- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/530/A138
- Title:
- Geneva-Copenhagen survey re-analysis
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/530/A138
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a re-analysis of the Geneva-Copenhagen survey, benefiting from the infrared flux method to improve upon the accuracy of the derived stellar effective temperatures and using the latter to build a consistent and improved metallicity scale. Metallicities are calibrated on high-resolution spectroscopy and checked against four open clusters and a moving group, showing excellent consistency. The new temperature and metallicity scales provide a better match to theoretical isochrones, which are used for a Bayesian analysis of stellar ages. With respect to previous analyses, our stars are on average 100K hotter and 0.1dex more metal rich, shifting the peak of the metallicity distribution function around the solar value. From Stromgren photometry we are able to derive for the first time a proxy for [Fe] abundances, which enables for a tentative dissection of the chemical thin and thick disc. We find evidence for the latter being composed of an old, mildly but systematically alpha-enhanced population extending to super solar metallicities, in agreement with spectroscopic studies. Our revision offers the largest existing kinematically unbiased sample of the solar neighbourhood that contains full information on kinematics, metallicities and ages and thus provides better constraints on the physical processes relevant in the build-up of the Milky Way disc, enabling a better understanding of the Sun in a Galactic context.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/121/95
- Title:
- Giant stars abundances in 24 clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/121/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio CCD echelle spectra of 10 bright red giants in 3 globular clusters (47 Tuc, NGC 6752 and NGC 6397) roughly spanning the whole range of metallicities of the galactic globular cluster system. The analysis of this newly acquired material reveals no significant evidence of star-to-star variation of the [Fe/H] ratio in these three clusters. Moreover, a large set of high quality literature data (equivalent widths from high dispersion CCD spectra) was re-analyzed in an homogeneous and self-consistent way to integrate our observations and derive new metal abundances for more than 160 bright red giants in 24 globular clusters (i.e. about 16% of the known population of galactic globulars). This set was then used to define a new metallicity scale for globular clusters which is the result of high quality, direct spectroscopic data, of new and updated model atmospheres from the grid of Kurucz (1992), and of a careful fine abundance analysis; this last, in turn, is based on a common set of both atomic and atmospheric parameters for all the stars examined.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/245/5
- Title:
- Globular cluster intrinsic iron abundance spreads
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/245/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an up-to-date catalog of intrinsic iron abundance spreads in the 55 Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) for which sufficiently precise spectroscopic measurements are available. Our method combines multiple data sets when possible to improve the statistics, taking into account the fact that different methods and instruments can lead to systematically offset metallicities. Only high spectral resolution (R>14000) studies that measure the equivalent widths of individual iron lines are found to have uncertainties on the metallicities of the individual stars that can be calibrated sufficiently well for the intrinsic dispersion to be separated cleanly from a random measurement error. The median intrinsic iron spread is found to be 0.045dex, which is small but unambiguously measured to be nonzero in most cases. There is large variation between clusters, but more luminous GCs, above 10^5^L_{sun}_, have increasingly large iron spreads on average; no trend between the iron spread and metallicity is found.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/296/680
- Title:
- Globular Clusters Djorg 1 and Pal 6
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/296/680
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present NTT V,I observations of Palomar 6 and Djorgovski 1, two obscured loose clusters in crowded fields. We derive a reddening of E(B-V)=1.33+/-0.10, a distance d_{sun}_=~8.9kpc, and a metallicity of [Fe/H]=~-0.4 for Pal 6, and E(B-V)=1.71+/-0.10, d_{sun}_=~8.8kpc, and a similar metallicity ([Fe/H]=~-0.4) for Djorg 1.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/682/199
- Title:
- Globulars with X-ray sources in NGC 5128
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/682/199
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We detect 353 X-ray point sources, mostly low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), in four Chandra observations of Centaurus A (NGC 5128), the nearest giant early-type galaxy, and correlate this point-source population with the largest available ensemble of confirmed and likely globular clusters (GCs) associated with this galaxy. Of the X-ray sources, 31 are coincident with 30 GCs that are confirmed members of the galaxy by radial velocity measurement (two X-ray sources match one GC within our search radius), while one X-ray source coincides with a GC resolved by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. Another 36 X-ray point sources match probable, but spectroscopically unconfirmed, GC candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/527/879
- Title:
- Gravities for late-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/527/879
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Chemical analyses of late-type stars are usually carried out following the classical recipe: LTE line formation and homogeneous, plane-parallel, flux-constant, and LTE model atmospheres. We review different results in the literature that have suggested significant inconsistencies in the spectroscopic analyses, pointing out the difficulties in deriving independent estimates of the stellar fundamental parameters and hence, detecting systematic errors. The trigonometric parallaxes measured by the Hipparcos mission provide accurate appraisals of the stellar surface gravity for nearby stars, which are used here to check the gravities obtained from the photospheric iron ionization balance. We find an approximate agreement for stars in the metallicity range -1.0{<~}[Fe/H]{<~}0, but the comparison shows that the differences between the spectroscopic and trigonometric gravities decrease toward lower metallicities for more metal-deficient dwarfs (-2.5{<~}[Fe/H]{<~}-1.0), which casts a shadow upon the abundance analyses for extreme metal-poor stars that make use of the ionization equilibrium to constrain the gravity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/698/865
