- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/253/48
- Title:
- New rotation measures from the CGPS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/253/48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Faraday rotation provides a valuable tracer of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium; catalogs of Faraday rotation measures provide key observations for studies of the Galactic magnetic field. We present a new catalog of rotation measures derived from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, covering a large region of the Galactic plane spanning 52{deg}<l<192{deg}, -3{deg}<b<5{deg}, along with northern and southern latitude extensions around l~105{deg}. We have derived rotation measures for 2234 sources (4 of which are known pulsars), 75% of which have no previous measurements, over an area of approximately 1300deg^2^. These new rotation measures increase the measurement density for this region of the Galactic plane by a factor of 2.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/856/152
- Title:
- New star clusters in the central plane region
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/856/152
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery of new star clusters in the central plane region (|l|<30{deg} and |b|<6{deg}) of the Milky Way. In order to overcome the extinction problem and the spatial limit of previous surveys, we use the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data to find clusters. We also use other infrared survey data in the archive for additional analysis. We find 923 new clusters, of which 202 clusters are embedded clusters. These clusters are concentrated toward the Galactic plane and show a symmetric distribution with respect to the Galactic latitude. The embedded clusters show a stronger concentration to the Galactic plane than the nonembedded clusters. The new clusters are found more in the first Galactic quadrant, while previously known clusters are found more in the fourth Galactic quadrant. The spatial distribution of the combined sample of known clusters and new clusters is approximately symmetric with respect to the Galactic longitude. We estimate reddenings, distances, and relative ages of the 15 class A clusters using theoretical isochrones. Ten of them are relatively old (age >800Myr) and five are young (age ~4Myr).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/519/A12
- Title:
- 1318 new variable stars in Galactic plane
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/519/A12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a deep photometric survey of a 0.5deg*0.5deg area of the Galactic Plane using the WFI instrument on the 2.2-m ESO telescope on La Silla, Chile. The dataset comprises a total of 267 R-band images, 204 from a 16 day observation run in 2005, supplemented by 63 images from a six week period in 2002. Our reduction employed the new numerical kernel difference image analysis method as implemented in the pySIS3 code and resulted in more than 500000 lightcurves of stars down to a magnitude limit of R~24.5. A search for variable stars resulted in the detection of 1318 variables of different types. 1011 of these are eclipsing or contact binary stars. A number of the contact binaries have low mass-ratios and several of the detached binaries appear to have low-mass components. Three candidate contact binaries have periods at the known cut off including two with periods lower than any previously published. Also identified are 3 possible pre-main sequence detached eclipsing binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/482/3058
- Title:
- New variable stars towards Galactic Bulge
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/482/3058
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the detection of 3714 variable stars towards the Galactic bulge, including 2521 previously uncatalogued variables, using time-series photometry extracted from data obtained with the VIMOS imager at the Very Large Telescope. Observations of the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) field in the Galactic Bulge were taken over 2yr between March and October at a cadence of ~4d, enabling the detection of variables with periods up to ~100d. Many of these were already known, but we detected a significant number of new variables, including 11 Cepheids, a further 88 potential Cepheid candidates, and many contact binaries. Here we publish the catalogue of the new variables, containing coordinates, mean magnitudes as well as periods and classification; full light curves for these variables are also made available electronically.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/213/22
- Title:
- NIR polarimetry in the Central Molecular Zone
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/213/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out near-infrared polarimetry toward the boundary of the Central Molecular Zone, in the field of (-1.{deg}4<~l<~-0.{deg}3 and 1.{deg}0<~l<~2.{deg}9,|b|<~0.{deg}1), using the near-infrared polarimetric camera SIRPOL on the 1.4m Infrared Survey Facility telescope. We have selected 112 intrinsically polarized sources on the basis of the estimate of interstellar polarization on Stokes Q/I-U/I planes. The selected sources are brighter than K_S_=14.5mag and have polarimetric uncertainty {delta}P<1%. Ten of these distinctive polarized sources are fit well with spectral energy distributions of young stellar objects when using the photometry in the archive of the Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared data. However, many sources have spectral energy distributions of normal stars suffering from heavy interstellar extinction; these might be stars behind dark clouds. Due to the small number of distinctive polarized sources and candidates of young stellar objects, we cannot judge if they are declining in number outside the Central Molecular Zone. Many massive candidates for young stellar objects in the literature have only small intrinsic polarization. This might suggest that their masses are 4-15M_{sun}_, whose intrinsic polarization has been expected to be small.
