- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/2214
- Title:
- Photometry of Magellanic OB associations
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/119/2214
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine new CCD UBV photometry and spectroscopy with those from the literature to investigate 19 Magellanic Cloud OB associations that contain Wolf-Rayet (W-R) and other types of evolved, massive stars. Our spectroscopy reveals a wealth of newly identified interesting objects, including early O-type supergiants, a high-mass, double-lined binary in the SMC, and, in the LMC, a newly confirmed luminous blue variable (LBV; R85), a newly discovered W-R star (Sk -69^deg^ 194), and a newly found luminous B[e] star (LH 85-10). We use these data to provide precise reddening determinations and construct physical H-R diagrams for the associations.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/126/469
- Title:
- PolarBase catalogue of stellar spectra
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/126/469
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- PolarBase is an evolving data base that contains all stellar data collected with the ESPaDOnS and NARVAL high-resolution spectropolarimeters, in their reduced form, as soon as they become public. As of early 2014, observations of 2,000 stellar objects throughout the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are available. Intensity spectra are available for all targets, and the majority of the observations also include simultaneous spectra in circular or linear polarization, with the majority of the polarimetric measurements being performed only in circularly polarized light (Stokes V). Observations are associated with a cross-correlation pseudo-line profile in all available Stokes parameters, greatly increasing the detectability of weak polarized signatures. Stokes V signatures are detected for more than 300 stars of all masses and evolutionary stages, and linear polarization is detected in 35 targets. The detection rate in Stokes V is found to be anti-correlated with the stellar effective temperature. This unique set of Zeeman detections offers the first opportunity to run homogeneous magnetometry studies throughout the H-R diagram. The web interface of PolarBase is available at http://polarbase.irap.omp.eu.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/polarbase
- Title:
- PolarBase spectropolarimetric database (ESPaDOnS, NARVAL)
- Short Name:
- B/polarbase
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- PolarBase is an evolving data base that contains all stellar data collected with the ESPaDOnS and NARVAL high-resolution spectropolarimeters, in their reduced form, as soon as they become public. As of early 2014, observations of 2,000 stellar objects throughout the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are available. Intensity spectra are available for all targets, and the majority of the observations also include simultaneous spectra in circular or linear polarization, with the majority of the polarimetric measurements being performed only in circularly polarized light (Stokes V). Observations are associated with a cross-correlation pseudo-line profile in all available Stokes parameters, greatly increasing the detectability of weak polarized signatures. Stokes V signatures are detected for more than 300 stars of all masses and evolutionary stages, and linear polarization is detected in 35 targets. The detection rate in Stokes V is found to be anti-correlated with the stellar effective temperature. This unique set of Zeeman detections offers the first opportunity to run homogeneous magnetometry studies throughout the H-R diagram. The web interface of PolarBase is available at http://polarbase.irap.omp.eu.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/547/A80
- Title:
- Properties of Collinder 69 low-mass members
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/547/A80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Most observational studies conducted so far point toward brown dwarfs sharing a similar formation mechanism as the one that is accepted for low-mass stars. However, larger databases and more systematic studies are needed before strong conclusions can be reached. In this second paper of a series devoted to studying the spectroscopic properties of the Lambda Orionis star-forming region members, we study accretion, activity and rotation for a wide set of spectroscopically confirmed members of the central star cluster Collinder 69 to assess analogies and/or differences between the brown-dwarf and stellar populations of this cluster. Moreover, we present comparisons with other star-forming regions of similar and different ages to address environmental effects on our conclusions. We studied prominent photospheric lines to derive rotational velocities and emission lines to distinguish between accretion processes and chromospheric activity. In addition, we include information about disk presence and X-ray emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/137/451
- Title:
- Radial velocities. IX.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/137/451
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radial velocities have been determined for a sample of 2930 B2-F5 stars, 95% observed by the Hipparcos satellite in the north hemisphere and 80% without reliable radial velocity up to now. Observations were obtained at the Observatoire de Haute Provence with a dispersion of 80{AA}/mm with the aim of studying stellar and galactic dynamics. Radial velocities have been measured by correlation with templates of the same spectral class. The mean obtained precision is 3.0km/s with three observations. A new MK spectral classification is estimated for all stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/751/4
- Title:
- Radial velocities of massive stars in Cyg OB2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/751/4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work provides a statistical analysis of the massive star binary characteristics in the Cygnus OB2 association using radial velocity information of 114 B3-O5 primary stars and orbital properties for the 24 known binaries. We compare these data to a series of Monte Carlo simulations to infer the intrinsic binary fraction and distributions of mass ratios, periods, and eccentricities. We model the distribution of mass ratio, log-period, and eccentricity as power laws and find best-fitting indices of {alpha}=0.1+/-0.5, {beta}=0.2+/-0.4, and {gamma}=-0.6+/-0.3, respectively. These distributions indicate a preference for massive companions, short periods, and low eccentricities. Our analysis indicates that the binary fraction of the cluster is 44%+/-8% if all binary systems are (artificially) assumed to have P<1000 days; if the power-law period distribution is extrapolated to 10^4^ years, then a plausible upper limit for bound systems, the binary fraction is ~90%+/-10%. Of these binary (or higher order) systems, ~45% will have companions close enough to interact during pre- or post-main-sequence evolution (semi-major axis <~4.7AU). The period distribution for P<26 days is not well reproduced by any single power law owing to an excess of systems with periods around 3-5 days (0.08-0.31AU) and a relative shortage of systems with periods around 7-14 days (0.14-0.62AU). We explore the idea that these longer-period systems evolved to produce the observed excess of short-period systems. The best-fitting binary parameters imply that secondaries generate, on average, ~16% of the V-band light in young massive populations. This means that photometrically based distance measurements for young massive clusters and associations will be systematically low by ~8% (0.16 mag in the distance modulus) if the luminous contributions of unresolved secondaries are not taken into account.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/386/826
- Title:
- Radial velocities of SMC massive stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/386/826
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present radial velocities for 2045 stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), obtained from the 2dF survey by Evans et al. (2004, Cat. J/MNRAS/353/601). The great majority of these stars are of OBA type, tracing the dynamics of the young stellar population. Dividing the sample into ad hoc `bar' and `wing' samples (north and south, respectively, of the line: delta=-77^{deg}50' + [4{alpha}]', where alpha is in minutes of time) we find that the velocities in the SMC bar show a gradient of 26.3+/-1.6km/s/deg at a position angle of 126+/-4deg. The derived gradient in the bar is robust to the adopted line of demarcation between the two samples. The largest redshifts are found in the SMC wing, in which the velocity distribution appears distinct from that in the bar, most likely a consequence of the interaction between the Magellanic Clouds that is predicted to have occurred 0.2Gyr ago. The mean velocity for all stars in the sample is +172.0+/-0.2km/s (redshifted by ~20km/s when compared to published results for older populations), with a velocity dispersion of 30km/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/415/145
- Title:
- Radial velocities of 16 stars in NGC 6913
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/415/145
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Between 1996 and 2003 we obtained 226 high resolution spectra of 16 stars in the field of the young open cluster NGC 6913, to constrain its main properties and study its internal kinematics. Twelve of the program stars turned out to be members, one of them probably unbound. Nine are binaries (one eclipsing and another double lined) and for seven of them the observations allowed us to derive the orbital elements. All but two of the nine discovered binaries are cluster members. In spite of the young age (a few Myr), the cluster already shows signs that could be interpreted as evidence of dynamical relaxation and mass segregation. However, they may be also the result of an unconventional formation scenario. The dynamical (virial) mass as estimated from the radial velocity dispersion is larger than the cluster luminous mass, which may be explained by a combination of the optically thick interstellar cloud that occults part of the cluster, the unbound state or undetected very wide binary orbit of some of the members that inflate the velocity dispersion and a high inclination for the axis of possible cluster angular momentum. All the discovered binaries are hard enough to survive average close encounters within the cluster and do not yet show signs of relaxation of the orbital elements to values typical of field binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/681/1254
- Title:
- Radial velocities of stars in the Galactic Center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/681/1254
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from K-band slit scan observations of a ~20"x20" region of the Galactic center (GC) in two separate epochs more than 5 years apart. The high-resolution (R={lamda}/{Delta}{lambda}>=14000) observations allow the most accurate radial velocity and acceleration measurements of the stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy. Detected stars can be divided into three groups based on the CO absorption band heads at ~2.2935um and the HeII lines at ~2.0581 and ~2.112, 2.113um: cool, narrow-line hot, and broad-line hot. The radial velocities of the cool, late-type stars have approximately a symmetrical distribution with its center at ~-7.8+/-10.3km/s and a standard deviation ~113.7+/-10.3km/s. Although our statistics are dominated by the brightest stars, we estimate a central black hole mass of (3.9+/-1.1)x10^6^M_{sun}_, consistent with current estimates from complete orbits of individual stars. Our surface density profile and the velocity dispersion of the late-type stars support the existence of a low-density region at the Galactic center suggested by earlier observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/664/1102
- Title:
- Radial velocity survey of Cyg OB2 association
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/664/1102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We conducted a radial velocity survey of the Cyg OB2 association over a 6yr (1999-2005) time interval to search for massive close binaries. During this time we obtained 1139 spectra on 146 OB stars to measure mean systemic radial velocities and radial velocity variations. We spectroscopically identify 73 new OB stars for the first time, the majority of which are likely to be association members.
