- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/199/23
- Title:
- IR and UV star formation in ACCEPT BCGs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/199/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) photometry for a sample of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). The BCGs are from a heterogeneous but uniformly characterized sample, the Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables (ACCEPT), of X-ray galaxy clusters from the Chandra X-ray telescope archive with published gas temperature, density, and entropy profiles. We use archival Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), Spitzer Space Telescope, and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) observations to assemble spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and colors for BCGs. We establish a mean near-UV (NUV) to 2MASS K color of 6.59+/-0.34 for quiescent BCGs. We use this mean color to quantify the UV excess associated with star formation in the active BCGs. We use both fits to a template of an evolved stellar population and library of starburst models and mid-IR star formation relations to estimate the obscured star formation rates (SFRs). We present IR and UV photometry and estimated equivalent continuous SFRs for a sample of BCGs.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/110/1993
- Title:
- IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey. II
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/110/1993
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Complete IRAS Observations and redshifts are reported for all sources identified in the IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey - Part II (hereafter referred to as BGS2). Source positions, radial velocities, optical magnitudes, and total flux densities, peak flux densities, and spatial extents at 12, 25, and 100um are reported for 288 sources having 60um flux densities >5.24Jy, the completeness limit of the original Bright Galaxy Survey [Soifer et al. (1989AJ.....98..766S)], hereafter referred to as BGS1. These new data represent the extension of the IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey to southern declinations, Dec<~-30deg, and low Galactic latitudes, 5deg<|b|<=30deg. Although the sky coverage of the BGS2 (~19935deg^2) is 37% larger than the sky coverage of the BGS1, the number of sources is 8% smaller due primarily to large scale structure in the local distribution of galaxies. Otherwise, the sources in the BGS2 show similar relationships between number counts and flux density as observed for the 313 sources in the BGS1. The BGS2 along with the earlier BGS1, represents the best sample currently available for defining the infrared properties of galaxies in the local (z<~0.1) Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/427
- Title:
- IRAS fluxes of UCM galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/427
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of IRAS observations of the UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) sample of emission-line galaxies, which have been selected from wide-dispersion H{alpha} objective-prism plates. These data are intended to provide a convenient summary of the relevant far-infrared (FIR) properties of these galaxies. Color-color diagrams, as interpreted by theoretical models, suggest that emission from UCM galaxies is mainly due to dust heated directly by photons emitted in active star-forming regions. Statistical analysis of some samples, including the IRAS minisurvey and blue selected objective-prism samples, have been performed. Comparisons, based on FIR luminosity distributions, with the IRAS minisurvey make evident the lower metallicity of the UCM galaxies which cannot be considered as a parent population of IRAS-detected galaxies. The FIR luminosity distributions of different samples have been compared using nonparametric methods and the best correlation has been found for the UCM and Wasilewski samples. Finally, a more detailed analysis of a UCM subsample has been performed from a three component model in order to get information concerning the fractional contribution of disk, star formation activity, and nonthermal mechanisms operating in the UCM galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/89/57
- Title:
- IRAS galaxies behind southern Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/89/57
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We systematically searched for IRAS galaxies with 60nm flux density larger than 0.6Jy by using the UK Schmidt Infrared and IIIa-J Atlases in the Milky Way region (|b|<15{deg}) between l=210{deg} and 360{deg}. We first selected about 4000 IRAS point sources by using our far-infrared criteria, which are optimized for the search of IRAS galaxies behind the Milky Way region, and then inspected visually the optical counterparts of them on the Schmidt Atlas film copies. We found 966 IRAS sources associated with galaxy-like objects. The list of the objects is presented here with the IRAS source name, Galactic coordinates, IRAS flux densities, field number and emulsion of the Atlas, type and size of galaxy(-like) image, redshift, multiplicity, and cross-identification. Of these, 423 galaxies are already catalogued in the Catalog of Galaxies and Quasars Observed in the IRAS Survey (Cat. <VII/113>), and most of the remaining 543 galaxy candidates are newly identified in this search. Although the radial velocities are known for only 387 galaxies, of which 60 were newly measured by us so far, we inferred the contamination by Galactic objects to be small from the good correlation between the sky distributions of the newly identified galaxy candidates and the previously catalogued galaxies. In the regions where the Galactic molecular clouds dominate, almost all the sources were not identified as galaxies. The detected galaxies are clustered in the three regions around l=240{deg}, 280{deg}, and 315{deg}, where the projected number densities are higher than the whole-sky average of IRAS galaxies of the same flux limit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/299/347
