- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/333/706
- Title:
- Bochum survey of the southern Galactic disk
- Short Name:
- J/AN/333/706
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We are monitoring a 6{deg} wide stripe along the southern Galactic disk simultaneously in the r and i bands, using a robotic 15-cm twin telescope of the Universitatsternwarte Bochum near Cerro Armazones in Chile. Utilising the telescope's 2.7{deg} field of view, the survey aims at observing a mosaic of 268 fields once per month and to monitor dedicated fields once per night. The survey reaches a sensitivity from 10m down to 18m (AB system), with a completeness limit of r~15.5m and i~14.5m which - due to the instrumental pixel size of 2.4" - refers to stars separated by >3". This brightness range is ideally suited to examine the intermediately bright stellar population supposed to be saturated in deep variability surveys with large telescopes. To connect to deep surveys or to explore faint long term variables, coadded images of several nights reach a depth of ~20m. The astrometric accuracy is better than 1", as determined from the overlap of neighbouring fields. We describe the survey design, the data properties and our procedures to derive the light curves and to extract variable stars. We present a list of ~2200 variable stars identified in 50 square degrees with 50-80 observations between May and October 2011. For bright stars the variability amplitude A reaches down to A~0.05m, while at the faint end variations of A>1m are detected. About 200 stars were known to be variable, and their amplitudes and periods - as far as determinable from our six month monitoring - agree with literature values, demonstrating the performance of the Bochum Galactic Disk Survey.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/16
- Title:
- Bolometric flux estimation for cool evolved stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Estimation of bolometric fluxes (F_BOL_) is an essential component of stellar effective temperature determination with optical and near-infrared interferometry. Reliable estimation of F_BOL_ simply from broadband K-band photometry data is a useful tool in those cases were contemporaneous and/or wide-range photometry is unavailable for a detailed spectral energy distribution (SED) fit, as was demonstrated in Dyck et al. Recalibrating the intrinsic F_BOL_ versus observed F_2.2{mu}m_ relationship of that study with modern SED fitting routines, which incorporate the significantly non-blackbody, empirical spectral templates of the INGS spectral library (an update of the library in Pickles) and estimation of reddening, serves to greatly improve the accuracy and observational utility of this relationship. We find that F_BOL_ values predicted are roughly 11% less than the corresponding values predicted in Dyck et al., indicating the effects of SED absorption features across bolometric flux curves.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/2663
- Title:
- B photometry of M31 variable star candidates
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/2663
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A search for variable stars is performed using two epochs of Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging data for a 9.28arcmin^2^ portion of M31. This data set reveals 254 sources that vary by at least 4{sigma} between epochs. The positions and two-epoch B-band (equivalent) photometry of these sources are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NewA/32.6
- Title:
- BP Peg times of maximum light
- Short Name:
- J/other/NewA/32.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New CCD photometric monitoring on the high-amplitude delta Scuti variable BP Peg was carried out on November 4, 2013 by using the 1.0-m reflecting telescope of Yunnan Observatories in China as well as on December 29, 2013 by using the 85-cm telescope at Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatory in China. BP Peg is a new high-amplitude delta Scuti variable with a period of 0.10954357-day. We have collected all the times of light maximum from the literature together with our data, and the pulsation period changes are analyzed through Observed-Calculated (O-C) method. With the available data, we discover that the pulsating period of BP Peg shows a cyclic oscillation with a period of 24.5-years and an amplitude of 0.0060-days. If the cyclic period changes are caused by light-time effect in a binary system, the reckoned mass of the hidden companion could be 0.20M_{sun}_ and possibly, it is an M-type star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/557/A1
- Title:
- Bright B-type variables in Scorpius
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/557/A1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The first two of a total of six nano-satellites that will constitute the BRITE-Constellation space photometry mission have recently been launched successfully. In preparation for this project, we carried out time-resolved colour photometry in a field that is an excellent candidate for BRITE measurements from space. We acquired 117h of Stromgren uvy data during 19 nights. Our targets comprised the {beta} Cephei stars {kappa} and {lambda} Sco, the eclipsing binary {mu}^1^ Sco, and the variable super/hypergiant {zeta}^1^ Sco. For {kappa} Sco, a photometric mode identification in combination with results from the spectroscopic literature suggests a dominant (l,m)=(1,-1) {beta} Cephei-type pulsation mode of the primary star. The longer period of the star may be a rotational variation or a g-mode pulsation. For {lambda} Sco, we recover the known dominant {beta} Cephei pulsation, a longer-period variation, and observed part of an eclipse. Lack of ultraviolet data precludes mode identification for this star. We noticed that the spectroscopic orbital ephemeris of the closer pair in this triple system is inconsistent with eclipse timings and propose a refined value for the orbital period of the closer pair of 5.95189+/-0.00003d. We also argue that the components of the {lambda} Sco system are some 30% more massive than previously thought. The binary light curve solution of {mu}^1^ Sco requires inclusion of the irradiation effect to explain the u light curve, and the system could show additional low amplitude variations on top of the orbital light changes. {zeta}^1^ Sco shows long-term variability on a time scale of at least two weeks that we prefer to interpret in terms of a variable wind or strange mode pulsations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/2018
- Title:
- 6 bright Galactic Cepheids data
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/2018
