- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/woodebcat
- Title:
- Wood Interacting Binaries Catalog
- Short Name:
- Wood/Bin
- Date:
- 11 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog, also called the Finding List (FL) of Interacting Binaries (5th edition), was abstracted from the Card Catalog maintained at the University of Florida which contains information on all published, and to the extent available, unpublished work on eclipsing binaries. The Card Catalog originated with Raymond Smith Dugan in the 1930's, who published from it the first edition of "A Finding List for Observers of Eclipsing Variables" (Dugan 1934, Princeton Univ. Obs. Contrib. No. 15). Successive editions of FL were subsequently published by Pierce (1947, Princeton Univ. Obs. Contrib. No. 22), by Wood (1953, Univ. Pennsylvania Astron. Series, Vol. VIII), by Koch et al. (1963, Univ. Pennsylvania Astron. Series, Vol. IX), and by Wood et al. (1980, Univ. Pennsylvania Astron. Series, Vol. XII). The FL was conceived as an aid to observers of eclipsing variables in selecting an observing program efficiently from the collection of all known data in an easy-to-use format. Although this format has changed over the years to meet existing requirements, the basic information content remains the same. The current edition differs from previous ones in the extension of the magnitude limit at minimum light from 13 to 15. In earlier editions, a binary system was not included unless the editors were reasonably certain that the system was indeed an eclipsing or (rarely) an ellipsoidal variable. The fifth edition includes all systems that the editors were fairly certain are either eclipsing or radiometrically variable binaries. The catalog fields are Finding List number; star name; position (given in the original catalog in equinox 1900); blue magnitude at maximum light; bandpass of maximum light; depth of primary minimum in same bandpass; bandpass primary minimum; depth of secondary minimum and its bandpass; spectral class of star eclipsed at primary light and optional uncertainty character; spectral class of star eclipsed at secondary light; most recent reliable epoch of primary minimum; most recent orbital period; duration of primary minimum; duration of totality of primary minimum; BD, CoD, CPD, and HD number; alternate designations of system; and codes indicating the nature of the system. This database was created by the HEASARC in December 1997 based on a computer readable version of the catalog that was obtained from the CDS (their catalog VI/44): a few additions were made by the HEASARC that are listed in the HEASARC_Changes section of the present document. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/woolley
- Title:
- Woolley Catalog of Stars within 25 Parsecs
- Short Name:
- WOOLLEY
- Date:
- 11 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog was constructed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in order to enlarge the Gliese (1957, Mitt. Astron. Rechen-Inst., Ser. A, No. 8) compilation. It contains data on stars nearer than 25 pc that were not included in that version of Gliese's catalog, plus some additional information that had been published after 1957 on stars which were present in the 1957 version of the Gliese catalog. The electronic version contains essentially all information given in Table Ia of the published Woolley catalog, plus positional data, and most cross references to other catalogs given in Table IIa. The notes flags in Table Ia are not included because the notes are not machine-readable. Omitted from Table IIa are the finding-chart indicators (Lowell G numbers or notes references) and miscellaneous cross identifications to other names and catalog identifiers. Tables Ib and IIb, containing 21 systems originally included in Gliese's (1957) catalog but for which revised parallaxes have placed them farther than 25 pc are not included in the electronic version. Data in the electronic version include the Gliese number (newly added stars by Woolley have numbers beginning with 9001, but new parallaxes have removed 9419 and added 9849 and 9850 from the < 25 parsecs sample), component identifications for multiple systems, parallaxes, annual proper motions, radial velocities, (U,V,W) space velocities, box orbit parameters (omega, e, i), spectral types, UBV data, absolute visual magnitudes, positions, GCTP (General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes) and its Supplement (Jenkins 1952, 1963) names, HD, DM, GCRV (General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, Publ. Carnegie Inst., Washington, No. 601, Wilson 1953) and other catalog identifiers, BS (= HR) (Hoffleit 1964) numbers, and remarks codes for spectroscopic binaries (SB), doubles, variables, etc. Note that there is an entry in this catalog for the Sun, for which many fields, such as RA and Dec, have not been populated. This table was recreated by the HEASARC in December 2002 based on the 21-Jul-1997 version of the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/V/32A">CDS Catalog V/32A</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://badc.naoc.cn/WDC-Astro
- Title:
- World Data Center for Astronomy
- Short Name:
- WDC-Astronomy
- Date:
- 04 Apr 2008 16:54:29
- Publisher:
- National Astronomical Observatory of China
- Description:
- World Data Center for Astronomy, hosted at National Astronomical Observatory of China, Beijing, China
- ID:
- ivo://ar.nova/fcaglp2/q/ssa
- Title:
- WR 35a: A new double-lined spectroscopic binary (Gamen+, 2014, A&A, 562, 13) at NOVA
- Short Name:
- NOVA WR35a
- Date:
- 30 Dec 2015 14:50:29
- Publisher:
- Nova
- Description:
- Reduced spectra used in the paper entitled "WR 35a: A new double-lined spectroscopic binary", by R. Gamen et al. to appear in the A&A journal (2014).
