- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/405/1711
- Title:
- VRIg'i' photometry of 7 M15 giants
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/405/1711
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a search for long-period variable (LPV) stars among giant branch stars in M15 which, at [Fe/H]~-2.3, is one of the most metal-poor Galactic globular clusters. We use multicolour optical photometry from the 0.6-m Keele Thornton and 2-m Liverpool Telescopes. Variability of {delta}V~0.15mag is detected in K757 and K825 over unusually long time-scales of nearly a year, making them the most metal-poor LPVs found in a Galactic globular cluster. K825 is placed on the long secondary period sequence, identified for metal-rich LPVs, though no primary period is detectable. We discuss this variability in the context of dust production and stellar evolution at low metallicity, using additional spectra from the 6.5-m Magellan (Las Campanas) telescope. A lack of dust production, despite the presence of gaseous mass loss raises questions about the production of dust and the intracluster medium of this cluster.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/621
- Title:
- VST ATLAS white dwarf candidates cat.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/621
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has created a knowledge gap between the Northern and the Southern hemispheres, which is very marked for white dwarfs: Only ~15 per cent of the known white dwarfs are south of the equator. Here, we make use of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS survey, one of the first surveys obtaining deep, optical, multiband photometry over a large area of the southern skies, to remedy this situation. Applying the colour and proper-motion selection developed in our previous work on SDSS to the most recent internal data release (2016 April 25) of VST ATLAS, we created a catalogue of ~4200 moderately bright (g<=19), high-confidence southern white dwarf candidates, which can be followed up individually with both the large array of southern telescopes or in bulk with ESO's forthcoming multi-object spectrograph 4MOST.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/464/1247
- Title:
- VVV high proper motion stars. I. Ks<=13.5 stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/464/1247
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Knowledge of the stellar content near the Sun is important for a broad range of topics ranging from the search for planets to the study of Milky Way (MW) structure. The most powerful method for identifying potentially nearby stars is proper motion (PM) surveys. All old optical surveys avoid, or are at least substantially incomplete, near the Galactic plane. The depth and breadth of the 'VISTA Variables in Via Lactea' (VVV) near-IR survey significantly improves this situation. Taking advantage of the VVV survey data base, we have measured PMs in the densest regions of the MW bulge and southern plane in order to complete the census of nearby objects. We have developed a custom PM pipeline based on VVV catalogues from the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit, by comparing the first epoch of JHKs with the multi-epoch Ks bands acquired later. Taking advantage of the large time baseline between the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the VVV observations, we also obtained 2MASS-VVV PMs. We present a near-IR PM catalogue for the whole area of the VVV survey, which includes 3003 moving stellar sources. All of these have been visually inspected and are real PM objects. Our catalogue is in very good agreement with the PM data supplied in IR catalogues outside the densest zone of the MW. The majority of the PM objects in our catalogue are nearby M-dwarfs, as expected. This new data base allows us to identify 57 common PM binary candidates, among which are two new systems within 30 pcof the Sun.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/630/A89
- Title:
- WASP-12b and WASP-43b griz light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/630/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The TESS and PLATO missions are expected to find vast numbers of new transiting planet candidates. However, only a fraction of these candidates will be legitimate planets, and the candidate validation will require a significant amount of follow-up resources. Radial velocity (RV) follow-up study can be carried out only for the most promising candidates around bright, slowly rotating, stars. Thus, before devoting RV resources to candidates, they need to be vetted using cheaper methods, and, in the cases for which an RV confirmation is not feasible, the candidate's true nature needs to be determined based on these alternative methods alone. We study the applicability of multicolour transit photometry in the validation of transiting planet candidates when the candidate signal arises from a real astrophysical source (transiting planet, eclipsing binary, etc.), and not from an instrumental artefact. Particularly, we aim to answer how securely we can estimate the true uncontaminated star-planet radius ratio when the light curve may contain contamination from unresolved light sources inside the photometry aperture when combining multicolour transit observations with a physics-based contamination model in a Bayesian parameter estimation setting. More generally, we study how the contamination level, colour differences between the planet host and contaminant stars, transit signal-to-noise ratio, and available prior information affect the contamination and true radius ratio estimates. The study is based on simulations and ground-based multicolour transit observations. The contamination analyses were carried out with a contamination model integrated into the PYTRANSIT V2 transit modelling package, and the observations were carried out with the MuSCAT2 multicolour imager installed in the 1.5m Telescopio Carlos Sanchez in the Teide Observatory, in Tenerife. We show that multicolour transit photometry can be used to estimate the amount of flux contamination and the true radius ratio. Combining the true radius ratio with an estimate for the stellar radius yields the true absolute radius of the transiting object, which is a valuable quantity in statistical candidate validation, and enough in itself to validate a candidate whose radius falls below the theoretical lower limit for a brown dwarf.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/539/A159
- Title:
- WASP-4b transit griz light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/539/A159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Ground-based simultaneous multiband transit observations allow an accurate system parameter determination and may lead to the detection and characterization of additional bodies via the transit timing variations (TTVs) method. We aim to (i) characterize the heavily bloated WASP-4b hot Jupiter and its star by measuring system parameters and the dependence of the planetary radius as a function of four (Sloan g', r', i', z') wavelengths and (ii) search for TTVs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/2932
- Title:
- WASP-44 griz light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/2932
