- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/615/A76
- Title:
- Spectroscopic parameters of stars (SPECIES). I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/615/A76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The detection and subsequent characterisation of exoplanets are intimately linked to the characteristics of their host star. Therefore, it is necessary to study the star in detail in order to understand the formation history and characteristics of their companion(s). Our aims are to develop a community tool that allows the automated calculation of stellar parameters for a large number of stars, using high resolution echelle spectra and minimal photometric magnitudes, and introduce the first catalogue of these measurements in this work. We measured the equivalent widths of several iron lines and used them to solve the radiative transfer equation assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium in order to obtain the atmospheric parameters (Teff, [Fe/H], logg, and {xi}_t). We then used these values to derive the abundance of 11 chemical elements in the stellar photosphere (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Zn). Rotation and macroturbulent velocity were obtained using temperature calibrators and synthetic line profiles to match the observed spectra isochrones, we were able to derive the mass, radius, and age for each star using a Bayesian approach. SPECIES obtains bulk parameters that are in good agreement with measured values from different existing catalogues, including when different methods are used to derive them. We find discrepancies in the chemical abundances for some elements with respect to other works, which could be produced by differences in Teff, or in the line list or the atomic line data used to derive them. We also obtained analytic relations to describe the correlations between different parameters, and we implemented new methods to better handle these correlations, which provides a better description of the uncertainties associated with the measurements.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/29
- Title:
- Spectroscopic redshifts in strong lens fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/219/29
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the spectroscopic redshift catalog from a wide-field survey of the fields of 28 galaxy-mass strong gravitational lenses. We discuss the acquisition and reduction of the survey data, collected over 40 nights of 6.5m MMT and Magellan time, employing four different multiobject spectrographs. We determine that no biases are introduced by combining data sets obtained with different telescope and spectrograph combinations. Special care is taken to determine redshift uncertainties using repeat observations. The redshift catalog consists of 9768 new and unique galaxy redshifts. 82.4% of the catalog redshifts are between z=0.1 and z=0.7, and the catalog median redshift is z_med_=0.36. The data from this survey will be used to study the lens environments and line-of-sight structures to gain a better understanding of the effects of large-scale structure on lens statistics and lens-derived parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/7
- Title:
- Spectroscopic survey of WISE-selected sources
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/143/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (|b|>=30{deg}) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 ({lambda}_eff_=3.4{mu}m) flux, which we use to characterize the sources WISE detected. We observed 762 targets in 10 disjoint fields centered on ultraluminous infrared galaxy candidates using DEIMOS on Keck II. We find 0.30+/-0.02 galaxies arcmin^-2^ with a median redshift of z=0.33+/-0.01 for the sample with W1>=120{mu}Jy. The foreground stellar densities in our survey range from 0.23+/-0.07arcmin^-2^ to 1.1+/-0.1arcmin^-2^ for the same sample. We obtained spectra that produced science grade redshifts for >=90% of our targets for sources with W1 flux >=120{mu}Jy that also had an i-band flux >=18{mu}Jy. We used this for targeting very preliminary data reductions available to the team in 2010 August. Our results therefore present a conservative estimate of what is possible to achieve using WISE's Preliminary Data Release for the study of field galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/659/84
- Title:
- Spectroscopy and photometry of z~=5 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/659/84
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new measurement of the integrated stellar mass per comoving volume at redshift 5 determined via spectral energy fitting drawn from a sample of 214 photometrically selected galaxies with z'_850LP_<26.5 in the southern GOODS field. Following recent procedures introduced by Eyles et al. (2007MNRAS.374..910E), we estimate stellar masses for various subsamples for which reliable and unconfused Spitzer IRAC detections are available. A spectroscopic sample of 14 of the most luminous sources with z{bar}=4.92 provides a firm lower limit to the stellar mass density of 1x10^6^M_{sun}_/Mpc^3^. We then consider a larger sample whose photometric redshifts in the publicly available GOODS-MUSIC catalog lie in the range 4.4<z<5.6.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/116/2738
