- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/721/1829
- Title:
- High-precision transits of OGLE-TR-113b
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/721/1829
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present six new transits of the hot Jupiter OGLE-TR-113b observed with MagIC on the Magellan Telescopes between 2007 January and 2009 May. We update the system parameters and revise the planetary radius to R_p_=1.084+/-0.029R_J_, where the error is dominated by stellar radius uncertainties. The new transit midtimes reveal no transit timing variations from a constant ephemeris of greater than 13+/-28s over two years, placing an upper limit of 1-2M_{earth}_ on the mass of any perturber in a 1:2 or 2:1 mean-motion resonance with OGLE-TR-113b. Combining the new transit epochs with five epochs published between 2002 and 2006, we find hints that the orbital period of the planet may not be constant, with the best fit indicating a decrease of dP/dt=-60+/-15ms/yr. If real, this change in period could result from either a long-period (more than eight years) timing variation due to a massive external perturber or more intriguingly from the orbital decay of the planet. The detection of a changing period is still tentative and requires additional observations, but if confirmed it would enable direct tests of tidal stability and dynamical models of close-in planets.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/568/A46
- Title:
- High redshift cosmic web with quasar systems
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/568/A46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To understand the formation, evolution, and present-day properties of the cosmic web we need to study it at low and high redshifts. We trace the cosmic web at redshifts 1.0<z<1.8 using the quasar (QSO) data from in the SDSS DR7 QSO catalogue. We apply a friend-of-friend (FoF) algorithm to the quasar and random catalogues to determine systems at a series of linking length, and analyse richness and sizes of these systems. At the linking lengths l<=30Mpc/h, the number of quasar systems is larger than the number of systems detected in random catalogues, and the systems themselves have smaller diameters than random systems. The diameters of quasar systems are comparable to the sizes of poor galaxy superclusters in the local Universe. The richest quasar systems have four members. The mean space density of quasar systems is close to the mean space density of local rich superclusters. At intermediate linking lengths (40<=l<=70Mpc/h), the richness and length of quasar systems are similar to those derived from random catalogues. Quasar system diameters are similar to the sizes of rich superclusters and supercluster chains in the local Universe. The percolating system, which penetrate the whole sample volume appears in a quasar sample at a smaller linking length than in random samples (85Mpc/h). At the linking length 70Mpc/h, the richest systems of quasars have diameters exceeding 500Mpc. Quasar luminosities in systems are not correlated with the system richness. Quasar system catalogues in our web pages and at the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS) serve as a database for searching for superclusters of galaxies and for tracing the cosmic web at high redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/675/49
- Title:
- High-redshift QSOs in the SWIRE survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/675/49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use a simple optical/infrared (IR) photometric selection of high-redshift QSOs that identifies a Lyman break in the optical photometry and requires a red IR color to distinguish QSOs from common interlopers. The search yields 100 z~3 (U-dropout) QSO candidates with 19<r'<22 over 11.7deg^2^ in the ELAIS-N1 (EN1) and ELAIS-N2 (EN2) fields of the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) Legacy Survey. The z~3 selection is reliable, with spectroscopic follow-up of 10 candidates confirming that they are all QSOs at 2.83<z<3.44. We find that our z~4 (g'-dropout) sample suffers from both unreliability and incompleteness but present seven previously unidentified QSOs at 3.50<z<3.89.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/139/315
- Title:
- HI-selected galaxies in SDSS. Optical data
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/139/315
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the optical data for 195 HI-selected galaxies that fall within both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Parkes Equatorial Survey (ES). The photometric quantities have been independently recomputed for our sample using a new photometric pipeline optimized for large galaxies, thus correcting for SDSS's limited reliability for automatic photometry of angularly large or low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/623/A127
- Title:
- Homogeneous sample of 34000 M7-M9.5 dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/623/A127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The space density of late M dwarfs, sub-types M7 to M9.5, is not well determined. We have applied the photo-type method of Skrzypek et al. to iz photometry from SDSS and YJHK photometry from UKIDSS, over an effective area of 3070deg^2^, to produce a new, bright J(Vega)<17.5, homogeneous sample of 33665 M7 to M9.5 dwarfs. The typical S/N of each source summed over the 6 bands is >100. Classifications are provided to the nearest half spectral sub-type. Through comparison with the classifications in the BUD spectroscopic sample of Schmidt et al. (2010, Cat. J/AJ/139/1808), the typing is shown to be accurately calibrated to the BUD classifications, with a precision better than 0.5 sub-types rms, i.e. is as precise as good spectroscopic classification. Sources with large chisq>20 include several catalogued late-type subdwarfs. The new sample of late M dwarfs is highly complete, but there is a bias in the classification of rare peculiar blue or red objects. For example L subdwarfs are misclassified towards earlier types by approximately two spectral sub-types. We estimate that this bias affects only ~1% of sources. Therefore the sample is well suited for measuring the luminosity function, as well as investigating the softening towards the Galactic plane of the exponential variation of density with height.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/685/235
- Title:
- Host and companion galaxies in the SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/685/235
