- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/253
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of late-type dwarfs in Kepler Field
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/253
- Date:
- 08 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- While it is well-established that giant-planet occurrence rises rapidly with host star metallicity, it is not yet clear if small-planet occurrence around late-type dwarf stars depends on host star metallicity. Using the Kepler Data Release 25 planet candidate list and its completeness data products, we explore planet occurrence as a function of metallicity in the Kepler field's late-type dwarf stellar population. We find that planet occurrence increases with metallicity for all planet radii Rp down to at least Rp~2R{Earth}, and that in the range 2R{Earth}<~Rp<~5R{Earth}, planet occurrence scales linearly with metallicity Z. Extrapolating our results, we predict that short-period planets with Rp<~2R{Earth} should be rare around early-M dwarf stars with [M/H]<~-0.5 or late-M dwarf stars with [M/H]<~+0.0. This dependence of planet occurrence on metallicity observed in the Kepler field emphasizes the need to control for metallicity in estimates of planet occurrence for late-type dwarf stars like those targeted by Kepler's K2 extension and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. We confirm the theoretical expectation that the small-planet occurrence-host star metallicity relation is stronger for low-mass stars than for solar-type stars. We establish that the expected solid mass in planets around late-type dwarfs in the Kepler field is comparable to the total amount of planet-making solids in their protoplanetary disks. We argue that this high efficiency of planet formation favors planetesimal accretion over pebble accretion as the origin of the small planets observed by Kepler around late-type dwarf stars.
Number of results to display per page
Search Results
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/675
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of mass-losing AGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/488/675
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phases mark the end of the evolution for low- and intermediate-mass stars. Our understanding of the mechanisms through which they eject the envelope and our assessment of their contribution to the mass return to the interstellar medium and to the chemical evolution of Galaxies are hampered by poor knowledge of their luminosities and mass loss rates, both for C-rich and for O-rich sources. We plan to establish criteria permitting a more quantitative determination of luminosities (and subsequently of mass loss rates) for the various types of AGB stars on the basis of infrared fluxes. In this paper, in particular, we concentrate on O-rich and s-element-rich MS, S stars and include a small sample of SC stars. We reanalyze the absolute bolometric magnitudes and colors of MS, S, SC stars on the basis of a sample of intrinsic (single) and extrinsic (binary) long period variables. We derive bolometric corrections as a function of near- and mid-infrared colors, adopting as references a group of stars for which the spectral energy distribution could be reconstructed in detail over a large wavelength range. We determine the absolute HR diagrams, and compare luminosities and colors of S-type giants with those, previously derived, of C-rich AGB stars. Luminosity estimates are also verified on the basis of existing period-luminosity relations valid for O-rich Miras. S star bolometric luminosities are almost indistinguishable from those of C-rich AGB stars. On the contrary, their circumstellar envelopes are thinner and less opaque. Despite this last property the IR wavelengths remain dominant, with the bluest stars having their maximum emission in the H or K(short) bands. Near-to-mid infrared color differences are in any case smaller than for C stars. Based on period-luminosity relations for O-rich Miras and on Magnitude-color relations for the same variables we show how approximate distances (hence intrinsic parameters) for sources of so far unknown parallax can be inferred. We argue that most of the sources have a rather small mass (<2M_{sun}_); dredge-up might then be not effective enough to let the C/O ratio exceed unity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/675/1319
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of NGC 3603
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/675/1319
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the initial mass function (IMF) of one of the most massive Galactic star-forming regions NGC 3603 to answer a fundamental question in current astrophysics: is the IMF universal, or does it vary? Using our very deep, high angular resolution JHKSL' images obtained with NAOS-CONICA at the VLT at ESO, we have successfully revealed the stellar population down to the subsolar mass range in the core of the starburst cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/656
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of NGC 6791
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/656
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep JHK photometry of the old and metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The photometry reaches below the main-sequence turnoff to K~16.5mag. We combine our photometry with that from Stetson et al. (2003, Cat. <J/PASP/115/413>) to provide color-magnitude diagrams showing K versus J-K, K versus V-K, and V versus V-K.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/647/1180
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of Taurus SFR
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/647/1180
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for new members of the Taurus star-forming region using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. With IRAC images of 29.7deg^2^ of Taurus at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0um, we have identified sources with red mid-infrared colors indicative of disk-bearing objects and have obtained optical and infrared spectra of 23 of these candidate members. Through this work, we have discovered 13 new members of Taurus, two of which have spectral types later than M6 and thus are likely to be brown dwarfs, according to the theoretical evolutionary models of Chabrier & Baraffe (2000ApJ...542..464C). This survey indicates that the previous census of Taurus has a completeness of 80% for members with disks. The new members that we have found do not significantly modify the previously measured distributions of Taurus members as a function of position, mass, and extinction. For instance, we find no evidence for a population of highly reddened brown dwarfs ({LAMBDA}_K_~2) that has been missed by previous optical and near-infrared surveys, which suggests that brown dwarf disks are not significantly more flared than disks around stars. In addition to the new members, we also present IRAC photometry for the 149 previously known members that appear within this survey, which includes 27 objects later than M6.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/573/366
