- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/28
- Title:
- CFHTLS galaxies with faint tidal features
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of the detectability of faint tidal features in galaxies from the wide-field component of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. Our sample consists of 1781 luminous (M_r'_<-19.3mag) galaxies in the magnitude range 15.5mag<r'<17mag and in the redshift range 0.04<z<0.2. Although we have classified tidal features according to their morphology (e.g., streams, shells, and tails), we do not attempt to interpret them in terms of their physical origin (e.g., major versus minor merger debris). Instead, we provide a catalog that is intended to provide raw material for future investigations which will probe the nature of low surface brightness substructure around galaxies. We find that around 12% of the galaxies in our sample show clear tidal features at the highest confidence level. This fraction rises to about 18% if we include systems with convincing, albeit weaker tidal features, and to 26% if we include systems with more marginal features that may or may not be tidal in origin. These proportions are a strong function of rest-frame color and of stellar mass. Linear features, shells, and fans are much more likely to occur in massive galaxies with stellar masses >10^10.5^M_{sun}_, and red galaxies are twice as likely to show tidal features than are blue galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/38
- Title:
- CFHTLS-SL2S-ARCS strong lens candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/749/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Strong Lensing Legacy Survey-ARCS (SARCS) sample compiled from the final T0006 data release of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) covering a total non-overlapping area of 159 deg^2^. We adopt a semi-automatic method to find gravitational arcs in the survey that makes use of an arc-finding algorithm. The candidate list is pruned by visual inspection and ranking to form the final SARCS sample. This list also includes some serendipitously discovered lens candidates which the automated algorithm did not detect. The SARCS sample consists of 127 lens candidates which span arc radii ~2"-18" within the unmasked area of ~150 deg^2^. Within the sample, 54 systems are promising lenses among which, we find 12 giant arcs (length-to-width ratio >= 8). We also find two radial arc candidates in SL2SJ141447+544704. From our sample, we detect a systematic alignment of the giant arcs with the major axis of the baryonic component of the putative lens in concordance with previous studies. This alignment is also observed for all arcs in the sample and does not vary significantly with increasing arc radius. The mean values of the photometric redshift distributions of lenses corresponding to the giant arcs and all arcs sample are at z~0.6.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/720/1674
- Title:
- CFHT M33 extended sources catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/720/1674
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 2990 extended sources in a 1x1{deg} area centered on M33 using the MegaCam camera on the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The catalog includes 599 new candidate stellar clusters, 204 previously confirmed clusters, 1969 likely background galaxies, and 218 unknown extended objects. We present ugriz integrated magnitudes of the candidates and confirmed star clusters (SCs) as well as the full width at half maximum, ellipticity, and stellarity. Based on the properties of the confirmed SCs, we select a sub-sample of highly probable clusters composed of 246 objects. The integrated photometry of the complete cluster catalog reveals a wide range of colors of -0.4<(g-r)<1.5 and -1.0<(r-i)<1.0 with no obvious cluster subpopulations. Comparisons with models of simple stellar populations suggest a large range of ages some as old as ~10Gyr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/587/A23
- Title:
- CFHT r- and z-band images 28 Planck sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/587/A23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Planck catalogue of SZ sources limits itself to a significance threshold of 4.5 to ensure a low contamination rate by false cluster candidates. This means that only the most massive clusters at redshift z>0.5, and in particular z>0.7, are expected to enter into the catalogue, with a large number of systems in that redshift regime being expected around and just below that threshold. In this paper, we follow-up a sample of SZ sources from the Planck SZ catalogues from 2013 and 2015. In the latter maps, we consider detections around and at lower significance than the threshold adopted by the Planck Collaboration. To keep the contamination rate low, our 28 candidates are chosen to have significant WISE detections, in combination with non-detections in SDSS/DSS, which effectively selects galaxy cluster candidates at redshifts z>~0.5. By taking r- and z-band imaging with MegaCam@CFHT, we bridge the 4000{AA} rest-frame break over a significant redshift range, thus allowing accurate redshift estimates of red-sequence cluster galaxies up to z~0.8. After discussing the possibility that an overdensity of galaxies coincides -by chance- with a Planck SZ detection, we confirm that 16 of the candidates have likely optical counterparts to their SZ signals, 13 (6) of which have an estimated redshift z>0.5 (z>0.7). The richnesses of these systems are generally lower than expected given the halo masses estimated from the Planck maps. However, when we follow a simplistic model to correct for Eddington bias in the SZ halo mass proxy, the richnesses are consistent with a reference mass-richness relation established for clusters detected at higher significance. This illustrates the benefit of an optical follow-up, not only to obtain redshift estimates, but also to provide an independent mass proxy that is not based on the same data the clusters are detected with, and thus not subject to Eddington bias
