- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/26
- Title:
- Very low-z SDSS galaxies with H{alpha} emission
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Strong H{alpha} emitters (HAEs) dominate the z~4 Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) population. We have identified local analogs of these HAEs using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. At z<0.4, only 0.04% of the galaxies are classified as HAEs with H{alpha} equivalent widths (>~500{AA}) comparable to that of z~4 HAEs. Local HAEs have lower stellar mass and lower ultraviolet (UV) luminosity than z~4 HAEs, yet the H{alpha}-to-UV luminosity ratio, as well as their specific star formation rate, is consistent with that of z~4 HAEs, indicating that they are scaled-down versions of high-z star-forming galaxies. Compared to the previously studied local analogs of LBGs selected using rest-frame UV properties, local HAEs show similar UV luminosity surface density, weaker D_n_(4000) break, lower metallicity, and lower stellar mass. This implies that the local HAEs are less evolved galaxies than the traditional Lyman break analogs. In the stacked spectrum, local HAEs show a significant He II{lambda}4686 emission line suggesting a population of hot, massive stars similar to that seen in some Wolf-Rayet galaxies. Low [N II]/[O III] line flux ratios imply that local HAEs are inconsistent with being systems that host bright active galactic nuclei. Instead, it is highly likely that local HAEs are galaxies with an elevated ionization parameter, either due to a high electron density or large escape fraction of hydrogen ionizing photons as in the case of Wolf-Rayet galaxies.
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16792. Very Luminous Galaxies
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/408/905
- Title:
- Very Luminous Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/408/905
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The most luminous galaxies in the blue passband have a larger correlation amplitude than L* galaxies. They do not appear to be preferentially located in rich clusters or groups, but a significant fraction of them seem to be in systems which include fainter members. We present an analysis of fields centered on 18 Very Luminous Galaxies (M_B_<=-21) selected from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey 2 (Cat. <J/AJ/116/1>, based on new observations and public data of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (Cat. <VII/226>); we present also additional data on a CfA VLG and on Arp 127.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/127/521
- Title:
- Very luminous IRAS galaxies spectra.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/127/521
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the results of spectral observations for the largest complete sample of very luminous IRAS galaxies obtained to date. The sample consists of those 73 objects for which log(L_IR_/L_sun_)>=11.5 (H0=50 km/s/Mpc, q0=0.5) and mag<=15.5, and was extracted from the 2Jy IRAS redshift catalog (Cat. <II/174>). All spectra were obtained using 2.16m telescope of Beijing Astronomical Observatory during the years 1994-1996. A total of 123 galaxy spectra were obtained with spectral ranges of 4400A to 7100A and 3500A to 8100A at resolutions of 11.2A and 9.3A respectively. In addition to the 73 spectra for sample galaxies, we also present spectra for ten non-sample galaxies and a further 40 for the companions of sample galaxies. The data presented include nuclear spectrum and the parameters describing the emission lines, absorption lines and continua as well as DSS images and environmental parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A89
- Title:
- Very metal poor stars in MW halo
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) abundances of up to 10 chemical species in a sample of 59 very metal-poor (VMP, -4<=[Fe/H]<~-2) stars in seven dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and in the Milky Way (MW) halo. Our results are based on high-resolution spectroscopic datasets and homogeneous and accurate atmospheric parameters determined in Paper I. We show that once the NLTE effects are properly taken into account, all massive galaxies in our sample, that is, the MW halo and the classical dSphs Sculptor, Ursa Minor, Sextans, and Fornax, reveal a similar plateau at [alpha/Fe]=0.3 for each of the alpha-process elements: Mg, Ca, and Ti. We put on a firm ground the evidence for a decline in alpha/Fe with increasing metallicity in the Bootes I ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD), that is most probably due to the ejecta of type Ia supernovae. For Na/Fe, Na/Mg, and Al/Mg, the MW halo and all dSphs reveal indistinguishable trends with metallicity, suggesting that the processes of Na and Al synthesis are identical in all systems, independent of their mass. The dichotomy in the [Sr/Ba] versus [Ba/H] diagram is observed in the classical dSphs, similarly to the MW halo, calling for two different nucleosynthesis channels for Sr. We show that Sr in the massive galaxies is better correlated with Mg than Fe and that its origin is essentially independent of Ba, for most of the [Ba/H] range. Our three UFDs, that is Bootes I, UMa II, and Leo IV, are depleted in Sr and Ba relative to Fe and Mg, with very similar ratios of [Sr/Mg]=-1.3 and [Ba/Mg]=-1 on the entire range of their Mg abundances. The subsolar Sr/Ba ratios of Bootes I and UMa II indicate a common r-process origin of their neutron-capture elements. Sculptor remains the classical dSph, in which the evidence for inhomogeneous mixing in the early evolution stage, at [Fe/H]<-2, is the strongest.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/180
- Title:
- Very metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's halo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/788/180
