- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/217/27
- Title:
- Morphologies of z<0.01 SDSS-DR7 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/217/27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The morphological types of 5836 galaxies were classified by a visual inspection of color images using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 to produce a morphology catalog of a representative sample of local galaxies with z<0.01. The sample galaxies are almost complete for galaxies brighter than r_pet_=17.77. Our classification system is basically the same as that of the Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies with some simplifications for giant galaxies. On the other hand, we distinguish the fine features of dwarf elliptical (dE)-like galaxies to classify five subtypes: dE, blue-cored dwarf ellipticals, dwarf spheroidals (dSph), blue dwarf ellipticals (dE_blue_), and dwarf lenticulars (dS0). In addition, we note the presence of nucleation in dE, dSph, and dS0. Elliptical galaxies and lenticular galaxies contribute only ~1.5 and 4.9% of local galaxies, respectively, whereas spirals and irregulars contribute ~32.1 and ~42.8%, respectively. The dE_blue_ galaxies, which are a recently discovered population of galaxies, contribute a significant fraction of dwarf galaxies. There seem to be structural differences between dSph and dE galaxies. The dSph galaxies are fainter and bluer with a shallower surface brightness gradient than dE galaxies. They also have a lower fraction of galaxies with small axis ratios (b/a<~0.4) than dE galaxies. The mean projected distance to the nearest neighbor galaxy is ~260 kpc. About 1% of local galaxies have no neighbors with comparable luminosity within a projected distance of 2Mpc.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/151
- Title:
- Morphology catalog of nearby galaxies from SDSS DR7
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/146/151
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the statistical properties of a volume-limited sample of 7429 nearby (z=0.033-0.044) galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. Our database includes morphology distribution as well as the structural and spectroscopic properties of each morphology type based on the recent remeasurements of spectral line strengths by Oh and collaborators. Our database does not include galaxies that are apparently smaller and flatter because morphology classification of them turned out to be difficult. Our statistics confirmed the up-to-date knowledge of galaxy populations, e.g., correlations between morphology and line strengths as well as the derived ages. We hope that this database will be useful as a reference.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/141/61
- Title:
- Morphology of satellite galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/141/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results of an ongoing project to study the morphological, kinematical, dynamical, and chemical properties of satellite galaxies of external giant spiral galaxies. The sample of objects has been selected from the catalog by Zaritsky et al. (1993ApJ...405..464Z). The paper analyzes the morphology and structural parameters of a subsample of 60 such objects. The satellites span a great variety of morphologies and surface brightness profiles. About two-thirds of the sample are spirals and irregulars, the remaining third being early-types. Some cases showing interaction between pairs of satellites are presented and briefly discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/40
- Title:
- Most luminous SPIRITS IR transients follow-up obs.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/40
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a systematic study of the most luminous (MIR [Vega magnitudes] brighter than -14) infrared (IR) transients discovered by the SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (SPIRITS) between 2014 and 2018 in nearby galaxies (D<35Mpc). The sample consists of nine events that span peak IR luminosities of M_[4.5],peak_ between -14 and -18.2, show IR colors between 0.2<([3.6]-[4.5])<3.0, and fade on timescales between 55d<t_fade_<480d. The two reddest events (A_V_>12) show multiple, luminous IR outbursts over several years and have directly detected, massive progenitors in archival imaging. With analyses of extensive, multiwavelength follow-up, we suggest the following possible classifications: five obscured core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), two erupting massive stars, one luminous red nova, and one intermediate-luminosity red transient. We define a control sample of all optically discovered transients recovered in SPIRITS galaxies and satisfying the same selection criteria. The control sample consists of eight CCSNe and one Type Iax SN. We find that 7 of the 13 CCSNe in the SPIRITS sample have lower bounds on their extinction of 2<A_V_<8. We estimate a nominal fraction of CCSNe in nearby galaxies that are missed by optical surveys as high as 38.5_-21.9_^+26.0^% (90% confidence). This study suggests that a significant fraction of CCSNe may be heavily obscured by dust and therefore undercounted in the census of nearby CCSNe from optical searches.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/415/863
- Title:
- Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/415/863
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Table 1 lists SNe discovered by the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search. The SNIa? were classified through the goodness of fit of the template light curves and hence could be SNe of another type that have been misclassified. Those SNe designated nIa were deemed not to be SNIa through the template fits and were not investigated further. Table 3 contains Maximum light magnitudes, {Delta}m15 values and distances derived from the template light curve fitting technique for those SNe from the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search deemed to be SNIa, as well as those from Phillips (1999AJ....118.1766P) The subdirectory "comp" contains the files with calibrated magnitudes for the local standard stars found in the field of each of the supernovae from the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search. The numbering of these stars corresponds to that found in the finding charts of each of these fields. These are found online at EDP Sciences. For each local standard, their Cousins B, V, R and I magnitudes are given, as is the error in the magnitude estimate. The subdirectory "flux" contains the files with calibrated fluxes for the supernovae discovered in the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search. For each supernova, the MACHO VM, RM magnitudes and Cousins B, V, R and I fluxes are given (when available), as are the errors in the derived fluxes. One unit flux is equivalent to 25th magnitude. The subdirectory "mag" contains the files with calibrated magnitudes for the supernovae discovered in the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search. For each supernova, the MACHO VM, RM magnitudes and Cousins B, V, R and I magnitudes are given (when available), as is the upper and lower errors in the derived magnitudes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/234
