- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/108
- Title:
- California-Kepler Survey (CKS). II. Properties
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present stellar and planetary properties for 1305 Kepler Objects of Interest hosting 2025 planet candidates observed as part of the California-Kepler Survey. We combine spectroscopic constraints, presented in Paper I, with stellar interior modeling to estimate stellar masses, radii, and ages. Stellar radii are typically constrained to 11%, compared to 40% when only photometric constraints are used. Stellar masses are constrained to 4%, and ages are constrained to 30%. We verify the integrity of the stellar parameters through comparisons with asteroseismic studies and Gaia parallaxes. We also recompute planetary radii for 2025 planet candidates. Because knowledge of planetary radii is often limited by uncertainties in stellar size, we improve the uncertainties in planet radii from typically 42% to 12%. We also leverage improved knowledge of stellar effective temperature to recompute incident stellar fluxes for the planets, now precise to 21%, compared to a factor of two when derived from photometry.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/264
- Title:
- California-Kepler Survey. VII. Planet radius gap
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/264
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The distribution of planet sizes encodes details of planet formation and evolution. We present the most precise planet size distribution to date based on Gaia parallaxes, Kepler photometry, and spectroscopic temperatures from the California-Kepler Survey. Previously, we measured stellar radii to 11% precision using high-resolution spectroscopy; by adding Gaia astrometry, the errors are now 3%. Planet radius measurements are, in turn, improved to 5% precision. With a catalog of ~1000 planets with precise properties, we probed in fine detail the gap in the planet size distribution that separates two classes of small planets, rocky super-Earths and gas-dominated sub-Neptunes. Our previous study and others suggested that the gap may be observationally under-resolved and inherently flat-bottomed, with a band of forbidden planet sizes. Analysis based on our new catalog refutes this; the gap is partially filled in. Two other important factors that sculpt the distribution are a planet's orbital distance and its host-star mass, both of which are related to a planet's X-ray/UV irradiation history. For lower-mass stars, the bimodal planet distribution shifts to smaller sizes, consistent with smaller stars producing smaller planet cores. Details of the size distribution including the extent of the "sub-Neptune desert" and the width and slope of the gap support the view that photoevaporation of low-density atmospheres is the dominant evolutionary determinant of the planet size distribution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/649/A158
- Title:
- CANARY ELT-elongated LGS AO telemetry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/649/A158
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Laser Guide Stars (LGS) allow Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to reach higher sky coverage and correct the atmospheric turbulence on wider field of views. However LGS suffer from limitations, among which is their apparent elongation which can reach 20 arcseconds when observed with large aperture telescopes such as the European Southern Observatory's 39m telescope. The consequences of these extreme elongations have been studied in simulations and lab experiments, but never on-sky. Yet understanding and mitigating those effects is key to taking full advantage of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) six LGS. In this paper, we study the impact of wavefront sensing with an ELT-scale elongated LGS using data obtained on-sky with the AO demonstrator CANARY on the William Herschel telescope (WHT) and ESO's Wendelstein LGS unit. CANARY observed simultaneously a natural guide star and a superimposed LGS launched from a telescope placed 40 m away from the WHT pupil. Comparison of the wavefronts measured with each guide star allows to build an error breakdown of the elongated LGS wavefront sensing. With this error breakdown, we isolate the contribution of the LGS elongation and study its impact. We also investigate the effects of truncating or undersampling the LGS spots. We successfully used the elongated LGS wavefront sensor (WFS) to drive the AO loop during on-sky operations, but it necessitated regular calibrations of the non-common path aberrations on the LGS WFS arm. In the off-line processing of the data collected on-sky, we separate the error term encapsulating the impact of LGS elongation in a dynamic and quasi-static component. We measure errors varying from 0 to 160nm rms for the dynamic error and are able to link it with turbulence strength and spot elongation. The quasi-static errors are significant and vary between 20 to 200nm rms depending on the conditions. They also increase by as much as 70nm in the course of 10 min. We do not observe any impact when undersampling the spots with pixel scales as large as 1.95 arcseconds but significant errors appear when truncating the spots. These errors appear for field of views smaller than 10.4 to 15.6 arcseconds, depending on the spots elongations. Translated to the ELT observing at zenith, elongations as long as 23.5 arcseconds must be accommodated, corresponding to a field of view of 16.3 arcseconds if the most elongated spots are put in the diagonal of the subaperture.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/823/95
