- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/748/15
- Title:
- Galaxy distances with the Fundamental Manifold
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/748/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We demonstrate how the Fundamental Manifold (FM) can be used to cross-calibrate distance estimators even when those "standard candles" are not found in the same galaxy. Such an approach greatly increases the number of distance measurements that can be utilized to check for systematic distance errors and the types of estimators that can be compared. Here we compare distances obtained using Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), Cepheids, surface brightness fluctuations, the luminosity of the tip of the red giant branch, circumnuclear masers, eclipsing binaries, RR Lyrae stars, and the planetary nebulae luminosity functions. We find no significant discrepancies (differences are <2{sigma}) between distance methods, although differences at the ~10% level cannot yet be ruled out. The potential exists for significant refinement because the data used here are heterogeneous B-band magnitudes that will soon be supplanted by homogeneous, near-infrared magnitudes. We illustrate the use of FM distances to (1) revisit the question of the metallicity sensitivity of various estimators, confirming the dependence of SN Ia distances on host galaxy metallicity, and (2) provide an alternative calibration of H_0_ that replaces the classical ladder approach in the use of extragalactic distance estimators with one that utilizes data over a wide range of distances simultaneously.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/454/1886
- Title:
- Galaxy morphologies with Illustris Simulation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/454/1886
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study how optical galaxy morphology depends on mass and star formation rate (SFR) in the Illustris Simulation. To do so, we measure automated galaxy structures in 10808 simulated galaxies at z=0 with stellar masses 109.7<M*/M_{sun}_< 1012.3. We add observational realism to idealized synthetic images and measure non-parametric statistics in rest-frame optical and near-IR images from four directions. We find that Illustris creates a morphologically diverse galaxy population, occupying the observed bulge strength locus and reproducing median morphology trends versus stellar mass, SFR, and compactness. Morphology correlates realistically with rotation, following classification schemes put forth by kinematic surveys. Type fractions as a function of environment agree roughly with data. These results imply that connections among mass, star formation, and galaxy structure arise naturally from models matching global star formation and halo occupation functions when simulated with accurate methods. This raises a question of how to construct experiments on galaxy surveys to better distinguish between models. We predict that at fixed halo mass near 10^12^M_{sun}_, disc-dominated galaxies have higher stellar mass than bulge-dominated ones, a possible consequence of the Illustris feedback model. While Illustris galaxies at M*~10^11^M_{sun}_ have a reasonable size distribution, those at M*~10^10^M_{sun}_ have half-light radii larger than observed by a factor of 2. Furthermore, at M*~10^10.5^-10^11^M_{sun}_, a relevant fraction of Illustris galaxies have distinct 'ring-like' features, such that the bright pixels have an unusually wide spatial extent.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/1508
- Title:
- Galaxy morphology catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/1508
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Careful inspection of large-scale photographs of Shapley-Ames galaxies seems to show a smooth transition between the morphological characteristics of galaxies located on the narrow red and on the broad blue sequences in the galaxian color-magnitude diagram. In other words, there does not appear to be a dichotomy between blue and red galaxies. Both the colors and the morphologies of galaxies are found to correlate strongly with their environments. Red and early-type Shapley-Ames galaxies are dominant in clusters, whereas blue late-type star-forming objects dominate the general field. Interestingly, the colors and morphologies of galaxies in small groups resemble the field and differ from those in clusters. As noted by Baade, the presence of dust and star formation are very closely correlated, except in a few galaxies that probably had unusual evolutionary histories. Over the entire range from S0 to Sc there is no significant difference between the integrated colors of normal and barred objects, suggesting that the formation of a bar does not significantly affect the stellar evolutionary history of a galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/122/621
- Title:
- Galaxy morphology in the CFRS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/122/621
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The images of 229 galaxies in the Canada-France Redshift Survey have been classified on the DDO system. These observations were combined with previous classifications of galaxies with known redshifts in the Hubble Deep Field. The combined sample provides homogeneous morphological classifications for 425 galaxies of known redshift. The fraction of all galaxies that are of type E, S0, or E/S0 appears to remain approximately constant at ~17% over the redshift range 0.25<z<1.2. Over the same range, the fraction of irregular (Ir) galaxies increases from ~5% to ~12%. Part of this increase may be due to mild luminosity evolution of Ir galaxies. The frequency of mergers is found to rise by a factor of 2 or 3 over the redshift range covered by the present survey. These results are in qualitative agreement with those obtained previously by Brinchmann et al. (Cat. <J/ApJ/499/112>) using a coarser galaxy classification system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/565/208
- Title:
- Galaxy pairs in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/565/208
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate redshift evolution in the galaxy merger and accretion rates, using a well-defined sample of 4184 galaxies with 0.12<=z<=0.55 and R_C_<=21.5. We identify 88 galaxies in close (5<=rp<=20h^-1^kpc) dynamical ({Delta}<=500km/s) pairs. These galaxies are used to compute global pair statistics, after accounting for selection effects resulting from the flux limit, k-corrections, luminosity evolution, and spectroscopic incompleteness.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/204
