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The little-studied cluster Berkeley 90. II. The foreground ISM
Context: Nearly one century after their discovery, the carrier(s) of Diffuse
Interstellar Bands is/are still unknown and there are few sightlines studied in
detail for a large number of DIBs. Aims: We want to study the ISM sightlines
towards LS III +46 11 and LS III +46 12, two early-O-type stellar systems, and
LS III +46 11 B, a mid-B-type star. The three targets are located in the
stellar cluster Berkeley 90 and have a high extinction. Methods: We use the
multi-epoch high-S/N optical spectra presented in paper I (Ma\'iz Apell\'aniz
et al. 2015), the extinction results derived there, and additional spectra.
Results: We have measured equivalent widths, velocities, and FWHMs for a large
number of absorption lines in the rich ISM spectrum in front of Berkeley 90.
The absorbing ISM has at least two clouds at different velocities, one with a
lower column density (thinner) in the K I lines located away from Berkeley 90
and another one with a higher column density (thicker) associated with the
cluster. The first cloud has similar properties for both O-star sightlines but
the second one is thicker for LS III +46 11. The comparison between species
indicate that the cloud with a higher column density has a denser core,
allowing us to classify the DIBs in a sigma-zeta scale, some of them for the
first time. The LS III +46 12 sightline also has a high-velocity redshifted
component.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&
Eccentricity estimator for wide-angle fovea sensor by FMI descriptor approach
This paper proposes a method for estimating eccentricity that corresponds to an incident angle to a fovea sensor. The proposed method applies Fourier-Mellin Invariant descriptor for estimating rotation, scale, and translation, by taking both geometrical distortion and non-uniform resolution of a space-variant image by the fovea sensor into account. The following 2 points are focused in this paper. One is to use multi-resolution images computed by discrete wavelet transform for reducing noise caused by foveation properly. Another is to use a variable window function (although the window function is generally used for reducing DFT leakage caused by both ends of a signal.) for changing an effective field of view (FOV) in order not to sacrifice high accuracy. The simulation compares the root mean square (RMS) of the foveation noise between uniform and non-uniform resolutions, when a resolution level and a FOV level are changed, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method is consistent with the wide-angle space-variant image by the fovea sensor, i.e., it does not sacrifice high accuracy in the central FOV
Lucky Spectroscopy, an equivalent technique to Lucky Imaging. Spatially resolved spectroscopy of massive close visual binaries using the William Herschel Telescope
CONTEXT: Many massive stars have nearby companions whose presence hamper
their characterization through spectroscopy. AIMS: We want to obtain spatially
resolved spectroscopy of close massive visual binaries to derive their spectral
types. METHODS: We obtain a large number of short long-slit spectroscopic
exposures of five close binaries under good seeing conditions, select those
with the best characteristics, extract the spectra using multiple-profile
fitting, and combine the results to derive spatially separated spectra.
RESULTS: We demonstrate the usefulness of Lucky Spectroscopy by presenting the
spatially resolved spectra of the components of each system, in two cases with
separations of only ~0.3". Those are delta Ori Aa+Ab (resolved in the optical
for the first time) and sigma Ori AaAb+B (first time ever resolved). We also
spatially resolve 15 Mon AaAb+B, zeta Ori AaAb+B (both previously resolved with
GOSSS, the Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey), and eta Ori AaAb+B, a system
with two spectroscopic B+B binaries and a fifth visual component. The systems
have in common that they are composed of an inner pair of slow rotators orbited
by one or more fast rotators, a characteristic that could have consequences for
the theories of massive star formation.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A, 7 page
The eccentric short-period orbit of the supergiant fast X-ray transient HD 74194 (=LM Vel)
Aims. We present the first orbital solution for the O-type supergiant star HD
74194, which is the optical counterpart of the supergiant fast X-ray transient
IGR J08408-4503. Methods. We measured the radial velocities in the optical
spectrum of HD 74194, and we determined the orbital solution for the first
time. We also analysed the complex H{\alpha} profile. Results. HD 74194 is a
binary system composed of an O-type supergiant and a compact object in a
short-period ( d) and high-eccentricity ()
orbit. The equivalent width of the H{\alpha} line is not modulated entirely
with the orbital period, but seems to vary in a superorbital period
( d) nearly 30 times longer than the orbital one.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&
The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS). II. Bright Southern Stars
We present the second installment of GOSSS, a massive spectroscopic survey of
Galactic O stars, based on new homogeneous, high signal-to-noise ratio, R ~
2500 digital observations from both hemispheres selected from the Galactic
O-Star Catalog (GOSC). In this paper we include bright stars and other objects
drawn mostly from the first version of GOSC, all of them south of delta = -20
degrees, for a total number of 258 O stars. We also revise the northern sample
of paper I to provide the full list of spectroscopically classified Galactic O
stars complete to B = 8, bringing the total number of published GOSSS stars to
448. Extensive sequences of exceptional objects are given, including the early
Of/WN, O Iafpe, Ofc, ON/OC, Onfp, Of?p, and Oe types, as well as
double/triple-lined spectroscopic binaries. The new spectral subtype O9.2 is
also discussed. The magnitude and spatial distributions of the observed sample
are analyzed. We also present new results from OWN, a multi-epoch
high-resolution spectroscopic survey coordinated with GOSSS that is assembling
the largest sample of Galactic spectroscopic massive binaries ever attained.
The OWN data combined with additional information on spectroscopic and visual
binaries from the literature indicate that only a very small fraction (if any)
of the stars with masses above 15-20 M_Sol are born as single systems. In the
future we will publish the rest of the GOSSS survey, which is expected to
include over 1000 Galactic O stars.Comment: 110 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS. Some figures
have low quality due to arXiv file size limitations, alternative version
available at http://jmaiz.iaa.es/files/Sotaetal14.pd
Spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the early-type spectroscopic binary HD 161853 in the centre of an H II region
We study the O-type star HD 161853, which has been noted as a probable
double-lined spectroscopic binary system. We secured high-resolution spectra of
HD 161853 during the past nine years. We separated the two components in the
system and measured their respective radial velocities for the first time. We
confirm that HD 161853 is an 1 Ma old binary system consisting of an O8 V
star ( M) and a B1--3 V star ( M) at about 1.3 kpc. From the radial velocity curve, we measure an
orbital period = 2.667650.00001 d and an eccentricity =
0.1210.007. Its -band light curve is constant within 0.014 mag and does
not display eclipses, from which we impose a maximum orbital inclination
deg. HD 161853 is probably associated with an H II region and a poorly
investigated very young open cluster. In addition, we detect a compact emission
region at 50 arcsec to HD 161853 in 22m-WISE and 24m-Spitzer images,
which may be identified as a dust wave piled up by the radiation pressure of
the massive binary system.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in A&
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