- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A20
- Title:
- GALACTICNUCLEUS JHKs imaging survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The high extinction and extreme source crowding of the central regions of the Milky Way are serious obstacles to the study of the structure and stellar population of the Galactic centre (GC). Surveys that cover the GC region (2MASS, UKIDSS, VVV, SIRIUS) do not have the necessary high angular resolution. Therefore, a high angular resolution survey in the near infrared is crucial to improve the state of the art. Here, we present the GALACTICNUCLEUS catalogue, a near infrared JHKs high angular resolution (0.2") survey of the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way. We explain in detail the data reduction, data analysis, calibration, and uncertainty estimation of the GALACTICNUCLEUS survey. We assess the data quality comparing our results with previous surveys. We obtained accurate JHKs photometry ~3.3x10^6^ stars in the GC detecting around 20% in J, 65% in H and 90% in Ks. The survey covers a total area of ~0.3 square degrees, which corresponds to ~6000pc^2^. The GALACTICNUCLEUS survey reaches 5 sigma detections for J~22mag, H~21mag and Ks~21mag. The uncertainties are below 0.05mag at J~21mag, H~19mag and Ks~18mag. The zero point systematic uncertainty is <~0.04mag in all three bands. We present colour-magnitude diagrams for the different regions covered by the survey.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/396/553
- Title:
- Galactic RR Lyrae data
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/396/553
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use accurate absolute proper motions and Two-Micron All-Sky Survey Ks -band apparent magnitudes for 364 Galactic RR Lyrae variables to determine the kinematical parameters of the Galactic RR Lyrae population and constrain the zero-point of the Ks-band period-luminosity relation for these stars via statistical parallax.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/723/1019
- Title:
- Galactic SFR and gas surface densities
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/723/1019
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the relation between star formation rate (SFR) and gas surface densities in Galactic star-forming regions using a sample of young stellar objects (YSOs) and massive dense clumps. Our YSO sample consists of objects located in 20 large molecular clouds from the Spitzer cores to disks (c2d; Evans, 2009, Cat. J/ApJS/181/321) and Gould's Belt (GB) survey (L. Allen et al. 2010, in preparation). These data allow us to probe the regime of low-mass star formation, essentially invisible to tracers of high-mass star formation used to establish extragalactic SFR-gas relations. We estimate the gas surface density ({Sigma}_gas_) from extinction (A_V_) maps and YSO SFR surface densities ({Sigma}_SFR_) from the number of YSOs, assuming a mean mass and lifetime. We also divide the clouds into evenly spaced contour levels of A_V_, counting only Class I and Flat spectral energy distribution YSOs, which have not yet migrated from their birthplace. For a sample of massive star-forming clumps, we derive SFRs from the total infrared luminosity and use HCN gas maps to estimate gas surface densities. We find that c2d and GB clouds lie above the extragalactic SFR-gas relations (e.g., Kennicutt-Schmidt law) by factors of up to 17. We use ^12^CO and ^13^CO gas maps of the Perseus and Ophiuchus clouds from the COMPLETE survey (Ridge et al. 2006AJ....131.2921R) to estimate gas surface densities and compare to measurements from A_V_ maps.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/734/13
- Title:
- GALEX ultraviolet halos around bright stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/734/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have discovered ultraviolet (UV) halos extending as far as 5{deg} around four (of six) bright UV stars using data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. These halos are due to scattering of the starlight from nearby thin, foreground dust clouds. We have placed limits of 0.58+/-0.12 and 0.72+/-0.06 on the phase function asymmetry factor (g) in the FUV (1521{AA}) and NUV (2320{AA}) bands, respectively. We suggest that these halos are a common feature around bright stars and may be used to explore the scattering function of interstellar grains at small angles.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/435/575
- Title:
- 86GHz SiO maser survey of late-type stars. III
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/435/575
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have determined extinction corrections for a sample of 441 late-type stars in the inner Galaxy, which we previously searched for SiO maser emission, using the 2MASS near-infrared photometry of the surrounding stars. From this, the near-infrared extinction law is found to be approximated by a power law A_lambda_{prop.to}lambda^-1.9+/-0.1^. Near- and mid-infrared colour-colour properties of known Mira stars are reviewed. From the distribution of the dereddened infrared colours of the SiO target stars we infer mass-loss rates between 10^-7^ and 10^-5^M_{sun}_/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/619/A35
- Title:
- 86GHz SiO maser survey of late-type stars. IV
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/619/A35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an 86GHz SiO (v=1, J=2->1) maser search towards late-type stars located within |b|<0.5{deg} and 20{deg}<l<50{deg}. This search is an extension at longer longitudes of the work by Messineo et al. (2002, Cat. J/A+A/393/115). We selected 135 stars from the MSX catalog using color and flux criteria and detected 92 (86 new detections). The detection rate is 68%, the same as in our previous study. The last few decades have seen the publication of several catalogues of point sources detected in infrared surveys (MSX, 2MASS, DENIS, ISOGAL, WISE, GLIMPSE, AKARI, and MIPSGAL). We searched each catalogue for data on the 444 targets of our earlier survey and for the 135 in the survey reported here. We confirm that, as anticipated, most of our targets have colors typical of oxygen-rich AGB stars. Only one target star may have left the AGB already. Ten stars have colors typical of carbon-rich stars, meaning a contamination of our sample with carbon stars of <=1.7%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/778/128
