Man-To 文韜 Hui 許, R. Weryk, Marco Micheli, Zhong 中 Huang 黃, R. Wainscoat
{"title":"Serendipitous Archival Observations of a New Ultradistant Comet C/2019 E3 (ATLAS)","authors":"Man-To 文韜 Hui 許, R. Weryk, Marco Micheli, Zhong 中 Huang 黃, R. Wainscoat","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad2500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2500","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We identified a new ultradistant comet C/2019 E3 (ATLAS) exhibiting preperihelion cometary activity at heliocentric distances ≳20 au, making it the fourth member of this population after C/2010 U3 (Boattini), C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein), and C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). From serendipitous archival data, we conducted analyses of the comet, finding that the activity was consistent with steady-state behavior, suggestive of sublimation of supervolatiles; that the cross section of dust increased gradually on the inbound leg of the orbit, varying with heliocentric distances as \u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 r\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 H\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 −\u0000 1.5\u0000 ±\u0000 0.4\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ; and that the dust was produced at a rate of ≳102 kg s−1 within the observed timespan. Our modeling of the largely symmetric morphology of the comet suggests that the dust environment was likely dominated by mm-scale dust grains ejected at speeds ≲0.4 m s−1 from the sunlit hemisphere of the nucleus. Assuming a typical geometric albedo of 0.05 and adopting several simplistic thermophysical models, we estimated the nucleus to be at least ∼3 km across. We also measured the color of the comet to be consistent with other long-period comets, except being slightly bluer in g − r. With our astrometric measurements, we determined an improved orbit of the comet, based upon which we derived that the comet is dynamically new and that its perihelion distance will further shrink due to the Galactic tide. We conclude the paper by comparing the known characteristics of the known ultradistant comets.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"27 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140511635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yasuhiro Hasegawa, T. Uyama, J. Hashimoto, Y. Aoyama, V. Deo, O. Guyon, J. Lozi, Barnaby Norris, M. Tamura, S. Vievard
{"title":"Testing Magnetospheric Accretion as an Hα Emission Mechanism of Embedded Giant Planets: The Case Study for the Disk Exhibiting Meridional Flow Around HD 163296","authors":"Yasuhiro Hasegawa, T. Uyama, J. Hashimoto, Y. Aoyama, V. Deo, O. Guyon, J. Lozi, Barnaby Norris, M. Tamura, S. Vievard","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad1cec","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1cec","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent high-sensitivity observations reveal that accreting giant planets embedded in their parental circumstellar disks can emit Hα at their final formation stages. While the origin of this emission is not yet determined, magnetospheric accretion is currently the most plausible hypothesis. In order to test this hypothesis further, we develop a simplified but physics-based model and apply it to our observations taken toward HD 163296 with Subaru/SCExAO+VAMPIRES. We specify under which conditions embedded giant planets can undergo magnetospheric accretion and emit hydrogen lines. We find that when the stellar accretion rates are high, magnetospheric accretion becomes energetic enough to self-regulate the resulting emission. On the other hand, when massive planets are embedded in disks with low accretion rates, earlier formation histories determine whether magnetospheric accretion occurs. We explore two different origins for the hydrogen emission lines (magnetospheric accretion flow heated by accretion-related processes versus planetary surfaces via accretion shock). The corresponding relationships between the accretion and line luminosities dictate that the emission from accretion flow achieves higher line flux than that from accretion shock, and the flux decreases with increasing wavelengths (i.e., from Hα to Paβ and up to Brγ). Our observations do not detect any point-like source emitting Hα, and they are used to derive the 5σ detection limit. The observations are therefore not sensitive enough, and a reliable examination of our model becomes possible when the observational sensitivity is improved by a factor of 10 or more. Multi-band observations increase the possibility of efficiently detecting embedded giant planets and carefully determining the origin of the hydrogen emission lines.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"42 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140512299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing 静 Wen 文, J. Gao 高, Ming 明 Yang 杨, B. Chen 陈, Y. Ren 任, Tianding 天丁 Wang 王, Biwei 碧沩 Jiang 姜
