- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/11
- Title:
- Spectra of candidate standard stars in mid-IR
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/149/11
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectra obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope of 33 K giants and 20 A dwarfs to assess their suitability as spectrophotometric standard stars. The K giants confirm previous findings that the strength of the SiO absorption band at 8{mu}m increases for both later optical spectral classes and redder (B-V)_0_ colors, but with considerable scatter. For K giants, the synthetic spectra underpredict the strengths of the molecular bands from SiO and OH. For these reasons, the assumed true spectra for K giants should be based on neither the assumption that molecular band strengths in the infrared can be predicted accurately from optical spectral class or color nor synthetric spectra. The OH bands in K giants grow stronger with cooler stellar temperatures, and they are stronger than predicted by synthetic spectra. As a group, A dwarfs are better behaved and more predictable than the K giants, but they are more likely to show red excesses from debris disks. No suitable A dwarfs were located in parts of the sky continuously observable from Spitzer, and with previous means of estimating the true spectra of K giants ruled out, it was necessary to use models of A dwarfs to calibrate spectra of K giants from observed spectral ratios of the two groups and then use the calibrated K giants as standards for the full database of infrared spectra from Spitzer. We also describe a lingering artifact that affects the spectra of faint blue sources at 24{mu}m.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A75
- Title:
- Spectra of 8 supergiants in nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The role of episodic mass loss in massive star evolution is one of the outstanding questions of current stellar evolution theory. Episodic mass loss produces dust and therefore causes evolved massive stars to be very luminous in the mid-infrared and dim at optical wavelengths. We aim to increase the number of investigated luminous mid-IR sources to shed light on the late stages of these objects. To achieve this we explore mid-IR selection criteria to identity dusty evolved massive stars in two nearby galaxies. The method is based on mid-IR colors, using 3.6um and 4.5um photometry from archival Spitzer Space Telescope images of nearby galaxies and J-band from 2MASS. We apply our criteria to two nearby star-forming dwarf-irregular galaxies: Sextans A and IC 1613, selecting 8 targets, which we follow up with spectroscopy. Our spectral classification and analysis yielded the discovery of 2 M-type supergiants in IC 1613, 3 K-type supergiants and 1 candidate F-type giant in Sextans A, and 2 foreground M giants. We show that the proposed criteria provide an independent way for identifying dusty evolved massive stars, which can be extended to all nearby galaxies with available Spitzer/IRAC images at 3.6um and 4.5um.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/564/421
- Title:
- Spectra of T dwarfs. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/564/421
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present near-infrared spectra for a sample of T dwarfs, including 11 new discoveries made using the 2 Micron All Sky Survey. These objects are distinguished from warmer (L-type) brown dwarfs by the presence of methane absorption bands in the 1-2.5{mu}m spectral region. A first attempt at a near-infrared classification scheme for T dwarfs is made, based on the strengths of CH_4_ and H_2_O bands and the shapes of the 1.25, 1.6, and 2.1{mu}m flux peaks. Subtypes T1 VT8 V are defined, and spectral indices useful for classification are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/691/672
- Title:
- Spectrocopy of YSOs in Serpens molecular cloud
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/691/672
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey designed to confirm the youth and determine the spectral types among a sample of young stellar object (YSO) candidates in the Serpens molecular cloud. We observed 150 infrared (IR) excess objects previously discovered by the Spitzer Legacy Program "From Molecular Cores to Planet-Forming Disks" (c2d), bright enough for subsequent Spitzer/InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS) spectroscopy. We obtained 78 optical spectra of sufficient signal-to-noise for analysis. Extinctions, effective temperatures, and luminosities are estimated for this sample, and used to construct Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagrams for the population. We identified 20 background giants contaminating the sample, based on their relatively high extinction, position in the H-R diagram, the lack of H{alpha} emission and relatively low IR excess. Such strong background contamination (25%) is consistent with the location of Serpens being close to the Galactic plane (5{deg} Galactic latitude). The remaining 58 stars (75%) were all confirmed to be young, mostly K- and M-type stars that are presumed to belong to the cloud. Our analysis shows that the majority of the IR excess objects detected in Serpens are actively accreting, young T-Tauri stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/695/1591
- Title:
- Spectrophotometry in PEARS fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/695/1591
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deep ACS slitless grism observations and identification of stellar sources are presented within the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North and South fields which were obtained in the Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS) program. It is demonstrated that even low-resolution spectra can be a very powerful means of identifying stars in the field, especially low-mass stars with stellar types M0 and later. The PEARS fields lay within the larger GOODS fields, and we used new, deeper images to further refine the selection of stars in the PEARS field, down to a magnitude of z_850_=25 using a newly developed stellarity parameter. The total number of stars with reliable spectroscopic and morphological identification was 95 and 108 in the north and south fields, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/786/120
