- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/95
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of {epsilon} Ori
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/145/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a time series analysis of 130 echelle spectra of {epsilon} Ori (B0 Ia), acquired over seven observing seasons between 1998 and 2006 at Ritter Observatory. The equivalent widths of H{alpha} (net) and HeI{lambda}5876 were measured and radial velocities were obtained from the central absorption of HeI{lambda}5876. Temporal variance spectra (TVS) revealed significant wind variability in both H{alpha} and HeI{lambda}5876. The HeI TVS have a double-peaked profile consistent with radial velocity oscillations. A periodicity search was carried out on the equivalent width and radial velocity data, as well as on wavelength-binned spectra. This analysis has revealed several periods in the variability with timescales of two to seven days. Many of these periods exhibit sinusoidal modulation in the associated phase diagrams. Several of these periods were present in both H{alpha} and HeI, indicating a possible connection between the wind and the photosphere. Due to the harmonic nature of these periods, stellar pulsations may be the origin of some of the observed variability. Periods on the order of the rotational period were also detected in the HeI line in the 1998-1999 season and in both lines during the 2004-2005 season. These periods may indicate rotational modulation due to structure in the wind.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/150/109
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of {eta} Car in 2009
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/150/109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on high-resolution spectroscopy of the 2009.0 spectroscopic event of {eta} Carinae collected via SMARTS observations using the CTIO 1.5m telescope and echelle spectrograph. Our observations were made almost every night over a two-month interval around the photometric minimum of {eta} Car associated with the periastron passage of a hot companion. The photoionizing flux of the companion and heating related to colliding winds causes large changes in the wind properties of the massive primary star. Here we present an analysis of temporal variations in a sample of spectral lines that are clearly formed in the wind of the primary star. These lines are affected by a changing illumination of the flux of the secondary star during the periastron passage. We document the sudden onset of blueshifted absorption that occurred in most of the lines near or slightly after periastron, and we argue that these absorption components are seen when we view the relatively undisturbed wind of the foreground primary star. We present time series measurements of the net equivalent width of the wind lines and of the radial velocities of the absorption trough minima and the emission peak midpoints. Most lines decrease in emission strength around periastron, and those high excitation lines formed close to the primary exhibit a red-ward velocity excursion. We show how these trends can be explained using an illuminated hemisphere model that is based on the idea that the emission originates primarily from the side of the primary facing the hot companion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/26
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of five {gamma} Dor variables
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/151/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have determined the spectroscopic orbits of five {gamma} Dor variables, HD776, HD6568, HD17310, HD19684, and HD62196. Their orbital periods range from 27.8 to 1163days and their eccentricities from 0.01 to 0.65. Of the five systems, only HD19684 shows lines of its binary companion, but those lines are always so weak and blended with the lines of the primary that we were unable to measure them satisfactorily. The velocity residuals of the orbital fits were searched for periodicities associated with pulsation. No clear, convincing case for velocity periodicities in the residuals was found in four of the five stars. However, for HD17310 we identified a period of 2.13434days, a value in agreement with the largest amplitude period previously found photometrically for that star. The velocity residuals of HD62196 have a long-term trend suggesting that it is a triple system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/131/119
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of irregular variables
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/131/119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of optical spectroscopy of 169 southern and equatorial objects previously known as irregular variables are presented. The targets were selected via photoelectric UBV photometry among objects classified as L, L:, I, I:, IS and IS: in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars and New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. Among these objects we have identified 8 cataclysmic variables, 8 symbiotic stars and stars that belong to a variety of other classes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/88
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of 6 LMC RR Lyrae and 3 SMC RR Lyrae
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/144/88
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present for the first time a detailed spectroscopic study of chemical element abundances of metal-poor RR Lyrae stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC). Using the MagE echelle spectrograph at the 6.5m Magellan telescopes, we obtain medium resolution (R~2000-6000) spectra of six RR Lyrae stars in the LMC and three RR Lyrae stars in the SMC. These stars were chosen because their previously determined photometric metallicities were among the lowest metallicities found for stars belonging to the old populations in the Magellanic Clouds. We find the spectroscopic metallicities of these stars to be as low as [Fe/H]_spec_=-2.7dex, the lowest metallicity yet measured for any star in the Magellanic Clouds. We confirm that for metal-poor stars, the photometric metallicities from the Fourier decomposition of the light curves are systematically too high compared to their spectroscopic counterparts. However, for even more metal-poor stars below [Fe/H]_phot_<-2.8dex this trend is reversed and the spectroscopic metallicities are systematically higher than the photometric estimates. We are able to determine abundance ratios for 10 chemical elements (Fe, Na, Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Sr, and Ba), which extend the abundance measurements of chemical elements for RR Lyrae stars in the Clouds beyond [Fe/H] for the first time. For the overall [{alpha}/Fe] ratio, we obtain an overabundance of 0.36dex, which is in very good agreement with results from metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo as well as from the metal-poor tail in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Comparing the abundances with those of the stars in the Milky Way halo we find that the abundance ratios of stars of both populations are consistent with another. Therefore, we conclude that from a chemical point of view early contributions from Magellanic-type galaxies to the formation of the Galactic halo as claimed in cosmological models are plausible.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/26/115
