- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/705/1099
- Title:
- The Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey. IX.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/705/1099
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the current photometric data set for the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey, including Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry from Advanced Camera for Surveys, WFPC2, and NICMOS. These data have enabled the confirmation of an additional 15 grade "A" (certain) lens systems, bringing the number of SLACS grade "A" lenses to 85; including 13 grade "B" (likely) systems, SLACS has identified nearly 100 lenses and lens candidates. Approximately 80% of the grade "A" systems have elliptical morphologies while ~10% show spiral structure; the remaining lenses have lenticular morphologies. Spectroscopic redshifts for the lens and source are available for every system, making SLACS the largest homogeneous data set of galaxy-scale lenses to date. The ensemble properties of the SLACS lens galaxies, e.g., stellar masses and projected ellipticities, appear to be indistinguishable from other SDSS galaxies with similar stellar velocity dispersions. This further supports that SLACS lenses are representative of the overall population of massive early-type galaxies with M_*_>~10^11^M_{sun}_, and are therefore an ideal data set to investigate the kpc-scale distribution of luminous and dark matter in galaxies out to z~0.5.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/670
- Title:
- The Sloan lens ACS Survey. VIII.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/690/670
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the relation between the internal structure of early-type galaxies and their environment using 70 strong gravitational lenses from the SLACS Survey. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database is used to determine two measures of overdensity of galaxies around each lens - the projected number density of galaxies inside the tenth nearest neighbor ({Sigma}_10_) and within a cone of radius 1h^-1^Mpc (D1).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/741/79
- Title:
- The Spitzer-SDSS-GALEX Spectroscopic Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/741/79
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Spitzer-SDSS-GALEX Spectroscopic Survey (SSGSS) provides a new sample of 101 star-forming galaxies at z<0.2 with unprecedented multi-wavelength coverage. New mid- to far-infrared spectroscopy from the Spitzer Space Telescope is added to a rich suite of previous imaging and spectroscopy, including ROSAT, Galaxy Evolution Explorer, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Two Micron All Sky Survey, and Spitzer/SWIRE. Sample selection ensures an even coverage of the full range of normal galaxy properties, spanning two orders of magnitude in stellar mass, color, and dust attenuation. In this paper we present the SSGSS data set, describe the science drivers, and detail the sample selection, observations, data reduction, and quality assessment.
894. The SSRS2 Sample
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/108/1987
- Title:
- The SSRS2 Sample
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/108/1987
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we continue our investigation on the isophotal nature, accuracy, and uniformity of the magnitude system adopted in the Southern Sky Redshift Survey extension (SSRS2). Extending our earlier work, we examine galaxies in the equatorial region, primarily in the declination range -17.5 deg <= Dec. <= 0 deg, over a large range of right ascension, covering the southern and northern Galactic caps. For this purpose, we have obtained CCD isophotal magnitudes in the B and R bands for 265 galaxies of different morphological types. Using this larger sample we confirm our earlier claim that the m(SSRS2) magnitudes are very nearly the magnitude measured within the isophote mu_B = 26 mag/arcsec^2, with a dispersion of about 0.30 mag. The relative zero-point offset between our m(SSRS2) magnitudes and CCD photometry is -0.02 mag from all data we have obtained. However, we detect a variation of the zero-point across different regions of the sky of +/- 0.10 mag for regions at large angular separations. We also estimate that the zero-point offset between the m(SSRS2) and Zwicky systems is relatively small (~0.10 mag), which should allow us to combine the data from the SSRS2 and the CfA2 Redshift Survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/250
- Title:
- The VIMOS VLT deep survey (VVDS-DEEP)
- Short Name:
- III/250
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/750/97
- Title:
- The yellow and red supergiants of M33
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/750/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Yellow and red supergiants are evolved massive stars whose numbers and locations on the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram can provide a stringent test for models of massive star evolution. Previous studies have found large discrepancies between the relative number of yellow supergiants (YSGs) observed as a function of mass and those predicted by evolutionary models, while a disagreement between the predicted and observed locations of red supergiants (RSGs) on the H-R diagram was only recently resolved. Here, we extend these studies by examining the YSG and RSG populations of M33. Unfortunately, identifying these stars is difficult as this portion of the color-magnitude diagram is heavily contaminated by foreground dwarfs. We identify the RSGs through a combination of radial velocities and a two-color surface gravity discriminant, and after re-characterizing the rotation curve of M33 with our newly selected RSGs, we identify the YSGs through a combination of radial velocities and the strength of the OI{lambda}7774 triplet. We examine ~1300 spectra in total and identify 121 YSGs (a sample that is unbiased in luminosity above log(L/L_{sun}_)~4.8) and 189 RSGs. After placing these objects on the H-R diagram, we find that the latest generation of Geneva evolutionary tracks shows excellent agreement with the observed locations of our RSGs and YSGs, the observed relative number of YSGs with mass, and the observed RSG upper mass limit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/184/218
