- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/409/2
- Title:
- 86 Herschel sources SED model parameters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/409/2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 86 Herschel sources detected at 5{sigma} at 250, 350 and 500um in the HerMES SWIRE-Lockman field. We explore whether existing models for starbursts, quiescent star-forming galaxies and active galactic nucleus dust tori are able to model the full range of SEDs measured with Herschel. We find that while many galaxies (~56 per cent) are well fitted with the templates used to fit IRAS, Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) and Spitzer sources, for about half the galaxies two new templates are required: quiescent ('cirrus') models with colder (10-20K) dust and a young starburst model with higher optical depth than Arp 220. Predictions of submillimetre fluxes based on model fits to 4.5-24um data agree rather poorly with the observed fluxes, but the agreement is better for fits to 4.5-70um data. Herschel galaxies detected at 500um tend to be those with the highest dust masses.
Number of results to display per page
Search Results
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/409/L13
- Title:
- Herschel-SPIRE radio galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/409/L13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first study of the far-infrared (FIR) properties of high-redshift, radio-selected ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) using deep observations obtained with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). These galaxies span a large range of 850-um fluxes from submillimetre-luminous ~10mJy sources (SCUBA galaxies) to ~1.5mJy from stacked SCUBA non-detections, thus likely representing a complete distribution of ULIRG spectral energy distributions (SEDs). From Keck spectroscopic surveys in the Lockman-North field we identified a sample of 31 submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) and 37 submillimetre-faint, optically faint radio galaxies (OFRGs), all with radio-inferred IR luminosities >10^12^L_{sun}_. These galaxies were cross-identified with SPIRE 250-, 350- and 500-um catalogues based on fluxes extracted at 24-um positions in the SWIRE survey, yielding a sample of more than half of the galaxies well detected in at least two of the SPIRE bandpasses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/213
- Title:
- Hickson's Compact groups of Galaxies
- Short Name:
- VII/213
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog of groups (file "groups.dat") is a list of 100 compact groups of galaxies identified by a systematic search of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey red prints. Each group contains four or more galaxies, has an estimated mean surface brightness brighter than 26.0 magnitude per arcsec^2^ and satisfies an isolation criterion. Dynamical parameters were derived for 92 of the 100 groups, which are listed in file "dynamics.dat"; the Hubble constant was assumed to be Ho=100km/s/Mpc. Data about individual galaxies in these groups are merged into the "galaxies.dat" file; these data include photometric parameters, morphology, redshifts and absolute magnitudes originally published in four different papers. They result from CCD observations at CFHT (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) in 1983-1985. Redshifts were observed at the 1.5m telescope of the F.L. Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, over the period 1984-1986, in wavelength range 470-710nm; the remaining fainter galaxies were observed with the CFHT.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/462/4197
- Title:
- HI 21-cm absorption in redshifted galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/462/4197
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The star-forming reservoir in the distant Universe can be detected through HI 21-cm absorption arising from either cool gas associated with a radio source or from within a galaxy intervening the sightline to the continuum source. In order to test whether the nature of the absorber can be predicted from the profile shape, we have compiled and analysed all of the known redshifted (z>=0.1) HI 21-cm absorption profiles. Although between individual spectra there is too much variation to assign a typical spectral profile, we confirm that associated absorption profiles are, on average, wider than their intervening counterparts. It is widely hypothesized that this is due to high-velocity nuclear gas feeding the central engine, absent in the more quiescent intervening absorbers. Modelling the column density distribution of the mean associated and intervening spectra, we confirm that the additional low optical depth, wide dispersion component, typical of associated absorbers, arises from gas within the inner parsec. With regard to the potential of predicting the absorber type in the absence of optical spectroscopy, we have implemented machine learning techniques to the 55 associated and 43 intervening spectra, with each of the tested models giving a >=80 per cent accuracy in the prediction of the absorber type. Given the impracticability of follow-up optical spectroscopy of the large number of 21-cm detections expected from the next generation of large radio telescopes, this could provide a powerful new technique with which to determine the nature of the absorbing galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/588
- Title:
- HI 21-cm absorption survey of QSO-galaxy pairs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/588
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results from our survey of HI 21-cm absorption, using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Very Large Array and Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope, in a sample of 55 z<0.4 galaxies towards radio sources with impact parameters (b) in the range ~0-35kpc. In our primary sample (defined for statistical analyses) of 40 quasar-galaxy pairs, probed by 45 sightlines, we have found seven HI 21-cm absorption detections, two of which are reported here for the first time. Combining our primary sample with measurements having similar optical depth sensitivity ({int}{tau}dv<=0.3km/s) from the literature, we find a weak anti-correlation (rank correlation coefficient =-0.20 at 2.42{sigma} level) between {int}{tau}dv and b, consistent with previous literature results. The covering factor of HI 21-cm absorbers (C21) is estimated to be 0.24^+0.12^_-0.08_ at b<=15kpc and 0.06^+0.09^_-0.04_ at b=15-35kpc. {int}{tau}dv and C_21_ show similar declining trend with radial distance along the galaxy's major axis and distances scaled with the effective HI radius. There is also tentative indication that most of the HI 21-cm absorbers could be co-planar with the extended HI discs. No significant dependence of {int}{tau}dv and C_21_ on galaxy luminosity, stellar mass, colour and star formation rate is found, though the HI 21-cm absorbing gas cross-section may be larger for the luminous galaxies. The higher detection rate (by a factor of ~4) of HI 21-cm absorption in z<1 damped Lyman-{alpha} systems compared to the quasar-galaxy pairs indicates towards small covering factor and patchy distribution of cold gas clouds around low-z galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/452/217
