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6841. The VVV Variables (V^4^) catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/864/11
Title:
The VVV Variables (V^4^) catalog
Short Name:
J/ApJ/864/11
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Time-varying phenomena are one of the most substantial sources of astrophysical information, and their study has led to many fundamental discoveries in modern astronomy. We have developed an automated tool to search for and analyze variable sources in the near-infrared Ks band using the data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Large Survey. This process relies on the characterization of variable sources using different variability indices calculated from time series generated with point-spread function (PSF) photometry of sources under analysis. In particular, we used two main indices, the total amplitude {Delta}Ks and the eta index {eta}, to identify variable sources. Once the variable objects are identified, periods are determined with generalized Lomb-Scargle periodograms and the information potential metric. Variability classes are assigned according to a compromise between comparisons with VVV templates and the period of the variability. The automated tool is applied on VVV tiles d001 and d002 and led to the discovery of 200 variable sources. We detected 70 irregular variable sources and 130 periodic ones. In addition, nine open-cluster candidates projected in the region are analyzed, and the infrared variable candidates found around these clusters are further scrutinized by cross-matching their locations against emission star candidates from VPHAS+ survey H{alpha} color cuts.
6842. The WIRED survey. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/197/38
Title:
The WIRED survey. II.
Short Name:
J/ApJS/197/38
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
With the launch of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a new era of detecting planetary debris and brown dwarfs (BDs) around white dwarfs (WDs) has begun with the WISE InfraRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED) Survey. The WIRED Survey is sensitive to substellar objects and dusty debris around WDs out to distances exceeding 100pc, well beyond the completeness level of local WDs. In this paper, we present a cross-correlation of the preliminary Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) WD catalog between the WISE, Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), and SDSS DR7 photometric catalogs. From ~18000 input targets, there are WISE detections comprising 344 "naked" WDs (detection of the WD photosphere only), 1020 candidate WD+M dwarf binaries, 42 candidate WD+BD systems, 52 candidate WD+dust disk systems, and 69 targets with indeterminate infrared excess. We classified all of the detected targets through spectral energy distribution model fitting of the merged optical, near-IR, and WISE photometry. Some of these detections could be the result of contaminating sources within the large (~6") WISE point-spread function; we make a preliminary estimate for the rates of contamination for our WD+BD and WD+disk candidates and provide notes for each target of interest.
6843. The WISE AGN candidates catalogs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/234/23
Title:
The WISE AGN candidates catalogs
Short Name:
J/ApJS/234/23
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present two large catalogs of active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates identified across 30,093deg^2^ of extragalactic sky from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer's AllWISE Data Release. Both catalogs are selected purely using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) W1 and W2 bands. The R90 catalog consists of 4,543,530 AGN candidates with 90% reliability, while the C75 catalog consists of 20,907,127 AGN candidates with 75% completeness. These reliability and completeness figures were determined from a detailed analysis of UV- to near-IR spectral energy distributions of ~10^5^ sources in the 9deg^2^ Bootes field. The AGN selection criteria are based on those of Assef+ (2013, J/ApJ/772/26) recalibrated to the AllWISE data release. We provide a detailed discussion of potential artifacts and excise portions of the sky close to the Galactic Center, Galactic Plane, nearby galaxies, and other expected contaminating sources. These catalogs are expected to enable a broad range of science, and we present a few illustrative cases. From the R90 sample, we identify 45 highly variable AGNs lacking radio counterparts in the FIRST survey. One of these sources, WISEA J142846.71+172353.1, is a changing-look quasar at z=0.104, which has changed from having broad H{alpha} to being a narrow-lined AGN. We characterize our catalogs by comparing them to large, wide-area AGN catalogs in the literature. We identify four ROSAT X-ray sources that are each matched to three WISE-selected AGNs in the R90 sample within 30". Spectroscopy reveals that one of these systems, 2RXS J150158.6+691029, consists of a triplet of quasars at z=1.133+/-0.004, suggestive of a rich group or forming galaxy cluster.
6844. The Wolf-Rayet content of M33 (NGC 598)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/733/123
Title:
The Wolf-Rayet content of M33 (NGC 598)
Short Name:
J/ApJ/733/123
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are evolved massive stars, and the relative number of WC-type and WN-type WRs should vary with metallicity, providing a sensitive test of stellar evolutionary theory. The observed WC/WN ratio is much higher than that predicted by theory in some galaxies but this could be due to observational incompleteness for WN types, which have weaker lines. Previous studies of M33's WR content show a galactocentric gradient in the relative numbers of WCs and WNs, but only small regions have been surveyed with sufficient sensitivity to detect all of the WNs. Here, we present a sensitive survey for WRs covering all of M33, finding 55 new WRs, mostly of WN type. Our spectroscopy also improves the spectral types of many previously known WRs, establishing in one case that the star is actually a background quasar. The total number of spectroscopically confirmed WRs in M33 is 206, a number we argue is complete to ~5%, with most WRs residing in OB associations, although ~2% are truly isolated.
6845. The XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/716/348
Title:
The XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field
Short Name:
J/ApJ/716/348
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the final optical identifications of the medium-depth (~60ks), contiguous (2deg^2^) XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field. XMM-Newton has detected ~1800 X-ray sources down to limiting fluxes of ~5x10^-16^, ~3x10^-15^, and ~7x10^-15^erg/cm^2^/s in the 0.5-2keV, 2-10keV, and 5-10keV bands, respectively (~1x10^-15^, ~6x10^-15^, and ~1x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s, in the three bands, respectively, over 50% of the area). The work is complemented by an extensive collection of multiwavelength data from 24um to UV, available from the COSMOS survey, for each of the X-ray sources, including spectroscopic redshifts for >~50% of the sample, and high-quality photometric redshifts for the rest. The XMM and multiwavelength flux limits are well matched: 1760 (98%) of the X-ray sources have optical counterparts, 1711 (~95%) have IRAC counterparts, and 1394 (~78%) have MIPS 24um detections. Spectroscopically identified obscured and unobscured AGNs, as well as normal and star-forming galaxies, present well-defined optical and infrared properties. We devised a robust method to identify a sample of ~150 high-redshift (z>1), obscured AGN candidates for which optical spectroscopy is not available.
