- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ApL/30.1
- Title:
- Southern catalogue of isolated pairs extension
- Short Name:
- J/other/ApL/30.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The paper presents a sample of double galaxies selected from The Surface Photometry Catalog of the ESO-Uppsala Galaxies (Cat. <VII/115>) using the Karachentsev (1972: K72, Cat. <VII/77>) criteria. Considering the large and growing number of observing facilities in that hemisphere, the sample aims to supply investigators with targets as homogeneous as possible to those in the Northern Catalog of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies (K72) which have been studied in a large frequency range. The paper discusses the sample degree of completeness, separation and velocity distributions. First inferences are sketched from the morphological association of pair members and from the study of the Holmberg effect. Being the primary purpose of the paper to provide a tool to investigators, an Atlas of images for the 301 best candidate pairs obtained using the Digitized Sky Survey (The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute (ST ScI) under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166) is given. The Atlas reports for each pair member the relevant data as obtained from the current literature.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PASAu/10.140
- Title:
- Southern radio sources catalog
- Short Name:
- J/other/PASAu/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A list of 900 radio sources with positional accuracies better than 0.5" has been prepared from seventeen lists of radio source positions found in the literature. This compilation includes all such sources south of declination +48{deg} (the northern declination limit of the Compact Array of the Australia Telescope National Facility). Where available, optical identifications, optical magnitudes and redshifts are given as well as total-power flux densities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/142A
- Title:
- Southern Redshifts Catalogue
- Short Name:
- VII/142A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue provides a "best-estimate" of the heliocentric radial velocities of some 13000 galaxies south of Declination 0 degrees. It is based on over 17000 redshift measurements, from over 200 sources, either published or otherwise made public. Aside from redshift references, each entry includes flags as to whether the velocity is from optical or radio observations, or both, as well as an indication of the nature of any optical emission lines. Galaxies with velocities beyond 75000 km/s are not included. All entries have been made interactively, by one person (A.P.F.). The interaction was necessary because different investigators may use different names, quote slightly different positions, and obtain slightly different velocities for the same galaxy. Thus duplicate entries for the same galaxy are avoided (although a few may inevitably be included).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/457/2366
- Title:
- Southern ZOA galaxies 21cm HI-line
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/457/2366
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-accuracy HI profiles and linewidths are presented for inclined ((b/a)^o^<0.5) spiral galaxies in the southern Zone of Avoidance (ZOA). These galaxies define a sample for use in the determinations of peculiar velocities using the near-infrared Tully-Fisher (TF) relation. The sample is based on the 394 HI-selected galaxies from the Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance survey (HIZOA). Follow-up narrow-band Parkes HI observations were obtained in 2010 and 2015 for 290 galaxies, while for the further 104 galaxies, sufficiently high signal-to-noise (S/N) spectra were available from the original HIZOA data. All 394 spectra are reduced and parametrized in the same systematic way. Five different types of linewidth measurements were derived, and a Bayesian mixture model was used to derive conversion equations between these five widths. Of the selected and measure galaxies, 342 have adequate signal to noise (S/N>=5) for use in TF distance estimation. The average value of the S/N ratio of the sample is 14.7. We present the HI parameters for these galaxies. The sample will allow a more accurate determination of the flow field in the southern ZOA which bisects dynamically important large-scale structures such as Puppis, the Great Attractor, and the Local Void.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/422/3370
- Title:
- Spatial variation in fine-structure constant
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/422/3370
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasar absorption lines provide a precise test of whether the fine-structure constant, {alpha}, is the same in different places and through cosmological time. We present a new analysis of a large sample of quasar absorption-line spectra obtained using the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. We apply the many-multiplet method to derive values of {DELTA}{alpha}/{alpha}==({alpha}z-{alpha}0)/{alpha}0 from 154 absorbers, and combine these values with 141 values from previous observations at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/471/364
- Title:
- Spectral curvature values for AGN sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/471/364
