- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/65
- Title:
- THYME. IV. 3 Exoplanets around TOI-451 B
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/65
- Date:
- 11 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Young exoplanets can offer insight into the evolution of planetary atmospheres, compositions, and architectures. We present the discovery of the young planetary system TOI-451 (TIC257605131, GaiaDR24844691297067063424). TOI-451 is a member of the 120Myr old Pisces-Eridanus stream (Psc-Eri). We confirm membership in the stream with its kinematics, its lithium abundance, and the rotation and UV excesses of both TOI451 and its wide-binary companion, TOI-451B (itself likely an M-dwarf binary). We identified three candidate planets transiting in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite data and followed up the signals with photometry from Spitzer and ground-based telescopes. The system comprises three validated planets at periods of 1.9, 9.2, and 16days, with radii of 1.9, 3.1, and 4.1 R, respectively. The host star is near-solar mass with V=11.0 and H=9.3 and displays an infrared excess indicative of a debris disk. The planets offer excellent prospects for transmission spectroscopy with the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, providing the opportunity to study planetary atmospheres that may still be in the process of evolving.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/171
- Title:
- THYME. V. Discovering a new stellar association
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/171
- Date:
- 08 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The detection and characterization of young planetary systems offer a direct path to study the processes that shape planet evolution. We report on the discovery of a sub-Neptune-sized planet orbiting the young star HD110082 (TOI-1098). Transit events we initially detected during TESS Cycle 1 are validated with time-series photometry from Spitzer. High-contrast imaging and high-resolution, optical spectra are also obtained to characterize the stellar host and confirm the planetary nature of the transits. The host star is a late-F dwarf (M*=1.2M{sun}) with a low-mass, M dwarf binary companion (M*=0.26M{sun}) separated by nearly one arcminute (~6200au). Based on its rapid rotation and Lithium absorption, HD110082 is young, but is not a member of any known group of young stars (despite proximity to the Octans association). To measure the age of the system, we search for coeval, phase-space neighbors and compile a sample of candidate siblings to compare with the empirical sequences of young clusters and to apply quantitative age-dating techniques. In doing so, we find that HD110082 resides in a new young stellar association we designate MELANGE-1, with an age of 250_-70_^+50^Myr. Jointly modeling the TESS and Spitzer light curves, we measure a planetary orbital period of 10.1827days and radius of Rp=3.2{+/-}0.1R{Earth}. HD110082b's radius falls in the largest 12% of field-age systems with similar host-star mass and orbital period. This finding supports previous studies indicating that young planets have larger radii than their field-age counterparts.
22233. THz spectrum of methylamine
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/563/A137
- Title:
- THz spectrum of methylamine
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/563/A137
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Methylamine (CH_3_NH_2_) is the simplest primary alkylamine and has been detected in the interstellar medium. The molecule is relatively light, with the 50K Boltzmann peak appearing near 800GHz. However, reliable predictions for its rotational spectrum are available only up to 500GHz. Spectroscopic analyses have been complicated by the two large amplitude motions: internal rotation of the methyl top and inversion of the amino group. The aims is to provide reliable predictions of the methylamine ground state rotational spectrum above 500GHz we studied its rotational spectrum in the frequency range from 500 to 2650GHz. The spectra of methylamine were recorded using the spectrometers based on Schottky diode frequency multiplication chains in the Lille laboratory (500-945GHz) and in JPL (1060-2660GHz). The analysis of the rotational spectrum of methylamine in the ground vibrational state was performed on the basis of the group-theoretical high barrier tunneling Hamiltonian developed for methylamine by Ohashi and Hougen. In the recorded spectra we have assigned 1849 new rotational transitions of methylamine. They were fitted together with previously published data to a Hamiltonian model that uses 76 parameters with overall weighted rms deviation of 0.87. On the basis of the new spectroscopic results, predictions of transition frequencies in the frequency range up to 3THz with J<50 and Ka<20 are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/576/A39
- Title:
- THz spectrum of the monodeuterated methyl formate