24835. Wra 751 light curves
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/484/463
- Title:
- Wra 751 light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/484/463
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Wra 751 is a Luminous Blue Variable that lately exhibits strong changes in light and colour. We summarize the available photometry of Wra 751, present new photometric observations, and discuss these data with special attention on the systematic differences between the various data sources. In addition, we establish an empirical relationship between b-y and B-V for this class of stars. Wra 751 is a strong-active member of the S Dor class exhibiting very-long term S Doradus phases with an amplitude of about two magnitudes in V and a cycle length of several decades. The associated B-V colour-index amplitude is about 0.4mag. At this moment this LBV, which is the reddest member of the class, goes through the bright (and red) stage of a long-term S Dor cycle. The S Dor behaviour of this system shows some resemblance to the temporal characteristics of the Galactic LBV AG Car: time scales and amplitudes of light and colour variability are very similar.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/A99
- Title:
- WR11 field at decimeter wavelengths
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/625/A99
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The massive binary system WR 11 ({gamma}^2^-Velorum) has recently been proposed as the counterpart of a Fermi source. If this association is correct, this system would be the second colliding wind binary detected in GeV {gamma}-rays. However, the reported flux measurements from 1.4 to 8.64 GHz fail to establish the presence of nonthermal (synchrotron) emission from this source. Moreover, WR 11 is not the only radio source within the Fermi detection box. Other possible counterparts have been identified in archival data, some of which present strong nonthermal radio emission. We conducted arcsec-resolution observations toward WR 11 at very low frequencies (150-1400 MHz) where the nonthermal emission - if existent and not absorbed - is expected to dominate. We present a catalog of more than 400 radio emitters, among which a significant portion are detected at more than one frequency, including limited spectral index information. Twenty-one of these radio emitters are located within the Fermi significant emission. A search for counterparts for this last group pointed at MOST 0808-471; this source is 2' away from WR 11 and is a promising candidate for high-energy emission, having a resolved structure along 325-1390 MHz. For this source, we reprocessed archive interferometric data up to 22.3 GHz and obtained a nonthermal radio spectral index of -0.97+/-0.09. However, multiwavelength observations of this source are required to establish its nature and to assess whether it can produce (part of) the observed {gamma}-rays. WR 11 spectrum follows a spectral index of 0.74+/-0.03 from 150 to 230 GHz, consistent with thermal emission. We interpret that any putative synchrotron radiation from the colliding-wind region of this relatively short-period system is absorbed in the photospheres of the individual components. Notwithstanding, the new radio data allowed us to derive a mass-loss rate of 2.5x10^-5^ M_{sun}_/yr, which, according to the latest models for {gamma}-ray emission in WR 11, would suffice to provide the required kinetic power to feed nonthermal radiation processes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/136/35
- Title:
- WR galaxies and HII regions catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/136/35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new compilation of Wolf-Rayet (WR) galaxies and extra-galactic HII regions showing broad He II {lambda}4686 emission drawn from the literature. Relevant information on the presence of other broad emission lines (N III {lambda}4640, C IV {lambda}5808 and other) from WR stars of WN and WC subtypes, and other existing broad nebular lines is provided. In total we include 139 known WR galaxies. Among these, 57 objects show both broad He II {lambda}4686 and C IV {lambda}5808 features. In addition to the broad (stellar) He II {lambda}4686 emission, a nebular He II component is well established (suspected) in 44 (54) objects. We find 19 extra-galactic HII regions without WR detections showing nebular He II {lambda}4686 emission. The present sample can be used for a variety of studies on massive stars, interactions of massive stars with the ISM, stellar populations, starburst galaxies etc. The data is accessible electronically and will be updated periodically
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wsrtgp
- Title:
- WSRT Galactic Plane Compact 327-MHz Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- WSRTGP
- Date:
- 11 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands has been used to survey the section of the galactic plane from +42 to +92 degrees Galactic Longitude l at a radio frequency of 327 MHz. Twenty-three overlapping synthesis fields were observed in the Galactic Latitude b band of |b| < 1.6 degrees. Each field was observed at two epochs, several years apart, to identify variable sources. Intensity data from the separate epochs were combined, and the resulting images mosaicked to produce a single image of the entire survey region. The sensitivity of the mosaic is typically a few mJy, corresponding to a detection level as low as 10 mJy/beam. The spatial resolution is 1' by 1' * cosec(Dec). The survey image provided the first high resolution view of the Galaxy at low radio frequencies, and included sections of the Sagittarius and Cygnus arms. These sections contain numerous extended features, among them supernova remnants, H II regions, "bubbles" of thermal emission, and large patches of amorphous galactic thermal emission. The