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the kinematics and orbital properties of a sample of 323 very metal-poor stars in the halo system of the Milky Way, selected from the high-resolution spectroscopic follow-up studies of Aoki et al. (2013, J/AJ/145/13) and Yong et al (2013, J/ApJ/762/26). The combined sample contains a significant fraction of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars (22% or 29%, depending on whether a strict or relaxed criterion is applied for this definition). Barium abundances (or upper limits) are available for the great majority of the CEMP stars, allowing for their separation into the CEMP-s and CEMP-no subclasses. A new method to assign membership to the inner- and outer-halo populations of the Milky Way is developed, making use of the integrals of motion, and applied to determine the relative fractions of CEMP stars in these two subclasses for each halo component. Although limited by small-number statistics, the data suggest that the inner halo of the Milky Way exhibits a somewhat higher relative number of CEMP-s stars than CEMP-no stars (57% versus 43%), while the outer halo possesses a clearly higher fraction of CEMP-no stars than CEMP-s stars (70% versus 30%). Although larger samples of CEMP stars with known Ba abundances are required, this result suggests that the dominant progenitors of CEMP stars in the two halo components were different; massive stars for the outer halo, and intermediate-mass stars in the case of the inner halo.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/620/A187
- Title:
- Very metal-poor turn-off stars abundances
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/620/A187
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Extremely metal-poor stars are keys to understand the early evolution of our Galaxy. The ESO large programme TOPoS has been tailored to analyse a new set of metal-poor turn-off stars, whereas most of the previously known extremely metal-poor stars are giant stars. Our results confirms the super-solar [Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] ratios in metal-poor turn-off stars as observed in metal-poor giant stars. We found a significant spread of the [alpha/Fe] ratios with several stars showing sub-solar [Ca/Fe] ratios. We could measure the abundance of strontium in 12 stars of the sample, leading to abundance ratios [Sr/Fe] around the Solar value. We detected barium in two stars of the sample. One of the stars (SDSS J114424-004658) shows both very high [Ba/Fe] and [Sr/Fe] abundance ratios (>1dex).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/146/267
- Title:
- Very rich Abell clusters radio analysis
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/146/267
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radio observations were used to detect the "active" galaxy population within rich clusters of galaxies in a nonbiased manner that is not plagued by dust extinction or the K-correction. We present wide-field radio, optical (imaging and spectroscopy), and ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS, Cat. <IX/10>) X-ray data for a sample of 30 very rich Abell (R>=2) cluster with z<=0.25. The VLA radio data samples the ultrafaint radio (L(1.4GHz)>=2x10^22^W/Hz) galaxy population within these extremely rich clusters for galaxies with RMAG<=-21. This is the largest sample of low-luminosity 20 cm radio galaxies within rich Abell clusters collected to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/360/340
- Title:
- Very Small Array. Flux density at 33GHz
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/360/340
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the source subtraction strategy and observations for the extended Very Small Array (VSA), a cosmic microwave background interferometer operating at 33GHz. A total of 453 sources were monitored at 33GHz using a dedicated source subtraction baseline. 131 sources brighter than 20mJy were directly subtracted from the VSA visibility data. Some characteristics of the subtracted sources, such as spectra and variability, are discussed. The 33GHz source counts are estimated from a sample selected at 15GHz. The selection of VSA fields in order to avoid bright sources introduces a bias into the observed counts. This bias is corrected and the resulting source count is estimated to be complete in the flux-density range 20114mJy. The 33GHz source counts are used to calculate a correction to the VSA power spectrum for sources below the subtraction limit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/341/1066
- Title:
- Very Small Array. II. CMB at 34GHz
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/341/1066
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations in eight fields covering three separated areas of sky with the Very Small Array at 34GHz. A total area of 101 square degrees has been imaged, with sensitivity on angular scales of 3.6{deg}-0.4{deg} (equivalent to angular multipoles l=150-900).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/3784
- Title:
- Very thin discs galaxies properties
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/3784
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the properties of galaxies with very thin discs (VTDs) using a sample of 85 objects whose stellar disc radial-to-vertical scale ratio determined from photometric decomposition, exceeds 9. We present evidences of similarities between the VTD galaxies and low surface brightness (LSB) disc galaxies, and conclude that both small and giant LSB galaxies may reveal themselves as VTD, edge-on galaxies. Our VTD galaxies are mostly bulgeless, and those with large radial scalelength tend to have redder colours. We performed spectral observations of 22 VTD galaxies with the Dual Imaging Spectrograph on the 3.5 m telescope at the Apache Point Observatory. The spectra with good resolution (R~5000) allow us to determine the distance and the ionized gas rotation curve maximum for the galaxies. Our VTD galaxies have low dust content, in contrast to regular disc galaxies. Apparently, VTD galaxies reside in specific cosmological low-density environments and tend to have less connection with filaments. Comparing a toy model that assumes marginally low star formation in galactic discs with obtained gas kinematics data, we conclude that there is a threshold central surface density of about 88M_{sun}_/pc^2^, which we observe in the case of very thin, rotationally supported galactic discs.