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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/389/931
- Title:
- uvby photometry & radial velocities of R 81
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/389/931
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- File table1.dat contains the photometric uvby data of the eclipsing binary hypergiant R81 (B2.5 Ia-O) of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The data have been obtained with the Danish 50 cm telescope at ESO, La Silla, and cover more than one orbital cycle of 74.59 days. File table2.dat contains radial velocity measurements of photospheric lines of this star. The spectra have been obtained simultaneously with the photometry. The Feros spectrograph at the ESO 1.52m telescope was used. The quoted radial velocities are averages over the best photospheric lines.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/363/529
- Title:
- uvby, UBV and radial velocity of WW Aur
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/363/529
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- WW Aurigae is a detached eclipsing binary composed of two metallic- lined A-type stars orbiting each other every 2.5 days. We have determined the masses and radii of both components to accuracies of 0.4% and 0.6%, respectively. From a cross-correlation analysis of high-resolution spectra we find masses of 1.964+/-0.007M_{sun}_ for the primary star and 1.814+/-0.007M_{sun}_ for the secondary star. From an analysis of photoelectric uvby and UBV light curves we find the radii of the stars to be 1.927+/-0.011R_{sun}_ and 1.841+/-0.011R_{sun}_, where the uncertainties have been calculated using a Monte Carlo algorithm. Fundamental effective temperatures of the two stars have been derived, using the Hipparcos parallax of WW Aur and published ultraviolet, optical and infrared fluxes, and are 7960+/-420 and 7670+/-410K. The masses, radii and effective temperatures of WW Aur are only matched by theoretical evolutionary models for a fractional initial metal abundance, Z, of approximately 0.06 and an age of roughly 90Myr. This seems to be the highest metal abundance inferred for a well-studied detached eclipsing binary, but we find no evidence that it is related to the metallic-lined nature of the stars. The circular orbit of WW Aur is in conflict with the circularization timescales of both the Tassoul and the Zahn tidal theories and we suggest that this is due to pre-main-sequence evolution or the presence of a circular orbit when the stars were formed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/83
- Title:
- UV continuum for z~4-7 star-forming galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/754/83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Ultra-deep Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and WFC3/IR HUDF+HUDF09 data, along with the wide-area GOODS+ERS+CANDELS data over the CDF-S GOODS field, are used to measure UV colors, expressed as the UV-continuum slope {beta}, of star-forming galaxies over a wide range of luminosity (0.1L*_z=3_ to 2L*_z=3_) at high redshift (z~7 to z~4). {beta} is measured using all ACS and WFC3/IR passbands uncontaminated by Ly{alpha} and spectral breaks. Extensive tests show that our {beta} measurements are only subject to minimal biases. Using a different selection procedure, Dunlop et al. (2012MNRAS.420..901D) recently found large biases in their {beta} measurements. To reconcile these different results, we simulated both approaches and found that {beta} measurements for faint sources are subject to large biases if the same passbands are used both to select the sources and to measure {beta}. High-redshift galaxies show a well-defined rest-frame UV color-magnitude (CM) relationship that becomes systematically bluer toward fainter UV luminosities. No evolution is seen in the slope of the UV CM relationship in the first 1.5 Gyr, though there is a small evolution in the zero point to redder colors from z~7 to z~4. This suggests that galaxies are evolving along a well-defined sequence in the L_UV_-color ({beta}) plane (a "star-forming sequence"?). Dust appears to be the principal factor driving changes in the UV color {beta} with luminosity. These new larger {beta} samples lead to improved dust extinction estimates at z~4-7 and confirm that the extinction is essentially zero at low luminosities and high redshifts. Inclusion of the new dust extinction results leads to (1) excellent agreement between the star formation rate (SFR) density at z~4-8 and that inferred from the stellar mass density; and (2) to higher specific star formation rates (SSFRs) at z>~4, suggesting that the SSFR may evolve modestly (by factors of ~2) from z~4-7 to z~2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/793/115
- Title:
- UV-continuum slopes beta for z~4-8 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/793/115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measure the UV-continuum slope {beta} for over 4000 high-redshift galaxies over a wide range of redshifts z~4-8 and luminosities from the HST HUDF/XDF, HUDF09-1, HUDF09-2, ERS, CANDELS-N, and CANDELS-S data sets. Our new {beta} results reach very faint levels at z~4 (-15.5 mag: 0.006 L_z=3_^*^), z~5 (-16.5 mag: 0.014 L_z=3_^*^), and z~6 and z~7 (-17 mag: 0.025 L_z=3_^*^). Inconsistencies between previous studies led us to conduct a comprehensive review of systematic errors and develop a new technique for measuring {beta} that is robust against biases that arise from the impact of noise. We demonstrate, by object-by-object comparisons, that all previous studies, including our own and those done on the latest HUDF12 data set, suffered from small systematic errors in {beta}. We find that after correcting for the systematic errors (typically {Delta}{beta}~0.1-0.2) all {beta} results at z~7 from different groups are in excellent agreement. The mean {beta} we measure for faint (-18 mag: 0.1L_z=3_^*^) z~4, z~5, z~6, and z~7 galaxies is -2.03+/-0.03+/-0.06 (random and systematic errors), -2.14+/-0.06+/-0.06, -2.24+/-0.11+/-0.08, and -2.30+/-0.18+/-0.13, respectively. Our new {beta} values are redder than we have reported in the past, but bluer than other recent results. Our previously reported trend of bluer {beta}'s at lower luminosities is confirmed, as is the evolution to bluer {beta}'s at high redshifts. {beta} appears to show only a mild luminosity dependence faintward of M_UV, AB_~-19 mag, suggesting that the mean {beta} asymptotes to ~-2.2 to -2.4 for faint z>=4 galaxies. At z~7, the observed {beta}'s suggest non-zero, but low dust extinction, and they agree well with values predicted in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/808/136
- Title:
- UV counterparts in HI clouds using ALFA surveys