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ground-based broad-band photometry of two transits in the WASP-44 planetary system obtained simultaneously through four optical (Sloan g', r', i', z') and three near-infrared (NIR; J, H, K) filters. We achieved low scatters of 1-2mmag per observation in the optical bands with a cadence of roughly 48s, but the NIR-band light curves present much greater scatter. We also observed another transit of WASP-44 b by using a Gunn r filter and telescope defocussing, with a scatter of 0.37 mmag per point and an observing cadence around 135 s. We used these data to improve measurements of the time of mid- transit and the physical properties of the system. In particular, we improved the radius measurements of the star and planet by factors of 3 and 4, respectively. We find that the radius of WASP-44 b is 1.002+/-0.033+/-0.018RJup (statistical and systematic errors, respectively), which is slightly smaller than previously thought and differs from that expected for a core-free planet. In addition, with the help of a synthetic spectrum, we investigated the theoretically predicted variation of the planetary radius as a function of wavelength, covering the range 370-2440nm. We can rule out extreme variations at optical wavelengths, but unfortunately our data are not precise enough (especially in the NIR bands) to differentiate between the theoretical spectrum and a radius which does not change with wavelength. The resulting measurements of transit mid-points were fitted with a straight line to obtain a new orbital ephemeris: T0=BJD(TDB)2455434.37642(37)+2.4238133(23)xE, where E is the number of orbital cycles after the reference epoch [the mid-point of the first transit observed by Anderson et al. (2012, Cat. J/MNRAS/422/1988)] and quantities in parentheses denote the uncertainty in the final digit of the preceding number.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/462/2506
- Title:
- White dwarf candidates in DECam first field
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/462/2506
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from a minute cadence survey of a 3deg^2^ field obtained with the Dark Energy Camera. We imaged part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey area over eight half-nights. We use the stacked images to identify 111 high proper motion white dwarf candidates with g<=24.5mag and search for eclipse-like events and other sources of variability. We find a new g=20.64mag pulsating ZZ Ceti star with pulsation periods of 11-13min. However, we do not find any transiting planetary companions in the habitable zone of our target white dwarfs. Given the probability of eclipses of 1 per cent and our observing window from the ground, the non-detection of such companions in this first field is not surprising. Minute cadence DECam observations of additional fields will provide stringent constraints on the frequency of planets in the white dwarf habitable zone.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/2260
- Title:
- White dwarf candidates in SDSS DR10
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/2260
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a method which uses cuts in colour-colour and reduced proper motion-colour space to select white dwarfs without the recourse to spectroscopy while allowing an adjustable compromise between completeness and efficiency. Rather than just producing a list of white dwarf candidates, our method calculates a probability of being a white dwarf (P_WD_) for any object with available multiband photometry and proper motion. We applied this method to all objects in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 10 (DR10) photometric footprint and to a few selected sources in DR7 which did not have reliable photometry in DR9 or DR10. This application results in a sample of 61 969 DR10 and 3799 DR7 photometric sources with calculated P_WD_ from which it is possible to select a sample of ~23000 high-fidelity white dwarf candidates with T_eff_>~7000K and g<=19. This sample contains over 14000 high confidence white dwarfs candidates which have not yet received spectroscopic follow-up. These numbers show that, to date, the spectroscopic coverage of white dwarfs in the SDSS photometric footprint is, on average, only ~40 percent complete. While we describe here in detail the application of our selection to the SDSS catalogue, the same method could easily be applied to other multicolour, large area surveys. We also publish a list of 8701 bright (g<=19) white dwarfs with SDSS spectroscopy, of which 1781 are new identifications in DR9/DR10.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/452/765
- Title:
- White dwarf candidates using LAMOST DR3
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/452/765
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In previous work by Gentile Fusillo et al., we developed a selection method for white dwarf candidates which makes use of photometry, colours and proper motions to calculate a probability of being a white dwarf (P_WD_). The application of our method to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 10 resulted in =~ 66000 photometrically selected objects with a derived P_WD_, approximately =~21000 of which are high-confidence white dwarf candidates. Here, we present an independent test of our selection method based on a sample of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Large Sky Area Multi-Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) survey. We do this by cross-matching all our =~66000 SDSS photometric white dwarf candidates with the over 4 million spectra available in the third data release of LAMOST. This results in 1673 white dwarf candidates with no previous SDSS spectroscopy, but with available LAMOST spectra. Among these objects, we identify 309 genuine white dwarfs. We find that our P_WD_ can efficiently discriminate between confirmed LAMOST white dwarfs and contaminants. Our white dwarf candidate selection method can be applied to any multiband photometric survey and in this work we conclusively confirm its reliability in selecting white dwarfs without recourse to spectroscopy. We also discuss the spectroscopic completeness of white dwarfs in LAMOST, as well as deriving effective temperatures, surface gravities and masses for the hydrogen-rich atmosphere white dwarfs in the newly identified LAMOST sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/445/1331
- Title:
- White-dwarf + main-sequence binaries in SDSS DR9
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/445/1331
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have identified 227 new spectroscopic white-dwarf + main-sequence (WDMS) binaries from the ninth data release (DR9) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The SDSS spectra of the newly found WDMS binaries with a DA white dwarf and an M-dwarf are analysed based on a spectral decomposition/fitting method. We obtain the effective temperatures, surface gravities and masses of the white dwarf, together with the spectral types and metallicities of the secondary star. Two independent distance estimates are derived from the flux-scaling factors between the WDMS SDSS spectra and the white dwarf and M-dwarf model spectra. We find that about 25 per cent of the newly found WDMS binaries show a significant discrepancy between the two distance estimates. This might be caused by the effects of M-dwarf stellar activity or irradiation of the M-dwarf companions by the white dwarf. The stellar parameter distributions are used to investigate the global properties of the newly found WDMS binaries. We find that the WDMS binaries with a low signal-to-noise ratio (S/N<=4.0) usually have a massive DA white dwarf component with a higher surface gravity, and the metallicity is usually significantly different from solar. This suggests that the observational selection effects and the spectral S/N of the WDMS binaries have a significant influence on the determinations of these physical parameters of WDMS binaries.
