- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/787/102
- Title:
- Isophotal shapes of early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/787/102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on a study of the isophotal shapes of early-type galaxies to very faint levels, reaching ~0.1% of the sky brightness. The galaxies are from the Large Format Camera (LFC) fields obtained using the Palomar 5 m Hale Telescope, with integrated exposures ranging from 1 to 4 hr in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey r, i, and z bands. The shapes of isophotes of early-type galaxies are important, as they are correlated with the physical properties of the galaxies and are influenced by galaxy formation processes. In this paper, we report on a sample of 132 E and SO galaxies in one LFC field. We have redshifts for 53 of these, obtained using AAOmega on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The shapes of early-type galaxies often vary with radius. We derive average values of isophotal shape parameters in four different radial bins along the semi-major axis in each galaxy. We obtain empirical fitting formulae for the probability distribution of the isophotal parameters in each bin and investigate for possible correlations with other global properties of the galaxies. Our main finding is that the isophotal shapes of the inner regions are statistically different from those in the outer regions. This suggests that the outer and inner parts of early-type galaxies have evolved somewhat independently.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/492
- Title:
- JCMT/SCUBA2 objects in COSMOS and UDS fields
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/492
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present physical properties [redshifts (z), star-formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses (M*)] of bright (S_850_>=4mJy) submm galaxies in the ~=2deg^2^ COSMOS and UDS fields selected with SCUBA-2/JCMT. We complete the galaxy identification process for all (~=2000) S/N>=3.5 850-{mu}m sources, but focus our scientific analysis on a high-quality subsample of 651 S/N>=4 sources with complete multiwavelength coverage including 1.1-mm imaging. We check the reliability of our identifications, and the robustness of the SCUBA-2 fluxes by revisiting the recent ALMA follow-up of 29 sources in our sample. Considering >4mJy ALMA sources, our identification method has a completeness of ~=86 per cent with a reliability of ~=92 per cent, and only ~=15-20 per cent of sources are significantly affected by multiplicity (when a secondary component contributes >1/3 of the primary source flux). The impact of source blending on the 850-{mu}m source counts as determined with SCUBA-2 is modest; scaling the single-dish fluxes by ~=0.9 reproduces the ALMA source counts. For our final SCUBA-2 sample, we find median z=2.40^+0.10^_-0.04_, SFR=287+/-6M_{sun}_/yr and log(M*/M_{sun)_=11.12+/-0.02 (the latter for 349/651 sources with optical identifications). These properties clearly locate bright submm galaxies on the high-mass end of the 'main sequence' of star-forming galaxies out to z~= 6, suggesting that major mergers are not a dominant driver of the high-redshift submm-selected population. Their number densities are also consistent with the evolving galaxy stellar mass function. Hence, the submm galaxy population is as expected, albeit reproducing the evolution of the main sequence of star-forming galaxies remains a challenge for theoretical models/simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/300
- Title:
- JMMC Stellar Diameters Catalogue - JSDC
- Short Name:
- II/300
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue contains stellar angular diameter estimate for bright stars, complete for all stars with Hipparcos parallaxes. The JMMC Calibrator Workgroup has long developed methods to estimate the angular diameter of stars, and provides this expertise in the SearchCal software (http://www.jmmc.fr/searchcal). "SearchCal" creates a dynamical catalogue of stars suitable to calibrate Optical Long-Baseline Interferometry (OLBI) observations from on-line queries of CDS catalogues, according to observational parameters. In essence, SearchCal is limited only by the completeness of the stellar catalogues it uses, and in particular is not limited in magnitude. SearchCal being an application centered on OLBI peculiar purposes, it appeared useful to publish the estimated angular diameters of all stars with known parallaxes in a static catalogue. The present catalogue of stellar angular diameters has been obtained from an automated SearchCal results aggregation on the whole celestial sphere. For each star, the value of the limb-darkened angular diameters are computed using a surface brightness method and calibrations for (B-V), (V-R) and (V-K) color indexes. Stars whose angular diameters estimated from the various color indexes are not comparable, are rejected, and a reliable error on the estimated diameter is computed (1). For details of the method see Bonneau et al. (2006A&A...456..789B). To avoid specific confusion problems, spectroscopic binaries in the 9th Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (Pourbaix et al., 2009, Cat. B/sb9) or close visual binaries with a separation of less than 2 arc seconds in the Washington Visual Double Star Catalog (Mason et al., 2001, Cat. B/wds) have been filtered out.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/346
