- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/633/A104
- Title:
- WINGS cluster galaxies structural parameters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/633/A104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the galaxies in nine clusters selected from the WINGS dataset, examining how galaxy structure varies as a function of wavelength and environment using the state of the art software galapagos-2. We simultaneously fit single-Sersic functions on three optical (u, B and V) and two near-infrared (J and K) bands thus creating a wavelength-dependent model of each galaxy. We measure the magnitudes, effective radius (Re), the Sersic index (n), axis ratio, and position angle in each band. The sample contains 790 cluster members (located close to the cluster centre <0.64xR200) and 254 non-member galaxies that we further separate based on their morphology into ellipticals, lenticulars, and spirals. We find that the Sersic index of all galaxies inside clusters remains nearly constant with wavelength while Re decreases as wavelength increases for all morphological types. We do not observe a significant variation on n and Re as a function of projected local density and distance from the clusters centre. Comparing the n and Re of bright cluster galaxies with a subsample of non-member galaxies we find that bright cluster galaxies are more concentrated (display high n values) and are more compact (low Re). Moreover, the light profile (N) and size (R) of bright cluster galaxies does not change as a function of wavelength in the same manner as non-member galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/603/A55
- Title:
- WISE/NEOWISE Mars-crossing asteroids
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/603/A55
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Mars-crossing asteroids (MCs) are a dynamically unstable group between the main belt and the near-Earth populations. Characterising the physical properties of a large sample of MCs can help to understand the original sources of many near-Earth asteroids, some of which may produce meteorites on Earth. Our aim is to provide diameters and albedos of MCs with available WISE/NEOWISE data. We used the near-Earth asteroid thermal model to find the best-fitting values of equivalent diameter and, whenever possible, the infrared beaming parameter. With the diameter and tabulated asteroid absolute magnitudes we also computed the visible geometric albedos. We determined the diameters and beaming parameters of 404 objects observed during the fully cryogenic phase of the WISE mission, most of which have not been published elsewhere. We also obtained 1572 diameters from data from the 3-Band and posterior non-cryogenic phases using a default value of beaming parameter. The average beaming parameter is 1.2+/-0.2 for objects smaller than 10km, which constitute most of our sample. This is higher than the typical value of 1.0 found for the whole main belt and is possibly related to the fact that WISE is able to observe many more small objects at shorter heliocentric distances, i.e. at higher phase angles. We argue that this is a better default value for modelling Mars-crossing asteroids from the WISE/NEOWISE catalogue and discuss the effects of this choice on the diameter and albedo distributions. We find a double-peaked distribution for the visible geometric albedos, which is expected since this population is compositionally diverse and includes objects in the major spectral complexes. However, the distribution of beaming parameters is homogeneous for both low- and high-albedo objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/43
- Title:
- WWFI g'-band obs. of bright cluster galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Observations of 170 local (z<~0.08) galaxy clusters in the northern hemisphere have been obtained with the Wendelstein Telescope Wide Field Imager (WWFI). We correct for systematic effects such as point-spread function broadening, foreground star contamination, relative bias offsets, and charge persistence. Background inhomogeneities induced by scattered light are reduced down to {Delta}SB>31 g' mag/arcsec^2^ by large dithering and subtraction of night-sky flats. Residual background inhomogeneities brighter than SB_{sigma}_<27.6 g' mag/arcsec^2^ caused by galactic cirrus are detected in front of 23% of the clusters. However, the large field of view allows discrimination between accretion signatures and galactic cirrus. We detect accretion signatures in the form of tidal streams in 22%, shells in 9.4%, and multiple nuclei in 47% of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and find two BCGs in 7% of the clusters. We measure semimajor-axis surface brightness profiles of the BCGs and their surrounding intracluster light (ICL) down to a limiting surface brightness of SB=30 g' mag/arcsec^2^. The spatial resolution in the inner regions is increased by combining the WWFI light profiles with those that we measured from archival Hubble Space Telescope images or deconvolved WWFI images. We find that 71% of the BCG+ICL systems have surface brightness (SB) profiles that are well described by a single Sersic function, whereas 29% require a double Sersic function to obtain a good fit. We find that BCGs have scaling relations that differ markedly from those of normal ellipticals, likely due to their indistinguishable embedding in the ICL.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/591/640
