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6851. Thick disc vertical properties
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/525/A90
Title:
Thick disc vertical properties
Short Name:
J/A+A/525/A90
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This work investigates the properties (metallicity and kinematics) and interfaces of the Galactic thick disc as a function of height above the Galactic plane. The main aim is to study the thick disc in a place where it is the main component of the sample. We take advantage of former astrometric work in two fields of several square degrees in which accurate proper motions were measured down to V-magnitudes of 18.5 in two directions, one near the north galactic pole and the other at a galactic latitude of 46{deg} and galactic longitude near 0{deg}. Spectroscopic observations have been acquired in these two fields for a total of about 400 stars down to magnitude 18.0, at spectral resolutions of 3.5 to 6.25{AA}. The spectra have been analysed with the code ETOILE, comparing the target stellar spectra with a grid of 1400 reference stellar spectra. This comparison allowed us to derive the parameters effective temperature, gravity, [Fe/H] and absolute magnitude for each target star.
6852. Thick Disk Chemical Abundance Distribution
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/109/1095
Title:
Thick Disk Chemical Abundance Distribution
Short Name:
J/AJ/109/1095
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a determination of the thick disk iron abundance distribution obtained from an in situ sample of F/G stars. These stars are faint, 15<=V=<18, selected on the basis of color, being a subset of the larger survey of Gilmore and Wyse designed to determine the properties of the stellar populations several kiloparsecs from the Sun. The fields studied in the present paper probe the iron abundance distribution of the stellar populations of the galaxy at 500-3000pc above the plane, at the solar Galactocentric distance. The derived chemical abundance distributions are consistent with no metallicity gradients in the thick disk over this range of vertical distance, and with an iron abundance distribution for the thick disk that has a peak at -0.7dex. The lack of a vertical gradient argues against slow, dissipational settling as a mechanism for the formation of the thick disk. The photometric and metallicity data support a turn-off of the thick disk that is comparable in age to the metal-rich globular clusters, or >=12Gyr, and are consistent with a spread to older ages.
6853. Third catalog of LAT-detected AGNs (3LAC)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/810/14
Title:
Third catalog of LAT-detected AGNs (3LAC)
Short Name:
J/ApJ/810/14
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected between 100MeV and 300GeV with a Test Statistic greater than 25, between 2008 August 4 and 2012 July 31. The 3LAC includes 1591 AGNs located at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10{deg}), a 71% increase over the second catalog based on 2 years of data. There are 28 duplicate associations, thus 1563 of the 2192 high-latitude gamma-ray sources of the 3FGL catalog are AGNs. Most of them (98%) are blazars. About half of the newly detected blazars are of unknown type, i.e., they lack spectroscopic information of sufficient quality to determine the strength of their emission lines. Based on their gamma-ray spectral properties, these sources are evenly split between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lacs. The most abundant detected BL Lacs are of the high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) type. About 50% of the BL Lacs have no measured redshifts. A few new rare outliers (HSP-FSRQs and high-luminosity HSP BL Lacs) are reported. The general properties of the 3LAC sample confirm previous findings from earlier catalogs. The fraction of 3LAC blazars in the total population of blazars listed in BZCAT remains non-negligible even at the faint ends of the BZCAT-blazar radio, optical, and X-ray flux distributions, which hints that even the faintest known blazars could eventually shine in gamma-rays at LAT-detection levels. The energy-flux distributions of the different blazar populations are in good agreement with extrapolation from earlier catalogs.
