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491. Extreme emission line galaxies at z<~0.05
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/847/38
Title:
Extreme emission line galaxies at z<~0.05
Short Name:
J/ApJ/847/38
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Searching for extreme emission line galaxies allows us to find low-mass metal-poor galaxies that are good analogs of high redshift Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies. These low-mass extreme emission line galaxies are also potential Lyman-continuum leakers. Finding them at very low redshifts (z<~0.05) allows us to be sensitive to even lower stellar masses and metallicities. We report on a sample of extreme emission line galaxies at z<~0.05 (blueberry galaxies). We selected them from SDSS broadband images on the basis of their broadband colors and studied their properties with MMT spectroscopy. From the entire SDSS DR12 photometric catalog, we found 51 photometric candidates. We spectroscopically confirm 40 as blueberry galaxies. These blueberries are dwarf starburst galaxies with very small sizes (<1kpc) and very high ionization ([OIII]/[OII]~10-60). They also have some of the lowest stellar masses (log(M/M_{sun}_)~6.5-7.5) and lowest metallicities (7.1<12+log(O/H)<7.8) of starburst galaxies. Thus, they are small counterparts to green pea galaxies and high redshift Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies.
492. Extreme Horizontal Branch stars in {omega} Cen
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/589/A1
Title:
Extreme Horizontal Branch stars in {omega} Cen
Short Name:
J/A+A/589/A1
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of an extensive survey for rapid pulsators among Extreme Horizontal Branch (EHB) stars in {omega} Cen. The observations performed consist of nearly 100 hours of time-series photometry for several off-centre fields of the cluster, as well as low-resolution spectroscopy for a partially overlapping sample. We obtained photometry for some 300 EHB stars, for aro und half of which we are able to recover light curves of sufficient quality to either detect or place meaningful non-detection limits for rapid pulsations. Based on the spectroscopy, we derive reliable values of logg, Teff and logN(He)/N(H) for 38 targets, as well as good estimates of the effective temperature for another nine targets, whose spectra are slightly polluted by a close neighbour in the image. The survey uncovered a total of five rapid variables with multi-periodic oscillations between 85 and 125s. Spectroscopically, they form a homogeneous group of hydrogen-rich subdwarf O stars clustered between 48000 and 54000K. For each of the variables we are able to measure between two and three significant pulsations believed to constitute independent harmonic oscillations. However, the interpretation of the Fourier spectra is not straightforward due to significant fine structure attributed to strong amplitude variations. In addition to the rapid variables, we found an EHB star with an apparently periodic luminosity variation of ~2700s, which we tentatively suggest may be caused by ellipsoidal variations in a close binary.
493. Extremely faint planetary nebulae in SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/436/718
Title:
Extremely faint planetary nebulae in SDSS
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/436/718
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Using ~1700000 target- and sky-fibre spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we have carried out a systematic search for Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) via detections of the [OIII] {lambda}{lambda}4959, 5007 lines. Thanks to the excellent sensitivity of the SDSS spectroscopic surveys, this is by far the deepest search for PNe ever taken, reaching a surface brightness of the [OIII] {lambda}5007 line down to about 29.0mag/arcsec^2^. The search leads to the recovery of 13 previously known PNe in the Northern and Southern Galactic Caps. In total, 44 new PN candidates are identified, including seven candidates of multiple detections and 37 candidates of single detection. The seven candidates of multiple detections are all extremely large (between 21 and 154arcmin) and faint, located mostly in the low Galactic latitude region and with a kinematics similar to disc stars. After checking their images in H{alpha} and other bands, three of them are probably HII regions, one is probably associated with a new supernova remnant, another one is possibly a true PN and the remaining two could be either PNe or supernova remnants. Based on sky positions and kinematics, seven candidates of single detection probably belong to the halo population. If confirmed, they will increase the number of known PNe in the Galactic halo significantly. All the newly identified PN candidates are very faint, with a surface brightness of the [OIII] {lambda}5007 line between 27.0-30.0mag/arcsec^2^, and very challenging to be discovered with previously employed techniques (e.g. slitless spectroscopy, narrow-band imaging), and thus may greatly increase the number of `missing' faint PNe. Our results demonstrate the power of large-scale fibre spectroscopy in hunting for ultrafaint PNe and other types of emission line nebulae. Combining the large spectral data bases provided by the SDSS and other on-going projects (e.g. the LAMOST Galactic surveys), it is possible to build a statistically meaningful sample of ultrafaint, large, evolved PNe, thus, improving the census of Galactic PNe.
