- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/836/7
- Title:
- SG1120-1202 members HST imaging & 24um fluxes
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/836/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain WFC3/F390W imaging of the supergroup SG1120-1202 at z=0.37, mapping the UV emission of 138 spectroscopically confirmed members. We measure total (F390W-F814W) colors and visually classify the UV morphology of individual galaxies as "clumpy" or "smooth." Approximately 30% of the members have pockets of UV emission (clumpy) and we identify for the first time in the group environment galaxies with UV morphologies similar to the "jellyfish" galaxies observed in massive clusters. We stack the clumpy UV members and measure a shallow internal color gradient, which indicates that unobscured star formation is occurring throughout these galaxies. We also stack the four galaxy groups and measure a strong trend of decreasing UV emission with decreasing projected group distance (R_proj_). We find that the strong correlation between decreasing UV emission and increasing stellar mass can fully account for the observed trend in (F390W-F814W)-R_proj_, i.e., mass-quenching is the dominant mechanism for extinguishing UV emission in group galaxies. Our extensive multi-wavelength analysis of SG1120-1202 indicates that stellar mass is the primary predictor of UV emission, but that the increasing fraction of massive (red/smooth) galaxies at R_proj_<~2R_200_ and existence of jellyfish candidates is due to the group environment.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/883/88
- Title:
- Short-duration stellar flares from GALEX & Kepler
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/883/88
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on a population of short-duration near-ultraviolet (NUV) flares in stars observed by the Kepler and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) missions. We analyzed the NUV light curves of 34276 stars observed from 2009 to 2013 by both the GALEX (NUV) and Kepler (optical) space missions with the eventual goal of investigating multiwavelength flares. From the GALEX data, we constructed light curves with a 10s cadence, and we ultimately detected 1904 short-duration flares on 1021 stars. The vast majority (94.5%) of these flares have durations less than 5 minutes, with flare flux enhancements above the quiescent flux level ranging from 1.5 to 1700. The flaring stars are primarily solar-like, with Teff ranging from 3000 to 11000K and radii between 0.5 and 15R_{sun}_. This set of flaring stars is almost entirely distinct from that of previous flare surveys of Kepler data and indicates a previously undetected collection of small flares contained within the Kepler sample. The range in flare energies spans 1.8x10^32^-8.9x10^37^erg, with associated relative errors spanning 2%-87%. The flare frequency distribution by energy follows a power law with index {alpha}=1.72+/-0.05, consistent with results of other solar and stellar flare studies at a range of wavelengths. This supports the idea that the NUV flares we observed are governed by the same physical processes present in solar and optical flares. The relationship between flare duration and associated flare energy extends results found for solar and stellar white-light flares, and suggests that these flares originate in regions with magnetic field strengths of several hundred Gauss, and length scales of the order of 10^10^cm.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/729/87
- Title:
- SiIV absorption systems
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/729/87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identified 24 SiIV absorption systems with z<~1 from a blind survey of 49 low-redshift quasars with archival Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet spectra. We relied solely on the characteristic wavelength separation of the doublet to automatically detect candidates. After visual inspection, we defined a sample of 20 definite (group G=1) and 4 "highly likely" (G=2) doublets with rest equivalent widths W_r_ for both lines detected at >=3{sigma}_W_r__.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/125
- Title:
- Six warm metal-poor stars iron abundances
