A search for infrared stellar objects in Vela

A search for infrared stellar objects in Vela

Chin.Astron.Astrophys. Act,Astr~phys. Sin. Pergamon 12 (1988) 304-310 _8 11988) 182-389 Press plc. Printed in Great Britain 0275..1062/‘88$10.00+...

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Chin.Astron.Astrophys. Act,Astr~phys. Sin.

Pergamon

12 (1988) 304-310 _8 11988) 182-389

Press

plc.

Printed in Great Britain 0275..1062/‘88$10.00+.00

A SECT FORI~~~R~~ STELLAR OBJECTS IN VELA XIAO Zben and LI Jing Beijing Observatory, :lcademia

Keywords:

Sinica

Photcgraphic photometry infrared escess objects

- colours

of

stars

-

In a search for infrared excess objects near the galactic plane, a star field of 28.5 square degrees in Vela has been measured on UK Schmidt piates R4272 and 14183 with the Cosmos The magnitude limit is machine at Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. around 20 in R and around 19 in 1. 131 infrared excess objects with colour index R-I > 2.5 are discovered in the field, and 3 red stellar objects have been identified as the optical counterparts of IRA8 point sources. ABSTRACT

Received

1987 August

4

The tea-dimensional diqitised scannin:: measuring machine COS~fOS 121 of Royal Observatory-, Edinburgh was used to measure the UK Schmidt, R and I sky survey plates [3/ of galactic re ion so.261 in Bela. The _/ F” fii >Id is 3.33. x 3’3.~ . The plate centre is 1 = (1950.0 epoch): (X : 9h2Om, 6 = -l5 ‘00’; 269.0 b = +3.4>. The plate limit of plate R42’72 ts “20, that of plate I4138 is ~19. ‘The Harvard photoelectric sequence E4 in the

Vela region Id1 was used for brightness and COSMOS measures the colour calibration. brightness of star images in units of cosmag Least-squares fits between Cosmag R 151. and R and between Cosmag I and I for the E4 standards have mean errors ztO.06 mag and f0.07 mag, respectively. h’e used the VAX 11/780 computer of Beijing Observatory to count the star images in Cosma$ R and Cosmag I down to the plate

Coonas R

Fiq. 1 Differential counts of R images

number magnitude from plate H 42172

Fig. 2 counts

Differential of I images

number magnitude from plate I 4138

Infrared Objects

L’

..c....r....e

_-1OW

.

0

-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5

I

Differentialnumber magnitude counts of colour R-I from paired :!.ates

TABLE 1 Relation Between the Two Colour Systems R-I

..L.....C

-SW

Comwj R-Comsp

Fig. 3

305

Cosmag r - Cosmag I -800.1 -691.3 -582.6 -473.8 -365.0 -256.2 - 47.5 - 38.7

limit. We counted 385,950 stars on the R4272 plate, and 349,661 on the I4138 plate. The distributions of counts are shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and we can take that the count down to Cosmag R w -1150 or Cosmag I * -850 are complete and reliable, [6]. The corresponding magnitudes are R N 20.2, I N 18.4. We used Starlink catalogue treatment software to compare the R-I plate pair and find the magnitude difference, i.e., the R-I colour. For this, we first established the coordinate conversions between the two plates from 52 selected reference stars in 5 small regions within the Sky Region No.261. Since the position measurement by COSMOS gives the weighted density centre of the pixel elements in the star image, the position of the star on different colour plates may not be precisely coincident. We take an 8" x 8" error box as the criterion for position identificationon Schmidt survey plates. With this criterion, we determined the Cosmag R - Cosmag I