- Title:
- M31 outer halo UBVRI photometry and metallicity
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/124/234
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present first results from a spectroscopic survey designed to examine the metallicity and kinematics of individual red giant branch stars in the outer halo of the Andromeda spiral galaxy (M31). This study is based on multislit spectroscopy with the Keck II 10m telescope and Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph of the Ca II near-infrared triplet in 99 M31 halo candidates in a field at R=19kpc on the southeast minor axis with brightnesses from 20<I<22.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/864/59
- Title:
- M31 PAndromeda Cepheid sample in four HST bands
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/864/59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the M31 PAndromeda Cepheid sample and the HST PHAT data we obtain the largest Cepheid sample in M31 with HST data in four bands. For our analysis we consider three samples: A very homogeneous sample of Cepheids based on the PAndromeda data, the mean magnitude corrected PAndromeda sample and a sample complementing the PAndromeda sample with Cepheids from literature. The latter results in the largest catalog with 522 fundamental mode (FM) Cepheids and 102 first overtone (FO) Cepheids with F160W and F110W data and 559 FM Cepheids and 111 FO Cepheids with F814W and F475W data. The obtained dispersion of the Period-Luminosity relations (PLRs) is very small (e.g. 0.138mag in the F160W sample I PLR). We find no broken slope in the PLRs when analyzing our entire sample, but we do identify a subsample of Cepheids that causes the broken slope. However, this effect only shows when the number of this Cepheid type makes up a significant fraction of the total sample. We also analyze the sample selection effect on the Hubble constant.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/775/92
- Title:
- MQS III: AGNs behind LMC and SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/775/92
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Magellanic Quasars Survey (MQS) has now increased the number of quasars known behind the Magellanic Clouds by almost an order of magnitude. All survey fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 70% of those in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) have been observed. The targets were selected from the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) based on their optical variability, mid-IR, and/or X-ray properties. We spectroscopically confirmed 758 quasars (565 in the LMC and 193 in the SMC) behind the clouds, of which 94% (527 in the LMC and 186 in the SMC) are newly identified. The MQS quasars have long-term (12yr and growing for OGLE), high-cadence light curves, enabling unprecedented variability studies of quasars. The MQS quasars also provide a dense reference grid for measuring both the internal and bulk proper motions of the clouds, and 50 quasars are bright enough (I<~18mag) for absorption studies of the interstellar/intergalactic medium of the clouds.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/793/134
- Title:
- M33 SNR candidates properties
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/793/134
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Narrowband images covering strong emission lines are efficient for surveying supernova remnants (SNRs) in nearby galaxies. Using the narrowband images provided by the Local Group Galaxy Survey, we searched for SNRs in M33. Culling the objects with enhanced [S II]/H{alpha} and round morphology in the continuum-subtracted H{alpha} and [S II] images, we produced a list of 199 sources. Among them, 79 are previously unknown. Their progenitor and morphology types were classified. A majority of the sample (170 objects) are likely remnants of core-collapse supernovae (SNe), and 29 are remnants of Type Ia SNe. The cumulative size distribution of these objects is found to be similar to that of the M31 remnants derived in a similar way. We obtain a power-law slope, {alpha}=2.38+/-0.05. Thus, a majority of the sources are considered to be in the Sedov-Taylor phase, consistent with previous findings. The histogram of the emission-line ratio ([S II]/H{alpha}) of the remnants has two concentrations at [S II]/H{alpha} ~0.55 and ~0.8, as in M31. Interestingly, L_X_(and L_20 cm_) of the compact center-bright objects are correlated with their optical luminosity. The remnants with X-ray emission have brighter optical surface brightnesses and smaller diameters than those without X-ray emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/645/A115
- Title:
- 346 M31 star clusters and their parameters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/645/A115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Determining the metallicities and ages of M31 clusters is fundamental to the study of the formation and evolution of M31 itself. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has carried out a systematic spectroscopic campaign of clusters and candidates in M31. We constructed a catalogue of 346 M31 clusters observed by LAMOST. By combining the information of the LAMOST spectra and the multi-band photometry, we developed a new algorithm to estimate the metallicities and ages of these clusters. We distinguish young clusters from old using random forest classifiers based on a empirical training data set selected from the literature. Ages of young clusters are derived from the spectral energy distribution fits of their multi-band photometric measurements. Their metallicities are estimated by fitting their observed spectral principal components extracted from the LAMOST spectra with those from the young metal-rich single stellar population (SSP) models. For old clusters we built non-parameter random forest models between the spectral principal components and/or multi-band colours and the parameters of the clusters based on a training data set constructed from the SSP models. The ages and metallicities of the old clusters are then estimated by fitting their observed spectral principal components extracted from the LAMOST spectra and multi-band colours from the photometric measurements with the resultant random forest models. We derived parameters of 53 young and 293 old clusters in our catalogue. Our resultant parameters are in good agreement with those from the literature. The ages of ~30 catalogued clusters and metallicities of ~40 sources are derived for the first time.