- Title:
- Spectrum of IRAS 23304+6147
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/26/115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Based on CCD-spectra obtain with the 6-m telescope, detailed chemical composition of the IR source IRAS 23304+6147 identified with the faint star is studied.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/877/110
- Title:
- SPIRITS catalog of IR long period variables
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/877/110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 417 luminous infrared variable stars with periods exceeding 250 days. These were identified in 20 nearby galaxies by the ongoing SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey survey with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Of these, 359 variables have M_[4.5]_ (phase-weighted mean magnitudes) fainter than -12 and periods and luminosities consistent with previously reported variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). However, 58 variables are more luminous than M_[4.5]_=-12, including 11 that are brighter than M_[4.5]_=-13, with the brightest having M_[4.5]_=-15.51. Most of these bright variable sources have quasi-periods longer than 1000 days, including four over 2000 days. We suggest that the fundamental period-luminosity relationship, previously measured for the LMC, extends to much higher luminosities and longer periods in this large galaxy sample. We posit that these variables include massive asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars (possibly super-AGB stars), red supergiants experiencing exceptionally high mass-loss rates, and interacting binaries. We also present 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0{mu}m photometric catalogs for all sources in these 20 galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/90
- Title:
- Spitzer and VRIJHK photometry of V582 Mon
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/151/90
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We examine the light and color evolution of the T Tauri binary KH 15D through photometry obtained at wavelengths between 0.55 and 8.0{mu}m. The data were collected with A Novel Dual Imaging CAMera (ANDICAM) on the 1.3m SMARTS telescope at Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory and with InfraRed Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope. We show that the system's circumbinary ring, which acts as a screen that covers and uncovers different portions of the binary orbit as the ring precesses, has reached an orientation where the brighter component (star B) fully or nearly fully emerges during each orbital cycle. The fainter component (star A) remains fully occulted by the screen at all phases. The leading and trailing edges of the screen move across the sky at the same rate of ~15m/s, consistent with expectation for a ring with a radius and width of ~4 au and a precession period of ~6500 years. Light and color variations continue to indicate that the screen is sharp edged and opaque at VRIJH wavelengths. However, we find an increasing transparency of the ring edge at 2.2, 3.6, and 4.5{mu}m. Reddening seen at the beginning of the eclipse that occurred during the CSI 2264 campaign particularly suggests selective extinction by a population of large dust grains. Meanwhile, the gradual bluing observed while star B is setting is indicative of forward scattering effects at the edge of the ring. The spectral energy distribution of the system at its bright phase shows no evidence of infrared excess emission that can be attributed to radiation from the ring or other dust component out to 8{mu}m.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/816/49
- Title:
- Spitzer/IRAC observations of SMC Cepheids
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/816/49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using Spitzer observations of classical Cepheids we have measured the true average distance modulus of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to be 18.96+/-0.01_stat_+/-0.03_sys_mag (corresponding to 62+/-0.3kpc), which is 0.48+/-0.01mag more distant than the LMC. This is in agreement with previous results from Cepheid observations, as well as with measurements from other indicators such as RR Lyrae stars and the tip of the red giant branch. Utilizing the properties of the mid-infrared Leavitt Law we measured precise distances to individual Cepheids in the SMC, and have confirmed that the galaxy is tilted and elongated such that its eastern side is up to 20kpc closer than its western side. This is in agreement with the results from red clump stars and dynamical simulations of the Magellanic Clouds and Stream.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/759/146
- Title:
- Spitzer/IRAC photometry for 37 Galactic Cepheids
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/759/146
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Carnegie Hubble Program (CHP) is designed to calibrate the extragalactic distance scale using data from the post-cryogenic era of the Spitzer Space Telescope. The ultimate goal of the CHP is a systematic improvement in the distance scale leading to a determination of the Hubble constant to within an accuracy of 2%. This paper focuses on the measurement and calibration of the Galactic Cepheid period-luminosity (PL, Leavitt) relation using the warm Spitzer/IRAC 1 and 2 bands at 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m. We present photometric measurements covering the period range 4-70 days for 37 Galactic Cepheids. Data at 24 phase points were collected for each star. Three PL relations of the form M=a(log(P)-1)+b are derived. The method adopted here takes the slope a to be -3.31, as determined from the Spitzer Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) data of Scowcroft et al. (Cat. J/ApJ/743/76). Using the geometric Hubble Space Telescope guide-star distances to 10 Galactic Cepheids, we find a calibrated 3.6{mu}m PL zero point of -5.80+/-0.03. Together with our value for the LMC zero point, we determine a reddening-corrected distance modulus of 18.48+/-0.04mag to the LMC. The mid-IR period-color diagram and the [3.6]-[4.5] color variation with phase are interpreted in terms of CO absorption at 4.5{mu}m. This situation compromises the use of the 4.5{mu}m data for distance determinations.
