The catalogue includes binary stars for which dynamical masses of components has been published in 1969 - 1988. It doesn't contain other compilation catalogues that was published in this two decades and uses original data papers only. It collects masses defined by direct, dynamical methods only (without use of mass-luminosity, mass-radius, mass-spectrum and similar relations). The work was supervised by Dr O. Malkov.
We constrain the mass distribution in nearby, star-forming galaxies with the Star Formation Reference Survey (SFRS), a galaxy sample constructed to be representative of all known combinations of star formation rate, dust temperature, and specific star formation rate (sSFR) that exist in the Local Universe. An innovative 2D bulge/disc decomposition of the 2MASS/Ks-band images of the SFRS galaxies yields global luminosity and stellar mass functions (MFs), along with separate MFs for their bulges and discs. These accurate MFs cover the full range from dwarf galaxies to large spirals, and are representative of star-forming galaxies selected based on their infrared luminosity, unbiased by active galactic nucleus content and environment. We measure an integrated luminosity density j=1.72+/-0.93x10^9^L_{sun}/h/Mpc^3^ and a total stellar mass density {rho}_M_=4.61+/-2.40x10^8^M_{sun}_/h/Mpc^3^. While the stellar mass of the average star-forming galaxy is equally distributed between its sub-components, discs globally dominate the mass density budget by a ratio 4:1 with respect to bulges. In particular, our functions suggest that recent star formation happened primarily in massive systems, where they have yielded a disc stellar mass density larger than that of bulges by more than 1 dex. Our results constitute a reference benchmark for models addressing the assembly of stellar mass on the bulges and discs of local (z=0) star-forming galaxies.
Recent analyses suggest that distance residuals measured from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are correlated with local host galaxy properties within a few kiloparsecs of the SN explosion. However, the well-established correlation with global host galaxy properties is nearly as significant, with a shift of 0.06mag across a low to high mass boundary (the mass step). Here, with 273 SNe Ia at z<0.1, we investigate whether the stellar masses and rest-frame u-g colors of regions within 1.5kpc of the SN Ia explosion site are significantly better correlated with SN distance measurements than global properties or properties measured at random locations in SN hosts. At >~2{sigma} significance, local properties tend to correlate with distance residuals better than properties at random locations, though despite using the largest low-z sample to date, we cannot definitively prove that a local correlation is more significant than a random correlation. Our data hint that SNe observed by surveys that do not target a pre-selected set of galaxies may have a larger local mass step than SNe from surveys that do, an increase of 0.071+/-0.036mag (2.0{sigma}). We find a 3{sigma} local mass step after global mass correction, evidence that SNe Ia should be corrected for their local mass, but we note that this effect is insignificant in the targeted low-z sample. Only the local mass step remains significant at >2{sigma} after global mass correction, and we conservatively estimate a systematic shift in H0 measurements of -0.14km/s/Mpc with an additional uncertainty of 0.14km/s/Mpc, ~10% of the present uncertainty.
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.
The relation between star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses, i.e., the galaxy main sequence, is a useful diagnostic of galaxy evolution. We present the distributions relative to the main sequence of 55 optically selected PG and 12 near-IR-selected Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) quasars at z<=0.5. We estimate the quasar host stellar masses from Hubble Space Telescope or ground-based AO photometry, and the SFRs through the mid-infrared aromatic features and far-IR photometry. We find that PG quasar hosts more or less follow the main sequence defined by normal star-forming galaxies while 2MASS quasar hosts lie systematically above the main sequence. PG and 2MASS quasars with higher nuclear luminosities seem to have higher specific SFRs (sSFRs), although there is a large scatter. No trends are seen between sSFRs and SMBH masses, Eddington ratios, or even morphology types (ellipticals, spirals, and mergers). Our results could be placed in an evolutionary scenario with quasars emerging during the transition from ULIRGs/mergers to ellipticals. However, combined with results at higher redshift, they suggest that quasars can be widely triggered in normal galaxies as long as they contain abundant gas and have ongoing star formation.
We investigate the correlations among stellar mass (M*), disk scale length (R_d_), and rotation velocity at 2.2 disk scale lengths (V_2.2_) for a sample of 81 disk-dominated galaxies (disk/total>=0.9) selected from the SDSS. We measure V_2.2_ from long-slit H{alpha} rotation curves and infer M* from galaxy i-band luminosities (L_i_) and g-r colors.
