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7452. Upper Scorpius members
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NatAs/6.89
- Title:
- Upper Scorpius members
- Short Name:
- J/other/NatAs/6.
- Date:
- 03 Mar 2022 16:55:14
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The nature and origin of free-floating planets (FFPs) are still largely unconstrained because of a lack of large homogeneous samples to enable a statistical analysis of their properties. So far, most FFPs have been discovered using indirect methods; microlensing surveys have proved particularly successful to detect these objects down to a few Earth masses. However, the ephemeral nature of microlensing events prevents any follow-up observations and individual characterization. Several studies have identified FFPs in young stellar clusters and the Galactic field but their samples are small or heterogeneous in age and origin. Here we report the discovery of between 70 and 170 FFPs (depending on the assumed age) in the region encompassing Upper Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the closest young OB association to the Sun. We found an excess of FFPs by a factor of up to seven compared with core-collapse model predictions, demonstrating that other formation mechanisms may be at work. We estimate that ejection from planetary systems might have a contribution comparable to that of core collapse in the formation of FFPs. Therefore, ejections due to dynamical instabilities in giant exoplanet systems must be frequent within the first 10Myr of a system's life.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/44
- Title:
- Upper Scorpius spectroscopy and photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have refined the census of stars and brown dwarfs in the Upper Sco association (~10Myr, ~145pc) by (1) updating the selection of candidate members from our previous survey to include the high-precision astrometry from the second data release of Gaia, (2) obtaining spectra of a few hundred candidate members to measure their spectral types and verify their youth, and (3) assessing the membership (largely with Gaia astrometry) of 2020 stars toward Upper Sco that show evidence of youth in this work and previous studies. We arrive at a catalog of 1761 objects that are adopted as members of Upper Sco. The distribution of spectral types among the adopted members is similar to those in other nearby star-forming regions, indicating a similar initial mass function. In previous studies, we have compiled mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope for members of Upper Sco and used those data to identify the stars that show evidence of circumstellar disks; we present the same analysis for our new catalog of members. As in earlier work, we find that the fraction of members with disks increases with lower stellar masses, ranging from <~10% for >1M{sun} to ~22% for 0.01-0.3M{sun}. Finally, we have estimated the relative ages of Upper Sco and other young associations using their sequences of low-mass stars in M_G_RP__ versus G_BP_-G_RP_. This comparison indicates that Upper Sco is a factor of two younger than the {beta}Pic association (21-24Myr) according to both nonmagnetic and magnetic evolutionary models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/125/1352
- Title:
- Ursa Minor dSph M,T2, DDO51 photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/125/1352
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a large-area photometric survey of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy and its environs. This survey is intended to trace the distribution of stars outside the nominal tidal radius of this system. Observations were made with the Washington M, Washington T2, and DDO51 filters, which in combination have been shown to provide reliable stellar luminosity classification for K-type stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/2474
- Title:
- USco ZYJHK1K2 photometry and proper motions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/2474
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a deep ZYJ near-infrared survey of 13.5deg^2^ in the Upper Scorpius (USco) OB association. We photometrically selected ~100 cluster member candidates with masses in the range of 30-5 Jupiters, according to state-of-the-art evolutionary models. We identified 67 ZYJ candidates as bona fide members, based on complementary photometry and astrometry. We also extracted five candidates detected with Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy at YJ only. One is excluded using deep optical z-band imaging, while two are likely non-members, and three remain as potential members. We conclude that the USco mass function is more likely decreasing in the planetary-mass regime (although a flat mass function cannot yet be discarded), consistent with surveys in other regions.
