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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/43
- Title:
- K-line photometry of Southern A stars
- Short Name:
- II/43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The photoelectric measurements of the strength of the Calcium K-line has been extended by 223 stars of predominantly southern or equatorial declinations which are well distributed in right ascension. This has expanded the existent list to 369 field stars for which a k-index is available, including many more Am stars. All available k-index data for field stars are presented here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/24/35
- Title:
- LMC A-F supergiants
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/24/35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A survey for A-F type supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been carried out using UV objective prism plates. 890 objects were detected and their spectral types, luminosity classes, magnitudes, and precise positions determined. The survey is practically complete to m_pg_=12.5 and extends for certain types of stars to m_pg_=14. It is found that the spatial distribution of the A-F supergiants is not correlated with the distribution of the gas and OB stars of the cloud. This is evidence in support of the tentative identification by Stock and Wroblewski of early-type galactic supergiants well off the plane. Several other implications of this result are also discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/44
- Title:
- Near-IR spectrum of HIP 109427 with SCExAO/CHARIS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/44
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 06:55:09
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the direct imaging discovery of a low-mass companion to the nearby accelerating A star, HIP109427, with the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument coupled with the Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Exoplanet Camera (MEC) and CHARIS integral field spectrograph. CHARIS data reduced with reference star point spread function (PSF) subtraction yield 1.1-2.4{mu}m spectra. MEC reveals the companion in Y and J band at a comparable signal-to-noise ratio using stochastic speckle discrimination, with no PSF subtraction techniques. Combined with complementary follow-up Lp photometry from Keck/NIRC2, the SCExAO data favors a spectral type, effective temperature, and luminosity of M4-M5.5, 3000-3200K, and log_10_(L/L{odot})=-2.28_-0.04_^+0.04^, respectively. Relative astrometry of HIP109427B from SCExAO/CHARIS and Keck/NIRC2, and complementary Gaia-Hipparcos absolute astrometry of the primary favor a semimajor axis of 6.55+3.0-0.48au, an eccentricity of 0.54_-0.15_^+0.28^, an inclination of 66.7_-14_^+8.5^degrees, and a dynamical mass of 0.280_-0.059_^+0.18^M{sun}. This work shows the potential for extreme AO systems to utilize speckle statistics in addition to widely used postprocessing methods to directly image faint companions to nearby stars near the telescope diffraction limit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/422/2765
- Title:
- Orbital motion monitoring of A-star multiples
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/422/2765
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As a part of our ongoing Volume-limited A-Star (VAST) adaptive optics survey, we have obtained observations of 26 binary systems with projected separations <100AU, 13 of which have sufficient historical measurements to allow for refinement of their orbital elements. For each system with an estimated orbit, the dynamical system mass obtained was compared with the system mass estimated from mass-magnitude relations. Discrepancies between the dynamical and theoretical system mass can be explained by the presence of a previously unresolved spectroscopic component, or by a non-solar metallicity of the system. Using this approach to infer the presence of additional companions, a lower limit to the fraction of binaries, triples, and quadruples can be estimated as 39%, 46%, and 15%, for systems with at least one companion within 100AU. The fraction of multiple systems with three or more components shows a relative increase compared to the fraction for Solar-type primaries resolved in previous volume-limited surveys. The observations have also revealed a pair of potentially young (<100Myr) M-dwarf companions, which would make an ideal benchmark for the theoretical models during the pre-Main Sequence contraction phase for M-dwarfs. In addition to those systems with orbit fits, we report 13 systems for which further orbital monitoring observations, are required, 11 of which are newly resolved as a part of the VAST survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/554/A108
- Title:
- Periodic variables in NGC 3766
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/554/A108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze the population of periodic variable stars in the open cluster NGC3766 based on a 7-year multiband monitoring campaign conducted on the 1.2m Swiss Euler telescope at La Silla, Chili. The data reduction, light curve cleaning, and period search procedures, combined with the long observation time line, allowed us to detect variability amplitudes down to the mmag level. The variability properties were complemented with the positions in the color-magnitude and color-color diagrams to classify periodic variable stars into distinct variability types. We find a large population (36 stars) of new variable stars between the red edge of slowly pulsating B (SPB) stars and the blue edge of delta Sct stars, a region in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram where no pulsation is predicted to occur based on standard stellar models. The bulk of their periods ranges from 0.1 to 0.7d, with amplitudes between 1 and 4mmag for the majority of them. About 20% of stars in that region of the HR diagram are found to be variable, but the number of members of this new group is expected to be higher, with amplitudes below our mmag detection limit. The properties of this new group of variable stars are summarized and arguments set forth in favor of a pulsation origin of the variability, with g-modes sustained by stellar rotation. Potential members of this new class of low-amplitude periodic (most probably pulsating) A and late-B variables in the literature are discussed. We additionally identify 16 eclipsing binary, 13 SPB, 14 delta Sct, and 12 gamma Dor candidates, as well as 72 fainter periodic variables. All are new discoveries. We encourage searching for this new class of variables in other young open clusters, especially in those hosting a rich population of Be stars.