- Title:
- JMMC Stellar Diameters Catalogue - JSDC. Version 2
- Short Name:
- II/346
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalogue contains stellar angular diameter estimates for nearly all the stars of the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogue that have an associated spectral type in Simbad/CDS. The median error on the diameters is around 1.5%, with possible biases of around ~2%. For each object, the limb-darkened diameter retained is the mean value of several estimates performed using different couples of photometries. The chi-square representing the dispersion between these values is also given (it is below 2 for ~400000 stars). An additional flag signals stars that could represent a risk if chosen as calibrators for Optical Long-Baseline Interferometry, independently of the correctness of their apparent diameter estimate. This catalog replaces the catalog II/300/jsdc .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A149
- Title:
- J-PLUS Ly{alpha}-emitting candidates
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the photometric determination of the bright-end of the Ly{alpha} luminosity function (at L_Ly{alpha}_>~10^43.5^erg/s) within four redshifts windows ({Delta}z<0.16) in the interval 2.2<~z<~3.3. Our work is based on the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) first data-release, which provides multiple narrow-band measurements over ~1000deg^2^, with limiting magnitude ~22. Theanalysis of high-z Ly{alpha}-emitting sources over such a wide area is unprecedented, and allows to select a total of ~14500 hyper-bright(L_Ly{alpha}_>10^43.3^erg/s) Ly{alpha}-emitting candidates. We test our selection with two spectroscopic follow-up programs at the GTC telescope,which confirm as line-emitting sources ~89% of the targets, with ~64% being genuine z~2.2 QSOs. We extend the 2.2<~z<~3.3 Ly{alpha} luminosity function for the first time above L_Ly{alpha}_~10^44^erg/s and down to densities of ~10^-8^Mpc^-3^. Our results unveil with high detail the Schechter exponential-decay of the brightest-end of the Ly{alpha} LF, complementing the power-law component of previous LF determinations at 43.3<~Log10(L_Ly{alpha}_/(erg/s))<~44. We measure {PHI}*=(3.33+/-0.19)x10^-6^, Log(L*)=44.65+/-0.65 and {alpha}=-1.35+/-0.84 as an average over the redshifts we probe. These values are significantly different than the typical Schechter parameters measured for the Ly{alpha} LF of high-z star-forming LAEs. This suggests that z>2 AGN/QSOs (likely dominant in our samples) are described by a structurally different LF than z>2 star-forming LAEs, namely with L*_QSOs_~100 L*_LAEs_ and {PHI}*_QSOs_~10^-3^{PHI}*_LAEs_. Finally, our method identifies very efficiently as high-z line-emitters sources without previous spectroscopic confirmation, currently classified as stars (~2000 objects in each redshift bin, on average). Assuming a large predominance of Ly{alpha}-emitting AGN/QSOs in our samples, this supports the scenario by which these are the most abundant class of z>~2 Ly{alpha} emitters at L_Ly{alpha}_>~10^43.3^erg/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/254
- Title:
- Kazarian galaxies catalog
- Short Name:
- VII/254
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The entire KG (KG) catalog is presented which combines extensive new measurements of their optical parameters with a literature and database search. The measurements were made using images extracted from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) of Jpg(blue), Fpg(red) and Ipg(NIR) band photographic sky survey plates obtained by the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. We provide accurate coordinates, morphological type, spectral and activity classes, blue apparent diameters, axial ratios, position angles, red, blue and NIR apparent magnitudes, as well as counts of neighboring objects in a circle of radius 50kpc from centers of KG. Special attention was paid to the individual descriptions of the galaxies in the original Kazarian lists, which clarified many cases of misidentifications of the objects, particularly among interacting systems. The total number of individual Kazarian objects in the database is now 706. We also include the redshifts which are now available for 404 galaxies, and the 2MASS infrared magnitudes for 598 KG. The database also includes extensive notes, which summarize information about the membership of KG in different systems of galaxies, and about revised activity classes and redshifts. An atlas of several interesting subclasses of KG is also presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/560/566
- Title:
- K-band galaxy luminosity function from 2MASS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/560/566
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measured the K-band luminosity function using a complete sample of 4192 morphologically typed 2MASS galaxies with {mu}_Ks_=20mag/arcsec^2^ isophotal magnitudes 7<K_20_<11.25mag spread over 2.12sr.
