- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/464/L56
- Title:
- DLA properties and EW of 36 QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/464/L56
- Date:
- 02 Feb 2022 07:22:02
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The XQ-100 survey provides optical and near-infrared coverage of 36 blindly selected, intervening damped Lyman {alpha} systems (DLAs) at 2<z_abs_<4, simultaneously covering the MgII doublet at {lambda}{lambda}2796,2803{AA}, and the Ly{alpha} transition. Using the XQ-100 DLA sample, we investigate the completeness of selecting DLA absorbers based on their MgII rest-frame equivalent width (W_0_^2796^) at these redshifts. Of the 29 DLAs with clean Mg II profiles, we find that six (20 per cent of DLAs) have W_0_^2796^<0.6{AA}. The DLA incidence rate of W_0_^2796^<0.6{AA} absorbers is a factor of ~5 higher than what is seen in z~1 samples, indicating a potential evolution in the MgII properties of DLAs with redshift. All of the W_0_^2796^<0.6{AA} DLAs have low metallicities (-2.5<[M/H]<-1.7), small velocity widths (v_90_<50km/s), and tend to have relatively low N(HI). We demonstrate that the exclusion of these low W_0_^2796^ DLAs results in a higher mean N(HI) which in turn leads to an ~7 per cent increase in the cosmological gas density of HI of DLAs at 2<z_abs_<4; and that this exclusion has a minimal effect on the HI-weighted mean metallicity.
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212. DLAs in SDSS-DR7
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/505/1087
- Title:
- DLAs in SDSS-DR7
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/505/1087
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the evolution of the cosmological mass density of neutral gas using a fully automatic search for Damped Lyman-alpha systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II Data Release 7.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/482
- Title:
- DLA system from SDSS DR5
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/482
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the chemical abundance measurements of the first large, medium-resolution, uniformly selected damped Lyman {alpha} system (DLA) survey. The sample contains 99 DLAs towards 89 quasars selected from the SDSS DR5 DLA sample in a uniform way. We analyse the metallicities and kinematic diagnostics, including the velocity width of 90 percent of the optical depth, {Delta}V_90_, and the equivalent widths of the SiII {lambda}1526 (W}{lambda}1526), CIV {lambda}1548 and MgII {lambda}2796 transitions. To avoid strong line-saturation effects on the metallicities measured in medium-resolution spectra (FWHM~71km/s), we derived metallicities from metal transitions which absorbed at most 35 percent of the quasar continuum flux. We find the evolution in cosmic mean metallicity of the sample, <Z>=(-0.04+/-0.13)z-(1.06+/-0.36), consistent with no evolution over the redshift range z~[2.2, 4.4], but note that the majority of our sample falls at z~[2.2, 3.5]. The apparent lack of metallicity evolution with redshift is also seen in a lack of evolution in the median {Delta}V_90_ and W{lambda}1526 values. While this result may seem to conflict with other large surveys that have detected significant metallicity evolution, such as Rafelski et al. who found <Z>=(-0.22+/-0.03)z-(0.65+/-0.09) over z~[0, 5], several tests show that these surveys are not inconsistent with our new result. However, over the smaller redshift range covered by our uniformly selected sample, the true evolution of the cosmic mean metallicity in DLAs may be somewhat flatter than the Rafelski et al. (2012ApJ...755...89R, Cat. J/ApJ/755/89) estimate.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/790/124
- Title:
- Dust and gas physics of the GOALS sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/790/124
- Date:
- 13 Dec 2021 06:47:30
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) is a comprehensive, multiwavelength study of luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) in the local universe. Here, we present the results of a multi-component, spectral decomposition analysis of the low-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra from 5-38 {mu}m of 244 LIRG nuclei. The detailed fits and high-quality spectra allow for characterization of the individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features, warm molecular hydrogen emission, and optical depths for both silicate dust grains and water ices. We find that starbursting LIRGs, which make up the majority of the GOALS sample, are very consistent in their MIR properties (i.e., {tau}_9.7 {mu}m_, {tau}_ice_, neon line ratios, and PAH feature ratios). However, as their EQW_6.2 {mu}m_decreases, usually an indicator of an increasingly dominant active galactic nucleus (AGN), LIRGs cover a larger spread in these MIR parameters. The contribution from PAH emission to the total IR luminosity (L(PAH)/L(IR)) in LIRGs varies from 2%-29% and LIRGs prior to their first encounter show significantly higher L(PAH)/L(IR) ratios on average. We observe a correlation between the strength of the starburst (represented by IR8 = L_IR_/L_8 {mu}m_) and the PAH fraction at 8 {mu}m but no obvious link between IR8 and the 7.7 to 11.3 PAH ratio, suggesting that the fractional photodissociation region (PDR) emission, and not the overall grain properties, is associated with the rise in IR8 for galaxies off the starburst main sequence. We detect crystalline silicate features in ~6% of the sample but only in the most obscure sources (s_9.7 {mu}m_< -1.24). Ice absorption features are observed in ~11% (56%) of GOALS LIRGs (ULIRGs) in sources with a range of silicate depths. Most GOALS LIRGs have L(H_2_)/L(PAH) ratios elevated above those observed for normal star-forming galaxies and exhibit a trend for increasing L(H_2_)/L(PAH) ratio with increasing L(H_2_). While star formation appears to be the dominant process responsible for exciting the H_2_ in most of the GOALS galaxies, a subset of LIRGs (~10%) shows excess H_2_emission that is inconsistent with PDR models and may be excited by shocks or AGN-induced outflows.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/404/1745
- Title:
- Dwarf galaxies in Coma supercluster
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/404/1745
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyse Spitzer Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) 24um observations, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 optical broad-band photometry and spectra, to investigate the star formation (SF) properties of galaxies residing in the Coma supercluster region. We find that SF in dwarf galaxies is quenched only in the high-density environment at the centre of clusters and groups, but that passively evolving massive galaxies are found in all environments, indicating that massive galaxies can become passive via internal processes. The SF-density relation observed for the massive galaxies is weaker relative to the dwarfs, but both show a trend for the fraction of star-forming galaxies (f_SF_) declining to ~0 in the cluster cores. We find that active galactic nucleus activity is also suppressed among massive galaxies residing in the cluster cores.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/641/A44