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/116/2738
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present central velocity dispersion measurements for 325 early-type galaxies in eight clusters and groups of galaxies, including new observations for 212 galaxies. The clusters and groups are the A262, A1367, Coma (A1656), A2634, Cancer, and Pegasus Clusters and the NGC 383 and NGC 507 Groups. The new measurements were derived from medium-dispersion spectra that cover 600{AA} centered on the Mg I b triplet at {lambda}~5175{AA}. Velocity dispersions were measured using the Tonry & Davis (1979AJ.....84.1511T) cross-correlation method, with a typical accuracy of 6%. A detailed comparison with other data sources is made.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/546/A2
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of HII regions in nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/546/A2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work we analyze the spectroscopic properties of a large number of HII regions, ~2600, located in 38 galaxies. The sample of galaxies has been assembled from the face-on spirals in the PINGS survey and a sample described in Marmol-Queralto (2011A&A...534A...8M). All the galaxies were observed using Integral Field Spectroscopy with a similar setup, covering their optical extension up to ~2.4 effective radii within a wavelength range from ~3700 to ~6900{AA}. We develop a new automatic procedure to detect HII regions, based on the contrast of the H{alpha} intensity maps extracted from the datacubes. Once detected, the procedure provides us with the integrated spectra of each individual segmented region. In total, we derive good quality spectroscopic information for ~2600 independent HII regions/complexes. This is by far the largest nearby 2-dimensional spectroscopic survey presented on this kind of regions up-to-date. Even more, our selection criteria and dataset guarantee that we cover the regions in an unbiased way, regarding the spatial sampling. A well-tested automatic decoupling procedure has been applied to remove the underlying stellar population, deriving the main properties (intensity, dispersion and velocity) of the strongest emission lines in the considered wavelength range (covering from [OII]3727 to [SII]6731). A final catalogue of the spectroscopic properties of these regions has been created for each galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/618/A85
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of 3<z<4 quiescent galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/618/A85
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Keck-MOSFIRE H and K spectra for a sample of 24 candidate quiescent galaxies at 3<z<4, identified from their rest-frame UVJ colors and photometric redshifts in the ZFOURGE and 3DHST surveys. With median integration times of one hour in H and five in K, we obtain spectroscopic redshifts for half of the sample, using either Balmer absorption lines or nebular emission lines. We confirm the high accuracy of the photometric redshifts for this spectroscopically-confirmed sample, with a median |Zphot-Zspec|/(1+Zspec) of 1.2%. Two galaxies turn out to be dusty H{alpha} emitters at lower redshifts (z<2.5), and these are the only two detected in the sub-mm with ALMA. High equivalent-width [OIII] emission is observed in two galaxies, contributing up to 30% of the K-band flux and mimicking the UVJ colors of an old stellar population. This implies a failure rate of only 20% for the UVJ selection at these redshifts. Lastly, Balmer absorption features are identified in four galaxies, among the brightest of the sample, confirming the absence of OB stars. We then modeled the spectra and photometry of all quiescent galaxies with a wide range of star-formation histories. We find specific star-formation rates (sSFR) lower than 0.15Gyr^-1^ (a factor of ten below the main sequence) for all but one galaxy, and lower than 0.01Gyr^-1^ for half of the sample. These values are consistent with the observed H{beta} and [OII] luminosities, and the ALMA non-detections. The implied formation histories reveal that these galaxies have quenched on average 300Myr prior to being observed, between z=3.5 and 5, and that half of their stars were formed by z~5.5 with a mean SFR~300M_{sun}_/yr. We finally compared the UVJ selection to a selection based instead on the sSFR, as measured from the photometry. We find that galaxies a factor of ten below the main sequence are 40% more numerous than UVJ-selected quiescent galaxies, implying that the UVJ selection is pure but incomplete. Current models fail at reproducing our observations, and underestimate either the number density of quiescent galaxies by more than an order of magnitude, or the duration of their quiescence by a factor two. Overall, these results confirm the existence of an unexpected population of quiescent galaxies at z>3, and offer the first insights on their formation histories.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/633/174
