- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/869/124
- Title:
- Redshift survey of the nearby galaxy cluster A2107
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/869/124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the rotational motion of the galaxy cluster A2107 at redshift z=0.04 and its connection to nearby large-scale structures using a large amount of spectroscopic redshift data. By combining 978 new redshifts from the MMT/Hectospec observations with data in the literature, we construct a large sample of 1968 galaxies with measured redshifts at clustercentric radius R<60'. Our sample has high (80%) and spatially uniform completeness at r-band apparent magnitude m_r,Petro,0_<19.1. We first apply the caustic method to the sample and identify 285 member galaxies of A2107 at R<60'. Then the rotation amplitude and the position angle of the rotation axis are measured. We find that the member galaxies show strong global rotation at R<20' (v_rot_/{sigma}_v_~0.6) with a significance of >3.8{sigma}, which is confirmed by two independent methods. The rotation becomes weaker in outer regions. There are at least five filamentary structures that are connected to the cluster and that consist of known galaxy groups. These structures are smoothly connected to the cluster, which seem to be inducing the global rotation of the cluster through inflow of galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/401/1587
- Title:
- RIK photometry of far-IR sources in NGP
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/401/1587
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present follow-up observations of the far-infrared (FIR) sources at 90, 150 and 180um detected as part of the ISOPHOT EBL project, which has recently measured the absolute surface brightness of the cosmic infrared background (CIRB) radiation for the first time independently from COBE data. We have observed the fields at the North Galactic Pole region in the optical and near-IR, and complement these data with Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry, and spectroscopy where available, and present identifications of the 25 FIR sources which reach down to ~150mJy in all three ISOPHOT bands. Identifications are done by means of full spectral energy density fitting to all sources in the FIR error circle areas.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/591/A96
- Title:
- Robust detection of CID double stars in SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/591/A96
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) offers a unique possibility of not only detecting colour induced displacement (CID) double stars but also confirming these detections. Successive cuts are applied to the SDSS data release (DR) 12 database to reduce the size of the sample under consideration. The resulting dataset is then screened with a criterion based on the distance and orientation of the photocentres in different photometric bands. About 3200 distinct objects are classified as CID double stars, 40 of which are confirmed with at least a second detection. A consistency check further validates these detections.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/53
- Title:
- ROGUE. I. SDSS galaxies with FIRST
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the catalog of Radio sources associated with Optical Galaxies and having Unresolved or Extended morphologies I (ROGUE I), consisting of 32616 spectroscopically selected galaxies. It is the largest handmade catalog of this kind, obtained by cross-matching galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 and radio sources from both the First Images of Radio Sky at Twenty Centimetre (FIRST) survey and the NRAO Very Large Array Sky Survey, without imposing a limit on the radio flux densities. The catalog provides a visual classification of radio and optical morphologies of galaxies presenting a FIRST core within 3" of the optical position. The radio morphological classification is performed by examining the radio-optical overlays of linear sizes equal to 1Mpc at the source distance, while the 120" image snapshots from the SDSS database are used for optical classification. The results of our search are as follows: (i) single-component unresolved and elongated radio sources constitute the major group in the ROGUE I catalog (~90%), and ~8% exhibit extended morphologies; (ii) samples of 269, 730, and 115 Fanaroff-Riley (FR) type I, II, and hybrid galaxies, respectively, are presented; (iii) we report 55 newly discovered giant/possible giant, 16 double-double, 9 X-shaped, and 25 Z-shaped radio sources; (iv) on the optical front, most galaxies have elliptical morphologies (~62%) while spirals form the second major category (~17%) followed by distorted (~12%) and lenticular (~7%) morphologies; and (v) division between the FR I and the FR II sources in the radio-optical luminosity plane is blurred, in tune with recent studies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/397/421
- Title:
- r' photometry of Abell 1367 and Coma
