- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/655/790
- Title:
- Groups of galaxies in 2MASS survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/655/790
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of applying a percolation algorithm to the initial release of the Two Micron All Sky Survey Extended Source Catalog, using subsequently measured redshifts for almost all of the galaxies with K<11.25mag. This group catalog is based on the first near-IR all-sky flux-limited survey that is complete to |b|=5{deg}. We explore the dependence of the clustering on the length and velocity scales involved. The paper describes a group catalog, complete to a limiting redshift of 104km/s, created by maximizing the number of groups containing three or more members. A second catalog is also presented, created by requiring a minimum density contrast of {delta}{rho}/{rho}>=80 to identify groups. We identify known nearby clusters in the catalogs and contrast the groups identified in the two catalogs. We examine and compare the properties of the determined groups and verify that the results are consistent with the UZC-SSRS2 and northern CfA redshift survey group catalogs. The all-sky nature of the catalog will allow the development of a flow-field model based on the density field inferred from the estimated cluster masses.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/2003
- Title:
- G305 star-forming complex in ^13^CO
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/2003
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 109-115GHz (3mm) wide-field spectral line observations of ^12^CO, ^13^CO and C^18^O J=1-0 molecular emission and 5.5 and 8.8GHz (6 and 3cm) radio continuum emission towards the high-mass star-forming complex known as G305. The morphology of G305 is dominated by a large evacuated cavity at the centre of the complex driven by clusters of O stars surrounded by molecular gas. Our goals are to determine the physical properties of the molecular environment and reveal the relationship between the molecular and ionized gas and star formation in G305. This is in an effort to characterize the star-forming environment and constrain the star formation history in an attempt to evaluate the impact of high-mass stars on the evolution of the G305 complex. Analysis of CO emission in G305 reveals 156 molecular clumps with the following physical characteristics; excitation temperatures ranging from 7 to 25K, optical depths of 0.2-0.9, H_2_) column densities of 0.1-4.0x10^22^cm^-2^, clump masses ranging from 10^2^ to 10^4^M_{sun}_ and a total molecular mass of >3.5x10^5^M_{sun}_. The 5.5 and 8.8GHz radio continuum emission reveals an extended low surface brightness ionized environment within which we identify 15 large-scale features with a further eight smaller sources projected within these features. By comparing to mid-infrared emission and archival data, we identify nine HII regions, seven compact HII regions, one UC HII region and four extended regions. The total integrated flux of the radio continuum emission at 5.5GHz is ~ 180Jy corresponding to a Lyman continuum output of 2.4x10^50^photons/s. We compare the ionized and molecular environment with optically identified high-mass stars and ongoing star formation, identified from the literature. Analysis of this data set reveals a star formation rate of 0.008-0.016M_{sun}_/yr and efficiency of 7-12%, allows us to probe the star formation history of the region and discuss the impact of high-mass stars on the evolution of G305.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/877/103
- Title:
- Half-mass radii for ~7000 galaxies at 1.0<=z<=2.5
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/877/103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radial mass-to-light ratio gradients cause the half-mass and half-light radii of galaxies to differ, potentially biasing studies that use half-light radii. Here we present the largest catalog to date of galaxy half-mass radii at z>1: 7006 galaxies in the CANDELS fields at 1.0<=z<=2.5. The sample includes both star-forming and quiescent galaxies with stellar masses 9.0<=log(M_*_/M_{sun}_)<=11.5. We test three methods for calculating half-mass radii from multiband PSF-matched Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging: two based on spatially resolved spectral energy distribution modeling, and one that uses a rest-frame color profile. All three methods agree, with scatter <~0.3dex. In agreement with previous studies, most galaxies in our sample have negative color gradients (the centers are redder than the outskirts, and r_e,mass_<r_e,light_). We find that color gradient strength has significant trends with increasing stellar mass, half-light radius, U-V color, and stellar mass surface density. These trends have not been seen before at z>1. Furthermore, color gradients of star-forming and quiescent galaxies show a similar redshift evolution: they are flat at z>~2, then steeply decrease as redshift decreases. This affects the galaxy mass-size relation. The normalizations of the star-forming and quiescent r_mass_-M_*_ relations are 10%-40% smaller than the corresponding r_light_-M_*_ relations; the slopes are ~0.1-0.3dex shallower. Finally, the half-mass radii of star-forming and quiescent galaxies at M_*_=10^10.5^M_{sun}_ only grow by ~1% and ~8% between z~2.25 and z~1.25. This is significantly less than the ~37% and ~47% size increases found when using the half-light radius.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/178/247
