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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/872/81
- Title:
- The COS CGM Compendium (CCC). II. Lyman limit syst.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/872/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results from our COS circumgalactic medium (CGM) compendium (CCC), a survey of the CGM at z<~1 using HI-selected absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<19. We focus here on 82 partial Lyman limit systems (pLLSs, 16.2<=logN_HI_<17.2) and 29 LLSs (17.2<=logN_HI_<19). Using Bayesian techniques and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of a grid of photoionization models, we derive the posterior probability distribution functions (PDFs) for the metallicity of each absorber in CCC. We show that the combined pLLS metallicity PDF at z<~1 has two main peaks at [X/H]~-1.7 and -0.4, with a strong dip at [X/H]~-1. The metallicity PDF of the LLSs might be more complicated than a unimodal or bimodal distribution. The pLLSs and LLSs probe a similar range of metallicities -3<~[X/H]<~+0.4, but the fraction of very metal-poor absorbers with [X/H]<~-1.4 is much larger for the pLLSs than the LLSs. In contrast, absorbers with logN_HI_>=19 have mostly -1<~[X/H]<~0 at z<~1. The metal-enriched gas probed by pLLSs and LLSs confirms that galaxies that have been enriching their CGM over billions of years. Surprisingly, despite this enrichment, there is also abundant metal-poor CGM gas (41%-59% of the pLLSs have [X/H]<~-1.4), representing a reservoir of near-pristine gas around z<~1 galaxies. We compare our empirical results to recent cosmological zoom simulations, finding some discrepancies, including an overabundance of metal- enriched CGM gas in simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/866/33
- Title:
- The COS CGM compendium. I. Initial results
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/866/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a neutral hydrogen-selected absorption-line survey of gas with HI column densities 15<logN_HI_<19 at z<~1 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. Our main aim is to determine the metallicity distribution of these absorbers. Our sample consists of 224 absorbers selected on the basis of their HI absorption strength. Here we discuss the properties of our survey and the immediate empirical results. We find singly and doubly ionized metal species, and HI typically have similar velocity profiles, implying they probe gas in the same or similar environments. The ionic ratios (e.g., N_CII_/N_CIII_, N_OI_/N_CII_) indicate that the gas in these absorbers is largely ionized, and the ionization conditions are quite comparable across the sampled N_HI_ range. The Doppler parameters of the HI imply T<~5x10^4^K on average, consistent with the gas being photoionized. The MgII column densities span >2 orders of magnitude at any given N_HI_, indicating a wide range of metallicities (from solar to <1/100 solar). In the range of 16.2<~logN_HI_<~17, there is a gap in the N_MgII_ distribution corresponding to gas with ~10% solar metallicity, consistent with the gap seen in the previously identified bimodal metallicity distribution in this column density regime. Less than 3% of the absorbers in our sample show no detectable metal absorption, implying that truly pristine gas at z<~1 is uncommon. We find <[FeII/MgII]>=-0.4+/-0.3, and since {alpha}-enhancement can affect this ratio, dust depletion is extremely mild.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/818/187
- Title:
- The cosmic TeV gamma-ray background spectrum
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/818/187
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmic gamma-ray background radiation in the GeV band. However, investigation on the cosmic TeV gamma-ray background radiation still remains sparse. Here, we report the lower bound on the cosmic TeV gamma-ray background spectrum placed by the cumulative flux of individual detected extragalactic TeV sources including blazars, radio galaxies, and starburst galaxies. The current limit on the cosmic TeV gamma-ray background above 0.1TeV is obtained as 2.8x10^-8^(E/100GeV)^-0.55^exp(-E/2100GeV)[GeV/cm2/s/sr] <E^2^dN/dE<1.1x10^-7^(E/100GeV)^-0.49^[GeV/cm2/s/sr], where the upper bound is set by requirement that the cascade flux from the cosmic TeV gamma-ray background radiation can not exceed the measured cosmic GeV gamma-ray background spectrum. Two nearby blazars, Mrk421 and Mrk501, explain ~70% of the cumulative background flux at 0.8-4TeV, while extreme blazars start to dominate at higher energies. We also provide the cumulative background flux from each population, i.e., blazars, radio galaxies, and starburst galaxies which will be the minimum requirement for their contribution to the cosmic TeV gamma-ray background radiation.
