Gaia Data Release 3 Creevey, O. L.; Sordo, R.; Pailler, F. ...
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin),
06/2023, Letnik:
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Gaia
Data Release 3 contains a wealth of new data products for the community. Astrophysical parameters are a major component of this release, and were produced by the Astrophysical parameters ...inference system (Apsis) within the
Gaia
Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). The aim of this paper is to describe the overall content of the astrophysical parameters in
Gaia
DR3 and how they were produced. In Apsis, we use the mean BP/RP and mean RVS spectra along with astrometry and photometry, and we derive the following parameters: source classification and probabilities for 1.6 billion objects; interstellar medium characterisation and distances for up to 470 million sources, including a 2D total Galactic extinction map; 6 million redshifts of quasar candidates; 1.4 million redshifts of galaxy candidates; and an analysis of 50 million outlier sources through an unsupervised classification. The astrophysical parameters also include many stellar spectroscopic and evolutionary parameters for up to 470 million sources. These comprise
T
eff
, log
g
, and M/H (470 million using BP/RP, 6 million using RVS), radius (470 million), mass (140 million), age (120 million), chemical abundances (up to 5 million), diffuse interstellar band analysis (0.5 million), activity indices (2 million), H
α
equivalent widths (200 million), and further classification of spectral types (220 million) and emission-line stars (50 000). This paper is the first in a series of three papers, and focusses on describing the global content of the parameters in
Gaia
DR3. The accompanying Papers II and III focus on the validation and use of the stellar and non-stellar products, respectively. This catalogue is the most extensive homogeneous database of astrophysical parameters to date, and is based uniquely on
Gaia
data. It will only be superseded by
Gaia
Data Release 4, and will therefore remain a key reference over the next four years, providing astrophysical parameters independent of other ground- and space-based data.
In this brief communication we provide the rationale for and the outcome of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) resolution vote at the XXIXth General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2015, on ...recommended nominal conversion constants for selected solar and planetary properties. The problem addressed by the resolution is a lack of established conversion constants between solar and planetary values and SI units: a missing standard has caused a proliferation of solar values (e.g., solar radius, solar irradiance, solar luminosity, solar effective temperature, and solar mass parameter) in the literature, with cited solar values typically based on best estimates at the time of paper writing. As precision of observations increases, a set of consistent values becomes increasingly important. To address this, an IAU Working Group on Nominal Units for Stellar and Planetary Astronomy formed in 2011, uniting experts from the solar, stellar, planetary, exoplanetary, and fundamental astronomy, as well as from general standards fields to converge on optimal values for nominal conversion constants. The effort resulted in the IAU 2015 Resolution B3, passed at the IAU General Assembly by a large majority. The resolution recommends the use of nominal solar and planetary values, which are by definition exact and are expressed in SI units. These nominal values should be understood as conversion factors only, not as the true solar/planetary properties or current best estimates. Authors and journal editors are urged to join in using the standard values set forth by this resolution in future work and publications to help minimize further confusion.
TESS’s first planet Gandolfi, D.; Barragán, O.; Livingston, J. H. ...
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin),
11/2018, Letnik:
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We report on the confirmation and mass determination of
π
Men c, the first transiting planet discovered by NASA’s TESS space mission.
π
Men is a naked-eye (V = 5.65 mag), quiet G0 V star that was ...previously known to host a sub-stellar companion (
π
Men b) on a longperiod (
P
orb
= 2091 days), eccentric (
e
= 0.64) orbit. Using TESS time-series photometry, combined with
Gaia
data, published UCLES at AAT Doppler measurements, and archival HARPS at ESO-3.6m radial velocities, we found that
π
Men c is a close-in planet with an orbital period of
P
orb
= 6.27 days, a mass of
M
c
= 4.52 ± 0.81
M
⊕
, and a radius of
R
c
= 2.06 ± 0.03
R
⊕
. Based on the planet’s orbital period and size,
π
Men c is a super-Earth located at, or close to, the radius gap, while its mass and bulk density suggest it may have held on to a significant atmosphere. Because of the brightness of the host star, this system is highly suitable for a wide range of further studies to characterize the planetary atmosphere and dynamical properties. We also performed an asteroseismic analysis of the TESS data and detected a hint of power excess consistent with the seismic values expected for this star, although this result depends on the photometric aperture used to extract the light curve. This marginal detection is expected from pre-launch simulations hinting at the asteroseismic potential of the TESS mission for longer, multi-sector observations and/or for more evolved bright stars.
Gaia Data Release 2 Andrae, René; Fouesneau, Morgan; Creevey, Orlagh ...
