- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/635/A43
- Title:
- Stellar rotation periods from K2 Campaigns 0-18
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/635/A43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Rotation period measurements of stars observed with the Kepler mission have revealed a lack of stars at intermediate rotation periods, accompanied by a decrease of photometric variability. Whether this so-called dearth region is a peculiarity of stars in the Kepler field, or reflects a general manifestation of stellar magnetic activity, is still under debate. The K2 mission has the potential to unravel this mystery by measuring stellar rotation and photometric variability along different fields in the sky. Our goal is to measure stellar rotation periods and photometric variabilities for tens of thousands of K2 stars, located in different fields along the ecliptic plane, to shed light on the relation between stellar rotation and photometric variability. We use Lomb-Scargle periodograms, auto-correlation and wavelet functions to determine consistent rotation periods. Stellar brightness variability is assessed by computing the variability range, R_var_, from the light curve. We further apply Gaussian mixture models to search for bimodality in the rotation period distribution. Combining measurements from all K2 campaigns, we detect rotation periods in 29860 stars. The reliability of these periods was estimated from stars observed more than once. We find that 75-90% of the stars show period deviation smaller than 20% between different campaigns, depending on the peak height threshold in the periodograms. For effective temperatures below 6000K, the variability range shows a local minimum at different periods, consistent with an isochrone age of ~750Myr. Additionally, the rotation period distribution shows evidence for bimodality, although the dearth region in the K2 data is less pronounced compared to the Kepler field. The period at the dip of the bimodal distribution shows good agreement with the period at the local variability minimum. We conclude that the rotation period bimodality is present in different fields of the sky, and is hence a general manifestation of stellar magnetic activity. The reduced variability in the dearth region is interpreted as a cancelation between dark spots and bright faculae. Our results strongly advocate that the role of faculae has been underestimated so far, suggesting a more complex dependence of the brightness variability on the rotation period.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/2398
- Title:
- Stellar SEDs in SDSS and 2MASS filters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/2398
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) are rich resources for studying stellar astrophysics and the structure and formation history of the Galaxy. As new surveys and instruments adopt similar filter sets, it is increasingly important to understand the properties of the ugrizJHKs stellar locus, both to inform studies of "normal" main-sequence stars and enable robust searches for point sources with unusual colors. Using a sample of ~600000 point sources detected by SDSS and 2MASS, we tabulate the position and width of the ugrizJHKs stellar locus as a function of g-i color, and provide accurate polynomial fits. We map the Morgan-Keenan spectral type sequence to the median stellar locus by using synthetic photometry of spectral standards and by analyzing 3000 SDSS stellar spectra with a custom spectral typing pipeline, described in the Appendix to this paper. We develop an algorithm to calculate a point source's minimum separation from the stellar locus in a seven-dimensional color space, and use it to robustly identify objects with unusual colors, as well as spurious SDSS/2MASS matches.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/37
- Title:
- Stellar specific angular momentum & mass relation
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the relation between stellar specific angular momentum j*, stellar mass M*, and bulge-to-total light ratio {beta} for The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey, and Romanowsky & Fall (2012ApJS..203...17R) data sets, exploring the existence of a fundamental plane between these parameters, as first suggested by Obreschkow & Glazebrook (2014ApJ...784...26O). Our best-fit M*-j* relation yields a slope of {alpha}=1.03+/-0.11 with a trivariate fit including {beta}. When ignoring the effect of {beta}, the exponent {alpha}=0.56+/-0.06 is consistent with {alpha}=2/3 that is predicted for dark matter halos. There is a linear {beta}-j*/M* relation for {beta}<~0.4, exhibiting a general trend of increasing {beta} with decreasing j*/M*. Galaxies with {beta}>~0.4 have higher j* than predicted by the relation. Pseudobulge galaxies have preferentially lower {beta} for a given j*/M* than galaxies that contain classical bulges. Pseudobulge galaxies follow a well- defined track in {beta}-j*/M* space, consistent with Obreschkow & Glazebrook, while galaxies with classical bulges do not. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that while growth in either bulge type is linked to a decrease in j*/M*, the mechanisms that build pseudobulges seem to be less efficient at increasing bulge mass per decrease in specific angular momentum than those that build classical bulges.
20854. Stellar spectra
- ID:
- ivo://padc.obspm.planeto/spectro_stars/q/epn_core
- Title:
- Stellar spectra
- Short Name:
- spectro_stars.ep
- Date:
- 16 Jul 2024 13:55:03
- Publisher:
- Paris Astronomical Data Centre
- Description:
- The stellar spectra service is a compilation of several libraries distributed by large observatories, which are intended to calibrate telescopic observations. It currently provides access to two libraries of reference stars distributed by ESO (composite spectra: https://www.eso.org/sci/observing/tools/standards/IR_spectral_library.html) and NASA IRTF (observations from SpeX: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~spex/IRTF_Spectral_Library/References_files/All.html).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/18B
- Title:
- Stellar Spectra Classified in Morgan-Keenan System
- Short Name:
- III/18B
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The purpose of this catalog is to provide bibliographic references to spectral classifications of stars in the Morgan-Keenan system published in the literature prior to January 1963. The catalog includes, with few exceptions, only objects contained in the Durchmusterungen: BD, SD, CD, and CPD. Objects belonging to stellar clusters and extragalactic nebulae were excluded from the catalog if they are not listed in the Durchmusterungen. The catalog includes sequential numbers, HD and DM numbers, right ascension and declination (B1900.0), magnitudes, spectral classifications, and bibliographic references. This machine-readable version was modified and corrected with errata at the Astronomical Data Center/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RMxAA/38.129
- Title:
- Stellar Spectral Classification. II.
