- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/510
- Title:
- Spectral classification of N159/N160 stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/510
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectroscopic study of the N159/N160 massive star-forming region south of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud, classifying a total of 189 stars in the field of the complex. Most of them belong to O and early B spectral classes; we have also found some uncommon and very interesting spectra, including members of the Onfp class, a Be P Cygni star, and some possible multiple systems. Using spectral types as broad indicators of evolutionary stages, we considered the evolutionary status of the region as a whole. We infer that massive stars at different evolutionary stages are present throughout the region, favoring the idea of a common time for the origin of recent star formation in the N159/N160 complex as a whole, while sequential star formation at different rates is probably present in several subregions.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/699/150
- Title:
- Spectral classifications of Massive YSOs in LMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/699/150
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and categorize Spitzer infrared spectrometer spectra of 294 objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to create the largest and most complete catalog of massive young stellar object (YSO) spectra in the LMC. Target sources were identified from infrared photometry and multiwavelength images indicative of young, massive stars highly enshrouded in their natal gas and dust clouds. Several objects have been spectroscopically identified as non-YSOs and have features similar to more-evolved stars such as red supergiants, asymptotic giant branch (AGB), and post-AGB stars. Our sample primarily consists of 277 objects we identify as having spectral features indicative of embedded YSOs. The remaining sources are comprised of seven C-rich evolved sources, eight sources dominated by broad silicate emission, and one source with multiple broad emission features.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/54
- Title:
- Spectra of a rare low-mass Wolf-Rayet star in LMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/888/54
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 10:12:43
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the serendipitous discovery of an object, UVQSJ060819.93-715737.4, with a spectrum dominated by extremely intense, narrow CII emission lines. The spectrum is similar to those of the very rare, late-type [WC11] low-mass Wolf-Rayet stars. Despite the recognition of these stars as a distinct class decades ago, there remains barely a handful of Galactic members, all of which are also planetary-nebula central stars. Although no obvious surrounding nebulosity is present in J0608, [OII], [NII], and [SII] emission suggest the presence of an inconspicuous, low-excitation nebula. There is low-amplitude incoherent photometric variability on timescales of days to years, as well as numerous prominent P Cygni profiles, implying mass loss. There are indications of a binary companion. The star is located on the outskirts of the LMC, and the observed radial velocity (~+250km/s) and proper motion strongly suggest membership. If indeed an LMC member, this is the first extragalactic late [WC] star, and the first with an accurately determined luminosity, as the Galactic examples are too distant for precise parallax determinations. A high-quality, broad-coverage spectrum of the prototype of the late [WC] class, CPD -56 8032, is also presented. We discuss different excitation mechanisms capable of producing the great strength of the CII emission. Numerous autoionizing levels of C II are definitely populated by processes other than dielectronic recombination. Despite the spectacular emission spectra, observational selection makes objects such as these difficult to discover. Members of the [WC11] class may in fact be considerably more common than the handful of previously known late [WC] stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/642/A71
- Title:
- Spectra of 14 Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/642/A71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We obtained new spectra of fourteen Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae with the South African Large Telescope to determine heating rates of their central stars and to verify evolutionary models of post asymptotic giant branch stars. We compared new spectra with observations made in previous years. Five planetary nebulae showed an increase of the excitation with time. Four of their central stars exhibit [WC] features in their spectra, including three new detections. This raises the total number of [WC] central stars of PNe in the Magellanic Clouds to ten. We compared determined heating rates of the four [WC] central stars with the He burning post asymptotic giant branch evolutionary tracks and the remaining star with the H-burning tracks. Determined heating rates are consistent with the evolutionary models for both H and He-burning post asymptotic giant branch stars. The central stars of the PNe which show the fastest increase of excitation are also the most luminous in the sample. This indicates that [WC] central stars in the Magellanic Clouds evolve faster than H-burning central stars and originate from more massive progenitors.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/440/111
- Title:
- Spectra of SMC star clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/440/111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present flux-calibrated integrated spectra in the range 360-680nm for 18 concentrated SMC clusters. The objects are part of a systematic spectroscopic survey of SMC star clusters which is being undertaken at Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (CASLEO) in San Juan (Argentina) and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO, Chile).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/320/105
- Title:
- Spectrophotometry of 26 supergiants in the LMC
- Short Name:
