- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/454/1047
- Title:
- XMM view of NGC 6231 open cluster
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/454/1047
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of an X-ray campaign towards the young open cluster NGC 6231. The XMM-Newton observations, of a total duration of about 180 ks, reveals that NGC 6231 is very rich in the X-ray domain too. Indeed, 610 X-ray sources are detected in the present field of view, centered on the cluster core. The limiting sensitivity of our survey is approximately 610^-15^erg/s/cm^2^ but clearly depends on the location in the field of view and on the source spectrum. Using different existing catalogues, over 85% of the X-ray sources could be associated with at least one optical and/or infrared counterpart within a limited cross-correlation radius of 2.5 or 3-arcsec according to the optical/IR catalogue used. The surface density distribution of the X-ray sources presents a slight N-S elongation. Once corrected for the spatial sensitivity variation of the EPIC instruments, the radial profile of the source surface density is well described by a King profile with a central density of about 8 sources per arcmin^2^ and a core radius close to 3.1-arcmin. The distribution of the X-ray sources seems closely related to the optical source distribution. The expected number of foreground and background sources should represent about 9% of the detected sources, thus strongly suggesting that most of the observed X-ray emitters are physically belonging to NGC 6231. Finally, beside a few bright but soft objects -- corresponding to the early-type stars of the cluster -- most of the sources are relatively faint (~5x10^-15^erg/s/cm^2^) with an energy distribution peaked around 1.0-2.0keV.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/820/87
- Title:
- XO-4b 3yr observations with DEMONEX
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/820/87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The DEdicated MONitor of EXotransits (DEMONEX) was a 20-inch robotic and automated telescope to monitor bright stars hosting transiting exoplanets to discover new planets and improve constraints on the properties of known transiting planetary systems. We present results for the misaligned hot Jupiter XO-4b containing seven new transits from the DEMONEX telescope, including three full and four partial transits. We combine these data with archival light curves and archival radial velocity measurements to derive the host star mass M_{star}_=1.293_-0.029_^+0.030^M_{sun}_ and radius R_{star}_=1.554_-0.030_^+0.042^R_{sun}_, the planet mass M_P_=1.615_-0.099_^+0.10^M_J_ and radius R_P_=1.317_-0.029_^+0.040^R_J_, and a refined ephemeris of P=4.1250687+/-0.0000024days and T_0_=2454758.18978+/-0.00024BJD_TDB_. We include archival Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of XO-4 to infer the stellar spin-planetary orbit alignment of {lambda}=-40.0_-7.5_^+8.8^deg. We test the effects of including various detrend parameters, theoretical and empirical mass-radius relations, and Rossiter-McLaughlin models. We infer that detrending against CCD position and time or airmass can improve data quality but can have significant effects on the inferred values of many parameters--most significantly R_p_/R_{star}_ and the observed central transit times T_C_. In the case of R_p_/R_{star}_ we find that the systematic uncertainty due to detrending can be three times that of the quoted statistical uncertainties. The choice of mass-radius relation has little effect on our inferred values of the system parameters. The choice of Rossiter-McLaughlin models can have significant effects on the inferred values of vsinI_{star}_ and the stellar spin-planet orbit angle {lambda}.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/422/2024
- Title:
- X-ray-age relation and exoplanet evaporation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/422/2024
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the relationship between coronal X-ray emission and stellar age for late-type stars, and the variation of this relationship with spectral type. We select 717 stars from 13 open clusters and find that the ratio of X-ray to bolometric luminosity during the saturated phase of coronal emission decreases from 10^-3.1^ for late K-dwarfs to 10^-4.3^ for early F-type stars (across the range 0.29<(B-V)_0_<1.41). Our determined saturation timescales vary between 10^7.6^ and 10^8.3^ years, though with no clear trend across the whole FGK range. We apply our X-ray emission - age relations to the investigation of the evaporation history of 121 known transiting exoplanets using a simple energy -limited model of evaporation and taking into consideration Roche lobe effects and different heating/evaporation efficiencies. We confirm that a linear cut-off of the planet distribution in the M^2^/R^3^ versus a^-2^ plane is an expected result of population modification by evaporation and that the known transiting exoplanets display such