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/872/202
- Title:
- CFHT ugi photometry of globular clusters in M85
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/872/202
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We survey globular clusters (GCs) in M85 using ugi-band images of a 1{deg}x1{deg} field obtained with the MegaCam at the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. We identify 1318 GC candidates with 20.0mag<g_0_<23.5mag in the entire survey region. Their radial number density profile is well fit by a Sersic profile with n=2.58_-0.33_^+0.43^ and effective radius R_e,GCS_=4.14' (=22kpc), showing that the candidates at R<20' are mostly genuine GCs in M85. We estimate the total number of GCs, N(total)=1216_-50_^+82^, and the specific frequency, S_N_=1.41_-0.06_^+0.10^. The overall color distribution of the GCs in M85 is bimodal, but the GCs in the central region at R<2' do not show a bimodal distribution clearly. The radial number density profile and surface number density map of the blue GCs (BGCs) show more extended structures than those of the red GCs (RGCs). The spatial distributions of both BGCs and RGCs are elongated, similar to that of the galaxy stellar light. The number fraction of the RGCs in the central region is much smaller compared to those in other early-type galaxies of similar luminosity. The mean (g-i)_0_ color of the RGCs in M85 is about 0.1mag bluer than typical values for other Virgo early-type galaxies of similar luminosity, indicating that a significant fraction of the RGCs in M85 may be younger than typical GCs. These results indicate that M85 might have undergone a major wet merger recently.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/109/367
- Title:
- 4C 23.56 field deep imaging
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/109/367
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep infrared and optical imaging of a 1.25arcmin^2^ field centered on the giant (~0.5Mpc) high-redshift (z=2.479) ultra-steep-spectrum radio source 4C 23.56. The optical/infrared continuum morphology of the host galaxy is asymmetric, with strong color gradients and an enormous biconical emission-line nebula. The morphology of 4C 23.56 is best described by a dusty galaxy illuminated by a beam from an active galactic nucleus that is scattered into our line of sight. We determine the K' band number counts in the field to a limit of K'=22.5mag and find a marginally significant excess of objects with K'=19-21mag, compared to other K' band surveys. Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 117 objects in the field are constructed from aperture photometry in five bands (U', NB, V, I, and K'). From the SEDS we distinguish three subsets of objects as possible candidates for z~2.48 companions: emission-line galaxies, very red galaxies, and flat-spectrum star-forming galaxies. The field has nine candidate objects with line emission in a narrow band centered on the redshifted Ly{alpha} line, compared to an expected number of at most three foreground [O II] emitters that could mimic Ly{alpha} alpha sources. We find a high density of faint, very red objects with I-K'>4mag in the field, including two with I-K'>6mag.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/566/L5
- Title:
- C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/566/L5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A spectral survey in the 1mm wavelength range was undertaken in the long-period comets C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) using the 30m telescope of the Institut de radioastronomie millimetrique (IRAM) in April and November-December 2013. We report the detection of ethylene glycol (CH_2OH)_2 (aGg' conformer) and formamide (NH_2CHO) in the two comets. The abundances relative to water of ethylene glycol and formamide are 0.2-0.3% and 0.02% in the two comets, similar to the values measured in comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp). We also report the detection of HCOOH and CH_3_CHO in comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), and a search for other complex species (methyl formate, glycolaldehyde).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/589/A78
- Title:
- C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2013 R1 spectra (Lovejoy)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/589/A78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The apparition of bright comets C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) in March-April 2013 and January 2015, combined with the improved observational capabilities of submillimeter facilities, offered an opportunity to carry out sensitive compositional and isotopic studies of the volatiles in their coma. We observed comet Lovejoy with the IRAM 30m telescope between 13 and 26 January 2015, and with the Odin submillimeter space observatory on 29 January - 3 February 2015. We detected 22 molecules and several isotopologues. The H216O and H218O production rates measured with Odin follow a periodic pattern with a period of 0.94 days and an amplitude of ~25%. The inferred isotope ratios in comet Lovejoy are ^16^O/^18^O=499+/-24 and D/H=1.4+/-0.4*10^-4^ in water, ^32^S/^34^S=24.7+/-3.5 in CS, all compatible with terrestrial values. The ratio ^12^C/^13^C=109+/-14 in HCN is marginally higher than terrestrial and ^14^N/^15^N=145+/-12 in HCN is half the Earth ratio. Several upper limits for D/H or ^12^C/^13^C in other molecules are reported. From our observation of HDO in comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), we report the first D/H ratio in an Oort Cloud comet that is not larger than the terrestrial value. On the other hand, the observation of the same HDO line in the other Oort-cloud comet, C/2012 F6 (Lemmon), suggests a D/H value four times higher. Given the previous measurements of D/H in cometary water, this illustrates that a diversity in the D/H ratio and in the chemical composition, is present even within the same dynamical group of comets, suggesting that current dynamical groups contain comets formed at very different places or times in the early solar system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/792/L2
- Title:
- C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2012 S1 (ISON) maps
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/792/L2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results are presented from the first cometary observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), including measurements of the spatially resolved distributions of HCN, HNC, H_2_CO, and dust within the comae of two comets: C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2012 S1 (ISON), observed at heliocentric distances of 1.5 AU and 0.54 AU, respectively. These observations (with angular resolution ~0.5"), reveal an unprecedented level of detail in the distributions of these fundamental cometary molecules, and demonstrate the power of ALMA for quantitative measurements of the distributions of molecules and dust in the inner comae of typical bright comets. In both comets, HCN is found to originate from (or within a few hundred kilometers of) the nucleus, with a spatial distribution largely consistent with spherically symmetric, uniform outflow. By contrast, the HNC distributions are clumpy and asymmetrical, with peaks at cometocentric radii ~500-1000km, consistent with release of HNC in collimated outflow(s). Compared to HCN, the H_2_ CO distribution in comet Lemmon is very extended. The interferometric visibility amplitudes are consistent with coma production of H_2_CO and HNC from unidentified precursor material(s) in both comets. Adopting a Haser model, the H_2_CO parent scale length is found to be a few thousand kilometers in Lemmon and only a few hundred kilometers in ISON, consistent with the destruction of the precursor by photolysis or thermal degradation at a rate that scales in proportion to the solar radiation flux.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/455/60
- Title:
- CFRS II: 0000-00 and 1000+25 fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/455/60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper describes the methods used to obtain the spectroscopic data and construct redshift catalogs for the Canada-France Deep Redshift Survey (CFRS). The full data set consists of more than 1000 spectra, of objects with 17.5=<I_AB_=<22.5, obtained from deep multislit data with the MARLIN and MOS-SIS spectrographs at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). The final spectroscopic catalog contains 200 stars, 591 galaxies with secure redshifts in the range 0=<z=<1.3, six QSOs, and 146 objects with very uncertain or unknown redshifts, leading to an overall success rate of identification of 85%. In addition, 67 objects affected by observational problems have been placed in a supplemental list. We describe here the instrumental setup and the observing procedures used to gather this large data set efficiently. New optimal ways of packing spectra on the detector to increase significantly the multiplexing gain offered by multislit spectroscopy are described. Dedicated data reduction procedures have been developed under the IRAF environment to allow for fast and accurate processing. Very strict procedures have been followed to establish a reliable list of final spectroscopic measurements. Fully independent processing of the data has been carried out by three members of the team for each data set associated with a multislit mask, and final redshifts were assigned only after the careful comparison of the three independent measurements. A confidence class scheme was established. We strongly emphasize the benefits of such procedures. Finally, we present the spectroscopic data obtained for 303 objects in the 0000-00 and 1000+25 fields. The success rate in spectroscopic identification is 83% for the 0000-00 field and 84% for the 1000+25 field.