6854. Three binary systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/185
Title:
Three binary systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Short Name:
J/AJ/158/185
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the physical properties and apsidal motion elements of three eccentric eclipsing binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The time-series photometric observations were carried out for a total of 41 nights between 2018 November and 2019 February using the KMTNet 1.6 m telescopes installed in South Africa and Australia. The radial velocities of binary components were measured using about 15 spectra per system collected from the ESO Science Archive Facility, which were observed with the Very Large Telescope 8.2 m telescope. The effective temperatures of the more massive binary components were determined to be 19000+/-500 K for OGLE-LMC-ECL-05797, 17000+/-500 K for OGLE-LMC-ECL-05861, and 19000+/-500 K for OGLE-LMC-ECL-06510 by comparing the observed spectra and the stellar atmosphere models obtained from the BOSZ spectral library. The absolute dimensions of each system were derived by analyzing the radial velocity curves together with the light curves obtained from the KMTNet, OGLE, and MACHO observations during about three decades. For the apsidal motion study, new eclipse timings were derived from the KMTNet and survey photometry. The apsidal motion elements of the three binaries were determined from both light curve and eclipse timing analysis. The periods of apsidal motion were 67+/-2 yr for OGLE-LMC-ECL-05797, 124+/-6 yr for OGLE-LMC-ECL-05861, and 39+/-1 yr for OGLE-LMC-ECL-06510 and their internal structure constants (ISCs) were log k_2,obs_=-2.3+/-0.1, -2.4+/-0.1, and -2.1+/-0.1 in the same order. The observed ISCs of OGLE-LMC-ECL-05797 and OGLE-LMC-ECL-05861 showed a good match to the theoretical ISC values, while the value of OGLE- LMC-ECL-06510 was somewhat larger than the theoretical one.
6855. Three O-type binaries photometry in LMC
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/789/139
Title:
Three O-type binaries photometry in LMC
Short Name:
J/ApJ/789/139
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This is the second paper in a series devoted to the study of massive binary systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We mainly aim to provide accurate data that constrains the mass-luminosity relation for the most massive stars but also to address the long lasting problem known as the "mass discrepancy." We present here our results for three binaries (LMC 169782, LMC 171520, and [P93] 921) harboring the earliest O-type components-ranging from O4 V to O6.5 V-among our sample of 17 systems. Our photometry provided accurate periods for the studied systems, allowing the spectroscopic observations to be performed at selected phases where the radial velocity separation between binary components is larger. Following the procedure outlined in our first paper of this series, after solving the radial velocity curves for orbital parameters, we used tomographic reconstruction to obtain the individual spectra of each star, from which we determined effective temperatures via a model atmosphere fitting with FASTWIND. This information, combined with the light-curve analysis that was performed with GENSYN, enabled the determination of absolute masses, radii, and bolometric luminosities that are compared with those predicted by modern stellar evolutionary models finding that they agree within the uncertainties. Nevertheless, the comparison seems to confirm the small differences found in the first paper of this series in the sense that the evolutionary masses are slightly larger than the Keplerian ones, with differences averaging ~10%, or alternatively, the stellar evolutionary models predict luminosities that are somewhat lower than observed. Still, the overall agreement between the current evolutionary models and the empirically determined stellar parameters is remarkable.
6856. Three short-period eclipsing binaries BVRI photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/260
Title:
Three short-period eclipsing binaries BVRI photometry
Short Name:
J/AJ/154/260
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this paper, we present new BVRI light curves of short-period contact eclipsing binaries V1101 Her and AD Phe from our observations carried out from 2014 to 2015 using the SARA KP and SARA CT telescopes. There is an eclipsing binary located at {alpha}(2000)=01h16m36.15s and {delta}(2000)=-39{deg}49'55.7" in the field of view of AD Phe. We derived an updated ephemeris and found there a cyclic variation overlaying a continuous period increase (V1101 Her) and decrease (AD Phe). This kind of cyclic variation may be attributed to the light time effect via the presence of the third body or magnetic activity cycle. The orbital period increase suggests that V1101 Her is undergoing a mass-transfer from the primary to the secondary component (dM_1_/dt=2.64(+/-0.11)x10^-6^ M_{sun}_/yr) with the third body (P3=13.9(+/-1.9) years), or 2.81(+/-0.07)x10^-6^ M_{sun}_/yr for an increase and magnetic cycle (12.4(+/-0.5) years). The long-term period decrease suggests that AD Phe is undergoing a mass-transfer from the secondary component to the primary component at a rate of -8.04(+/-0.09)x10^-8^ M_{sun}_/yr for a period decrease and the third body (P3=56.2(+/-0.8) years), or -7.11(+/-0.04)x10^-8^ M_{sun}_/yr for a decrease and magnetic cycle (50.3(+/-0.5) years). We determined their orbital and geometrical parameters. For AD Phe, we simultaneously analyzed our BVRI light curves and the spectroscopic observations obtained by Duerbeck & Rucinski (2007AJ....133..169D). The spectral type of V1101 Her was classified as G0+/-2V by LAMOST stellar spectra survey. The asymmetry of the R-band light curve of AD Phe obtained by McFarlane & Hilditch in 1987 (1987MNRAS.227..381M) is explained by a cool spot on the primary component.
