- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/475/788
- Title:
- GAMA blue spheroids within 87 Mpc
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/475/788
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we test if nearby blue spheroid (BSph) galaxies may become the progenitors of star-forming spiral galaxies or passively evolving elliptical galaxies. Our sample comprises 428 galaxies of various morphologies in the redshift range 0.002<z<0.02 (8-87Mpc) with panchromatic data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey. We find that BSph galaxies are structurally (mean effective surface brightness, effective radius) very similar to their passively evolving red counterparts. However, their star formation and other properties such as colour, age, and metallicity are more like star-forming spirals than spheroids (ellipticals and lenticulars). We show that BSph galaxies are statistically distinguishable from other spheroids as well as spirals in the multidimensional space mapped by luminosity-weighted age, metallicity, dust mass, and specific star formation rate. We use HI data to reveal that some of the BSphs are (further) developing their discs, hence their blue colours. They may eventually become spiral galaxies - if sufficient gas accretion occurs - or more likely fade into low-mass red galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/567/A68
- Title:
- Gas accretion in nearby spiral galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/567/A68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We quantify the gas accretion rate from minor mergers onto star-forming galaxies in the local Universe using HI observations of 148 nearby spiral galaxies (WHISP sample). We developed a dedicated code that iteratively analyses HI data-cubes, finds dwarf gas-rich satellites around larger galaxies, and estimates an upper limit to the gas accretion rate. We found that 22% of the galaxies have at least one detected dwarf companion. We made the very stringent assumption that all satellites are going to merge in the shortest possible time, transferring all their gas to the main galaxies. This leads to an estimate of the maximum gas accretion rate of 0.28M_{sun}_/yr, about five times lower than the average star formation rate of the sample. Given the assumptions, our accretion rate is clearly an overestimate. Our result strongly suggests that minor mergers do not play a significant role in the total gas accretion budget in local galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/422/941
- Title:
- Gas content in 1038 interacting galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/422/941
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A study of the gas content in 1038 interacting galaxies, essentially selected from Arp (<VII/74>), Arp and Madore (<VII/170>), Vorontsov-Velyaminov (<VII/236>) catalogues and some of the published literature, is presented here. The data on the interstellar medium have been extracted from a number of sources in the literature and compared with a sample of 1916 normal galaxies. The mean values for each of the different ISM tracers (FIR, 21cm, CO lines, X-ray) have been estimated by means of survival analysis techniques, in order to take into account the presence of upper limits.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/131/47
- Title:
- Gas-rich dwarfs from the POSS-II. III.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/131/47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Arecibo neutral hydrogen data on a sample of optically selected dwarf galaxies. The sample ranges in H I mass from 10^6^ to 5x10^9^M_{sun}_, with a mean of 7.9x10^8^M_{sun}_. Using estimated H I radii, the H I surface densities range from 0.6 to 20M_{sun}_/pc^2^, all well below the critical threshold for star formation (Kennicutt, 1998ApJ...498..541K). M_HI_/L values of the LSB dwarfs range from 0.3 to 12 with a mean value of 2.0. Dynamical masses, calculated from the H I profile widths, range from 10^8^ to 10^11^M_{sun}_. There is a strong correlation between optical luminosity and dynamical mass for LSB dwarfs implying that the dark matter (whether baryonic or nonbaryonic) follows the detectable baryonic matter.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/688/290
- Title:
- GASS HI survey of the lower halo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/688/290
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have detected over 400 HI clouds in the lower halo of the Galaxy within the pilot region of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), a region of the fourth quadrant that spans 18{deg} in longitude, 40{deg} in latitude, and is centered on the Galactic equator. These clouds have a median peak brightness temperature of 0.6K, a median velocity width of 12.8km/s, and angular sizes <~1{deg}. The motion of these clouds is dominated by Galactic rotation with a random cloud-to-cloud velocity dispersion of 18km/s. A sample of clouds likely to be near tangent points was analyzed in detail. These clouds have radii on the order of 30pc and a median HI mass of 630M_{sun}_. The population has a vertical scale height of 400pc and is concentrated in Galactocentric radius, peaking at R=3.8kpc. This confined structure suggests that the clouds are linked to spiral features, while morphological evidence that many clouds are aligned with loops and filaments is suggestive of a relationship with star formation. The clouds might result from supernovae and stellar winds in the form of fragmenting shells and gas that has been pushed into the halo rather than from a galactic fountain.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/764/74
- Title:
- GASS HVCs in the Magellanic Leading Arm region
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/764/74