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Neutral Fe lines in metal-poor stars yield conflicting abundances depending on whether and how deviations from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) are considered. We have collected new high-resolution and high signal-to-noise ultraviolet (UV) spectra of three warm dwarf stars with [Fe/H]~-2.9 with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. We locate archival UV spectra for three other warm dwarfs with [Fe/H]~-3.3, -2.2, and -1.6, supplemented with optical spectra for all six stars. We calculate stellar parameters using methods that are largely independent of the spectra, adopting broadband photometry, color-temperature relations, Gaia parallaxes, and assumed masses. We use the LTE line analysis code MOOG to derive Fe abundances from hundreds of FeI and FeII lines with wavelengths from 2290 to 6430{AA}. The [Fe/H] ratios derived separately from FeI and FeII lines agree in all six stars, with [FeII/H]-[FeI/H] ranging from +0.00+/-0.07 to -0.12+/-0.09dex, when strong lines and FeI lines with lower excitation potential <1.2eV are excluded. This constrains the extent of any deviations from LTE that may occur within this parameter range. While our result confirms non-LTE calculations for some warm, metal-poor dwarfs, it may not be generalizable to more metal-poor dwarfs, where deviations from LTE are predicted to be larger. We also investigate trends of systematically lower abundances derived from FeI lines in the Balmer continuum region (~3100-3700{AA}), and we conclude that no proposed explanation for this effect can fully account for the observations presently available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/86
- Title:
- SKYLAB S-019 Far-UV Objective-Prism Spectrophotometry
- Short Name:
- III/86
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog contains the ultraviolet flux measurements at wavelengths of 130-420nm, obtained with an objective-prism telescope during the three manned Skylab missions (Skylab 2, 3 and 4) in 1973 and early 1974. The telescope is an f/3 Ritchey-Chretien system with a 15-cm aperture and a calcium fluoride and lithium fluoride focal-plane corrector, and a 4{deg} prism of calcium fluoride. The spectra were obtained in 188 star fields, digitized with a PDS 1010A microdensitometer, and each spectrum was scanned in a series of 30-micron strips. The final catalogue contains 494 spectra on 492 stars, with a resolution of 0.2mn at 140nm, 1.2nm at 200nm, and 5.2nm at 300nm. The data on each star include the adopted fluxes, exposure data, intermediate-band magnitudes, and cross identifications to the Henry Draper Catalogue (Cat. <III/135>).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/41
- Title:
- Spectral & environment properties of z~2 QSO pairs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/41
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from our survey of intervening and proximate Lyman limit systems (LLSs) at z~2.0-2.5 using the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The quasars in our sample are projected pairs with proper transverse separations R_{perp}_<=150kpc and line-of- sight velocity separations <~11000km/s. We construct a stacked ultraviolet (rest-frame wavelengths 700-2000{AA}) spectrum of pairs corrected for the intervening Lyman forest and Lyman continuum absorption. The observed spectral composite presents a moderate flux excess for the most prominent broad emission lines, a ~30% decrease in flux at {lambda}=800-900{AA} compared to a stack of brighter quasars not in pairs at similar redshifts, and lower values of the mean free path of the HI ionizing radiation for pairs ({lambda}_mfp_^912^=140.7+/-20.2h_70_^-1^Mpc) compared to single quasars ({lambda}_mfp_^912^=213.8+/-28h_70_^-1^Mpc) at the average redshift z~2.44. From the modeling of LLS absorption in these pairs, we find a higher (~20%) incidence of proximate LLSs with logN_HI_>=17.2 at {delta}v<5000km/s compared to single quasars (~6%). These two rates are different at the 5{sigma} level. Moreover, we find that optically thick absorbers are equally shared between foreground and background quasars. Based on these pieces of evidence, we conclude that there is a moderate excess of gas-absorbing Lyman continuum photons in our closely projected quasar pairs compared to single quasars. We argue that this gas arises mostly within large-scale structures or partially neutral regions inside the dark matter halos where these close pairs reside.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/187/149
- Title:
- StarCAT: STIS UV echelle spectra of stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/187/149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- StarCAT is a catalog of high resolution ultraviolet spectra of objects classified as "stars," recorded by Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) during its initial seven years of operations (1997-2004). StarCAT is based on 3184 echelle observations of 545 distinct targets, with a total exposure duration of 5.2Ms. For many of the objects, broad ultraviolet coverage has been achieved by splicing echellegrams taken in two or more FUV (1150-1700{AA}) and/or NUV (1600-3100{AA}) settings. In cases of multiple pointings on conspicuously variable sources, spectra were separated into independent epochs. Otherwise, different epochs were combined to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). A post-facto correction to the "calstis" pipeline data sets compensated for subtle wavelength distortions identified in a previous study of the STIS calibration lamps. An internal "fluxing" procedure yielded coherent spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for objects with broadly overlapping wavelength coverage. The best StarCAT material achieves 300m/s internal velocity precision; absolute accuracy at the 1km/s level; photometric accuracy of order 4%; and relative flux precision several times better (limited mainly by knowledge of SEDs of UV standard stars). While StarCAT represents a milestone in the large-scale post-processing of STIS echellegrams, a number of potential improvements in the underlying "final" pipeline are identified.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/AstBu/68.243
