- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/295
- Title:
- Obs. with Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. X.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/295
- Date:
- 09 Mar 2022 22:00:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper details speckle observations of binary stars taken at the Lowell Discovery Telescope, the WIYN telescope, and the Gemini telescopes between 2016 January and 2019 September. The observations taken at Gemini and Lowell were done with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI), and those done at WIYN were taken with the successor instrument to DSSI at that site, the NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Star and Speckle Imager (NESSI). In total, we present 378 observations of 178 systems, and we show that the uncertainty in the measurement precision for the combined data set is ~2mas in separation, ~1{deg}-2{deg} in position angle depending on the separation, and ~0.1mag in magnitude difference. Together with data already in the literature, these new results permit 25 visual orbits and one spectroscopic- visual orbit to be calculated for the first time. In the case of the spectroscopic-visual analysis, which is done on the ternary star HD173093, we calculate masses with a precision of better than 1% for all three stars in that system. Twenty-one of the visual orbits calculated have a K-dwarf as the primary star; we add these to the known orbits of K-dwarf primary stars and discuss the basic orbital properties of these stars at this stage. Although incomplete, the data that exist so far indicate that binaries with K-dwarf primaries tend not to have low-eccentricity orbits at separations of one to a few tens of astronomical units, that is, on solar system scales.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/2385
- Title:
- Occulting galaxy pairs in SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/2385
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A spiral galaxy partially overlapping a more distant elliptical offers a unique opportunity to measure the dust extinction in the foreground spiral. From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR4 spectroscopic sample, we selected 83 occulting galaxy pairs and measured disk opacity over the redshift range z=0.0-0.2 with the goal of determining the recent evolution of disk dust opacity. The enrichment of the ISM changes over the lifetime of a disk, and it is reasonable to expect the dust extinction properties of spiral disks as a whole to change over their lifetime. When they do, the change will affect our measurements of galaxies over the observable universe. From the SDSS pairs we conclude that spiral disks show evidence of extinction to ~2 effective radii.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/46
- Title:
- (O-C) curve of the binary system KIC 06852488
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/46
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The continuous and unbroken time-series photometry data of Kepler and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provide a good opportunity to study the continuous variations in the light curve of binary stars. This paper reports the discoveries of the correlation between the two maxima on the light curve of KIC06852488 and the correlation between the O'Connell effect and the O-C curve. The Max I and Max II vary with a same cycle length of ~2000days and a 180{deg} phase difference, and the variation of the Max II coincides with the O-C curve of the primary light minima. After analyzing the Kepler and TESS light curves, it is detected that this binary is a semi-detached system with a mass ratio of 0.4622({+/-}0.0036). The secondary component is filling its critical Roche lobe, while the primary component is only filling 12.25({+/-}0.10)% of the lobe volume that contributes more than 85% luminosity of the total system. The variation of the O'Connell effect could be explained by an evolving hot spot on the primary component and an evolving cool spot on the secondary component. It is found that their positions are symmetrical with the inner Lagrange L1 point. After subtracting the binary brightness changes, six optical flares are detected that come from the cool secondary. We calculated the energy of flares and found that all of the flares are superflares. Both the flares and an evolving dark spot on the lobe-filling secondary component make the system a very interesting source to investigate the effects of binary interaction on the magnetic activities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/27
- Title:
- O-C values of KIC10975348 with Kepler Space Telescope
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/27
- Date:
- 11 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we analyze the light variations of KIC10975348 using photometric data delivered from the Kepler mission. This star is exceptionally faint (Kp=18.6mag) compared to most well-studied {delta}Scuti stars. The Fourier analysis of the short-cadence data (i.e., Q14, Q15, and Q16, spanning 220days) reveals that the variations are dominated by the strongest mode with a frequency of F0=10.231899/day, which is compatible with that obtained from RATS-Kepler. The other two independent modes with F1(=13.4988/day) and F2(=19.0002/day) are newly detected and have amplitudes two orders of magnitude smaller than F0. We note that, for the first time, this star is identified to be a high-amplitude {delta}Sct (HADS) star with an amplitude of about 0.7mag, and the lower ratio of F0/F1=0.758 suggests that it might be a metal-rich variable star. The frequency F2 may be a third overtone mode, suggesting that this target might be a new radial triple-mode HADS star. We perform an O-C analysis using 1018 newly determined times of maximum light and derive an ephemeris formula of Tmax=2456170.241912(0)+0.097734(1)xE. The O-C diagram shows that the pulsation period of KIC10975348 seems to show no obvious change, which is in contrast to that of the majority of HADS stars. The possible cause of that may be due to the current short time span of the observations. To verify its possible period variations, regular observation from space with a longer time span in the future is needed.