- Title:
- IRAS galaxies behind Taurus clouds
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/299/347
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We carried out a complete search for IRAS galaxies in the Taurus molecular cloud region at l=169deg to 177deg and b=-19deg to -12deg. We selected a total number of 36 galaxies and galaxy candidates and looked for the 21-cm H I line in 25 objects; we detected H I emission in five of them including one with previously unknown redshift. The spatial density of IRAS galaxies with cz=4000 to 6000km/s is lower in this region than in the adjacent regions at both sides along galactic longitude, where the Perseus supercluster and the Gemini-Monoceros filament are respectively located.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/104/529
- Title:
- IRAS galaxies behind the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/104/529
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We made a search for IRAS galaxies behind the Northern Milky Way by infrared selection using IRAS Point Source Catalog and visual inspection on POSS (Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) paper prints, and carried out a redshift survey of the identified objects. This paper presents a catalog of 649 IRAS galaxies with f_60_>=0.6Jy between l=150deg and 240deg at |b|<=15deg, which contains 254 newly identified galaxies and 188 newly measured radial velocities. Due to galactic extinction, our sample is a lower limit sample of the flux limited sample of IRAS galaxies, but it can give some information on the distribution of galaxies in the region perpendicular to the Supergalactic Plane. We confirm two regions with enhanced density at l~160deg, cz~5000km/s and l~190deg, cz~5000km/s and at least two possible voids.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/143/277
- Title:
- IRAS 1Jy sample of ultraluminous galaxies. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/143/277
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An imaging survey of the IRAS 1Jy sample of 118 ultraluminous infrared galaxies was conducted at optical (R) and near-infrared (K') wavelengths using the University of Hawaii 2.2 m telescope. The methods of observation and data reduction are described. An R and K' atlas of the entire sample is presented along with some of the basic astrometric and photometric parameters derived from these images. A more detailed analysis of these data is presented in a companion paper (Veilleux et al., 2002, Cat. <J/ApJS/143/315>).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/143/315
- Title:
- IRAS 1Jy sample of ultraluminous galaxies. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/143/315
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An R and K' atlas of the IRAS 1 Jy sample of 118 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs) was presented in a companion paper (our Paper I, Kim et al., 2002, Cat. <J/ApJS/143/277>). The present paper discusses the results from the analysis of these images supplemented with new spectroscopic data obtained at Keck.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/109
- Title:
- IRAS Observations of Large Optical Galaxies
- Short Name:
- VII/109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalogue reports the observations of 85 galaxies listed in RC2 with apparent blue light isophotal diameters (D25) greater than 8'; there are 83 corresponding maps (NGC 205 and M31 are in one field as are M81 and M82) listed in file "summary". The surface brightness maps have been written to tape in FITS format, as 83 sets of maps, each set consisting of an image and a noise map for each of the four IRAS wavelength bands, leading to 664 FITS images.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/1607
- Title:
- IRAS Revised Bright Galaxy Sample
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/1607
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- IRAS flux densities, redshifts, and infrared luminosities are reported for all sources identified in the IRAS Revised Bright Galaxy Sample (RBGS), a complete flux-limited survey of all extragalactic objects with total 60{mu}m flux density greater than 5.24Jy, covering the entire sky surveyed by IRAS at Galactic latitudes |b|>5{deg}. The RBGS includes 629 objects, with median and mean sample redshifts of 0.0082 and 0.0126, respectively, and a maximum redshift of 0.0876. The RBGS supersedes the previous two-part IRAS Bright Galaxy Samples (BGS1+BGS2) which were compiled before the final (Pass 3) calibration of the IRAS Level 1 Archive in 1990 May.