- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/214
- Title:
- APS Galaxies in the North Galactic Pole
- Short Name:
- VII/214
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (of PhD Thesis, from Minessota) I am using the Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner (APS) to construct two galaxy catalogs. The Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner Pisces-Perseus Survey (MAPS-PP) is used to search for modern-day remnant signatures of large-scale structure formation processes, specifically, galaxy alignments relative to surrounding large-scale structure. Weak evidence for such alignments is found, although the type of alignments seen don't strongly support any one large-scale structure formation model. Comparison of the MAPS-PP to pre-existing galaxy catalogs has led to the discovery that the Uppsala General Catalog and Third Reference Catalog of Galaxies exhibit a very strong measurement bias: their diameters are measured to different isophotes at different galaxy inclinations. Therefore previous determinations of the diameter function and the internal extinction properties of other galaxies (most of which have relied on one of these two galaxy catalogs) have suffered from a biased diameter measurement. I avoid this bias by using the APS data (which is obtained using automated computer-based criteria for measuring the structural properties of images digitized from photographic plates) to construct a catalog of over 200,000 galaxies within 30 degrees of the North Galactic Pole (the MAPS-NGP). The MAPS-NGP is the deepest galaxy catalog constructed over such a large area of the sky and used to re-evaluate previous investigations of the internal extinction in galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/125/409
- Title:
- Arcsecond positions of UGC galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/125/409
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present accurate B1950 and J2000 positions for all confirmed galaxies in the Uppsala General Catalog (UGC, Cat. <VII/26>). The positions were measured visually from Digitized Sky Survey images with rms uncertainties {sigma}<=[(1.2")^2^+({theta}/100)^2^]^1/2^, where is the major-axis diameter. We compared each galaxy measured with the original UGC description to ensure high reliability. The full position list is available in the electronic version only. the major-axis diameter. We compared each galaxy measured with the original UGC description to ensure high reliability. The full position list is available in the electronic version only.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/425/2116
- Title:
- Arizona CDFS Environment Survey, ACES
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/425/2116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Arizona CDFS Environment Survey (ACES), a recently completed spectroscopic redshift survey of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS) conducted using the Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph on the Magellan-Baade telescope. In total, the survey targeted 7277 unique sources down to a limiting magnitude of R_AB_=24.1, yielding 5080 secure redshifts across the ~30'x30' extended CDFS region. The ACES data set delivers a significant increase to both the spatial coverage and the sampling density of the spectroscopic observations in the field. Combined with previously published spectroscopic redshifts, ACES now creates a highly complete survey of the galaxy population at R<23, enabling the local galaxy density (or environment) on relatively small scales (~1Mpc) to be measured at z<1 in one of the most heavily studied and data-rich fields in the sky. Here, we describe the motivation, design and implementation of the survey and present a preliminary redshift and environment catalogue. In addition, we utilize the ACES spectroscopic redshift catalogue to assess the quality of photometric redshifts from both the COMBO-17 and Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile imaging surveys of the CDFS.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/192
- Title:
- Arp's Peculiar Galaxies
- Short Name:
- VII/192
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Halton C. Arp photographed 338 views of notable peculiar galaxies and published them as his 1966 "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies." Since then, galaxy catalogs have named 585 of the involved galaxies. This contemporary index collects names and characteristics of the involved objects for use by contemporary observers of the historical views.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A121
- Title:
- ARRAKIS: Atlas of Resonance Rings as Known In S4G
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Resonance rings and pseudorings (here collectively called "rings") are thought to be related to the gathering of material near dynamical resonances caused by non-axisymmetries in galaxy discs. Therefore, they are the consequence of secular evolution processes that redistribute material and angular momentum in discs. Their study may give clues on the formation and growth of bars and other disc non-axisymmetries. Our aims are to produce a Catalogue and an Atlas of the rings detected in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) and to conduct a statistical study of the data in the Catalogue. We traced the contours of rings previously identified by Buta et al. (in preparation) and fitted them with ellipses. We found the orientation of bars by studying the galaxy ellipse fits from S4G's Pipeline4. We used the galaxy orientation data obtained by S4G's Pipeline 4 to obtain intrinsic ellipticities and orientations of rings and the bars. ARRAKIS contains data on 724 ringed galaxies in the S4G. The frequency of resonance rings in the S4G is of 16+/-1% and 35+/-1% for outer and inner features, respectively. Outer rings are mostly found in Hubble stages -1<=T<=4. Inner rings are found in a broad distribution that covers the range -1<=T<=7. We confirm that outer rings have two preferred orientations, namely parallel and perpendicular to the bar. We confirm a tendency for inner rings to be oriented parallel to the bar, but we report the existence of a significant fraction (maybe as large as 50%) of inner features that have random orientations with respect to the bar. These misaligned inner rings are mostly found in late-type galaxies (T>=4). We find that the fraction of barred galaxies hosting outer (inner) rings is ~1.7 times (~1.3 times) that in unbarred galaxies. We confirm several results from previous surveys, as well as predictions from simulations of resonant rings and/or from manifold flux tube theory. We report that a significant fraction of inner rings in late-type galaxies have a random orientation with respect to the bar. This may be due to spiral modes decoupled from the bar dominating the Fourier amplitude spectrum at the radius of the inner ring. The fact that rings are only mildly favoured by bars suggests that those in unbarred galaxies either formed due to weak departures from the axisymmetry of the galactic potential or that they are born because of bars that have been destroyed after the ring formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/518/656
