- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/118/2014
- Title:
- Nearby poor clusters of galaxies catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/118/2014
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A catalog of 732 optically selected, nearby poor clusters of galaxies covering the entire sky north of -3{deg} declination is presented. The poor clusters, called WBL clusters, were identified as concentrations of three or more galaxies with photographic magnitudes brighter than 15.7, possessing a galaxy surface overdensity of 10^4/3^. These criteria are consistent with those used in the identification of the original Yerkes poor clusters, and this new catalog substantially increases the sample size of such objects. These poor clusters cover the entire range of galaxy associations up to and including Abell clusters, systematically including poor and rich galaxy systems spanning over 3 orders of magnitude in the cluster mass function. As a result, this new catalog contains a greater diversity of richness and structures than other group catalogs, such as the Hickson and Yerkes catalogs. The information on individual galaxies includes redshifts and cross-references to other galaxy catalogs. The entries for the clusters include redshift (where available) and cross-references to other group and cluster catalogs.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/750/93
- Title:
- Near-IR observations of XMM-LSS J02182-05102
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/750/93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss the structural and morphological properties of galaxies in a z=1.62 proto-cluster using near-IR imaging data from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 data of the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). The cluster galaxies exhibit a clear color-morphology relation: galaxies with colors of quiescent stellar populations generally have morphologies consistent with spheroids, and galaxies with colors consistent with ongoing star formation have disk-like and irregular morphologies. The size distribution of the quiescent cluster galaxies shows a deficit of compact (<~1kpc), massive galaxies compared to CANDELS field galaxies at z=1.6. As a result, the cluster quiescent galaxies have larger average effective sizes compared to field galaxies at fixed mass at greater than 90% significance. Combined with data from the literature, the size evolution of quiescent cluster galaxies is relatively slow from z=~1.6 to the present, growing as (1+z)^-0.6+/-0.1^. If this result is generalizable, then it implies that physical processes associated with the denser cluster region seem to have caused accelerated size growth in quiescent galaxies prior to z=1.6 and slower subsequent growth at z<1.6 compared to galaxies in the lower density field. The quiescent cluster galaxies at z=1.6 have higher ellipticities compared to lower redshift samples at fixed mass, and their surface-brightness profiles suggest that they contain extended stellar disks. We argue that the cluster galaxies require dissipationless (i.e., gas-poor or "dry") mergers to reorganize the disk material and to match the relations for ellipticity, stellar mass, size, and color of early-type galaxies in z<1 clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/753/125
- Title:
- Near-IR spectroscopy follow-up of 60 SDSS-DR7 QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/753/125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Single-epoch virial black hole (BH) mass estimators utilizing broad emission lines have been routinely applied to high-redshift quasars to estimate their BH masses. Depending on the redshift, different line estimators (H{alpha}, H{beta}, MgII{lambda}2798, CIV{lambda}1549) are often used with optical/near-infrared spectroscopy. Here, we use a homogeneous sample of 60 intermediate-redshift (z~1.5-2.2) Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars with optical and near-infrared spectra covering CIV through H{alpha} to investigate the consistency between different single-epoch virial BH mass estimators.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/446/97
- Title:
- NEP Distant Cluster Radio Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/446/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A complete sample of 18 X-ray selected clusters of galaxies belonging to the ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) survey has been observed with the Very Large Array at 1.4GHz in B configuration. These are the most distant clusters in the X-ray survey with redshift in the range 0.3<z<0.8. Seventy-nine radio sources are detected within half an Abell radius with an observed peak brightness >=0.17mJy/beam, except for three sources, belonging to the same cluster, which have a higher peak brightness limit of 0.26mJy/beam. The NEP field source counts are in good agreement with the source counts of a comparison survey, the VLA-VIRMOS deep field survey, indicating that the NEP sample is statistically complete. Thirty-two out of the 79 sources are within 0.2 Abell radii, twenty-two of them are considered cluster members based on spectroscopic redshifts or their optical magnitude and morphological classification. The cluster radio galaxies are used to construct the Radio Luminosity Function (RLF) of distant X-ray selected clusters. A comparison with two nearby cluster RLFs shows that the NEP RLF lies above the local ones, has a steeper slope at low radio powers (<=10^24^W/Hz) and shows no evidence for a break at about 6x10^24^W/Hz which is observed in the nearby cluster RLFs. We discuss briefly the origin and possible explanations of the differences observed in the radio properties of nearby and distant clusters of galaxies. The main result of this study is that the RLF of the distant X-ray clusters is very different from that of the local rich Abell clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/769/95