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of Trapezium cluster
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/573/366
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the results of a new multiepoch, multiwavelength, near-infrared census of the Trapezium cluster in Orion to construct and analyze the structure of its infrared (K-band) luminosity function. Specifically, we employ an improved set of model luminosity functions to derive this cluster's underlying initial mass function (IMF) across the entire range of mass from OB stars to substellar objects down to near the deuterium-burning limit. The observations were performed at FLWO (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), and ESO-NTT (European Southern Observatory, New Technology Telescope), between Dec. 1997 and Marche 2000 (see the "Table 5" section below)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/150/191
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of YSOs in Cygnus-X DR15
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/150/191
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a multi-wavelength study of the young stellar population in the Cygnus-X DR15 region. We studied young stars that were forming or recently formed at and around the tip of a prominent molecular pillar and an infrared dark cloud. Using a combination of ground-based near-infrared, space-based infrared, and X-ray data, we constructed a point source catalog from which we identified 226 young stellar sources, which we classified into evolutionary classes. We studied their spatial distributions across the molecular gas structures and identified several groups that possibly belong to distinct young star clusters. We obtained samples of these groups and constructed K-band luminosity functions that we compared with those of artificial clusters, allowing us to make first order estimates of the mean ages and age spreads of the groups. We used a ^13^CO(1-0) map to investigate the gas kinematics at the prominent gaseous envelope of the central cluster in DR15, and we inferred that the removal of this envelope is relatively slow compared to other cluster regions, in which the gas dispersal timescale could be similar or shorter than the circumstellar disk dissipation timescale. The presence of other groups with slightly older ages, associated with much less prominent gaseous structures, may imply that the evolution of young clusters in this part of the complex proceeds in periods that last 3-5Myr, perhaps after a slow dissipation of their dense molecular cloud birthplaces.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/157/112
- Title:
- Infrared photometry of YSOs in the W4 cloud complex
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/157/112
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It is well known that most of the stars form in rich clusters. However, recent Spitzer observations have shown that a significant number of stars also form in the distributed mode; their origin is not well understood. In this work, we aim to investigate clustered and distributed modes of star formation in the W4 complex. To do so, we identified and characterized the young stellar population associated with the region using homogeneous infrared data sets obtained from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, GLIMPSE, MIPS, and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer surveys. We make stellar surface density and minimum spanning tree maps to identify young clusters, and use Spitzer images to identify irradiated structures, such as elephant-trunk-like structures (ETLSs) and pillars in the region. The surface density distribution of the young stellar objects (YSOs) reveals three new clusterings and ~50% distributed protostars in the H II region. The clusters are of low-mass nature but significantly younger than the central cluster IC 1805. We identified ~38 ETLSs in the region, a majority of which consist of one or a few stars at their tips. We find that these stars are low-mass (<2 M_{sun}_) YSOs, located at the outskirts (>17 pc) of the cluster IC 1805 and are part of the scattered distributed population. We argued that the star formation in the ETLSs of W4 is going on possibly due to the triggering effect of the expanding W4 bubble. Although high-resolution photometric and spectroscopic data would be required to confirm the scenario, nonetheless, we discuss the implications of this scenario for our understanding of distributed low-mass star formation in cloud complexes as opposed to other mechanisms such as turbulent fragmentation and dynamical ejection.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/2243
- Title:
- Infrared properties of close pairs of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/2243
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss spectroscopy and IR photometry for a complete sample of ~800 galaxies in close pairs objectively selected from the second Center for Astrophysics redshift survey. We use the Two Micron All Sky Survey to compare near-IR color-color diagrams for our sample with the Nearby Field Galaxy Sample and with a set of IRAS flux-limited pairs from Surace and coworkers. We construct a basic statistical model to explore the physical sources of the substantial differences among these samples. The model explains the spread of near-IR colors and is consistent with a picture in which central star formation is triggered by the galaxy-galaxy interaction before a merger occurs. For 160 galaxies we report new, deep JHK photometry within our spectroscopic aperture, and we use the combined spectroscopic and photometric data to explore the physical conditions in the central bursts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/115/351
- Title:
- Infrared Southern Cool Carbon Stars
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/115/351
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A large set of deep, near-IR, objective-prism plates taken along the southern Galactic plane was searched for cool supergiants and carbon stars. Accurate coordinates and charts for 759 carbon stars in two Galactic longitude sectors within 7.5{deg} of the plane, 248{deg}<l<288{deg} and 320{deg}<l<341{deg}, are given, including 289 stars not previously published. Many of the new and known stars are found in the IRAS, DENIS, and 2MASS point-source catalogs. The 2MASS colors and the longitude distribution of cool carbon stars are discussed briefly.
