- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/193
- Title:
- BVRI light curve of RR Lyrea V* AX UMa
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/193
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The pulsation periods of RR-Lyrae stars usually vary with time, and they are often used as probes to study the mechanism behind the variation. After the early discovery that the pulsation period of the RR-Lyrae star AXUMa decreased rapidly, in further research, we made multiband photometric observations of this star using the Sino-Thai 70cm telescope and the 60cm telescope at Yunnan Observatories, and collected its light-curve data from several photometry sky surveys. The O-C diagram confirmed that AX UMa has a rapid period decrease with a rate of -7.752{+/-}0.005days/Myr, which indicates that it is the fastest-period decreasing ab-type RR Lyrae star in the Galactic field. Moreover, the O-C residuals contain additional periodic variations. We suppose that the variation with a long period is probably caused by the light-travel time effect as the star orbits in a binary system. The calculation shows that the lower mass limit of the companion is about 1M{sun}. Combined with the full amplitudes and color indexes, we suggested that the companion is probably a hot subdwarf star. We compared the light curves of AXUMa and those of another binary evolution pulsator, OGLE-BLG-RRLYR-02792, and found that the former shows the characteristics of ab-type RR-Lyrae stars, while the latter is more like an extreme long-period c-type RR-Lyrae star. However, the absence of a bump in the light curves implies that the mass loss has occurred in the outer atmosphere of AXUMa. The special features of AXUMa make it worth more attention and further observations.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A78
- Title:
- BVRI light curves and RV curves of 65 UMa
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/542/A78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The study of stellar multiple systems provides us with important information about the stellar formation processes and can help us to estimate the multiplicity fraction in the Galaxy. 65 UMa belongs to a rather small group of stellar systems of higher multiplicity, whose inner and outer orbits are well-known. This allows us to study the long-term stability and evolution of the orbits in these systems. We obtained new photometric and spectroscopic data that when combined with interferometric data enables us to analyze the system 65 UMa and determine its basic physical properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/419/167
- Title:
- BVRI photometry in metal-poor binaries
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/419/167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explored the regions within a radius of 25 arcsec around 473 nearby, low-metallicity G- to M-type stars using (VR)I optical filters and small-aperture telescopes. About 10% of the sample was searched up to angular separations of 90 arcsec. We applied photometric and astrometric techniques to detect true physical companions to the targets. The great majority of the sample stars was drawn from the Carney-Latham surveys; their metallicities range from roughly solar to [Fe/H]=-3.5dex. Our I-band photometric survey detected objects that are between 0 and 5mag fainter (completeness) than the target stars; the maximum dynamical range of our exploration is 9mag.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/292
- Title:
- BVRI photometry of pre-W UMA binary V642 Virginis
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/292
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 00:08:32
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- V642Vir is a polar spotted, well-detached, UV Leo-type, low-mass, pre-WUMa (T1~4250K, ~K6V) eclipsing binary. It was observed in 2020 April, May, and June at the Dark Sky Observatory in North Carolina, USA with the 0.81m reflector of Appalachian State University. A total of 88 timings were used in our 22-year period study which included 12 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) timings. The O-C plots show a low-amplitude oscillation of residuals that points to the existence of an orbiting third body, a dwarf of minimum mass, 0.15M{sun} in an eccentric orbit (e=0.41), with an orbital period of 20.07yr. The odd light curves of V642 Virginis indicate that it has polar spots similar to UV Leo and the recently published V1023Per. Its present large polar spot region indicates that it must have a strong magnetic field and that it is synchronously rotating. The BVR_c_I_c_ simultaneous Wilson-Devinney Program solution gives a detached binary (primary and secondary components are underfilling their respective Roche Lobes, with 76% and 78% fill outs respectively). The cool spot region models near the pole of the primary component (centered at 10{deg} colatitude) and is angled toward the secondary component. Its large radius (68{deg}) and T-fact (T_spot_/T_surface_=0.69) also attest to the conclusion of the strength of the magnetic field. The small {Delta}T in the components (~318K) and mass ratio near unity (0.9542{+/-}0.0005) show that the stars are similar in spectral type (secondary ~K9V). The inclination is high, ~86.87{+/-}0.04{deg}, yet there is no time of constant light due to the two stars essentially equal radii.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/540/A82
- Title:
- CaIIHK emission in stars with close-in planets
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/540/A82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The planet-star interaction is manifested in many ways. It has been found that a close-in exoplanet causes small but measurable variability in the cores of a few lines in the spectra of several stars, which corresponds to the orbital period of the exoplanet. Stars with and without exoplanets may have different properties. The main goal of our study is to search for the influence that exoplanets might have on atmospheres of their host stars. Unlike the previous studies, we do not study changes in the spectrum of a host star or differences between stars with and without exoplanets. We aim to study a large number of stars with exoplanets and the current level of their chromospheric activity and to look for a possible correlation with the exoplanetary properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A69
- Title:
- CaII transmission spectrum of WASP-33b and KELT-9b