37. phi Leo spectra
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/653/A115
- Title:
- phi Leo spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/653/A115
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Variable red- and blue-shifted absorption features observed in the CaII K line towards the A-type shell star {phi} Leo have been suggested by us in a previous work to be likely due to solid, comet-like bodies in the circumstellar (CS) environment. Our aim is to expand our observational study of this object to other characteristic spectral lines of A-type photospheres as well as to lines arising in their CS shells. We have obtained more than 500 high-resolution optical spectra collected at different telescopes during 37 nights in several observing runs from December 2015 to January 2019. Time series consecutive spectra were taken, covering intervals of up to ~9 hours in some nights. We have analysed some photospheric lines, in particular CaI 4226{AA} and MgII 4481{AA}, as well as the circumstellar shell lines CaII H&K, CaII IR triplet, FeII 4924, 5018 and 5169{AA}, TiII 3685, 3759 and 3761{AA}, and the Balmer lines H{alpha} and H{beta}. Our observational study reveals that {phi} Leo is a variable delta Scuti star whose spectra show remarkable dumps and bumps superimposed on the photospheric line profiles, which vary their strength and sharpness, propagate from blue- to more red-shifted radial velocities and persisting during a few hours. Similarly t o other delta Scuti stars, these features are likely produced by non-radial pulsations. At the same time, all shell lines present an emission at ~3km/s centered at the core of the CS features, and two variable absorption minima at both sides of the emission; those absorption minima occur at practically the same velocity for each line, i.e., no apparent dynamical evolution is observed. The variations observed in the CaII H&K, FeII and TiII lines occur at any time scale from minutes to days and observing run, but without any clear correlation or recognizable temporal pattern among the different lines. In the case of H{alpha} the CS contribution is also variable in just one of the observing runs. Summarizing, we suggest that {phi} Leo is a rapidly rotating delta Scuti star surrounded by a variable, (nearly) edge-on CS disk possibly re-supplied by the delta Scuti pulsations. The behaviour of the CS shell lines is reminiscent of the one observed in rapidly rotating Be shell stars with an edge-on CS disk, and clearly points out that the variations observed in the CS features of {phi} Leo are highly unlikely to be produced by exocomets. In addition, the observational results presented in this work, together with some recent results concerning the shell star HR 10, suggest the need of a critical revision of the CaII K features which have been attributed to exocomets in other shell stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/441/3543
- Title:
- Possible planets around A stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/441/3543
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Kepler photometry of A stars shows that a considerable fraction (about 19 per cent) have a peculiar feature in the periodogram. This feature consists of a broad peak, thought to be due to differential rotation in a spotted star, and a sharp peak at slightly higher frequency. The pattern clearly involves some widespread stellar property and the sharp peak implies a strictly coherent periodicity. We investigate the possibility that the periodicity is due to rotation, pulsation or an orbital effect. We argue that neither rotation nor pulsation can provide a suitable, testable, explanation. We suggest that the sharp feature could be due to a planet in synchronous orbit around the rapidly rotating, spotted A star, not necessarily in transit. Spectroscopic observations of sufficient precision are required to falsify this hypothesis.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/121/2148
- Title:
- Precise spectral types for 372 A, F & G stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/121/2148
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the first in a series of two papers that address the problem of the physical nature of luminosity classification in the late A-, F-, and early G-type stars. In this paper, we present precise spectral classifications of 372 stars on the MK system. For those stars in the set with Stroemgren uvby{beta} photometry, we derive reddenings and present a calibration of MK temperature types in terms of the intrinsic Stroemgren (b-y)_0_ index. We also examine the relationship between the luminosity class and the Stroemgren c_1_ index, which measures the Balmer jump. The second paper will address the derivation of the physical parameters of these stars, and the relationships between these physical parameters and the luminosity class. Stars classified in this paper include one new {lambda} Bootis star and 10 of the F- and G-type dwarfs with recently discovered planets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/897/48
- Title:
- Properties of Galactic Be Supergiants. VI.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/897/48
- Date:
- 11 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of long-term spectroscopic monitoring of the A-type supergiant with the B[e] phenomenon 3Pup=HD62623. We confirm earlier findings that it is a binary system. The orbital parameters were derived using cross-correlation of the spectra in a range of 4460-4632{AA}, which contains over 30 absorption lines. The orbit was found to be circular with a period of 137.4{+/-}0.1days, radial velocity semiamplitude K1=5.0{+/-}0.8km/s, systemic radial velocity {gamma}=26.4{+/-}2.0km/s, and mass function f(m)=(1.81_-0.76_^+0.97^)x10^-3^M{sun}. The object may have evolved from a pair with initial masses of ~6.0M{odot} and ~3.6M{sun} with an initial orbital period of ~5days. Based on the fundamental parameters of the A-supergiant (luminosity log L/L{sun}=4.1{+/-}0.1 and effective temperature Teff=8500{+/-}500K) and evolutionary tracks of mass-transferring binaries, we found current masses of the gainer M2=8.8{+/-}0.5M{sun} and donor M1=0.75{+/-}0.25M{sun}. We also modeled the object's IR-excess and derived a dust mass of ~5x10^-5^M{sun} in the optically thin dusty disk. The orbital parameters and properties of the H{alpha} line profile suggest that the circumstellar gaseous disk is predominantly circumbinary. The relatively low mass of the gainer led us to a suggestion that 3 Pup should be excluded from the B[e] supergiant group and moved to the FSCMa group. Overall these results further support our original suggestion that FSCMa objects are binary systems, where an earlier mass transfer caused formation of the circumstellar envelope.
