RRab stars toward Baade's window with Blanco/DECam Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Saha A.
  2. Vivas A.K.
  3. Olszewski E.W.
  4. Smith V.
  5. Olsen K.
  6. Blum R.
  7. Valdes F.,Claver J.
  8. Calamida A.
  9. Walker A.R.
  10. Matheson T.
  11. Narayan G.
  12. Soraisam M.,Cunha K.
  13. Axelrod T.
  14. Bloom J.S.
  15. Cenko S.B.
  16. Frye B.
  17. Juric M.
  18. Kaleida C.,Kunder A.
  19. Miller A.
  20. Nidever D.
  21. Ridgway S.
  22. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We have obtained repeated images of six fields toward the Galactic bulge in five passbands (u, g, r, i, z) with the DECam imager on the Blanco 4m telescope at CTIO. From more than 1.6 billion individual photometric measurements in the field centered on Baade's window, we have detected 4877 putative variable stars. A total of 474 of these have been confirmed as fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars, whose colors at minimum light yield line-of-sight reddening determinations, as well as a reddenning law toward the Galactic Bulge, which differs significantly from the standard R_V_=3.1 formulation. Assuming that the stellar mix is invariant over the 3 square-degree field, we are able to derive a line-of-sight reddening map with sub-arcminute resolution, enabling us to obtain de-reddened and extinction corrected color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of this bulge field using up to 2.5 million well-measured stars. The corrected CMDs show unprecedented detail and expose sparsely populated sequences: for example, delineation of the very wide red giant branch, structure within the red giant clump, the full extent of the horizontal branch, and a surprising bright feature that is likely due to stars with ages younger than 1Gyr. We use the RR Lyrae stars to trace the spatial structure of the ancient stars and find an exponential decline in density with Galactocentric distance. We discuss ways in which our data products can be used to explore the age and metallicity properties of the bulge, and how our larger list of all variables is useful for learning to interpret future LSST alerts.

Keywords
  1. variable-stars
  2. galaxy-planes
  3. milky-way-galaxy
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. Wide-band photometry
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2019ApJ...874...30S
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History

2020-09-09T13:06:15Z
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2020-09-09T13:06:15Z
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