- Title:
- CANDELS GOODS-S sources Chandra counterparts
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/823/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Improving the capabilities of detecting faint X-ray sources is fundamental to increase the statistics on faint high-z AGN and star-forming galaxies. We performed a simultaneous Maximum Likelihood PSF fit in the [0.5-2]keV and [2-7]keV energy bands of the 4Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) data at the position of the 34930 CANDELS H-band selected galaxies. For each detected source we provide X-ray photometry and optical counterpart validation. We validated this technique by means of a raytracing simulation. We detected a total of 698 X-ray point-sources with a likelihood L>4.98 (i.e.> 2.7{sigma}). We show that the prior knowledge of a deep sample of Optical-NIR galaxies leads to a significant increase of the detection of faint (i.e. ~10^-17^cgs in the [0.5-2]keV band) sources with respect to "blind" X-ray detections. By including previous catalogs, this work increases the total number of X-ray sources detected in the 4Ms CDFS, CANDELS area to 793, which represents the largest sample of extremely faint X-ray sources assembled to date. Our results suggest that a large fraction of the optical counterparts of our X-ray sources determined by likelihood ratio actually coincides with the priors used for the source detection. Most of th e new detected sources are likely star-forming galaxies or faint absorbed AGN. We identified a few sources sources with putative photometric redshift z>4. Despite the low number statistics, this sample significantly increases the number of X-ray selected candidate high-z AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/206/10
- Title:
- CANDELS multiwavelength catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/206/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the multiwavelength ultraviolet to mid-infrared catalog of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Ultra-Deep Survey field observed as part of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). Based on publicly available data, the catalog includes the CANDELS data from the Hubble Space Telescope (near-infrared WFC3 F125W and F160W data and visible ACS F606W and F814W data); u-band data from CFHT/Megacam; B, V, Rc, i', and z' band data from Subaru/Suprime-Cam; Y and Ks band data from VLT/HAWK-I; J, H, and K band data from UKIDSS (Data Release 8); and Spitzer/IRAC data (3.6, 4.5um from SEDS; 5.8 and 8.0um from SpUDS). The present catalog is F160W-selected and contains 35932 sources over an area of 201.7arcmin^2^ and includes radio- and X-ray-detected sources and spectroscopic redshifts available for 210 sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/229/32
- Title:
- CANDELS: multiwavelength catalogs in the EGS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/229/32
- Date:
- 03 Nov 2021 09:14:43
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a 0.4-8{mu}m multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field. This catalog is built on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 and ACS data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), and it incorporates the existing HST data from the All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey (AEGIS) and the 3D-HST program. The catalog is based on detections in the F160W band reaching a depth of F160W=26.62 AB (90% completeness, point sources). It includes the photometry for 41457 objects over an area of ~206arcmin^2^ in the following bands: HST/ACS F606W and F814W; HST WFC3 F125W, F140W, and F160W; Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)/Megacam u*, g' , r', i' and z'; CFHT/WIRCAM J, H, and K_S_; Mayall/NEWFIRM J1, J2, J3, H1, H2, and K; Spitzer IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0{mu}m. We are also releasing value-added catalogs that provide robust photometric redshifts and stellar mass measurements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/775/106
- Title:
- CANDELS passive and massive early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/775/106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the evolution of the number density, as a function of the size, of passive early-type galaxies (ETGs) with a wide range of stellar masses (10^10^M_{sun}_<M_*_<~10^11.5^M_{sun}_) from z~3 to z~1, exploiting the unique data set available in the GOODS-South field, including the recently obtained WFC3 images as part of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). In particular, we select a sample of ~107 massive (M_*_>10^10^M_{sun}_), passive (SSFR<10^-2^/Gyr), and morphologically spheroidal galaxies at 1.2<z<3, taking advantage of the panchromatic data set available for GOODS, including VLT, CFHT, Spitzer, Chandra, and HST ACS+WFC3 data. We find that at 1<z<3 the passively evolving ETGs are the reddest and most massive objects in the universe, and we prove that a correlation between mass, morphology, color, and star formation activity is already in place at that epoch. We measure a significant evolution in the mass-size relation of passive ETGs from z~3 to z~1, with galaxies growing on average by a factor of two in size in a 3Gyr timescale only. We also witness an increase in the number density of passive ETGs of 50 times over the same time interval. We find that the first ETGs to form at z>~2 are all compact or ultra-compact, while normal-sized ETGs (meaning ETGs with sizes comparable to those of local counterparts of the same mass) are the most common ETGs only at z<1. The increase of the average size of ETGs at 0<z<1 is primarily driven by the appearance of new large ETGs rather than by the size increase of individual galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/793/101
