- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/180/67
- Title:
- Photometric selection of quasars from SDSS. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/180/67
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 1172157 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of i=21.3 from 8417deg^2^ of imaging from SDSS Data Release 6 (DR6). This sample extends our previous catalog by using the latest SDSS public release data and probing both ultraviolet (UV)-excess and high-redshift quasars. While the addition of high-redshift candidates reduces the overall efficiency (quasars:quasar candidates) of the catalog to ~80%, it is expected to contain no fewer than 850000 bona fide quasars, which is ~8 times the number of our previous sample and ~10 times the size of the largest spectroscopic quasar catalog. Cross-matching between our photometric catalog and spectroscopic quasar catalogs from both the SDSS and 2dF survey yields 88879 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. For judicious selection of the most robust UV-excess sources (~500000 objects in all), the efficiency is nearly 97% -more than sufficient for detailed statistical analyses. The catalog's completeness to type 1 (broad-line) quasars is expected to be no worse than 70%, with most missing objects occurring at z<0.7 and 2.5<z<3.0. In addition to classification information, we provide photometric redshift estimates (typically good to {Delta}z+/-0.3[2{sigma}]) and cross-matching with radio, X-ray, and proper-motion catalogs. Finally, we consider the catalog's utility for determining the optical luminosity function of quasars and are able to confirm the flattening of the bright-end slope of the quasar luminosity function at z~4 as compared to z~2.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/486/1377
- Title:
- Photometric SFR using machine learning
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/486/1377
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Star formation rates (SFRs) are crucial to constrain theories of galaxy formation and evolution. SFRs are usually estimated via spectroscopic observations requiring large amounts of telescope time. We explore an alternative approach based on the photometric estimation of global SFRs for large samples of galaxies, by using methods such as automatic parameter space optimisation, and supervised machine learning models. We demonstrate that, with such approach, accurate multiband photometry allows to estimate reliable SFRs. We also investigate how the use of photometric rather than spectroscopic redshifts, affects the accuracy of derived global SFRs. Finally, we provide a publicly available catalogue of SFRs for more than 27 million galaxies extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. The catalogue will be made available through the Vizier facility.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/82
- Title:
- Photometric & spectroscopic obs. of TOI-954 and K2-329
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of two short-period Saturn-mass planets, one transiting the G subgiant TOI-954 (TIC44792534, V=10.343, T=9.78) observed in TESS sectors 4 and 5 and one transiting the G dwarf K2-329 (EPIC246193072, V=12.70, K=10.67) observed in K2 campaigns 12 and 19. We confirm and characterize these two planets with a variety of ground-based archival and follow-up observations, including photometry, reconnaissance spectroscopy, precise radial velocity, and high-resolution imaging. Combining all available data, we find that TOI-954b has a radius of 0.852_-0.062_^+0.053^R_Jup_ and a mass of 0.174_-0.017_^+0.018^M_Jup_ and is in a 3.68day orbit, while K2-329b has a radius of 0.774_-0.024_^+0.026^R_Jup_ and a mass of 0.260_-0.022_^+0.020^M_Jup_ and is in a 12.46day orbit. As TOI-954b is 30 times more irradiated than K2-329b but more or less the same size, these two planets provide an opportunity to test whether irradiation leads to inflation of Saturn-mass planets and contribute to future comparative studies that explore Saturn-mass planets at contrasting points in their lifetimes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/175
- Title:
- Photometric & spectroscopic study of AF And in M31
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/175
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the Hubble-Sandage variable star AF And in M31. The data have been taken under the Nainital Microlensing Survey during 1998-2002, and follow-up observations were carried out until 2011. During this period, photometric observations in Cousins R and I bands were obtained for 169 nights spanning about 5000 days. AF And showed a prominent outburst around 1999 mid-January, followed by a gradual decrease in brightness of about 1.5 mag in the next 3 yr with a declining rate of ~0.0015 mag/day, leading to a quiescent phase at the end of 2001. After lying low for about 9 yr, AF And again went through a secondary outburst phase in late 2010 with an amplitude of 0.44 mag, where it lasted for one year before fading back to its quiescent phase. Spectroscopic observations of AF And show prominent Balmer and He I emission lines along with the comparatively weaker Fe II and [Fe II] emissions. Asymmetric emission line profiles in its spectrum imply a mass-loss rate of about 2.2x10^-4^ M_{sun}_/yr through the stellar winds in the photosphere. Using spectral energy distribution fitting, we find a photospheric temperature of 33000+/-3000 K during the visual minimum. Using a weak P Cygni profile of the He I emission line, the wind terminal velocity for AF And is found to be around 280-300 km/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/402/1157
- Title:
- Photometric standards around gravitational lenses
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/402/1157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of secondary photometric standard stars in the neighborhood of 14 gravitationally lensed quasars. These stars were verified to be non variable using long-term monitoring. The instrumental magnitudes of the new standard stars have been transformed to the Johnson-Cousins BV(RI)c photometric system. For ten gravitational lenses (GLs) we also provide the BV(RI)c mean magnitudes of the integrated flux of all the lens components, for the epochs of the photometric calibration.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/50