- Title:
- [NeV] or [NeIII] double peaked SDSS quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/769/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 131 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at redshifts 0.8<z<1.6 with double peaks in either of the high-ionization narrow emission lines [NeV]{lambda}3426 or [NeIII]{lambda}3869. These sources were selected with the intention of identifying high-redshift analogs of the z<0.8 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with double-peaked [OIII]{lambda}5007 lines, which might represent AGN outflows or dual AGNs. Lines of high ionization potential are believed to originate in the inner, highly photoionized portion of the narrow line region, and we exploit this assumption to investigate the possible kinematic origins of the double-peaked lines. For comparison, we measure the [NeV]{lambda}3426 and [NeIII]{lambda}3869 double peaks in low-redshift (z<0.8) [OIII]-selected sources. We find that [NeV]{lambda}3426 and [NeIII]{lambda}3869 show a correlation between line splitting and line width similar to that of [OIII]{lambda}5007 in other studies, and the velocity splittings are correlated with the quasar Eddington ratio. These results suggest an outflow origin for at least a subset of the double peaks, allowing us to study the high-ionization gas kinematics around quasars. However, we find that a non-negligible fraction of our sample show no evidence for an ionization stratification. For these sources, the outflow scenario is less compelling, leaving the dual AGN scenario as a viable possibility. Finally, we find that our sample shows an anti-correlation between the velocity-offset ratio and luminosity ratio of the components, which is a potential dynamical argument for the presence of dual AGNs. Therefore, this study serves as a first attempt at extending the selection of candidate dual AGNs to higher redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/735/86
- Title:
- NEWFIRM MBS: photometric catalogs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/735/86
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep near-IR (NIR) medium-bandwidth photometry over the wavelength range 1-1.8um in the All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey (AEGIS) and Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) fields. The observations were carried out using the NOAO Extremely Wide-Field Infrared Imager (NEWFIRM) on the Mayall 4m Telescope on Kitt Peak as part of the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey (NMBS), an NOAO survey program. In this paper, we describe the full details of the observations, data reduction, and photometry for the survey. We also present a public K-selected photometric catalog, along with accurate photometric redshifts. The redshifts are computed with 37 (20) filters in the COSMOS (AEGIS) fields, combining the NIR medium-bandwidth data with existing UV (Galaxy Evolution Explorer), visible and NIR (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and Subaru Telescope), and mid-IR (Spitzer/IRAC) imaging. We find excellent agreement with publicly available spectroscopic redshifts, with {sigma}_z_/(1+z)~1%-2% for ~4000 galaxies at z=0-3. The NMBS catalogs contain ~13000 galaxies at z>1.5 with accurate photometric redshifts and rest-frame colors. Due to the increased spectral resolution obtained with the five NIR medium-band filters, the median 68% confidence intervals of the photometric redshifts of both quiescent and star-forming galaxies are a factor of about two times smaller when comparing catalogs with medium-band NIR photometry to NIR broadband photometry.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/206/17
- Title:
- New gamma-ray blazar candidates in the 3PBC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/206/17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We searched for {gamma}-ray blazar candidates among the 382 unidentified hard X-ray sources of the third Palermo BAT Catalog (3PBC) obtained from the analysis of 66 months of Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) survey data and listing 1586 sources. We adopted a recently developed association method based on the peculiar infrared colors that characterize the {gamma}-ray blazars included in the second catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We used this method exploiting the data of the all-sky survey performed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to establish correspondences between unidentified 3PBC sources and WISE {gamma}-ray blazar candidates located within the BAT positional uncertainty region at a 99% confidence level. We obtained a preliminary list of candidates for which we analyzed all the available data in the Swift archive to complement the information in the literature and in the radio, infrared, and optical catalogs with the information on their optical-UV and soft X-ray emission. Requiring the presence of radio and soft X-ray counterparts consistent with the infrared positions of the selected WISE sources, as well as a blazar-like radio morphology, we finally obtained a list of 24 {gamma}-ray blazar candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/807/178
- Title:
- Newly rich galaxy clusters identified in SDSS-DR12
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/807/178
