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2891. Positions of Triton with Sheshan Station telescope
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/237
Title:
Positions of Triton with Sheshan Station telescope
Short Name:
J/AJ/161/237
Date:
20 Jan 2022
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The large time span and precise observational data of natural satellites is of great significance for updating their ephemerides and studying their dynamic characteristics. With the help of the new image-processing methods and the Gaia DR2 catalog, all CCD images of Triton taken with the 1.56m telescope of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory during 2005-2009 were reanalyzed. The median filtering algorithm is used for image preprocessing to remove the influence of the halo of Neptune, and an upgraded modified moment, called the intensity-square-weighted centroiding method, is applied to determine the centroids of the stars and Triton. A total of 2299 positions of Triton were obtained, including 263 new observed positions and 2036 updated observed positions. Such five-year time span data with high precision will be very helpful to improve the orbit parameters of Triton.
2892. Post-common-envelope PN and mol. mass
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/658/A17
Title:
Post-common-envelope PN and mol. mass
Short Name:
J/A+A/658/A17
Date:
21 Mar 2022 09:39:31
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Most planetary nebulae (PNe) show beautiful, axisymmetric morphologies despite their progenitor stars being essentially spherical. Close binarity is widely invoked to help eject an axisymmetric nebula, after a brief phase of engulfment of the secondary within the envelope of the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) star, known as the common envelope (CE). The evolution of the AGB would thus be interrupted abruptly, its still quite massive envelope being rapidly ejected to form the PN, which a priori would be more massive than a PN coming from the same star, were it single. We aim at testing this hypothesis by investigating the ionised and molecular masses of a sample consisting of 21 post-CE PNe, roughly one fifth of the known total population of these objects, and comparing them to a large sample of 'regular' (i.e. not known to arise from close-binary systems) PNe. We have gathered data on the ionised and molecular content of our sample from the literature, and carried out molecular observations of several previously unobserved objects. We derive the ionised and molecular masses of the sample by means of a systematic approach, using tabulated, dereddened H-beta fluxes for finding the ionised mass, and ^12^CO J=2-1 and J=3-2 observations for estimating the molecular mass. There is a general lack of molecular content in post-CE PNe. Our observations only reveal molecule-rich gas around NGC 6778, distributed into a low-mass, expanding equatorial ring lying beyond the ionised broken ring previously observed in this nebula. The only two other objects showing molecular content (from the literature) are NGC 2346 and NGC 7293. Once we derive the ionised and molecular masses, we find that post-CE PNe arising from Single-Degenerate (SD) systems are just as massive, on average, as the 'regular' PNe sample, whereas post-CE PNe arising from Double-Degenerate (DD) systems are considerably more massive, and show substantially larger linear momenta and kinetic energy than SD systems and `regular' PNe. Reconstruction of the CE of four objects, for which a wealth of data on the nebulae and complete orbital parameters are available, further suggests that the mass of SD nebulae actually amounts to a very small fraction of the envelope of their progenitor stars. This leads to the uncomfortable question of where the rest of the envelope is and why we cannot detect it in the stars' vicinity, thus raising serious doubts on our understanding of these intriguing objects.
2893. Post-merger cluster A2255 membership
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/794/31
Title:
Post-merger cluster A2255 membership
Short Name:
J/ApJ/794/31
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The effects of dense environments on normal field galaxies are still up for debate despite much study since Abell published his catalog of nearby clusters in 1958 (1958ApJS....3..211A). There are changes in color, morphology, and star formation properties when galaxies fall into groups and clusters, but the specifics of how and where these modifications occur are not fully understood. To look for answers, we focused on star-forming galaxies in A2255, an unrelaxed cluster thought to have recently experienced a merger with another cluster or large group. We used H{alpha}, MIPS 24 {mu}m, and WISE 22 {mu}m to estimate total star formation rates (SFRs) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry to find stellar masses (M_*_) for galaxies out to ~5 r_200_. We compared the star-forming cluster galaxies with the field SFR-mass distribution and found no enhancement or suppression of star formation in currently star-forming galaxies of high mass (log(M_*_/M_{sun}_)>~10). This conclusion holds out to very large distances from the cluster center. However, the core (r_proj_<3 Mpc) has a much lower fraction of star-forming galaxies than anywhere else in the cluster. These results indicate that for the mass range studied here, the majority of the star formation suppression occurs in the core on relatively short timescales, without any enhancement prior to entering the central region. If any significant enhancement or quenching of star formation occurs, it will be in galaxies of lower mass (log(M_*_/M_{sun}_)<10).
