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1101. Standard calibration stars infrared spectra
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/1445
Title:
Standard calibration stars infrared spectra
Short Name:
J/AJ/132/1445
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Infrared spectra with increased spectral resolution and accuracy of the absolute infrared spectral flux have been created for a subset of stellar standards created by Cohen and his collaborators in previous papers in this series. Moderate-resolution ({lambda}/{Delta}{lambda}~400) spectroscopy obtained on infrared standard stars by the Short Wavelength Spectrometer on the Infrared Space Observatory was combined with high-quality photometry tied to our recent absolute calibration from the Midcourse Space Experiment. Thus, 1-35 micron spectra were created for 33 stars, 9 of which are Cohen et al. secondary standards and another 20 of which are tertiary standards for which Cohen adopted spectral templates. The wavelength spacing is given by (0.0001/1 micron)*lambda^2, which provides for 10,000 samples over the 1-35 micron spectral range
1102. Star formation in Perseus. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/468/1009
Title:
Star formation in Perseus. II.
Short Name:
J/A+A/468/1009
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Hatchell et al. (2005, Cat. <J/A+A/440/151>, Paper I) published a submillimetre continuum map of the Perseus molecular cloud, detecting the starless and protostellar cores within it. The aim is to determine the evolutionary stage of each submm core in Perseus, and investigate the lifetimes of these phases.
1103. Star forming complexes in Galactic WMAP sources
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/752/146
Title:
Star forming complexes in Galactic WMAP sources
Short Name:
J/ApJ/752/146
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We analyze Spitzer GLIMPSE, Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) images of the Milky Way to identify 8{mu}m and free-free sources in the Galaxy. Seventy-two of the 88 WMAP sources have coverage in the GLIMPSE and MSX surveys suitable for identifying massive star-forming complexes (SFCs). We measure the ionizing luminosity functions of the SFCs and study their role in the turbulent motion of the Galaxy's molecular gas. We find a total Galactic free-free flux f_{nu}_=46177.6Jy; the 72 WMAP sources with full 8{mu}m coverage account for 34263.5Jy (~75%), with both measurements made at {nu}=94GHz (W band). We find a total of 280 SFCs, of which 168 have unique kinematic distances and free-free luminosities. We use a simple model for the radial distribution of star formation to estimate the free-free and ionizing luminosity for the sources lacking distance determinations. The total dust-corrected ionizing luminosity is Q=(2.9+/-0.5)x10^53^photons/s, which implies a Galactic star formation rate of \dot{M}_{star}_=1.2+/-0.2{M}_{sun}_/yr. We present the (ionizing) luminosity function of the SFCs and show that 24 sources emit half the ionizing luminosity of the Galaxy. The SFCs appear as bubbles in GLIMPSE or MSX images; the radial velocities associated with the bubble walls allow us to infer the expansion velocity of the bubbles. We calculate the kinetic luminosity of the bubble expansion and compare it to the turbulent luminosity of the inner molecular disk. SFCs emitting 80% of the total Galactic free-free luminosity produce a kinetic luminosity equal to 65% of the turbulent luminosity in the inner molecular disk. This suggests that the expansion of the bubbles is a major driver of the turbulent motion of the inner Milky Way molecular gas.
1104. Star-forming galaxies in ACO 2029
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/773/86
Title:
Star-forming galaxies in ACO 2029
Short Name:
J/ApJ/773/86
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Dense environments are known to quench star formation in galaxies, but it is still unknown what mechanism(s) are directly responsible. In this paper, we study the star formation of galaxies in A2029 and compare it to that of Coma, combining indicators at 24{mu}m, H{alpha}, and UV down to rates of 0.03M_{sun}_/yr. We show that A2029's star-forming galaxies follow the same mass-SFR relation as the field. The Coma cluster, on the other hand, has a population of galaxies with star formation rates (SFRs) significantly lower than the field mass-SFR relation, indicative of galaxies in the process of being quenched. Over half of these galaxies also host active galactic nuclei. Ram-pressure stripping and starvation/strangulation are the most likely mechanisms for suppressing the star formation in these galaxies, but we are unable to disentangle which is dominating. The differences we see between the two clusters' populations of star-forming galaxies may be related to their accretion histories, with A2029 having accreted its star-forming galaxies more recently than Coma. Additionally, many early-type galaxies in A2029 are detected at 24{mu}m and/or in the far-UV, but this emission is not directly related to star formation. Similar galaxies have probably been classified as star forming in previous studies of dense clusters, possibly obscuring some of the effects of the cluster environment on true star-forming galaxies.
1105. Star-forming galaxies in near-IR
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/2861
Title:
Star-forming galaxies in near-IR
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/435/2861
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The near-infrared spectral region is becoming a very useful wavelength range to detect and quantify the stellar population of galaxies. Models are developing to predict the contribution of the thermally pulsating stars on the asymptotic giant branch stars that should dominate the near-infrared region (NIR) spectra of populations 0.3 to 2Gyr old. When present in a given stellar population, these stars leave unique signatures that can be used to detect them unambiguously. However, these models have to be tested in a homogeneous data base of star-forming galaxies, to check if the results are consistent with what is found from different wavelength ranges. In this work, we performed stellar population synthesis on the nuclear and extended regions of 23 star-forming galaxies to understand how the star formation tracers in the NIR can be used in practice. The stellar population synthesis shows that for the galaxies with strong emission in the NIR, there is an important fraction of young/intermediate population contributing to the spectra, which is probably the ionization source in these galaxies. Galaxies that had no emission lines measured in the NIR were found to have older average ages and less contribution of young populations. Although the stellar population synthesis method proved to be very effective to find the young ionizing population in these galaxies, no clear correlation between these results and the NIR spectral indexes were found. Thus, we believe that, in practice, the use of these indexes is still very limited due to observational limitations.
