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61. Accretion history of massive stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/3482
Title:
Accretion history of massive stars
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/496/3482
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The mass growth of protostars is a central element to the determination of fundamental stellar population properties such as the initial mass function. Constraining the accretion history of individual protostars is therefore an important aspect of star formation research. The goal of the study presented here is to determine whether high-mass (proto)stars gain their mass from a compact (<0.1pc) fixed-mass reservoir of gas, often referred to as dense cores, in which they are embedded, or whether the mass growth of high-mass stars is governed by the dynamical evolution of the parsec-scale clump that typically surrounds them. To achieve this goal, we performed a 350micron continuum mapping of 11 infrared dark clouds, along side some of their neighbouring clumps, with the ArTeMiS camera on APEX. By identifying about 200 compact ArTeMiS sources, and matching them with Herschel Hi-GAL 70micron sources, we have been able to produce mass vs. temperature diagrams. We compare the nature (i.e. starless or protostellar) and location of the ArTeMiS sources in these diagrams with modelled evolutionary tracks of both core-fed and clump-fed accretion scenarios. We argue that the latter provide a better agreement with the observed distribution of high-mass star-forming cores. However, a robust and definitive conclusion on the question of the accretion history of high-mass stars requires larger number statistics.
62. Accretion in disks in Cep OB2
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/710/597
Title:
Accretion in disks in Cep OB2
Short Name:
J/ApJ/710/597
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present accretion rates for a large number of solar-type stars in the Cep OB2 region, based on U-band observations. Our study comprises 95 members of the ~4Myr old cluster Tr 37 (including 20 "transition" objects (TOs)), as well as the only classical T Tauri star (CTTS) in the ~12Myr old cluster NGC 7160. The stars show different disk morphologies, with the majority of them having evolved and flattened disks. The typical accretion rates are about 1 order of magnitude lower than in regions aged 1-2Myr, and we find no strong correlation between disk morphology and accretion rates. Although half of the TOs are not accreting, the median accretion rates of normal CTTS and accreting "transition" disks are similar (~3x10^-9^ and 2x10^-9^M_{sun}_/yr, respectively). Comparison with other regions suggests that the TOs observed at different ages do not necessarily represent the same type of objects, which is consistent with the fact that the different processes that can lead to reduced IR excess/inner disk clearing (e.g., binarity, dust coagulation/settling, photoevaporation, giant planet formation) do not operate on the same timescales.
63. Accretion luminosities of young stars from Pf{beta}
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/769/21
Title:
Accretion luminosities of young stars from Pf{beta}
Short Name:
J/ApJ/769/21
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this work, we introduce the use of HI Pfund {beta} (Pf{beta}; 4.6538{mu}m) as a tracer of mass accretion from protoplanetary disks onto young stars. Pf{beta} was serendipitously observed in NIRSPEC and CRIRES surveys of CO fundamental emission, amounting to a sample size of 120 young stars with detected Pf{beta} emission. Using a subsample of disks with previously measured accretion luminosities, we show that Pf{beta} line luminosity is well correlated with accretion luminosity over a range of at least three orders of magnitude. We use this correlation to derive accretion luminosities for all 120 targets, 65 of which are previously unreported in the literature. The conversion from accretion luminosity to accretion rate is limited by the availability of stellar mass and radius measurements; nevertheless, we also report accretion rates for 67 targets, 16 previously unmeasured. Our large sample size and our ability to probe high extinction values allow for relatively unbiased comparisons between different types of disks.
64. Accretion-rotation connection in NGC 2264
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/599/A23
Title:
Accretion-rotation connection in NGC 2264
Short Name:
J/A+A/599/A23
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The low spin rates measured for solar-type stars at an age of a few Myr (~10% of the break-up velocity) indicate that some mechanism of angular momentum regulation must be at play in the early pre-main sequence. This may be associated with magnetospheric accretion and star-disk interaction, as suggested by observations that disk-bearing objects (CTTS) are slower rotators than diskless sources (WTTS) in young star clusters. We characterize the rotation properties for members of the star-forming region NGC 2264 (~3Myr) as a function of mass, and investigate the accretion-rotation connection at an age where about 50% of the stars have already lost their disks. We examined a sample of 500 cluster members (40% with disks, 60% without disks), distributed in mass between ~0.15 and 2M_{sun}_, whose photometric variations were monitored in the optical for 38 consecutive days with the CoRoT space observatory. Light curves were analyzed for periodicity using three different techniques: the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, the autocorrelation function and the string-length method. Periods were searched in the range between 0.17-days (i.e., 4h, twice the data sampling adopted) and 19-days (half the total time span). Period detections were confirmed using a variety of statistical tools (false alarm probability, Q-statistics), as well as visual inspection of the direct and phase-folded light curves.