- Title:
- XMM-LSS low-frequency radio counterparts
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/591/640
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The XMM Large-Scale Structure Survey (XMM-LSS) is a major project to map the large-scale structure of the universe out to cosmological distances. An 8x8 region will be surveyed by XMM with planned optical follow-up to produce a three-dimensional map of many hundreds of clusters out to a redshift of z=1. To explore the relation of the large-scale structure to the location and properties of extragalactic radio sources, the XMM-LSS project also includes a low-frequency radio survey of this region. This combination will provide unprecedented insight into how the radio source formation and evolution are affected by the local environment. Here we present preliminary results from our 325 and 74MHz surveys in this region. At 325MHz, we have a flux limit of 4mJy/beam, a resolution of 6.3", and a total of 256 source detections over 5.6deg^2^. At 74MHz, we have a flux limit of 275mJy/beam, a resolution of 30", and a total of 211 source detections over 110deg^2^. We describe these results and explore what they tell us about the population of extragalactic low-frequency radio sources. The 74MHz survey represents the first presentation of a deep, subarcminute resolution survey at such a low frequency. This was made possible by recent advances in both hardware and data reduction algorithms, which we describe in detail.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/639/A5
- Title:
- X-ray absorption in INTEGRAL AGN
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/639/A5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work the INTEGRAL hard X-ray selected sample of AGN has been used to investigate the possible contribution of absorbing material distributed within the host galaxies to the total amount of NH measured in the X-ray band. We collected all the available axial ratio measurements of the galaxies hosting our AGN together with their morphological information and find that also for our hard X-ray selected sample a deficit of edge-on galaxies hosting type 1 AGN is present. We estimate that in our hard X-ray selected sample there is a deficit of 24% (+/-5%) of type 1 AGN. Possible bias in redshift has been excluded, as we found the same effect in a well determined range of z where the number and the distributions of the two classes are statistically the same. Our findings clearly indicate that material located in the host galaxy on scales of hundreds of parsecs and not aligned with the putative absorbing torus of the AGN can contribute to the total amount of column density. This galactic absorber can be large enough to hide the broad line region of some type 1 AGN causing their classification as type 2 objects and giving rise to the deficiency of type 1 in edge-on galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/2709
- Title:
- X-ray bright AGN in massive galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/2709
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a new analysis of the X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) population residing in and behind 135 of the most massive galaxy clusters in the redshift range of 0.2<z<0.9 observed with Chandra. With a sample of more than 11000 X-ray point sources, we are able to measure, for the first time, evidence for evolution in the cluster AGN population beyond the expected evolution of field AGN. Our analysis shows that overall number density of cluster AGN scales with the cluster mass as ~M_500_-1.2. There is no evidence for the overall number density of cluster member X-ray AGN depending on the cluster redshift in a manner different than field AGN, nor is there any evidence that the spatial distribution of cluster AGN (given in units of the cluster overdensity radius r_500_) strongly depends on the cluster mass or redshift. The M^-1.2+/-0.7^ scaling relation we measure is consistent with theoretical predictions of the galaxy merger rate in clusters, which is expected to scale with the cluster velocity dispersion, {sigma}, as ~{sigma}^-3^ or ~M^-1^. This consistency suggests that galaxy mergers may be an important contributor to the cluster AGN population, a result that is further corroborated by visual inspection of Hubble images for 23 spectroscopically confirmed cluster member AGN in our sample. A merger-driven scenario for the triggering of X-ray AGN is not strongly favoured by studies of field galaxies, however, suggesting that different mechanisms may be primarily responsible for the triggering of cluster and field X-ray AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/549/172
- Title:
- X-ray-detected, poor groups galaxy populations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/549/172
