- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/523/A7
- Title:
- Light curves of type Ia supernovae in SNLS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/523/A7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present photometric properties and distance measurements of 252 high redshift Type Ia supernovae (0.15<z<1.1) discovered during the first three years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). These events were detected and their multi-colour light curves measured using the MegaPrime/MegaCam instrument at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), by repeatedly imaging four one-square degree fields in four bands. Follow-up spectroscopy was performed at the VLT, Gemini and Keck telescopes to confirm the nature of the supernovae and to measure their redshifts.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/743/125
- Title:
- Likelihood method for QSOs selection
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/743/125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new method for quasar target selection using photometric fluxes and a Bayesian probabilistic approach. For our purposes, we target quasars using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry to a magnitude limit of g=22. The efficiency and completeness of this technique are measured using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data taken in 2010. This technique was used for the uniformly selected (CORE) sample of targets in BOSS year-one spectroscopy to be realized in the ninth SDSS data release. When targeting at a density of 40 objects deg^-2^ (the BOSS quasar targeting density), the efficiency of this technique in recovering z>2.2 quasars is 40%. The completeness compared to all quasars identified in BOSS data is 65%. This paper also describes possible extensions and improvements for this technique.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/L21
- Title:
- Limits on gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/L21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxy clusters are predicted to produce {gamma}-rays through cosmic ray interactions and/or dark matter annihilation, potentially detectable by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). We present a new, independent stacking analysis of Fermi-LAT photon count maps using the 78 richest nearby clusters (z<0.12) from the Two Micron All Sky Survey cluster catalog. We obtain the lowest limit on the photon flux to date, 2.3x10^-11^ photons/cm2/s (95% confidence) per cluster in the 0.8-100 GeV band, which corresponds to a luminosity limit of 3.5x10^44^ photons/s. We also constrain the emission limits in a range of narrower energy bands. Scaling to recent cosmic ray acceleration and {gamma}-ray emission models, we find that cosmic rays represent a negligible contribution to the intra-cluster energy density and gas pressure.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/244/3
- Title:
- Linear structural param. of SDSS+UKIDSS+WISE gal.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/244/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Accurate measurements of galaxy structure are prerequisites for quantitative investigation of galaxy properties or evolution. Yet galaxy inclination, through projection and varying dust effects, strongly affects many commonly used metrics of galaxy structure. Here we demonstrate that collapsing a galaxy's light distribution onto its major axis gives a "linear brightness profile" that is unaffected by projection. In analogy to widely used half-light radius and concentrations, we use two metrics to describe this light distribution: x_50_, the linear distance containing half of the galaxy's luminosity, and c_x_=x_90_/x_50_, the ratio between the 90% light distance and the 50% light distance. In order to minimize the effects of dust, we apply this technique to a diverse sample of galaxies with moderately deep and high-resolution K-band imaging from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey. Using simulated galaxy images, we find that while our measurements are primarily limited by the surface brightness in the outer parts of galaxies, most local galaxies have high enough surface brightnesses to result in reliable measurements. When applied to real data, our metrics vary from face-on to edge-on by typically ~5% in c_x_ and ~12% in x_50_, representing factors of several to 10 improvement over existing optical and some infrared catalog measures of galaxy structure. We release a sample of 23804 galaxies with inclination-independent and dust-penetrated observational proxies for stellar mass, specific star formation rate, half-light size, and concentration.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/165
- Title:
- Line ratios in z~2-3 galaxies from KBSS-MOSFIRE
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/165