418. KiDS-BEXGO catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A56
- Title:
- KiDS-BEXGO catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Within a Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Strongly lensed QUAsar Detection project (KiDS-SQuaD), we built a catalogue of bright extragalactic objects from the KiDS DR4, with the main objective to select the reliable gravitationally lensed quasar candidates. We used machine learning algorithm, trained on Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR14 data, to classify sources from subsample (r<22mag) of KiDS DR4 on three classes: stars, quasars and galaxies. Resulting KiDS Bright EXtraGalactic Objects catalogue (KiDS-BEXGO) contains ~6M galaxies and ~0.2M quasars. KiDS-BEXGO represents the first comprehensive identification of bright extragalactic objects in the KiDS DR4 data.
419. KiDS DR3 QSO catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/624/A13
- Title:
- KiDS DR3 QSO catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/624/A13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of quasars selected from broad-band photometric ugri data of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3 (KiDS DR3). The QSOs are identified by the random forest (RF) supervised machine learning model, trained on Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR14 spectroscopic data. We first cleaned the input KiDS data of entries with excessively noisy, missing or otherwise problematic measurements. Applying a feature importance analysis, we then tune the algorithm and identify in the KiDS multiband catalog the 17 most useful features for the classification, namely magnitudes, colors, magnitude ratios, and the stellarity index. We used the t-SNE algorithm to map the multidimensional photometric data onto 2D planes and compare the coverage of the training and inference sets. We limited the inference set to r<22 to avoid extrapolation beyond the feature space covered by training, as the SDSS spectroscopic sample is considerably shallower than KiDS. This gives 3.4 million objects in the final inference sample, from which the random forest identified 190,000 quasar candidates. Accuracy of 97% (percentage of correctly classified objects), purity of 91% (percentage of true quasars within the objects classified as such), and completeness of 87% (detection ratio of all true quasars), as derived from a test set extracted from SDSS and not used in the training, are confirmed by comparison with external spectroscopic and photometric QSO catalogs overlapping with the KiDS footprint. The robustness of our results is strengthened by number counts of the quasar candidates in the r band, as well as by their mid-infrared colors available from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). An analysis of parallaxes and proper motions of our QSO candidates found also in Gaia DR2 suggests that a probability cut of pQSO>0.8 is optimal for purity, whereas pQSO>0.7 is preferable for better completeness. Our study presents the first comprehensive quasar selection from deep high-quality KiDS data and will serve as the basis for versatile studies of the QSO population detected by this survey. We publicly release the resulting catalog at http://kids.strw.leidenuniv.nl/DR3/quasarcatalog.php, and the code at https://github.com/snakoneczny/kids-quasars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/347
- Title:
- KiDS-ESO-DR3 multi-band source catalog
- Short Name:
- II/347
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an ongoing optical wide-field imaging survey with the OmegaCAM camera at the VLT Survey Telescope. It aims to image 1500 square degrees in four filters (ugri). The core science driver is mapping the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe, using weak lensing shear and photometric redshift measurements. Further science cases include galaxy evolution, Milky Way structure, detection of high-redshift clusters, and finding rare sources such as strong lenses and quasars. Here we present the third public data release (DR3) and several associated data products, adding further area, homogenized photometric calibration, photometric redshifts and weak lensing shear measurements to the first two releases. A dedicated pipeline embedded in the Astro-WISE information system is used for the production of the main release. Modifications with respect to earlier releases are described in detail. Photometric redshifts have been derived using both Bayesian template fitting, and machine-learning techniques. For the weak lensing measurements, optimized procedures based on the THELI data reduction and lensfit shear measurement packages are used. The multi-band catalogue, including homogenized photometry and photometric redshifts, covers the combined DR1, DR2 and DR3 footprint of 440 survey tiles (447deg^2^). Limiting magnitudes are typically 24.3, 25.1, 24.9, 23.8 (5 sigma in a 2 arcsec aperture) in ugri, respectively, and the typical r-band PSF size is less than 0.7 arcsec. The photometric homogenization scheme ensures accurate colors and an absolute calibration stable to ~2% for gri and ~3% in u. Separately released are a weak lensing shear catalogue and photometric redshifts based on two different machine-learning techniques.