- Title:
- Spheroidals and bulge dominated galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/633/174
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive catalog of high signal-to-noise ratio spectra obtained with DEIMOS on the Keck II telescope for a sample of F850LP<22.43mag(AB) field spheroidal (E+S0 galaxies; 165) and bulge-dominated disk (61) galaxies in the redshift range 0.2<z<1.2, selected on the basis of visual morphology from the northern field of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS-N). We discuss sample selection, photometric properties, and spectral reduction. We derive scale lengths, surface brightnesses, and photometric inhomogeneities from the ACS data and redshifts, stellar velocity dispersions, and [OII] and H{delta} equivalent widths from the Keck spectroscopy. Using the published 2Ms Chandra Deep Field-North X-ray catalog (Cat. <J/AJ/126/632>), we identify active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to clarify the origin of emission lines seen in the Keck spectra.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/123/2223
- Title:
- SPICES II: CHANDRA observations of Lynx
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/123/2223
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present our first results on field X-ray sources detected in a deep, 184.7ks observation with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-I) on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The observations target the Lynx field (RA=08h48min, DE=+44{deg}54') of SPICES, the Spectroscopic Photometric Infrared-Chosen Extragalactic Survey, which contains three known X-ray-emitting clusters at redshifts of z=0.57, 1.26, and 1.27. Not including the known clusters, in the 17'x17' ACIS-I field we detect 132 sources in the 0.5-2keV (soft) X-ray band down to a limiting flux of ~1.7x10^-16^ergs/cm^2^/s and 11 sources in the 2-10keV (hard) X-ray band down to a limiting flux of ~1.3x10^-15^ergs/cm^2^/s. The combined catalog contains a total of 153 sources, of which 42 are detected only in the soft band and 21 are detected only in the hard band. Confirming previous Chandra results, we find that the fainter sources have harder X-ray spectra, providing a consistent solution to the long-standing "spectral paradox." From deep optical and near-infrared follow-up data, 77% of the X-ray sources have optical counterparts to I=24, and 71% of the X-ray sources have near-infrared counterparts to Ks=20. Four of the 24 sources in the near-IR field are associated with extremely red objects (EROs; I-Ks>=4). We have obtained spectroscopic redshifts with the Keck telescopes of 18 of the Lynx Chandra sources. These sources comprise a mix of broad-lined active galaxies, apparently normal galaxies, and two late-type Galactic dwarfs. Intriguingly, one Galactic source is identified with an M7 dwarf exhibiting nontransient, hard X-ray emission. Thirteen of the Chandra sources are located within regions for which we have Hubble Space Telescope imaging. Nine of the sources are detected, showing a range of morphologies: several show compact cores embedded within diffuse emission, while others are spatially extended showing typical galaxy morphologies. Two of the Chandra sources in this subsample appear to be associated with mergers. We briefly review non-active galactic nucleus mechanisms to produce X-ray emission and discuss properties of the Lynx Chandra sample in relation to other samples of X-ray and non-X-ray sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/122/1397
- Title:
- Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/122/1397
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S^4^G) is an Exploration Science Legacy Program approved for the Spitzer post-cryogenic mission. It is a volume-, magnitude-, and size-limited (d<40Mpc, |b|>30{deg}, m_Bcorr_<15.5, and D_25_>1') survey of 2331 galaxies using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) at 3.6 and 4.5um. Each galaxy is observed for 240s and mapped to >=1.5D_25_. The final mosaicked images have a typical 1sigma rms noise level of 0.0072 and 0.0093MJy/sr at 3.6 and 4.5um, respectively. Our azimuthally averaged surface brightness profile typically traces isophotes at {mu}_3.6um_(AB)(1sigma)~27mag/arcsec^2^, equivalent to a stellar mass surface density of ~1M_{sun}_/pc^2^. thus provides an unprecedented data set for the study of the distribution of mass and stellar structures in the local universe. This large, unbiased, and extremely deep sample of all Hubble types from dwarfs to spirals to ellipticals will allow for detailed structural studies, not only as a function of stellar mass, but also as a function of the local environment. This article introduces the survey and describes the sample selection, the significance of the 3.6 and 4.5um bands for this study, and the data collection and survey strategies.
