- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/146/373
- Title:
- Properties of nearby clusters of galaxies. IV.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/146/373
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper is the fourth of a series (Trevese et al. 1992, Paper I, Cat. <J/A+AS/94/327>, Flin et al. 1995, Cat. <J/A+AS/110/313>, Paper II, Trevese et al. 1997, Cat. <J/A+AS/125/459>, Paper III) presenting F band photometry, from digitized 48-inch Palomar plates, of the galaxies brighter than m_3+3 10 clusters of galaxies. For each galaxy, equatorial coordinates, magnitude, size, ellipticity and orientation are given. We provide finding charts and contour maps of the galaxy surface density for each cluster.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/496/39
- Title:
- Properties of poor groups of galaxies. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/496/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use multifiber spectroscopy of 12 poor groups of galaxies to address (1) whether the groups are bound systems or chance projections of galaxies along the line of sight; (2) why the members of each group have not already merged to form a single galaxy, despite the groups' high galaxy densities, short crossing times, and likely environments for galaxy-galaxy mergers; and (3) how galaxies might evolve in these groups, where the collisional effects of the intragroup gas and the tidal influences of the global potential are weaker than in rich clusters. Each of the 12 groups has fewer than about five cataloged members in the literature. Our sample consists of 1002 galaxy velocities, 280 of which are group members. The groups have mean recessional velocities between 1600 and 7600km/s. Nine groups, including three Hickson compact groups, have the extended X-ray emission characteristic of an intragroup medium (see Paper II, 1998ApJ...496...73M).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/539/136
- Title:
- Properties of poor groups of galaxies. III.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/539/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The form of the galaxy luminosity function (GLF) in poor groups - regions of intermediate galaxy density that are common environments for galaxies - is not well understood. Multiobject spectroscopy and wide-field CCD imaging now allow us to measure the GLF of bound group members directly (i.e., without statistical background subtraction) and to compare the group GLF with the GLFs of the field and of rich clusters. We use R-band images in 1.5x1.5degree^2^ mosaics to obtain photometry for galaxies in the fields of six nearby (2800<cz<7700km/s) poor groups for which we have extensive spectroscopic data, including 328 new galaxy velocities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/607/A81
- Title:
- Properties of the sample of clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/607/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The relation between a cosmological halo concentration and its mass (cMr) is a powerful tool to constrain cosmological models of halo formation and evolution. On the scale of galaxy clusters the cMr has so far been determined mostly with X-ray and gravitational lensing data. The use of independent techniques is helpful in assessing possible systematics. Here we provide one of the few determinations of the cMr by the dynamical analysis of the projected-phase-space distribution of cluster members. Based on the WINGS and OmegaWINGS data sets, we used the Jeans analysis with the MAMPOSSt technique to determine masses and concentrations for 49 nearby clusters, each of which has >~60 spectroscopic members within the virial region, after removal of substructures. Our cMr is in statistical agreement with theoretical predictions based on {LAMBDA}CDM cosmological simulations. Our cMr is different from most previous observational determinations because of its flatter slope and lower normalization. It is however in agreement with two recent cMr obtained using the lensing technique on the CLASH and LoCuSS cluster data sets. The dynamical study of the projected-phase-space of cluster members is an independent and valid technique to determine the cMr of galaxy clusters. Our cMr shows no tension with theoretical predictions from {LAMBDA}CDM cosmological simulations for low-redshift, massive galaxy clusters. In the future we will extend our analysis to galaxy systems of lower mass and at higher redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/812/34
- Title:
- Properties of UCD candidates in M87/M49/M60 regions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/812/34
- Date:
- 14 Jan 2022 08:28:26