- Title:
- HI cosmological mass density at z=5
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/452/217
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the largest homogeneous survey of z>4.4 damped Ly{alpha} systems (DLAs) using the spectra of 163 QSOs that comprise the Giant Gemini GMOS (GGG) survey. With this survey we make the most precise high-redshift measurement of the cosmological mass density of neutral hydrogen, Omega_HI_. At such high redshift, important systematic uncertainties in the identification of DLAs are produced by strong intergalactic medium absorption and QSO continuum placement. These can cause spurious DLA detections, result in real DLAs being missed or bias the inferred DLA column density distribution. We correct for these effects using a combination of mock and higher resolution spectra, and show that for the GGG DLA sample the uncertainties introduced are smaller than the statistical errors on Omega_HI_. We find Omega_HI_=0.98^+0.20^_-0.18_x10^-3^ at <z>=4.9, assuming a 20 percent contribution from lower column density systems below the DLA threshold. By comparing to literature measurements at lower redshifts, we show that Omega_HI_ can be described by the functional form Omega_HI_(z){prop.to}(1+z)^0.4^. This gradual decrease from z=5 to 0 is consistent with the bulk of HI gas being a transitory phase fuelling star formation, which is continually replenished by more highly ionized gas from the intergalactic medium and from recycled galactic winds.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/307/236
- Title:
- HI data of Puppis galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/307/236
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report 21-cm H I line observations of 161 galaxies located behind the Milky Way, in the Puppis region. The observations have been carried out with the Nancay radio telescope, resulting in 101 detections. Most of the galaxies observed appear in the ESO catalogue, and present apparent diameters larger than 1.6arcmin. We show that the detection rate is strongly related to the apparent diameter; it is as high as 76 per cent for diameters larger than 1.6arcmin. Half of the non-detections result, in fact, from an insufficient velocity coverage. Global parameters of the detected galaxies are computed, after a careful discussion of the correction for Galactic absorption.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/437/2017
- Title:
- HI-galaxy cross-correlation at z<~1
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/437/2017
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new optical spectroscopic survey of 1777 'star-forming' ('SF') and 366 'non-star-forming' ('non-SF') galaxies at redshifts z~0-1 (2143 in total), 22 AGN and 423 stars, observed by instruments such as the Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph, the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph and the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph, in three fields containing five quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ultraviolet spectroscopy. We also present a new spectroscopic survey of 173 'strong' (10^14^<=N_HI_<~10^17^cm^-2^) and 496 'weak' (10^13^<~N_HI_<10^14^cm^-2^) intervening HI (Ly{alpha}) absorption-line systems at z<~1 (669 in total), observed in the spectra of eight QSOs at z~1 by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Faint Object Spectrograph on the HST. Combining these new data with previously published galaxy catalogues such as the Very Large Telescope Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph Deep Survey and the Gemini Deep Deep Survey, we have gathered a sample of 654 HI absorption systems and 17509 galaxies at transverse scales <~50Mpc, suitable for a two-point correlation function analysis. We present observational results on the HI-galaxy ({xi}_ag_) and galaxy-galaxy ({xi}_gg_) correlations at transverse scales r_perp_<~10Mpc, and the HI-HI autocorrelation ({xi}_aa_) at transverse scales r_perp_<~2Mpc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/428/226
- Title:
- High-redshift quasar candidates
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/428/226
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasars with a high redshift (z) are important to understand the evolution processes of galaxies in the early Universe. However, only a few of these distant objects are known to this date. The costs of building and operating a 10-m class telescope limit the number of facilities and, thus, the available observation time. Therefore, an efficient selection of candidates is mandatory. This paper presents a new approach to select quasar candidates with high redshift (z>4.8) based on photometric catalogues. We have chosen to use the z>4.8 limit for our approach because the dominant Lyman {alpha} emission line of a quasar can only be found in the Sloan i- and z-band filters. As part of the candidate selection approach, a photometric redshift estimator is presented, too. Three of the 120000 generated candidates have been spectroscopically analysed in follow-up observations and a new z=5.0 quasar was found. This result is consistent with the estimated detection ratio of about 50% and we expect 60000 high-redshift quasars to be part of our candidate sample. The created candidates are available for download at MNRAS or at http://www.astro.rub.de/polsterer/quasar-candidates.csv.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/352/478
- Title:
- HI obs. of low surface brightness dwarf gal.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/352/478
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- According to the cold dark matter (CDM) hierarchical clustering theory of galaxy and large-scale structure formation, there should be numerous low-mass dark matter haloes present in the Universe today. If these haloes contain sufficient stars, they should be detectable as low-luminosity stellar systems or dwarf galaxies. We have previously described a new detection method for faint low surface brightness objects and we have shown that there are relatively large numbers of very faint dwarf galaxies in the nearby Virgo cluster. In this paper, we present results from a similar survey carried out on the Millennium Galaxy strip (MGS, cat. <VII/240>), which runs along the celestial equator and samples a very different galaxy environment.