- J/AN/320/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New spectrophotometric data for 3 galactic and 23 LMC F to G supergiants are presented. The wavelength range of the spectra is 3400 to 6400{AA}, the resolution about 10{AA}. The mean transformational error of the fluxes is 0.03mag. The S/N ratio is about 100 and 30 for galactic and LMC stars, respectively. Details about the reduction one may found in Oestreicher & Schmidt-Kaler (1998MNRAS.299..625O) and Malyuto et al. (1997MNRAS.286..500M). The fluxes are given in magnitudes according to the system of Hayes & Latham (1975ApJ...197..593H). For each star an ASCII file is given with the name of the first identifier. In the first column the wavelength, in the second column the flux is given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/868/57
- Title:
- Spectroscopic HR diagram of OB stars in the SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/868/57
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive stellar atmosphere analysis of 329 O- and B-type stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) from the RIOTS4 survey. Using spectroscopically derived effective temperature Teff and surface gravities, we find that classical Be stars appear misplaced to low Teff and high luminosity in the spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (sHRD). Together with the most luminous stars in our sample, the stellar masses derived from the sHRD for these objects are systematically larger than those obtained from the conventional Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. This suggests that the well-known, spectroscopic mass-discrepancy problem may be linked to the fact that both groups of stars have outer envelopes that are nearly gravitationally unbound. The non-emission-line stars in our sample mainly appear on the main sequence, allowing a first estimate of the terminal-age main sequence (TAMS) in the SMC, which matches the predicted TAMS between 12 and 40M_{sun}_ at SMC metallicity. We further find a large underabundance of stars above ~25M_{sun}_ near the zero-age main sequence, reminiscent of such earlier findings in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/88
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of 6 LMC RR Lyrae and 3 SMC RR Lyrae
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/144/88
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present for the first time a detailed spectroscopic study of chemical element abundances of metal-poor RR Lyrae stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC). Using the MagE echelle spectrograph at the 6.5m Magellan telescopes, we obtain medium resolution (R~2000-6000) spectra of six RR Lyrae stars in the LMC and three RR Lyrae stars in the SMC. These stars were chosen because their previously determined photometric metallicities were among the lowest metallicities found for stars belonging to the old populations in the Magellanic Clouds. We find the spectroscopic metallicities of these stars to be as low as [Fe/H]_spec_=-2.7dex, the lowest metallicity yet measured for any star in the Magellanic Clouds. We confirm that for metal-poor stars, the photometric metallicities from the Fourier decomposition of the light curves are systematically too high compared to their spectroscopic counterparts. However, for even more metal-poor stars below [Fe/H]_phot_<-2.8dex this trend is reversed and the spectroscopic metallicities are systematically higher than the photometric estimates. We are able to determine abundance ratios for 10 chemical elements (Fe, Na, Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Sr, and Ba), which extend the abundance measurements of chemical elements for RR Lyrae stars in the Clouds beyond [Fe/H] for the first time. For the overall [{alpha}/Fe] ratio, we obtain an overabundance of 0.36dex, which is in very good agreement with results from metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo as well as from the metal-poor tail in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Comparing the abundances with those of the stars in the Milky Way halo we find that the abundance ratios of stars of both populations are consistent with another. Therefore, we conclude that from a chemical point of view early contributions from Magellanic-type galaxies to the formation of the Galactic halo as claimed in cosmological models are plausible.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/1465
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of red giants in the LMC bar
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/1465
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report metallicities and radial velocities derived from spectra at the near-infrared calcium triplet for 373 red giants in a 200arcmin^2^ area at the optical center of the LMC bar. These are the first spectroscopic abundance measurements of intermediate-age and old field stars in the high surface brightness heart of the LMC. The metallicity distribution is sharply peaked at the median value [Fe/H]=-0.40, with a small tail of stars extending down to [Fe/H]<=-2.1; 10% of the red giants are observed to have [Fe/H]<=-0.7.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/124
- Title:
- Spectroscopy on LMC clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/749/124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of an ongoing program to measure detailed chemical abundances in nearby galaxies, we use a sample of young- to intermediate-age clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud with ages of 10Myr-2Gyr to evaluate the effect of isochrone parameters, specifically core convective overshooting, on Fe abundance results from high-resolution, integrated light spectroscopy. In this work we also obtain fiducial Fe abundances from high-resolution spectroscopy of the cluster individual member stars. We compare the Fe abundance results for the individual stars to the results from isochrones and integrated light spectroscopy to determine whether isochrones with convective overshooting should be used in our integrated light analysis of young- to intermediate-age (10Myr-3Gyr) star clusters. We find that when using the isochrones from the Teramo group, we obtain more accurate results for young- and intermediate-age clusters over the entire age range when using isochrones without convective overshooting. While convective overshooting is not the only uncertain aspect of stellar evolution, it is one of the most readily parameterized ingredients in stellar evolution models, and thus important to evaluate for the specific models used in our integrated light analysis. This work demonstrates that our method for integrated light spectroscopy of star clusters can provide unique tests for future constraints on stellar evolution models of young- and intermediate-age clusters.
