- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/61
- Title:
- A study of the H{alpha} variability of Be stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the results of 4 years of high-resolution spectral observations of 69 emission-line stars, 54 of them being newly discovered sources. We classified the stars on the basis of their position in the two-color IR diagram and some additional criteria: shape and width of the H{alpha} profile, presence of He lines, proper motion and parallax, membership to open cluster and associations. Sixty of our targets turned out to be Be stars. We also found four late giants, four pre-MS stars, and one late dwarf. The H{alpha} emission profiles of our Be stars range from single peaked to typical shell profiles that can also be highly asymmetric or single-peaked profiles with a narrow absorption core. The emission profiles appear almost constant with time or highly variable in intensity and in their V/R ratio. The detected long-term variability of the H{alpha} emission is important for investigating the on/off switch phenomenon of Be stars. Our study led to an increase of the number of the emission-line stars of 16 open clusters.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/376/144
- Title:
- BV(RI)_C_H{alpha} photometry of NGC 663
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/376/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new BV(RI)_C_H{alpha} photometry of the young open cluster NGC 663. The H{alpha} photometry is complete down to magnitude R_C_=15.4, corresponding to spectral type A5 for the cluster members. This allows detection of mild and strong H{alpha} emission in all B-type stars in the cluster. In addition to the 22 Be stars known in the observed field of NGC 663, we discovered four new faint stars of this type. We find that Be stars in NGC 663 cover the whole range of the B spectral type. They are, however, most populous among stars with spectral types falling in the range between B0 and B3, where their fraction amounts to 31+/-8%. Among B-type stars later than B3, Be stars are much less abundant: only 7 out of 101 observed stars, that is, 7+/-3%, were detected. About 70% of the observed Be stars in NGC 663 show detectable variations of light. In the time interval covered by our observations, the ranges of the largest variations reach 0.4mag in the I_C_ band. By means of the isochrone fitting, we derived the cluster distance of 2.1kpc, age of 20-25Myr, and the mean colour excess E(R-I)_C_=0.54mag, with a ~0.1mag scatter due to differential reddening.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/123/304
- Title:
- BV(RI)_C_JHK H{alpha} photometry in IC 5146
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/123/304
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The B0V star BD+46 3474 lies near the front surface of a dense molecular cloud and illuminates the emission/reflection nebula IC 5146. The HAeBe variable BD +46 3471 is embedded in the same cloud, about 10' (3.5pc) away. CCD photometry in BV(RI)_C_ (to V=22) and in JHK (to about K=16.5) has been obtained for the young clusters surrounding each of these two bright stars. Some 100 emission-H{alpha} stars brighter than R=20.5 have been found in the area, most of them in IC 5146. (Among these are two that have spectra resembling a high-excitation Herbig-Haro [HH] object plus a stellar continuum).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/417/L6
- Title:
- Catalogue of stellar cluster properties in M83
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/417/L6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the stellar cluster population in two adjacent fields in the nearby, face-on spiral galaxy, M83, using multi-wavelength WFC3/HST imaging. After automatic detection procedures, the clusters are selected through visual inspection to be centrally concentrated, symmetric, and resolved on the images, which allows us to differentiate between clusters and likely unbound associations. We compare our sample with previous studies and show that the differences between the catalogues are largely due to the inclusion of large numbers of diffuse associations within previous catalogues as well as the inclusion of the central starburst region, where the completeness limit is significantly worse than in the surrounding regions. We derive the size distribution of the clusters, which is well described by a log-normal distribution with a peak at ~2.5pc, and find evidence for an expansion in the half-light radius of clusters with age. The luminosity function of the clusters is well approximated by a power-law with index, -2, over most of the observed range, however a steepening is seen at M_V=-9.3 and -8.8 in the inner and outer fields, respectively. Additionally, we show that the cluster population is inconsistent with a pure power-law mass distribution, but instead exhibits a truncation at the high mass end. If described as a Schechter function, the characteristic mass is 1.6 and 0.5x10^5^M_{sun}_, for the inner and outer fields, respectively, in agreement with previous estimates of other cluster populations in spiral galaxies. Comparing the predictions of the mass independent disruption (MID) and mass dependent disruption (MDD) scenarios with the observed distributions, we find that both models can accurately fit the data. However, for the MID case, the fraction of clusters destroyed (or mass lost) per decade in age is dependent on the environment, hence, the age/mass distributions of clusters are not universal. In the MDD case, the disruption timescale scales with galactocentric distance (being longer in the outer regions of the galaxy) in agreement with analytic and numerical predictions. Finally, we discuss the implications of our results on other extragalactic surveys, focussing on the fraction of stars that form in clusters and the need (or lack thereof) for infant mortality.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/1014
- Title:
- CCD UBVRIHa photometry in NGC 3603
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/1014
