- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/574/A6
- Title:
- Study of 95 binaries closer than 18pc from the Sun
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/574/A6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We test whether or not the orbital poles of the systems in the solar neighbourhood are isotropically distributed on the celestial sphere. The problem is plagued by the ambiguity on the position of the ascending node. Of the 95 systems closer than 18pc from the Sun with an orbit in the 6th Catalogue of Orbits of Visual Binaries, the pole ambiguity could be resolved for 51 systems using radial velocity collected in the literature and CORAVEL database or acquired with the HERMES/Mercator spectrograph. For several systems, we can correct the erroneous nodes in the 6th Catalogue of Orbits and obtain new combined spectroscopic/astrometric orbits for seven systems [WDS 01083+5455Aa,Ab; 01418+4237AB; 02278+0426AB (SB2); 09006+4147AB (SB2); 16413+3136AB; 17121+4540AB; 18070+3034AB]. We used of spherical statistics to test for possible anisotropy. After ordering the binary systems by increasing distance from the Sun, we computed the false-alarm probability for subsamples of increasing sizes, from N=1 up to the full sample of 51 systems. Rayleigh-Watson and Beran tests deliver a false-alarm probability of 0.5% for the 20 systems closer than 8.1pc. To evaluate the robustness of this conclusion, we used a jackknife approach, for which we repeated this procedure after removing one system at a time from the full sample. The false-alarm probability was then found to vary between 1.5% and 0.1%, depending on which system is removed. The reality of the deviation from isotropy can thus not be assessed with certainty at this stage, because only so few systems are available, despite our efforts to increase the sample. However, when considering the full sample of 51 systems, the concentration of poles toward the Galactic position l=46.0{deg}, b=37{deg}, as observed in the 8.1pc sphere, totally vanishes (the Rayleigh-Watson false-alarm probability then rises to 18%).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/104/89
- Title:
- Study of fine-structure constants
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/104/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A statistical analysis of fine splitting of C IV, N V, O VI, Mg II, Al III and Si IV doublet absorption lines in quasar spectra is carried out in order to estimate a possible time variation of the fine-structure constant {alpha}= e^2^(h/2{pi})c (~1/137) over cosmological time scales t~10^10^yr. The observational basis of the analysis is a catalogue of 1414 pairs of wavelengths with redshifts z = 0.2 - 3.7, compiled from data published in 1980-1992. Robust statistical estimates like the ``trimmed mean'' are used as well as the least squares. No statistically significant time variation of {alpha} is found. The estimate {alpha}^-1^d{alpha}/dz = (-0.6+/-2.8)10^-4^ is obtained. For the 95% significance level, an upper bound on the rate of a relative variation of the fine-structure constant is |{alpha}^-1^d{alpha}/dz| < 5.6x10^-4^, which corresponds approximately to |{alpha}^-1^d{alpha}/dt| < 4x10^-14^ yr^-1^. This limit represents the strongest up-to-date restriction on the possible time variation of {alpha} for the epoch 0.2 <= z <~ 4.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/390/179
- Title:
- Study of FK Comae Berenices. IV.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/390/179
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Doppler imaging techniques have earlier been used to study the starspots and their evolution over a four year period in a single, late-type star FK Com. In the present work we publish new photometric observations of FK Com for the year 2001 and analyse them together with the previously published photometry obtained since 1966. The observations for 2001 have been carried out at the Phoenix 10 automatic photometric telescope in Arizona, USA. Observations contain measurements at the Johnson U, B and V bands. The observations are differential photometry in respect to the primary comparison star HD 117567. In table1, 99.000 means that no observations were available at that time at that band or that the error in the magnitude was larger than 0.02.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/106/604
- Title:
- Study of globular cluster NGC 6366
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/106/604
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The nearby, metal-rich, halo globular cluster NGC 6366 has been observed in order to obtain its color-magnitude diagram and to search for variable stars. THE color-magnitude diagram indicates that the cluster has a reddening E(B-V) of 0.80 (higher than most previous determinations) and a distance of 3.0kpc. The cluster has numerous blue straggler stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/414/3699
- Title:
- Study of hot stellar systems and galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/414/3699
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a complete picture of dynamically hot stellar systems, ranging from faint galaxies and star clusters of only a few hundred solar masses up to giant elliptical galaxies, in particular including large samples of compact elliptical galaxies (cEs), ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), dwarf elliptical galaxies (dEs) of nearby galaxy clusters, and Local Group ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). For all those stellar systems we show the effective radius-luminosity, effective radius-stellar mass, and effective mass surface density-stellar mass plane.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Ap/54.147
- Title:
- Study of 230 IRAS-FSC galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/other/Ap/54.14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- From the cross-correlation of the IRAS FSC catalog with the radio FIRST catalog, 230 infrared galaxies were selected having optical classifications and redshifts from SDSS and NED. To understand the nature of these objects we have compared them with a sample of bright ULIRGs with fluxes f>1Jy at 60-micron and with 14 optically faint IRAS FSC galaxies, showing that IRAS galaxies are not always strong infrared sources. We also have calibrated Star Formation Rates based on luminosities of the PAH feature at 7.7-micron and 1.4GHz radio flux densities, which confirmed the consistency between these two SFRs. We have estimated the extinction for our 230 objects using SFRs calibrated from the PAH feature compared to ultraviolet flux, which shows that only 1% of the ultraviolet continuum typically escapes extinction by dust within a starburst. As our 230 galaxies have no spectra available from Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) archive, to estimate the infrared flux at 7.7 (for SB galaxies) or 8.0 (for AGN and composite) micron, we have used the median ratios of the IRAS fluxes at 25-micron to fluxes at 7.7 or 8.0-micron estimated for each 41.0<logL(IR)<41.9, 42.0<logL(IR)<42.9, 43.0<logL(IR)<43.9, 44.0<logL(IR)<44.9, and 45.0<logL(IR)<45.9 luminosity bins, using objects having spectra from SST archive.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ChA+A/34.367
- Title:
- Study of PGC-54-like galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/other/ChA+A/34
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- With the improved Peng's method, we have made the image processing and spiral arm fitting of the newly released spiral galactic images of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and obtained the equivalent thicknesses of galactic disks, as well as the tangential angles of spiral arms of 73 spiral galaxies. These physical quantities are very important for future studies on the properties of spiral galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/818/73
- Title:
- Study of protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/818/73
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a multiplicity study of all known protostars (94) in the Perseus molecular cloud from a Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array survey at Ka-band (8 mm and 1 cm) and C-band (4 and 6.6 cm). The observed sample has a bolometric luminosity range between 0.1 L_{sun}_ and ~33 L_{sun}_, with a median of 0.7 L_{sun}_. This multiplicity study is based on the Ka-band data, having a best resolution of ~0.065" (15 au) and separations out to ~43" (10000 au) can be probed. The overall multiplicity fraction (MF) is found to be 0.40+/-0.06 and the companion star fraction (CSF) is 0.71+/-0.06. The MF and CSF of the Class 0 protostars are 0.57+/-0.09 and 1.2+/-0.2, and the MF and CSF of Class I protostars are both 0.23+/-0.08. The distribution of companion separations appears bi-modal, with a peak at ~75 au and another peak at ~3000 au. Turbulent fragmentation is likely the dominant mechanism on >1000 au scales and disk fragmentation is likely to be the dominant mechanism on <200 au scales. Toward three Class 0 sources we find companions separated by <30 au. These systems have the smallest separations of currently known Class 0 protostellar binary systems. Moreover, these close systems are embedded within larger (50-400 au) structures and may be candidates for ongoing disk fragmentation.
20989. Study of star V9 in 47 Tuc
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/291/121
- Title:
- Study of star V9 in 47 Tuc
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/291/121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an infrared K-band light curve and a radial velocity curve for the RR Lyrae star V9 in the metal rich globular cluster 47 Tucanae ([Fe/H]=-0.71). Combining these new data with the optical photometry presented in Carney et al. (1993PASP..105..294C), we perform a Baade-Wesselink analysis and derive a distance modulus of 47 Tuc of 13.23mag+/-0.17 and absolute mean magnitudes of <M_V_>=0.32mag and <M_K_>=-0.57mag for V9. We also present a well populated visual-infrared color-magnitude diagram of the cluster, reaching from the upper red giant branch to the subgiant branch.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/454/1086
- Title:
- Study of the COSC Korean astronomical catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/454/1086
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The study of old star catalogues provides important astrometric data. Most of the researches based on the old star catalogues were manuscript published in Europe and from Arabic/Islam. However, the old star catalogues published in East Asia did not get attention. Therefore, among the East Asian star catalogues we focus on a particular catalogue recorded in a Korean almanac. Its catalogue contains 277 stars that are positioned in a region within 10{deg} of the ecliptic plane. The stars in the catalogue were identified using the modern Hipparcos catalogue (Cat. I/239). We identified 274 among 277 stars, which is a rate of 98.9 percent. The catalogue records the epoch of the stars' positions as AD 1396.0. However, by using all of the identified stars we found that the initial epoch of the catalogue is AD 1363.1+/-3.2. In conclusion, the star catalogue was compiled and edited from various older star catalogues. We assume a correlation with the Almagest by Ptolemaios. This study presents newly analysed results from the historically important astronomical data discovered in East Asia. Therefore, this star catalogue will become important data for comparison with the star catalogues published in Europe and from Arabic/Islam.