- Title:
- Photometric Standard Stars
- Short Name:
- II/50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The non-variable stars brighter than 5.0 mag in the equatorial zone between declinations +10{deg} and -10{deg} were adopted by IAU Commission 25 in 1970 as primary standards for the Johnson and Morgan UBV system of 1966. Fainter HR stars in the same zone were chosen as secondary standards. Data for the primary standards are taken from a Cape Royal Observatory Mimeogram and are presented in table2.dat. It gives the weighted mean V magnitudes and B-V colors based upon the best series available up to the end of 1966. The table is believed to provide a consistent UBV system over the southern sky. Most of the secondary standard star data, given in table4.dat, were published in Mon. Notes Astron. Soc. S. Afr. (22,23).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/106/967
- Title:
- Photometric Standard Stars
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/106/967
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD photometry is presented for 119 stars observed in the Thuan-Gunn photometric system (the passbands vgr). The sample includes 82 stars for which magnitudes in this system have not previously been published. Photometry in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins photometric system (BV or UBV) has been obtained for a sub-sample of 85 of the stars. Of those stars which are not primary standard stars for the Thuan-Gunn system 70 observed in Gunn r, 48 observed in Gunn g, and 37 observed in Gunn v have sufficient repeat measurements that they may be used as secondary standard stars for CCD photometry. The typical uncertain- ties for the magnitudes of these stars are 0.006 mag.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/458/225
- Title:
- Photometric standard stars in the field of GR 290
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/458/225
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Understanding the origin of the instabilities of LBVs is important for shedding light on the late evolutionary stages of massive stars and on the chemical evolution of galaxies. To investigate the physical nature of variable stars in the upper H-R diagram, we performed a spectrophotometric study of the Romano's star GR 290 and the Hubble-Sandage variables A, B, and C in the close galaxy M 33. New spectroscopic and photometric data were employed in conjunction with already published data of these stars in order to derive spectral types, energy distribution and bolometric luminosities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/30
- Title:
- Photometric study of fourteen low-mass binaries
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New CCD photometric observations of fourteen short-period low-mass eclipsing binaries (LMBs) in the photometric filters I, R, and V were used for a light curve analysis. A discrepancy remains between observed radii and those derived from the theoretical modeling for LMBs, in general. Mass calibration of all observed LMBs was performed using only the photometric indices. The light curve modeling of these selected systems was completed, yielding the new derived masses and radii for both components. We compared these systems with the compilation of other known double-lined LMB systems with uncertainties of masses and radii less then 5%, which includes 66 components of binaries where both spectroscopy and photometry were combined together. All of our systems are circular short-period binaries, and for some of them, the photospheric spots were also used. A purely photometric study of the light curves without spectroscopy seems unable to achieve high enough precision and accuracy in the masses and radii to act as meaningful test of the M-R relation for low-mass stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/475/1633
- Title:
- Photometric study of globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/475/1633
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we describe the photometric and spectroscopic properties of multiple populations in seven northern globular clusters. In this study, we employ precise ground-based photometry from the private collection of Stetson, space photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), literature abundances of Na and O, and Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey abundances for Mg, Al, C, and N. Multiple populations are identified by their position in the C_U,B,I_-V pseudo colour-magnitude diagram (pseudo-CMD) and confirmed with their chemical composition determined using abundances. We confirm the expectation from previous studies that the red giant branches (RGBs) in all seven clusters are split and the different branches have different chemical compositions. The Mg-Al anticorrelations were well explored by the APOGEE and Gaia-ESO surveys for most globular clusters, some clusters showing bimodal distributions, while others continuous distributions. Even though the structure (i.e. bimodal versus continuous) of Mg-Al can greatly vary, the Al-rich and Al-poor populations do not seem to have very different photometric properties, agreeing with theoretical calculations. There is no one-to-one correspondence between the Mg-Al anticorrelation shape (bimodal versus continuous) and the structure of the RGB seen in the HST pseudo-CMDs, with the HSTphotometric information usually implying more complex formation/evolution histories than the spectroscopic ones. We report on finding two second-generation horizontal branch (HB) stars in M5, and five second-generation asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in M92, which is the most metal-poor cluster to date in which second-generation AGB stars have been observed.
