Proyecto de Investigación: ASTERICS 653477
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J-PLUS: Discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs using Virtual Observatory tools
(EDP Sciences, 2019-06-27) Martín, E. L.; Caballero, J. A.; Rodrigo, C.; Angulo, R. E.; Alcaniz, J. S.; Borges Fernandes, M.; Cenarro, A. J.; Cristóbal Hornillos, D.; Dupke, R. A.; Alfaro, E. J.; Ederoclite, A.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Hernández Jiménez, J. A.; Hernández Monteagudo, C.; Lopes de Oliveira, R.; López Sanjuan, C.; Marín Franch, A.; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia L.; Moles, M.; Orsi, Álvaro A.; Schmidtobreick, L.; Sobral, D.; Sodré, L.; Varela, J.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Solano, Enrique; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT); European Research Council (ERC); Caballero, J. A. [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7349-1387]; Jailson Souza de Alcaniz. [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-1413]; Alfaro, Emilio J. [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-7035]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
Context. Ultracool dwarfs are objects with spectral types equal to or later than M7. Most of them have been discovered using wide-field imaging surveys. The Virtual Observatory has proven to be very useful for efficiently exploiting these astronomical resources.
Aims. We aim to validate a Virtual Observatory methodology designed to discover and characterise ultracool dwarfs in the J-PLUS photometric survey. J-PLUS is a multiband survey carried out with the wide-angle T80Cam optical camera mounted on the 0.83 m telescope JAST/T80 in the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre. We make use of the Internal Data Release covering 528 deg2.
Methods. We complemented J-PLUS photometry with other catalogues in the optical and infrared using VOSA, a Virtual Observatory tool that estimates physical parameters from the spectral energy distribution fitting to collections of theoretical models. Objects identified as ultracool dwarfs were distinguished from background M giants and highly reddened stars using parallaxes and proper motions from Gaia DR2.
Results. We identify 559 ultracool dwarfs, ranging from i = 16.2 mag to i = 22.4 mag, of which 187 are candidate ultracool dwarfs not previously reported in the literature. This represents an increase in the number of known ultracool dwarfs of about 50% in the region of the sky we studied, particularly at the faint end of our sensitivity, which is interesting as reference for future wide and deep surveys such as Euclid. Three candidates are interesting targets for exoplanet surveys because of their proximity (distances less than 40 pc). We also analysed the kinematics of ultracool dwarfs in our catalogue and found evidence that it is consistent with a Galactic thin-disc population, except for six objects that might be members of the thick disc.
Conclusion. The results we obtained validate the proposed methodology, which will be used in future J-PLUS and J-PAS releases. Considering the region of the sky covered by the Internal Data Release used in this work, we estimate that 3000–3500 new ultracool dwarfs will be discovered at the end of the J-PLUS project.
The Gran Telescopio Canarias OSIRIS broad-band first data release
(Oxford Academics: Oxford University Press, 2020-01-05) Cortés Contreras, M.; Bouy, H.; Mahlke, M.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Alacid, J. M.; Rodrigo, C.; Solano, Enrique; European Space Agency (ESA); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); European Research Council (ERC); Cortés Contreras, M. [0000-0003-3734-9866]; Rodrigo, C. [0000-0001-6068-0077]; Solano, E. [0000-0003-1885-5130]; Jiménez Esteban, F. M. [0000-0002-6985-9476]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
We present the first release of GTC OSIRIS broad-band data archive. This is an effort conducted in the framework of the Spanish Virtual Observatory to help optimize science from the Gran Telescopio Canarias Archive. Data Release 1 includes 6788 broad-band images in the Sloan griz filters obtained between 2009 April and 2014 January and the associated catalogue with roughly 6.23 million detections of more than 630 000 unique sources. The catalogue contains standard PSF and Kron aperture photometry with a mean accuracy better than 0.09 and 0.15 mag, respectively. The relative astrometric residuals are always better than 30 mas and better than 15 mas in most cases. The absolute astrometric uncertainty of the catalogue is of 0.12 arcsec. In this paper we describe the procedure followed to build the image archive and the associated catalogue, as well as the quality tests carried out for validation. To illustrate some of the scientific potential of the catalogue, we also provide two examples of its scientific exploitation: discovery and identification of asteroids and cool dwarfs.
Clusterix 2.0: a virtual observatory tool to estimate cluster membership probability.