{"title":"Evolved Massive Stars at Low Metallicity. VI. Mass-loss Rate of Red Supergiant Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud","authors":"Jing 静 Wen 文, J. Gao 高, Ming 明 Yang 杨, B. Chen 陈, Y. Ren 任, Tianding 天丁 Wang 王, Biwei 碧沩 Jiang 姜","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad12bf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad12bf","url":null,"abstract":"Mass loss is a crucial process that affects the observational properties, evolution path, and fate of highly evolved stars. However, the mechanism of mass loss is still unclear, and the mass-loss rate (MLR) of red supergiant stars (RSGs) requires further research and precise evaluation. To address this, we utilized an updated and complete sample of RSGs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and employed the 2-DUST radiation transfer model and spectral energy distribution fitting approach to determine the dust-production rates (DPRs) and dust properties of the RSGs. We have fitted 4714 selected RSGs with over 100,000 theoretical templates of evolved stars. Our results show that the DPR range of RSGs in the LMC is 10−11 M ⊙ yr−1–10−7 M ⊙ yr−1, and the total DPR of all RSGs is 1.14 ×10−6 M ⊙ yr−1. We find that 63.3% RSGs are oxygen-rich, and they account for 97.2% of the total DPR. The optically thin RSG, which comprise 30.6% of our sample, contribute only 0.1% of the total DPR, while carbon-rich RSGs (6.1%) produce 2.7% of the total DPR. Overall, 208 RSGs contributed 76.6% of the total DPR. We have established a new relationship between the MLR and luminosity of RSGs in the LMC, which exhibits a positive trend and a clear turning point at logL/L⊙≈4.4 .","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"39 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Orbital Geometries and Stellar Obliquities of Exoplanet-hosting Multistar Systems","authors":"M. Rice, Konstantin Gerbig, A. Vanderburg","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad1bed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1bed","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The current orbital geometries of exoplanet systems offer a fossilized record of the systems’ dynamical histories. A particularly rich set of dynamical mechanisms is available to exoplanets residing in multistar systems, which may have their evolution shaped by the gravitational influence of bound stellar companions. In this work, we examine the joint distribution of stellar obliquities and orbital orientations for transiting exoplanets residing within astrometrically resolved binary and triple-star systems. We leverage existing constraints on stellar obliquities in exoplanet systems, together with astrometric measurements from Gaia DR3, to uncover a set of fully aligned, “orderly” exoplanet systems that exhibit evidence of both spin–orbit and orbit–orbit alignment. We also find evidence that the observed distribution of orbit–orbit orientations in our sample is more strongly peaked toward alignment than an isotropic distribution. Our results may be indicative of efficient viscous dissipation by nodally recessing protoplanetary disks, demonstrating a regime in which stellar companions produce and maintain order in planetary systems, rather than enhancing misalignments.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"24 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140512697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Cugno, J. Leisenring, Kevin R. Wagner, Camryn Mullin, Roubing Dong, Tom Greene, Doug Johnstone, Michael R. Meyer, S. Wolff, C. Beichman, Martha Boyer, Scott Horner, K. Hodapp, Doug Kelly, Don McCarthy, Thomas L. Roellig, G. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke, J. Stansberry, Erick Young
{"title":"JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. II. Deep Constraints on Giant Planets and a Planet Candidate Outside of the Spiral Disk Around SAO 206462","authors":"G. Cugno, J. Leisenring, Kevin R. Wagner, Camryn Mullin, Roubing Dong, Tom Greene, Doug Johnstone, Michael R. Meyer, S. Wolff, C. Beichman, Martha Boyer, Scott Horner, K. Hodapp, Doug Kelly, Don McCarthy, Thomas L. Roellig, G. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke, J. Stansberry, Erick Young","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad1ffc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1ffc","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We present JWST/NIRCam F187N, F200W, F405N, and F410M direct imaging data of the disk surrounding SAO 206462. Previous images show a very structured disk, with a pair of spiral arms thought to be launched by one or more external perturbers. The spiral features are visible in three of the four filters, with the nondetection in F410M due to the large detector saturation radius. We detect with a signal-to-noise ratio of 4.4 a companion candidate that, if on a coplanar circular orbit, would orbit SAO 206462 at a separation of ∼300 au, 2.25σ away from the predicted separation for the driver of the eastern spiral. No other companion candidates were detected. At the location predicted by simulations of both spirals generated by a single massive companion, the NIRCam data exclude objects more massive than ∼2.2 M\u0000 J assuming the BEX evolutionary models. In terms of temperatures, the data are sensitive to objects with T\u0000 eff ∼ 650–850 K, when assuming planets emit like blackbodies (R\u0000 p between 1 and 3R\u0000 J). From these results, we conclude that if the spirals are driven by gas giants, these must be either cold or embedded in circumplanetary material. In addition, the NIRCam data provide tight constraints on ongoing accretion processes. In the low extinction scenario we are sensitive to mass accretion rates of the order \u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 M\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ̇\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ∼\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 10\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 −\u0000 9\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 M\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 