6857. Three short-period, transiting exoplanets
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/422/1988
Title:
Three short-period, transiting exoplanets
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/422/1988
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the discovery of three extrasolar planets that transit their moderately bright (m_V_=12-13) host stars. WASP-44b is a 0.89-M_Jup_ planet in a 2.42-day orbit around a G8V star. WASP-45b is a 1.03-M_Jup_ planet which passes in front of the limb of its K2V host star every 3.13-days. Weak CaII H&K emission seen in the spectra of WASP-45 suggests that the star is chromospherically active. WASP-46b is a 2.10-M_Jup_ planet in a 1.43-day orbit around a G6V star. Rotational modulation of the light curves of WASP-46 and weak CaII H&K emission in its spectra show the star to be photospherically and chromospherically active.
6858. Three transits of the exoplanet TrES-2
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/664/1185
Title:
Three transits of the exoplanet TrES-2
Short Name:
J/ApJ/664/1185
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Of the nearby transiting exoplanets that are amenable to detailed study, TrES-2 is both the most massive and the one with the largest impact parameter. We present z-band photometry of three transits of TrES-2. We improve on the estimates of the planetary, stellar, and orbital parameters, in conjunction with the spectroscopic analysis of the host star by Sozzetti and coworkers. We find the planetary radius to be Rp=1.222+/-0.038R_Jup_ and the stellar radius to be R*=1.003+/-0.027R_{sun}_. The quoted uncertainties include the systematic error due to the uncertainty in the stellar mass (M*=0.980+/-0.062 M_{sun}_) The timings of the transits have an accuracy of 25s and are consistent with a uniform period, thus providing a baseline for future observations with the NASA Kepler satellite, whose field of view will include TrES-2.
6859. 05 through L3 empirical stellar spectra from SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/230/16
Title:
05 through L3 empirical stellar spectra from SDSS
Short Name:
J/ApJS/230/16
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a library of empirical stellar spectra created using spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. The templates cover spectral types O5 through L3, are binned by metallicity from -2.0dex through +1.0dex, and are separated into main-sequence (dwarf) stars and giant stars. With recently developed M dwarf metallicity indicators, we are able to extend the metallicity bins down through the spectral subtype M8, making this the first empirical library with this degree of temperature and metallicity coverage. The wavelength coverage for the templates is from 3650 to 10200{AA} at a resolution of better than R~2000. Using the templates, we identify trends in color space with metallicity and surface gravity, which will be useful for analyzing large data sets from upcoming missions like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Along with the templates, we are releasing a code for automatically (and/or visually) identifying the spectral type and metallicity of a star.
6860. THYME. IV. 3 Exoplanets around TOI-451 B
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/65
Title:
THYME. IV. 3 Exoplanets around TOI-451 B
Short Name:
J/AJ/161/65
Date:
11 Mar 2022
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Young exoplanets can offer insight into the evolution of planetary atmospheres, compositions, and architectures. We present the discovery of the young planetary system TOI-451 (TIC257605131, GaiaDR24844691297067063424). TOI-451 is a member of the 120Myr old Pisces-Eridanus stream (Psc-Eri). We confirm membership in the stream with its kinematics, its lithium abundance, and the rotation and UV excesses of both TOI451 and its wide-binary companion, TOI-451B (itself likely an M-dwarf binary). We identified three candidate planets transiting in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite data and followed up the signals with photometry from Spitzer and ground-based telescopes. The system comprises three validated planets at periods of 1.9, 9.2, and 16days, with radii of 1.9, 3.1, and 4.1 R, respectively. The host star is near-solar mass with V=11.0 and H=9.3 and displays an infrared excess indicative of a debris disk. The planets offer excellent prospects for transmission spectroscopy with the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, providing the opportunity to study planetary atmospheres that may still be in the process of evolving.