- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/753/125
- Title:
- Near-IR spectroscopy follow-up of 60 SDSS-DR7 QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/753/125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Single-epoch virial black hole (BH) mass estimators utilizing broad emission lines have been routinely applied to high-redshift quasars to estimate their BH masses. Depending on the redshift, different line estimators (H{alpha}, H{beta}, MgII{lambda}2798, CIV{lambda}1549) are often used with optical/near-infrared spectroscopy. Here, we use a homogeneous sample of 60 intermediate-redshift (z~1.5-2.2) Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars with optical and near-infrared spectra covering CIV through H{alpha} to investigate the consistency between different single-epoch virial BH mass estimators.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/450/3490
- Title:
- 15 new brown dwarfs in Orion OB1a/25 Ori group
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/450/3490
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of 15 new brown dwarfs belonging to the ~7Myr old 25 Orionis group and Orion OB1a subassociation with spectral types between M6 and M9 and estimated masses between ~0.07 and ~0.01M_{sun}_. By comparing them through a Bayesian method with low-mass stars (0.8<~M/M_{sun}_ <~0.1) from previous works in the 25 Orionis group, we found statistically significant differences in the number fraction of classical T Tauri stars, Weak T Tauri stars, class II, evolved discs and purely photospheric emitters at both sides of the substellar mass limit. Particularly, we found a fraction of 3.9^+2.4^_-1.6_ percent low-mass stars classified as Classic T Tauri star and class II or evolved discs, against a fraction of 33.3^+10.8^_-9.8_ percent in the substellar mass domain. Our results support the suggested scenario in which the dissipation of discs is less efficient for decreasing mass of the central object.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/15.1671
- Title:
- New carbon stars from LAMOST survey
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/15.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Carbon stars are excellent kinematic tracers of galaxies and can serve as a viable standard candle, so it is worthwhile to automatically search for them in a large amount of spectra. In this paper, we apply the efficient manifold ranking algorithm to search for carbon stars from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) pilot survey, whose performance and robustness are verified comprehensively with four test experiments. Using this algorithm, we find a total of 183 carbon stars, and 158 of them are new findings. According to different spectral features, our carbon stars are classified as 58 C-H stars, 11 C-H star candidates, 56 C-R stars, ten C-R star candidates, 30 C-N stars, three C-N star candidates, and four C-J stars. There are also ten objects which have no spectral type because of low spectral quality, and a composite spectrum consisting of a white dwarf and a carbon star. Applying the support vector machine algorithm, we obtain the linear optimum classification plane in the J-H versus H-Ks color diagram which can be used to distinguish C-H from C-N stars with their J-H and H-Ks colors. In addition, we identify 18 dwarf carbon stars with their relatively high proper motions, and find three carbon stars with FUV detections likely have optical invisible companions by cross matching with data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. In the end, we detect four variable carbon stars with the Northern Sky Variability Survey, the Catalina Sky Survey and the LINEAR variability databases. According to their periods and amplitudes derived by fitting light curves with a sinusoidal function, three of them are likely semiregular variable stars and one is likely a Mira variable star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/741
- Title:
- New close binary systems from the SDSS DR5
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/741
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the latest catalog of more than 1200 spectroscopically selected close binary systems observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey through Data Release Five. We use the catalog to search for magnetic white dwarfs in cataclysmic variable progenitor systems. Given that approximately 25% of cataclysmic variables contain a magnetic white dwarf, and that our large sample of close binary systems should contain many progenitors of cataclysmic variables, it is quite surprising that we find only two potential magnetic white dwarfs in this sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/402/436
- Title:
- New Dwarf novae in SDSS, GALEX and astrom. cat.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/402/436
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- By cross-matching blue objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the astrometric catalogues USNO-B1.0, GSC2.3 and CMC14, 64 new dwarf nova candidates with one or more observed outbursts have been identified. 14 of these systems are confirmed as cataclysmic variables through existing and follow-up spectroscopy. A study of the amplitude distribution and an estimate of the outburst frequency of these new dwarf novae and those discovered by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey indicate that besides systems that are faint because they are farther away, there also exists a population of intrinsically faint dwarf novae with rare outbursts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/206/17
- Title:
- New gamma-ray blazar candidates in the 3PBC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/206/17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We searched for {gamma}-ray blazar candidates among the 382 unidentified hard X-ray sources of the third Palermo BAT Catalog (3PBC) obtained from the analysis of 66 months of Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) survey data and listing 1586 sources. We adopted a recently developed association method based on the peculiar infrared colors that characterize the {gamma}-ray blazars included in the second catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We used this method exploiting the data of the all-sky survey performed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to establish correspondences between unidentified 3PBC sources and WISE {gamma}-ray blazar candidates located within the BAT positional uncertainty region at a 99% confidence level. We obtained a preliminary list of candidates for which we analyzed all the available data in the Swift archive to complement the information in the literature and in the radio, infrared, and optical catalogs with the information on their optical-UV and soft X-ray emission. Requiring the presence of radio and soft X-ray counterparts consistent with the infrared positions of the selected WISE sources, as well as a blazar-like radio morphology, we finally obtained a list of 24 {gamma}-ray blazar candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/457/3396