a cut-off. We find that for an evaporation efficiency of 25 percent we expect around 1 in 5 of the known transiting exoplanets to have lost >10 percent of their mass since formation. In addition we provide estimates of the minimum formation mass for which a planet could be expected to survive for 4Gyrs for a range of stellar and planetary parameters. We emphasise the importance of the earliest periods of a planet's life for its evaporation history with 75 percent expect to occur within the first Gyr. This raises the possibility of using evaporation histories to distinguish different migration mechanisms. For planets with spin-orbit angles available from measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect no difference is found between the distributions of planets with misaligned orbits and those with aligned orbits. This suggests that dynamical effects accounting for misalignment occur early in the life of a planetary system, although additional data is required to test this.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/2209
- Title:
- X-ray AGN from RASS and SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/2209
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the initial results of a new program aimed to ultimately yield ~10^4^ fully characterized X-ray source identifications - a sample about an order of magnitude larger than earlier efforts. The technique is detailed and employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS, Cat. <IX/10>, <IX/29>) and optical imaging and spectroscopic follow-up from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, <J/AJ/123/567>); these two surveys prove to be serendipitously very well matched in sensitivity. As part of the SDSS software pipelines, optical objects in the SDSS photometric catalogs are automatically positionally cross-correlated with RASS X-ray sources. Then priorities for follow-on SDSS optical spectra of candidate counterparts are automatically assigned using an algorithm based on the known ratios of fX/fopt for various classes of X-ray emitters at typical RASS fluxes of 10^-13^ergs/cm^2^/s. SDSS photometric parameters for optical morphology, magnitude, and colors, plus FIRST radio information, serve as proxies for object class.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/890/150
- Title:
- X-ray binaries in M101 with HST optical data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/890/150
- Date:
- 17 Jan 2022 00:32:05
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The high-energy emission from nearby, star-forming galaxies is dominated by X-ray binaries, where a neutron star or black hole is accreting mass from either a low-mass (<~M_{sun}_) or high-mass (>~8M_{sun}_) star. Donor stars with intermediate masses ~3-7M_{sun}_ are also possible, but rarer in our Galaxy. Since it is not possible to separate low-, intermediate-, and high-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs, IMXBs, and HMXBs) from their X-ray properties alone, we use optical images of M101 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope to directly constrain the masses of donor stars in X-ray binaries down to ~3M_{sun}_. For X-ray binaries that still live within their parent star cluster, the age of the cluster provides strong constraints on the mass of the donor and hence type of binary. We present the classification, on a source-by-source basis, of 140 X-ray point sources in the nearby spiral galaxy M101 (D=6.4+/-0.2Mpc). We find that, overall, HMXBs appear to follow the spiral arms, while LMXBs dominate the bulge region as expected, but also appear to form an inter-arm disk population. The X-ray luminosity functions for HMXBs and LMXBs are well fit by a power-law distribution, dN/dL_X_{propto}L^{alpha}^, with {alpha}=-1.71+/-0.06 (HMXBs) and {alpha}=-1.96+/-0.08 (LMXBs), and the brightest sources are consistent with the expectations from sampling statistics without requiring a physical cutoff. Overall, our results for HMXB and LMXB populations agree well with the specific star formation rate map presented for M101 recently by Lehmer and collaborators.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/31/116
- Title:
- X-ray binary A0535+26/V725 Tau UBV photometry
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/31/116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New photoelectric UBV observations of the X-ray binary A0535+26 at the Crimea station of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in 1998-2003.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/726/20
- Title:
- X-ray emission from quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/726/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of an investigation into the X-ray properties of radio-intermediate and radio-loud quasars (RIQs and RLQs, respectively). We combine large, modern optical (e.g., SDSS) and radio (e.g., FIRST) surveys with archival X-ray data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and ROSAT to generate an optically selected sample that includes 188 RIQs and 603 RLQs. This sample is constructed independently of X-ray properties but has a high X-ray detection rate (85%); it provides broad and dense coverage of the l-z plane, including at high redshifts (22% of objects have z=2-5), and it extends to high radio-loudness values (33% of objects have R*=3-5, using logarithmic units). We measure the "excess" X-ray luminosity of RIQs and RLQs relative to radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) as a function of radio loudness and luminosity, and parameterize the X-ray luminosity of RIQs and RLQs both as a function of optical/UV luminosity and also as a joint function of optical/UV and radio luminosity. RIQs are only modestly X-ray bright relative to RQQs; it is only at high values of radio loudness (R*>~3.5) and radio luminosity that RLQs become strongly X-ray bright.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/445
- Title:
- X-ray-luminous galaxy cluster RX J0142.0+2131
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/445
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of stellar populations in the X-ray-luminous cluster of galaxies RX J0142.0+2131 at z=0.280. This paper analyzes the results of high signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopy, as well as g'-, r'-, and i'-band imaging, using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on Gemini North.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/876/50
- Title:
- X-ray & MIR AGNs in Stripe 82 with eBOSS spectra
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/876/50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV eBOSS program to target X-ray sources and mid-infrared-selected Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates in a 36.8deg^2^ region of Stripe 82. About half this survey (15.6deg^2^) covers the largest contiguous portion of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey. This program represents the largest spectroscopic survey of AGN candidates selected solely by their WISE colors. We combine this sample with X-ray and WISE AGNs in the field identified via other sources of spectroscopy, producing a catalog of 4847 sources that is 82% complete to r~22. Based on X-ray luminosities or WISE colors, 4730 of these sources are AGNs, with a median sample redshift of z~1. About 30% of the AGNs are optically obscured (i.e., lack broad lines in their optical spectra). BPT analysis, however, indicates that 50% of the WISE AGNs at z<0.5 have emission line ratios consistent with star-forming galaxies, so whether they are buried AGNs or star-forming galaxy contaminants is currently unclear. We find that 61% of X-ray AGNs are not selected as mid-infrared AGNs, with 22% of X-ray AGNs undetected by WISE. Most of these latter AGNs have high X-ray luminosities (Lx>10^44^erg/s), indicating that mid-infrared selection misses a sizable fraction of the highest luminosity AGNs, as well as lower luminosity sources where AGN-heated dust is not dominating the mid-infrared emission. Conversely, ~58% of WISE AGNs are undetected by X-rays, though we do not find that they are preferentially redder than the X-ray-detected WISE AGNs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/809/161
- Title:
- X-ray obs. and membership probabilities of M37
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/809/161
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Empirical calibrations of the stellar age-rotation-activity relation (ARAR) rely on observations of the co-eval populations of stars in open clusters. We used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study M37, a 500-Myr-old open cluster that has been extensively surveyed for rotation periods (P_rot_). M37 was observed almost continuously for five days, for a total of 440.5ks, to measure stellar X-ray luminosities (L_X_), a proxy for coronal activity, across a wide range of masses. The cluster's membership catalog was revisited to calculate updated membership probabilities from photometric data and each star's distance to the cluster center. The result is a comprehensive sample of 1699 M37 members: 426 with P_rot_, 278 with X-ray detections, and 76 with both. We calculate Rossby numbers, R_0_=P_rot_/{tau}, where {tau} is the convective turnover time, and ratios of the X-ray-to-bolometric luminosity, L_X_/L_bol_, to minimize mass dependencies in our characterization of the rotation-coronal activity relation at 500Myr. We find that fast rotators, for which R_0_<0.09+/-0.01, show saturated levels of activity, with log(L_X_/L_bol_)=-3.06+/-0.04. For R_0_>=0.09+/-0.01, activity is unsaturated and follows a power law of the form R_0_^{beta}^, where {beta}=-2.03^+0.17^_-1.14_. This is the largest sample available for analyzing the dependence of coronal emission on rotation for a single-aged population, covering stellar masses in the range 0.4-1.3M_{sun}_, P_rot_ in the range 0.4-12.8 days, and L_X_ in the range 10^28.4-30.5^erg/s. Our results make M37 a new benchmark open cluster for calibrating the ARAR at ages of ~500Myr.