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To fully understand cosmic black hole growth, we need to constrain the population of heavily obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at the peak of cosmic black hole growth (z~1-3). Sources with obscuring column densities higher than 10^24^atoms/cm^2^, called Compton-thick (CT) AGNs, can be identified by excess X-ray emission at ~20-30keV, called the 'Compton hump'. We apply the recently developed Spectral Curvature (SC) method to high-redshift AGNs (2<z<5) detected with Chandra. This method parametrizes the characteristic 'Compton hump' feature cosmologically redshifted into the X-ray band at observed energies <10 keV. We find good agreement in CT AGNs found using the SC method, and bright sources fit using their full spectrum with X-ray spectroscopy. In the Chandra Deep Field-South, we measure a CT fraction of 17^+19^_-11_% (3/17) for sources with observed luminosity >5x10^43^erg/s. In the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), we find an observed CT fraction of 15^+4^_-3_% (40/272) or 32+/-11 per cent when corrected for the survey sensitivity. When comparing to low redshift AGNs with similar X-ray luminosities, our results imply that the CT AGN fraction is consistent with having no redshift evolution. Finally, we provide SC equations that can be used to find high-redshift CT AGNs (z>1) for current (XMM-Newton) and future (eROSITA and ATHENA) X-ray missions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/444/2456
- Title:
- Spectral galaxy pairs from SDSS DR9
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/444/2456
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectral galaxy pairs (hereafter as SGPs) are composite galaxy spectra that contain two independent redshift systems. These spectra are useful for studying the dust properties of the foreground galaxies. In this article, a total of 165 spectra of SGPs are mined from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) using the concept of 'membership degree' from fuzzy set theory, especially defined to be suitable for fuzzy identification of emission lines. The spectra and images of this sample are classified according to their membership degree and image features, respectively. Many of the second redshift systems are too small or too dim to select from SDSS images alone, making the sample a potentially unique source of information on dust effects in low-luminosity or low surface brightness galaxies, which are underrepresented in morphological pair samples. The dust extinction of those objects with high membership degree is also estimated by Balmer decrement. Additionally, analyses for a series of spectroscopic observations of one SGP from 165 systems indicate that a newly star-forming region of our Milky Way might exist.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/395/1695
- Title:
- Spitzer mid-IR spectroscopy of LIRGs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/395/1695
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results on low-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) spectra of 70 IR-luminous galaxies obtained with the infrared spectrograph (IRS) onboard Spitzer. We selected sources from the European Large Area Infrared Survey with S_15_>0.8mJy and photometric or spectroscopic z>1. About half of the samples are quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) in the optical, while the remaining sources are galaxies, comprising both obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) and starbursts. Redshifts were obtained from optical spectroscopy, photometric redshifts and the IRS spectra. The later turn out to be reliable for obscured and/or star-forming sources, thus becoming an ideal complement to optical spectroscopy for redshift estimation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/1965
- Title:
- Star-forming compact groups
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/453/1965
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a local sample (z<0.15) of 280 star-forming compact groups (SFCGs) of galaxies identified in the ultraviolet Galaxy Evolution EXplorer (GALEX) All-sky Imaging Survey (AIS). So far, just one prototypical example of SFCG, the Blue Infalling Group, has been studied in detail in the Local Universe. The sample of SFCGs is mainly the result of applying a Friends-of-Friends group finder in the space of celestial coordinates with a maximum linking-length of 1.5 arcmin and choosing groups with a minimum number of four members of bright UV-emitting 17<FUV<20.5 sources (mostly galaxies) from the GALEX/AIS catalogue. The result from the search are 280 galaxy groups composed by 226, 39, 11 and 4 groups of four, five, six and seven bright ultraviolet (UV) members, respectively. Only 59 of these 280 newly identified SFCGs have a previous catalogued group counterpart. Group redshifts are available for at least one member in 75 per cent of the SFCGs, and over 40 per cent of the SFCGs have redshifts measured for two or more galaxies. 26 of the SFCGs appear to be located in the infalling regions of clusters with known redshift. The SFCG sample presents a combination of properties different from the group samples studied up to now, such as low-velocity dispersions (sigma_l-o-s_~120km/s), small crossing-times (H_0_t_c_~0.05) and high star formation content (95 per cent of star-forming galaxies). This points to the SFCGs being in an evolutionary stage distinct from those groups selected in the optical and near-infrared ranges. Once redshifts are obtained to discard interlopers, SFCGs will constitute a unique sample of SFCGs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/401/1521
- Title:
- Stellar masses of Lyman break galaxies at z~3
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/401/1521
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a large survey of the mid-infrared (mid-IR) properties of 248 Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) with confirmed spectroscopic redshift using deep Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations in six cosmological fields. By combining the new mid-IR photometry with optical and near-infrared observations, we model the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) employing a revised version of the Bruzual and Charlot synthesis population code that incorporates a new treatment of the thermal-pulsating asymptotic giant branch phase (CB07). Our primary aim is to investigate the impact of the AGB phase in the stellar masses of the LBGs, and compare our new results with previous stellar mass estimates. We investigate the stellar mass of the LBG population as a whole and assess the benefits of adding longer wavelengths to estimates of stellar masses for high-redshift galaxies.