J\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 yr−1. Thanks to the longer wavelengths used to search for emission lines, we reach unprecedented sensitivities to processes with \u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 M\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ̇\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ∼\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 10\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 −\u0000 7\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 M\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 J\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 yr−1 even toward highly extincted environments (A\u0000 V ≈ 50 mag).","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"15 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140513666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin R. Wagner, J. Leisenring, G. Cugno, Camryn Mullin, Ruobing Dong, S. Wolff, Tom Greene, Doug Johnstone, Michael R. Meyer, C. Beichman, Martha Boyer, Scott Horner, K. Hodapp, Doug Kelly, Don McCarthy, Thomas L. Roellig, G. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke, M. Sitko, J. Stansberry, Erick Young
{"title":"JWST/NIRCam Imaging of Young Stellar Objects. I. Constraints on Planets Exterior to the Spiral Disk Around MWC 758","authors":"Kevin R. Wagner, J. Leisenring, G. Cugno, Camryn Mullin, Ruobing Dong, S. Wolff, Tom Greene, Doug Johnstone, Michael R. Meyer, C. Beichman, Martha Boyer, Scott Horner, K. Hodapp, Doug Kelly, Don McCarthy, Thomas L. Roellig, G. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke, M. Sitko, J. Stansberry, Erick Young","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad11d5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad11d5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 MWC 758 is a young star hosting a spiral protoplanetary disk. The spirals are likely companion-driven, and two previously identified candidate companions have been identified—one at the end the Southern spiral arm at ∼0.″6, and one interior to the gap at ∼0.″1. With JWST/NIRCam, we provide new images of the disk and constraints on planets exterior to ∼1″. We detect the two-armed spiral disk, a known background star, and a spatially resolved background galaxy, but no clear companions. The candidates that have been reported are at separations that are not probed by our data with sensitivity sufficient to detect them−nevertheless, these observations place new limits on companions down to ∼2 M\u0000 Jup at ∼150 au and ∼0.5 M\u0000 Jup at ≳600 au. Owing to the unprecedented sensitivity of JWST and youth of the target, these are among the deepest mass-detection limits yet obtained through direct imaging observations, and provide new insights into the system’s dynamical nature.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"49 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140513294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jazm'in Ord'onez-Toro, S. Dzib, L. Loinard, G. Ortiz-Le'on, M. Kounkel, Josep M. Masqu'e, S.-N. X. Medina, P. Galli, T. Dupuy, Luis F. Rodr'iguez, Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez
{"title":"Dynamical Mass of the Ophiuchus Intermediate-mass Stellar System S1 with DYNAMO-VLBA","authors":"Jazm'in Ord'onez-Toro, S. Dzib, L. Loinard, G. Ortiz-Le'on, M. Kounkel, Josep M. Masqu'e, S.-N. X. Medina, P. Galli, T. Dupuy, Luis F. Rodr'iguez, Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad1bd3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1bd3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We report dynamical mass measurements of the individual stars in the most luminous and massive stellar member of the nearby Ophiuchus star-forming region, the young tight binary system S1. We combine 28 archival data sets with seven recent proprietary Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations obtained as part of the Dynamical Masses of Young Stellar Multiple Systems with the VLBA project (DYNAMO–VLBA), to constrain the astrometric and orbital parameters of the system, and recover high-accuracy dynamical masses. The primary component, S1A, is found to have a mass of 4.11 ± 0.10 M\u0000 ⊙, significantly lower than the typical value ∼6 M\u0000 ⊙ previously reported in the literature. We show that the spectral energy distribution (SED) of S1A can be reproduced by a reddened blackbody with a temperature between roughly 14,000 and 17,000 K. According to evolutionary models, this temperature range corresponds to stellar masses between 4 M\u0000 ⊙ and 6 M\u0000 ⊙, so the SED is not a priori inconsistent with the dynamical mass of S1A. The luminosity of S1 derived from SED fitting, however, is only consistent with models for stellar masses above 5 M\u0000 ⊙. Thus, we cannot reconcile the evolutionary models with the dynamical mass measurement of S1A: The models consistent with the location of S1A in the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram correspond to masses higher by 25% at least than the dynamical mass. For the secondary component, S1B, a mass of 0.831 ± 0.014 M\u0000 ⊙ is determined, consistent with a low-mass young star. While the radio flux of S1A remains roughly constant throughout the orbit, the flux of S1B is found to be higher near apastron.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"25 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140513800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Chen, Zhongmu Li, Su Zhang, Wenchang Zhao, You Wu