- Title:
- GRB-host galaxies photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/778/128
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present observations and analysis of the host galaxies of 23 heavily dust-obscured gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Swift satellite during the years 2005-2009, representing all GRBs with an unambiguous host-frame extinction of A_V_>1mag from this period. Deep observations with Keck, Gemini, Very Large Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer successfully detect the host galaxies and establish spectroscopic or photometric redshifts for all 23 events, enabling us to provide measurements of the intrinsic host star formation rates, stellar masses, and mean extinctions. Compared to the hosts of unobscured GRBs at similar redshifts, we find that the hosts of dust-obscured GRBs are (on average) more massive by about an order of magnitude and also more rapidly star forming and dust obscured. While this demonstrates that GRBs populate all types of star-forming galaxies, including the most massive, luminous systems at z{approx}2, at redshifts below 1.5 the overall GRB population continues to show a highly significant aversion to massive galaxies and a preference for low-mass systems relative to what would be expected given a purely star-formation-rate-selected galaxy sample. This supports the notion that the GRB rate is strongly dependent on metallicity, and may suggest that the most massive galaxies in the universe underwent a transition in their chemical properties ~9Gyr ago. We also conclude that, based on the absence of unobscured GRBs in massive galaxies and the absence of obscured GRBs in low-mass galaxies, the dust distributions of the lowest-mass and the highest-mass galaxies are relatively homogeneous, while intermediate-mass galaxies (~10^9^M_{sun}_) have diverse internal properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/178/247
- Title:
- H{alpha} and [NII] survey in local 11 Mpc
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/178/247
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of a broader effort to characterize the population of star-forming galaxies in the local universe, we have carried out an H{alpha}+[NII] imaging survey for an essentially volume-limited sample of galaxies within 11Mpc of the Milky Way. This first paper describes the design of the survey, the observation, data processing, and calibration procedures, and the characteristics of the galaxy sample. The main product of the paper is a catalog of integrated H{alpha} fluxes, luminosities, and equivalent widths for the galaxies in the sample. We briefly discuss the completeness properties of the survey and compare the distribution of the sample and its star formation properties to other large H{alpha} imaging surveys. These data form the foundation for a series of follow-up studies of the star formation properties of the local volume, and the properties and duty cycles of star formation bursts in dwarf galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/677/169
- Title:
- H{alpha} galaxies at z=0.84
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/677/169
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of an H{alpha} near-infrared narrowband survey searching for star-forming galaxies at redshift z=0.84. This work is an extension of our previous narrowband studies in the optical at lower redshifts. After removal of stars and redshift interlopers (using spectroscopic and photometric redshifts), we build a complete sample of 165 H{alpha} emitters in the extended Groth strip and GOODS-N fields with L(H{alpha})>10^41^ergs/s. We compute the H{alpha} luminosity function at z=0.84 after corrections for [NII] flux contamination, extinction, systematic errors, and incompleteness. Our sources present an average dust extinction of A(H{alpha})=1.5mag. Adopting H{alpha} as a surrogate for the instantaneous SFR, we measure an extinction-corrected SFR density of 0.17^+0.03^_-0.03_M_{sun}_/yr/Mpc^3^. Combining this result to our prior measurements at z=0.02, 0.24, and 0.40, we derive an H{alpha}-based evolution of the SFR density proportional to (1+z)^{beta}^ with {beta}=3.8+/-0.5. This evolution is consistent with that derived by other authors using different SFR tracers.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/217/5
- Title:
- HAQ survey: red QSO candidates follow-up
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/217/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) whose spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are reddened by dust either in their host galaxies or in intervening absorber galaxies are to a large degree missed by optical color selection criteria like the ones used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To overcome this bias against red QSOs, we employ a combined optical and near-infrared (near-IR) color selection. In this paper, we present a spectroscopic follow-up campaign of a sample of red candidate QSOs which were selected from the SDSS and the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The spectroscopic data and SDSS/UKIDSS photometry are supplemented by mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. In our sample of 159 candidates, 154 (97%) are confirmed to be QSOs. We use a statistical algorithm to identify sightlines with plausible intervening absorption systems and identify nine such cases assuming dust in the absorber similar to Large Magellanic Cloud sightlines. We find absorption systems toward 30 QSOs, 2 of which are consistent with the best-fit absorber redshift from the statistical modeling. Furthermore, we observe a broad range in SED properties of the QSOs as probed by the rest-frame 2{mu}m flux. We find QSOs with a strong excess as well as QSOs with a large deficit at rest-frame 2{mu}m relative to a QSO template. Potential solutions to these discrepancies are discussed. Overall, our study demonstrates the high efficiency of the optical/near-IR selection of red QSOs.
