- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/859/52
- Title:
- NGFS. III. Dwarf galaxies in outer regions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/859/52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of 271 previously undetected dwarf galaxies in the outer Fornax cluster regions at radii r_vir_/4<r<r_vir_/2 using data from the Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS) with deep coadded u', g', and i' images obtained with Blanco/DECam at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. From the 271 dwarf candidates, we find 39 to be nucleated. Together with our previous study of the central Fornax region, the new dwarfs detected with NGFS data number 392, of which 56 are nucleated. The total Fornax dwarf galaxy population from NGFS and other catalogs rises, therefore, to a total of 643 with 181 being nucleated, yielding an overall nucleation fraction of 28%. The absolute i'-band magnitudes for the outer NGFS dwarfs are in the range -18.80<=M_i'_<=-8.78 with effective radii r_eff,i'_=0.18-2.22kpc and an average Sersic index <n>_i'_=0.81. Nonnucleated dwarfs are found to be fainter and smaller by {Delta}<M_i'_>=2.25mag and {Delta}<r_eff,i'_>=0.4kpc than the nucleated dwarfs. We demonstrate a significant clustering of dwarf galaxies on scales <~100kpc, and projected surface number density profile estimates, {Sigma}_N_(r), show a concentration of dwarfs in the Fornax core region within r<~350kpc. {Sigma}_N_(r) has a flat distribution up to ~350kpc, beyond which it declines for the nonnucleated dwarfs. The nucleated dwarfs have a steeper {Sigma}N(r) distribution, are more concentrated toward NGC 1399, and are decreasing rapidly outwards. This is the first time the transition from cluster to field environment has been established for the very faint dwarf galaxy population with robust sample statistics.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/703/30
- Title:
- NIR counterparts to Chandra X-ray sources. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/703/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 5184 candidate infrared counterparts to X-ray sources detected toward the Galactic center. The X-ray sample contains 9017 point sources detected in this region by the Chandra X-ray Observatory during the past decade, including data from a recent deep survey of the central 2{deg}x0.8{deg} of the Galactic plane. A total of 6760 of these sources have hard X-ray colors, and the majority of them lie near the Galactic center, while most of the remaining 2257 soft X-ray sources lie in the foreground. We cross-correlated the X-ray source positions with the 2MASS and SIRIUS near-infrared catalogs, which collectively contain stars with a 10{sigma} limiting flux of Ks<=15.6mag. For each of the infrared matches to X-ray sources in our catalog we derived the probability that the association is real, based on the source properties and the results of the cross-correlation analysis.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/22
- Title:
- NIR galaxy cluster candidates in the SPT survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/761/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the ground- and space-based optical and near-infrared (NIR) follow-up of 224 galaxy cluster candidates detected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in the 720deg^2^ of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey completed in the 2008 and 2009 observing seasons. We use the optical/NIR data to establish whether each candidate is associated with an overdensity of galaxies and to estimate the cluster redshift. Most photometric redshifts are derived through a combination of three different cluster redshift estimators using red-sequence galaxies, resulting in an accuracy of {Delta}z/(1+z)=0.017, determined through comparison with a subsample of 57 clusters for which we have spectroscopic redshifts. We successfully measure redshifts for 158 systems and present redshift lower limits for the remaining candidates. The redshift distribution of the confirmed clusters extends to z=1.35 with a median of z_med_=0.57. Approximately 18% of the sample with measured redshifts lies at z>0.8. We estimate a lower limit to the purity of this SPT SZ-selected sample by assuming that all unconfirmed clusters are noise fluctuations in the SPT data. We show that the cumulative purity at detection significance {xi}>5 ({xi}>4.5) is >=95% (>=70%). We present the red brightest cluster galaxy (rBCG) positions for the sample and examine the offsets between the SPT candidate position and the rBCG. The radial distribution of offsets is similar to that seen in X-ray-selected cluster samples, providing no evidence that SZ-selected cluster samples include a different fraction of recent mergers from X-ray-selected cluster samples.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/141/105