1106. Star-galaxy separation in AKARI FIS All-Sky Survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/514/A3
Title:
Star-galaxy separation in AKARI FIS All-Sky Survey
Short Name:
J/A+A/514/A3
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
To separate stars and galaxies in the far infrared AKARI All-Sky Survey data, we have selected a sample with the complete color information available in the low extinction regions of the sky and constructed color-color plots for these data.We looked for the method to separate stars and galaxies using the color information. We performed an extensive search for the counterparts of these selected All-Sky Survey objects in the NED and SIMBAD databases. Among 5176 selected objects, we found 4272 galaxies, 382 other extragalactic objects, 349 Milky Way stars, 50 other Galactic objects, and 101 sources detected before in various wavelengths but of an unknown origin. 22 sources were left unidentified. Then, we checked colors of stars and galaxies in the far-infrared flux-color and color-color plots.
1107. Stellar clusters from UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A3
Title:
Stellar clusters from UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey
Short Name:
J/A+A/542/A3
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Data mining techniques must be developed and applied to analyse the large public data bases containing hundreds to thousands of millions entries. We develop methods for locating previously unknown stellar clusters from the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) catalogue data.
1108. Stellar parameters from the 1st release of the MaSTar
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/899/62
Title:
Stellar parameters from the 1st release of the MaSTar
Short Name:
J/ApJ/899/62
Date:
14 Mar 2022 07:12:49
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the stellar atmospheric parameters for 7503 spectra contained in the first release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory survey (MaNGA) stellar library (MaStar) in Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR15. The first release of MaStar contains 8646 spectra measured from 3321 unique stars, each covering the wavelength range 3622-10354{AA} with a resolving power of R~1800. In this work, we first determined the basic stellar parameters: effective temperature (Teff), surface gravity (logg), and metallicity ([Fe/H]), which best fit the data using an empirical interpolator based on the Medium-resolution Isaac Newton Telescope library of empirical spectra (MILES), as implemented by the University of Lyon Spectroscopic analysis Software package. While we analyzed all 8646 spectra from the first release of MaStar, since MaStar has a wider parameter-space coverage than MILES, not all of these fits are robust. In addition, not all parameter regions covered by MILES yield robust results, likely due to the nonuniform coverage of the parameter space by MILES. We tested the robustness of the method using the MILES spectra itself and identified a proxy based on the local density of the training set. With this proxy, we identified 7503 MaStar spectra with robust fitting results. They cover the range from 3179 to 20517K in effective temperature (Teff), from 0.40 to 5.0 in surface gravity (logg), and from -2.49 to +0.73 in metallicity ([Fe/H]).
1109. Stellar populations in the central 0.5pc. I.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/764/154
Title:
Stellar populations in the central 0.5pc. I.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/764/154
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present new high angular resolution near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nuclear star cluster surrounding the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Using the integral-field spectrograph OSIRIS on Keck II behind the laser-guide-star adaptive optics system, this spectroscopic survey enables us to separate early-type (young, 4-6Myr) and late-type (old, >1Gyr) stars with a completeness of 50% down to K'=15.5mag, which corresponds to ~10M_{sun}_ for the early-type stars. This work increases the radial extent of reported OSIRIS/Keck measurements by more than a factor of three from 4" to 14" (0.16 to 0.56pc), along the projected disk of young stars. For our analysis, we implement a new method of completeness correction using a combination of star-planting simulations and Bayesian inference. We assign probabilities for the spectral type of every source detected in deep imaging down to K'=15.5mag using information from spectra, simulations, number counts, and the distribution of stars. The inferred radial surface-density profiles, {Sigma}(R){prop.to}R^-{Gamma}^, for the young stars and late-type giants are consistent with earlier results ({Gamma}_early_=0.93+/-0.09, {Gamma}_late_=0.16+/-0.07). The late-type surface-density profile is approximately flat out to the edge of the survey. While the late-type stellar luminosity function is consistent with the Galactic bulge, the completeness-corrected luminosity function of the early-type stars has significantly more young stars at faint magnitudes compared with previous surveys with similar depth. This luminosity function indicates that the corresponding mass function of the young stars is likely less top-heavy than that inferred from previous surveys.
1110. Strong lens models for 37 clusters from SGAS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/12
Title:
Strong lens models for 37 clusters from SGAS
Short Name:
J/ApJS/247/12
Date:
08 Mar 2022 13:45:09
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present strong gravitational lensing models for 37 galaxy clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Giant Arcs Survey (SGAS). We combine data from multi-band Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging, with ground-based imaging and spectroscopy from Magellan, Gemini, Apache Point Observatory, and the Multiple Mirror Telescope, in order to detect and spectroscopically confirm new multiply imaged lensed background sources behind the clusters. We report spectroscopic or photometric redshifts of sources in these fields, including cluster galaxies and background sources. Based on all available lensing evidence, we construct and present strong-lensing mass models for these galaxy clusters. The clusters span a redshift range of 0.176<z<0.66 with a median redshift of z=0.45, and sample a wide range of dynamical masses, 1.5<M_200_<35x10^14^M_{sun}_, as estimated from their velocity dispersions. As these clusters were selected as lenses primarily owing to a fortuitous alignment with background galaxies that results in giant arcs, they exhibit a wide range in Einstein radii, 1.3"<{theta}_E_<23.1" for a source at z=2, with a median {theta}_E_=10.8".