- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/459/110
- Title:
- Line strengths and gradients in S0 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/459/110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Line strengths and their gradients in Mg, Fe, and HBeta have been determined for a sample of 20 S0 galaxies in order to study the stellar populations of their bulges and disks and to investigate their relationship to elliptical galaxies. Data are also presented for the elliptical galaxy NGC 1700 and the E/S0 NGC 3585. We find that S0 galaxies generally follow a similar, though possibly steeper, relationship between central Mg_2 line strength and central velocity dispersion as found for elliptical galaxies. The S0 galaxies show no dependence between Fe line strengths and central velocity dispersion -- similar to the behavior observed in elliptical galaxies. The central Mg/Fe ratios in the luminous S0 galaxies show an overabundance of Mg to Fe with respect to solar element ratios. The magnitudes of the Mg and Fe line-strength gradients within the galaxies are found to be correlated, i.e., objects with steep Mg gradients have correspondingly large Fe gradients. We infer bulge and disk gradients for the nine most edge-on galaxies for which we have both major- and minor-axis profiles. The metal line strengths decrease with radius along the major and minor axes in the bulge-dominated central regions. At larger radii, however, the major-axis metal line strength profiles flatten while the minor-axis bulge profiles fall to lower values. Representative color maps in B-R are presented that display a separation between bulge and disk colors corresponding to the metal line strength profiles. Based on our Mg_2 profiles, the average metal gradient found in the disks of our sub-sample is Delta[Fe/H]/Delta(r/h)=-0.08+/-0.06, which corresponds to a reduction in the mean metallicity of the disk stellar population by <~15% per disk scale length (h). These shallow metallicity gradients are approximately a factor of 2-3 smaller than those derived for the disks of late-type spiral galaxies from H II regions and are consistent with previous investigations that showed a trend for disk metallicity gradients to decrease toward earlier Hubble types. As inferred from our Mg and Fe line strengths, the mean size of the bulge metallicity gradients is Delta[Fe/H]/Delta(log r)=-0.7+/-0.4, which is steeper than typical elliptical galaxy gradients. Our findings do not support formation scenarios in which bulges formed either from heated disk material at late times after disk formation or through dissipationless stellar merging, as neither process includes mechanisms for producing the observed metallicity gradients. Our observations are better explained in terms of formation via dissipative collapse (or merging) at early times.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/527/573
- Title:
- Line Strengths in Elliptical Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/527/573
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have restudied line-strength gradients of 80 elliptical galaxies. Typical metallicity gradients of elliptical galaxies are {delta}[Fe/H]/{delta}log(r){=~}-0.3, which is flatter than the gradients predicted by monolithic collapse simulations. The metallicity gradients do not correlate with any physical properties of galaxies, including central and mean metallicities, central velocity dispersions {sigma}_0_, absolute B magnitudes M_B_, absolute effective radii R_e_, and dynamical masses of galaxies. By using the metallicity gradients, we have calculated mean stellar metallicities for individual ellipticals. Typical mean stellar metallicities are <[Fe/H]> {=~} -0.3 and range from <[Fe/H]>{=~}-0.8 to +0.3, which is contrary to what Gonzalez & Gorgas (1996) claimed; the mean metallicities of ellipticals are not universal. The mean metallicities correlate well with {sigma}_0{sigma}_ and dynamical masses, though relations for M_B_ and R_e_ include significant scatters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/2424
- Title:
- Line strengths of early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/2424
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present measurements of velocity dispersions and Lick indices for 509 galaxies in the local universe, based on high signal-to-noise, long-slit spectra obtained with the 1.52m ESO telescope at La Silla.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A48
- Title:
- Linking ice and gas. Serpens SVS4