- Title:
- NIR-matched quasar catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/141/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of over 130000 quasar candidates with near-infrared (NIR) photometric properties, with an areal coverage of approximately 1200deg^2^. This is achieved by matching the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in the optical ugriz bands to the UKIRT Infrared Digital Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) in the NIR YJHK bands. We match the ~1 million SDSS DR6 Photometric Quasar catalog to Data Release 3 of the UKIDSS LAS (ULAS) and produce a catalog with 130827 objects with detections in one or more NIR bands, of which 74351 objects have optical and K-band detections and 42133 objects have the full nine-band photometry.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/821/52
- Title:
- NIR survey of Spitzer YSOs in Orion Mol. Cloud
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/821/52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a near-infrared survey for the visual multiples in the Orion molecular clouds region at separations between 100 and 1000au. These data were acquired at 1.6um with the NICMOS and WFC3 cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope. Additional photometry was obtained for some of the sources at 2.05um with NICMOS and in the L' band with NSFCAM2 on NASA's InfraRed Telescope Facility. Toward 129 protostars and 197 pre-main-sequence stars with disks observed with WFC3, we detect 21 and 28 candidate companions between the projected separations of 100-1000au, of which less than 5 and 8, respectively, are chance line-of-sight coincidences. The resulting companion fraction (CF) after the correction for the line-of-sight contamination is 14.4_-1.3_^+1.1^ for protostars and 12.5_-0.8_^+1.2^ for the pre-main-sequence stars. These values are similar to those found for main-sequence stars, suggesting that there is little variation in the CF with evolution, although several observational biases may mask a decrease in the CF from protostars to the main-sequence stars. After segregating the sample into two populations based on the surrounding surface density of young stellar objects, we find that the CF in the high stellar density regions ({Sigma}_YSO_>45pc^-2^) is approximately 50% higher than that found in the low stellar density regions ({Sigma}_YSO_<45pc^-2^). We interpret this as evidence for the elevated formation of companions at 100-1000 au in the denser environments of Orion. We discuss possible reasons for this elevated formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/883/156
- Title:
- Nobeyama 45m Cygnus-X CO. II. C180 clumps
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/883/156
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the statistical physical properties of the C^18^O(J=1-0) clumps present in a prominent cluster-forming region, Cygnus X, using the data set obtained by the Nobeyama 45m radio telescope. This survey covers 9deg^2^ of the northern and southern regions of Cygnus X, and, in total, 174 C^18^O clumps are identified using the dendrogram method. Assuming a distance of 1.4kpc, these clumps have radii of 0.2-1pc, velocity dispersions of <2.2km/s, gas masses of 30-3000M_{sun}_, and H_2_ densities of (0.2-5.5)x10^4^cm^-3^. We confirm that the C^18^O clumps in the northern region have a higher H_2_ density than those in the southern region, supporting the existence of a difference in the evolutionary stages, consistent with the star-formation activity of these regions. The difference in the clump properties of the star-forming and starless clumps is also confirmed by the radius, velocity dispersion, gas mass, and H_2_ density. The average virial ratio of 0.3 supports that these clumps are gravitationally bound. The C^18^O clump mass function shows two spectral index components, {alpha}=-1.4 in 55-140M_{sun}_ and {alpha}=-2.1 in >140M_{sun}_, which are consistent with the low- and intermediate-mass parts of the Kroupa's initial mass function. The spectral index of the star-forming clumps >140M_{sun}_ is consistent with that of the starless clumps ranging from 55-140M_{sun}_, suggesting that the latter will evolve into star-forming clumps while retaining the gas accretion. Assuming a typical star-formation efficiency of molecular clumps (10%), about 10 C^18^O clumps having a gas mass of >10^3^M_{sun}_ will evolve into open clusters containing one or more OB stars.