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/576/A39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Laboratory spectral recordings and accurate molecular spectral analysis of any potential interstellar molecule are essential to generate a complete spectroscopic line list. This permits the prediction of the frequencies and intensities of any transition for its subsequent identification in the interstellar medium. Present analysis of DCOOCH_3_ is aimed to provide a comprehensive spectral catalog that encompasses as much as possible the frequency coverage of the new generation far-IR and submillimeter wave observation facilities. A new measurement of the rotational spectrum of DCOOCH_3_ has been carried out in the JPL laboratory in the frequency range from 0.85 to 1.5 THz. The new data were analyzed jointly with literature data using the Rho Axis Method (RAM), a tool developed for the spectral analysis of molecules with large amplitude internal CH_3_ rotors. Twenty seven spectroscopic constants of DCOOCH_3_ have been fitted to 3763 transitions with maximum values of J=69 and Ka=36 of the ground torsional state with a standard (unitless) deviation of 0.97. With respect to prior work, this is a significantly better result that was obtained with 2060 more transitions while also achieving a better accuracy for the new parameter values.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/751/156
- Title:
- Ti and Fe lines in red supergiants
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/751/156
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detailed non-LTE (NLTE) calculations for red supergiant (RSG) stars are presented to investigate the influence of NLTE on the formation of atomic iron and titanium lines in the J band. With their enormous brightness at J band RSG stars are ideal probes of cosmic abundances. Recent LTE studies have found that metallicities accurate to 0.15 dex can be determined from medium-resolution spectroscopy of individual RSGs in galaxies as distant as 10 Mpc. The NLTE results obtained in this investigation support these findings. NLTE abundance corrections for iron are smaller than 0.05 dex for effective temperatures between 3400 K and 4200 K and 0.1 dex at 4400 K. For titanium the NLTE abundance corrections vary smoothly between -0.4 dex and +0.2 dex as a function of effective temperature. For both elements, the corrections also depend on stellar gravity and metallicity. The physical reasons behind the NLTE corrections and the consequences for extragalactic J-band abundance studies are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/495/2713
- Title:
- TIC-231005575 photometric and RV curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/495/2713
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has produced a large number of single transit event candidates which are being monitored by the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). We observed a second epoch for the TIC-231005575 system (Tmag=12.06, Teff=5500+/-85K) with NGTS and a third epoch with Las Cumbres Observatory's (LCO) telescope in South Africa to constrain the orbital period (P=61.777d). Subsequent radial velocity measurements with CORALIE revealed the transiting object has a mass of M2=0.128+/-0.003M_{sun}_, indicating the system is a G-M binary. The radius of the secondary is R2=0.154+/-0.008R_{sun}_ and is consistent with models of stellar evolution to better than 1-{sigma}.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/891/58
- Title:
- TIC star exposure times for JWST, LUVOIR and OST
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/891/58
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The search for water-rich Earth-sized exoplanets around low-mass stars is rapidly gaining attention because they represent the best opportunity to characterize habitable planets in the near future. Understanding the atmospheres of these planets and determining the optimal strategy for characterizing them through transmission spectroscopy with our upcoming instrumentation is essential in order to constrain their environments. For this study, we present simulated transmission spectra of tidally locked Earth-sized ocean-covered planets around late-M to mid-K stellar spectral types, utilizing the results of general circulation models previously published by Kopparapu+ (2017ApJ...845....5K) as inputs for our radiative transfer calculations performed using NASA's Planetary Spectrum Generator (psg.gsfc.nasa.gov). We identify trends in the depth of H2O spectral features as a function of planet surface temperature and rotation rate. These trends allow us to calculate the exposure times necessary to detect water vapor in the atmospheres of aquaplanets through transmission spectroscopy with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as well as several future flagship space telescope concepts under consideration (the Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) and the Origins Space Telescope (OST)) for a target list constructed from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Input Catalog (TIC). Our calculations reveal that transmission spectra for water-rich Earth-sized planets around low-mass stars will be dominated by clouds, with spectral features <20ppm, and only a small subset of TIC stars would allow for the characterization of an ocean planet in the habitable zone. We thus present a careful prioritization of targets that are most amenable to follow-up characterizations with next-generation instrumentation, in order to assist the community in efficiently utilizing precious telescope time.
