- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/68
- Title:
- Type IIn Supernova SN 2010bt photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It is well known that massive stars (M>8M_{sun}_) evolve up to the collapse of the stellar core, resulting in most cases in a supernova (SN) explosion. Their heterogeneity is related mainly to different configurations of the progenitor star at the moment of the explosion and to their immediate environments. We present photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2010bt, which was classified as a Type IIn SN from a spectrum obtained soon after discovery and was observed extensively for about 2 months. After the seasonal interruption owing to its proximity to the Sun, the SN was below the detection threshold, indicative of a rapid luminosity decline. We can identify the likely progenitor with a very luminous star (log L/L_{sun}_~7) through comparison of Hubble Space Telescope images of the host galaxy prior to explosion with those of the SN obtained after maximum light. Such a luminosity is not expected for a quiescent star, but rather for a massive star in an active phase. This progenitor candidate was later confirmed via images taken in 2015 (~5yr post-discovery), in which no bright point source was detected at the SN position. Given these results and the SN behavior, we conclude that SN 2010bt was likely a Type IIn SN and that its progenitor was a massive star that experienced an outburst shortly before the final explosion, leading to a dense H-rich circumstellar environment around the SN progenitor.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/861/63
- Title:
- Type IIP SN 2016bkv LCs and spectra
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/861/63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- While interaction with circumstellar material is known to play an important role in Type IIn supernovae (SNe), analyses of the more common SNe IIP and IIL have not traditionally included interaction as a significant power source. However, recent campaigns to observe SNe within days of explosion have revealed narrow emission lines of high-ionization species in the earliest spectra of luminous SNe II of all subclasses. These "flash ionization" features indicate the presence of a confined shell of material around the progenitor star. Here we present the first low-luminosity (LL) SN to show flash ionization features, SN 2016bkv. This SN peaked at MV = -16 mag and has H{alpha} expansion velocities under 1350 km s-1 around maximum light, placing it at the faint/slow end of the distribution of SNe IIP (similar to SN 2005cs). The light-curve shape of SN 2016bkv is also extreme among SNe IIP. A very strong initial peak could indicate additional luminosity from circumstellar interaction. A very small fall from the plateau to the nickel tail indicates unusually large production of radioactive nickel compared to other LL SNe IIP. A comparison between nebular spectra of SN 2016bkv and models raises the possibility that SN 2016bkv is an electron-capture supernova.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/799/208
- Title:
- Type IIP supernovae from Pan-STARRS1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/799/208
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe): systematic light-curve studies. We assemble a set of 76 grizy-band Type IIP SN light curves from Pan-STARRS1, obtained over a constant survey program of 4yr and classified using both spectroscopy and machine-learning-based photometric techniques. We develop and apply a new Bayesian model for the full multiband evolution of each light curve in the sample. We find no evidence of a subpopulation of fast-declining explosions (historically referred to as "Type IIL" SNe). However, we identify a highly significant relation between the plateau phase decay rate and peak luminosity among our SNe IIP. These results argue in favor of a single parameter, likely determined by initial stellar mass, predominantly controlling the explosions of red supergiants. This relation could also be applied for SN cosmology, offering a standardizable candle good to an intrinsic scatter of <~0.2mag. We compare each light curve to physical models from hydrodynamic simulations to estimate progenitor initial masses and other properties of the Pan-STARRS1 Type IIP SN sample. We show that correction of systematic discrepancies between modeled and observed SN IIP light-curve properties and an expanded grid of progenitor properties are needed to enable robust progenitor inferences from multiband light-curve samples of this kind. This work will serve as a pathfinder for photometric studies of core-collapse SNe to be conducted through future wide-field transient searches.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/525/A47
- Title:
- U-band photometry in sigma Orionis region
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/525/A47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the results of an U band survey with FORS1/VLT of a large area in the sigma Ori star-forming region. We combine the U-band photometry with literature data to compute accretion luminosity and mass accretion rates from the U-band excess emission for all objects (187) detected by Spitzer in the FORS1 field and classified by Hernandez et al. (2007, Cat. J/ApJ/662/1067) as likely members of the cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/561/A111
- Title:
- U-band photometry of 17 WINGS clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/561/A111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper belongs to a series presenting the WIde Field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). The WINGS project has collected wide-field, optical (B,V), and near-infrared (J,K) imaging as well as medium resolution spectroscopy of galaxies in a sample of 76 X-ray selected nearby clusters (0.04<z<0.07) with the aim of establishing a reference sample for evolutionary studies of galaxies and galaxy clusters. We present the U-band photometry of galaxies and stars in the fields of 17 clusters of the WINGS sample. We also extend the original B- and V-band photometry (WINGS-OPT) for 9 and 6 WINGS clusters to a larger field of view. We used both the new and already existing B-band photometry to obtain reliable (U-B) colors of galaxies within three fixed apertures in kpc. To this aim, we particular care the astrometric precision in the reduction procedure. Since not all the observations were taken in good transparency conditions, the photometric calibration was partly obtained by relying on the SDSS and WINGS-OPT photometry for the U- and optical bands, respectively. We provide U-band (also B- and V-band, where possible) total magnitudes of stars and galaxies in the fields of clusters. For galaxies only, the catalogs also provide geometrical parameters and carefully centered aperture magnitudes. The internal consistency of magnitudes was checked for clusters imaged with different cameras, while the external photometric consistency was obtained by comparison with the WINGS-OPT and SDSS surveys. The photometric catalogs presented here add the U-band information to the WINGS database for extending the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the galaxies, in particular in the ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths which are fundamental for deriving the star formation rate (SFR) properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/352/285
- Title:
- u(bj)r & BV photometry of blue HB stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/352/285
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the second in a series of papers presenting a new calculation of the mass of the Galaxy based on radial velocities and distances for a sample of faint 16<B<21.3 field blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars. We present accurate BV CCD photometry and spectra for 142 candidate A-type stars selected from ubjr photometry of UK Schmidt telescope plates in six high-Galactic-latitude fields. Classification of these candidates produces a sample of 60 BHB stars at distances of 11-52kpc from the Sun (mean 28kpc), with heliocentric line-of-sight velocities accurate to 15km/s, and distance errors <10 per cent. We provide a summary table listing coordinates and velocities of these stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/345/949
- Title:
- UBRI photometry of NGC 3379 globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/345/949
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present wide-area UBRI photometry for globular clusters around the Leo group galaxy NGC 3379. Globular cluster candidates are selected from their B-band magnitudes and their (U-B)_0_ versus (B-I)_0_ colours. A colour-colour selection region was defined from photometry of the Milky Way and M31 globular cluster systems. We detect 133 globular cluster candidates, which supports previous claims of a low specific frequency for NGC 3379.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/128/544
- Title:
- UBRI Photometry of Quasars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/128/544
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present UBRI photometry and spectra for 60 quasars found within 1{deg}^2^ centered on the J0053+1234 region, which has been the subject of the Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey. Candidate quasars were selected by their ultraviolet excess with respect to the stellar locus and confirmed spectroscopically. The quasars span a wide range in brightness (17.5<B<21.6) and redshift (0.43<z<2.38).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/121/2381
- Title:
- UBRI photometry of radio galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/121/2381
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a new estimate of the radio galaxy 1.4 GHz luminosity function and its evolution at intermediate redshifts (z~0.4). Photometric redshifts and color selection have been used to select B_J_<23.5 early-type galaxies from the Panoramic Deep Fields, a multicolor survey of two 25deg^2^ fields. Approximately 230 radio galaxies have then been selected by matching early-type galaxies with NVSS radio sources brighter than 5mJy. Estimates of the 1.4GHz luminosity function of radio galaxies measure significant evolution over the observed redshift range. For an {Omega}_M_=1 cosmology the evolution of the radio power is consistent with luminosity evolution where P(z)~P(0)(1+z)^K_L_^ and 3<K_L_<5. The observed evolution is similar to that observed for UVX and X-ray selected active galactic nuclei and is consistent with the same physical process being responsible for the optical and radio luminosity evolution of active galactic nuclei.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/115/1076
- Title:
- UBRVI photometry of Collinder 110
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/115/1076
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results of photoelectric UBVRI photometry of 78 stars and photographic PDS and CCD photometry for 437 stars are presented for Collinder 110, an old open cluster at low Galactic latitude. Proper motions obtained from Lick Sky Survey plates were used to identify 39 stars as foreground objects. The cluster's reddening, distance, and age are estimated as E(B-V)=0.50+/-0.03mag, r=1950+/-300pc, and t=1.4+/-0.3Gyr, assuming a solar metal abundance.