- ID:
- ivo://jvo/nobeyama
- Title:
- Nobeyama Radio Telescope FITS Archive
- Short Name:
- NRO FITS ARCHIVE
- Date:
- 14 Nov 2019 03:48:50
- Publisher:
- JVO
- Description:
- FITS data archive for Nobeyama 45m radio telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/825/132
- Title:
- NuSTAR hard X-ray survey of the Galactic Center. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/825/132
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first survey results of hard X-ray point sources in the Galactic Center (GC) region by NuSTAR. We have discovered 70 hard (3-79 keV) X-ray point sources in a 0.6 deg^2^ region around Sgr A* with a total exposure of 1.7 Ms, and 7 sources in the Sgr B2 field with 300 ks. We identify clear Chandra counterparts for 58 NuSTAR sources and assign candidate counterparts for the remaining 19. The NuSTAR survey reaches X-ray luminosities of ~4x and ~8x10^32^ erg/s at the GC (8 kpc) in the 3-10 and 10-40 keV bands, respectively. The source list includes three persistent luminous X-ray binaries (XBs) and the likely run-away pulsar called the Cannonball. New source-detection significance maps reveal a cluster of hard (>10 keV) X-ray sources near the Sgr A diffuse complex with no clear soft X-ray counterparts. The severe extinction observed in the Chandra spectra indicates that all the NuSTAR sources are in the central bulge or are of extragalactic origin. Spectral analysis of relatively bright NuSTAR sources suggests that magnetic cataclysmic variables constitute a large fraction (>40%-60%). Both spectral analysis and logN-logS distributions of the NuSTAR sources indicate that the X-ray spectra of the NuSTAR sources should have kT>20 keV on average for a single temperature thermal plasma model or an average photon index of {Gamma}=1.5-2 for a power-law model. These findings suggest that the GC X-ray source population may contain a larger fraction of XBs with high plasma temperatures than the field population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/822/L5
- Title:
- Observed red supergiants in the inner Galaxy
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/822/L5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this Letter, we present a search for Galactic red supergiant stars (RSGs) in the direction of the inner Galaxy. A total of 94 targets selected from the 2MASS (Cat. VII/233) and GLIMPSE I North (Benjamin et al. 2003, Cat. II/293; Churchwell et al. 2009PASP..121..213C) catalogs - via their blue extinction-free Q1 and Q2 colors - were spectroscopically observed at infrared wavelengths (in the H- and K-bands at R~1000), and an extraordinary high detection rate of RSGs (>61%) was found. We identified spectroscopically 58 RSGs, based on their flat continua and large equivalent widths of the CO-band at 2.293 {mu}m (EW>45 {AA}). This increase corresponds to about 25% of previously known RSGs in the Galactic region 10{deg}<l<60{deg}, -1.1{deg}<b<1.1{deg}. In order to confirm the location of the new RSGs in the inner Galaxy, distances were estimated for a subsample of 47 stars with the clump method and found to range from 3.6+/-0.4 to 8.6+/-0.7 kpc. The large new sample will allow us to investigate Galactic metallicity gradients as a function of galactocentric distances and azimuthal angles. Such information is currently an highly disputed issue to constrain models of Galaxy formation and evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/3150
- Title:
- OCCASO survey. HRV for 12 open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/3150
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Open clusters (OCs) are crucial for studying the formation and evolution of the Galactic disc. However, the lack of a large number of OCs analyzed homogeneously hampers the investigations about chemical patterns and the existence of Galactocentric radial and vertical gradients, or an age-metallicity relation. To overcome this, we have designed the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances from Spanish Observatories survey (OCCASO). We aim to provide homogeneous radial velocities, physical parameters and individual chemical abundances of six or more Red Clump stars for a sample of 25 old and intermediate-age OCs visible from the Northern hemisphere. To do so, we use high resolution spectroscopic facilities (R~62,000) available at Spanish observatories. We present the motivation, design and current status of the survey, together with the first data release of radial velocities for 77 stars in 12 OCs, which represents about 50% of the survey. We include clusters never studied with high-resolution spectroscopy before (NGC 1907, NGC 6991, NGC 7762), and clusters in common with other large spectroscopic surveys like the Gaia-ESO Survey (NGC 6705) and APOGEE (NGC 2682 and NGC 6819). We perform internal comparisons between instruments to evaluate and correct internal systematics of the results, and compare our radial velocities with previous determinations in the literature, when available. Finally, radial velocities for each cluster are used to perform a preliminar kinematic study in relation with the Galactic disc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/67/297
- Title:
- OGLE Galactic center Cepheids and RR Lyrae
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/67/297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a collection of classical, type II, and anomalous Cepheids detected in the OGLE fields toward the Galactic center. The sample contains 87 classical Cepheids pulsating in one, two or three radial modes, 924 type II Cepheids divided into BL Her, W Vir, peculiar W Vir, and RV Tau stars, and 20 anomalous Cepheids - first such objects found in the Galactic bulge. Additionally, we upgrade the OGLE Collection of RR Lyr stars in the Galactic bulge by adding 828 newly identified variables. For all Cepheids and RR Lyr stars, we publish time-series VI photometry obtained during the OGLE-IV project, from 2010 through 2017. We discuss basic properties of our classical pulsators: their spatial distribution, light curve morphology, period-luminosity relations, and position in the Petersen diagram. We present the most interesting individual objects in our collection: a type II Cepheid with additional eclipsing modulation, W Vir stars with the period doubling effect and the RVb phenomenon, a mode-switching RR Lyr star, and a triple-mode anomalous RRd star.