- Title:
- Star formation in isolated galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/other/AstBu/68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the FUV fluxes measured with the GALEX to study the star formation properties of galaxies collected in the Local Orphan Galaxies catalog (LOG, 2011AstBu..66....1K). Among 517 LOG galaxies having radial velocities V_LG_<3500km/s and Galactic latitudes |b|>15{deg}, 428 objects have been detected in FUV. We briefly discuss some scaling relations between the specific star formation rate (SSFR) and stellar mass, HI-mass, morphology, and surface brightness of galaxies situated in extremely low density regions of the Local Supercluster. Our sample is populated with predominantly late-type, gas-rich objects with the median morphological type of Sdm. Only 5% of LOG galaxies are classified as early types: E, S0, S0/a, however, they systematically differ from normal E and S0 galaxies by lower luminosity and presence of gas and dust. We find that almost all galaxies in our sample have their SSFR below 0.4Gyr^-1^. This limit is also true even for a sample of 260 active star-burst Markarian galaxies situated in the same volume. The existence of such a quasi-Eddington limit for galaxies seems to be a key factor which characterizes the transformation of gas into stars at the current epoch.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/814/95
- Title:
- Star formation rate of 4<~z<~8 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/814/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent observations have shown that the characteristic luminosity of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function does not significantly evolve at 4<z<7 and is approximately M_UV_^*^~21. We investigate this apparent non-evolution by examining a sample of 173 bright, M_UV_<-21 galaxies at z=4-7, analyzing their stellar populations and host halo masses. Including deep Spitzer/IRAC imaging to constrain the rest-frame optical light, we find that M_UV_^*^ galaxies at z=4-7 have similar stellar masses of log(M/M_{sun}_)=9.6-9.9 and are thus relatively massive for these high redshifts. However, bright galaxies at z=4-7 are less massive and have younger inferred ages than similarly bright galaxies at z=2-3, even though the two populations have similar star formation rates and levels of dust attenuation for a fixed dust-attenuation curve. Matching the abundances of these bright z=4-7 galaxies to halo mass functions from the Bolshoi {Lambda}CDM simulation implies that the typical halo masses in ~M_UV_^*^ galaxies decrease from log(M_h_/M_{sun}_)=11.9 at z=4 to log(M_h_/M_{sun}_)=11.4 at z=7. Thus, although we are studying galaxies at a similar stellar mass across multiple redshifts, these galaxies live in lower mass halos at higher redshift. The stellar baryon fraction in ~M_UV_^*^ galaxies in units of the cosmic mean {Omega}_b_/{Omega}_m_ rises from 5.1% at z=4 to 11.7% at z=7; this evolution is significant at the ~3{sigma} level. This rise does not agree with simple expectations of how galaxies grow, and implies that some effect, perhaps a diminishing efficiency of feedback, is allowing a higher fraction of available baryons to be converted into stars at high redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/1203
- Title:
- Star formation regions in nearby dwarf galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/1203
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We compare star formation in the inner and outer disks of 11 dwarf irregular galaxies (dIm) within 3.6Mpc. The regions are identified on Galaxy Evolution Explorer near-UV images, and modeled with UV, optical, and near-IR colors to determine masses and ages. A few galaxies have made 10^5^-10^6^M_{sun}_ complexes in a starburst phase, while others have not formed clusters in the last 50Myr. The maximum region mass correlates with the number of regions as expected from the size-of-sample effect. We find no radial gradients in region masses and ages, even beyond the realm of H{alpha} emission, although there is an exponential decrease in the luminosity density and number density of the regions with radius. H{alpha} is apparently lacking in the outer parts only because nebular emission around massive stars is too faint to see. The outermost regions for the five galaxies with HI data formed at average gas surface densities of 1.9-5.9M_{sun}/pc^2^.