{"title":"Revisit of 77 Clusters Candidates with Multiple Main Sequences using Gaia DR3","authors":"Jing Chen, Zhongmu Li, Su Zhang, Wenchang Zhao, You Wu","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/acf99f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acf99f","url":null,"abstract":"Gaia DR3 data provide the latest and full astrometric data for more than 1.5 billion sources, and these allow us to revisit the 77 special open cluster candidates collected from LISC star cluster catalog. According to their unclear color–magnitude-diagram (CMD) morphology, they are difficult to be ensured as real open clusters (OCs), and their cluster properties are still poorly known. We perform a cluster census by reidentification for these clusters using pyUPMASK based on the photometric and astrometric stellar information. We have redetected these 77 objects and they should be real OCs, of which five clusters are potential binary clusters. Their basic parameters are obtained by fitting isochrones to observed CMDs. Our results show that their CMDs display more clean main sequences (MSs) and less member stars lying on the right of lower MSs relative to most of clusters in our initial sample, but broad MSs have not changed significantly. We suggest that efficient clustering algorithm combined with precision data can only partly reduce some stars lying on the right of lower MSs, and a simple stellar population of binary and rotating stars can partly reproduce multiple MS phenomena, including split and broad MSs.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":" 39","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139392413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Ejeta, E. Gibb, N. Roth, M. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo, M. Saki, A. McKay, H. Kawakita, Y. Khan, B. Bonev, R. Vervack, M. Combi
{"title":"Coma Abundances of Volatiles at Small Heliocentric Distances: Compositional Measurements of Long-period Comet C/2020 S3 (Erasmus)","authors":"C. Ejeta, E. Gibb, N. Roth, M. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo, M. Saki, A. McKay, H. Kawakita, Y. Khan, B. Bonev, R. Vervack, M. Combi","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad0e02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0e02","url":null,"abstract":"We report production rates of H2O and nine trace molecules (C2H6, CH4, H2CO, CH3OH, HCN, NH3, C2H2, OCS, and CO) in long-period comet C/2020 S3 (Erasmus) using the high-resolution, cross-dispersed infrared spectrograph (iSHELL) at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, on two pre-perihelion dates at heliocentric distances R h = 0.49 and 0.52 au. Our molecular abundances with respect to simultaneously or contemporaneously measured H2O indicate that S3 is depleted in CH3OH compared to its mean abundance relative to H2O among the overall comet population (Oort Cloud comets and Jupiter-family comets combined), whereas the eight other measured species have near-average abundances relative to H2O. In addition, compared to comets observed at R h < 0.80 au at near-infrared wavelengths, S3 showed enhancement in the abundances of volatile species H2CO, NH3, and C2H2, indicating possible additional (distributed) sources in the coma for these volatile species. The spatial profiles of volatile species in S3 in different instrumental settings are dramatically different, which might suggest temporal variability in comet outgassing behavior between the nonsimultaneous measurements. The spatial distributions of simultaneously measured volatile species C2H6 and CH4 are nearly symmetric and closely track each other, while those of CO and HCN co-measured with H2O (using different instrument settings) are similar to each other and are asymmetric in the antisunward direction.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"52 42","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138946247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variability in Protoplanetary Nebulae. X. Multiyear Periods as an Indicator of Potential Binaries","authors":"B. Hrivnak, Wenxian Lu, Gary Henson, T. Hillwig","doi":"10.3847/1538-3881/ad0cc4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0cc4","url":null,"abstract":"New observations are presented of four evolved objects that display long, multiyear variations in their light curves. These are interpreted as good evidence of their binary nature, with the modulation caused by the barycenter motion of the evolved star resulting in a periodic obscuration by a circumbinary disk. Although protoplanetary nebulae (PPNe) commonly possess bipolar nebulae, which are thought to be shaped by a binary companion, there are very few PPNe in which a binary companion has been found. Three of the objects in this study appear to be PPNe, IRAS 07253−2001, 08005−2356, and 17542−0603, with long periods of 5.2, 6.9, and 8.2 yr, respectively. The binary nature of IRAS 08005−2356 has recently been confirmed by a radial velocity study. Two samples, one of PPNe and the other of post-AGB star candidates, are investigated for further evidence on how common is a long-period light-curve variation. Both samples suggest such light-curve variations are not common. The fourth object, IRAS 20056+1834 (QY Sge), is an obscured RV Tau variable of the RVb subclass, with a long period of 3.9 yr and pulsation periods of 102.9 and 51.5 days. The period of this object is seen to vary by 2%. Evidence is presented for a recent mass ejection in IRAS 17542−0603.","PeriodicalId":424210,"journal":{"name":"The Astronomical Journal","volume":"17 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}