- Title:
- The zCOSMOS 10k-bright spectroscopic sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/184/218
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic redshifts of a large sample of galaxies with I_AB_<22.5 in the COSMOS field, measured from spectra of 10644 objects that have been obtained in the first two years of observations in the zCOSMOS-bright redshift survey. These include a statistically complete subset of 10109 objects. The average accuracy of individual redshifts is 110km/s, independent of redshift. The reliability of individual redshifts is described by a Confidence Class that has been empirically calibrated through repeat spectroscopic observations of over 600 galaxies. There is very good agreement between spectroscopic and photometric redshifts for the most secure Confidence Classes. For the less secure Confidence Classes, there is a good correspondence between the fraction of objects with a consistent photometric redshift and the spectroscopic repeatability, suggesting that the photometric redshifts can be used to indicate which of the less secure spectroscopic redshifts are likely right and which are probably wrong, and to give an indication of the nature of objects for which we failed to determine a redshift. Using this approach, we can construct a spectroscopic sample that is 99% reliable and which is 88% complete in the sample as a whole, and 95% complete in the redshift range 0.5<z<0.8. The luminosity and mass completeness levels of the zCOSMOS-bright sample of galaxies is also discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/857/144
- Title:
- Tidal features from RESOLVE survey & DECaLS images
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/857/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study tidal features around galaxies in the REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) survey. Our sample consists of 1048 RESOLVE galaxies that overlap with the DECam Legacy Survey, which reaches an r-band 3{sigma} depth of ~27.9mag/arcsec^2^ for a 100arcsec^2^ feature. Images were masked, smoothed, and inspected for tidal features such as streams, shells, or tails/arms. We find tidal features in 17+/-2% of our galaxies, setting a lower limit on the true frequency. The frequency of tidal features in the gas-poor (gas-to-stellar mass ratio <0.1) subsample is lower than in the gas-rich subsample (13+/-3% versus 19+/-2%). Within the gas-poor subsample, galaxies with tidal features have higher stellar and halo masses, ~3x closer distances to nearest neighbors (in the same group), and possibly fewer group members at fixed halo mass than galaxies without tidal features, but similar specific star formation rates. These results suggest tidal features in gas-poor galaxies are typically streams/shells from dry mergers or satellite disruption. In contrast, the presence of tidal features around gas-rich galaxies does not correlate with stellar or halo mass, suggesting these tidal features are often tails/arms from resonant interactions. Similar to tidal features in gas-poor galaxies, tidal features in gas-rich galaxies imply 1.7x closer nearest neighbors in the same group; however, they are associated with diskier morphologies, higher star formation rates, and higher gas content. In addition to interactions with known neighbors, we suggest that tidal features in gas-rich galaxies may arise from accretion of cosmic gas and/or gas-rich satellites below the survey limit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/609/A53
- Title:
- Tracing stars of MW dwarf galaxies: Sextans
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/609/A53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a deep and very spatially extended CTIO/DECam g and r photometric catalogue of point-sources (reaching out to ~2 magnitudes below the oldest main-sequence turn-off and covering ~20deg^2^) around the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy, together with another catalogue of literature spectroscopic measurements (Walker et al., 2009, Cat. J/AJ/137/3100 and Battaglia et al., 2011, Cat. J/MNRAS/411/1013) with updated membership probabilities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/417/2347
- Title:
- Tully-Fisher relation for SDSS galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/417/2347
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we derive scaling relations between photometric observable quantities and disc galaxy rotation velocity V_rot_ or Tully-Fisher relations (TFRs). Our methodology is dictated by our purpose of obtaining purely photometric, minimal-scatter estimators of V_rot_ applicable to large galaxy samples from imaging surveys. To achieve this goal, we have constructed a sample of 189 disc galaxies at redshifts z<0.1 with long-slit H{alpha} spectroscopy from Pizagno et al. (2007, Cat. J/AJ/134/945) and new observations. By construction, this sample is a fair subsample of a large, well-defined parent disc sample of ~170000 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7).