- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/1789
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/1789
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of ~3000 submillimetre sources detected (>=3.5{sigma}) at 850um over ~5deg^2^ surveyed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). This is the largest survey of its kind at 850um, increasing the sample size of 850um selected submillimetre galaxies by an order of magnitude. The wide 850um survey component of S2CLS covers the extragalactic fields: UKIDSS-UDS, COSMOS, Akari-NEP, Extended Groth Strip, Lockman Hole North, SSA22 and GOODS-North. The average 1{sigma} depth of S2CLS is 1.2mJy/beam, approaching the SCUBA-2 850um confusion limit, which we determine to be {sigma}_c_~=0.8mJy/beam. We measure the 850um number counts, reducing the Poisson errors on the differential counts to approximately 4 per cent at S850~=3mJy. With several independent fields, we investigate field-to-field variance, finding that the number counts on 0.5{deg}-1{deg} scales are generally within 50 per cent of the S2CLS mean for S850>3mJy, with scatter consistent with the Poisson and estimated cosmic variance uncertainties, although there is a marginal (2{sigma}) density enhancement in GOODS-North. The observed counts are in reasonable agreement with recent phenomenological and semi-analytic models, although determining the shape of the faint-end slope (S850<3mJy) remains a key test. The large solid angle of S2CLS allows us to measure the bright-end counts: at S850>10mJy there are approximately 10 sources per square degree, and we detect the distinctive up-turn in the number counts indicative of the detection of local sources of 850um emission, and strongly lensed high-redshift galaxies. All calibrated maps and the catalogue are made publicly available at https://zenodo.org/record/57792#.W41TsRg68eM .
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/4321
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 galaxies in 850um survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/4321
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the properties of the galaxies selected from the deepest 850-{mu}m survey undertaken to date with (Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2) SCUBA-2 on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as part of the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. A total of 106 sources (>5{sigma}) were uncovered at 850{mu}m from an area of ~=150 arcmin^2^ in the centre of the COSMOS/UltraVISTA/Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) field, imaged to a typical depth of {sigma}_850_~=0.25mJy. We utilize the available multifrequency data to identify galaxy counterparts for 80 of these sources (75 per cent), and to establish the complete redshift distribution for this sample, yielding . We have also been able to determine the stellar masses of the majority of the galaxy identifications, enabling us to explore their location on the star formation rate:stellar mass (SFR:M*) plane. Crucially, our new deep 850-{mu}m-selected sample reaches flux densities equivalent to SFR~=100M_{sun}_/yr, enabling us to confirm that sub-mm galaxies form the high-mass end of the 'main sequence' (MS) of star-forming galaxies at z>1.5 (with a mean specific SFR of sSFR=2.25+/-0.19Gyr^-1^ at z~=2.5). Our results are consistent with no significant flattening of the MS towards high masses at these redshifts. However, our results add to the growing evidence that average sSFR rises only slowly at high redshift, resulting in log_10_sSFR being an apparently simple linear function of the age of the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/380/199
- Title:
- SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. III
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/380/199
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Determining an accurate position for a submillimetre (submm) galaxy (SMG) is the crucial step that enables us to move from the basic properties of an SMG sample source counts and 2D clustering to an assessment of their detailed, multiwavelength properties, their contribution to the history of cosmic star formation and their links with present-day galaxy populations. In this paper, we identify robust radio and/or infrared (IR) counterparts, and hence accurate positions, for over two-thirds of the SCUBA HAlf-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) Source Catalogue, presenting optical, 24um and radio images of each SMG.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/379/1571
- Title:
- SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey. IV
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/379/1571
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the redshift distribution of the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) Half Degree Survey (SHADES) galaxy population based on the rest-frame radio-mm-far-infrared (FIR) colours of 120 robustly detected 850um sources in the Lockman Hole East (LH) and Subaru XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF). The redshift distribution derived from the full spectral energy distribution (SED) information is shown to be narrower than that determined from the radiosub-mm spectral index, as more photometric bands contribute to a higher redshift accuracy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/784/9
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 high-redshift galaxies sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/784/9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope's SCUBA-2 camera to image a 400 arcmin^2^ area surrounding the GOODS-N field. The 850 {mu}m rms noise ranges from a value of 0.49 mJy in the central region to 3.5 mJy at the outside edge. From these data, we construct an 850 {mu}m source catalog to 2 mJy containing 49 sources detected above the 4{sigma} level. We use an ultradeep (11.5 {mu}Jy at 5{sigma}) 1.4 GHz image obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array together with observations made with the Submillimeter Array to identify counterparts to the submillimeter galaxies. For most cases of multiple radio counterparts, we can identify the correct counterpart from new and existing Submillimeter Array data. We have spectroscopic redshifts for 62% of the radio sources in the 9' radius highest sensitivity region (556/894) and 67% of the radio sources in the GOODS-N region (367/543). We supplement these with a modest number of additional photometric redshifts in the GOODS-N region (30). We measure millimetric redshifts from the radio to submillimeter flux ratios for the unidentified submillimeter sample, assuming an Arp 220 spectral energy distribution. We find a radio-flux-dependent K-z relation for the radio sources, which we use to estimate redshifts for the remaining radio sources. We determine the star formation rates (SFRs) of the submillimeter sources based on their radio powers and their submillimeter fluxes and find that they agree well. The radio data are deep enough to detect star-forming galaxies with SFRs>2000 M_{sun}_/yr to z~6. We find galaxies with SFRs up to ~6000 M_{sun}_/yr over the redshift range z=1.5-6, but we see evidence for a turn-down in the SFR distribution function above 2000 M_{sun}_/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/418/244