- Title:
- ASCA Large Sky Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/518/656
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We carried out the first wide-area unbiased survey with the ASCA satellite in the 0.7-10keV band around a north Galactic-pole region covering a continuous area of 7deg^2^ (Large Sky Survey; LSS). To make the best use of ASCA's capabilities, we developed a new source-detection method in which the complicated detector responses are fully taken into account. Applying this method to the entire LSS data independently in the total (0.7-7keV), hard (2-10keV), and soft (0.7-2keV) bands, we detected 107 sources altogether, with sensitivity limits of 6x10^-14^ (0.7-7keV), 1x10^-13^ (2-10keV), and 2x10^-14^ergs/s/cm^2^ (0.7-2keV), respectively. A complete list of the detected sources is presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/649/A22
- Title:
- ASTRODEEP-GS43 catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/649/A22
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ASTRODEEP-GS43, a new multiwavelength photometric catalogue of the GOODS-South field, which builds and improves upon the previously released CANDELS catalogue. We provide photometric fluxes and corresponding uncertainties in 43 optical and infrared bands (25 wide and 18 medium filters), as well as photometric redshifts and physical properties of the 34930 CANDELS H-detected objects, plus an additional sample of 178 H-dropout sources, of which 173 are Ks-detected and 5 IRAC-detected. We keep the CANDELS photometry in 7 bands (CTIOU, Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 and ISAAC-K), and measure from scratch the fluxes in the other 36 (VIMOS, HST ACS, HAWK-I Ks, Spitzer IRAC, and 23 from Subaru SuprimeCAM and Magellan-Baade Fourstar) with state-of-the-art techniques of template-fitting. We then compute new photometric redshifts with three different software tools, and take the median value as best estimate. We finally evaluate new physical parameters from SED fitting, comparing them to previously published ones. Comparing to a sample of 3931 high quality spectroscopic redshifts, for the new photo-z's we obtain a normalized median absolute deviation (NMAD) of 0.015 with 3.01% of outliers (0.011, 0.22% on the bright end at I_814_<22.5), similarly to the best available published samples of photometric redshifts, such as the COSMOS UltraVISTA catalogue. The ASTRODEEP-GS43 results are in qualitative agreement with previously published catalogues of the GOODS-South field, improving on them particularly in terms of SED sampling and photometric redshift estimates. The catalogue is available for download from the Astrodeep website.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/618/A80
- Title:
- Astrometric classification of 647 VLBI sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/618/A80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the result of our Allan standard deviation based classification according to their astrometric stability. The classification is divided into three categories (stable sources, intermediate sources, unstable sources). Stability of sources is qualified by the astrometric behavior of the source. This determines in which category the source falls into. Then, stability of the source is also quantified by a stability index (two are proposed in the table). Those indexes enable to order sources in each category of the classification.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PBeiO/32.87
- Title:
- Astrometric observations of radio stars
- Short Name:
- J/other/PBeiO/32
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the data observed in San Juan with the photoelectric Astrolabe Mark II of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory from February, 1992 through March, 1997, the radio stars catalogue in San Juan (RSSJ95) has been compiled. There are 69 radio stars in this catalogue. The Positions of the radio stars are for the epoch of observation and the equinox J2000.0 and a system close that of the system FK5. The mean precisions are +/-2.2ms and +/-0.035" in right ascensions and declinations, respectively. The magnitudes of stars are from 0.9 to 10.7. The declinations are from -2.5{deg} to -60{deg}. The mean epoch is 1995.1. Finally, the comparison results with Hipparcos catalogue and CAMC are given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/63
- Title:
- ATESP radio survey. II.
- Short Name:
- VIII/63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ATESP survey is a radio survey accomplished with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 1.4 GHz over a region of 26 square degrees centered at -40 and ranging in RA from 22h30m to 01h15m. The survey consists of 16 radio mosaics with 8x14 arcsec resolution and uniform sensitivity (1 sigma noise = 79 microJy). The final 6 sigmas catalogue contains 2960 sources down to a detection limit of 0.5 mJy. This region is superposed to the redshift survey ESO Slice Project (ESP) and is partly covered by the EIS survey (Patch A; see Cat. J/A+AS/130/323). Table 3 summarizes the main parameters for the final 16 mosaics: for each mosaic are listed the number of fields composing it (columns x rows), the tangent point (sky position used for geometry calculations) and the synthesized beam (size and position angle). The spatial resolution can vary from mosaic to mosaic depending on the particular array (6A, 6C or 6D) used in the observations. The mean value for the synthesized beam is 8"x14". The last three columns of Table 3 show the results of the noise analysis. For each mosaic we report the minimum (negative) flux (S_min) recorded on the image (typically |S_min| is of the order of 0.5 mJy, corresponding to the value at which we have stopped the cleaning) and the noise level. This has been evaluated either as the FWHM of the Gaussian fit to the flux distribution of the pixels (in the range +/-S_min), in order to check for correlated noise (sigma_fit), or as the standard deviation of the average flux in several source-free sub-regions of the mosaics, in order to verify uniformity (<sigma>).