2894. Post-starburst galaxy ages from SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/2
Title:
Post-starburst galaxy ages from SDSS
Short Name:
J/ApJ/862/2
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Detailed modeling of the recent star formation histories (SFHs) of post-starburst (or "E+A") galaxies is impeded by the degeneracy between the time elapsed since the starburst ended (post-burst age), the fraction of stellar mass produced in the burst (burst strength), and the burst duration. To resolve this issue, we combine GALEX ultraviolet photometry, SDSS photometry and spectra, and new stellar population synthesis models to fit the SFHs of 532 post-starburst galaxies. In addition to an old stellar population and a recent starburst, 48% of the galaxies are best fit with a second recent burst. Lower stellar mass galaxies (logM*/M_{sun}_<10.5) are more likely to experience two recent bursts, and the fraction of their young stellar mass is more strongly anticorrelated with their total stellar mass. Applying our methodology to other, younger post-starburst samples, we identify likely progenitors to our sample and examine the evolutionary trends of molecular gas and dust content with post-burst age. We discover a significant (4{sigma}) decline, with a 117-230Myr characteristic depletion time, in the molecular gas to stellar mass fraction with the post-burst age. The implied rapid gas depletion rate of 2-150M_{sun}_/yr cannot be due to current star formation, given the upper limits on the current star formation rates in these post- starbursts. Nor are stellar winds or supernova feedback likely to explain this decline. Instead, the decline points to the expulsion or destruction of molecular gas in outflows, a possible smoking gun for active galactic nucleus feedback.
2895. Post-T Tauri Stars in Sco-Cen Association
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/1670
Title:
Post-T Tauri Stars in Sco-Cen Association
Short Name:
J/AJ/124/1670
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present results of a spectroscopic survey of X-ray and proper-motion-selected samples of late-type stars in the Lower Centaurus-Crux (LCC) and Upper Centaurus-Lupus (UCL) subgroups of the nearest OB association: Scorpius-Centaurus. The primary goals of the survey are to determine the star formation history of the OB subgroups and to assess the frequency of accreting stars in a sample dominated by "post-T Tauri" pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars. We investigate two samples: (1) proper-motion candidates from the ACT Catalog (<I/246>) and Tycho Reference Catalog (TRC, <I/250>) with X-ray counterparts in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) Bright Source Catalog and (2) G- and K-type stars in the Hipparcos catalog found to be candidate members by de Zeeuw et al. (1999, Cat. <J/AJ/117/354>). We obtained optical spectra of 130 candidates with the Siding Spring 2.3m dual-beam spectrograph.
2896. Praesepe members light curves
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/442/2081
Title:
Praesepe members light curves
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/442/2081
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
By using the dense coverage of the extrasolar planet survey project HATNet (Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network), we Fourier analyse 381 high-probability members of the nearby open cluster Praesepe (Beehive/M44/NGC 2632). In addition to the detection of 10 variables (of delta Scuti and other types), we identify 180 rotational variables (including the two known planet hosts). This sample increases the number of known rotational variables in this cluster for spectral classes earlier than M by more than a factor of 3. These stars closely follow a colour/magnitude - period relation from early F to late K stars. We approximate this relation by polynomials for an easier reference to the rotational characteristics in different colours. The total (peak-to-peak) amplitudes of the large majority (94%) of these variables span the range of 0.005-0.04mag. The periods cover a range from 2.5 to 15d. These data strongly confirm that Praesepe and the Hyades have the same gyrochronological ages. Regarding the two planet hosts, Pr0211 (the one with the shorter orbital period) has a rotational period that is ~2d shorter than the one expected from the main rotational pattern in this cluster. This, together with other examples discussed in the paper, may hint that star-planet interaction via tidal dissipation can be significant in some cases in the rotational evolution of stars hosting hot Jupiters.