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present UBVRI and H{alpha} photometry of the extremely compact, starburst cluster NGC 3603. Ground-based images, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archival data, as well as Chandra X-ray data have been used for this study. We present, for the first time, optical color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for the stars in the cluster core down to V=22mag. A well-defined main sequence (MS) as well as low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars can clearly be seen in the CMDs. This result confirms the finding by Eisenhauer et al. (1998ApJ...498..278E) that low-mass stars are forming in the starburst cluster. We also derive an age (1+/-1Myr) and distance of the cluster (V_0_-M_V_=14.2+/-0.2mag, i.e., d=6.9+/-0.6kpc).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/122/248
- Title:
- h and chi Per UBVI,H{alpha} photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/122/248
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- UBVI and H{alpha} photometry is presented for 17319 stars in vicinity of the young double cluster h and {chi} Persei. Our photometry extends over a 37'x1{deg} field centered on the association. We construct reddening contours within the imaged field. We find that the two clusters share a common distance modulus of 11.75+/-0.05 and ages of log[age(yr)]=7.1+/-0.1. From the V-H{alpha} color, a measure of the H{alpha} emission strength, we conduct a survey for emission line objects within the association. We detect a sample of 33 Be stars, eight of which are new detections. We present a scenario of evolutionary enhancement of the Be phenomenon to account for the peak in Be fraction toward the top of the main sequence in the population of h and {chi} Persei and similar young clusters. UBVI and H{alpha} photometry was performed on five nights between 1999 August 17 and 25 at the San Diego State University Mount Laguna Observatory with the 1m telescope and a Loral 2048x2048 CCD.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/415/103
- Title:
- IPHAS T Tauri candidates in IC 1396
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/415/103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS) is a 1800deg^2^ survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, reaching down to r'~21. We demonstrate how the survey can be used to (1) reliably select classical T Tauri star candidates and (2) constrain the mass accretion rates with an estimated relative uncertainty of 0.6dex. IPHAS is a necessary addition to spectroscopic surveys because it allows large and uniform samples of accretion rates to be obtained with a precise handle on the selection effects. We apply the method on a region of 7deg^2^ towards the HII region IC 1396 in Cepheus OB2 and identify 158 pre-main-sequence candidates with masses between 0.2 and 2.0M_{sun}_ and accretion rates between 10-9.2 and 10-7.0M_{sun}_/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/1026
- Title:
- Lagoon Nebula M8 T tauri accretion rates
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/453/1026
- Date:
- 03 Nov 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We estimate the accretion rates of 235 Classical T Tauri star (CTTS) candidates in the Lagoon Nebula using ugri H{alpha} photometry from the VST Photometric H{alpha} survey+. Our sample consists of stars displaying H{alpha} excess, the intensity of which is used to derive accretion rates. For a subset of 87 stars, the intensity of the u-band excess is also used to estimate accretion rates. We find the mean variation in accretion rates measured using H{alpha} and u-band intensities to be ~0.17dex, agreeing with previous estimates (0.04-0.4dex) but for a much larger sample. The spatial distribution of CTTS align with the location of protostars and molecular gas suggesting that they retain an imprint of the natal gas fragmentation process. Strong accretors are concentrated spatially, while weak accretors are more distributed. Our results do not support the sequential star-forming processes suggested in the literature.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/391/1279
- Title:
- Multiwavelength study of NGC 7419
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/391/1279
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using new UBVRI H{alpha} CCD photometric observations and the archival infrared and X-ray data, we have carried out a multiwavelength study of a Perseus arm young open star cluster NGC 7419. Using XMM-Newton observations, we found several X-ray sources in the cluster region but none of the Herbig Ae/Be stars is detected in X-rays.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/450/3855
- Title:
- New OB star candidates in Carina Arm
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/450/3855
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- O and early B stars are at the apex of galactic ecology, but in the Milky Way, only a minority of them may yet have been identified. We present the results of a pilot study to select and parametrize OB star candidates in the Southern Galactic plane, down to a limiting magnitude of g=20. A 2 deg^2^ field capturing the Carina Arm around the young massive star cluster, Westerlund 2, is examined. The confirmed OB stars in this cluster are used to validate our identification method, based on selection from the (u-g, g-r) diagram for the region. Our Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting method combines VPHAS+ u, g, r, i with published J, H, K photometry in order to derive posterior probability distributions of the stellar parameters log(Teff) and distance modulus, together with the reddening parameters A_0_ and R_V_. The stellar parameters are sufficient to confirm OB status while the reddening parameters are determined to a precision of {sigma}(A_0_)~0.09 and {sigma}(R_V_)~0.08. There are 489 objects that fit well as new OB candidates, earlier than ~ B2. This total includes 74 probable massive O stars, 5 likely blue supergiants and 32 reddened subdwarfs. This increases the number of previously known and candidate OB stars in the region by nearly a factor of 10. Most of the new objects are likely to be at distances between 3 and 6 kpc. We have confirmed the results of previous studies that, at these longer distances, these sight lines require non-standard reddening laws with 3.5<R_V_<4.
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