colours of the stars on our plate pair. The correspondencebetween the Cosmag R - Cosmag I colour and the R-I colour is given in TABLE 1. The frequency distribution of the colour index is shown in Fig. 3. We note that blue objects with R-I < -10 and extremely red objects with R-I > 2.5 are both very rare. According to the definitions in the internationalwide-band UBVRI photometric system, R-I = 0.0 for A0 stars and R-I q 1.0 for MO stars. Actual observations show that, for the latest types, e.g., M8, R-I m 2. Therefore, we shall take R-I t 2.5 as criterion for infrared excess objects. By this criterion, we discovered 131 infrared excess objects in this galactic region in Vela of 28.5 square degrees. Their equatorial coordinates were measured with the TV plate monitor of Beijing Observatory with a mean error of k2.0". TABLE 2 gives the measured positions and colour indicies of these 131 infrared excess objects. An examination of the IRAS catalogue of point sources yielded 336 sources in our region. According to our criterion, (6" x 8" error box), we have 3 identifications. These are the optical counterparts to IRAS point sources in this region. Their coordinates and identificationcharts are given in TABLE 3 and Figs. 4(l) and 4(2).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT XIAO Zhen thanks Professor M.S. Longair for support during her visit in Edinburgh and Dr. R.S. Stobie and colleagues in the plate library for providing the original plates of the UK Schmidt Near Infrared Survey and for the use of COSMOS.

XIAO

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TABLE

2

Position

and

Zhen

Colour

et

al.

Indices

RA

of

(1950.0)

131 Infrared Excess Obiec :S L

DEC

R-I

1

423

9

6

55.8

-46

55

19

2.6

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

424

9

6

59.8

-46

49

12

2.6

835

9

7

11.2

-45

8

39

2.8

422

9

7

17.1

-46

31

3

2.6

B

1675

9

7

29.3

-43

17

6

2.7

AI

1249.

9

7

33.3

-43

51

5V

2.6

1248

9

7

37.7

-44

2

3

2.6

1677

9

7

41.2

-4.?

17

28

2.6

1676

9

7

41.9

-42

I7

53

3.6

1678

9

7

45.0

-42

I5

37

3.1

II

1671

9

7

49.3

-41

25

54

2.6

12

1670

9

7

49.9

-42

27

19

3.8

13

1668

9

7

51.0

-42

30

28

2.6

14

1674

9

7

51.2

-42

16

30

3.2

15

1666

9

7

51.3

-42

41

14

2.7

16

1667

9

7

51.7

-42

37

37

2.7

17

1672

9

7

55.0

-42

22

27

3.8

18

1669

9

7

55.4

-42

30

13

2.6 3.3

B

19

1673

9

7

57.1

-42

21

56

20

1665

9

7

59.7

-42

41

39

2.7

B

21

i 664

9

8

0.8

-42

53

13

2.9

nr

22

1247

9

8

4.3

-44

21

43

2.8

B

23

1661

9

8

9.3

-42

48

21

3.1

24

1662

9

8

10.7

-42

23

27

2.8

25

1660

9

8

14.2

-43

10

59

2.7

26

1663

9

8

20.2

-42

23

11

3.4

27

1656

9

8

28.1

-42

27

43

2.6

28

1657

9

8

32.4

-42

26

43

3.3

29

1655

9

8

32.6

-42

29

48

3.0

30

1659

9

8

34.5

-42

20

41

3.4

31

1658

V

8

34.7

-42

21

11

3.0

32

1653

9

8

35.1

-42

31

5

2.6

33

1651

9

8

35.4

-42

38

i

3.4

34

1650

9

8

37.5

-43

4

I1

2.8

B

B

35

1654

Y

8

38.2

-42

20

16

3.4

36

1652

9

8

41.6

-41

31

30

3.3

37

1645

Y

8

47.0

-42

42

39

2.6

38

1246

9

8

51.3

-43

52

53

3.2

B

39

1646

9

8

55.9

-42

36

50

2.8

M

40

1649

V

8

58.8

-42

19

2

3.5

41

1648

9

8

59.5

-42

20

43

2.6

42

1647

9

8

59.7

-42

26

30

3.0

43

1245

9

9

1.6

-43

34

43

3.0

B

44

1642

Y

9

10.5

-??

36

36

2.7

D

B: double Image

M: multiple

image

D:

.ffUSl image

Infrared

307

Objects

TABLE 2 Continued NO.