494. Extremely metal-poor galaxies in SDSS. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/819/110
Title:
Extremely metal-poor galaxies in SDSS. II.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/819/110
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies are defined to have a gas-phase metallicity smaller than a tenth of the solar value (12+log[O/H]<7.69). They are uncommon, chemically and possibly dynamically primitive, with physical conditions characteristic of earlier phases of the universe. We search for new XMPs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in a work that complements Paper I (Morales-Luis+, 2011, J/ApJ/743/77). This time, high electron temperature objects are selected; metals are a main coolant of the gas, so metal-poor objects contain high-temperature gas. Using the algorithm k-means, we classify 788677 spectra to select 1281 galaxies that have particularly intense [OIII]{lambda}4363 with respect to [OIII]{lambda}5007, which is a proxy for high electron temperature. The metallicity of these candidates was computed using a hybrid technique consistent with the direct method, rendering 196 XMPs. A less restrictive noise constraint provides a larger set with 332 candidates. Both lists are provided in electronic format. The selected XMP sample has a mean stellar mass around 10^8^M_{sun}_, with the dust mass ~10^3^M_{sun}_ for typical star-forming regions. In agreement with previous findings, XMPs show a tendency to be tadpole-like or cometary. Their underlying stellar continuum corresponds to a fairly young stellar population (<1Gyr), although young and aged stellar populations coexist at the low-metallicity starbursts. About 10% of the XMPs show large N/O. Based on their location in constrained cosmological numerical simulations, XMPs have a strong tendency to appear in voids and to avoid galaxy clusters. The puzzling 2%-solar low-metallicity threshold exhibited by XMPs remains.
495. Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies in SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/743/77
Title:
Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies in SDSS
Short Name:
J/ApJ/743/77
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We carry out a systematic search for extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies in the spectroscopic sample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 7 (DR7). The XMP candidates are found by classifying all the galaxies according to the form of their spectra in a region 80{AA} wide around H{alpha}. Due to the data size, the method requires an automatic classification algorithm. We use k-means. Our systematic search renders 32 galaxies having negligible [NII] lines, as expected in XMP galaxy spectra. Twenty-one of them have been previously identified as XMP galaxies in the literature - the remaining 11 are new. This was established after a thorough bibliographic search that yielded only some 130 galaxies known to have an oxygen metallicity 10 times smaller than the Sun (explicitly, with 12+log(O/H)<=7.65). XMP galaxies are rare; they represent 0.01% of the galaxies with emission lines in SDSS/DR7. Although the final metallicity estimate of all candidates remains pending, strong-line empirical calibrations indicate a metallicity about one-tenth solar, with the oxygen metallicity of the 21 known targets being 12+log(O/H)~7.61+/-0.19. Since the SDSS catalog is limited in apparent magnitude, we have been able to estimate the volume number density of XMP galaxies in the local universe, which turns out to be (1.32+/-0.23)x10^-4^Mpc^-3^. The XMP galaxies constitute 0.1% of the galaxies in the local volume, or ~0.2% considering only emission-line galaxies. All but four of our candidates are blue compact dwarf galaxies, and 24 of them have either cometary shape or are formed by chained knots.
496. 22 extreme [OIII] emitters at z~0.5 from SDSS-DR14
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/83
Title:
22 extreme [OIII] emitters at z~0.5 from SDSS-DR14
Short Name:
J/ApJ/860/83
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have found a sample of extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) with strong [OIII]{lambda}5007 emission at z~0.5. Using broadband photometric selection and requiring small uncertainties in photometry, we searched the 14th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and found 2658 candidates with strong i-band excess (i-z<=r-i-0.7). We further obtained 649 SDSS spectra of these objects, and visually identified 22 [OIII] emitters lying at 0.40<z<0.63. Having constructed their ultraviolet-infrared spectral energy distributions, we found that they have fairly blue r-W2 and red W1-W4 colors, indicative of strong, warm dust emission. Their rest-frame [OIII]{lambda}5007 equivalent widths are mostly 200-600{AA}, and their high [OIII]{lambda}5007/H{beta} ratios put them at the boundary of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei on line ratio classification diagrams. The typical E(B-V) and electron temperature of [OIII] emitters are ~0.1-0.3mag and ~104K, respectively. The lowest metallicity of our [OIII] emitters with S/N[OIII]{lambda}4363>3 is 12+log(O/H)=7.98_-0.02_^+0.12^, with a median value of 8.24_-0.04_^+0.05^. Our [OIII] emitters exhibit remarkably high line luminosity-18/22 have L[OIII]{lambda}5007>5x10^42^erg/s and 5/22 have L[OIII]{lambda}5007>10^43^erg/s. Their estimated volume number density at z~0.5 is ~2x10^-8^Mpc^-3^, with L[OIII]{lambda}5007 down to ~3x10^42^erg/s. The cumulative number distribution of EELGs across different redshifts is indicative of a strong redshift evolution at the bright end of the [OIII] luminosity function.