- Title:
- Spectropolarimetric survey of classical Be stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/786/120
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent observational and theoretical studies of classical Be stars have established the utility of polarization color diagrams (PCDs) in helping to constrain the time-dependent mass decretion rates of these systems. We expand on our pilot observational study of this phenomenon, and report the detailed analysis of a long-term (1989-2004) spectropolarimetric survey of nine additional classical Be stars, including systems exhibiting evidence of partial disk-loss/disk-growth episodes as well as systems exhibiting long-term stable disks. After carefully characterizing and removing the interstellar polarization along the line of sight to each of these targets, we analyze their intrinsic polarization behavior. We find that many steady-state Be disks pause at the top of the PCD, as predicted by theory. We also observe sharp declines in the Balmer jump polarization for later spectral type, near edge-on steady-state disks, again as recently predicted by theory, likely caused when the base density of the disk is very high, and the outer region of the edge-on disk starts to self absorb a significant number of Balmer jump photons. The intrinsic V-band polarization and polarization position angle of {gamma} Cas exhibits variations that seem to phase with the orbital period of a known one-armed density structure in this disk, similar to the theoretical predictions of Halonen & Jones. We also observe stochastic jumps in the intrinsic polarization across the Balmer jump of several known Be+sdO systems, and speculate that the thermal inflation of part of the outer region of these disks could be responsible for producing this observational phenomenon. Finally, we estimate the base densities of this sample of stars to be between ~8x10^-11^ and ~4x10^-12^ g/cm^3^ during quasi steady state periods given there maximum observed polarization.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/wd
- Title:
- Spectroscopically identified white dwarfs
- Short Name:
- B/wd
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is an update of the Villanova catalog published in the ApJS paper, corresponding to the Web version of the catalog in Apr 2014 (see http://www.astronomy.villanova.edu/WDCatalog/index.html). The introduction to the 1999 catalog is in the file "preface.tex". This updated version lists 14294 unique white dwarfs for a total of 27975 rows (multiple observations).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/848/11
- Title:
- Spectroscopic and photometric analysis of WDs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/848/11
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a detailed spectroscopic and photometric analysis of 219 DA and DB white dwarfs for which trigonometric parallax measurements are available. Our aim is to compare the physical parameters derived from the spectroscopic and photometric techniques, and then to test the theoretical mass-radius relation for white dwarfs using these results. The agreement between spectroscopic and photometric parameters is found to be excellent, especially for effective temperatures, showing that our model atmospheres and fitting procedures provide an accurate, internally consistent analysis. The values of surface gravity and solid angle obtained, respectively, from spectroscopy and photometry, are combined with parallax measurements in various ways to study the validity of the mass-radius relation from an empirical point of view. After a thorough examination of our results, we find that 73% and 92% of the white dwarfs are consistent within 1{sigma} and 2{sigma} confidence levels, respectively, with the predictions of the mass-radius relation, thus providing strong support to the theory of stellar degeneracy. Our analysis also allows us to identify 15 stars that are better interpreted in terms of unresolved double degenerate binaries. Atmospheric parameters for both components in these binary systems are obtained using a novel approach. We further identify a few white dwarfs that are possibly composed of an iron core rather than a carbon/oxygen core, since they are consistent with Fe-core evolutionary models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/117
- Title:
- Spectroscopic orbits for late-type stars. II.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/117
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have determined spectroscopic orbital elements for 13 systems - 10 single-lined binaries and three double-lined binaries. For the three binaries with previously published spectroscopic orbits, we have computed improved or comparable elements. While two systems have relatively short periods between 10 and 19 days, the remaining systems have much longer periods ranging from 604 to 9669 days. One of the single-lined systems, HD 142640, shows both short-period and long-period velocity variations and so is triple. For three systems - HD 59380, HD 160933, and HD 161163 - we have combined our spectroscopic results with Hipparcos astrometric observations to obtain astrometric orbits. For HD 14802 we have determined a joint orbital solution from spectroscopic velocities and interferometric observations. The orbits given here will be useful in combination with future interferometric and Gaia satellite observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/704/964
- Title:
- Spectroscopic study of Of^+^ supergiants
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/704/964
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The transition from early Of stars to WN-type objects is poorly understood. O-type supergiants with emission lines (OIf^+^) are considered to be intermediate between these two classes. The scope of this paper is to investigate the spectral variability of three Of^+^ supergiants. We constituted spectral time series of unprecedented quality for our targets (~200 spectra in total), essentially in the blue domain, covering timescales from a few hours up to a few years. Temporal Variance Spectrum and Fourier analyses were performed in order to characterize their spectral variability.