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/397/421
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We provide the total r'-band galaxy counts corresponding to our observed fields of the clusters of galaxies Abell 1367 and Coma, as well as the r'-band background counts from Yasuda et al. (2001AJ....122.1104Y). We also provide some basic properties of the galaxies detected in our r'-band survey of the clusters of galaxies Abell 1367 and Coma: coordinates, r'-band magnitudes and surface brightness, position angles, recession velocities and ellipticities are provided. The observations were carried out with the Wide Field Camera (WFC) attached to the Prime Focus of the INT 2.5m located at Observatorio de El Roque de los Muchachos, on 26 and 28 April 2000, under photometric conditions, excepting the last half of the second night.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/849/150
- Title:
- RR Lyrae candidates in the MW outer halo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/849/150
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- RR Lyrae stars are ideal massless tracers that can be used to study the total mass and dark matter content of the outer halo of the Milky Way (MW). This is because they are easy to find in the light-curve databases of large stellar surveys and their distances can be determined with only knowledge of the light curve. We present here a sample of 112 RR Lyr stars beyond 50kpc in the outer halo of the MW, excluding the Sgr streams, for which we have obtained moderate-resolution spectra with Deimos on the Keck II Telescope. Four of these have distances exceeding 100kpc. These were selected from a much larger set of 447 candidate RR Lyr stars that were data-mined using machine-learning techniques applied to the light curves of variable stars in the Palomar Transient Facility database. The observed radial velocities taken at the phase of the variable corresponding to the time of observation were converted to systemic radial velocities in the Galactic standard of rest. From our sample of 112 RR Lyr stars we determine the radial velocity dispersion in the outer halo of the MW to be ~90km/s at 50kpc, falling to about 65km/s near 100 kpc once a small number of major outliers are removed. With reasonable estimates of the completeness of our sample of 447 candidates and assuming a spherical halo, we find that the stellar density in the outer halo declines as r^-4^.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/424/2528
- Title:
- RR Lyrae in SDSS Stripe 82
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/424/2528
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We propose a robust principal component analysis framework for the exploitation of multiband photometric measurements in large surveys. Period search results are improved using the time-series of the first principal component due to its optimized signal-to-noise ratio. The presence of correlated excess variations in the multivariate time-series enables the detection of weaker variability. Furthermore, the direction of the largest variance differs for certain types of variable stars. This can be used as an efficient attribute for classification. The application of the method to a subsample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 data yielded 132 high-amplitude delta Scuti variables. We also found 129 new RR Lyrae variables, complementary to the catalogue of Sesar et al., extending the halo area mapped by Stripe 82 RR Lyrae stars towards the Galactic bulge. The sample also comprises 25 multiperiodic or Blazhko RR Lyrae stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/398/1757
- Title:
- RR Lyraes in SDSS stripe 82
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/398/1757
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of the substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82, which covers 2.5{deg} in declination on the celestial equator over the right ascension range {alpha}=20.7h to 3.3h. We use the new public archive of light-motion curves in Stripe 82, published by Bramich et al. in 2008 (Cat. V/141), to identify a set of high-quality RR Lyrae candidates. Period estimates are determined to high accuracy using a string-length method. A subset of 178 RR Lyraes with spectrally derived metallicities are employed to derive metallicity-period-amplitude relations, which are then used, together with archive magnitude data and light-curve Fourier decomposition, to estimate metallicities and hence distances for the entire sample. The RR Lyraes lie 5-115kpc from the Galactic Centre, with distance estimates accurate to ~8%. The RR Lyraes are further divided into subsets of 316 RRab types and 91 RRc types based on their period, colour and metallicity. We fit a smooth density law to the distribution as a simple representation of the data. For Galactocentric radii 5-25kpc the number density of RR Lyraes falls as r^-2.4^, but beyond 25kpc, the number density falls much more steeply, as r^-4.5^. However, we stress that in practice the density