- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A149
- Title:
- J-PLUS Ly{alpha}-emitting candidates
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the photometric determination of the bright-end of the Ly{alpha} luminosity function (at L_Ly{alpha}_>~10^43.5^erg/s) within four redshifts windows ({Delta}z<0.16) in the interval 2.2<~z<~3.3. Our work is based on the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) first data-release, which provides multiple narrow-band measurements over ~1000deg^2^, with limiting magnitude ~22. Theanalysis of high-z Ly{alpha}-emitting sources over such a wide area is unprecedented, and allows to select a total of ~14500 hyper-bright(L_Ly{alpha}_>10^43.3^erg/s) Ly{alpha}-emitting candidates. We test our selection with two spectroscopic follow-up programs at the GTC telescope,which confirm as line-emitting sources ~89% of the targets, with ~64% being genuine z~2.2 QSOs. We extend the 2.2<~z<~3.3 Ly{alpha} luminosity function for the first time above L_Ly{alpha}_~10^44^erg/s and down to densities of ~10^-8^Mpc^-3^. Our results unveil with high detail the Schechter exponential-decay of the brightest-end of the Ly{alpha} LF, complementing the power-law component of previous LF determinations at 43.3<~Log10(L_Ly{alpha}_/(erg/s))<~44. We measure {PHI}*=(3.33+/-0.19)x10^-6^, Log(L*)=44.65+/-0.65 and {alpha}=-1.35+/-0.84 as an average over the redshifts we probe. These values are significantly different than the typical Schechter parameters measured for the Ly{alpha} LF of high-z star-forming LAEs. This suggests that z>2 AGN/QSOs (likely dominant in our samples) are described by a structurally different LF than z>2 star-forming LAEs, namely with L*_QSOs_~100 L*_LAEs_ and {PHI}*_QSOs_~10^-3^{PHI}*_LAEs_. Finally, our method identifies very efficiently as high-z line-emitters sources without previous spectroscopic confirmation, currently classified as stars (~2000 objects in each redshift bin, on average). Assuming a large predominance of Ly{alpha}-emitting AGN/QSOs in our samples, this supports the scenario by which these are the most abundant class of z>~2 Ly{alpha} emitters at L_Ly{alpha}_>~10^43.3^erg/s.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/254
- Title:
- Kazarian galaxies catalog
- Short Name:
- VII/254
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The entire KG (KG) catalog is presented which combines extensive new measurements of their optical parameters with a literature and database search. The measurements were made using images extracted from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) of Jpg(blue), Fpg(red) and Ipg(NIR) band photographic sky survey plates obtained by the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. We provide accurate coordinates, morphological type, spectral and activity classes, blue apparent diameters, axial ratios, position angles, red, blue and NIR apparent magnitudes, as well as counts of neighboring objects in a circle of radius 50kpc from centers of KG. Special attention was paid to the individual descriptions of the galaxies in the original Kazarian lists, which clarified many cases of misidentifications of the objects, particularly among interacting systems. The total number of individual Kazarian objects in the database is now 706. We also include the redshifts which are now available for 404 galaxies, and the 2MASS infrared magnitudes for 598 KG. The database also includes extensive notes, which summarize information about the membership of KG in different systems of galaxies, and about revised activity classes and redshifts. An atlas of several interesting subclasses of KG is also presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/173/471
- Title:
- Keck DEIMOS spectroscopy of GALEX sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/173/471
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report results from a pilot program to obtain spectroscopy for objects detected in the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Medium Imaging Survey (MIS). Our study examines the properties of galaxies detected by GALEX fainter than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic survey. This is the first study to extend the techniques of Salim and coworkers to estimate stellar masses, star formation rates (SFRs), and the b (star formation history) parameter for star-forming galaxies out to z~0.7. We obtain redshifts for 50 GALEX MIS sources reaching NUV=23.9 (AB mag) having counterparts in the SDSS Data Release 4 (DR4). Of our sample, 43 are star-forming galaxies with z<0.7, 3 have emission-line ratios indicative of active galactic nuclei with z<0.7, and 4 objects with z>1 are QSOs, 3 of which are not previously cataloged. We compare our sample to a much larger sample of ~50000 matched GALEX/SDSS galaxies with SDSS spectroscopy; while our survey is shallow, the optical counterparts to our sources reach ~3mag fainter in SDSS r than the SDSS spectroscopic sample. We use emission-line diagnostics for the galaxies to determine that the sample contains mostly star-forming galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/869/123
- Title:
- Keck Lyman continuum spectroscopic survey (KLCS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/869/123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a deep spectroscopic survey quantifying the statistics of the escape of ionizing radiation from star-forming galaxies at z~3. We measure the ratio of ionizing to non-ionizing UV flux density <f_900_/f_1500_>_obs_, where f_900_ is the mean flux density evaluated over the range [880,910]{AA}. We quantify the emergent ratio of ionizing to non-ionizing UV flux density by analyzing high signal-to-noise ratio composite spectra formed from subsamples with common observed properties and numbers sufficient to reduce the statistical uncertainty in the modeled IGM+CGM correction to obtain precise values of <f_900_/f_1500_>_out_, including a full-sample average <f_900_/f_1500>_out_=0.057{+/-}0.006. We show that <f_900_/f_1500_>_out_ increases monotonically with W_{lambda}_(Ly{alpha}), inducing an inverse correlation with UV luminosity as a by-product. We fit the composite spectra using stellar spectral synthesis together with models of the ISM in which a fraction f_c_ of the stellar continuum is covered by gas with column density N_HI_. We show that the composite spectra simultaneously constrain the intrinsic properties of the stars (L_900_/L_1500_)_int_ along with f_c_, N_HI_, E(B-V), and f_esc,abs_, the absolute escape fraction of ionizing photons. We find a sample-averaged f_esc,abs_=0.09{+/-}0.01, with subsamples falling along a linear relation <f_esc,abs_>~0.75[W_{lambda}_(Ly{alpha})/110{AA}]. Using the far-UV luminosity function, the distribution function n(W(Ly{alpha})), and the relationship between W_{lambda}_(Ly{alpha}) and <f_900_/f_1500_>_out_, we estimate the total ionizing emissivity of z~3 star-forming galaxies with M_uv_<=-19.5, which exceeds the contribution of quasi-stellar objects by a factor of ~3, and accounts for ~50% of the total {epsilon}LyC at z~3 estimated using indirect methods.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/468/1123
- Title:
- LAE among star-forming galaxies at z=2.5
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/468/1123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We conducted a deep narrow-band imaging survey with the Subaru Prime Focus Camera on the Subaru Telescope and constructed a sample of Ly{alpha} emitters (LAEs) at z=2.53 in the UDS-CANDELS field, where a sample of H{alpha} emitters (HAEs) at the same redshift is already obtained from our previous narrow-band observation at near-infrared. The deep narrow-band and multibroad-band data allow us to find LAEs of stellar masses and star formation rates (SFRs) down to >=10^8^M_{sun}_ and >=0.2 M_{sun}_/yr, respectively. We show that the LAEs are located along the same mass-SFR sequence traced by normal star-forming galaxies such as HAEs, but towards a significantly lower mass regime. Likewise, LAEs seem to share the same mass-size relation with typical star-forming galaxies, except for the massive LAEs that tend to show significantly compact sizes. We identify a vigorous mass growth in the central part of LAEs: the stellar mass density in the central region of LAEs increases as their total galaxy mass grows. On the other hand, we see no Ly{alpha} line in emission for most of the HAEs. Rather, we find that the Ly{alpha} feature is either absent or in absorption (Ly{alpha} absorbers, LAAs), and its absorption strength may increase with reddening of the UV continuum slope. We demonstrate that a deep Ly{alpha} narrow-band imaging like this study is able to search for not only LAEs but also LAAs in a certain redshift slice. This work suggests that LAEs trace normal star-forming galaxies in the low-mas
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/753/95
- Title:
- LAE galaxies in the ECDF-S at z~2.1 and z~3.1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/753/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a rest-frame ultraviolet morphological analysis of 108 z~2.1 Ly{alpha} emitters (LAEs) in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South and compare it to a similar sample of 171 LAEs at z~3.1. Using Hubble Space Telescope images from the Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs survey, Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, and Hubble Ultradeep Field, we measure size and photometric component distributions, where photometric components are defined as distinct clumps of UV-continuum emission. At both redshifts, >80% of LAEs have observed half-light radii <2kpc, but the median half-light radius rises from 0.95+/-0.04kpc at z=3.1 to 1.41+/-0.14kpc at z=2.1. A similar evolution is seen in the sizes of individual rest-UV components, but there is no evidence for evolution in the number of multi-component systems. In the z=2.1 sample, we see clear correlations between the size of an LAE and other physical properties derived from its spectral energy distribution (SED). LAEs are found to be larger for galaxies with higher stellar mass, star formation rate, and dust obscuration, but there is no evidence for a trend between equivalent width and half-light radius at either redshift. The presence of these correlations suggests that a wide range of objects are being selected by LAE surveys at z~2, including a significant fraction of objects for which a massive and moderately extended population of old stars underlies the young starburst giving rise to the Ly{alpha} emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/738/136