497. Faint galactic satellites spectroscopic survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/380/281
Title:
Faint galactic satellites spectroscopic survey
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/380/281
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of the recently discovered faint Milky Way satellites Bootes, Ursa Major I, Ursa Major II and Willman 1 (Wil1). Using the DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph mounted on the Keck II telescope, we have obtained samples that contain from ~15 to ~85 probable members of these satellites for which we derive radial velocities precise to a few km/s down to i~21-22. About half of these stars are observed with a high enough signal-to-noise ratio to estimate their metallicity to within +/-0.2dex. The characteristics of all the observed stars are made available, along with those of the Canes Venatici I dwarf galaxy that have been analysed in a companion paper.
498. Faint, high-Galactic-latitude red clump stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/522/A79
Title:
Faint, high-Galactic-latitude red clump stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/522/A79
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
With this survey we aim to derive accurate, multi-epoch radial velocities and atmospheric parameters (Teff, logg, [M/H] and V_rot_sini) of a large sample of carefully selected red clump (RC) stars located over a great circle at high Galactic latitudes. We acquired data of the program stars of high signal-to-noise ratio and high resolution with the Asiago Echelle spectrograph. We obtained radial velocities by applying cross-correlation and atmospheric parameters via chi2 fitting to a synthetic spectral library. Extensive tests were carried out by re-observing with the same instrument a large number of standard stars taken from a variety of sources in literature.
499. Faint, high-Galactic-latitude red clump stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/527/A40
Title:
Faint, high-Galactic-latitude red clump stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/527/A40
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The goal of our survey is to provide accurate and multi-epoch radial velocities, atmospheric parameters (Teff, logg and [M/H]), distances, and space velocities of faint red clump (RC) stars. We recorded high signal-to-noise (S/N>=200) spectra of RC stars over the 4750-5950{AA} range at a resolving power 5500. The target stars are distributed across the great circle of the celestial equator. Radial velocities were obtained via cross-correlation with IAU radial velocity standards. Atmospheric parameters were derived via {chi}^2^ fit to a synthetic spectral library. A large number of RC stars from other surveys were re-observed to check the consistency of our results and the absence of offsets and trends.
500. Faint planetary nebulae in Magellanic Clouds
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/417/209
Title:
Faint planetary nebulae in Magellanic Clouds
Short Name:
J/ApJ/417/209
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The accuracy of spectrophotometry for Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae is limited by a number of physical effects and operational difficulties: atmospheric dispersion, wavelength-dependent seeing, pointing and guiding errors, and a background of numerous stars and diffuse emission. We describe procedures to minimize the impact of some of these. We then compare our results for both bright and faint objects with published values. There are a few exceptional cases (e.g., LMC 89), but generally we find that bright planetary nebulae in the Clouds have been observed with high accuracy. On the other hand, observations of the faint sample from Jacoby (1980ApJS...42....1J) suffer seriously from many of these effects. We also compare published {lambda}5007 photometry with new CCD photometry for nine faint planetary nebulae. We find the photographic photometry presented by Jacoby (1980ApJS...42....1J) to be accurate to 0.26mag. Fluxes for the fainter objects that are derived from spectrophotometry (Boroson & Liebert, 1989ApJ...339..844B) are found to be less reliable. In comparison, spectrophotometry using the observational techniques presented in this paper provides reliable absolute fluxes. With these improved observations, we review the correlations presented by Kaler & Jacoby (1990ApJ...362..491K, 1991ApJ...382..134K) between abundance ratios and central star mass. The new results fit our earlier correlation for N/O, strengthen that for He/H, and change little about those for C/O and O/H.