- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/556/A65
- Title:
- LDN 1570 BV(RI)c polarisation and photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/556/A65
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We wish to map the magnetic field geometry and to study the dust properties of the starless cloud, L1570, using multiwavelength optical polarimetry and photometry of the stars projected on the cloud. We made R-band imaging polarimetry of the stars projected on a cloud, L1570, to trace the magnetic field orientation. We also made multi-wavelength polarimetric and photometric observations to constrain the properties of dust in L1570. We estimated a distance of 394+/-70pc to the cloud using 2MASS JHKs colours. Using the values of the Serkowskiparameters namely {sigma}_1_, {overline}{epsilon}, {lambda}_max_ and the position of the stars on near infrared color-color diagram, we identified 13 stars that could possibly have intrinsic polarization and/or rotation in their polarization angles. One star, 2MASS J06075075+1934177, which is a B4Ve spectral type, show the presence of diffuse interstellar bands in the spectrum apart from showing H_{alpha} line in emission. There is an indication for the presence of slightly bigger dust grains towards L1570 on the basis of the dust grain size-indicators such as {lambda}_max_ and R_V_ values. The magnetic field lines are found to be parallel to the cloud structures seen in the 250um images (also in 8um and 12um shadow images) of L1570. Based on the magnetic field geometry, the cloud structure and the complex velocity structure, we believe that L1570 is in the process of formation due to the converging flow material mediated by the magnetic field lines. Structure function analysis showed that in the L1570 cloud region the large scale magnetic fields are stronger when compared with the turbulent component of magnetic fields. The estimated magnetic field strengths suggest that the L1570 cloud region is sub-critical and hence could be strongly supported by the magnetic field lines.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/1008
- Title:
- LDN 1495 SCUBA-2 and Herschel data
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/1008
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comparison of Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array-2 (SCUBA-2) 850-{mu}m and Herschel 70-500-{mu}m observations of the L1495 filament in the Taurus Molecular Cloud with the goal of characterizing the SCUBA-2 Gould Belt Survey (GBS) data set. We identify and characterize starless cores in three data sets: SCUBA-2 850-{mu}m, Herschel 250-{mu}m, and Herschel 250-{mu}m spatially filtered to mimic the SCUBA-2 data. SCUBA-2 detects only the highest-surface-brightness sources, principally detecting protostellar sources and starless cores embedded in filaments, while Herschel is sensitive to most of the cloud structure, including extended low-surface-brightness emission. Herschel detects considerably more sources than SCUBA-2 even after spatial filtering. We investigate which properties of a starless core detected by Herschel determine its detectability by SCUBA-2, and find that they are the core's temperature and column density (for given dust properties). For similar-temperature cores, such as those seen in L1495, the surface brightnesses of the cores are determined by their column densities, with the highest-column-density cores being detected by SCUBA-2. For roughly spherical geometries, column density corresponds to volume density, and so SCUBA-2 selects the densest cores from a population at a given temperature. This selection effect, which we quantify as a function of distance, makes SCUBA-2 ideal for identifying those cores in Herschel catalogues that are closest to forming stars. Our results can now be used by anyone wishing to use the SCUBA-2 GBS data set.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/332
- Title:
- LEDA CMD/tip of the red giant branch
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/332
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The color-magnitude diagrams/tip of the red giant branch (CMDs/TRGB) section of the Extragalactic Distance Database contains a compilation of observations of nearby galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope. Approximately 250 (and increasing) galaxies in the Local Volume have CMDs and the stellar photometry tables used to produce them available through the Web. Various stellar populations that make up a galaxy are visible in the CMDs, but our primary purpose for collecting and analyzing these galaxy images is to measure the TRGB in each. We can estimate the distance to a galaxy by using stars at the TRGB as standard candles. In this paper, we describe the process of constructing the CMDs and make the results available to the public.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/242
- Title:
- LEDA galaxies with DENIS measurements catalog
- Short Name:
- VII/242
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of near-infrared properties of LEDA galaxies, using the full resolution images from the DENIS survey. The fluxes are integrated in eight homothetic ellipses defined by their proper axis ratio, position angle and major axis (up to twice the blue diameter at the isophote 25mag/arcsec^2^) extracted from the LEDA database. From the curves of growth in I, J and K_ms_ photometric bands, we estimated different apparent magnitudes and diameters ("total", "Kron" and "isophotal"). Isophotal parameters refer to the limiting surface brightnesses : 22.5(Imag)/arcsec^2^, 21.0(Jmag)/arcsec^2^ and 20.0(K_ms_mag)/arcsec^2^ for the three photometric bands, respectively. The result is a catalog of 753 153 objects (among which there are 508 224 galaxies, 34 449 probable galaxies and 210 480 galaxies to be confirmed). The catalog gives about (the figures vary, depending on the considered magnitude or diameter) : 668 000 I-band magnitudes, 576 000 J-band magnitudes, 357 000 K_ms_-band magnitudes and 452 000 I-band diameters, 299 000 J-band diameters, 114 000 K_ms_-band diameters. The typical standard deviations for I, J and K_ms_ magnitudes are 0.14, 0.15 and 0.25, respectively, for magnitudes limited at I=16, J=15 and K_ms_=14. The contamination by superimposed objects probably remains the major source of problems and could require future improvement. The completeness limits in magnitude are about : 15.5, 14.5 and 13 in I, J and K_ms_, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/235/23
- Title:
- LEGUS galaxies1 observations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/235/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a multiwavelength Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope. It studied 50 nearby star-forming galaxies in 5 bands from the near-UV to the I-band, combining new Wide Field Camera 3 observations with archival Advanced Camera for Surveys data. LEGUS was designed to investigate how star formation occurs and develops on both small and large scales, and how it relates to the galactic environments. In this paper we present the photometric catalogs for all the apparently single stars identified in the 50 LEGUS galaxies. We present optical and near-UV color-magnitude diagrams for all the galaxies. For each galaxy we derived the distance from the tip of the red giant branch. We then used the NUV color-magnitude diagrams to identify stars more massive than 14M_{sun}_, and compared their number with the number of massive stars expected from the GALEX FUV luminosity. Our analysis shows that the fraction of massive stars forming in star clusters and stellar associations is about constant with the star formation rate. This lack of a relation suggests that the timescale for evaporation of unbound structures is comparable or longer than 10Myr. At low star formation rates this translates to an excess of mass in clustered environments as compared to model predictions of cluster evolution, suggesting that a significant fraction of stars form in unbound systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/889/154
- Title:
- LEGUS & Ha-LEGUS obs. of NGC4449 star clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/889/154
- Date:
- 17 Jan 2022 11:55:48
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new catalog and results for the cluster system of the starburst galaxy NGC 4449, based on multiband imaging observations taken as part of the LEGUS and H_{alpha}_-LEGUS surveys. We improve the spectral energy fitting method used to estimate cluster ages, and find that the results, particularly for older clusters, are in better agreement with those from spectroscopy. The inclusion of H{alpha} measurements, the role of stochasticity for low-mass clusters, the assumptions about reddening, and the choices of SSP model and metallicity all have important impacts on the age dating of clusters. A comparison with ages derived from stellar color-magnitude diagrams for partially resolved clusters shows reasonable agreement, but large scatter in some cases. The fraction of light found in clusters relative to the total light (i.e., T_L_) in the U, B, and V filters in 25 different ~kiloparsec-size regions throughout NGC 4449 correlates with both the specific region luminosity, R_L_, and the dominant age of the underlying stellar population in each region. The observed cluster age distribution is found to decline over time as dN/d{tau}{propto}{tau}^{gamma}^, with {gamma}=-0.85+/-0.15, independent of cluster mass, and is consistent with strong, early cluster disruption. The mass functions of the clusters can be described by a power law with dN/dM{propto}M^{beta}^ and {beta}=-1.86+/-0.2, independent of cluster age. The mass and age distributions are quite resilient to differences in age-dating methods. There is tentative evidence for a factor of 2-3 enhancement in both the star and cluster formation rate ~100-300Myr ago, indicating that cluster formation tracks star formation generally. The enhancement is probably associated with an earlier interaction event.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/406/1318
- Title:
- Lensed-arc statistics of galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/406/1318
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The statistics of strongly lensed arcs in samples of galaxy clusters provide information on cluster structure that is complementary to that from individual clusters. However, samples of clusters that have been analysed to date have been either small, heterogeneous or observed with limited angular resolution. We measure the lensed-arc statistics of 97 clusters imaged at high angular resolution with the Hubble Space Telescope, identifying lensed arcs using two automated arc-detection algorithms. The sample includes similar numbers of X-ray-selected [MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS)] and optically selected [Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS)] clusters, and spans cluster redshifts in the range 0.2<z<1. We compile a catalogue of 42 arcs in the X-ray-selected subsample and seven arcs in the optical subsample. All but five of these arcs are reported here for the first time.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/616/A118
- Title:
- Lensed QSOs light curves & spectral monitoring
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/616/A118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the framework of the Gravitational LENses and DArk MAtter (GLENDAMA) project, we present a database of nine gravitationally lensed quasars (GLQs) that have two or four images brighter than r=20mag and are located in the northern hemisphere. This new database consists of a rich variety of follow-up observations included in the GLENDAMA global archive, which is publicly available online and contains 6557 processed astronomical frames of the nine lens systems over the period 1999-2016. In addition to the GLQs, our archive also incorporates binary quasars, accretion-dominated radio-loud quasars, and other objects, where about 50% of the non-GLQs were observed as part of a campaign to identify GLQ candidates. Most observations of GLQs correspond to an ongoing long-term macro-programme with 2-10m telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, and these data provide information on the distribution of dark matter at all scales. We outline some previous results from the database, and we additionally obtain new results for several GLQs that update the potential of the tool for astrophysical studies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/551/A104
- Title:
- Lensed QSO UM673/Q0142-100 VRi light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/551/A104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present four years of photometric observations of the doubly imaged quasar UM673, carried out in three filters (VRi) with the Danish 1.54m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. We studied the variations in flux and in color index of each lensed component as a function of time, and we obtained an independent estimation of the magnitude of the faint lens galaxy, showing that its contribution cannot be neglected.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/553/A121
- Title:
- 2 lensed quasars light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/553/A121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Within the framework of the COSMOGRAIL collaboration we present 7- and 8.5-year-long light curves and time-delay estimates for two gravitationally lensed quasars: SDSS J1206+4332 and HS 2209+1914. We monitored these doubly lensed quasars in the R-band using four telescopes: the Mercator, Maidanak, Himalayan Chandra, and Euler Telescopes, together spanning a period of 7 to 8.5 observing seasons from mid-2004 to mid-2011. The photometry of the quasar images was obtained through simultaneous deconvolution of these data. The time delays were determined from these resulting light curves using four very different techniques: a dispersion method, a spline fit, a regression difference technique, and a numerical model fit. This minimizes the bias that might be introduced by the use of a single method.
