- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/413/2218
- Title:
- Stellar rotation in Hyades and Praesepe
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/413/2218
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of photometric surveys for stellar rotation in the Hyades and in Praesepe, using data obtained as part of the SuperWASP exoplanetary transit-search programme. We determined accurate rotation periods for more than 120 sources whose cluster membership was confirmed by common proper motion and colour-magnitude fits to the clusters' isochrones. This allowed us to determine the effect of magnetic braking on a wide range of spectral types for expected ages of ~600Myr for the Hyades and Praesepe. Both clusters show a tight and nearly linear relation between J-Ks colour and rotation period in the F, G and K spectral range. This confirms that loss of angular momentum was significant enough that stars with strongly different initial rotation rates have converged to the same rotation period for a given mass, by the ages of Hyades and Praesepe.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/143/409
- Title:
- Stock 2 CCD photometry and proper motions
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/143/409
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the first CCD BVRI photometric and proper motion study of late-type stars in the young open cluster Stock 2. Twenty-one fields of approximately 5'x5' size have been observed photometrically, from which we have identified 118 candidate members based on their positions on colour-magnitude diagrams relative to theoretical isochrones. From a comparison of the known star density of the Pleiades, we estimate the contamination of this selection process due to background stars to be as large as ~50%. However, only 22 of those 118 candidate members have proper motions consistent with membership, suggesting that the contamination is of the order of 80%. Additional candidate members were found by means of a proper motion analysis of Schmidt plate material for a 3{deg}x3{ deg} field containing the cluster. The cluster proper motion allows us to separate members from background and foreground stars. We have found 634 stars with a membership probability >=50% down to a limiting magnitude of B=~20, corresponding to late-M dwarfs at the distance of Stock 2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/659/A59
- Title:
- Structural parameters of 389 local open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/659/A59
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2022 05:56:37
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The distribution of member stars in the surroundings of an Open Cluster (OC) can shed light on the process of its formation, evolution and dissolution. The analysis of structural parameters of OCs as a function of their age and position in the Galaxy brings constraints on theoretical models of cluster evolution. The Gaia catalogue is very appropriate to find members of OCs at large distance from their centers. We aim at revisiting the membership lists of OCs from the solar vicinity, in particular by extending these membership lists to the peripheral areas thanks to Gaia EDR3. We then take advantage of these new lists of members to study the morphological properties and the mass segregation levels of the clusters. We used the clustering algorithm HDBSCAN on Gaia parallaxes and proper motions to systematically look for members up to 50pc from the cluster centers. We fitted a King's function on the radial density profile of these clusters and a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) on their two dimensional distribution of members to study their shape. We also evaluated the degree of mass segregation of the clusters and the correlations of these parameters with the age and Galactic position of the clusters. Our methodology performs well on 389 clusters out of the 467 selected ones, including several recently discovered clusters that were poorly studied until now. We report the detection of vast coronae around almost all the clusters and report the detection of 71 OCs with tidal tails, multiplying by more than four the number of such structures identified. We find the size of the cores to be on average smaller for old clusters than for young ones. Also, the overall size of the clusters seems to slightly increase with age while the fraction of stars in the halo seems to decrease. As expected the mass segregation is more pronounced in the oldest clusters but a clear trend with age is not seen. OCs are more extended than previously expected, regardless of their age. The decrease in the proportion of stars populating the clusters halos highlights the different cluster evaporation processes and the short timescales they need to affect the clusters. Reported parameters like cluster sizes or mass segregation levels all depend on cluster ages but can not be described as single functions of time.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/477/L50
- Title:
- Structure of the Upper Scorpius association
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/477/L50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using new proper motion data from recently published catalogs, we revisit the membership of previously identified members of the Upper Scorpius association. We confirmed 750 of them as cluster members based on the convergent point method, compute their kinematic parallaxes and combined them with Gaia parallaxes to investigate the 3D structure and geometry of the association using a robust covariance method. We find a mean distance of 146+/-3+/-6pc and show that the morphology of the association defined by the brightest (and most massive) stars yields a prolate ellipsoid with dimensions of 74x38x32pc^3^, while the faintest cluster members define a more elongated structure with dimensions of 98x24x18pc^3^. We suggest that the different properties of both populations is an imprint of the star formation history in this region.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ChJAA/8.385
- Title:
- Superluminal motion in AGN
- Short Name:
- J/other/ChJAA/8.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have collected an up-to-date sample of 123 superluminal sources (84 quasars, 27 BL Lac objects and 12 galaxies) and calculated the apparent velocities ({beta}_app_) for 224 components in the sources with the {Lambda}-CDM model. We checked the relationships between their proper motions, redshifts, {beta}_app_ and 5GHz flux densities. Our analysis shows that the radio emission is strongly boosted by the Doppler effect. The superluminal motion and the relativistic beaming boosting effect are, to some extent, the same in active galactic nuclei.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/430/467
- Title:
- Superluminal motions for extragalactic sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/430/467
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Table 1 lists the 66 extragalactic sources for which we have been able to find multiepoch VLBI internal proper motion observations in the literature, or for which we are currently preparing a paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/66
- Title:
- SUPERWIDE: wide binaries in Gaia & SUPERBLINK
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 99203 wide binary systems, initially identified as common proper motion (CPM) pairs from a subset of ~5.2million stars with proper motions {mu}>40mas/yr, selected from Gaia data release 2 (DR2, I/345) and the SUPERBLINK high proper motion catalog (Lepine 2005, J/AJ/130/1247 and Lepine & Gaidos 2011, J/AJ/142/138). CPM pairs are found by searching for pairs of stars with angular separations <1{deg} and proper motion differences {Delta}{mu}<40mas/yr. A Bayesian analysis is then applied in two steps. In a first pass, we use proper motion differences and angular separations to distinguish between real binaries and chance alignments. In a second pass, we use parallax data from Gaia DR2 to refine our Bayesian probability estimates. We present a table of 119390 pairs which went through the full analysis, 99203 of which have probabilities >95% of being real wide binaries. Of those 99203 high-probability pairs, we estimate that only about 364 pairs are most likely to be false positives. In addition, we identify 57506 pairs that have probabilities greater than 10% from the first pass but have high parallax errors and therefore were not vetted in the second pass. We examine the projected physical separation distribution of our highest probability pairs and note that the distribution is a simple exponential tail and shows no evidence of being bimodal. Among pairs with lower probability, wide binaries are detected at larger separations (>10^4^-10^5^au), consistent with the very wide population suggested in previous studies; however, our analysis suggests that these do not represent a distinct population, but instead represent either the exponential tail of the "normal" wide binary distribution or are simply chance alignments of unrelated field stars. We examine the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of this set of high-probability wide binaries and find evidence for 980 overluminous components among 2227 K+K wide binaries; assuming these represent unresolved subsystems, we determine that the higher-order multiplicity fraction for K+K wide systems is at least 39.6%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/181/62
- Title:
- Survey of young solar analogs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/181/62
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from an adaptive optics survey for substellar and stellar companions to Sun-like stars. The survey targeted 266 F5-K5 stars in the 3Myr-3Gyr age range with distances of 10-190pc. Results from the survey include the discovery of two brown dwarf companions (HD 49197B and HD 203030B), 24 new stellar binaries, and a triple system. We infer that the frequency of 0.012-0.072M_{sun}_ brown dwarfs in 28-1590AU orbits around young solar analogs is 3.2^+3.1^_-2.7_% (2{sigma} limits). The result demonstrates that the deficiency of substellar companions at wide orbital separations from Sun-like stars is less pronounced than in the radial velocity "brown dwarf desert." We infer that the mass distribution of companions in 28-1590AU orbits around solar-mass stars follows a continuous dN/dM_2_{prop.to}M^-0.4^_2_ relation over the 0.01-1.0M_{sun}_ secondary mass range. While this functional form is similar to that for isolated objects less than 0.1M_{sun}_, over the entire 0.01-1.0M_{sun}_ range, the mass functions of companions and of isolated objects differ significantly. Based on this conclusion and on similar results from other direct imaging and radial velocity companion surveys in the literature, we argue that the companion mass function follows the same universal form over the entire range between 0 and 1590AU in orbital semimajor axis and ~0.01-20M_{sun}_ in companion mass. In this context, the relative dearth of substellar versus stellar secondaries at all orbital separations arises naturally from the inferred form of the companion mass function.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/86A
- Title:
- Sydney Southern Star Catalogue
- Short Name:
- I/86A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue principally covers the range between -51deg. and -63.5 deg and contains positions and proper motions for 29,926 stars. 3244 faint Astrographic stars were added to supplement the stars at fainter magnitudes. Positions in standard form (hours, minutes, and seconds of time for the right ascensions and degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc for the declinations) have been added to the machine readable version of this catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/54
- Title:
- TBOSS Survey. II. ALMA continuum observations
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/54
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report 885 {mu}m ALMA continuum flux densities for 24 Taurus members spanning the stellar/substellar boundary with spectral types from M4 to M7.75. Of the 24 systems, 22 are detected at levels ranging from 1.0 to 55.7 mJy. The two nondetections are transition disks, though other transition disks in the sample are detected. Converting ALMA continuum measurements to masses using standard scaling laws and radiative transfer modeling yields dust mass estimates ranging from ~0.3 to 20 M_{Earth}_. The dust mass shows a declining trend with central object mass when combined with results from submillimeter surveys of more massive Taurus members. The substellar disks appear as part of a continuous sequence and not a distinct population. Compared to older Upper Sco members with similar masses across the substellar limit, the Taurus disks are brighter and more massive. Both Taurus and Upper Sco populations are consistent with an approximately linear relationship in M_dust_ to M_star_, although derived power-law slopes depend strongly upon choices of stellar evolutionary model and dust temperature relation. The median disk around early-M stars in Taurus contains a comparable amount of mass in small solids as the average amount of heavy elements in Kepler planetary systems on short-period orbits around M-dwarf stars, with an order of magnitude spread in disk dust mass about the median value. Assuming a gas-to-dust ratio of 100:1, only a small number of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs have a total disk mass amenable to giant planet formation, consistent with the low frequency of giant planets orbiting M dwarfs.