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The interaction between dust, ice, and gas during the formation of stars produces complex organic molecules. While observations indicate that several species are formed on ice-covered dust grains and are released into the gas phase, the exact chemical interplay between solid and gas phases and their relative importance remain unclear. Our goal is to study the interplay between dust, ice, and gas in regions of low-mass star formation through ice- and gas- mapping and by directly measuring gas-to-ice ratios. This provides constraints on the routes that lead to the chemical complexity that is observed in solid and gas phases. We present observations of gas-phase methanol (CH_3_OH) and carbon monoxide (^13^CO and C^18^O) at 1.3mm towards ten low-mass young protostars in the Serpens SVS4 cluster from the SubMillimeter Array (SMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope. We used archival data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to derive abundances of ice H_2_O, CO, and CH_3_OH towards the same region. Finally, we constructed gas-ice maps of SVS4 and directly measured CO and CH_3_OH gas-to-ice ratios. The SVS4 cluster is characterised by a global temperature of 15+/-5K. At this temperature, the chemical behaviours of CH_3_OH and CO are anti-correlated: larger variations are observed for CH_3_OH gas than for CH_3_OH ice, whereas the opposite is seen for CO. The gas-to-ice ratios (N_gas_/N_ice_) range from 1-6 for CO and 1.4x10^-4^-3.7x10^-3^for CH_3_OH. The CO gas-maps trace an extended gaseous component that is not sensitive to the effect of freeze-out. Because of temperature variations and dust heating around 20K, the frozen CO is efficiently desorbed. The CH_3_OH gas-maps, in contrast, probe regions where methanol is predominantly formed and present in ices and is released into the gas phase through non-thermal desorption mechanisms. Combining gas- and ice-mapping techniques, we measure gas-to-ice ratios of CO and CH_3_OH in the SVS4 cluster. The CH_3_OH gas-to-ice ratio agrees with values that were previously reported for embedded Class 0/I low-mass protostars. We find that there is no straightforward correlation between CO and CH_3_OH gas with their ice counterparts in the cluster. This is likely related to the complex morphology of SVS4: the Class 0 protostar SMM4 and its envelope lie in the vicinity, and the outflow associated with SMM4 intersects the cluster. This study serves as a pathfinder for future observations with ALMA and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that will provide high-sensitivity gas-ice maps of molecules more complex than methanol. Such comparative maps will be essential to constrain the chemical routes that regulate the chemical complexity in star-forming regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/18
- Title:
- LIRAS: LoCuSS IR AGN survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/219/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 290 24{mu}m-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mostly at z~0.3-2.5, within 5.2{deg}^2^ distributed as 25'x25' fields around each of 30 galaxy clusters in the Local Cluster Substructure Survey. The sample is nearly complete to 1mJy at 24{mu}m, and has a rich multiwavelength set of ancillary data; 162 are detected by Herschel. We use spectral templates for AGNs, stellar populations, and infrared (IR) emission by star-forming galaxies to decompose the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these AGNs and their host galaxies, and estimate their star formation rates, AGN luminosities, and host galaxy stellar masses. The set of templates is relatively simple: a standard Type-1 quasar template; another for the photospheric output of the stellar population; and a far-infrared star-forming template. For the Type-2 AGN SEDs, we substitute templates including internal obscuration, and some Type-1 objects require a warm component (T>~50K). The individually Herschel-detected Type-1 AGNs and a subset of 17 Type-2 AGNs typically have luminosities >10^45^erg/s, and supermassive black holes of ~3x10^8^M_{sun}_ emitting at ~10% of the Eddington rate. We find them in about twice the numbers of AGNs identified in SDSS data in the same fields, i.e., they represent typical high-luminosity AGNs, not an IR-selected minority. These AGNs and their host galaxies are studied further in an accompanying paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/364/674
- Title:
- Li-rich giants atomic lines
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/364/674
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A detailed analysis has been carried out for a sample of 16 red giants showing a strong Li I 670.8nm line. Ten of them were detected in a survey by Castilho et al. (1998A&AS..127..139C), and the other 6 stars are Li-rich giants selected from the literature. Element abundances in the sample Li-rich giants are similar to those in normal red giants, differing only by their high Li abundance and infrared excess. This suggests that Li-rich giants may correspond to a phase of stellar evolution of normal red giants, when Li is produced and transported to the atmosphere.