- Title:
- SDSS-based Polar Ring Catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/418/244
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxies with polar rings (PRGs) are a unique class of extragalactic objects. Using these, we can investigate a wide range of problems, linked to the formation and evolution of galaxies, and we can study the properties of their dark haloes. The progress that has been made in the study of PRGs has been constrained by the small number of known objects of this type. The Polar Ring Catalogue (PRC) by Whitmore et al. (1990AJ....100.1489W) and their photographic atlas of PRGs and related objects includes 157 galaxies. At present, there are only about two dozen kinematically confirmed galaxies in this PRG class, mostly from the PRC. We present a new catalogue of PRGs, supplementing the PRC and significantly increasing the number of known candidate PRGs. The catalogue is based on the results of the original Galaxy Zoo project. Within this project, volunteers performed visual classifications of nearly a million galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Based on the preliminary classifications of the Galaxy Zoo, we viewed more than 40000 images of the SDSS and selected 275 galaxies to include in our catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/210/3
- Title:
- SDSS bulge, disk and total stellar mass estimates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/210/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for ~660000 galaxies in the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data (SDSS) Release 7. These masses are based on a homogeneous catalog of g- and r-band photometry described by Simard et al. (2011, Cat. J/ApJS/196/11), which we extend here with bulge+disk and Sersic profile photometric decompositions in the SDSS u, i, and z bands. We discuss the methodology used to derive stellar masses from these data via fitting to broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs), and show that the typical statistical uncertainty on total, bulge, and disk stellar mass is ~0.15 dex. Despite relatively small formal uncertainties, we argue that SED modeling assumptions, including the choice of synthesis model, extinction law, initial mass function, and details of stellar evolution likely contribute an additional 60% systematic uncertainty in any mass estimate based on broadband SED fitting. We discuss several approaches for identifying genuine bulge+disk systems based on both their statistical likelihood and an analysis of their one-dimensional surface-brightness profiles, and include these metrics in the catalogs. Estimates of the total, bulge and disk stellar masses for both normal and dust-free models and their uncertainties are made publicly available here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/2115
- Title:
- SDSS/CIG galaxies classification
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/2115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a re-evaluation of the optical morphology for 549 galaxies from the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere (CIG) that are available in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; DR6). Both the high resolution and high dynamic range of the SDSS images and our semiautomatic image processing scheme allow for a major quality and uniform morphological analysis. The processing scheme includes (1) sky-subtracted, cleaned, and logarithmic scaled g-band images, (2) filtered-enhanced versions of the images in (1), and (3) the corresponding red-green-blue (RGB) composed images available in the SDSS database. We propose an empirical method to distinguishing between E, S0, and Sa candidates through an additional analysis of (4) the surface brightness, position angle, ellipticity and A_4_B_4_ coefficients of the Fourier series expansion profiles. An atlas of mosaics containing (1), (2), and (3) images for Sab-Sm/Irr types and (1), (2), (3), (4) images for E/S0/Sa types was produced and is available on the Web site, http://132.248.1.210.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/223/20
- Title:
- SDSS-DR8 galaxies classified by WND-CHARM
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/223/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have applied computer analysis to classify the broad morphological types of ~3x10^6^ Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies. For each galaxy, the catalog provides the DR8 object ID, the R.A., the decl., and the certainty for the automatic classification as either spiral or elliptical. The certainty of the classification allows us to control the accuracy of a subset of galaxies by sacrificing some of the least certain classifications. The accuracy of the catalog was tested using galaxies that were classified by the manually annotated Galaxy Zoo catalog. The results show that the catalog contains ~900000 spiral galaxies and ~600000 elliptical galaxies with classification certainty that has a statistical agreement rate of ~98% with the Galaxy Zoo debiased "superclean" data set. The catalog also shows that objects assigned by the SDSS pipeline with a relatively high redshift (z>0.4) can have clear visual spiral morphology.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/122
- Title:
- SDSS DR7 galaxy/QSOs pairs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The aim of this project is to identify low-redshift host galaxies of quasar absorption-line systems by selecting galaxies that are seen in projection onto quasar sightlines. To this end, we use the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to construct a parent sample of 97489 galaxy/quasar projections at impact parameters of up to 100 kpc to the foreground galaxy. We then search the quasar spectra for absorption-line systems of CaII and NaI within +/-500km/s1 of the galaxy's velocity. This yields 92 CaII and 16 NaI absorption systems.