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6631. TESS light curves detection limits
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/630/A114
Title:
TESS light curves detection limits
Short Name:
J/A+A/630/A114
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The primary targets of the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be K and M dwarf stars within our solar neighbourhood. Young K and M dwarf stars are known to exhibit a high starspot coverage (~50%), however, older stars are known to show fewer starspots. This implies that TESS 2 min cadence transit light curves may contain starspot anomalies, and if so, will require transit-starspot models to accurately determine the properties of the system. The goals are to determine if starspot anomalies can manifest in TESS transit light curves, to determine the detection limits of the starspot anomalies and to examine the relationship between the change in flux caused by the starspot anomaly and the planetary transit. 20573 simulations of planetary transits around spotted stars were conducted using the transit-starspot model, PRISM. In total 3888 different scenarios were considered using three different host star spectral types, M4V, M1V and K5V. The mean amplitude of the starspot anomaly was measured and compared to the photometric precision of the light curve, to determine if the starspot anomaly's characteristic "blip" was noticeable in the light curve. Results. The simulations show that, starspot anomalies will be observable in TESS 2 min cadence data. The smallest starspot detectable in TESS transit light curves has a radius of ~1900km. The starspot detection limits for the three host stars are: 4900+/-1700km (M4V), 13800+/-6000km (M1V) and 15900+/-6800km (K5V). The smallest change in flux of the starspot ({Delta}F_spot_=0.00015+/-0.00001) can be detected when the ratio between the planetary and stellar radii, k=0.082+/-0.004. The results confirm known dependencies between the amplitude of the starspot anomaly and the photometric parameters of the light curve. The results allowed the characterisation of the relationship between the change in flux of the starspot anomaly and the change in flux of the planetary transit for TESS transit light curves.
6632. TESS observations of Cepheid stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/253/11
Title:
TESS observations of Cepheid stars
Short Name:
J/ApJS/253/11
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the first analysis of Cepheid stars observed by the TESS space mission in Sectors 1-5. Our sample consists of 25 pulsators: ten fundamental mode, three overtone and two double-mode classical Cepheids, plus three type II and seven anomalous Cepheids. The targets were chosen from fields with different stellar densities, both from the Galactic field and from the Magellanic System. Three targets have 2 minutes cadence light curves available by the TESS Science Processing Operations Center: for the rest, we prepared custom light curves from the full-frame images with our own differential photometric FITSH pipeline. Our main goal was to explore the potential and the limitations of TESS concerning the various subtypes of Cepheids. We detected many low-amplitude features: weak modulation, period jitter, and timing variations due to light-time effect. We also report signs of nonradial modes and the first discovery of such a mode in an anomalous Cepheid, the overtone star XZ Cet, which we then confirmed with ground-based multicolor photometric measurements. We prepared a custom photometric solution to minimize saturation effects in the bright fundamental-mode classical Cepheid, {beta} Dor with the lightkurve software, and we revealed strong evidence of cycle-to-cycle variations in the star. In several cases, however, fluctuations in the pulsation could not be distinguished from instrumental effects, such as contamination from nearby sources, which also varies between sectors.
6633. TESS obs. of massive O and B stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/872/L9
Title:
TESS obs. of massive O and B stars
Short Name:
J/ApJ/872/L9
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Uncertainties in stellar structure and evolution theory are largest for stars undergoing core convection on the main sequence. A powerful way to calibrate the free parameters used in the theory of stellar interiors is asteroseismology, which provides direct measurements of angular momentum and element transport. We report the detection and classification of new variable O and B stars using high-precision short-cadence (2 minutes) photometric observations assembled by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). In our sample of 154 O and B stars, we detect a high percentage (90%) of variability. Among these we find 23 multiperiodic pulsators, 6 eclipsing binaries, 21 rotational variables, and 25 stars with stochastic low-frequency variability. Several additional variables overlap between these categories. Our study of O and B stars not only demonstrates the high data quality achieved by TESS for optimal studies of the variability of the most massive stars in the universe, but also represents the first step toward the selection and composition of a large sample of O and B pulsators with high potential for joint asteroseismic and spectroscopic modeling of their interior structure with unprecedented precision.
6634. TESS optical phase curve of KELT-1b
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/648/A71
Title:
TESS optical phase curve of KELT-1b
Short Name:
J/A+A/648/A71
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the detection and analysis of the phase curve of KELT-1b at optical wavelengths, analyzing data taken by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The light curve shows variations due to ellipsoidal variations, Doppler beaming, transit and secondary eclipse of KELT-1, and phase curve variations of KELT-1b.