- ID:
- ivo://opo.stsci/OPO-STScI
- Title:
- Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Short Name:
- opo.stsci
- Date:
- 04 Apr 2008 16:07:12
- Publisher:
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Description:
- The Institute created the Office of Public Outreach (OPO) to share the amazing discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope with the American public. OPO programs are the focal point of public attention for a NASA/ESA space science mission to which thousands of engineers, programmers, technicians, administrators and scientists have devoted their professional gifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/L114
- Title:
- OGLE16aaa UVOT light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/L114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery and first three months of follow-up observations of a currently on-going unusual transient detected by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-IV) survey, located in the centre of a galaxy at redshift z=0.1655. The long rise to absolute magnitude of -20.5mag, slow decline, very broad He and H spectral features make OGLE16aaa similar to other optical/UV tidal disruption events (TDEs). Weak narrow emission lines in the spectrum and archival photometric observations suggest the host galaxy is a weak-line active galactic nucleus, which has been accreting at higher rate in the past. OGLE16aaa, along with SDSS J0748, seems to form a sub-class of TDEs by weakly or recently active supermassive black holes (SMBHs). This class might bridge the TDEs by quiescent SMBHs and flares observed as "changing-look quasars", if we interpret the latter as TDEs. If this picture is true, the previously applied requirement for identifying a flare as a TDE that it had to come from an inactive nucleus, could be leading to observational bias in TDE selection, thus affecting TDE-rate estimations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/903/L11
- Title:
- OGLE and KMTNet light curve of OGLE-2016-BLG-1928
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/903/L11
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 06:18:03
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Some low-mass planets are expected to be ejected from their parent planetary systems during early stages of planetary system formation. According to planet formation theories, such as the core accretion theory, typical masses of ejected planets should be between 0.3 and 1.0M{Earth}. Although in practice such objects do not emit any light, they may be detected using gravitational microlensing via their light-bending gravity. Microlensing events due to terrestrial-mass rogue planets are expected to have extremely small angular Einstein radii (<~1{mu}as) and extremely short timescales (<~0.1day). Here, we present the discovery of the shortest-timescale microlensing event, OGLE-2016-BLG-1928, identified to date (t_E_~0.0288day=41.5min. Thanks to the detection of finite-source effects in the light curve of the event, we were able to measure the angular Einstein radius of the lens {theta}_E_=0.842{+/-}0.064{mu}as, making the event the most extreme short-timescale microlens discovered to date. Depending on its unknown distance, the lens may be a Mars- to Earth-mass object, with the former possibility favored by the Gaia proper motion measurement of the source. The planet may be orbiting a star but we rule out the presence of stellar companions up to the projected distance of ~8.0au from the planet. Our discovery demonstrates that terrestrial-mass free-floating planets can be detected and characterized using microlensing.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/61
- Title:
- OGLE-III, MCPS and HST VI obs. of LMC & SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a calibration of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ACS F814W system. We use archival HST observations to derive blending corrections and photometric transformations for two ground-based wide-area imaging surveys of the Magellanic Clouds. We show that these surveys are biased bright by up to ~0.1mag in the optical due to blending, and that the bias is a function of local stellar density. We correct the LMC TRGB magnitudes from Jang & Lee (2017ApJ...835...28J) and use the geometric distance from Pietrzynski+ (2019Natur.567..200P) to obtain an