- Title:
- New hot subdwarf stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/457/3396
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent massive sky surveys in different bandwidths are providing new opportunities to modern astronomy. The Virtual Observatory (VO) represents the adequate framework to handle the huge amount of information available and filter out data according to specific requirements. In this work, we applied a selection strategy to find new, uncatalogued hot subdwarfs making use of VO tools. We used large area catalogues like GALEX, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), SuperCosmos and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) to retrieve photometric and astrometric information of stellar objects. To these objects, we applied colour and proper motion filters, together with an effective temperature cutoff, aimed at separating hot subdwarfs from other blue objects such as white dwarfs, cataclysmic variables or main-sequence OB stars. As a result, we obtained 437 new, uncatalogued hot subdwarf candidates. Based on previous results, we expect our procedure to have an overall efficiency of at least 80 per cent. Visual inspection of the 68 candidates with SDSS spectrum showed that 65 can be classified as hot subdwarfs: 5 sdOs, 25 sdOBs and 35 sdBs. This success rate above 95 per cent proves the robustness and efficiency of our methodology. The spectral energy distribution of 45 per cent of the subdwarf candidates showed infrared excesses, a signature of their probable binary nature. The stellar companions of the binary systems so detected are expected to be late-type main-sequence stars. A detailed determination of temperatures and spectral classification of the cool companions will be presented in a forthcoming work.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/2722
- Title:
- New L and T dwarfs from the SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/2722
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present near-infrared observations of 71 newly discovered L and T dwarfs, selected from imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using the i-dropout technique. Sixty-five of these dwarfs have been classified spectroscopically according to the near-infrared L dwarf classification scheme of Geballe et al. (2002ApJ...564..466G) and the unified T dwarf classification scheme of Burgasser et al. (2006, Cat. <J/ApJ/637/1067>). The spectral types of these dwarfs range from L3 to T7 and include the latest types yet found in the SDSS. Six of the newly identified dwarfs are classified as early to mid-L dwarfs according to their photometric near-infrared colors, and two others are classified photometrically as M dwarfs. We also present new near-infrared spectra for five previously published SDSS L and T dwarfs, and one L dwarf and one T dwarf discovered by Burgasser et al. (2006, Cat. <J/ApJ/637/1067>) from the Two Micron All Sky Survey. The new SDSS sample includes 27 T dwarfs and 30 dwarfs with spectral types spanning the complex L-T transition (L7-T3).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/807/178
- Title:
- Newly rich galaxy clusters identified in SDSS-DR12
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/807/178
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Accurately determining the mass of galaxy clusters is fundamental for many studies of cosmology and galaxy evolution. We collect and rescale the cluster masses of 1191 clusters of 0.05<z<0.75 estimated by X-ray or Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements and use them to calibrate the optical mass proxy. The total r-band luminosity (in units of L*) of these clusters is obtained by using spectroscopic and photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the correlation between the cluster mass M_500_ and total r-band luminosity L_500_ significantly evolves with redshift. After correcting for the evolution, we define a new cluster richness R_L*,500_=L_500_E(z)^1.40^ as the optical mass proxy. By using this newly defined richness and the recently released SDSS DR12 spectroscopic data, we update the WHL12 (Wen et al. 2012, J/ApJS/199/34) cluster catalog and identify 25419 new rich clusters at high redshift. In the SDSS spectroscopic survey region, about 89% of galaxy clusters have spectroscopic redshifts. The mass can be estimated with a scatter of 0.17dex for the clusters in the updated catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/450/3855
- Title:
- New OB star candidates in Carina Arm
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/450/3855
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- O and early B stars are at the apex of galactic ecology, but in the Milky Way, only a minority of them may yet have been identified. We present the results of a pilot study to select and parametrize OB star candidates in the Southern Galactic plane, down to a limiting magnitude of g=20. A 2 deg^2^ field capturing the Carina Arm around the young massive star cluster, Westerlund 2, is examined. The confirmed OB stars in this cluster are used to validate our identification method, based on selection from the (u-g, g-r) diagram for the region. Our Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting method combines VPHAS+ u, g, r, i with published J, H, K photometry in order to derive posterior probability distributions of the stellar parameters log(Teff) and distance modulus, together with the reddening parameters A_0_ and R_V_. The stellar parameters are sufficient to confirm OB status while the reddening parameters are determined to a precision of {sigma}(A_0_)~0.09 and {sigma}(R_V_)~0.08. There are 489 objects that fit well as new OB candidates, earlier than ~ B2. This total includes 74 probable massive O stars, 5 likely blue supergiants and 32 reddened subdwarfs. This increases the number of previously known and candidate OB stars in the region by nearly a factor of 10. Most of the new objects are likely to be at distances between 3 and 6 kpc. We have confirmed the results of previous studies that, at these longer distances, these sight lines require non-standard reddening laws with 3.5<R_V_<4.