7456. U Sgr BV light curves
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/40/221
- Title:
- U Sgr BV light curves
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/40/221
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- For the classical Cepheid U Sgr, we have constructed an O-C diagram spanning a time interval of 144 years. The O-C diagram has the shape of a parabola, which has made it possible to determine for the first time the quadratic light elements and to calculate the rate of evolutionary increase in the period, dP/dt=0.39(+/-0.10)s/yr, in agreement with the results of theoretical calculations for the third crossing of the instability strip. The available data reduced by the Eddington-Plakidis method reveal small random period fluctuations that do not distort the evolutionary trend in the O-C residuals.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/103/638
- Title:
- USNO Photographic Parallaxes. I.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/103/638
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The U.S. Naval Observatory CCD trigonometric parallax program is described in detail, including the instrumentation employed, observing procedures followed, and reduction procedures applied. Astrometric results are presented for 72 stars ranging in apparent brightness from V=15.16 to 19.58. Photometry (V and V-I on the Kron-Cousins system) is presented for the parallax stars and for all 426 individual reference stars employed in the astrometric solutions. Corrections for differential color refraction, calibrated to the observed V-I colors, have been applied to all astrometric measures. The mean errors in the relative parallaxes range from +/-0.0005" to +/-0.0027" with a median value of +/-0.0010". Seventeen of the 23 stars with V_tan_>200km/s form a well-delineated sequence of extreme subdwarfs covering 11.5<M_V_<14.5 in the M_V_ vs V-I diagram. The transformation to the M_bol_ vs log T_eff_ plane is presented and the results are compared with various model interior computations. Within the limitations due to the uncertain T_eff_ scale for cool dwarfs and subdwarfs, the coolest members of the extreme subdwarf sequence appear to be near the hydrogen-burning minimum mass limit for stars with metallicities of [M/H]~-2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/1571
- Title:
- USNO Photographic Parallaxes IX
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/1571
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Trigonometric parallaxes, relative proper motions, and photometry are presented for 122 stars in 111 systems. Of these stars, 70 are brighter than V = 10.0.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/JAD/13.2
- Title:
- UU Cnc UBVRI differential photometry
- Short Name:
- J/other/JAD/13.2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present UBVR photometric observations of the 96-day binary system UU Cancri (K4 III) obtained in 1972-1994. A relatively large scatter in the orbital light curves turned out to be intrinsic with a modulating cycle lasting at least 8000 days. Using all available archived photographic and visual observations covering nearly 100 years, we find the orbital period of the system to be constant. This fact, together with the pattern of the colour curves, makes the existence of a powerful accretion disk in the system improbable.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/757/52
- Title:
- UV and IR observations for SINGS galaxies. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/757/52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The correlation between infrared-to-ultraviolet luminosity ratio and ultraviolet color (or ultraviolet spectral slope), i.e., the IRX-UV (or IRX-{beta}) relation, found in studies of starburst galaxies is a prevalent recipe for correcting extragalactic dust attenuation. Considerable dispersion in this relation discovered for normal galaxies, however, complicates its usability. In order to investigate the cause of the dispersion and to have a better understanding of the nature of the IRX-UV relation, in this paper, we select five nearby spiral galaxies, and perform spatially resolved studies on each of the galaxies, with a combination of ultraviolet and infrared imaging data. We measure all positions within each galaxy and divide the extracted regions into young and evolved stellar populations. By means of this approach, we attempt to discover separate effects of dust attenuation and stellar population age on the IRX-UV relation for individual galaxies. In this work, in addition to dust attenuation, stellar population age is interpreted to be another parameter in the IRX-UV function, and the diversity of star formation histories is suggested to disperse the age effects. At the same time, strong evidence shows the need for more parameters in the interpretation of observational data, such as variations in attenuation/extinction law. Fractional contributions of different components to the integrated luminosities of the galaxies suggest that the integrated measurements of these galaxies, which comprise different populations, would weaken the effect of the age parameter on IRX-UV diagrams. The dependence of the IRX-UV relation on luminosity and radial distance in galaxies presents weak trends, which offers an implication of selective effects. The two-dimensional maps of the UV color and the infrared-to-ultraviolet ratio are displayed and show a disparity in the spatial distributions between the two galaxy parameters, which offers a spatial interpretation of the scatter in the IRX-UV relation.