- Short Name:
- J/other/RMxAA/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The method developed by Stock & Stock (1999RMxAA..35..143S) for stars of spectral types A to K to derive absolute magnitudes and intrinsic colors from the equivalent widths of absorption lines in stellar spectra is extended to B-type stars. Spectra of this type of stars for which the Hipparcos catalogue gives parallaxes with an error of less than 20% were observed with the CIDA 1-meter reflector equipped with a Richardson spectrograph with a Thompson 576x384 CCD detector. The dispersion is 1.753{AA}/pixel using a 600 lines/mm grating in the first order. In order to cover the spectral range 3850{AA} to 5750{AA} the grating had to be used in two different positions, with an overlap in the region from 4800{AA} to 4900{AA}. A total of 116 stars was observed, but not all with both grating positions. A total of 12 measurable absorption lines were identified in the spectra and their equivalent widths were measured. These were related to the absolute magnitudes derived from the Hipparcos catalogue and to the intrinsic colors (deduced from the MK spectral types) using linear and second order polynomials and two or three lines as independent variables. The best solutions were obtained with polynomials of three lines, reproducing the absolute magnitudes with an average residual of about 0.40 magnitudes and the intrinsic colors with an average residual of 0.016 magnitudes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/88
- Title:
- Stellar Spectrophotometric Atlas
- Short Name:
- III/88
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The data were obtained with the Oke multichannel scanner on the 5-meter Hale reflector for purposes of synthetizing galaxy spectra, and the digitized atlas contains normalized spectral energy distributions, computed colors, scan line and continuum indices for 175 selected stars covering the complete ranges of spectral type and luminosity class.
20858. Stellar Spectrophotometry
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/89
- Title:
- Stellar Spectrophotometry
- Short Name:
- III/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog is a collection of spectrophotometric measurements obtained with rotating grating scanners attached to various telescopes at the Kitt Peak National, Mount Wilson, and Palomar Observatories. The observations were made during the 1970s and early 1980s, both individually and jointly, by S.J. Adelman, D.M. Pyper, S.N. Shore, and R.E. White. All measurements were calibrated with the fluxes of Alpha Lyrae (Vega) as presented by Hayes and Latham (1975ApJ...197..593H). There are 1134 observations concerning 207 individual stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/L13
- Title:
- Stellar stream in Gaia DR2 discovery
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/622/L13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of a large, dynamically cold, coeval stellar stream that is currently traversing the immediate solar neighborhood at a distance of only 100pc. The structure was identified in a wavelet decomposition of the 3D velocity space of all stars within 300pc of the Sun. Its members form a highly elongated structure with a length of at least 400pc, while its vertical extent measures only about 50pc. Stars in the stream are not isotropically distributed but instead form two parallel lanes with individual local overdensities, that may correspond to a remnant core of a tidally disrupted cluster or OB association. Its members follow a very well-defined main sequence in the observational Hertzsprung-Russel diagram and also show a remarkably low 3D velocity dispersion of only 1.3km/s. These findings strongly suggest a common origin as a single coeval stellar population. An extrapolation of the present-day mass function indicates a total mass of at least 2000M_{sun}_, making it larger than most currently known clusters or associations in the solar neighborhood. We estimated the age of the stream to be around 1 Gyr based on a comparison with a set of isochrones and giant stars in our member selection and find a mean metallicity of [Fe/H]=-0.04. This structure may very well represent the Galactic disk counterpart to the prominent stellar streams observed in the Milky Way halo. As such, it constitutes a new valuable probe to constrain the Galaxy's mass distribution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/390/1437
- Title:
- Stellar streams in Andromeda (M31)
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/390/1437
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectroscopic analysis of five stellar streams ("A", "B", "Cr", "Cp" and "D") as well as the extended star cluster, EC4, which lies within Stream "C", all discovered in the halo of M31 from our Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/MegaCam survey. These spectroscopic results were initially serendipitous, making use of our existing observations from the DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph mounted on the Keck II telescope, and thereby emphasizing the ubiquity of tidal streams that account for ~70 per cent of the M31 halo stars in the targeted fields. Subsequent spectroscopy was then procured in Stream "C" and Stream "D" to trace the velocity gradient along the streams. Nine metal-rich ([Fe/H]~-0.7) stars at v_hel_=-349.5km/s, {sigma}_v,corr_~5.1+/-2.5km/s are proposed as a serendipitous detection of Stream "Cr", with follow-up kinematic identification at a further point along the stream. Seven metal-poor ([Fe/H]~-1.3) stars confined to a narrow, 15km/s velocity bin centred at v_hel_=-285.6, {sigma}_v,corr_=4.3^+1.7^_-1.4_km/s represent a kinematic detection of Stream "Cp", again with follow-up kinematic identification further along the stream. For the cluster EC4, candidate member stars with average [Fe/H]~-1.4, are found at v_hel_=-282 suggesting it could be related to Stream "Cp". No similarly obvious cold kinematic candidate is found for Stream "D", although candidates are proposed in both of two spectroscopic pointings along the stream (both at ~-400km/s). Spectroscopy near the edge of Stream "B" suggests a likely kinematic detection at v_hel_~-330, {sigma}_v,corr_~6.9km/s, while a candidate kinematic detection of Stream "A" is found (plausibly associated to M33 rather than M31) with v_hel_~-170, {sigma}_v,corr_=12.5km/s. The low dispersion of the streams in kinematics, physical thickness and metallicity makes it hard to reconcile with a scenario whereby these stream structures as an ensemble are related to the giant southern stream. We conclude that the M31 stellar halo is largely made up of multiple kinematically cold streams.