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Ultra-hot Jupiters are emerging as a new class of exoplanets. Studying their chemical compositions and temperature structures will improve the understanding of their mass loss rate as well as their formation and evolution. We present the detection of ionized calcium in the two hottest giant exoplanets - KELT-9b and WASP-33b. By utilizing transit datasets from CARMENES and HARPS-N observations, we achieved high confidence level detections of CaII using the cross-correlation method. We further obtain the transmission spectra around the individual lines of the CaII H&K doublet and the near-infrared triplet, and measure their line profiles. The CaII H&K lines have an average line depth of 2.02+/-0.17% (effective radius of 1.56Rp) for WASP-33b and an average line depth of 0.78+/-0.04% (effective radius of 1.47Rp) for KELT-9b, which indicates that the absorptions are from very high upper atmosphere layers close to the planetary Roche lobes. The observed CaII lines are significantly deeper than the predicted values from the hydrostatic models. Such a discrepancy is probably a result of hydrodynamic outflow that transports a significant amount of CaII into the upper atmosphere. The prominent CaII detection with the lack of significant CaI detection implies that calcium is mostly ionized in the upper atmospheres of the two planets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/744/138
- Title:
- Calibrated visibilities of {epsilon} Eri
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/744/138
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measured the angular diameter of the exoplanet host star {epsilon} Eridani using the Navy Optical Interferometer. We determined its physical radius, effective temperature, and mass by combining our measurement with the star's parallax, photometry from the literature, and the Yonsei-Yale isochrones, respectively. We used the resulting stellar mass of 0.82+/-0.05M_{sun}_ plus the mass function from Benedict et al. to calculate the planet's mass, which is 1.53+/-0.22M_Jupiter_. Using our new effective temperature, we also estimated the extent of the habitable zone for the system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/414/108
- Title:
- Calibrator of exoplanet-host stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/414/108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Phase-referenced interferometric astrometry offers the possibility to look for exoplanets around bright stars. Instruments like PRIMA (Phase-Referenced Imaging and Micro-arcsecond Astrometry) will measure the astrometric wobble of a candidate star due to an exoplanet relative to a close-by 'calibrator' star, located within the instrument's observing field (1-arcmin in the PRIMA case). Stars with already known exoplanets will constitute the first targets for this technique, as it will provide a way to further specify the characteristics of the known exoplanets, such as the inclinations. The main requirement is to have a calibrator in the vicinity of the star. We provide here a list of calibrators for all stars with known exoplanets obtained using data mining and Virtual Observatory techniques. This list is available online and revised regularly. The calibrators are found from catalogues available at Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) using the SearchCal software developed at Jean-Marie Mariotti Center (JMMC). In our test case, the calibrators are found within 1 arcmin angular distance for approximately 50 per cent of the stars tested, and often closer. They are all faint objects from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) with K magnitudes between 13 and 15. A list of the most promising targets is also given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/264
- Title:
- California-Kepler Survey. VII. Planet radius gap
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/264
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The distribution of planet sizes encodes details of planet formation and evolution. We present the most precise planet size distribution to date based on Gaia parallaxes, Kepler photometry, and spectroscopic temperatures from the California-Kepler Survey. Previously, we measured stellar radii to 11% precision using high-resolution spectroscopy; by adding Gaia astrometry, the errors are now 3%. Planet radius measurements are, in turn, improved to 5% precision. With a catalog of ~1000 planets with precise properties, we probed in fine detail the gap in the planet size distribution that separates two classes of small planets, rocky super-Earths and gas-dominated sub-Neptunes. Our previous study and others suggested that the gap may be observationally under-resolved and inherently flat-bottomed, with a band of forbidden planet sizes. Analysis based on our new catalog refutes this; the gap is partially filled in. Two other important factors that sculpt the distribution are a planet's orbital distance and its host-star mass, both of which are related to a planet's X-ray/UV irradiation history. For lower-mass stars, the bimodal planet distribution shifts to smaller sizes, consistent with smaller stars producing smaller planet cores. Details of the size distribution including the extent of the "sub-Neptune desert" and the width and slope of the gap support the view that photoevaporation of low-density atmospheres is the dominant evolutionary determinant of the planet size distribution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/790/158
- Title:
- Candidate halo wide binaries
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/790/158
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an improved catalog of halo wide binaries compiled from an extensive literature search. Most of our binaries stem from the common proper motion binary catalogs by Allen et al. (2000, J/A+A/356/529) and Chaname & Gould (2004ApJ...601..289C), but we have also included binaries from the lists of Ryan (1992AJ....104.1144R) and Zapatero-Osorio & Martin (2004, J/A+A/419/167). All binaries were carefully checked and their distances and systemic radial velocities are included when available. Probable membership to the halo population was tested by means of reduced proper motion diagrams for 251 candidate halo binaries. After eliminating obvious disk binaries, we ended up with 211 probable halo binaries, 150 of which have radial velocities available. We compute galactic orbits for these 150 binaries and calculate the time they spend within the galactic disk. Considering the full sample of 251 candidate halo binaries as well as several subsamples, we find that the distribution of angular separations (or expected major semiaxes) follows a power law f(a) ~ a.^-1^ (Oepik's relation) up to different limits. For the 50 most disk-like binaries, those that spend their entire lives within z = +/-500 pc, this limit is found to be 19,000 AU (0.09 pc), while for the 50 most halo-like binaries, those that spend on average only 18% of their lives within z = +/-500 pc, the limit is 63,000 AU (0.31 pc). In a companion paper, we employ this catalog to establish limits on the masses of the halo massive perturbers (massive compact halo objects).