- ID:
- ivo://archive.stsci.edu/cs/tic
- Title:
- TIC (TESS Input Catalog ConeSearch)
- Short Name:
- TIC ConeSearch
- Date:
- 03 May 2024 19:58:43
- Publisher:
- Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
- Description:
- The TESS Input Catalog is a comprehensive collection of 1.73 billion sources on the sky, providing stellar parameters for evaluation of potential planetary transit signals. It combines sources from many other catalogs, including 2MASS, LAMOST, SuperBlink, HSOY, RAVE, APOGEE, UCAC, KIC, EPIC, Tycho-2, APASS, AllWISE, SDSS, Gaia DR2, and Hipparcos. It was constructed for the TESS mission to serve as a source for selecting targets to observe with the TESS two-minute cadence, and to provide stellar parameter information for evaluating the properties of transit candidates. MAST catalog holdings are available via Cone Search endpoints. All available missions are listed at http://archive.stsci.edu/vo/mast_services.html. This service provides access to the TESS input catalog (TIC), currently version 8.2
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/692/L9
- Title:
- Tidal evolution of transiting extrasolar planets
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/692/L9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We revisit the tidal stability of extrasolar systems harboring a transiting planet and demonstrate that, independently of any tidal model, none, but one (HAT-P-2b) of these planets has a tidal equilibrium state, which implies ultimately a collision of these objects with their host star. Consequently, conventional circularization and synchronization timescales cannot be defined because the corresponding states do not represent the endpoint of the tidal evolution. Using numerical simulations of the coupled tidal equations for the spin and orbital parameters of each transiting planetary system, we confirm these predictions and show that the orbital eccentricity and the stellar obliquity do not follow the usually assumed exponential relaxation but instead decrease significantly, eventually reaching a zero value only during the final runaway merging of the planet with the star. The only characteristic evolution timescale of all rotational and orbital parameters is the lifetime of the system, which crucially depends on the magnitude of tidal dissipation within the star. These results imply that the nearly circular orbits of transiting planets and the alignment between the stellar spin axis and the planetary orbit are unlikely to be due to tidal dissipation. Other dissipative mechanisms, for instance interactions with the protoplanetary disk, must be invoked to explain these properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/857/144
- Title:
- Tidal features from RESOLVE survey & DECaLS images
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/857/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study tidal features around galaxies in the REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) survey. Our sample consists of 1048 RESOLVE galaxies that overlap with the DECam Legacy Survey, which reaches an r-band 3{sigma} depth of ~27.9mag/arcsec^2^ for a 100arcsec^2^ feature. Images were masked, smoothed, and inspected for tidal features such as streams, shells, or tails/arms. We find tidal features in 17+/-2% of our galaxies, setting a lower limit on the true frequency. The frequency of tidal features in the gas-poor (gas-to-stellar mass ratio <0.1) subsample is lower than in the gas-rich subsample (13+/-3% versus 19+/-2%). Within the gas-poor subsample, galaxies with tidal features have higher stellar and halo masses, ~3x closer distances to nearest neighbors (in the same group), and possibly fewer group members at fixed halo mass than galaxies without tidal features, but similar specific star formation rates. These results suggest tidal features in gas-poor galaxies are typically streams/shells from dry mergers or satellite disruption. In contrast, the presence of tidal features around gas-rich galaxies does not correlate with stellar or halo mass, suggesting these tidal features are often tails/arms from resonant interactions. Similar to tidal features in gas-poor galaxies, tidal features in gas-rich galaxies imply 1.7x closer nearest neighbors in the same group; however, they are associated with diskier morphologies, higher star formation rates, and higher gas content. In addition to interactions with known neighbors, we suggest that tidal features in gas-rich galaxies may arise from accretion of cosmic gas and/or gas-rich satellites below the survey limit.