Subluminous Stars among the FAUST UV sources toward OPHIUCHUS

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2002-04-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204123v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, including 5 tables and 12 figures. Accepted by MNRAS

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We present results of an analysis of a UV image in the direction of Ophiuchus, obtained with the FAUST instrument. The image contains 228 UV sources. Most of these were identified as normal early-type stars through correlations with cataloged objects. For the first time in this project we identified UV sources as such stars by selecting suitable candidates in crowded fields as the bluest objects in color-color diagrams using observations from the Wise Observatory. These candidates were then studied using low-resolution spectroscopy, which allowed the determination of spectral types to an accuracy of about one-half class, for 60 stars. Synthetic photometry of spectral data was performed in order to predict the expected UV emission, on the basis of the photometric information. These results were used along with the Hipparcos/Tycho information, to search for sub-luminous stars. The comparison of the predicted emission with the FAUST measured magnitudes allowed us to select twelve stars as highly-probable evolved hot stars. High signal-to-noise spectra were obtained for nine of these stars and Balmer line profiles were compared with the prediction of atmosphere models and with the spectrum of real stellar atmospheres. Among the nine candidates, six are classified as previously unrecognized sdB stars and two as white dwarfs. Our result indicates that indeed more bright subluminous stars are still unrecognized in the existing samples.

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