65. AC114 galaxy cluster dynamical analysis
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/452/3304
Title:
AC114 galaxy cluster dynamical analysis
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/452/3304
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a dynamical analysis of the galaxy cluster AC114 based on a catalogue of 524 velocities. Of these, 169 (32 percent) are newly obtained at European Southern Observatory (Chile) with the Very Large Telescope and the VIsible MultiObject spectrograph. Data on individual galaxies are presented and the accuracy of the measured velocities is discussed. Dynamical properties of the cluster are derived. We obtain an improved mean redshift value z=0.31665+/-0.0008 and velocity dispersion {sigma}=1893^+73^_-82_km/s. A large velocity dispersion within the core radius and the shape of the infall pattern suggests that this part of the cluster is in a radial phase of relaxation with a very elongated radial filament spanning 12000km/s. A radial foreground structure is detected within the central 0.5h^-1^Mpc radius, recognizable as a redshift group at the same central redshift value. We analyse the colour distribution for this archetype Butcher-Oemler galaxy cluster and identify the separate red and blue galaxy sequences. The latter subset contains 44 percent of confirmed members of the cluster, reaching magnitudes as faint as R_f_=21.1 (1.0mag fainter than previous studies). We derive a mass M_200_=(4.3+/-0.7)x10^15^M_{sun}_h^-1^. In a subsequent paper, we will utilize the spectral data presented here to explore the mass-metallicity relation for this intermediate redshift cluster.
66. A Chandra X-ray observation of L1251B
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/694/425
Title:
A Chandra X-ray observation of L1251B
Short Name:
J/ApJ/694/425
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
I report the results of a 60ks X-ray observation of the L1251 dark cloud in Cepheus, which was acquired with the ACIS-I camera on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Forty-three compact X-ray sources were detected. The field of view was centered on the position of IRAS 22376+7455, an embedded Class 0/I protostar that is closely associated with the bright CO emission core, L1251B-Core E. A very intense impulsive X-ray flare was observed from a location within the formal error ellipse of the IRAS source and in close proximity (within <~1") to a thermal continuum radio source, VLA 3. Given their small spatial offsets, the radio, far-infrared, and X-ray objects appear to be identical and consequently the likely origin and driving source of high-velocity gas flows that are observed in L1251B.
67. ACIS-I observations of NGC 2264
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/455/903
Title:
ACIS-I observations of NGC 2264
Short Name:
J/A+A/455/903
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper's goal is to improve the member census of the NGC 2264 star-forming region and study the origin of X-ray activity in young PMS stars. We analyze a deep, 100ks long, Chandra ACIS observation covering a 17'x17' field in NGC 2264. The preferential detection in X-rays of low-mass PMS stars gives strong indications of their membership. We study X-ray activity as a function of stellar and circumstellar characteristics by correlating the X-ray luminosities, temperatures, and absorptions with optical and near-infrared data from the literature.