absolute TRGB magnitude of M_F814W_=-3.97+/-0.046mag. Applying this calibration to the TRGB magnitudes from Freedman+ (2019ApJ...882...34F) in SN Ia hosts yields a value for the Hubble constant of H_0_=72.4+/-2.0km/s/Mpc for their TRGB+SNe Ia distance ladder. The difference in the TRGB calibration and the value of H_0_ derived here and by Freedman+ primarily results from their overestimate of the LMC extinction, caused by inconsistencies in their different sources of TRGB photometry for the Magellanic Clouds. Using the same source of photometry (OGLE) for both Clouds and applying the aforementioned corrections yields a value for the LMC I-band TRGB extinction that is lower by 0.06mag, consistent with independent OGLE reddening maps used by us and by Jang & Lee to calibrate TRGB and determine H0.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/20
- Title:
- OGLE-III Mira variables in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Period-Luminosity and Period-Luminosity-Color relations at maximum light for Mira variables in the Magellanic Clouds using time-series data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) and Gaia data release 2. The maximum-light relations exhibit a scatter typically up to ~30% smaller than their mean-light counterparts. The apparent magnitudes of oxygen-rich Miras at maximum light display significantly smaller cycle-to-cycle variations than at minimum light. High-precision photometric data for Kepler Mira candidates also exhibit stable magnitude variations at the brightest epochs, while their multi-epoch spectra display strong Balmer emission lines and weak molecular absorption at maximum light. The stability of maximum-light magnitudes for Miras possibly occurs due to the decrease in the sensitivity to molecular bands at their warmest phase. At near-infrared wavelengths, the period-luminosity relations (PLRs) of Miras display similar dispersion at mean and maximum light with limited time-series data in the Magellanic Clouds. A kink in the oxygen-rich Mira PLRs is found at 300 days in the VI-bands, which shifts to longer periods (~350 days) at near-infrared wavelengths. Oxygen-rich Mira PLRs at maximum light provide a relative distance modulus, {Delta}{mu}=0.48+/-0.08mag, between the Magellanic Clouds with a smaller statistical uncertainty than the mean-light relations. The maximum-light properties of Miras can be very useful for stellar atmosphere modeling and distance scale studies provided their stability and the universality can be established in other stellar environments in the era of extremely large telescopes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/379
- Title:
- OGLE-III variable stars in Galactic disk area
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/379
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for pulsating stars in the 7.12deg^2^ OGLE-III Galactic disk area in the direction tangent to the Centaurus Arm. We report the identification of 20 Classical Cepheids, 45 RR Lyr type stars, 31 Long-Period Variables, such as Miras and Semi-Regular Variables, one pulsating white dwarf, and 58 very likely {delta} Sct type stars. Based on asteroseismic models constructed for one quadruple-mode and six triple-mode {delta} Sct type pulsators, we estimated masses, metallicities, ages, and distance moduli to these objects. The modeled stars have masses in the range 0.9-2.5M_{sun}_ and are located at distances between 2.5kpc and 6.2kpc. Two triple-mode and one double-mode pulsators seem to be Population II stars of the SX Phe type, probably from the Galactic halo. Our sample also includes candidates for Type II Cepheids and unclassified short-period (P<0.23d) multi-mode stars which could be either {delta}Sct or {beta}Cep type stars. One of the detected variables is a very likely {delta} Sct star with an exceptionally high peak-to-peak I-band amplitude of 0.35mag at the very short period of 0.0196d. All reported pulsating variable stars but one object are new discoveries. They are included in the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars. Finally, we introduce the on-going OGLE-IV Galactic Disk Survey, which covers more than half of the Galactic plane. For the purposes of future works on the spiral structure and star formation history of the Milky Way, we have already compiled a list of known Galactic Classical Cepheids.