15395. The COSMOS2015 catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/24
- Title:
- The COSMOS2015 catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/224/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the COSMOS2015 catalog, which contains precise photometric redshifts and stellar masses for more than half a million objects over the 2deg^2^ COSMOS field. Including new YJHKs images from the UltraVISTA-DR2 survey, Y-band images from Subaru/Hyper-Suprime-Cam, and infrared data from the Spitzer Large Area Survey with the Hyper-Suprime-Cam (SPLASH) Spitzer legacy program, this near-infrared-selected catalog is highly optimized for the study of galaxy evolution and environments in the early universe. To maximize catalog completeness for bluer objects and at higher redshifts, objects have been detected on a {chi}^2^ sum of the YJHKs and z^++^ images. The catalog contains ~6x10^5^ objects in the 1.5deg^2^ UltraVISTA-DR2 region and ~1.5x10^5^ objects are detected in the "ultra-deep stripes" (0.62deg^2^) at Ks<=24.7 (3{sigma}, 3", AB (AB) magnitude). Through a comparison with the zCOSMOS-bright spectroscopic redshifts, we measure a photometric redshift precision of {sigma}_{Delta}z/(1+zs)_=0.007 and a catastrophic failure fraction of {eta}=0.5%. At 3<z<6 , using the unique database of spectroscopic redshifts in COSMOS, we find {sigma}_{Delta}z/(1+zs)_=0.021 and {eta}=13.2% . The deepest regions reach a 90% completeness limit of 10^10^M_{sun}_ to z=4. Detailed comparisons of the color distributions, number counts, and clustering show excellent agreement with the literature in the same mass ranges. COSMOS2015 represents a unique, publicly available, valuable resource with which to investigate the evolution of galaxies within their environment back to the earliest stages of the history of the universe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/819/62
- Title:
- The COSMOS-Legacy Survey (CLS) catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/819/62
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2deg^2^ of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of ~160ks over the central 1.5deg^2^ and of ~80ks in the remaining area. The survey is the combination of 56 new observations obtained as an X-ray Visionary Project with the previous C-COSMOS survey. We describe the reduction and analysis of the new observations and the properties of 2273 point sources detected above a spurious probability of 2x10^-5^. We also present the updated properties of the C-COSMOS sources detected in the new data. The whole survey includes 4016 point sources (3814, 2920 and 2440 in the full, soft, and hard band). The limiting depths are 2.2x10^-16^, 1.5x10^-15^, and 8.9x10^-16^erg/cm^2^/s in the 0.5-2, 2-10, and 0.5-10keV bands, respectively. The observed fraction of obscured active galactic nuclei with a column density >10^22^/cm^2^ from the hardness ratio (HR) is ~50^+17^_-16_%. Given the large sample we compute source number counts in the hard and soft bands, significantly reducing the uncertainties of 5%-10%. For the first time we compute number counts for obscured (HR>-0.2) and unobscured (HR<-0.2) sources and find significant differences between the two populations in the soft band. Due to the unprecedent large exposure, COSMOS-Legacy area is three times larger than surveys at similar depths and its depth is three times fainter than surveys covering similar areas. The area-flux region occupied by COSMOS-Legacy is likely to remain unsurpassed for years to come.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/877/81
- Title:
- The C3R2 survey: DR2 new spectroscopic redshifts
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/877/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) survey is a multi-institution, multi-instrument survey that aims to map the empirical relation of galaxy color to redshift to i~24.5 (AB), thereby providing a firm foundation for weak lensing cosmology with the Stage IV dark energy missions Euclid and WFIRST. Here we present 3171 new spectroscopic redshifts obtained in the 2016B and 2017A semesters with a combination of DEIMOS, LRIS, and MOSFIRE on the Keck telescopes. The observations come from all of the Keck partners: Caltech, NASA, the University of Hawaii, and the University of California. Combined with the 1283 redshifts published in DR1, the C3R2 survey has now obtained and published 4454 high-quality galaxy redshifts. We discuss updates to the survey design and provide a catalog of photometric and spectroscopic data. Initial tests of the calibration method performance are given, indicating that the sample, once completed and combined with extensive data collected by other spectroscopic surveys, should allow us to meet the cosmology requirements for Euclid, and make significant headway toward solving the problem for WFIRST. We use the full spectroscopic sample to demonstrate that galaxy brightness is weakly correlated with redshift once a galaxy is localized in the Euclid or WFIRST color space, with potentially important implications for the spectroscopy needed to calibrate redshifts for faint WFIRST and LSST sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/211
- Title:
- The CSP (DR3): photometry of low-z SNe Ia
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/211
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present final natural-system optical (ugriBV) and near-infrared (YJH) photometry of 134 supernovae (SNe) with probable white dwarf progenitors that were observed in 2004-2009 as part of the first stage of the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP-I). The sample consists of 123 Type Ia SNe, 5 Type Iax SNe, 2 super-Chandrasekhar SN candidates, 2 Type Ia SNe interacting with circumstellar matter, and 2 SN 2006bt-like events. The redshifts of the objects range from z=0.0037 to 0.0835; the median redshift is 0.0241. For 120 (90%) of these SNe, near-infrared photometry was obtained. Average optical extinction coefficients and color terms are derived and demonstrated to be stable during the five CSP-I observing campaigns. Measurements of the CSP-I near-infrared bandpasses are also described, and near-infrared color terms are estimated through synthetic photometry of stellar atmosphere models. Optical and near-infrared magnitudes of local sequences of tertiary standard stars for each supernova are given, and a new calibration of Y-band magnitudes of the Persson et al. (1998AJ....116.2475P) standards in the CSP-I natural system is presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/156
- Title:
- The CSP (DR2): photometry of SNe Ia
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/156
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) was a five-year observational survey conducted at Las Campanas Observatory that obtained, among other things, high-quality light curves of ~100 low-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Presented here is the second data release of nearby SN Ia photometry consisting of 50 objects, with a subset of 45 having near-infrared follow-up observations. Thirty-three objects have optical pre-maximum coverage with a subset of 15 beginning at least five days before maximum light. In the near-infrared, 27 objects have coverage beginning before the epoch of B-band maximum, with a subset of 13 beginning at least five days before maximum. In addition, we present results of a photometric calibration program to measure the CSP optical (uBgVri) bandpasses with an accuracy of ~1%. Finally, we report the discovery of a second SN Ia, SN 2006ot, similar in its characteristics to the peculiar SN 2006bt.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/171/475
- Title:
- The 5C5 survey of radio sources.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/171/475
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog contains the 5C5 survey of radio sources, one of a series of deep surveys made at 408 MHz (HPBW 80"x109") and 1407 MHz (HPBW 23"x31") with the One-Mile telescope at Cambridge. The 5C5 survey was centered on 09h40m+47d (B1950) and contains 252 sources stronger than 8.7 mJy at 408 MHz and 1.8 mJy at 1407 MHz. The flux densities are on the KPW scale (Kellermann et al. 1969ApJ...157....1K), and were based on 3C48. This table was originally published in Pearson, T.J (1975MNRAS.171..475P)
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