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin),
8/2018, Letnik:
616
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The second
Gaia
data release (
Gaia
DR2) contains, beyond the astrometry, three-band photometry for 1.38 billion sources. One band is the
G
band, the other two were obtained by integrating the
Gaia
...prism spectra (BP and RP). We have used these three broad photometric bands to infer stellar effective temperatures,
T
eff
, for all sources brighter than
G
= 17 mag with
T
eff
in the range 3000–10 000 K (some 161 million sources). Using in addition the parallaxes, we infer the line-of-sight extinction,
A
G
, and the reddening,
E
(BP − RP), for 88 million sources. Together with a bolometric correction we derive luminosity and radius for 77 million sources. These quantities as well as their estimated uncertainties are part of
Gaia
DR2. Here we describe the procedures by which these quantities were obtained, including the underlying assumptions, comparison with literature estimates, and the limitations of our results. Typical accuracies are of order 324 K (
T
eff
), 0.46 mag (
A
G
), 0.23 mag (
E
(BP − RP)), 15% (luminosity), and 10% (radius). Being based on only a small number of observable quantities and limited training data, our results are necessarily subject to some extreme assumptions that can lead to strong systematics in some cases (not included in the aforementioned accuracy estimates). One aspect is the non-negativity contraint of our estimates, in particular extinction, which we discuss. Yet in several regions of parameter space our results show very good performance, for example for red clump stars and solar analogues. Large uncertainties render the extinctions less useful at the individual star level, but they show good performance for ensemble estimates. We identify regimes in which our parameters should and should not be used and we define a “clean” sample. Despite the limitations, this is the largest catalogue of uniformly-inferred stellar parameters to date. More precise and detailed astrophysical parameters based on the full BP/RP spectrophotometry are planned as part of the third
Gaia
data release.
We present empirical measurements of the radii of 116 stars that host transiting planets. These radii are determined using only direct observables-the bolometric flux at Earth, the effective ...temperature, and the parallax provided by the Gaia first data release-and thus are virtually model independent, with extinction being the only free parameter. We also determine each star's mass using our newly determined radius and the stellar density, a virtually model independent quantity itself from previously published transit analyses. These stellar radii and masses are in turn used to redetermine the transiting-planet radii and masses, again using only direct observables. The median uncertainties on the stellar radii and masses are 8% and 30%, respectively, and the resulting uncertainties on the planet radii and masses are 9% and 22%, respectively. These accuracies are generally larger than previously published model-dependent precisions of 5% and 6% on the planet radii and masses, respectively, but the newly determined values are purely empirical. We additionally report radii for 242 stars hosting radial-velocity (non-transiting) planets, with a median achieved accuracy of 2%. Using our empirical stellar masses we verify that the majority of putative "retired A stars" in the sample are indeed more massive than ∼1.2 . Most importantly, the bolometric fluxes and angular radii reported here for a total of 498 planet host stars-with median accuracies of 1.7% and 1.8%, respectively-serve as a fundamental data set to permit the re-determination of transiting-planet radii and masses with the Gaia second data release to 3% and 5% accuracy, better than currently published precisions, and determined in an entirely empirical fashion.
We present 10 R-band photometric observations of eight different transits of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-33b, which has been targeted by our Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project. The data were obtained ...by two telescopes at the Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) from 2013 December through 2016 January, and exhibit photometric scatter of . After jointly analyzing the previously published photometric data, radial-velocity (RV) measurements, and our new light curves, we revisit the system parameters and orbital ephemeris for the HAT-P-33b system. Our results are consistent with the published values except for the planet to star radius ratio ( ), the ingress/egress duration (τ) and the total duration (T14), which together indicate a slightly shallower and shorter transit shape. Our results are based on more complete light curves, whereas the previously published work had only one complete transit light curve. No significant anomalies in Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) are found, and we place upper mass limits on potential perturbers, largely supplanting the loose constraints provided by the extant RV data. The TTV limits are stronger near mean-motion resonances, especially for the low-order commensurabilities. We can exclude the existence of a perturber with mass larger than 0.6, 0.3, 0.5, 0.5, and near the 1:3, 1:2, 2:3, 3:2, and 2:1 resonances, respectively.
The scatter of the M dwarf mass–radius relationship Parsons, S G; Gänsicke, B T; Marsh, T R ...
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
11/2018, Letnik:
481, Številka:
1
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M dwarfs are prime targets in the hunt for habitable worlds around other stars. This
is due to their abundance as well as their small radii and low masses and tempera-
tures, which facilitate the ...detection of temperate, rocky planets in orbit around them.
However, the fundamental properties of M dwarfs are difficult to constrain, often lim-
iting our ability to characterise the planets they host. Here we test several theoretical
relationships for M dwarfs by measuring 23 high precision, model-independent masses
and radii for M dwarfs in binaries with white dwarfs. We find a large scatter in the
radii of these low-mass stars, with 25 per cent having radii consistent with theoret-
ical models while the rest are up to 12 per cent over-inflated. This scatter is seen
in both partially- and fully-convective M dwarfs. No clear trend is seen between the
over-inflation and age or metallicity, but there are indications that the radii of slowly
rotating M dwarfs are more consistent with predictions, albeit with a similar amount of
scatter in the measurements compared to more rapidly rotating M dwarfs. The sample
of M dwarfs in close binaries with white dwarfs appears indistinguishable from other
M dwarf samples, implying that common envelope evolution has a negligible impact on
their structure. We conclude that theoretical and empirical mass-radius relationships
lack the precision and accuracy required to measure the fundamental parameters of
M dwarfs well enough to determine the internal structure and bulk composition of the
planets they host.