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of photometric and spectroscopic data of six bright Galactic Cepheids: GH Carinae, V419 Centauri, V898 Centauri, AD Puppis, AY Sagittarii and ST Velorum. Based on new radial velocity data (in some cases supplemented with earlier data available in the literature), these Cepheids have been found to be members in spectroscopic binary systems. V898 Cen turned out to have one of the largest orbital radial velocity amplitude (>40km/s) among the known binary Cepheids. The data are insufficient to determine the orbital periods nor other orbital elements for these new spectroscopic binaries. These discoveries corroborate the statement on the high frequency of occurrence of binaries among the classical Cepheids, a fact to be taken into account when calibrating the period-luminosity relationship for Cepheids. We have also compiled all available photometric data that revealed that the pulsation period of AD Pup, the longest period Cepheid in this sample, is continuously increasing with {Delta}P=0.004567d/century, likely to be caused by stellar evolution. The wave-like pattern superimposed on the parabolic O-C graph of AD Pup may well be caused by the light-time effect in the binary system. ST Vel also pulsates with a continuously increasing period. The other four Cepheids are characterized with stable pulsation periods in the last half century.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/566/A111
- Title:
- Brown dwarf atmosphere monitoring (BAM)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/566/A111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the SofI instrument on the 3.5m New Technology Telescope, we have conducted an extensive near-infrared monitoring survey of an unbiased sample of 69 brown dwarfs spanning the L0 to T8 spectral range, with at least one example of each spectral type. Each target was observed for a 2-4 hour period in the Js-band, and the median photometric precision of the data is ~0.7%. A total of 14 brown dwarfs were identified as variables with min-to-max amplitudes ranging from 1.7% to 10.8% over the observed duration. All variables satisfy a statistical significance threshold with a p-value <=5% based on comparison with a median reference star light curve. Approximately half of the variables show pure sinusoidal amplitude variations similar to 2MASSJ2139+0220, and the remainder show multi-component variability in their light curves similar to SIMPJ0136+0933.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/821/L25
- Title:
- Bulge RR Lyrae Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA-RR)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/821/L25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 947 radial velocities of RR Lyrae variable stars in four fields located toward the Galactic bulge, observed within the data from the ongoing Bulge RR Lyrae Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA-RR). We show that these RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) exhibit hot kinematics and null or negligible rotation and are therefore members of a separate population from the bar/pseudobulge that currently dominates the mass and luminosity of the inner Galaxy. Our RRLs predate these structures and have metallicities, kinematics, and spatial distribution that are consistent with a "classical" bulge, although we cannot yet completely rule out the possibility that they are the metal-poor tail of a more metal-rich ([Fe/H]~-1dex) halo-bulge population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ApSS/363.127
- Title:
- Bulge RR Lyrae VVVDR4 photometry
- Short Name:
- J/other/ApSS/363
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This study's objective was to exploit infrared VVV (VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea) photometry for high latitude RRab stars to establish an accurate Galactic Centre distance. RRab candidates were discovered and reaffirmed (n=4194) by matching Ks photometry with templates via chisq minimization, and contaminants were reduced by ensuring targets adhered to a strict period-amplitude (Ks) trend and passed the Elorietta et al. (2016A&A...595A..82E) classifier. The distance to the Galactic Centre was determined from a high latitude Bulge subsample (|b|>4, RGC=8.30+/-0.36kpc, random uncertainty is relatively negligible), and importantly, the comparatively low color-excess and uncrowded location mitigated uncertainties tied to the extinction law, the magnitude-limited nature of the analysis, and photometric contamination. Circumventing those problems resulted in a key uncertainty being the MKs relation, which was derived using LMC RRab stars (MKs=-(2.66+/-0.06)logP-(1.03+/-0.06), (J-Ks)0=(0.31+/-0.04)logP +(0.35+/-0.02), assuming mu0LMC=18.43). The Galactic Centre distance was not corrected for the cone-effect. Lastly, a new distance indicator emerged as brighter overdensities in the period-magnitude-amplitude diagrams analyzed, which arise from blended RRab and red clump stars. Blending may thrust faint extragalactic variables into the range of detectability.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/626/A121
- Title:
- Buoyancy radius of {gamma} Dor stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/626/A121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Helioseismology and asteroseismology of red giant stars have shown that distribution of angular momentum in stellar interiors, and the evolution of this distribution with time remains an open issue in stellar physics. Owing to the unprecedented quality and long baseline of Kepler photometry, we are able to seismically infer internal rotation rates in {gamma} Doradus stars, which provide the main-sequence counterpart to the red-giants puzzle. Here, we confront these internal rotation rates to stellar evolution models which account for rotationally induced transport of angular momentum, in order to test angular momentum transport mechanisms. On the one hand, we used a stellar model-independent method developed by our team in order to obtain accurate, seismically inferred, buoyancy radii and near-core rotation for 37 {gamma} Doradus stars observed by Kepler. We show that the stellar buoyancy radius can be used as a reliable evolution indicator for field stars on the main sequence. On the other hand, we computed rotating evolutionary models of intermediate-mass stars including internal transport of angular momentum in radiative zones, following the formalism developed in the series of papers started by Zahn (1992A&A...265..115Z), with the cestam code. This code calculates the rotational history of stars from the birth line to the tip of the RGB. The initial angular momentum content has to be set initially, which is done here by fitting rotation periods in young stellar clusters. We show a clear disagreement between the near-core rotation rates measured in the sample and the rotation rates obtained from the evolutionary models including rotationally induced transport of angular momentum following Zahn's prescriptions. These results show a disagreement similar to that of the Sun and red giant stars in the considered mass range. This suggests the existence of missing mechanisms responsible for the braking of the core before and along the main sequence. The efficiency of the missing mechanisms is investigated. The transport of angular momentum as formalized by Zahn and Maeder cannot explain the measurements of near-core rotation in main-sequence intermediate-mass stars we have at hand.