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present initial results of a deep near-IR spectroscopic survey covering the 15 fields of the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey using the recently commissioned MOSFIRE spectrometer on the Keck 1 telescope. We focus on a sample of 251 galaxies with redshifts 2.0<z<2.6, star formation rates (SFRs) 2<~SFR<~200 M_{sun}_/yr, and stellar masses 8.6<log(M_*_/M_{sun}_)<11.4, with high-quality spectra in both H- and K-band atmospheric windows. We show unambiguously that the locus of z~2.3 galaxies in the "BPT" nebular diagnostic diagram exhibits an almost entirely disjointed, yet similarly tight, relationship between the line ratios [N II] {lambda}6585/H{alpha} and [O III]/H{beta} as compared to local galaxies. Using photoionization models, we argue that the offset of the z~2.3 BPT locus relative to that at z~0 is caused by a combination of harder stellar ionizing radiation field, higher ionization parameter, and higher N/O at a given O/H compared to most local galaxies, and that the position of a galaxy along the z~2.3 star-forming BPT locus is surprisingly insensitive to gas-phase oxygen abundance. The observed nebular emission line ratios are most easily reproduced by models in which the net stellar ionizing radiation field resembles a blackbody with effective temperature T_eff_=50000-60000 K, the gas-phase oxygen abundances lie in the range 0.2<Z/Z_{sun}_<1.0, and the ratio of gas-phase N/O is close to the solar value. We critically assess the applicability at high redshift of commonly used strong line indices for estimating gas-phase metallicity, and consider the implications of the small intrinsic scatter of the empirical relationship between excitation-sensitive line indices and M_*_(i.e., the "mass-metallicity" relation) at z=~2.3.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/18
- Title:
- LIRAS: LoCuSS IR AGN survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/219/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 290 24{mu}m-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mostly at z~0.3-2.5, within 5.2{deg}^2^ distributed as 25'x25' fields around each of 30 galaxy clusters in the Local Cluster Substructure Survey. The sample is nearly complete to 1mJy at 24{mu}m, and has a rich multiwavelength set of ancillary data; 162 are detected by Herschel. We use spectral templates for AGNs, stellar populations, and infrared (IR) emission by star-forming galaxies to decompose the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these AGNs and their host galaxies, and estimate their star formation rates, AGN luminosities, and host galaxy stellar masses. The set of templates is relatively simple: a standard Type-1 quasar template; another for the photospheric output of the stellar population; and a far-infrared star-forming template. For the Type-2 AGN SEDs, we substitute templates including internal obscuration, and some Type-1 objects require a warm component (T>~50K). The individually Herschel-detected Type-1 AGNs and a subset of 17 Type-2 AGNs typically have luminosities >10^45^erg/s, and supermassive black holes of ~3x10^8^M_{sun}_ emitting at ~10% of the Eddington rate. We find them in about twice the numbers of AGNs identified in SDSS data in the same fields, i.e., they represent typical high-luminosity AGNs, not an IR-selected minority. These AGNs and their host galaxies are studied further in an accompanying paper.
707. List of 389 GRBs
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/582/A111
- Title:
- List of 389 GRBs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/582/A111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The discovery of a statistically significant clustering in the distribution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has recently been reported. Given that the cluster has a characteristic size of 2000-3000Mpc and a redshift between 1.6<=z<=2.1, it has been claimed that this structure is incompatible with the cosmological principle of homogeneity and isotropy of our Universe. In this paper, we study the homogeneity of the GRB distribution using a subsample of the Greiner GRB catalogue, which contains 314 objects with redshift 0<z<2.5 (244 of them discovered by the Swift GRB mission). We try to reconcile the dilemma between the new observations and the current theory of structure formation and growth. To test the results against the possible biases in redshift determination and the incompleteness of the Greiner sample, we also apply our analysis to the 244 GRBs discovered by Swift and the subsample presented by the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Legacy Survey (SHOALS). The real space two-point correlation function (2PCF) of GRBs, {ksi}(r), is calculated using a Landy-Szalay estimator. We perform a standard least-{Chi}^2^ fit to the measured 2PCFs of GRBs. We use the best-fit 2PCF to deduce a recently defined homogeneity scale. The homogeneity scale, R_H_, is defined as the comoving radius of the sphere inside which the number of GRBs N(<r) is proportional to r^3^ within 1%, or equivalently above which the correlation dimension of the sample D^2^ is within 1% of D^2^=3.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/812/31
- Title:
- Local Star Formation effects on type Ia SNe