6846. The young cluster IC 348.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/497/736
Title:
The young cluster IC 348.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/497/736
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
CCD photometry in BVRI was obtained for about 260 stars in and around IC 348, and multiobject spectroscopy for 80 of these. A somewhat larger region was surveyed for stars having H{alpha} in emission; over 110 emission-line stars brighter than about R=19 were discovered. Because H{alpha}emission could be detected to a limit near W=3{AA}, division into weak-line (WTTSs) and classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) was possible on purely spectroscopic grounds. There is a steep rise in the number of emission-line stars below W(H{alpha})=10{AA}; the proportion of WTTSs to CTTSs in the area surveyed is 58:51. ROSAT detected only about 58% of the spectroscopic WTTSs and about 65% of the CTTSs, although these numbers are sensitive to the survey thresholds. The bulk of the ages of about 100 stars, read off the theoretical tracks of D'Antona & Mazzitelli (1994ApJS...90..467D), range between about 0.7 and 12Myr, but the emission-line stars, which are most likely to be members of IC 348, have a mean age of 1.3Myr. Allowance for unresolved binaries would increase this somewhat, but there is a firm upper limit at 2.95Myr. There is no indication that the ages of the emission-line stars depend upon W(H{alpha}): the IC 348 WTTSs as a population are not systematically older than the CTTSs, but there is a tendency for the WTTSs to be concentrated toward the center of IC 348, while the CTTSs are more widely distributed. There is a scattering of emission-H{alpha} stars over the entire area surveyed. There are too many to be explained as low-mass members of an earlier generation of star formation in Per OB2 or as foreground dMe stars. The mass frequency function, based on some 125 stars fitted to theoretical tracks, rises from 1.5M_{sun}_; to about 0.2M_{sun}_;, with a slope very much like that of the Scalo initial mass function. The optical cluster IC 348 radius is about 4.0', or 0.37pc. The total mass of optically detectable stars in this volume is 57M_{sun}_;, while the mean space density is about 520 stars/pc^3^. The amount of interstellar material remaining within the cluster is small in comparison. Star formation in the Per OB2/IC 348 region cannot be characterized by one unique age; it appears that stars have been forming in the region now occupied by the association for 10-20Myr.
6847. The young open cluster NGC 7067
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/3636
Title:
The young open cluster NGC 7067
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/466/3636
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
NGC 7067 is a young open cluster located in the direction between the first and the second Galactic quadrants and close to the Perseus spiral arm. This makes it useful for studies of the nature of the Milky Way spiral arms. Stromgren photometry taken with the Wide Field Camera at the Isaac Newton Telescope allowed us to compute individual physical parameters for the observed stars and hence to derive the cluster's physical parameters. Spectra from the 1.93-m telescope at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence helped to check and improve the results. We obtained photometry for 1233 stars, individual physical parameters for 515 and spectra for 9 of them. The 139 selected cluster members lead to a cluster distance of 4.4+/-0.4kpc, with an age below log10(t(yr))=7.3 and a present mass of 1260+/-160M_{sun}_. The morphology of the data reveals that the centre of the cluster is at (RA, DE) = (21:24:13.69, +48:00:39.2) J2000, with a radius of 6.1-arcmin. Stromgren and spectroscopic data allowed us to improve the previous parameters available for the cluster in the literature.
6848. The YSO population of LDN 1340 in infrared
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/22
Title:
The YSO population of LDN 1340 in infrared
Short Name:
J/ApJS/224/22
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present results of an infrared study of the molecular cloud Lynds 1340, forming three groups of low- and intermediate-mass stars. Our goals are to identify and characterize the young stellar population of the cloud, study the relationships between the properties of the cloud and the emergent stellar groups, and integrate L1340 into the picture of the star-forming activity of our Galactic environment. We selected candidate young stellar objects (YSOs) from the Spitzer and WISE databases using various published color criteria and classified them based on the slope of the spectral energy distribution (SED). We identified 170 Class II, 27 flat SED, and 45 Class 0/I sources. High angular resolution near-infrared observations of the RNO 7 cluster, embedded in L1340, revealed eight new young stars of near-infrared excess. The surface density distribution of YSOs shows three groups, associated with the three major molecular clumps of L1340, each consisting of <~100 members, including both pre-main-sequence stars and embedded protostars. New Herbig-Haro objects were identified in the Spitzer images. Our results demonstrate that L1340 is a prolific star-forming region of our Galactic environment in which several specific properties of the intermediate-mass mode of star formation can be studied in detail.
6849. 12th General Catalogue of MK Classifications
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/189A
Title:
12th General Catalogue of MK Classifications
Short Name:
III/189A
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A file of MK spectral types and UBV photometry maintained at Dearborn Observatory is presented here. It is based on an extensive literature search and is up to date as of early 1995.
6850. 12th General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/223
Title:
12th General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification
Short Name:
III/223
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This is the twelfth in a series of catalogs of MK spectral types and UBV photometry issued from Dearborn Observatory. It is based on an extensive search of literature published up to early 1995. Each catalog is essentially self-contained, with its separate selection of stars listed in order of increasing right ascension. Some classifications (indicated between parentheses) are inferred from photometric or astrometric considerations. The preferred identification is from the Henry Draper Catalog or the General Catalog of Variable Stars, with a Durchmusterung or other alternative as space permits.