1397. L379IRS3 radio lines
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/93/409
- Title:
- L379IRS3 radio lines
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/93/409
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of spectral observations of the region of massive star formation L379IRS3 (IRAS 18265-1517) are presented. The observations were carried out with the 30-m Pico Veleta radio telescope (Spain) at seven frequencies in the 1-mm, 2-mm, and 3-mm wavelength bands. Lines of 24 molecules were detected, from simple diatomic or triatomic species to complex eight- or nine-atom compounds such as CH_3_OCHO or CH_3_OCH_3_. Rotation diagrams constructed from methanol and methyl cyanide lines were used to determine the temperature of the quiescent gas in this region, which is about 40-50K. In addition to this warm gas, there is a hot component that is revealed through high-energy lines of methanol and methyl cyanide, molecular lines arising in hot regions, and the presence of H_2_O masers and Class II methanol masers at 6.7GHz, which are also related to hot gas. One of the hot regions is probably a compact hot core, which is located near the southern submillimeter peak and is related to a group of methanol masers at 6.7GHz. High-excitation lines at other positions may be associated with other hot cores or hot post-shock gas in the lobes of bipolar outflows. The rotation diagrams can be use to determine the column densities and abundances of methanol (10^-9^) and methyl cyanide (about 10^-11^) in the quiescent gas. The column densities of A- and E-methanol in L379IRS3 are essentially the same. The column densities of other observed molecules were calculated assuming that the ratios of the molecular level abundances correspond to a temperature of 40 K. The molecular composition of the quiescent gas is close to that in another region of massive star formation, DR21(OH). The only appreciable difference is that the column density of SO2 in L379IRS3 is at least a factor of 20 lower than the value in DR21(OH). The SO_2_/CS and SO2/OCS abundance ratios, which can be used as chemical clocks, are lower in L379IRS3 than in DR21(OH), suggesting that L379IRS3 is probably younger than DR21(OH).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/595/A18
- Title:
- Lithium abundances in AMBRE stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/595/A18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The goal of this paper is to investigate the lithium stellar content of Milky Way stars in order to put constraints on the lithium chemical enrichment in our Galaxy, in particular in both the thin and thick discs. We show that the interstellar lithium abundance increases with metallicity by 1dex from [M/H]=-1dex to +0.0dex. Moreover, we find that this lithium ISM abundance decreases by about 0.5dex at super-solar metallicity. Based on a chemical separation, we also observed that the stellar lithium content in the thick disc increases rather slightly with metallicity while the thin disc shows a steeper increase. The lithium abundance distribution of alpha-rich metal-rich stars has a peak at A(Li)~3 dex. We conclude that the thick disc stars suffered of a low lithium chemical enrichment, showing lithium abundances rather close to the Spite plateau while the thin disc stars clearly show an increasing lithium chemical enrichment with the metallicity, probably thanks to the contribution of low-mass stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/724/154
- Title:
- Lithium abundances in stars with planets
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/724/154
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work presents a homogeneous determination of lithium abundances in a large sample of giant-planet-hosting stars (N=117) and a control sample of disk stars without detected planets (N=145). The lithium abundances were derived using a detailed profile fitting of the LiI doublet at 6708{AA} in LTE. The planet-hosting and comparison stars were chosen to have significant overlap in their respective physical properties, including effective temperatures, luminosities, masses, metallicities, and ages. The combination of uniform data and homogeneous analysis with well-selected samples makes this study well suited to probe for possible differences in the lithium abundances found in planet-hosting stars. An overall comparison between the two samples reveals no obvious differences between stars with and without planets. A closer examination of the behavior of the Li abundances over a narrow range of effective temperature (5700K<=T_eff_<=5850K) indicates subtle differences between the two stellar samples; this temperature range is particularly sensitive to various physical processes that can deplete lithium.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/785/94
- Title:
- Lithium abundances of a large sample of red giants
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/785/94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The lithium abundances for 378 G/K giants are derived with non-local thermodynamic equilibrium correction considered. Among these are 23 stars that host planetary systems. The lithium abundance is investigated, as a function of metallicity, effective temperature, and rotational velocity, as well as the impact of a giant planet on G/K giants. The results show that the lithium abundance is a function of metallicity and effective temperature. The lithium abundance has no correlation with rotational velocity at v sin i<10 km/s. Giants with planets present lower lithium abundance and slow rotational velocity (v sin i<4 km/s). Our sample includes three Li-rich G/K giants, 36 Li-normal stars, and 339 Li-depleted stars. The fraction of Li-rich stars in this sample agrees with the general rate of less than 1% in the literature, and the stars that show normal amounts of Li are supposed to possess the same abundance at the current interstellar medium. For the Li-depleted giants, Li-deficiency may have already taken place at the main sequence stage for many intermediate mass (1.5-5 M_{sun}_)G/K giants. Finally, we present the lithium abundance and kinematic parameters for an enlarged sample of 565 giants using a compilation of the literature, and confirm that the lithium abundance is a function of metallicity and effective temperature. With the enlarged sample, we investigate the differences between the lithium abundance in thin-/thick-disk giants, which indicate that the lithium abundance in thick-disk giants is more depleted than that in thin-disk giants.