- Title:
- Halo streams in the SDSS-DR7
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/698/865
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have detected stellar halo streams in the solar neighborhood using data from the seventh public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which includes the directed stellar program Sloan Extension For Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE). In order to derive distances to each star, we used the metallicity-dependent photometric parallax relation from Ivezic et al. (2008ApJ...684..287I). Our final sample consists of 22321 nearby (d<=2kpc), metal-poor ([Fe/H]<=-0.5) main-sequence stars with six-dimensional estimates of position and space velocity (r{vec},{nu}{vec}). We characterize the orbits of these stars through suitable kinematic proxies for their "effective" integrals of motion, angular momentum, eccentricity, and orbital polar angle and compare the observed distribution to expectations from a smooth distribution in four [Fe/H] bins. The metallicities provide an additional dimension in parameter space that is well suited to distinguish tidal streams from those of dynamical origin. On this basis, we identify at least five significant "phase-space overdensities" of stars on very similar orbits in the solar neighborhood to which we can assign unambiguously peaked [Fe/H] distributions. Three of them have been identified previously, including the halo stream discovered by Helmi et al. (1999MNRAS.307..495H) at a significance level of {sigma}=12.0. In addition, we find at least two new genuine halo streams, judged by their kinematics and [Fe/H], at {sigma}=2.9 and 4.8, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/878/134
- Title:
- HARPS and X-shooter spectra of Southern M dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/878/134
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 00:49:19
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the homogeneous analysis of a sample of Southern early-type M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood (d<60pc). We used the MCAL technique to derive the effective temperature Teff, metallicity [Fe/H], and activity index i_a_(H_alpha_) of 420 M stars using HARPS spectra. The effective temperature Teff, surface gravity logg, metallicity [Fe/H], and projected rotational velocity V_rot_sini of 153 M0-M6 dwarfs were determined by fitting the observed intermediate-resolution spectra from the VIS arm of VLT/X-shooter with a grid of BT-Settl stellar atmosphere models. We estimated the typical uncertainties of the fit with X-shooter spectra by varying region-to-region results by {sigma}T_eff_~50K, {sigma}logg~0.2, and {sigma}[Fe/H]~0.2dex. Photometric verification of Teff for the 295 stars from the HARPS sample and the 61 stars from the X-shooter sample is also provided. We compared our results from different methods to estimate absolute uncertainty in determining the physical properties of M dwarfs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/785/33
- Title:
- High quality Spitzer/MIPS obs. of F4-K2 stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/785/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a Spitzer MIPS study of the decay of debris disk excesses at 24 and 70{mu}m for 255 stars of types F4-K2. We have used multiple tests, including consistency between chromospheric and X-ray activity and placement on the H-R diagram, to assign accurate stellar ages. Within this spectral type range, at 24{mu}m, 13.6%+/-2.8% of the stars younger than 1 Gyr have excesses at the 3{sigma} level or more, whereas none of the older stars do, confirming previous work. At 70{mu}m, 22.5%+/-3.6% of the younger stars have excesses at >=3{sigma} significance, whereas only 4.7_-2.2_^+3.7^% of the older stars do. To characterize the far-infrared behavior of debris disks more robustly, we doubled the sample by including stars from the DEBRIS and DUNES surveys. For the F4-K4 stars in this combined sample, there is only a weak (statistically not significant) trend in the incidence of far-infrared excess with spectral type (detected fractions of 21.9_-4.3_^+4.8^%, late F; 16.5_-3.3_^+3.9^%, G; and 16.9_-5.0_^+6.3^%, early K). Taking this spectral type range together, there is a significant decline between 3 and 4.5 Gyr in the incidence of excesses, with fractional luminosities just under 10^-5^. There is an indication that the timescale for decay of infrared excesses varies roughly inversely with the fractional luminosity. This behavior is consistent with theoretical expectations for passive evolution. However, more excesses are detected around the oldest stars than are expected from passive evolution, suggesting that there is late-phase dynamical activity around these stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/252/3
- Title:
- High-velocity stars in the Gal. halo from LAMOST & Gaia
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/252/3
- Date:
- 03 Mar 2022 11:59:54
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we report 591 high-velocity star candidates (HiVelSCs) selected from over 10 million spectra of Data Release 7 (DR7) of the Large Sky Area Multi-object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope and the second Gaia data release, with three-dimensional velocities in the Galactic rest frame larger than 445km/s. We show that at least 43 HiVelSCs are unbound to the Galaxy with escape probabilities larger than 50%, and this number decreases to eight if the possible parallax zero-point error is corrected. Most of these HiVelSCs are metal-poor and slightly {alpha}-enhanced inner halo stars. Only 14% of them have [Fe/H]>-1, which may be the metal-rich "in situ" stars in the halo formed in the initial collapse of the Milky Way or metal-rich stars formed in the disk or bulge but kinematically heated. The low ratio of 14% implies that the bulk of the stellar halo was formed from the accretion and tidal disruption of satellite galaxies. In addition, HiVelSCs on retrograde orbits have slightly lower metallicities on average compared with those on prograde orbits; meanwhile, metal-poor HiVelSCs with [Fe/H]{<}-1 have an even faster mean retrograde velocity compared with metal-rich HiVelSCs. To investigate the origins of HiVelSCs, we perform orbit integrations and divide them into four types, i.e., hypervelocity stars, hyper-runaway stars, runaway stars and fast halo stars.