68. Ackermann red stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/260
Title:
Ackermann red stars
Short Name:
II/260
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In the late 1960s Gerhard Ackermann published two lists of extremely red stars (1968ZA.....69..130A and 1970A&A.....8..315A), including what appeared to be reliable spectral classifications for a few hundred stars. The two published papers provide details of the observing and analysis, made between June and October 1968 at the Heidelberg observatory with the 25cm f/3.6 Schmidt camera together with a 10-degree UBK7 prism yielding a dispersion of 3500 {AA}/mm at the atmospheric A band (7700{AA}). Exposures on ammonia-hypersensitized Kodak I-N emulsion + RG665 filter were obtained along with direct plates on I-N emulsion as well as 103a-E + OG550, totalling 101 exposures in all. The spectra were classified by following the precepts of Cameron & Nassau (1955ApJ...122..177C) and Nassau & Velghe (1964ApJ...139..190N). Ackermann initiated photoelectric observations at I and K, but obviously the Heidelberg weather was not conducive to pursuing this. Because the calibration of the photometry on the direct plates was by necessity rather crude, Ackermann's photometric results are not reported here -- the procedures used were sufficient to identify the reddest stars, but not for much else. Approximate V magnitudes were added for all the stars -- for the most part these are merely averages of the photo-blue and -red magnitudes in both GSC-2.2 and USNO-B1.0, but their zero-point and scale should be reliable at the few-tenths magnitude level in this range. Coordinates were drawn from either UCAC2 or 2MASS depending mainly on Declination, since UCAC2 extends only to about +40 Dec in this area. The UCAC2 positions should be good to better than 0.1", and those from 2MASS to 0.2". In a few cases, such as gross overexposure in 2MASS, positions are from various Schmidt survey catalogues, as indicated with each entry. The first 13 stars of the catalog come from the concluding volume of the ZA paper; in the 1970 paper, Ackermann refers to these stars using the acronym HDK, which is adopted here. The published table gave rather rough arcminute-precision positions (for equinox 1965). Star 6 was recovered 1 degree east of the nominal place, and identified with the variable star WX CMi. Along with the positions and IDs, the table shows V magnitudes and the spectral types given in the original paper. Some of the stars are within the region covered by the ASAS-3 survey, so reliable V magnitudes are available along with beautiful lightcurves. Ackermann's second much longer list contains rough photometry from the POSS-I prints for some 400 very red stars in the Cygnus starcloud, and for 254 of these spectral types were also determined. The stars without spectral classifications comprise a diverse group including both red/reddened late-type stars and greatly obscured hotter stars, but no real astrophysical information is given for any of them beyond sheer redness -- these stars are omitted from the catalog. In consultation with Prof Ackermann, the following changes have been made to the spectral types: for stars shown in the original table with a hyphen between two types (e.g. M5-M6), this was to show that the type was uncertain to that degree (i.e. M5 or M6), for which the 'slash' notation of Nancy Houk was preferred, and thus M5-M6 becomes M5/6. One star, 78-0-144, exhibited a range in types, and it is shown as M7-M9. Ackermann also indicated a number of stars as being of very-late type with VO present (separable from the A-band), but where the star was too faint to classify accurately. He agrees these are likely to be in the range M7 to M9, and again these are shown in the slash-style notation as M7/9:, with the colon added to indicate uncertainty since the types were not explicit in the original, and sometimes a question mark for those already marked as uncertain in the original. These changes were made so that machine parsing schemes will be better able to handle the classifications.
69. ACO 1825 and AC 114 EROs photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/477/55
Title:
ACO 1825 and AC 114 EROs photometry
Short Name:
J/A+A/477/55
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the properties and nature of extremely red galaxies (ERO, R-K>=5.6) found behind two lensing clusters and compare them with other known galaxy populations. New HST/ACS, Spitzer (IRAC and MIPS), and Chandra/ACIS observations of the two lensing clusters Abell 1835 and AC 114 (ACCG 114) have been obtained, combined with our earlier optical and near-IR observations and used to study EROs in these deep fields.
70. A1367, Coma and Virgo r' photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/401/471
Title:
A1367, Coma and Virgo r' photometry
Short Name:
J/A+A/401/471
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Optical spectroscopy of 93 galaxies, 60 projected in the direction of Abell 1367, 21 onto the Coma cluster and 12 on Virgo, is reported. The targets were selected because they were detected in previous H{alpha}, UV or r' surveys. The present observations bring to 100% the redshift completeness of H{alpha} selected galaxies in the Coma region and to 75% in Abell 1367. All observed galaxies except one show H{alpha} emission and belong to the clusters. This confirms previous determinations of the H{alpha} luminosity function of the two clusters that were based on the assumption that all H{alpha} detected galaxies were cluster members. Using the newly obtained data we re-determine the UV luminosity function of Coma and we compute for the first time the UV luminosity function of A1367.