selected from the high-resolution spectroscopic follow-up studies of Aoki et al. (2013, J/AJ/145/13) and Yong et al (2013, J/ApJ/762/26). The combined sample contains a significant fraction of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars (22% or 29%, depending on whether a strict or relaxed criterion is applied for this definition). Barium abundances (or upper limits) are available for the great majority of the CEMP stars, allowing for their separation into the CEMP-s and CEMP-no subclasses. A new method to assign membership to the inner- and outer-halo populations of the Milky Way is developed, making use of the integrals of motion, and applied to determine the relative fractions of CEMP stars in these two subclasses for each halo component. Although limited by small-number statistics, the data suggest that the inner halo of the Milky Way exhibits a somewhat higher relative number of CEMP-s stars than CEMP-no stars (57% versus 43%), while the outer halo possesses a clearly higher fraction of CEMP-no stars than CEMP-s stars (70% versus 30%). Although larger samples of CEMP stars with known Ba abundances are required, this result suggests that the dominant progenitors of CEMP stars in the two halo components were different; massive stars for the outer halo, and intermediate-mass stars in the case of the inner halo.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/620/A187
- Title:
- Very metal-poor turn-off stars abundances
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/620/A187
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Extremely metal-poor stars are keys to understand the early evolution of our Galaxy. The ESO large programme TOPoS has been tailored to analyse a new set of metal-poor turn-off stars, whereas most of the previously known extremely metal-poor stars are giant stars. Our results confirms the super-solar [Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] ratios in metal-poor turn-off stars as observed in metal-poor giant stars. We found a significant spread of the [alpha/Fe] ratios with several stars showing sub-solar [Ca/Fe] ratios. We could measure the abundance of strontium in 12 stars of the sample, leading to abundance ratios [Sr/Fe] around the Solar value. We detected barium in two stars of the sample. One of the stars (SDSS J114424-004658) shows both very high [Ba/Fe] and [Sr/Fe] abundance ratios (>1dex).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/459/423
- Title:
- VI and [Fe/H] of Fornax dSph RGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/459/423
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the DART imaging and CaII triplet (CaT) survey of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) at ESO. We collected hundreds of low resolution spectra of Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars in the CaT region, using VLT/FLAMES in Medusa mode, with the GIRAFFE spectrograph (grating LR8, resolving power R~6500). We list the results for the targets with a S/N per Angstrom >10 and an error in velocity <5km/s, because we found this to be the minimum for an accurate determination of velocity and equivalent width. We checked the sample to weed out any spurious object (e.g., broken fibres, background galaxies, foreground stars, spectra not consistent with RGBs). We use a 2.5sigma cut from the system velocity to derive which stars are probable velocity members of the Fornax dSph. We transform the equivalent width of the CaT lines of probable velocity members into metallicity ([Fe/H]) using the relation derived by Rutledge et al. (1997PASP..109..907R) and combining the CaT lines as in Tolstoy et al. (2001MNRAS.327..918T). The errors in [Fe/H] are based on S/N computations and adjusted to agree with repeated measurements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/214/18
- Title:
- VII log(gf) values, and V abundance in HD 84937
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/214/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New experimental absolute atomic transition probabilities are reported for 203 lines of V II. Branching fractions are measured from spectra recorded using a Fourier transform spectrometer and an echelle spectrometer. The branching fractions are normalized with radiative lifetime measurements to determine the new transition probabilities. Generally good agreement is found between this work and previously reported V II transition probabilities. Two spectrometers, independent radiometric calibration methods, and independent data analysis routines enable a reduction in systematic uncertainties, in particular those due to optical depth errors. In addition, new hyperfine structure constants are measured for selected levels by least squares fitting line profiles in the FTS spectra. The new V II data are applied to high resolution visible and UV spectra of the Sun and metal-poor star HD 84937 to determine new, more accurate V abundances. Lines covering a range of wavelength and excitation potential are used to search for non-LTE effects. Very good agreement is found between our new solar photospheric V abundance, log{epsilon}(V)=3.95 from 15 V II lines, and the solar-system meteoritic value. In HD 84937, we derive [V/H]=-2.08 from 68 lines, leading to a value of [V/Fe]=0.24.
