- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/329/87
- Title:
- 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/329/87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out a study of known clusters within the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS, Cat. <VII/226>) observed areas and have identified 431 Abell, 173 APM and 343 EDCC clusters. Precise redshifts, velocity dispersions and new centroids have been measured for the majority of these objects, and this information is used to study the completeness of these catalogues, the level of contamination from foreground and background structures along the cluster's line of sight, the space density of the clusters as a function of redshift, and their velocity dispersion distributions. We find that the Abell and EDCC catalogues are contaminated at the level of about 10 per cent, whereas the APM catalogue suffers only 5 per cent contamination. If we use the original catalogue centroids, the level of contamination rises to approximately 15 per cent for the Abell and EDCC catalogues, showing that the presence of foreground and background groups may alter the richness of clusters in these catalogues. There is a deficiency of clusters at z~0.05 hat may correspond to a large underdensity in the Southern hemisphere. From the cumulative distribution of velocity dispersions for these clusters, we derive a space density of {sigma}>1000km/s clusters of 3.6x10^-6^h^3^/Mpc^3^. This result is used to constrain models for structure formation; our data favour low-density cosmologies, subject to the usual assumptions concerning the shape and normalization of the power spectrum.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/348/866
- Title:
- 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG)
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/348/866
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The construction of a catalogue of galaxy groups from the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) is described. Groups are identified by means of a friends-of-friends percolation algorithm which has been thoroughly tested on mock versions of the 2dFGRS generated from cosmological N-body simulations. The tests suggest that the algorithm groups all galaxies that it should be grouping, with an additional 40 per cent of interlopers. About 55 per cent of the ~190000 galaxies considered are placed into groups containing at least two members of which ~29000 are found. Of these, ~7000 contain at least four galaxies, and these groups have a median redshift of 0.11 and a median velocity dispersion of 260km/s. This 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue represents the largest available homogeneous sample of galaxy groups.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/2653
- Title:
- 8620 DIB equivalent width and extinction
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/2653
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The young stellar cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1: l=339.6, b=-0.4) is one of the most massive in the local Universe, but accurate parameters are pending on better determination of its extinction and distance. Based on our photometry and data collected from other sources, we have derived a reddening law for the cluster line-of-sight representative of the Galactic plane (-5{deg}<b<+5{deg}) in the window 0.4-4.8um. The power-law exponent alpha=2.13+/-0.08 is much steeper than those published a decade ago (1.6-1.8) and our index RV=2.50+/-0.04 also differs from them, but in very good agreement with recent works based on deep surveys in the inner Galaxy. As a consequence, the total extinction AKs=0.74+/-0.08 (AV=11.40+/-2.40) is substantially smaller than previous results (0.91-1.13), part of which (AKs=0.63 or AV=9.66) is from the interstellar medium. The extinction in front of the cluster spans a range of AV~8.7 with a gradient increasing from SW to NE across the cluster face, following the same general trend of warm dust distribution. The map of the J-Ks colour index also shows a trend of reddening in this direction. We measured the equivalent width of the diffuse interstellar band at 8620 A (the 'GAIA DIB') for Wd 1 cluster members and derived the relation AKs=0.612EW-0.191EW^2^. This extends the Munari et al. relation, valid for E(B-V)<1, to the non-linear regime (AV>4).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/726/108
- Title:
- Dispersion-supported stellar systems
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/726/108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We examine scaling relations of dispersion-supported galaxies over more than eight orders of magnitude in luminosity by transforming standard fundamental plane parameters into a space of mass, radius, and luminosity. The radius variable r_1/2_ is the deprojected (three-dimensional) half-light radius, the mass variable M_1/2_ is the total gravitating mass within this radius, and L_1/2_ is half the luminosity. We find that from ultra-faint dwarf spheroidals to giant cluster spheroids, dispersion-supported galaxies scatter about a one-dimensional "fundamental curve" through this MRL space.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/361/109
- Title:
- Distant cluster galaxies Tully-Fisher relation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/361/109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have measured maximum rotation velocities (Vrot) for a sample of 111 emission-line galaxies with 0.1~<z~<1, observed in the fields of six clusters. From these data we construct 'matched' samples of 58 field and 22 cluster galaxies, covering similar ranges in redshift (0.25<=z<=1.0) and luminosity (M_B_<=-19.5mag), and selected in a homogeneous manner.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/569/689
- Title:
- Distant cluster hunting. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/569/689