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Context.
Existing samples of strong lenses have been assembled by giving priority to sample size, but this is often at the cost of a complex selection function. However, with the advent of the next ...generation of wide-field photometric surveys, it might become possible to identify subsets of the lens population with well-defined selection criteria, trading sample size for completeness.
Aims.
There are two main advantages of working with a complete sample of lenses. First, such completeness makes possible to recover the properties of the general population of galaxies, of which strong lenses are a biased subset. Second, the relative number of lenses and non-detections can be used to further constrain models of galaxy structure. The present work illustrates how to carry out a statistical strong lensing analysis that takes advantage of these features.
Methods.
I introduce a general formalism for the statistical analysis of a sample of strong lenses with known selection function, and then test it on simulated data. The simulation consists of a population of 10
5
galaxies with an axisymmetric power-law density profile, a population of background point sources, and a subset of ∼10
3
strong lenses, which form a complete sample above an observational cut.
Results.
The method allows the user to recover the distribution of the galaxy population in Einstein radius and mass density slope in an unbiased way. The number of non-lenses helps to constrain the model when magnification data are not available.
Conclusions.
Complete samples of lenses are a powerful asset with which to turn precise strong lensing measurements into accurate statements on the properties of the general galaxy population.
SWEET-Cat 2.0: The Cat just got SWEETer Sousa, S. G.; Adibekyan, V.; Delgado-Mena, E. ...
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin),
12/2021, Letnik:
656
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Aims.
The catalog of Stars With ExoplanETs (SWEET-Cat) was originally introduced in 2013. Since then many more exoplanets have been confirmed, increasing significantly the number of host stars listed ...there. A crucial step toward a comprehensive understanding of these new worlds is the precise and homogeneous characterization of their host stars. Better spectroscopic stellar parameters along with new results from
Gaia
eDR3 provide updated and precise parameters for the discovered planets. A new version of the catalog, whose homogeneity in the derivation of the parameters is key to unraveling star–planet connections, is available to the community.
Methods.
We made use of high-resolution spectra for planet-host stars, either observed by our team or collected through public archives. The spectroscopic stellar parameters were derived for the spectra following the same homogeneous process using ARES and MOOG (ARES+MOOG) as for the previous SWEET-Cat releases. We re-derived parameters for the stars in the catalog using better quality spectra and/or using the most recent versions of the codes. Moreover, the new SWEET-Cat table can now be more easily combined with the planet properties listed both at the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia and at the NASA exoplanet archive to perform statistical analyses of exoplanets. We also made use of the recent
Gaia
eDR3 parallaxes and respective photometry to derive consistent and accurate surface gravity values for the host stars.
Results.
We increased the number of stars with homogeneous parameters by more than 40% (from 645 to 928). We reviewed and updated the metallicity distributions of stars hosting planets with different mass regimes comparing the low-mass planets (< 30
M
⊕
) with the high-mass planets. The new data strengthen previous results showing the possible trend in the metallicity-period-mass diagram for low-mass planets.
Abstract
We study the gas phase metallicity (O/H) and nitrogen abundance gradients traced by star-forming regions in a representative sample of 550 nearby galaxies in the stellar mass range ...109–1011.5 M⊙ with resolved spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory survey. Using strong-line ratio diagnostics (R23 and O3N2 for metallicity and N2O2 for N/O) and referencing to the effective (half-light) radius (Re), we find that the metallicity gradient steepens with stellar mass, lying roughly flat among galaxies with log (M⋆/M⊙) = 9.0 but exhibiting slopes as steep as −0.14 dex $R_{\rm e}^{-1}$ at log (M⋆/M⊙) = 10.5 (using R23, but equivalent results are obtained using O3N2). At higher masses, these slopes remain typical in the outer regions of our sample (R > 1.5Re), but a flattening is observed in the central regions (R < 1Re). In the outer regions (R > 2.0Re), we detect a mild flattening of the metallicity gradient in stacked profiles, although with low significance. The N/O ratio gradient provides complementary constraints on the average chemical enrichment history. Unlike the oxygen abundance, the average N/O profiles do not flatten out in the central regions of massive galaxies. The metallicity and N/O profiles both depart significantly from an exponential form, suggesting a disconnect between chemical enrichment and stellar mass surface density on local scales. In the context of inside-out growth of discs, our findings suggest that central regions of massive galaxies today have evolved to an equilibrium metallicity, while the nitrogen abundance continues to increase as a consequence of delayed secondary nucleosynthetic production.
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