- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/150/367
- Title:
- Globular clusters in NGC 5128
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/150/367
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a photometric and spectroscopic survey of the globular cluster (GC) system of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A), a galaxy whose proximity makes it an important target for early-type galaxy studies. We imaged three fields in UBVRI that extend 50 and 30kpc along the major and minor axes, respectively. We used both color and size information to develop efficient selection criteria for differentiating between star clusters and foreground stars. In total, we obtained new velocities for 138 globular clusters, nearly tripling the number of known clusters, and bringing the confirmed total in NGC 5128 to 215. We present a full catalog of all known GCs, with their positions, photometry, and velocities. In addition, we present catalogs of other objects observed, such as foreground stars, background galaxies, three Galactic white dwarfs, seven background QSOs, and 52 optical counterparts to known X-ray point sources. We also report an observation of the cluster [HGH92] G169, in which we confirm the existence of a bright emission line object. This object, however, is unlikely to be a planetary nebula, but may be a supernova remnant.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/2674
- Title:
- Globular clusters in Sculptor group
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/2674
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use CTIO 4m Mosaic II images taken with the Washington CM and Harris R filters to identify candidate globular clusters in the six major galaxies of the Sculptor group: NGC 45, 55, 247, 254, 300, and 7793. From follow-up spectroscopy with Hydra-CTIO, we find 19 new globular clusters in NGC 55, 247, 253, and 300, bringing the total number of known Sculptor group globular clusters to 36. The newly discovered clusters have spectroscopic ages consistent with those of old Milky Way globular clusters, and the majority are metal-poor.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/436/1172
- Title:
- Globular Clusters of NGC 4278 in SLUGGS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/436/1172
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use multipointing Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys and wide field Subaru Suprime-Cam imaging to study the globular cluster system of the L* elliptical galaxy NGC 4278. We have also obtained a handful of new globular cluster spectra with the Keck Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph. We determine the globular cluster surface density profile and use it to calculate the total number of globular clusters, finding the system to be slightly more populous than average for galaxies of its luminosity. We find clear evidence for bimodality in the globular cluster colour distribution and for a colour-magnitude relation in the blue subpopulation (a 'blue tilt'). We also find negative radial colour gradients in both colour subpopulations of equal strength which are similar in strength to those reported in other galaxies. The sizes of NGC 4278's globular clusters decrease with redder colours and increase with galactocentric radius. The ratio of the sizes of blue to red globular clusters is independent of galactocentric radius demonstrating that internal effects are responsible for the size difference with colour.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/559/812
- Title:
- Globular cluster system in M87
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/559/812
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive database of kinematic, photometric, and positional information for 352 objects in the field of M87 (NGC 4486), the central giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster; the majority of the tracers are globular clusters associated with that galaxy. New kinematic information comes from multislit observations with the Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), an investigation that has added 96 new velocities to and confirmed many of the earlier values in a preexisting data set of 256 velocities published elsewhere. The photometry, consisting of magnitudes and colors in the Washington (T_1_, C-T_1_) system, is based on CCD observations made at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) and the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/865/73
- Title:
- GOBELINS. V. Kinematics of Perseus
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/865/73
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive the distance and structure of the Perseus molecular cloud by combining trigonometric parallaxes from Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations, taken as part of the GOBELINS survey and Gaia Data Release 2. Based on our VLBA astrometry, we obtain a distance of 321+/-10pc for IC 348. This is fully consistent with the mean distance of 320+/-26 measured by Gaia. The VLBA observations toward NGC 1333 are insufficient to claim a successful distance measurement to this cluster. Gaia parallaxes, on the other hand, yield a mean distance of 293+/-22pc. Hence, the distance along the line of sight between the eastern and western edges of the cloud is ~30pc, which is significantly smaller than previously inferred. We use Gaia proper motions and published radial velocities to derive the spatial velocities of a selected sample of stars. The average velocity vectors with respect to the LSR are (u,v,w)=(-6.1+/-1.6, 6.8+/-1.1, -0.9+/-1.2) and (-6.4+/-1.0, 2.1+/-1.4, -2.4+/-1.0)km/s for IC 348 and NGC 1333, respectively. Finally, our analysis of the kinematics of the stars has shown that there is no clear evidence of expansion, contraction, or rotational motions within the clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/536/A89
- Title:
- g'r'i' and redshift of Abell 2254 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/536/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mechanisms giving rise to diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters and, in particular, their connection with cluster mergers are still being debated. We explore the internal dynamics of Abell 2254, which has been shown to host a very clumpy and irregular radio halo. Our analysis is mainly based on redshift data for 128 galaxies acquired at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. We combined galaxy velocities and positions to select 110 cluster galaxies and analyze its internal dynamics. We also used new (g', r', i') photometric data acquired at the Isaac Newton Telescope, and (V, i') photometric data available in the Subaru Archive. X-ray data from the XMM-Newton Science Archive were analyzed to study the hot gas component.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/256
- Title:
- Groups of Galaxies from CfA2 Redshift Survey
- Short Name:
- VII/256
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog contains statistically homogeneous and physically well graunded groups of galaxies based on the CfA2 redshift survey (Cat. J/ApJS/121/287) in the area of space 1000km/s<=cz<=15000km/s, |bII|>=20{deg}. For identification of groups we used a modification of a friends of friends (FoF) method. Principles of friendship and definition of values of presented there free parameters described in Mahtessian (1988Afz....28..255M, 1997Ap.....40..285M). There are 1971 groups with 2 or more members, for a total of 6787 members (46.3%); 765 of the groups have 3 or more members with 4375 galaxies (28.1%). The others 8790 (56.4%) galaxies make a sample of "single" galaxies. The catalog includes group numbers, numbers of members, equatorial coordinates, Virgo-centric radial velocities, line-of-sight-velocity dispersions, integrated group luminosities, and relative quantity of false members.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/598/A26
- Title:
- HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/598/A26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The distribution of exoplanets around low-mass stars is still not well understood. Such stars, however, present an excellent opportunity for reaching down to the rocky and habitable planet domains. The number of current detections used for statistical purposes remains relatively modest and different surveys, using both photometry and precise radial velocities, are searching for planets around M dwarfs. Our HARPS-N red dwarf exoplanet survey is aimed at the detection of new planets around a sample of 78 selected stars, together with the subsequent characterization of their activity properties. Here we investigate the survey performance and strategy. From 2700 observed spectra, we compare the radial velocity determinations of the HARPS-N DRS pipeline and the HARPS-TERRA code, calculate the mean activity jitter level, evaluate the planet detection expectations, and address the general question of how to define the strategy of spectroscopic surveys in order to be most efficient in the detection of planets. We find that the HARPS-TERRA radial velocities show less scatter and we calculate a mean activity jitter of 2.3m/s for our sample. For a general radial velocity survey with limited observing time, the number of observations per star is key for the detection efficiency. In the case of an early M-type target sample, we conclude that approximately 50 observations per star with exposure times of 900s and precisions of approximately 1m/s maximizes the number of planet detections.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/1579
- Title:
- Halo stars in solar neighborhood
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/1579
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have assembled a sample of halo stars in the solar neighborhood to look for halo substructure in velocity and angular momentum space. Our sample (231 stars) includes red giants, RR Lyrae variable stars, and red horizontal branch stars within 2.5kpc of the Sun with [Fe/H] less than -1.0. It was chosen to include stars with accurate distances, space velocities, and metallicities, as well as well-quantified errors. With our data set, we confirm the existence of the streams found by Helmi and coworkers (1999Natur.402...53H), which we refer to as the H99 streams.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/698/865
- Title:
- Halo streams in the SDSS-DR7
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/698/865
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have detected stellar halo streams in the solar neighborhood using data from the seventh public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which includes the directed stellar program Sloan Extension For Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE). In order to derive distances to each star, we used the metallicity-dependent photometric parallax relation from Ivezic et al. (2008ApJ...684..287I). Our final sample consists of 22321 nearby (d<=2kpc), metal-poor ([Fe/H]<=-0.5) main-sequence stars with six-dimensional estimates of position and space velocity (r{vec},{nu}{vec}). We characterize the orbits of these stars through suitable kinematic proxies for their "effective" integrals of motion, angular momentum, eccentricity, and orbital polar angle and compare the observed distribution to expectations from a smooth distribution in four [Fe/H] bins. The metallicities provide an additional dimension in parameter space that is well suited to distinguish tidal streams from those of dynamical origin. On this basis, we identify at least five significant "phase-space overdensities" of stars on very similar orbits in the solar neighborhood to which we can assign unambiguously peaked [Fe/H] distributions. Three of them have been identified previously, including the halo stream discovered by Helmi et al. (1999MNRAS.307..495H) at a significance level of {sigma}=12.0. In addition, we find at least two new genuine halo streams, judged by their kinematics and [Fe/H], at {sigma}=2.9 and 4.8, respectively.
