- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/393/389
- Title:
- H{alpha} in HII regions in spiral galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/393/389
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we study long slit spectra in the region of H{alpha} emission line of a sample of 111 spiral galaxies with recognizable and well defined spiral morphology and with a well determined environmental status, ranging from isolation to non-disruptive interaction with satellites or companions. The form and properties of the rotation curves are considered as a function of the isolation degree, morphological type and luminosity. The line ratios are used to estimate the metallicity of all the detected H II regions, thus producing a composite metallicity profile for different types of spirals. We have found that isolated galaxies tend to be of later types and lower luminosity than the interacting galaxies. The outer parts of the rotation curves of isolated galaxies tend to be flatter than in interacting galaxies, but they show similar relations between global parameters. The scatter of the Tully-Fisher relation defined by isolated galaxies is significantly lower than that of interacting galaxies. The [NII]/H{alpha} ratios, used as a metallicity indicator, show a clear trend between Z and morphological type, t, with earlier spirals showing higher ratios; this trend is tighter when instead of t the gradient of the inner rotation curve, G, is used; no trend is found with the change in interaction status. The Z-gradient of the disks depends on the type, being almost flat for early spirals, and increasing for later types. The [NII]/H{alpha} ratios measured for disk H II regions of interacting galaxies are higher than for normal/isolated objects, even if all the galaxy families present similar distributions of H{alpha} equivalent width.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/1126
- Title:
- Halpha measurements in Abell 2465
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/447/1126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the star formation rate and its location in the major merger cluster Abell 2465 at z=0.245. Optical properties of the cluster are described in. Measurements of the H{alpha} and infrared dust emission of galaxies in the cluster were made with an interference filter centred on the redshifted line at a wavelength of 817 nm and utilized data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite 12{mu}m band. Imaging in the Johnson U and B bands was obtained, and along with Sloan Digital Sky Survey u and r was used to study the blue fraction, which appears enhanced, as a further signature of star formation in the cluster. Star formation rates were calculated using standard calibrations. The total star formation rate normalized by the cluster mass, {Sigma}SFR/M_cl_ compared to compilations for other clusters indicate that the components of Abell 2465 lie above the mean z and M_cl_ relations, suggestive that interacting galaxy clusters have enhanced star formation. The projected radial distribution of the star-forming galaxies does not follow an NFW profile and is relatively flat indicating that fewer star-forming galaxies are in the cluster centre. The morphologies of the H{alpha} sources within R_200_ for the cluster as a whole indicate that many are disturbed or merging, suggesting that a combination of merging or harassment is working.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A176
- Title:
- Halpha+[NII] imaging of Dorado galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A176
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dorado is a nearby, rich and clumpy galaxy group that extends for several degrees in the Southern Hemisphere. Although several studies have been dedicated to define its members, their kinematics, hot and cold gas content, in particular HI, their present star formation activity is yet unknown. For the first time, we map the H{alpha} distribution as a possible indicator of star formation activity of Dorado members a large fraction of which show interaction and merging signatures, regardless of their morphological type. With the 2.5m du Pont and the 1m Swope telescopes we obtained narrow-band, calibrated images of 14 galaxies, forming the backbone of the group, mapping H{alpha}+[NII] down to few 10^-17^erg/cm^2^/s/arcsec^2^. We estimated the galaxy star formation rate from the H{alpha} fluxes, corrected for Galaxy foreground extinction and [NII] contamination. H{alpha}+[NII] emission has been detected in all galaxies. HII regions clearly emerge in late-type galaxies, while in early-type galaxies the H{alpha}+[NII] emission is dominated by [NII], especially in the central regions. However, HII complexes are revealed in four early-type galaxies. Even in the compact group SGC 0414-5559, in the projected centre of Dorado, HII regions are found both through out the late-type galaxies and in the very outskirts of early-type members. Considering the Dorado group as a whole, we notice that the H{alpha}+[NII] equivalent width, a measure of the specific star formation, increases with the morphological type, from early to late-type members, although it remains lower that what observed in similar surveys of spiral galaxies. The star formation rate of the spiral members is in the range of what observed in similar galaxies surveys (James et al., 2004A&A...414...23J, Cat. J/A+A/414/23). However, in three spiral NGC 1536, PGC 75125 and IC 2058 the star formation rate is well below the median for their morphological classes. The star formation rate of some early-type members tends, at odds, to be higher than the average derived from H{alpha}+[NII] surveys of this morphological family. We detected in H{alpha}+[NII] all the early type galaxies observed and half of them show HII regions in well shaped rings as well as in their outskirts. These findings suggest that ETGs in this group are not dead galaxies: their star formation has not shutdown yet. Mechanisms such as gas stripping and gas accretion, through galaxy-galaxy interaction, seem relevant in modifying star formation in this evolutionary phase of Dorado.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/716