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/808/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ultraviolet (UV) follow-up of a sample of potential dwarf galaxy candidates selected for their neutral hydrogen (HI) properties, taking advantage of the low UV background seen by the GALEX satellite and its large and publicly available imaging footprint. The HI clouds, which are drawn from published Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array and Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-band Feed Array HI survey compact cloud catalogs, are selected to be galaxy candidates based on their spatial compactness and non-association with known high-velocity cloud complexes or Galactic HI emission. Based on a comparison of their UV characteristics to those of known dwarf galaxies, half (48%) of the compact HI clouds have at least one potential stellar counterpart with UV properties similar to those of nearby dwarf galaxies. If they are galaxies, then the star formation rates, HI masses, and star formation efficiencies of these systems follow the trends seen for much larger galaxies. The presence of UV emission is an efficient method to identify the best targets for spectroscopic follow-up, which is necessary to prove that the stars are associated with compact HI. Furthermore, searches of this nature help to refine the salient HI properties of likely dwarfs (even beyond the Local Group). In particular, HI compact clouds considered to be velocity outliers relative to their neighbor HI clouds have the most significant detection rate of single, appropriate UV counterparts. Correcting for the sky coverage of the two all-Arecibo sky surveys yielding the compact HI clouds, these results may imply the presence of potentially hundreds of new tiny galaxies across the entire sky.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/235/16
- Title:
- UV emission of stars in LAMOST. I. Catalogs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/235/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the ultraviolet magnitudes for over three million stars in the LAMOST survey, in which 2,202,116 stars are detected by GALEX. For 889,235 undetected stars, we develop a method to estimate their upper limit magnitudes. The distribution of (FUV-NUV) shows that the color declines with increasing effective temperature for stars hotter than 7000K in our sample, while the trend disappears for the cooler stars due to upper atmosphere emission from the regions higher than their photospheres. For stars with valid stellar parameters, we calculate the UV excesses with synthetic model spectra, and find that the (FUV - NUV) versus R'_FUV_ can be fitted with a linear relation and late-type dwarfs tend to have high UV excesses. There are 87,178 and 1,498,103 stars detected more than once in the visit exposures of GALEX in the FUV and NUV, respectively. We make use of the quantified photometric errors to determine statistical properties of the UV variation, including intrinsic variability and the structure function on the timescale of days. The overall occurrence of possible false positives is below 1.3% in our sample. UV absolute magnitudes are calculated for stars with valid parallaxes, which could serve as a possible reference frame in the NUV. We conclude that the colors related to UV provide good criteria to distinguish between M giants and M dwarfs, and the variability of RR Lyrae stars in our sample is stronger than that of other A and F stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/107/385
- Title:
- UV-excess objects Spacelab-1 survey IV.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/107/385
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/123/529
- Title:
- UV-excess quasar candidates around NGC 450
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/123/529
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the results of a survey for moderately bright quasars performed in a 20.6-square-degree field around the galaxy NGC 450. The quasar candidates we re-selected on the basis of their ultraviolet excess: by comparative visual inspection of the double image of each single object on a U/B dual-exposure Schmidt photographic plate, 95 primary and 45 secondary quasar candidates were selected on the basis of their U image being too bright. The spectroscopic identification of the primary candidates led to the discovery of 59 bona fide quasars (out of which 6 were previously known). The Palomar Schmidt plate was digitised using the MAMA measuring machine and the outcoming data reduced using ad hoc procedures. A photometric calibration allowed us to derive values for the limiting magnitudes and for the U-B index selection threshold of the survey. A catalogue containing 60 quasars is presented with accurate positions, magnitudes and additional information such as redshifts. We studied the spatial distribution of the objects and detected, for the quasars of our sample, a significant deviation from randomness in the form of a propensity to cluster in pairs on the celestial sphere with a typical scale of about 10arcmin. We also formally detected a tendency towards a 3-D clustering, but this result is induced by a single pair of quasars. A forthcoming paper will deal with a similar work performed in a field around NGC 520; the latter field is located directly to the North of the present one and slightly overlaps it.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/420/1115
- Title:
- UV-excess sources from UVEX
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/420/1115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first catalogue of point-source ultraviolet (UV)-excess sources selected from the UV-Excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX). UVEX images the Northern Galactic Plane in the U, g, r and HeI{lambda}5875 bands in the Galactic latitude range -5<b<+5{deg}. Through an automated algorithm, which works on a field-to-field basis, we select blue UV-excess sources in 211 square degrees from the (U-g) versus (g-r) colour-colour diagram and the g versus (U-g) and g versus (g-r) colour-magnitude diagrams. The UV-excess catalogue covers the magnitude range 14<g<22.5, contains 2170 sources and consists of a mix of white dwarfs, post-common-envelope objects, interacting binaries, quasars and active galactic nuclei. Two other samples of outliers were found during the selection: (i) a "subdwarf" sample, consisting of no less than 9872 candidate metal-poor stars or lightly reddened main-sequence stars, and (ii) a "purple" sample consisting of 803 objects, most likely a mix of reddened late M giants, T Tauri stars, planetary nebulae, symbiotic stars and carbon stars. Cross-matching the selected UV-excess catalogue with other catalogues aids with the first classification of the different populations and shows that more than 99 per cent of our selected sources are unidentified sources.