RA nlma

(1950.0)

r

DEC

R-l

45

1644

9

9

13.9

-42

16

1

2.8

46

1643

9

9

20.5

-42

22

14

2.8

47

1638

9

9

26.6

-42

25

39

2.9

48

1640

9

9

27.3

-42

19

48

3.2

49

1639

9

9

27.4

-42

20

11

2.7

50

1634

9

9

35.4

-42

41

49

2.7

51

1637

9

9

35.9

-42

31

2

2.9

52

1635

9

9

36.5

-42

38

53

2.9

1636

9

9

48.8

-42

29

27

3.6

54

1631

9

9

51.5

-42

40

16

2.9

55

1633

9

9

52.6

-42

18

52

3.1

56

1632

9

9

58.3

-42

31

17

2.8

57

1629

9

10

6.9

-42

22

57

2.7

58

1628

9

10

7.2

-42

31

52

2.6

59

1630

9

10

14.5

-42

17

5

3.0

60

1244

9

10

16.2

-43

33

49

3.0

61

1626

9

10

19.1

-42

39

I7

2.7

62

1627

9

10

24.0

-42

23

7

3.2

63

834

9

IO

31.9

-44

51

39

2.9

64

1625

9

10

33.8

-42

17

55

3.1

65 66 67 68 69

1243

9

10

34.2

-43

37

36

2*7

1624

9

10

37.4

-42

19

55

3.8

53

1623

9

10

46.5

-42

41

0

3.2

1242

9

10

48.8

-44

45

8

2.6

421

9

10

55.8

-46

56

6

2.6

70

1622

9

11

3.9

-42

IS

48

2.9

‘II

1618

9

11

4.2

-42

29

29

2.9

72

1619

9

11

6.6

-42

28

17

2.6

73

1620

9

11

11.7

-42

18

29

2.6

74

1621

9

il

I2.1

-42

18

15

2.7

75

1617

9

Ii

19.8

-42

IS

2

3.3

76

1615

9

11

21.9

-42

36

32

2.9

77

1616

Y

I1

27.5

-42

15

54

3.0

78

410

9

11

39.1

-46

57

2

2.8

79

1614

9

11

51.8

-42

15

34

2.8

80

1612

9

11

57.8

-42

18

48

2.7

81

418

9

12

0.0

-47

8

5

2.7

82

1613

9

12

3.5

-42

16

13

2.7

83

419

Y

I?

7.0

-46

30

34

2.6

84

1610

Y

IL

8.1

-42

33

51

3.3

85

1611

9

12

15.1

-42

14

58

3.7

86

417

9

12

17.2

-47

11

34

2.9

87

833

9

12

17.6

-45

27

37

2.7

88

632

9

13

0.8

-44

59

39

2.7

89

1609

9

13

14.5

-42

19

7

2.8

90

1608

9

13

38.7

-42

13

38

3.9

B

B

B

B

D

B

B

B

D

B

B

B

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TABLE 2 Continued

-

NO.

name

I

RA

I

DEC (1950.0)