We present the stellar mass-stellar metallicity relationship (MZR) in the galaxy cluster Cl0024+1654 at z~0.4 using full-spectrum stellar population synthesis modeling of individual quiescent galaxies. The lower limit of our stellar mass range is M*=10^9.7^M_{sun}_, the lowest galaxy mass at which individual stellar metallicity has been measured beyond the local universe. We report a detection of an evolution of the stellar MZR with observed redshift at 0.037+/-0.007dex per Gyr, consistent with the predictions from hydrodynamical simulations. Additionally, we find that the evolution of the stellar MZR with observed redshift can be explained by an evolution of the stellar MZR with the formation time of galaxies, i.e., when the single stellar population (SSP)-equivalent ages of galaxies are taken into account. This behavior is consistent with stars forming out of gas that also has an MZR with a normalization that decreases with redshift. Lastly, we find that over the observed mass range, the MZR can be described by a linear function with a shallow slope ([Fe/H]{propto}(0.16+/-0.03)logM*). The slope suggests that galaxy feedback, in terms of mass-loading factor, might be mass-independent over the observed mass and redshift range.
Using a sample of 98 galaxy clusters recently imaged in the near-infrared with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) New Technology Telescope, WIYN telescope and William Herschel Telescope, supplemented with 33 clusters from the ESO archive, we measure how the stellar mass of the most massive galaxies in the universe, namely brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), increases with time. Most of the BCGs in this new sample lie in the redshift range 0.2<z<0.6, which has been noted in recent works to mark an epoch over which the growth in the stellar mass of BCGs stalls. From this sample of 132 clusters, we create a subsample of 102 systems that includes only those clusters that have estimates of the cluster mass. We combine the BCGs in this subsample with BCGs from the literature, and find that the growth in stellar mass of BCGs from 10 billion years ago to the present epoch is broadly consistent with recent semi-analytic and semi-empirical models. As in other recent studies, tentative evidence indicates that the stellar mass growth rate of BCGs may be slowing in the past 3.5 billion years. Further work in collecting larger samples, and in better comparing observations with theory using mock images, is required if a more detailed comparison between the models and the data is to be made.
We reliably extend the stellar mass-size relation over 0.2<=z<=2 to low stellar mass galaxies by combining the depth of Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) with the large volume covered by CANDELS. Galaxies are simultaneously modelled in multiple bands using the tools developed by the MegaMorph project, allowing robust size (i.e., half-light radius) estimates even for small, faint, and high redshift galaxies. We show that above 10^7^M_{sun}_, star-forming galaxies are well represented by a single power law on the mass-size plane over our entire redshift range. Conversely, the stellar mass - size relation is steep for quiescent galaxies with stellar masses >=10^10.3^M_{sun}_ and flattens at lower masses, regardless of whether quiescence is selected based on star-formation activity, rest-frame colours, or structural characteristics. This flattening occurs at sizes of ~1kpc at z<=1. As a result, a double power law is preferred for the stellar mass-size relation of quiescent galaxies, at least above 10^7^M_{sun}_. We find no strong redshift dependence in the slope of the relation of star-forming galaxies as well as of high mass quiescent galaxies. We also show that star-forming galaxies with stellar masses >=10^9.5^M_{sun}_ and quiescent galaxies with stellar masses>=10^10.3^M_{sun}_ have undergone significant size growth since z~2, as expected; however, low mass galaxies have not. Finally, we supplement our data with predominantly quiescent dwarf galaxies from the core of the Fornax cluster, showing that the stellar mass-size relation is continuous below 10^7^M_{sun}_, but a more complicated functional form is necessary to describe the relation.
We examine the evolution of the relation between stellar mass surface density, velocity dispersion, and half-light radius --the stellar mass fundamental plane (MFP)-- for quiescent galaxies at z<0.6. We measure the local relation from galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the intermediate redshift relation from ~500 quiescent galaxies with stellar masses 10<~log(M*/M_{sun}_)<~11.5. Nearly half of the quiescent galaxies in our intermediate redshift sample are compact. After accounting for important selection and systematic effects, the velocity dispersion distribution of galaxies at intermediate redshifts is similar to that of galaxies in the local universe. Galaxies at z<0.6 appear to be smaller (<~0.1dex) than galaxies in the local sample. The orientation of the stellar MFP is independent of redshift for massive quiescent galaxies at z<0.6 and the zero-point evolves by ~0.04dex. Compact quiescent galaxies fall on the same relation as the extended objects. We confirm that compact quiescent galaxies are the tail of the size and mass distribution of the normal quiescent galaxy population.