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of high-velocity clouds in the region of the Magellanic Leading Arm. The catalog is based on neutral hydrogen (H I) observations from the Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey. Excellent spectral resolution allows clouds with narrow-line components to be resolved. The total number of detected clouds is 419. We describe the method of cataloging and present the basic parameters of the clouds. We discuss the general distribution of the high-velocity clouds and classify the clouds based on their morphological type. The presence of a significant number of head-tail clouds and their distribution in the region is discussed in the context of Magellanic System simulations. We suggest that ram-pressure stripping is a more important factor than tidal forces for the morphology and formation of the Magellanic Leading Arm and that different environmental conditions might explain the morphological difference between the Magellanic Leading Arm and Magellanic Stream. We also discuss a newly identified population of clouds that forms the LA IV and a new diffuse bridge-like feature connecting the LA II and III complexes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/443/1044
- Title:
- GBT HI observations of 1194 spirals
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/443/1044
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present HI 21cm observations of 1194 galaxies out to a redshift of 10000km/s selected as inclined spirals (i>~60{deg}) from the 2MASS redshift survey. These observations were carried out at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). This observing programme is part of the 2MASS Tully-Fisher (2MTF) survey. This project will combine Hi widths from these GBT observations with those from further dedicated observing at the Parkes Telescope, from the Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-band Feed Array survey at Arecibo, and S/N>10 and spectral resolution v_res_<10km/s published widths from a variety of telescopes. We will use these Hi widths along with 2MASS photometry to estimate Tully-Fisher distances to nearby spirals and investigate the peculiar velocity field of the local Universe. In this paper, we report on detections of neutral hydrogen in emission in 727 galaxies, and measure good signal to noise and symmetric HI global profiles suitable for use in the Tully-Fisher relation in 484.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/902/39
- Title:
- GBT HI obs. of ultradiffuse galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/902/39
- Date:
- 10 Mar 2022 13:55:53
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present neutral hydrogen (HI) observations using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) of 70 optically detected UDG candidates in the Coma region from the Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies survey (SMUDGes). We detect HI in 18 targets, confirming nine to be gas-rich UDGs and the remainder to be foreground dwarfs. None of our HI-detected UDGs are Coma Cluster members and all but one are in low-density environments. The HI-detected UDGs are bluer and have more irregular morphologies than the redder, smoother candidates not detected in HI, with the combination of optical color and morphology being a better predictor of gas richness than either parameter alone. There is little visual difference between the gas-rich UDGs and the foreground dwarfs in the SMUDGes imaging, and distances are needed to distinguish between them. We find that the gas richnesses of our HI-confirmed UDGs and those from other samples scale with their effective radii in two stellar mass bins, possibly providing clues to their formation. We attempt to place our UDGs on the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) using optical ellipticities and turbulence-corrected HI line widths to estimate rotation velocities, but the potential systematics associated with fitting smooth Sersic profiles to clumpy, low-inclination disks of low surface brightness precludes a meaningful analysis of potential BTFR offsets. These observations are a pilot for a large campaign now under way at the GBT to use the HI properties of gas-rich UDGs to quantitatively constrain how these galaxies form and evolve.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/149/343
- Title:
- Giant molecular clouds in M33
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/149/343
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first interferometric ^12^CO (J=1->0) map of the entire H{alpha} disk of M33. The 13" diameter synthesized beam corresponds to a linear resolution of 50pc, sufficient to distinguish individual giant molecular clouds (GMCs). From these data we generated a catalog of 148 GMCs with an expectation that no more than 15 of the sources are spurious. The catalog is complete down to GMC masses of 1.5x10^5^M_{sun}_ and contains a total mass of 2.3x10^7^M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/81/5
- Title:
- Green Bank neutral hydrogen survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/81/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Neutral hydrogen observations at 21cm, made at the Green Bank 91m telescope in 1984, 1985 and 1986, of a large sample of dwarf and other low surface brightness galaxies are presented. The majority of galaxies classified in the Uppsala General Catalogue as dwarf, irregular, Sdm, or later and with declinations north of the range of the Arecibo telescope ({delta}>38{deg}) have been observed, along with a number of galaxies farther south for flux comparisons with Arecibo observations (Schneider et al., 1990ApJS...72..245S, Paper I), totaling over 600 galaxies. About half of these galaxies have no previously published detections. In total, counting previous detections, over 80% of these late-type systems are detected at Green Bank. We have examined the galaxies for potential confusion with nearby galaxies, and we also present substantially better signal-to-noise measurements for many previously detected galaxies. Some general results of the Green Bank survey are discussed here, but the total data base of northern dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies, including new measurements of the galaxies' photographic magnitudes, will be examined in subsequent papers.