R-I

91

1607

9

13

45.1

-42

53

24

2.6

92

1606

9

13

59.9

-42

I4

6

3.0

93

1241

9

14

3.4

-43

48

35

2.9

94

1602

9

14

6.9

-43

8

54

3.0

95

416

9

14

9.4

-46

24

34

2.6

96

1603

9

14

9.8

-42

46

4

2.8

97

1604

9

14

13.1

-42

26

28

3.0

90

1605

9

14

22.4

-42

15

28

3.0

99

1601

9

14

37.2

-42

23

19

3.3

100

1559

9

14

52.3

-42

37

15

2.7

JO1

731

9

14

55.0

-45

13

28

2.7

102

1558

9

15

30.3

-42

21

17

2.8

103

1557

9

15

34.5

-42

36

SO

3.2

104

1555

9

16

J9.2

-43

17

11

2.6

JO5

1556

9

16

21.5

-42

43

53

2.9

106

315

9

18

18.7

-47

24

52

2.8

107

1554

9

18

41.0

-42

35

28

2.7 3.2

D

D

B

JO8

1453

9

20

29.2

-42

14

28

JO9

730

9

20

33.5

-45

14

20

2.6

B

110

314

9

20

56.2

-46

48

49

2.6

M

111

B

1139

9

21

34.9

-44

8

2

2.6

112

629

9

12

57.9

-45

9

47

3.7

113

1452

9

25

39.9

-42

25

33

2.7

3

114

213

9

25

Si.2

-47

28

4

2.8

B

115

212

9

29

26.1

-47

24

29

2.7

116

JJJ

9

31

17.7

-47

24

39

2.6

B

117

110

9

31

44.8

-47

24

29

2.8

B

118

109

9

32

1.5

-47

22

10

2.6

119

937

9

32

3.6

-43

58

11

2.9

120

108

9

32

33.6

-46

29

S

2.6

I?i

JO?

9

32

47.1

-47

12

40

2.6

122

196

9

33

10.6

-46

40

52

2.4

4

2.7

a4

2.7

M

123

104

9

33

45.7

-46

15

124

103

9

33

54.9

-46

56

125

JO5

9

33

55.2

-47

29

126

1351

Y

34

23.1

-43

5

127

526

9

34

57.3

-45

32

128

102

9

35

9.4

-47

10

129

1350

9

36

32.5

-42

33

130

936

9

36

53.9

-44

4

131

JO1

9

37

35.1

-47

18

3 19 42 15 42 59 58 10

D

2.7 2.8 2.7 2.9

B

2.6 2.6

hf

3.0

B

Infrared Objects

_r.TABLE 3

Data of the Three Identified IRAS Sources

COSMOS

1R

exeer-

sobjcct No.

RA

78

-46

IRAS source

COSMOS IR ercessobject

!J116-1657

9 11 3Y.l

DEC

No.

-46

57.3

-42.

0.342

0.248

0.611

0.463

56.0(11)50.0) MAGNITUDES

+

+

0

+ t + + b

.

+

4 0

4’- I

9+

I ++ + +

+

at

ao:

0

-I i

a+

‘+ -.-

t +

+

+I+

4”

Fig. 4(2)

3 09 f8 00, -4G 55.0([email protected])

EPOCH:IYSO.O

MAGNITUDES 1

0

+ l00

oO-l-

oo ++

4

O

00

a t

+ 0

Fig. 4(l) F26 i CENTRE:

UDES /

7+

+

9+

-tp ++

0

0%

-

6 -;-

u) i-

0

MAGNI

S-i--

0

8$_

el

0

+

T

+

+

++

a 0

44.0([email protected])

-1s

I1 +

t

+.a

0.437 12.58

15 ?261 :ENTRE: 09 IQ 16, -42 IPOCH:IO~~.O + T

7-k

0

19.0

24 49

0.698

6 -;-

+Qtt*

+“-I-0 90 -;-

+

18

-47

201.13

5-t-

+

it2I”

i+

0

+

‘, ++

o+

Y

24 52

I

l-

+

-6 0

--47

5.150

4

a

9 18 18.7

42 5&

2.Y

36.37

l

106

20.354

4

+++

-42

1.9

CENTRE: 09 10 50, -46 EPOCH:1950.0

0

No.

__

9 16’21.4

43--U

30.622

flux 25 flux 60 flux 100flux 12

F261

COSMOS IR excessobject

_Y163-4242

105

9 16 21.5

9 11 40.2

57 2

2.6

R-l

309

a

I

+ s-l-

++

O

--I-- +f

-I-

s --I-

0

7+ 8+

0

4+

p +

IO + + +

Fig. 4(3)

Fig. 4 Identificationchart of (1) IRAS 9116-4657 with Infrared Excess Object No.78, (2) IRAS 9163-4242 and Object No.105 and, (3) IRAS 9183-4742 and Object No.106.

Ii+

Crosses

are SAO stars, circles are IRAS sources, the crossed square is the identified source

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et

al.

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