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measure the number of companions per galaxy (N_c_) as a function of r-band absolute magnitude for both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (DR5) and the Croton and coworkers semianalytic catalog, 2006MNRAS.365...11C, applied to the Millennium Run simulation (Springel et al., 2005Natur.435..629S). For close pairs with projected separations of 5-20kpc/h, velocity differences less than 500km/s, and luminosity ratios between 1:2 and 2:1, we find good agreement between the observations and simulations, with N_c_ consistently close to 0.02 over the range -22<M_r_<-18. For larger pair separations, N_c_(M_r_) instead becomes increasingly steep toward the faint end, implying that luminosity-dependent clustering plays an important role on small scales. Using the simulations to assess and correct for projection effects, we infer that the real-space N_c_(M_r_) for close pairs peaks at about M^*^ and declines by at least a factor of 2 as M_r_ becomes fainter. Conversely, by measuring the number density of close companions, we estimate that at least 90% of all major mergers occur between galaxies which are fainter than L^*^. Finally, measurements of the luminosity density of close companions indicate that L^*^ galaxies likely dominate in terms of the overall importance of major mergers in the evolution of galaxy populations at low redshift.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/830/13
- Title:
- Host-galaxy NUV-NIR data of 32 superluminous SNe
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/830/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the host galaxies of all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory prior to 2013 and derive measurements of their luminosities, star formation rates, stellar masses, and gas-phase metallicities. We find that Type I (hydrogen-poor) SLSNe (SLSNe I) are found almost exclusively in low-mass (M_*_<2x10^9^M_{sun}_) and metal-poor (12+log_10_[O/H]<8.4) galaxies. We compare the mass and metallicity distributions of our sample to nearby galaxy catalogs in detail and conclude that the rate of SLSNe I as a fraction of all SNe is heavily suppressed in galaxies with metallicities >~0.5Z_{sun}_. Extremely low metallicities are not required and indeed provide no further increase in the relative SLSN rate. Several SLSN I hosts are undergoing vigorous starbursts, but this may simply be a side effect of metallicity dependence: dwarf galaxies tend to have bursty star formation histories. Type II (hydrogen-rich) SLSNe (SLSNe II) are found over the entire range of galaxy masses and metallicities, and their integrated properties do not suggest a strong preference for (or against) low-mass/low-metallicity galaxies. Two hosts exhibit unusual properties: PTF 10uhf is an SLSN I in a massive, luminous infrared galaxy at redshift z=0.29, while PTF 10tpz is an SLSN II located in the nucleus of an early-type host at z=0.04.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/248/31
- Title:
- HST & Chandra obs. of elliptical galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/248/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate X-ray binary (XRB) luminosity function (XLF) scaling relations for Chandra-detected populations of low-mass XRBs (LMXBs) within the footprints of 24 early-type galaxies. Our sample includes Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope observed galaxies at D<~25Mpc that have estimates of the globular cluster (GC) specific frequency (S_N_) reported in the literature. As such, we are able to directly classify X-ray-detected sources as being coincident with unrelated background/foreground objects, GCs, or sources that are within the fields of the galaxy targets. We model the GC and field LMXB population XLFs for all galaxies separately and then construct global models characterizing how the LMXB XLFs vary with galaxy stellar mass and S_N_. We find that our field LMXB XLF models require a component that scales with S_N_ and has a shape consistent with that found for the GC LMXB XLF. We take this to indicate that GCs are "seeding" the galactic field LMXB population, through the ejection of GC LMXBs and/or the diffusion of the GCs in the galactic fields themselves. However, we also find that an important LMXB XLF component is required for all galaxies that scales with stellar mass, implying that a substantial population of LMXBs are formed "in situ," which dominates the LMXB population emission for galaxies with S_N_<~2. For the first time, we provide a framework quantifying how directly associated GC LMXBs, GC-seeded LMXBs, and in situ LMXBs contribute to LMXB XLFs in the broader early-type galaxy population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/195/16
- Title:
- HST survey for Lyman limit systems. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/195/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a set of 71 quasars observed in the near ultraviolet with the PR200L prism on the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the G280 grism on the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The quasars were selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data to search for intervening Lyman limit system (LLS) absorption. The sample was subjected to the constraints that the quasars have AB magnitude g'<18.5, quasar emission redshift 2.3<z_em_<2.6, and lack strong BAL or z~z_em_ absorption. The median emission redshift of the sample is {bar}z=2.403. The data were all processed using custom data reduction pipelines, and the one-dimensional spectra have sufficient signal-to-noise ratio and resolution to easily identify absorption from LLS over the redshift range 1.2<z<2.5. The WFC3 data presented here are the first non-calibration spectra from the G280 grism.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/137
- Title:
- HST survey for Lyman limit systems. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/137
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first science results from our Hubble Space Telescope survey for Lyman limit absorption systems (LLS) using the low dispersion spectroscopic modes of the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3. Through an analysis of 71 quasars, we determine the incidence frequency of LLS per unit redshift and per unit path length, l(z) and l(X), respectively, over the redshift range 1<z<2.6, and find a weighted mean of l(X)=0.29+/-0.05 for 2.0<z<2.5 through a joint analysis of our sample and that of Ribaudo et al. (2011, J/ApJ/736/42). Through stacked spectrum analysis, we determine a median (mean) value of the mean free path to ionizing radiation at z=2.4 of {lambda}^912^_mfp_=243(252)h^-1^_72_Mpc, with an error on the mean value of +/-43h^-1^_72_Mpc. We also re-evaluate the estimates of {lambda}^912^_mfp_ from Prochaska et al. (2010, J/ApJ/718/392) and place constraints on the evolution of {lambda}^912^_mfp_ with redshift, including an estimate of the "breakthrough" redshift of z=1.6. Consistent with results at higher z, we find that a significant fraction of the opacity for absorption of ionizing photons comes from systems with N_HI_<=10^17.5^cm^-2^ with a value for the total Lyman opacity of {tau}^Lyman^_eff_=0.40+/-0.15. Finally, we determine that at minimum, a 5-parameter (4 power law) model is needed to describe the column density distribution function f(N_HI_,X) at z~2.4, find that f(N_HI_,X) undergoes no significant change in shape between z~2.4 and z~3.7, and provide our best fit model for f(N_HI_,X).