- Title:
- H{alpha} scale length in Virgo and field spirals
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/716
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The scale lengths of the old stars and ionized gas distributions are compared for similar samples of Virgo Cluster members and field spiral galaxies via H{alpha} and broad R-band surface photometry. While the R-band and H{alpha} scale lengths are, on average, comparable for the combined sample, we find significant differences between the field and cluster samples. While the H{alpha} scale lengths of the field galaxies are a factor of 1.14+/-0.07 longer, on average, than their R-band scale lengths, the H{alpha} scale lengths of Virgo Cluster members are, on average, 20% smaller than their R-band scale lengths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/446/839
- Title:
- H{alpha} surface photometry in nearby clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/446/839
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the H{alpha} imaging observations of 273 late-type galaxies in the nearby rich galaxy clusters Virgo, A 1367, Coma, Cancer, Hercules and in the Great Wall, carried out primarily with the 2.1m telescope of the San Pedro Martir Observatory (SPM) and with the ESO/3.6m telescope. We derived the H{alpha}+[NII] fluxes and equivalent widths. The H{alpha} survey reached completion for an optically selected sample of nearby galaxies in and outside rich clusters. Taking advantage of the completeness of the data set, the dependence of H{alpha} properties on the Hubble type was determined for late-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster. Differences in the gaseous content partly account for the large scatter of the H{alpha} EW within each Hubble-type class. We studied the radial distributions of the H{alpha} EW around Coma+A 1367 and the Virgo clusters in two luminosity bins. Luminous galaxies show a decrease in their average H{alpha} EW in the inner ~1 virial radius, while low-luminosity galaxies do not show this trend. Description:
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/396/449
- Title:
- H{alpha} surface photometry in Virgo
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/396/449
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- H{alpha}+[NII] imaging observations of 369 late-type (spiral) galaxies in the Virgo cluster and in the Coma/A1367 supercluster are analyzed, covering 3 rich nearby clusters (A1367, Coma and Virgo) and nearly isolated galaxies in the Great-Wall. They constitute an optically selected sample (mp<16.0) observed with ~60% completeness. These observations provide us with the current (T<10^7^yrs) star formation properties of galaxies that we study as a function of the clustercentric projected distances (Theta). The expected decrease of the star formation rate (SFR), as traced by the H{alpha} equivalent width, with decreasing Theta is found only when galaxies brighter than Mp~19.5 are considered. Fainter objects show no or reverse trends. We also include in our analysis Near Infrared data, providing information on the old (T>10^9^yrs) stars. Put together, the young and the old stellar indicators give the ratio of currently formed stars over the stars formed in the past, or "birthrate" parameter b. For the considered galaxies we also determine the "global gas content" combining HI with CO observations. We define the "gas deficiency'' parameter as the logarithmic difference between the gas content of isolated galaxies of a given Hubble type and the measured gas content.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/335/10
- Title:
- H{alpha} survey of Abell 1689
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/335/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of an H{alpha} survey in the rich cluster A 1689 at z=0.18, using the LDSS++ spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). We obtained spectra covering redshifted H{alpha} at z=0.16-0.22, for 522 galaxies brighter than I=22.5, covering a field of 8.7x8.7arcmin^2^ (~1.1x1.1h^-1^Mpc at z=0.18). We securely detect H{alpha} emission in 46 of these galaxies; accounting for selection effects arising from sampling and cluster membership, we determine that 24+/-4 per cent of cluster members brighter than M_R_=-16.5+5logh are detected with H{alpha} flux greater than 4h^-2^x10^38^erg/s. From a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic covering 7.5x10.0arcmin, we determine morphologies for 199 galaxies brighter than I=21, and find that ~20 per cent of the cluster members are of type Sa or later. More than 90 per cent of cluster spirals show H{alpha} emission, compared with less than 10 per cent of E and S0 galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/357/1337
- Title:
- H{alpha} survey of cluster galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/357/1337