- Title:
- Galaxy properties at NGP
- Short Name:
- VII/204
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A two-color study of the galaxies detected on POSS-I in a 289deg^2^ region centered on the North Galactic Pole is presented. We use a variety of mapping techniques to characterize the large-scale spatial distribution of galaxies. The depth and sample size of this new survey allows, for the first time, the isolation of large photometric subsamples of galaxies in high- and low-density environments on the scale of superclusters. Our principal finding is a statistically significant difference between the mean photometric properties of these subsamples in the sense that galaxies in the high-density Coma and filament environments have redded colors and larger concentration indices than galaxies drawn from low-density interfilament regions. These results are in agreement with the known morphology-density relation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/236/207
- Title:
- Galaxy redshift catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/236/207
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present redshifts and blue magnitudes for a sample of 264 'field' galaxies virtually complete to a limiting magnitude of bj~=16.80mag. The galaxies were selected by sampling one galaxy in every three in order of apparent magnitude on each of nine high-latitude UK Schmidt (UKST) fields. Photometric data were provided by COSMOS machine measures of UKST plates, zero-pointed with CCD photometry. The spectral data came from observations with the 1.9-m telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), and the resulting radial velocities have a precision of ~+/-130km/s. This survey augments substantially the Durham/AAT redshift survey. In this paper we discuss the observational techniques and reduction procedures.
298. Galaxy Redshifts
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/36
- Title:
- Galaxy Redshifts
- Short Name:
- VII/36
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Catalog of Galaxy Redshifts was compiled by Dr. Rood to enter the most accurate redshift for each entry in the Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies below 15000 km/s, plus some fainter galaxies in the fields of rich clusters, plus some southern galaxies. The catalog is 99 percent complete for declinations north of -2.5deg and blue magnitude (Pmag) brighter than 13. The present documentation is mostly adapted from the "Documentation of the Machine-Readable Version of the Catalog of Galaxy Redshifts" by Theresa A. Nagy and Robert S. Hill, May 1981, prepared for NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, No SSD-T-5069-0013-81.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VI/143
- Title:
- Galaxy stellar mass assembly
- Short Name:
- VI/143
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Semi-analytical models (SAMs) are currently the best way to understand the formation of galaxies within the cosmic dark-matter structures. They are able to give a statistical view of the variety of the evolutionary histories of galaxies in terms of star formation and stellar mass assembly. While they reproduce the local stellar mass functions, correlation functions and luminosity functions fairly well, they fail to match observations at high redshift (z>=3) in most cases, particularly in the low-mass range. The inconsistency between models and observations indicates that the history of gas accretion in galaxies, within their host dark-matter halo, and the transformation of gas into stars, are not followed well. We briefly present a new version of the GalICS semi-analytical model. With this new model, we explore the impact of classical mechanisms, such as supernova feedback or photoionization, on the evolution of the stellar mass assembly and the star formation rate. Even with strong efficiency, these two processes cannot explain the observed stellar mass function and star formation rate distribution or the stellar mass versus dark matter halo mass relation. We thus introduce an ad hoc modification of the standard paradigm, based on the presence of a no-star-forming gas component, and a concentration of the star-forming gas in galaxy discs. The main idea behind the existence of the no-star-forming gas reservoir is that only a fraction of the total gas mass in a galaxy is available to form stars. The reservoir generates a delay between the accretion of the gas and the star formation process. This new model is in much better agreement with the observations of the stellar mass function in the low-mass range than the previous models and agrees quite well with a large set of observations, including the redshift evolution of the specific star formation rate. However, it predicts a large amount of no-star-forming baryonic gas, potentially larger than observed, even if its nature has still to be examined in the context of the missing baryon problem.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/125/2
- Title:
- Galaxy Zoo: A catalog of overlapping galaxy pairs
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/125/2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Analysis of galaxies with overlapping images offers a direct way to probe the distribution of dust extinction and its effects on the background light. We present a catalog of 1990 such galaxy pairs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by volunteers of the Galaxy Zoo project. We highlight subsamples which are particularly useful for retrieving such properties of the dust distribution as UV extinction, the extent perpendicular to the disk plane, and extinction in the inner parts of disks. The sample spans wide ranges of morphology and surface brightness, opening up the possibility of using this technique to address systematic changes in dust extinction or distribution with galaxy type. This sample will form the basis for forthcoming work on the ranges of dust distributions in local disk galaxies, both for their astrophysical implications and as the low-redshift part of a study of the evolution of dust properties. Separate lists and figures show deep overlaps, where the inner regions of the foreground galaxy are backlit, and the relatively small number of previously-known overlapping pairs outside the SDSS DR7 sky coverage.