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We determine the quantitative morphology and star formation properties of galaxies in six nearby X-ray-detected, poor groups using multiobject spectroscopy and wide-field R imaging. The mean recessional velocities of the galaxy groups range from 2843 to 7558km/s. Each group has 1538 confirmed members ranging in luminosity from dwarfs to giants (-13.7>=M_R_-5logh>=-21.9). We measure structural parameters for each galaxy by fitting a PSF-convolved, two-component model to their surface brightness profiles. To compare the samples directly, we fade, smooth, and rebin each galaxy image so that we effectively observe each galaxy at the same redshift (9000km/s) and physical resolution (0.87h^-1^kpc). The structural parameters are combined with [O II] measurements to test for correlations between morphological characteristics and current star formation in these galaxies. We compare results for the groups to a sample of field galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/706/810
- Title:
- X-ray emitters in the Groth-Westphal strip
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/706/810
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Groth field is one of the sky regions that will be targeted by the OSIRIS Tunable Filter Emission Line Object survey in the optical 820nm and 920nm atmospheric windows. In the present paper, public Chandra X-ray data with total exposure time of 200ks are analyzed and combined with optical broadband data of the Groth field, in order to study a set of optical structural parameters of the X-ray emitters and its relation with X-ray properties. To this aim, we processed the raw, public X-ray data using the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations, and determined and analyzed different structural parameters, in order to produce a morphological classification of X-ray sources. We present the morphology of 340 X-ray emitters with optical counterpart detected. Objects have been classified by X-ray type using a diagnostic diagram relating X-ray-to-optical ratio (X/O) to hardness ratio. We did not find any clear correlation between X-ray and morphological types. We analyzed the angular clustering of X-ray sources with optical counterpart using two-point correlation functions. A significant positive angular clustering was obtained from a preliminary analysis of four subsamples of the X-ray sources catalog. The clustering signal of the optically extended counterparts is similar to that of strongly clustered populations like red and very red galaxies, suggesting that the environment plays an important role in active galactic nuclei phenomena. Finally, we combined optical structural parameters with other X-ray and optical properties, and we confirmed an anticorrelation between the X/O ratio and the Abraham concentration index, which might suggest that early-type galaxies have lower Eddington rates than those of late-type galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/817/95
- Title:
- X-ray observations of HCG galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/817/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We obtain total galaxy X-ray luminosities, L_X_, originating from individually detected point sources in a sample of 47 galaxies in 15 compact groups of galaxies (CGs). For the great majority of our galaxies, we find that the detected point sources most likely are local to their associated galaxy, and are thus extragalactic X-ray binaries (XRBs) or nuclear active galactic nuclei (AGNs). For spiral and irregular galaxies, we find that, after accounting for AGNs and nuclear sources, most CG galaxies are either within the +/-1{sigma} scatter of the Mineo et al. L_X_-star formation rate (SFR) correlation or have higher L_X_ than predicted by this correlation for their SFR. We discuss how these "excesses" may be due to low metallicities and high interaction levels. For elliptical and S0 galaxies, after accounting for AGNs and nuclear sources, most CG galaxies are consistent with the Boroson et al. L_X_-stellar mass correlation for low-mass XRBs, with larger scatter, likely due to residual effects such as AGN activity or hot gas. Assuming non-nuclear sources are low- or high-mass XRBs, we use appropriate XRB luminosity functions to estimate the probability that stochastic effects can lead to such extreme L_X_ values. We find that, although stochastic effects do not in general appear to be important, for some galaxies there is a significant probability that high L_X_ values can be observed due to strong XRB variability.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/56/965
- Title:
- X-ray properties of ASCA objects
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/56/965
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Utilizing ASCA archival data of about 300 objects of elliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies, we performed systematic measurements of the X-ray properties of hot gas in their systems, and compiled them in this paper. The steepness of the luminosity-temperature (LT) relation, L_X_{prop.to}(kT)^alpha^, in the range of kT~1.5-15keV is alpha=3.17+/-0.15, consistent with previous measurements.