- Title:
- H{alpha} and [NII] survey in local 11 Mpc
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/178/247
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of a broader effort to characterize the population of star-forming galaxies in the local universe, we have carried out an H{alpha}+[NII] imaging survey for an essentially volume-limited sample of galaxies within 11Mpc of the Milky Way. This first paper describes the design of the survey, the observation, data processing, and calibration procedures, and the characteristics of the galaxy sample. The main product of the paper is a catalog of integrated H{alpha} fluxes, luminosities, and equivalent widths for the galaxies in the sample. We briefly discuss the completeness properties of the survey and compare the distribution of the sample and its star formation properties to other large H{alpha} imaging surveys. These data form the foundation for a series of follow-up studies of the star formation properties of the local volume, and the properties and duty cycles of star formation bursts in dwarf galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/579/A102
- Title:
- H{alpha} imaging of Herschel Reference Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/579/A102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new H{alpha}+[NII] imaging data of late-type galaxies in the Herschel Reference Sample aimed at studying the star formation properties of a K-band-selected, volume-limited sample of nearby galaxies. The H{alpha}+[NII] data are corrected for [NII] contamination and dust attenuation using different recipes based on the Balmer decrement and the 24um luminosities. We show that the H{alpha} luminosities derived with different corrections give consistent results only whenever the the uncertainty on the estimate of the Balmer decrement is [C(H{beta})]<=0.1. We use these data to derive the star formation rate of the late-type galaxies of the sample, and compare these estimates to those determined using independent monochromatic tracers (FUV, radio continuum) or the output of spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting codes. This comparison suggests that the 24um based dust extinction correction for the H{alpha} data might be non universal, and that it should be used with caution in all objects with a low star formation activity, where dust heating can be dominated by the old stellar population. Furthermore, because of the sudden truncation of the star formation activity of cluster galaxies occurring after their interaction with the surrounding environment, the stationarity conditions required to transform monochromatic fluxes into star formation rates might not always be satisfied in tracers other than the H{alpha} luminosity. In a similar way, the parametrisation of the star formation history generally used in SED fitting codes might not be adequate for these recently interacting systems. We then use the derived star formation rates to study the SFR luminosity distribution and the typical scaling relations of the late-type galaxies of the HRS. We observe a systematic decrease of the specific star formation rate with increasing stellar mass, stellar mass surface density, and metallicity. We also observe an increase of the asymmetry and smoothness parameters measured in the H{alpha}-band with increasing SSFR, probably induced by an increase of the contribution of giant HII regions to the H{alpha} luminosity function in star-forming low-luminosity galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/716
- Title:
- H{alpha} scale length in Virgo and field spirals
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/716
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The scale lengths of the old stars and ionized gas distributions are compared for similar samples of Virgo Cluster members and field spiral galaxies via H{alpha} and broad R-band surface photometry. While the R-band and H{alpha} scale lengths are, on average, comparable for the combined sample, we find significant differences between the field and cluster samples. While the H{alpha} scale lengths of the field galaxies are a factor of 1.14+/-0.07 longer, on average, than their R-band scale lengths, the H{alpha} scale lengths of Virgo Cluster members are, on average, 20% smaller than their R-band scale lengths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/553/A91
- Title:
- Halpha3 survey of Virgo and Coma galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/553/A91