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/812/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent studies found a correlation with ~3{sigma} significance between the local star formation measured by GALEX in SN Ia host galaxies and the distances or dispersions derived from these SNe. We search for these effects by using data from recent cosmological analyses to greatly increase the SN Ia sample; we include 179 GALEX-imaged SN Ia hosts with distances from the Joint Light-curve Analysis (JLA) and Pan-STARRS SN Ia cosmology samples and 157 GALEX-imaged SN Ia hosts with distances from the Riess et al. (2011, J/ApJ/730/119) H_0_ measurement. We find little evidence that SNe Ia in locally star-forming environments are fainter after light curve correction than SNe Ia in locally passive environments. We find a difference of 0.000+/-0.018 (stat+sys) mag for SNe fit with SALT2 and 0.029+/-0.027 (stat+sys) mag for SNe fit with MLCS2k2 (R_V_=2.5), which suggests that proposed changes to recent measurements of H_0_ and w are not significant and numerically smaller than the parameter measurement uncertainties. We measure systematic uncertainties of ~0.01-0.02mag by performing several plausible variants of our analysis. We find the greatly reduced significance of these distance modulus differences compared to Rigault et al. (2013A&A...560A..66R) results from two improvements with fairly equal effects, our larger sample size and the use of the JLA and Riess et al. sample selection criteria. Without these improvements, we recover the results of Rigault et al. We find that both populations have similar dispersions in distance than found by Rigault et al. and Kelly et al. (2015Sci...347.1459K), with slightly smaller dispersions for locally passive (log({Sigma}_SFR_)<-2.9dex) SNe Ia fit with MLCS, the opposite of the effect seen by Rigault et al. and Kelly et al. We caution that measuring the local environments of SNe Ia in the future may require a higher resolution instrument than GALEX and that SN Ia sample selection has a significant effect on local star formation biases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/227/7
- Title:
- Long & short GRBs with host galaxies data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/227/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified into long and short categories based on their durations. Broadband studies suggest that these two categories of objects roughly correspond to two different classes of progenitor systems, i.e., compact star mergers (Type I) versus massive star core collapse (Type II). However, the duration criterion sometimes leads to mis-identification of the progenitor systems. We perform a comprehensive multi-wavelength comparative study between duration-defined long GRBs and short GRBs as well as the so-called "consensus" long GRBs and short GRBs (which are believed to be more closely related to the two types of progenitor systems). The parameters we study include two parts: the prompt emission properties including duration (T_90_), spectral peak energy (E_p_), low energy photon index ({alpha}), isotropic {gamma}-ray energy (E_{gamma},iso_), isotropic peak luminosity (L_p,iso_), and the amplitude parameters (f and f_eff_); and the host galaxy properties including stellar mass (M_*_), star formation rate, metallicity ([X/H]), half light radius (R_50_), angular and physical (R_off_) offset of the afterglow from the center of the host galaxy, the normalized offset (r_off_=R_off_/R_50_), and the brightness fraction F_light_. For most parameters, we find interesting overlapping properties between the two populations in both one-dimensional (1D) and 2D distribution plots. The three best parameters for the purpose of classification are T_90_, f_eff_, and F_light_. However, no single parameter alone is good enough to place a particular burst into the right physical category, suggesting the need for multiple criteria for physical classification.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/648/A4
- Title:
- LoTSS Deep Fields DR1 photometric redshifts
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/648/A4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168MHz survey split across multiple tiers over the northern sky. The first LoTSS Deep Fields data release consists of deep radio continuum imaging at 150 MHz of the Bootes, European Large Area Infrared Space Observatory Survey-North 1 (ELAIS-N1), and Lockman Hole fields, down to rms sensitivities of ~32, 20, and 22 muJy/beam, respectively. In this paper we present consistent photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates for the optical source catalogues in all three fields - totalling over 7 million sources (~5 million after limiting to regions with the best photometric coverage). Our photo-z estimation uses a hybrid methodology that combines template fitting and machine learning and is optimised to produce the best possible performance for the radio continuum selected sources and the wider optical source population. Comparing our results with spectroscopic redshift samples, we find a robust scatter ranging from 1.6 to 2% for galaxies and 6.4 to 7% for identified optical, infrared, or X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN). Our estimated outlier fractions (|z_phot-z_spec|/(1+z_spec)>0.15) for the corresponding subsets range from 1.5 to 1.8% and 18 to 22%, respectively. Replicating trends seen in analyses of previous wide-area radio surveys, we find no strong trend in photo-$z$ quality as a function of radio luminosity for a fixed redshift. We exploit the broad wavelength coverage available within each field to produce galaxy stellar mass estimates for all optical sources at z<1.5. Stellar mass functions derived for each field are used to validate our mass estimates, with the resulting estimates in good agreement between each field and with published results from the literature.