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and analyze the optical and X-ray catalogs of moderate-redshift cluster candidates from the ROSAT Optical X-Ray Survey, or ROXS. The survey covers the sky area contained in the fields of view of 23 deep archival ROSAT PSPC pointings, 4.8 square degrees. The cross-correlated cluster catalogs were constructed by comparing two independent catalogs extracted from the optical and X-ray bandpasses, using a matched-filter technique for the optical data and a wavelet technique for the X-ray data. We cross-identified cluster candidates in each catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/607/A56
- Title:
- Distant clusters of galaxies in the 2XMM/SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/607/A56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxy clusters at high redshift are important to test cosmological models and models for the growth of structure. They are difficult to find in wide-angle optical surveys, however, leaving dedicated follow-up of X-ray selected candidates as one promising identification route. We aim to increase the number of galaxy clusters beyond the SDSS-limit, z~0.75. We compiled a list of extended X-ray sources from the 2XMMp catalogue within the footprint of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Fields without optical counterpart were selected for further investigation. Deep optical imaging and follow-up spectroscopy were obtained with the Large Binocular Telescope, Arizona (LBT), of those candidates not known to the literature. From initially 19 candidates, selected by visually screening X-ray images of 478 XMM-Newton observations and the corresponding SDSS images, 6 clusters were found in the literature. Imaging data through r,z filters were obtained for the remaining candidates, and 7 were chosen for multi-object (MOS) spectroscopy. Spectroscopic redshifts, optical magnitudes, and X-ray parameters (flux, temperature, and luminosity) are presented for the clusters with spectroscopic redshifts. The distant clusters studied here constitute one additional redshift bin for studies of the L-T relation, which does not seem to evolve from high to low redshifts. The selection method of distant galaxy clusters presented here was highly successful. It is based solely on archival optical (SDSS) and X-ray (XMM-Newton) data. Out of 19 selected candidates, 6 of the 7 candidates selected for spectroscopic follow-up were verified as distant clusters, a further candidate is most likely a group of galaxies at z~1.21. Out of the remaining 12 candidates, 6 were known previously as galaxy clusters, one object is a likely X-ray emission from an AGN radio jet, and for 5 we see no clear evidence for them to be high-redshift galaxy clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/125/1660
- Title:
- Distant compact groups from DPOSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/125/1660
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have identified 84 small, high-density groups of galaxies out to z~0.2 in a region of 2000deg^2^ around the north Galactic pole using the digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. The groups have at least four galaxies satisfying more stringent criteria than those used by Hickson in his pioneering work in 1982: the adopted limiting surface brightness for each group is brighter (24mag/arcsec^2^ instead of 26mag/arcsec^2^), and the spread in magnitude among the member galaxies is narrower (2mag instead of 3). We also adopt a slightly modified version of the isolation criterion used by Hickson, in order to avoid rejecting groups with projected nearby faint background galaxies. A 10% contamination rate due to projection effects is expected for this sample based on extensive simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/142/153
- Title:
- Distant galaxy clusters photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/142/153
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical and near-infrared photometry of 45 clusters of galaxies at 0.1<z<1.3. Galaxy catalogs in each cluster were defined at the longest wavelength available, generally the K band, down to approximately 2mag below M*. We include finding chart images of the band used for catalog definition. The photometry has been used in previously published papers to examine the origin and evolution of galaxies in distant clusters. Beginning in 1991, we sought to make use of the advent of relatively large format near-IR detectors to study the galaxy populations of distant clusters. We collected imaging data in both the near-IR and the optical on a large sample of clusters drawn from several samples. These data were analyzed and detailed results were presented on the evolution of early-type galaxies at moderate redshifts in Stanford, Eisenhardt, & Dickinson (1995ApJ...450..512S, 1998ApJ...492..461S), on the evolution of the K-band luminosity function in De Propris et al. (1999AJ....118..719D), on the Butcher-Oemler effect in K-selected galaxy samples in De Propris et al. (2003, ApJ, submitted), and on the evolution of early-type galaxies in high-redshift clusters in Holden et al. (2003, ApJ, in press). So far the photometry for these various studies has been published for only two clusters, Abell 370 and Abell 851 in Stanford et al. (1995ApJ...450..512S). In this paper, we present the photometry on the other 43 clusters used in our published work on distant clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/123/51
- Title:
- Distribution of Abell and APM clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/123/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comparison of how well the large-scale structure of the universe is traced by clusters from the Abell catalog and from the Automated Plate Measuring Facility (APM). We investigate selection functions for both cluster catalogs, using samples of all clusters (including clusters with estimated redshifts) and samples of clusters with measured redshifts. We present a catalog of superclusters of galaxies, based on APM clusters up to a redshift z_lim_=0.13.