2897. Praesepe members rotational periods from K2 LCs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/842/83
Title:
Praesepe members rotational periods from K2 LCs
Short Name:
J/ApJ/842/83
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We analyze K2 light curves for 794 low-mass (1>~M_*_>~0.1M_{sun}_) members of the ~650Myr old open cluster Praesepe and measure rotation periods (P_rot_) for 677 of these stars. We find that half of the rapidly rotating >~0.3M_{sun}_ stars are confirmed or candidate binary systems. The remaining >~0.3M_{sun}_ fast rotators have not been searched for companions, and are therefore not confirmed single stars. We previously found that nearly all rapidly rotating 0.3M_{sun}_ stars in the Hyades are binaries, but we require deeper binary searches in Praesepe to confirm whether binaries in these two co-eval clusters have different P_rot_ distributions. We also compare the observed P_rot_ distribution in Praesepe to that predicted by models of angular-momentum evolution. We do not observe the clear bimodal P_rot_ distribution predicted by Brown (2014ApJ...789..101B) for >0.5M_{sun}_ stars at the age of Praesepe, but 0.25-0.5M_{sun}_ stars do show stronger bimodality. In addition, we find that >60% of early M dwarfs in Praesepe rotate more slowly than predicted at 650Myr by Matt+ (2015ApJ...799L..23M), which suggests an increase in braking efficiency for these stars relative to solar-type stars and fully convective stars. The incompleteness of surveys for binaries in open clusters likely impacts our comparison with these models since the models only attempt to describe the evolution of isolated single stars.
2898. Precision colour-magnitude diagram of M67
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/347/101
Title:
Precision colour-magnitude diagram of M67
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/347/101
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have calibrated and combined an extensive set of BVI observations of M67 to produce a colour-magnitude diagram of stars measured with high relative precision. We have selected stars that are most likely to be single-star members of the cluster using proper motion, radial velocity, and variability information from the literature, and an examination of the most probable colour-magnitude diagram locations of unresolved stellar blends. We have made detailed comparisons of our photometry of the selected stars with theoretical models, and discuss the most notable discrepancies. Observations of M67 turn-off stars are a severe test of algorithms attempting to describe convective cores in the limit of small extent, and we find strong evidence of a 'hook' just fainter than the turn-off gap. The stars in M67 support assertions that the degree of convective core overshooting decreases to zero for stars with masses in the range 1.0<(M/M_{sun}_)<=1.5, but that the degree of overshoot is smaller than currently used in published isochrones. We also verify that all current theoretical models for the lower main sequence (with the exception of Baraffe et al., 1998, Cat. J/A+A/337/403) are too blue for MV>~6, even when the sequences are shifted to match M67 near the MV of the Sun, probably due to a combination of problems with colour-Teff transformations and realistic surface boundary conditions for models. Finally, we identify a subset of cluster members with unusual photometry (candidate red giant binaries, blue straggler stars, and triple systems) deserving of further study.
2899. Predicted planetary yields of gap transitional disks
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/221
Title:
Predicted planetary yields of gap transitional disks
Short Name:
J/AJ/160/221
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a massive accreting gap planet model that ensures large gaps in transitional disks are kept dust free by the scattering action of three coplanar quasi-circular planets in a 1:2:4 mean motion resonance (MMR). This model uses the constraint of the observed gap size, and the dust-free nature of the gap, to determine within ~10% the possible orbits for three massive planets in an MMR. Calculated orbits are consistent with the observed orbits and H{alpha} emission (the brightest line to observe these planets) for LkCa15b, PDS70b, and PDS70c within observational errors. Moreover, the model suggests that the scarcity of detected H{alpha} planets is likely a selection effect of the current limitations of non-coronagraphic, low (<10%) Strehl, H{alpha} imaging with adaptive optics (AO) systems used in past H{alpha} surveys. We predict that as higher Strehl AO systems (with high- performance custom coronagraphs; like the 6.5m Magellan Telescope MagAO-X system) are utilized at H{alpha}, the number of detected gap planets will substantially increase by more than tenfold. For example, we show that >25{+/-}5 new H{alpha} "gap planets" are potentially discoverable by a survey of the best 19 transitional disks with MagAO-X. Detections of these accreting protoplanets will significantly improve our understanding of planet formation, planet growth and accretion, solar system architectures, and planet-disk interactions.
2900. Pre-eruption light curves for Nova U Sco
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/140/925
Title:
Pre-eruption light curves for Nova U Sco
Short Name:
J/AJ/140/925
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the discovery by B.G. Harris and S. Dvorak on JD 2455224.9385 (2010 January 28.4385 UT) of the predicted eruption of the recurrent nova U Scorpii (U Sco). We also report 815 magnitudes (and 16 useful limits) on the pre-eruption light curve in the UBVRI and Sloan r' and i' bands from 2000.4 up to 9hr before the peak of the 2010 January eruption.