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use imaging from the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) to present a comparative study of ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies associated with three prominent Virgo sub-clusters: those centered on the massive red-sequence galaxies M87, M49, and M60. We show how UCDs can be selected with high completeness using a combination of half-light radius and location in color-color diagrams (u*iK_s_ or u*gz). Although the central galaxies in each of these sub-clusters have nearly identical luminosities and stellar masses, we find large differences in the sizes of their UCD populations, with M87 containing ~3.5 and 7.8 times more UCDs than M49 and M60, respectively. The relative abundance of UCDs in the three regions scales in proportion to sub-cluster mass, as traced by X-ray gas mass, total gravitating mass, number of globular clusters (GCs), and number of nearby galaxies. We find that the UCDs are predominantly blue in color, with ~85% of the UCDs having colors similar to blue GCs and stellar nuclei of dwarf galaxies. We present evidence that UCDs surrounding M87 and M49 may follow a morphological sequence ordered by the prominence of their outer, low surface brightness envelope, ultimately merging with the sequence of nucleated low-mass galaxies, and that envelope prominence correlates with distance from either galaxy. Our analysis provides evidence that tidal stripping of nucleated galaxies is an important process in the formation of UCDs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/620/A186
- Title:
- Properties of VIS3COS galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/620/A186
- Date:
- 02 Mar 2022 11:37:55
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the VIMOS Spectroscopic Survey of a Supercluster in the COSMOS field (VIS^3^COS) at z~0.84. We use VIMOS high-resolution spectra (GG475 filter) to spectroscopically select 490 galaxies in and around the superstructure and an additional 481 galaxies in the line of sight. We present the redshift distribution, the catalogue to be made public, and the first results on the properties of individual galaxies and stacked spectra (3500{AA}<{lambda}<4200{AA} rest-frame). We probe a wide range of densities and environments (from low-density field to clusters and rich groups). We find a decrease in the median star formation rate from low- to high-density environments in all bins of stellar mass and a sharp rise of the quenched fraction {(from ~10% to ~40-60%)} of intermediate-stellar-mass galaxies (10<log_10_M*/M_{sun}_)<10.75) from filaments to clusters. The quenched fraction for massive galaxies shows little dependence on environment, being constant at ~30-40%. We find a break in the strength of the [OII] emission, with nearly constant line equivalent widths at lower densities (~-11{AA}) and then a drop to ~-2.5{AA} towards higher densities. The break in the [OII] line strength happens at similar densities (log_10_(1+{delta})~0.0-0.5) as the observed rise in the quenched fraction. Our results may provide further clues regarding the different environmental processes affecting galaxies with different stellar masses and highlight the advantages of a single dataset in the COSMOS field probing a wide range of stellar masses and environments. We hypothesise that quenching mechanisms are enhanced in high-density regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/468/4006
- Title:
- Proto-cluster candidate fields
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/468/4006
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present SCUBA-2 follow-up of 61 candidate high-redshift Planck sources. Of these, 10 are confirmed strong gravitational lenses and comprise some of the brightest such submm sources on the observed sky, while 51 are candidate proto-cluster fields undergoing massive starburst events. With the accompanying Herschel-Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver observations and assuming an empirical dust temperature prior of 34^+13^_-9_K, we provide photometric redshift and far-IR luminosity estimates for 172 SCUBA-2-selected sources within these Planck overdensity fields. The redshift distribution of the sources peak between a redshift of 2 and 4, with one-third of the sources having S_500_/S_350_>1. For the majority of the sources, we find far-IR luminosities of approximately 10^13^L_{sun}_, corresponding to star formation rates of around 1000M_{sun}_/yr. For S_850_>8mJy sources, we show that there is up to an order of magnitude increase in star formation rate density and an increase in uncorrected number counts of 6 for S_850_>8mJy when compared to typical cosmological survey fields. The sources detected with SCUBA-2 account for only approximately 5 per cent of the Planck flux at 353 GHz, and thus many more fainter sources are expected in these fields.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/432/62
- Title:
- PS1 MDS X-ray selected galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/432/62
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a pilot study for the extended Massive Cluster Survey (eMACS), a comprehensive search for distant, X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at z>0.5. Our pilot study applies the eMACS concept to the 71deg^2^ area extended by the 10 fields of the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey (MDS). Candidate clusters are identified by visual inspection of PS1 images in the g, r, i and z bands in a 5x5arcmin^2^ region around X-ray sources detected in the ROSATAll-Sky Survey (RASS).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/628/A13
- Title:
- PSZ2 cluster candidates. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/628/A13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Aims. The second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, is the largest sample of galaxy clusters selected through their SZ signature in the full sky. At the time of publication, 21% of these objects had no known counterpart at other wavelengths. Using telescopes at the Canary Island observatories, we conducted the long-term observational programme 128-MULTIPLE-16/15B (hereafter LP15), a large and complete optical follow-up campaign of all the unidentified PSZ2 sources in the northern sky, with declinations above -15{deg} and no correspondence in the first Planck catalogue PSZ1. The main aim of LP15 is to validate all those SZ cluster candidates, and to contribute to the characterization of the actual purity and completeness of full Planck SZ sample. In this paper, we describe the full programme and present the results of the first year of observations. Methods. The LP15 programme was awarded 44 observing nights, spread over two years in three telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. The full LP15 sample comprises 190 previously unidentified PSZ2 sources. For each target, we performed deep optical imaging and spectroscopy. Our validation procedure combined this optical information with SZ emission as traced by the publicly available Planck Compton y-maps. The final classification of the new galaxy clusters as optical counterparts of the SZ signal is established according to several quantitative criteria based on the redshift, velocity dispersion, and richness of the clusters. Results. This paper presents the detailed study of 106 objects out of the LP15 sample, corresponding to all the observations carried out during the first year of the programme. We confirmed the optical counterpart for 41 new PSZ2 sources, 31 of them being validated using also velocity dispersion based on our spectroscopic information. This is the largest dataset of newly confirmed PSZ2 sources without any previous optical information. All the confirmed counterparts are rich structures (i.e. they show high velocity dispersion), and are well aligned with the nominal Planck coordinates (i.e. ~70% of them are located at less than 3' distance). In total, 65 SZ sources are classified as unconfirmed, 57 of them being due to the absence of an optical over-density, and eight of them due to a weak association with the observed SZ decrement. Most of the sources with no optical counterpart are located at low galactic latitudes and present strong galactic cirrus in the optical images, the dust contamination being the most probable explanation for their inclusion in the PSZ2 catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A148
- Title:
- PSZ2 cluster candidates. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A148
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The second legacy catalog of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, provides the largest galaxy cluster sample selected by means of the SZ signature of the clusters in a full sky survey. In order to fully characterize this PSZ2 sample for cosmological studies, all the members should be validated and the physical properties of the clusters, including mass and redshift, should be derived. However, at the time of its publication, roughly 21% of the 1653 PSZ2 members had no known counterpart at other wavelengths. Here, we present the second and last year of observations of our optical follow-up program 128-MULTIPLE-16/15B (hereafter LP15), which has been developed with the aim of validating all the unidentified PSZ2 sources in the northern sky with declinations higher than -15{deg} that have no correspondence in the first Planck catalog PSZ1. The description of the program and the first year of observations have been presented previously. The LP15 program was awarded 44 observing nights that were spread over two years with the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), all at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma). Following the same method as described previously, we performed deep optical imaging for more than 200 sources with the INT and spectroscopy for almost 100 sources with the TNG and GTC at the end of the LP15 program. We adopted robust confirmation criteria based on velocity dispersion and richness estimates for the final classification of the new galaxy clusters as the optical counterparts of the PSZ2 detections. Here, we present the observations of the second year of LP15, as well as the final results of the program. The full LP15 sample comprises 190 previously unidentified PSZ2 sources. Of these, 106 objects were studied before, while the remaining sample (except for 6 candidates) has been completed in the second year and is discussed here. In addition to the LP15 sample, we here study 42 additional PSZ2 objects that were originally validated as real clusters because they matched a WISE or PSZ1 counterpart, but they had no measured spectroscopic redshift. In total, we confirm the optical counterparts for 81 PSZ2 sources after the full LP15 program, 55 of them with new spectroscopic information. Forty of these 81 clusters are presented in this paper. After the LP15 observational program the purity of the PSZ2 catalog has increased from 76.7% originally to 86.2%. In addition, we study the possible reasons for false detection, and we report a clear correlation between the number of unconfirmed sources and galactic thermal dust emission.