- Title:
- CANDELS z~2 galaxy properties
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/793/101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use CANDELS imaging, 3D-HST spectroscopy, and Chandra X-ray data to investigate if active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially fueled by violent disk instabilities funneling gas into galaxy centers at 1.3<z<2.4. We select galaxies undergoing gravitational instabilities using the number of clumps and degree of patchiness as proxies. The CANDELS visual classification system is used to identify 44 clumpy disk galaxies, along with mass-matched comparison samples of smooth and intermediate morphology galaxies. We note that despite being mass-matched and having similar star formation rates, the smoother galaxies tend to be smaller disks with more prominent bulges compared to the clumpy galaxies. The lack of smooth extended disks is probably a general feature of the z~2 galaxy population, and means we cannot directly compare with the clumpy and smooth extended disks observed at lower redshift. We find that z~2 clumpy galaxies have slightly enhanced AGN fractions selected by integrated line ratios (in the mass-excitation method), but the spatially resolved line ratios indicate this is likely due to extended phenomena rather than nuclear AGNs. Meanwhile, the X-ray data show that clumpy, smooth, and intermediate galaxies have nearly indistinguishable AGN fractions derived from both individual detections and stacked non-detections. The data demonstrate that AGN fueling modes at z~1.85 - whether violent disk instabilities or secular processes - are as efficient in smooth galaxies as they are in clumpy galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/816/L4
- Title:
- Candidate BHB stars in Ophiuchus stream
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/816/L4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Ophiuchus stellar stream presents a dynamical puzzle: its old stellar populations (~12Gyr) cannot be reconciled with (1) its orbit in a simple model for the Milky Way potential and (2) its short angular extent, both of which imply that the observed stream formed within the last <1Gyr. Recent theoretical work has shown that streams on chaotic orbits may abruptly fan out near their apparent ends; stars in these fans are dispersed in both position and velocity and may be difficult to associate with the stream. Here we present the first evidence of such stream-fanning in the Ophiuchus stream, traced by four blue horizontal branch stars beyond the apparent end of the stream. These stars stand out from the background by their high velocities (v_los_>230km/s) against ~40 other stars: their velocities are comparable to those of the stream, but would be exceptional if they were unrelated halo stars. Their positions and velocities are, however, inconsistent with simple extrapolation of the observed cold, high-density portion of the stream. These observations suggest that stream-fanning may be a real, observable effect and, therefore, that Ophiuchus may be on a chaotic orbit. They also show that the Ophiuchus stream is more extended and hence dynamically older than previously thought, easing the stellar population versus dynamical age tension.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/L26
- Title:
- Candidate eruptive young stars in Lynds 1340
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/L26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the discovery of three candidate eruptive young stars, found during our comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the young stellar population of the dark cloud L1340. These stars are as follows. (1) IRAS 02224+7227 (2MASS 02270555+7241167, HH 487S) exhibited FUor-like spectrum in our low-resolution optical spectra. The available photometric data restrict its luminosity to 23L_{sun}_<L_bol_<59L_{sun}_. (2) 2MASS 02263797+7304575, identified as a classical T Tauri star during our H{alpha} survey, exhibited an EXor-type brightening in 2005 November at the time of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey observations of the region. (3) 2MASSJ02325605+7246055, a low-mass embedded young star, associated with a fan-shaped infrared nebula, underwent an outburst between the DSS 1 and DSS 2 surveys, leading to the appearance of a faint optical nebula. Our [SII] and H{alpha} images, as well as the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera 4.5{mu}m images, revealed Herbig-Haro objects associated with this star. Our results suggest that amplitudes and timescales of outbursts do not necessarily correlate with the evolutionary stage of the stars.