- Title:
- Dwarfs, giants and supergiants Equivalent widths
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/641/A44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Stellar population studies in the infrared (IR) wavelength range have two main advantages with respect to the optical regime: they probe different populations, because most of the light in the IR comes from redder and generally older stars and allow us to see through dust because the IR light is less affected by extinction. Our project investigates the sensitivity of various spectral features in the 1-5um wavelength range to the physical properties of stars (Teff, [Fe/H], logg) and aims to objectively define spectral indices that can characterize age and metallicity of unresolved stellar populations. We implemented a method that uses derivatives of the indices as functions of Teff, [Fe/H] of log g across the entire available wavelength range to reveal the most sensitive indices to these parameters and the ranges in which these indices work. Here, we complement the previous work in the I and K bands reporting a new system for Y, J, H and L atmospheric windows. We list the equivalent widths of these indices for the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) spectral library stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/15.1414
- Title:
- E+A galaxy candidates in LAMOST DR2
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/15.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A sample of 70 E+A galaxies is selected from 37206 galaxies in the second data release of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). This sample is selected according to the criteria for E+A galaxies defined by Goto, and each of these objects is further visually identified. In this sample, most objects are low redshift E+A galaxies with z<0.25, and are located in an area of the sky with high Galactic latitude and magnitude from 14 to 18mag in the g, r and i bands. A stellar population analysis of the whole sample indicates that the E+A galaxies are characterized by both young and old stellar populations (SPs), and the metal-rich SPs have relatively higher contributions than the metal-poor ones. Additionally, a morphological classification of these objects is performed based on images taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/373/608
- Title:
- Early-type stars towards the Galactic Center. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/373/608
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We are searching for early-type stars towards the Galactic centre which are potentially young objects situated within the inner few kiloparsecs of the disk. Photographic photometry from the UK Schmidt Telescope has been used to identify the bluest candidates in nineteen Schmidt fields (centred close to the Galactic centre). We have previously obtained FLAIR low dispersion spectroscopy for three of these fields to estimate spectral types and here we present spectroscopy for an additional seven fields. Combining the results for all ten fields, 56 stars were initially classified as early-B type. Estimates of the equivalent widths of their Balmer and He I lines have been used to estimate atmospheric parameters and 32 targets have effective temperatures greater than or equal to 17000K (corresponding to a spectral type of B3 or earlier). The spectra of seven of these targets also have absorption lines due to O II and Si III and can be reliably classified as early-B type. Additionally 78 stars have estimated effective temperatures between 11000 and 16000K with a further 50 objects identified as late-B (or early-A) type. All but two of the early B-type candidates have magnitudes in the range 12.0<=V<=16.0, and our best estimates of their distance suggest that they could be close to (i.e. R_g_<3kpc), or even beyond the Galactic centre.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/139/231
- Title:
- Early-type stars towards the Galactic Centre
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/139/231
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have begun a search for early-type stars towards the galactic centre which are potentially young objects situated within the inner few kiloparsecs of the disk. U and V (or I) band photographic photometry from the UK Schmidt Telescope has been obtained to identify the bluest candidates in nineteen Schmidt fields (centred close to the galactic centre). We have spectroscopically observed these targets for three fields with the FLAIR multi-fibre system to determine their spectral types. In particular, ten early B-type stars have been identified and equivalent width measurements of their Balmer and HeI lines have been used to estimate atmospheric parameters. These early-type objects have magnitudes in the range 11.5=<V<=16.0, and our best estimates of their distance (given probable highly variable reddening in this direction together with errors in the plate photometry) suggest that some of them originated close to (i.e R_g_<3kpc), or even beyond the galactic centre. Future high-resolution spectroscopy of these stars will provide reliable atmospheric parameters and element abundances, in order to map the current chemical composition of the inner galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/457/836
- Title:
- Eclipsing binaries MgI b and H{alpha} EW
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/457/836
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- I have reinterpreted Rucinski's line profiles (broadening functions) for the hot A-type W Ursae Majoris binary AW UMa in terms of various contact models, finding that the detached/semidetached geometry he postulates does not fit the system's light variation or its line profiles. The highly overcontact geometry that actually fits the system's ellipsoidal light variation reproduce the total breadth of the lines but give profiles too broad to fit their shapes. The best solution to this dilemma is differential rotation of both stars in which the mid-latitudes are rotating 20-30 per cent slower than synchronously. This approach preserves the traditional light-curve solution and explains the drift of ripples seen in the line profiles. In addition, there are obviously other flows superimposed on the rotation which make the profiles asymmetrical. Fitting the line profiles is complicated by uncertainties in how the equivalent widths of the lines change with effective temperature and how much they are limb darkened. The contribution of any point on the stellar surface to the equivalent width depends only very weakly on local temperature throughout the range of W UMa binaries. The limb darkening of the lines is probably small, although the effect remains unexplored. I also speculate about the nature of hypothetical star-spots in this system.