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Accurately determining the mass of galaxy clusters is fundamental for many studies of cosmology and galaxy evolution. We collect and rescale the cluster masses of 1191 clusters of 0.05<z<0.75 estimated by X-ray or Sunyaev-Zeldovich measurements and use them to calibrate the optical mass proxy. The total r-band luminosity (in units of L*) of these clusters is obtained by using spectroscopic and photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the correlation between the cluster mass M_500_ and total r-band luminosity L_500_ significantly evolves with redshift. After correcting for the evolution, we define a new cluster richness R_L*,500_=L_500_E(z)^1.40^ as the optical mass proxy. By using this newly defined richness and the recently released SDSS DR12 spectroscopic data, we update the WHL12 (Wen et al. 2012, J/ApJS/199/34) cluster catalog and identify 25419 new rich clusters at high redshift. In the SDSS spectroscopic survey region, about 89% of galaxy clusters have spectroscopic redshifts. The mass can be estimated with a scatter of 0.17dex for the clusters in the updated catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/584/A48
- Title:
- New redshifts of 357 GBBs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/584/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Several large structures, including the Sloan Great Wall, the Huge Large Quasar Group, and a large gamma-ray burst cluster referred to as the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, appear to exceed the maximum structural size predicted by Universal inflationary models. The existence of very large structures such as these might necessitate cosmological model modifications. Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous sources found in nature. They are associated with the stellar endpoints of massive stars and are found in and near distant galaxies. Since they are viable indicators of the dense part of the Universe containing normal matter, the spatial distribution of gamma-ray bursts can serve as tracers of Universal large-scale structure. An increased sample size of gamma-ray bursts with known redshift provides us with the opportunity to validate or invalidate the existence of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. Nearest-neighbour tests are used to search the larger sample for evidence of clustering and a bootstrap point-radius method is used to estimate the angular cluster size. The potential influence of angular sampling biasing is studied to determine the viability of the results. The larger gamma-ray burst database further supports the existence of a statistically significant gamma-ray burst cluster at 1.6<=z<2.1 with an estimated angular size of 2000-3000Mpc. Although small number statistics limit our angular resolution and do not rule out the existence of adjacent and/or line-of-sight smaller structures, these structures must still clump together in order for us to see the large gamma-ray burst cluster detected here. This cluster provides support for the existence of very large-scale universal heterogeneities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/100
- Title:
- New 2.2<z<3.5 quasars from SDSS and UKIDSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/146/100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The identification of quasars at intermediate redshifts (2.2<z<3.5) has been inefficient in most previous quasar surveys since the optical colors of quasars are similar to those of stars. The near-IR K-band excess technique has been suggested to overcome this difficulty. Our recent study also proposed to use optical/near-IR colors for selecting z<4 quasars. To verify the effectiveness of this method, we selected a list of 105 unidentified bright targets with i<=18.5 from the quasar candidates of SDSS DR6 with both SDSS ugriz optical and UKIDSS YJHK near-IR photometric data, which satisfy our proposed Y-K/g-z criterion and have photometric redshifts between 2.2 and 3.5 estimated from the nine-band SDSS-UKIDSS data. We observed 43 targets with the BFOSC instrument on the 2.16m optical telescope at Xinglong station of the National Astronomical Observatory of China in the spring of 2012. We spectroscopically identified 36 targets as quasars with redshifts between 2.1 and 3.4. The high success rate of discovering these quasars in the SDSS spectroscopic surveyed area further demonstrates the robustness of both the Y-K/g-z selection criterion and the photometric redshift estimation technique. We also used the above criterion to investigate the possible stellar contamination rate among the quasar candidates of SDSS DR6, and found that the rate is much higher when selecting 3<z<3.5 quasar candidates than when selecting lower redshift candidates (z<2.2). The significant improvement in the photometric redshift estimation when using the nine-band SDSS-UKIDSS data over the five-band SDSS data is demonstrated and a catalog of 7727 unidentified quasar candidates in SDSS DR6 selected with optical/near-IR colors and having photometric redshifts between 2.2 and 3.5 is provided. We also tested the Y-K/g-z selection criterion with the recently released SDSS-III/DR9 quasar catalog and found that 96.2% of 17999 DR9 quasars with UKIDSS Y- and K-band data satisfy our criterion. With some available samples of red quasars and type II quasars, we find that 88% and 96.5% of these objects can be selected by the Y-K/g-z criterion, respectively, which supports our claim that using the Y-K/g-z criterion efficiently selects both unobscured and obscured quasars. We discuss the implications of our results on the ongoing and upcoming large optical and near-IR sky surveys.