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have extended our H{alpha} objective prism survey of eight low-redshift clusters (viz. Abell 262, 347, 400, 426, 569, 779, 1367 and 1656) to include a complete sample of early-type galaxies within 1.5 Abell radii of the cluster centres. Of the 379 galaxies surveyed, 3 per cent of E, E-S0 galaxies, 6 per cent of S0 galaxies, and 9 per cent of S0/a galaxies were detected in emission. From a comparison of cluster and supercluster field galaxies, we conclude that the frequency of emission-line galaxies (ELGs; W>=20{AA}) is similar for field and cluster early-type galaxies. A similar result has previously been obtained for galaxies of types Sa and later. Together, these results confirm the inference of Biviano et al. (1997A&A...321...84B) that the relative frequency of ELGs in clusters and the field can be entirely accounted for by the different mix of morphological types between the differing environments, and that, for galaxies of a given morphological type, the fraction of ELGs is independent of environment. Detected emission is classified as 'compact' or 'diffuse', identified as circumnuclear starburst or active galactic nucleus (AGN) emission and disc emission, respectively. By comparing spectroscopic data for cluster early-type ELGs with data for field galaxies from the Palomar spectroscopic survey of nearby galactic nuclei, we demonstrate that there is modest evidence for an enhancement of compact H II emission relative to AGN emission in the early-type cluster ELGs as compared to the field. For the cluster early-type galaxies, compact H II emission correlates strongly with a disturbed morphology. This suggests that, as for later-type cluster galaxies, this enhanced compact H II emission can readily be explained as an enhancement of circumnuclear starburst emission due to gravitational tidal interactions, most likely caused by subcluster merging and other on-going processes of cluster virialization.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/199/36
- Title:
- H{alpha} survey of nearby clusters of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/199/36
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a wide-field H{alpha} imaging survey of eight nearby (z=0.02-0.03) Abell clusters. We have measured H{alpha} fluxes and equivalent widths for 465 galaxies, of which 360 are new detections. The survey was designed to obtain complete emission-line-selected inventories of star-forming galaxies in the inner regions of these clusters, extending to star formation rates below 0.1M_{sun}_/yr. This paper describes the observations, data processing, and source identification procedures, and presents an H{alpha} and R-band catalog of detected cluster members and other candidates. Future papers in the series will use these data to study the completeness of spectroscopically based star formation surveys, and to quantify the effects of cluster environment on the present-day populations of star-forming galaxies. The data will also provide a valuable foundation for imaging surveys of redshifted H{alpha} emission in more distant clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/553/A91
- Title:
- Halpha3 survey of Virgo and Coma galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/553/A91
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of the galaxy structural parameters from H{alpha}3, an H{alpha} narrow-band imaging follow-up survey of ~800 galaxies selected from the HI Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA) in the Local Supercluster, including the Virgo cluster, and in the Coma Supercluster. Taking advantage of H{alpha}3 which provides the complete census of the recent star-forming, HI-rich galaxies in the local universe, we aim to investigate the structural parameters of both the young (<10Myr) and the old (>1Gyr) stellar populations. By comparing the sizes of these stellar components we investigated the spatial scale on which galaxies are growing at the present cosmological epoch and the role of the environment in quenching the star-formation activity. We computed the concentration, asymmetry, and clumpiness (CAS) structural parameters both for recently born and old stars. To quantify the sizes we computed half-light radii and a new parameter dubbed EW/r based on the half-light radius of the H{alpha} Equivalent Width map. To highlight the environmental perturbation, we adopt an updated calibration of the HI-deficiency parameter that we use to divide the sample in unperturbed and perturbed galaxies. The concentration index computed in the r band depends on the stellar mass and on the Hubble type, these variables being related since most massive galaxies are bulge dominated thus most concentrated. Going toward later spirals and irregulars both the concentration index and the mass decrease along with the bulge-to-disk ratio. Blue Compact dwarfs represent an exception since they have similar mass but they are more concentrated than dwarf irregulars. The asymmetry and the clumpiness increase along the spiral sequence up to Sc-Sd but they decrease going toward dwarfs whose light distribution is smooth and more symmetric. When measured on H{alpha} images, the CAS parameters do not exhibit obvious correlations with Hubble type. Irrespective of whether we used the ratio between effective radii or the EW/r parameter, we found that the concentration index is the main parameter that describes the current growth of isolated galaxies but, for a fixed concentration, the stellar mass plays a second order role. At the present epoch, massive galaxies are growing inside-out, conversely the dwarfs are growing on the scale of their already assembled mass.