inter-arm region is characterized by lower densities of extended features, but numerous discrete compact radio sources, most of which are background objects such as quasars and other types of active galactic nuclei. However, the resolution, sensitivity and low frequency of this survey make it ideal for detecting weak, non-thermal compact galactic sources, e.g. compact, low surface brightness SNRs and radio stars. Inspection of the survey image has produced a catalog of nearly 4000 discrete sources with sizes of less than about 3'. Gaussian model parameters for each compact source in the mosaicked images were obtained using the AIPS routine IMFIT. The background-removed intensity distribution of each source was fitted by a 2-dimensional Gaussian, parametrized by the source position, peak intensity, major and minor axes, and the position angle of the major axis. The catalog contains all sources having peak intensity > 5 times the rms noise level measured in the surrounding area of the image, and lists RA, Dec, flux density, and, if the source is resolved, the deconvolved major and minor axis and the position angle of the source. Sources were identified based on visual inspection of the images. In practice, a source had to have dimensions of less than a few arcminutes to be classified as a compact source. Most (85%) of the sources are either unresolved or only slightly resolved (major axis < 60"), but some sources have dimensions as large as 6'. A source was considered resolved if the area of its Gaussian model was greater than the area of the beam by more than 4 times its uncertainty. Approximately 15% of the sources are resolved, with dimensions of 1'- 3'. The spatial distribution of resolved sources shows concentrations toward the spiral arms and follows the warping of the Galactic disk over the length of the survey region, indicating that a sizable fraction is Galactic. In the reference paper, spectral indices are calculated for 1313 sources detected in other radio surveys at frequencies greater than 408 MHz. The resolved sources exhibit a bimodal spectral index distribution, with distinct non-thermal and thermal populations. Comparison with the IRAS Point Source Catalogue results in 118 identifications between WSRT and IRAS sources, which are listed in Table 1 of the reference paper. Most of these are thermal radio sources associated with compact Galactic objects such as H II regions and planetary nebulae. A search for variability among 2148 of the compact sources has resulted in 29 candidate low-frequency variable sources, which are listed in Table 2 of the reference paper. See the project website at <a href="http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/wsrt_survey.html">http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/wsrt_survey.html</a> for the WSRTGP images available in JPEG, PostScript, and FITS formats. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/107/239">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/107/239</a> file wsrt.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/561/A28
- Title:
- WSRT HI data cubes of the dwarf galaxy UGCA 105
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/561/A28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Owing to their shallow stellar potential, dwarf galaxies possess thick gas disks, which makes them good candidates for studies of the galactic vertical kinematical structure. We present 21cm line observations of the isolated nearby dwarf irregular galaxy UGCA 105, taken with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), and analyse the geometry of its neutral hydrogen (HI) disk and its kinematics. The galaxy shows a fragmented HI distribution. It is more extended than the optical disk, and hence allows one to determine its kinematics out to very large galacto- centric distances. The HI kinematics and morphology are well-ordered and symmetric for an irregular galaxy. The HI is sufficiently extended to observe a substantial amount of differential rotation. Moreover, UGCA 105 shows strong signatures for the presence of a kinematically anomalous gas component. Performing tilted-ring modelling by use of the least-squares fitting routine TiRiFiC, we found that the HI disk of UGCA 105 has a moderately warped and diffuse outermost part. Probing a wide range of parameter combinations, we succeeded in modelling the data cube as a disk with a strong vertical gradient in rotation velocity (~-60km/s/kpc), as well as vertically increasing inwards motion (~-70km/s/kpc) within the radius of the stellar disk. The inferred radial gas inflow amounts to 0.06M_{sun}_/yr, which is similar to the star formation rate of the galaxy. The observed kinematics are hence compatible with direct or indirect accretion from the intergalactic medium, an extreme backflow of material that has formerly been expelled from the disk, or a combination of both.
24840. WSRT survey of Cygnus OB2
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/149/123
- Title:
- WSRT survey of Cygnus OB2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/149/123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a radio continuum survey at 1400 and 350 MHz of a region of 2{deg}x2{deg} centered on the Cygnus OB2 association (d=1.7kpc), using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) with angular resolutions of, respectively, 13" and 55". The resulting 5{sigma} flux-density limits of, respectively, ~2mJy and ~10-15mJy are a significant improvement over previous surveys. We detected 210 discrete sources with sizes less than 1.9{theta}beam (beam size), 98 of which at both frequencies. We also detected 28 resolved sources (sizes>1.9{theta}beam) still having well-defined peak intensities. The observed spectral index {alpha}^1400^_350_ distribution and source count strongly suggest an excess of sources of Galactic origin in the direction of Cyg OB2.