distribution is not smooth, but dominated by clumps and substructure. Samples of 55 and 237 RR Lyraes associated with the Sagittarius Stream and the Hercules-Aquila Cloud, respectively, are identified. Hence, ~70% of the RR Lyraes in Stripe 82 belong to known substructure, and the sharp break in the density law reflects the fact that the dominant substructure in Stripe 82 - the Hercules-Aquila Cloud and the Sagittarius Stream - lie within 40kpc. In fact, almost 60% of all the RR Lyraes in Stripe 82 are associated with the Hercules-Aquila Cloud alone, which emphasizes the cloud's pre-eminence. Additionally, evidence of a new and distant substructure - the Pisces Overdensity - is found, consisting of 28 faint RR Lyraes centred on Galactic coordinates (l~80{deg}, b~-55{deg}), with distances of ~80kpc. The total stellar mass in the Pisces Overdensity is ~10^4^M_{sun}_ and its metallicity is [Fe/H]~-1.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/246/8
- Title:
- RR Lyrae star candidates from SDSS-DR15
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/246/8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- With the increase of known RR Lyrae stars, it is reliable to create classifiers of RR Lyrae stars based on their photometric data or combined photometric and spectroscopic data. Nevertheless the total number of known RR Lyrae stars is still too small compared with the large survey databases. So classification of RR Lyrae stars and other sources belongs to imbalanced learning. Based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric and spectroscopic data, we apply cost-sensitive Random Forests fit for imbalanced learning to preselect RR Lyrae star candidates. Only with photometric data, u-g,g-r,r-i,i-z is the best input pattern. While also considering physical parameters (Teff, [Fe/H], log(g)), the optimal input pattern is Teff, [Fe/H], log(g), u-g,g-r,r-i,i-z, at this moment for cost-sensitive Random Forests, the performance metrics of completeness, contamination, and Matthews correlation coefficient are 0.975, 0.019, and 0.975, respectively. It indicates that adding stellar physical parameters is helpful for identifying RR Lyrae stars from other stars. We apply the best classifiers on the SDSS photometric data and combined photometric data with physical parameters to select RR Lyrae star candidates. Finally 11,041 photometric candidates with spectral type A and F are obtained, and then 304 candidates with physical parameters are selected out. Among the 304 candidates, a small part are HB stars, BS stars, RGB stars, and peculiar stars, and the rest are unknown in the Simbad database. These candidates may be used as the input catalog for time-series follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/567/A14
- Title:
- RV and g'z' transits of KOI-1089b/Kepler-418b
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/567/A14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We announce confirmation of Kepler-418b, one of two proposed planets in this system. This is the first confirmation of an exoplanet based primarily on the transit color signature technique. We used the Kepler public data archive combined with multicolor photometry from the Gran Telescopio de Canarias and radial velocity follow-up using FIES at the Nordic Optical Telescope for confirmation. We report a confident detection of a transit color signature that can only be explained by a compact occulting body, entirely ruling out a contaminating eclipsing binary, a hierarchical triple, or a grazing eclipsing binary. Those findings are corroborated by our radial velocity measurements, which put an upper limit of ~1M_jup_ on the mass of Kepler-418b. We also report that the host star is significantly blended, confirming the ~10% light contamination suspected from the crowding metric in the Kepler light curve measured by the Kepler team. We report detection of an unresolved light source that contributes an additional ~40% to the target star, which would not have been detected without multicolor photometric analysis. The resulting planet-star radius ratio is 0.110+/-0.0025, more than 25% more than the 0.087 measured by Kepler, leading to a radius of 1.20+/-0.16R_jup_ instead of the 0.94R_jup_ measured by the Kepler team. This is the first confirmation of an exoplanet candidate based primarily on the transit color signature, demonstrating that this technique is viable from ground for giant planets. It is particularly useful for planets with long periods such as Kepler-418b, which tend to have long transit durations. While this technique is limited to candidates with deep transits from the ground, it may be possible to confirm earth-like exoplanet candidates with a few hours of observing time with an instrument like the James Webb Space Telescope. Additionally, multicolor photometric analysis of transits can reveal unknown stellar neighbors and binary companions that do not affect the classification of the transiting object but can have a very significant effect on the perceived planetary radius.