1167. NOMAD Catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/297
- Title:
- NOMAD Catalog
- Short Name:
- I/297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) contains astrometric and photometric data for over 1 billion stars derived from the Hipparcos (I/239), Tycho-2 (I/259), UCAC2 (I/289), and USNO-B1.0 (I/284) catalogs for astrometry and optical photometry, supplemented by 2MASS (II/246) near-infrared photometry. For each unique star the "best" astrometric and photometric data are chosen from the source catalogs and merged into a single dataset. A sequence of priorities is followed and NOMAD contains flags to identify the source catalogs and gives cross-reference identifications. This first release of NOMAD is not a compiled catalog; that is, if a star is identified in more than 1 of the above mentioned catalogs, only 1 catalog entry is chosen. Thus the local and global systematic errors of the various source catalogs will be present in this version of NOMAD. All source catalogs astrometric data are on the International Celestial Reference System within the limitations of the source catalogs. For more information, see https://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astrometry/optical-IR-prod/nomad A dedicated remote query program can be downloaded from http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/doc/cdsclient.html
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/129/435
- Title:
- NORAS galaxy cluster survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/129/435
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the construction of an X-ray-selected sample of galaxy clusters for cosmological studies, we have assembled a sample of 495 X-ray sources found to show extended X-ray emission in the first processing of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. The sample covers the celestial region with declination {delta}>=0{deg} and Galactic latitude |b|>=20{deg} and comprises sources with a count rate >=0.06counts/s and a source extent likelihood of L>=7. In an optical follow-up identification program we find 378 (76%) of these sources to be clusters of galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/220
- Title:
- NORAS II. I. First results
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/220
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As the largest, clearly defined building blocks of our universe, galaxy clusters are interesting astrophysical laboratories and important probes for cosmology. X-ray surveys for galaxy clusters provide one of the best ways to characterize the population of galaxy clusters. We provide a description of the construction of the NORAS II galaxy cluster survey based on X-ray data from the northern part of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. NORAS II extends the NORAS survey down to a flux limit of 1.8x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ (0.1-2.4keV), increasing the sample size by about a factor of two. The NORAS II cluster survey now reaches the same quality and depth as its counterpart, the southern REFLEX II survey, allowing us to combine the two complementary surveys. The paper provides information on the determination of the cluster X-ray parameters, the identification process of the X-ray sources, the statistics of the survey, and the construction of the survey selection function, which we provide in numerical format. Currently NORAS II contains 860 clusters with a median redshift of z=0.102. We provide a number of statistical functions, including the log N-log S and the X-ray luminosity function and compare these to the results from the complementary REFLEX II survey. Using the NORAS II sample to constrain the cosmological parameters, {sigma}_8_ and {Omega}_m_, yields results perfectly consistent with those of REFLEX II. Overall, the results show that the two hemisphere samples, NORAS II and REFLEX II, can be combined without problems into an all-sky sample, just excluding the zone of avoidance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/1190
- Title:
- Northern high proper motion stars in DSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/124/1190
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a systematic search for high proper motion stars in the Digitized Sky Survey, in the area of the sky north of -2.8 degrees in declination and within 25 degrees of the Galactic plane. Using the SUPERBLINK software, a powerful automated blink comparator developed by us, we have identified 601 stars in the magnitude range 9<r<20 with proper motions in the range 0.5"/yr<{mu}<2.0"/yr which have not been observed with the Hipparcos satellite. Among those, we recovered 460 stars previously listed in Luyten's proper motion catalogs (LHS <I/87>, NLTT <I/98>) and discovered 141 new high proper motion stars, ranging in magnitude from R=13.0 to R=19.8. Only nine stars from the Luyten catalogs that were not observed by Hipparcos could not be recovered with SUPERBLINK: three had proper motions larger than the search limit of the code ({mu}>2.0"/yr), and five were missed because they were either too bright for SUPERBLINK to handle or they are in the immediate proximity of very bright stars. Only one of Luyten's stars (LHS 1657) could not be recovered at all, even by visual inspection of the POSS plates, and is now suspected to be bogus. The very high success rate in the recovery by SUPERBLINK of faint Luyten stars suggests that our new survey of high proper motion stars is at least 99% complete for stars with proper motions 0.5"/yr<{mu}<2.0"/yr down to R=19. This paper includes a list of positions, proper motions, magnitudes, and finder charts for all the new high proper motion stars.