6635. Texas-Oxford NVSS (TONS) radio galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/357/1231
Title:
Texas-Oxford NVSS (TONS) radio galaxies
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/357/1231
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a clustering analysis of the Texas-Oxford NVSS Structure (TONS) radio galaxy redshift survey. This complete flux-limited survey consists of 268 radio galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in three separate regions of the sky covering a total of 165{deg}^2^. By going to faint radio flux densities (S_1.4_>=3mJy) but imposing relatively bright optical limits (E~R~19.5), the TONS sample is optimized for looking at the clustering properties of low-luminosity radio galaxies in a region of moderate (0<=z<=0.5) redshifts. Description:
6636. TGAS Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/605/A79
Title:
TGAS Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/605/A79
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) as part of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). In order to test these first parallax measurements of the primary standard candles of the cosmological distance ladder, that involve astrometry collected by Gaia during the initial 14 months of science operation, we compared them with literature estimates and derived new period-luminosity (PL), period-Wesenheit (PW) relations for classical and Type II Cepheids and infrared PL, PL-metallicity (PLZ) and optical luminosity-metallicity (MV-[Fe/H]) relations for the RR Lyrae stars, with zero points based on TGAS. The new relations were computed using multi-band (V, I, J, Ks, W1) photometry and spectroscopic metal abundances available in the literature, and applying three alternative approaches: (i) by linear least squares fitting the absolute magnitudes inferred from direct transformation of the TGAS parallaxes, (ii) by adopting astrometric-based luminosities, and (iii) using a Bayesian fitting approach. TGAS parallaxes bring a significant added value to the previous Hipparcos estimates. The relations presented in this paper represent first Gaia-calibrated relations and form a "work-in-progress" milestone report in the wait for Gaia-only parallaxes of which a first solution will become available with Gaia's Data Release 2 (DR2) in 2018.
6637. TGU 619 stars spectral types and distances
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/BaltA/20/317
Title:
TGU 619 stars spectral types and distances
Short Name:
J/BaltA/20/317
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Interstellar extinction is investigated in a 1.5 square degree area of the Cepheus Flare in the direction of the dark cloud TGU 619 at l=102.5{deg}, b=+15.5{deg} . The study is based on photometric classification of 658 stars in spectral and luminosity classes down to V=16mag using photometry in the Vilnius seven-color system published in Paper I (2009BaltA..18..161Z, Cat. J/BaltA/18/161). The extinction in the investigated area is very uneven: in the most transparent directions we find an extinction of 0.3-1.1mag while in the darkest directions the maximum extinction observed is 2.6mag. The real extinction should be considerably larger since in the direction of some cloud clumps no stars are seen. The distribution of stars in the AV vs. d plot gives evidence that the dust clouds are located at a distance of 286+/-20pc.
6638. TGU 619 Vilnius photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/BaltA/18/161
Title:
TGU 619 Vilnius photometry
Short Name:
J/BaltA/18/161
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The catalog contains magnitudes and color indices of 1304 stars down to ~16.6mag in V measured in the seven-color Vilnius photometric system in the area of 1.5 square degrees with the center at Galactic coordinates 102.4{deg}, +15.5{deg}, containing the dark cloud TGU619 in the Cepheus Flare. For most of the stars spectral and luminosity classes determined from the photometric data are given.
6639. The ACS-GC catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/200/9
Title:
The ACS-GC catalog
Short Name:
J/ApJS/200/9
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the Advanced Camera for Surveys General Catalog (ACS-GC), a photometric and morphological database using publicly available data obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The goal of the ACS-GC database is to provide a large statistical sample of galaxies with reliable structural and distance measurements to probe the evolution of galaxies over a wide range of look-back times. The ACS-GC includes approximately 470000 astronomical sources (stars + galaxies) derived from the AEGIS, COSMOS, GEMS, and GOODS surveys. Galapagos code (Hausler et al. 2011ASPC..442..155H) was used to construct photometric (SExtractor) and morphological (Galfit) catalogs. The analysis assumes a single Sersic model for each object to derive quantitative structural parameters. We include publicly available redshifts from the DEEP2, COMBO-17, TKRS, PEARS, ACES, CFHTLS, and zCOSMOS surveys to supply redshifts (spectroscopic and photometric) for a considerable fraction (~74%) of the imaging sample. The ACS-GC includes color postage stamps, Galfit residual images, and photometry, structural parameters, and redshifts combined into a single catalog.
6640. The afterglows of Swift-era GRBs. I.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/720/1513
Title:
The afterglows of Swift-era GRBs. I.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/720/1513
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have gathered optical photometry data from the literature on a large sample of Swift-era gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows including GRBs up to 2009 September, for a total of 76 GRBs, and present an additional three pre-Swift GRBs not included in an earlier sample. Furthermore, we publish 840 additional new photometry data points on a total of 42 GRB afterglows, including large data sets for GRBs 050319, 050408, 050802, 050820A, 050922C, 060418, 080413A, and 080810. We analyzed the light curves of all GRBs in the sample and derived spectral energy distributions for the sample with the best data quality, allowing us to estimate the host-galaxy extinction. We transformed the afterglow light curves into an extinction-corrected z=1 system and compared their luminosities with a sample of pre-Swift afterglows. The results of a former study, which showed that GRB afterglows clustered and exhibited a bimodal distribution in luminosity space, are weakened by the larger sample. We found that the luminosity distribution of the two afterglow samples (Swift-era and pre-Swift) is very similar, and that a subsample for which we were not able to estimate the extinction, which is fainter than the main sample, can be explained by assuming a moderate amount of line-of-sight host extinction. We derived bolometric isotropic energies for all GRBs in our sample, and found only a tentative correlation between the prompt energy release and the optical afterglow luminosity at 1 day after the GRB in the z=1 system. Finally, we present the first indications of a class of long GRBs, which form a bridge between the typical high-luminosity, high-redshift events and nearby low-luminosity events (which are also associated with spectroscopic supernovae) in terms of energetics and observed redshift distribution, indicating a continuous distribution overall.