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Rotation of Low-mass Stars in Upper Scorpius and ρ Ophiuchus with K2
Rebull, L. M.; Stauffer, J. R.; Cody, A. M. +3 more
We present an analysis of K2 light curves (LCs) for candidate members of the young Upper Sco (USco) association (∼8 Myr) and the neighboring ρ Oph embedded cluster (∼1 Myr). We establish ∼1300 stars as probable members, ∼80% of which are periodic. The phased LCs have a variety of shapes which can be attributed to physical causes ranging from stell…
More Rapidly Rotating PMS M Dwarfs with Light Curves Suggestive of Orbiting Clouds of Material
Cody, Ann Marie; Rebull, Luisa; Hillenbrand, Lynne A. +8 more
In a previous paper, using data from K2 Campaign 2, we identified 11 very low mass members of the ρ Oph and Upper Scorpius star-forming region as having periodic photometric variability and phased light curves showing multiple scallops or undulations. All of the stars with the “scallop-shell” light curve morphology are mid-to-late M dwarfs without…
Searching for Cool Dust. II. Infrared Imaging of The OH/IR Supergiants, NML Cyg, VX Sgr, S Per, and the Normal Red Supergiants RS Per and T Per
Gehrz, Robert D.; Humphreys, Roberta M.; Jones, Terry J. +6 more
New MMT/MIRAC (9-11 µm), SOFIA/FORCAST (11-37 µm), and Herschel/PACS (70 and 160 µm) infrared (IR) imaging and photometry is presented for three famous OH/IR red supergiants (NML Cyg, VX Sgr, and S Per) and two normal red supergiants (RS Per and T Per). We model the observed spectral energy distributions (SEDs) using radiative-tr…
The Double Dust Envelopes of R Coronae Borealis Stars
Evans, A.; Clayton, Geoffrey C.; Matsuura, M. +5 more
The study of extended, cold dust envelopes surrounding R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars began with their discovery by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. RCB stars are carbon-rich supergiants characterized by their extreme hydrogen deficiency and their irregular and spectacular declines in brightness (up to 9 mag). We have analyzed new and archival…
GTC/CanariCam Mid-IR Imaging of the Fullerene-rich Planetary Nebula IC 418: Searching for the Spatial Distribution of Fullerene-like Molecules
García-Lario, P.; García-Hernández, D. A.; García-Segura, G. +3 more
We present seeing-limited narrow-band mid-IR GTC/CanariCam images of the spatially extended fullerene-containing planetary nebula (PN) IC 418. The narrow-band images cover the C60 fullerene band at 17.4 µm, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon like (PAH-like) feature at 11.3 µm, the broad 9-13 µm feature, and their adja…
Detecting Variability in Massive Astronomical Time-series Data. III. Variable Candidates in the SuperWASP DR1 Found by Multiple Clustering Algorithms and a Consensus Clustering Method
Chang, Seo-Won; Kim, Dae-Won; Kim, Myung-Jin +3 more
We determine candidate variable sources in the SuperWASP Data Release 1 (DR1) using multiple clustering methods and identifying variable candidates as outliers from large clusters. We extract 15,788,814 light curves that have more than 15 photometric measurements in the SuperWASP DR1. Variations in the light curves are described in terms of nine v…
Phase-dependent Photometric and Spectroscopic Characterization of the MASTER-Net Optical Transient J212444.87+321738.3: An Oxygen-rich Mira
Banerjee, D. P. K.; Hambsch, Franz-Josef; Dutta, Somnath +4 more
We describe the time-dependent properties of a new spectroscopically confirmed Mira variable, which was discovered in 2013 as MASTER-Net Optical Transient J212444.87+321738.3 toward the Cygnus constellation. We have performed long-term optical/near-infrared (NIR) photometric and spectroscopic observations to characterize the object. From the optic…
Spatially Resolved Sub-millimeter Continuum Imaging of Neptune with ALMA
Iino, Takahiro; Yamada, Takayoshi
This paper reports the result of spatially resolved 646 GHz sub-millimeter imaging observation of Neptune obtained by the Atacama Large Millimeter and sub-millimeter Array. The observation was performed in 2012 August as the flux calibration and synthesized beam size were small enough to resolve Neptune’s disk at this time. This analysis aims to c…
Infrared Photometric Study of Wolf-Rayet Galaxies
Chen, P. S.; Yang, X. H.; Liu, J. Y. +1 more
We collected observational data on 781 Wolf-Rayet (WR) galaxies from the literature to photometrically study their infrared properties measured by the 2MASS, WISE, IRAS, AKARI, and Herschel missions. It is found that in the 1-5 µm range the radiations of WR galaxies are dominated by the free-free emissions from the stellar winds and the circ…
The Multiple Pre-main-sequence System PR Ori and the Associated HH 305 Flow
Bally, J.; Raga, A. C.; Geballe, T. R. +6 more
A detailed imaging and spectroscopic analysis is presented of the little-studied T Tauri star PR Ori and its associated Herbig-Haro flow HH 305, located on the outskirts of the L1641-N cluster in Orion. PR Ori is shown to be a multiple system, where the A component is a close 0.″077 binary, and the B component, at a distance of 3.″50, is the drive…