- Title:
- LAEs between 0.19<z<1.25 with GALEX grism
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/738/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical spectroscopy of two samples of Galaxy Evolution Explorer grism selected Ly{alpha} emitters (LAEs): one at z=0.195-0.44 and the other at z=0.65-1.25. We have also observed a comparison sample of galaxies in the same redshift intervals with the same UV magnitude distributions but with no detected Ly{alpha}. We use the optical spectroscopy to eliminate active galactic nuclei and to obtain the optical emission-line properties of the samples. We compare the luminosities of the LAEs in the two redshift intervals and show that there is dramatic evolution in the maximum Ly{alpha} luminosity over z=0-1. Focusing on the z=0.195-0.44 samples alone, we show that there are tightly defined relations between all of the galaxy parameters and the rest-frame equivalent width (EW) of H{alpha}. The higher EW(H{alpha}) sources all have lower metallicities, bluer colors, smaller sizes, and less extinction, consistent with their being in the early stages of the galaxy formation process.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/865/L1
- Title:
- LAEs discovered with ultra-deep MUSE sp. in UDF
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/865/L1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using an ultra-deep blind survey with the MUSE integral field spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, we obtain spectroscopic redshifts to a depth never before explored: galaxies with observed magnitudes m_AB_>~30-32. Specifically, we detect objects via Ly{alpha} emission at 2.9<z<6.7 without individual continuum counterparts in areas covered by the deepest optical/near-infrared imaging taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In total, we find 102 such objects in 9 square arcminutes at these redshifts. Detailed stacking analyses confirm the Ly{alpha} emission as well as the 1216 {AA} breaks and faint ultraviolet continua (M_UV_~-15). This makes them the faintest spectroscopically confirmed objects at these redshifts, similar to the sources believed to reionize the universe. A simple model for the expected fraction of detected/undetected Ly{alpha} emitters as a function of luminosity is consistent with these objects being the high-equivalent width tail of the normal Ly{alpha}-emitter population at these redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/357/645
- Title:
- LMC far-UV HST observations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/357/645
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new analysis of the deepest pure-ultraviolet (UV) observations with the highest angular resolution ever performed. A set of 12 exposures with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 and F160BW filter obtained in parallel observing mode, which cover ~12arcmin^2^ in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), north of the bar and in the 'general field' region of the LMC, contain stars with far-UV monochromatic magnitudes as faint as 22mag. The 198 detected UV sources represent an accumulated exposure of 2x10^4^s and reveal stars as faint as m_UV_=~20mag. We combine these observations with deep UBVI charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging of the same region reaching as faint as V=~26mag, and reselect probable optical counterparts for the UV sources. After a two-stage search-and-analysis process, we detect robust counterparts for 129 stars. These are mostly upper main-sequence stars, from early B to early A spectral classes, with several F stars. We point out the lack of blue supergiants, which could have been easily detected in our survey. We measure a foreground extinction E(B-V)=~0.08mag by Galactic dust and a surface density of star formation rate twice the average Galactic value. These observations indicate that relatively recent star formation took place even off the bar of the LMC.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/707/1449
- Title:
- Local hosts of SNe Ia
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/707/1449
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use multi-wavelength, matched aperture, integrated photometry from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the RC3 to estimate the physical properties of 166 nearby galaxies hosting 168 well-observed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The ultraviolet (UV) imaging of local SN Ia hosts from GALEX allows a direct comparison with higher-redshift hosts measured at optical wavelengths that correspond to the rest-frame UV. Our data corroborate well-known features that have been seen in other SN Ia samples. Specifically, hosts with active star formation produce brighter and slower SNe Ia on average, and hosts with luminosity-weighted ages older than 1Gyr produce on average more faint, fast, and fewer bright, slow SNe Ia than younger hosts. New results include that in our sample, the faintest and fastest SNe Ia occur only in galaxies exceeding a stellar mass threshold of ~10^10^M_{sun}_, leading us to conclude that their progenitors must arise in populations that are older and/or more metal rich than the general SN Ia population.