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of the galaxy structural parameters from H{alpha}3, an H{alpha} narrow-band imaging follow-up survey of ~800 galaxies selected from the HI Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA) in the Local Supercluster, including the Virgo cluster, and in the Coma Supercluster. Taking advantage of H{alpha}3 which provides the complete census of the recent star-forming, HI-rich galaxies in the local universe, we aim to investigate the structural parameters of both the young (<10Myr) and the old (>1Gyr) stellar populations. By comparing the sizes of these stellar components we investigated the spatial scale on which galaxies are growing at the present cosmological epoch and the role of the environment in quenching the star-formation activity. We computed the concentration, asymmetry, and clumpiness (CAS) structural parameters both for recently born and old stars. To quantify the sizes we computed half-light radii and a new parameter dubbed EW/r based on the half-light radius of the H{alpha} Equivalent Width map. To highlight the environmental perturbation, we adopt an updated calibration of the HI-deficiency parameter that we use to divide the sample in unperturbed and perturbed galaxies. The concentration index computed in the r band depends on the stellar mass and on the Hubble type, these variables being related since most massive galaxies are bulge dominated thus most concentrated. Going toward later spirals and irregulars both the concentration index and the mass decrease along with the bulge-to-disk ratio. Blue Compact dwarfs represent an exception since they have similar mass but they are more concentrated than dwarf irregulars. The asymmetry and the clumpiness increase along the spiral sequence up to Sc-Sd but they decrease going toward dwarfs whose light distribution is smooth and more symmetric. When measured on H{alpha} images, the CAS parameters do not exhibit obvious correlations with Hubble type. Irrespective of whether we used the ratio between effective radii or the EW/r parameter, we found that the concentration index is the main parameter that describes the current growth of isolated galaxies but, for a fixed concentration, the stellar mass plays a second order role. At the present epoch, massive galaxies are growing inside-out, conversely the dwarfs are growing on the scale of their already assembled mass.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/462/1910
- Title:
- H-ATLAS NGP LOFAR radio catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/462/1910
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) High-Band Array observations of the Herschel-ATLAS North Galactic Pole survey area. The survey we have carried out, consisting of four pointings covering around 142deg^2^ of sky in the frequency range 126-173MHz, does not provide uniform noise coverage but otherwise is representative of the quality of data to be expected in the planned LOFAR wide-area surveys, and has been reduced using recently developed 'facet calibration' methods at a resolution approaching the full resolution of the data sets (~10x6 arcsec) and an rms off-source noise that ranges from 100{mu}Jy beam^-1^ in the centre of the best fields to around 2mJy/beam at the furthest extent of our imaging. We describe the imaging, cataloguing and source identification processes, and present some initial science results based on a 5{sigma} source catalogue. These include (i) an initial look at the radio/far-infrared correlation at 150 MHz, showing that many Herschel sources are not yet detected by LOFAR; (ii) number counts at 150MHz, including, for the first time, observational constraints on the numbers of star-forming galaxies; (iii) the 150-MHz luminosity functions for active and star-forming galaxies, which agree well with determinations at higher frequencies at low redshift, and show strong redshift evolution of the star-forming population; and (iv) some discussion of the implications of our observations for studies of radio galaxy life cycles.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/414/905
- Title:
- H-band photometry in Pisces-Perseus disk galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/414/905
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the scaling relations of bulge and disk structural parameters for a sample of 108 disk galaxies. Structural parameters of individual galaxies are obtained from two-dimensional bulge/disk decomposition of their H-band surface brightness distributions. Bulges are modelled with a generalized exponential (Sersic) with variable integer shape index n.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/137/101
- Title:
- H-band photometry in Pisces-Perseus spirals
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/137/101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The paper presents results of an H-band imaging survey of spiral galaxies in the Perseus-Pisces supercluster area. The derived global photometric parameters of the sample galaxies (magnitudes, diameters, etc.) are collected in Table 3.