(Oxford Academics: Blackwell Publishing, 2020-02-11) Balaguer Núñez, L.; López del Fresno, M.; Galadí Enríquez, D.; Jordi, C.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Masana, E.; Carbajo Hijarrubia, J.; Paunzen, E.; Solano, Enrique; Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); European Commission (EC); European Research Council (ERC); 0000-0001-9789-7069; 0000-0002-3304-5200; 0000-0002-6985-9476; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos (ICCUB), MDM-2014-0369; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
Clusterix 2.0 is a web-based, Virtual Observatory compliant, interactive tool for the determination of membership probabilities in stellar clusters based on proper-motion data using a fully non-parametric method. In an area occupied by a cluster, the frequency function is made up of two contributions: cluster and field stars. The tool performs an empirical determination of the frequency functions from the vector point diagram without relying on any previous assumption about their profiles. Clusterix 2.0 allows us to search the appropriate spatial areas in an interactive way until an optimal separation of the two populations is obtained. Several parameters can be adjusted to make the calculation computationally feasible without interfering with the quality of the results. The system offers the possibility to query different catalogues, such as Gaia, or upload a user’s own data. The results of the membership determination can be sent via Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP) to Virtual Observatory (VO) tools such as Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables (TOPCAT). We apply Clusterix 2.0 to several open clusters with different properties and environments to show the capabilities of the tool: an area of five degrees radius around NGC 2682 (M67), an old, well-known cluster; a young cluster NGC 2516 with a striking elongated structure extended up to four degrees; NGC 1750 and NGC 1758, a pair of partly overlapping clusters; the area of NGC 1817, where we confirm a little-known cluster, Juchert 23; and an area with many clusters, where we disentangle two overlapping clusters situated where only one was previously known: Ruprecht 26 and the new CLUSTERIX 1.
Identification of asteroids using the Virtual Observatory: the WFCAM Transit Survey
(Oxford Academics: Oxford University Press, 2019-10-26) Cortés Contreras, M.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Mahlke, M.; Durech, J.; Barceló Forteza, S.; Rodrigo, C.; Velasco, A.; Carry, B.; Solano, Enrique; Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); European Space Agency (ESA); Contreras, M. [0000-0003-3734-9866]; Rodrigo Blanco, C. [0000-0001-6068-0077]; Jiménez Esteban, F. M. [0000-0002-6985-9476]; Carry, B. [0000-0001-5242-3089]; Solano, E. [0000-0003-1885-5130]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
The nature and physical properties of asteroids, in particular those orbiting in the near-Earth space, are of scientific interest and practical importance. Exoplanet surveys can be excellent resources to detect asteroids, both already known and new objects. This is due to their similar observing requirements: large fields of view, long sequences, and short cadence. If the targeted fields are not located far from the ecliptic, many asteroids will cross the field of view occasionally. We present two complementary methodologies to identify asteroids serendipitously observed in large-area astronomical surveys. One methodology focuses on detecting already known asteroids using the Virtual Observatory tool SkyBoT, which predicts their positions and motions in the sky at a specific epoch. The other methodology applies the ssos pipeline, which is able to identify known and new asteroids based on their apparent motion. The application of these methods to the 6.4 deg2 of the sky covered by the Wide-Field CAMera Transit Survey in the J-band is described. We identified 15 661 positions of 1821 different asteroids. Of them, 182 are potential new discoveries. A publicly accessible online, Virtual Observatory compliant catalogue was created. We obtained the shapes and periods for five of our asteroids from their light curves built with additional photometry taken from external archives. We demonstrated that our methodologies are robust and reliable approaches to find, at zero cost of observing time, asteroids observed by chance in astronomical surveys. Our future goal is to apply them to other surveys with adequate temporal coverage.
A Catalog of Wide Binary and Multiple Systems of Bright Stars from Gaia-DR2 and the Virtual Observatory
(The Institute of Physics (IOP), 2019-01-28) Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Rodrigo, C.; Solano, Enrique; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); European Research Council (ERC); Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
Binary and multiple stars have long provided an effective empirical method of testing stellar formation and evolution theories. In particular, the existence of wide binary systems (separations >20,000 au) is particularly challenging to binary formation models as their physical separations are beyond the typical size of a collapsing cloud core (~5000–10,000 au). We mined the recently published Gaia-DR2 catalog to identify bright comoving systems in the five-dimensional space (sky position, parallax, and proper motion). We identified 3741 comoving binary and multiple stellar candidate systems, out of which 575 have compatible radial velocities for all the members of the system. The candidate systems have separations between ~400 and 500,000 au. We used the analysis tools of the Virtual Observatory to characterize the comoving system members and to assess their reliability. The comparison with previous comoving systems catalogs obtained from TGAS showed that these catalogs contain a large number of false systems. In addition, we were not able to confirm the ultra-wide binary population presented in these catalogs. The robustness of our methodology is demonstrated by the identification of well known comoving star clusters and by the low contamination rate for comoving binary systems with projected physical separations <50,000 au. These last constitute a reliable sample for further studies. The catalog is available online at the Spanish Virtual Observatory portal (http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/vocats/v2/comovingGaiaDR2/).
