- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/425/367
- Title:
- REFLEX Galaxy Cluster Survey catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/425/367
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the catalogue of the REFLEX Cluster Survey providing information on the X-ray properties, redshifts, and some identification details of the clusters in the REFLEX sample. The catalogue describes a statistically complete X-ray flux-limited sample of 447 galaxy clusters above an X-ray flux of 3x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ (0.1 to 2.4keV) in an area of 4.24ster in the southern sky. The cluster candidates were first selected by their X-ray emission in the ROSAT-All Sky Survey and subsequently spectroscopically identified in the frame of an ESO key programme. Previously described tests have shown that the sample is more than 90% complete and there is a conservative upper limit of 9% on the fraction of clusters with a dominant X-ray contamination from AGN. In addition to the cluster catalogue we also describe the complete selection criteria as a function of the sky position and the conversion functions used to analyse the X-ray data. These are essential for the precise statistical analysis of the large-scale cluster distribution. This data set is at present the largest, statistically complete X-ray galaxy cluster sample. Together with these data set we also provide for the first time the full three-dimensional selection function. The sample forms the basis of several cosmological studies, one of the most important applications being the assessment of the statistics of the large-scale structure of the universe and the test of cosmological models. Part of these cosmological results have already been published.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A30
- Title:
- REFLEX II. Properties of the survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/555/A30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxy clusters provide unique laboratories to study astrophysical processes on large scales and are important probes for cosmology. X-ray observations are currently the best means of detecting and characterizing galaxy clusters. Therefore X-ray surveys for galaxy clusters are one of the best ways to obtain a statistical census of the galaxy cluster population. In this paper we describe the construction of the REFLEX II galaxy cluster survey based on the southern part of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. REFLEX II extends the REFLEX I survey by a factor of about two down to a flux limit of 1.8x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ (0.1-2.4keV). We describe the determination of the X-ray parameters, the process of X-ray source identification, and the construction of the survey selection function. The REFLEX II cluster sample comprises currently 915 objects. A standard selection function is derived for a lower source count limit of 20 photons in addition to the flux limit. The median redshift of the sample is z=0.102. Internal consistency checks and the comparison to several other galaxy cluster surveys imply that REFLEX II is better than 90% complete with a contamination less than 10%. With this publication we give a comprehensive statistical description of the REFLEX II survey and provide all the complementary information necessary for a proper modelling of the survey for astrophysical and cosmological applications.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/781/22
- Title:
- Region I of La Silla QUEST RR Lyrae star survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/781/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A search for RR Lyrae stars (RRLSs) in ~840deg^2^ of the sky in right ascension 150{deg}-210{deg} and declination -10{deg} to + 10{deg} yielded 1013 type ab and 359 type c RRLS. This sample is used to study the density profile of the Galactic halo, halo substructures, and the Oosterhoff type of the halo over distances (d_{sun}_) from ~5 to ~80kpc. The halo is flattened toward the Galactic plane, and its density profile steepens in slope at galactocentric distances greater than ~25kpc. The RRLS in the stellar stream from the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy match well the model of Law & Majewski for the stars that were stripped 1.3-3.2Gyr ago, but not for the ones stripped 3.2-5.0Gyr ago. Over densities are found at the locations of the Virgo Overdensity and the Virgo Stellar Stream. Within 1{deg} of 1220-1, which Jerjen et al. identify as a halo substructure at d_{sun}_~24kpc, there are four RRLS that are possibly members. Away from substructures, the RRLS are a mixture of Oosterhoff types I and II, but mostly OoI (~73%). The accretion of galaxies resembling in RRLS content the most massive Milky Way satellites (LMC, SMC, For, Sgr) may explain this preponderance of OoI. Six new RRLS and three new anomalous Cepheids were found in the Sextans dSph galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/848/56
- Title:
- Relationships between SNe Ia and the host galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/848/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use a sample of 1338 spectroscopically confirmed and photometrically classified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) sourced from Carnegie Supernova Project, Center for Astrophysics Supernova Survey, Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II, and SuperNova Legacy Survey SN samples to examine the relationships between SNe Ia and the galaxies that host them. Our results provide confirmation with improved statistical significance that SNe Ia, after standardization, are on average more luminous in massive hosts (significance >5{sigma}), and decline more rapidly in massive hosts (significance >9{sigma}) and in hosts with low specific star formation rates (significance >8{sigma}). We study the variation of these relationships with redshift and detect no evolution. We split SNe Ia into pairs of subsets that are based on the properties of the hosts and fit cosmological models to each subset. Including both systematic and statistical uncertainties, we do not find any significant shift in the best-fit cosmological parameters between the subsets. Among different SN Ia subsets, we find that SNe Ia in hosts with high specific star formation rates have the least intrinsic scatter ({sigma}_int_=0.08+/-0.01) in luminosity after standardization.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/85
- Title:
- RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/884/85
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Large surveys of galaxy clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Spitzer, including the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble and the Frontier Fields, have demonstrated the power of strong gravitational lensing to efficiently deliver large samples of high-redshift galaxies. We extend this strategy through a wider, shallower survey named RELICS, the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey, described here. Our 188-orbit Hubble Treasury Program observed 41 clusters at 0.182<=z<=0.972 with Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and WFC3/IR imaging spanning 0.4-1.7{mu}m. We selected 21 of the most massive clusters known based on Planck PSZ2 estimates and 20 additional clusters based on observed or inferred lensing strength. RELICS observed 46 WFC3/IR pointings (~200arcmin^2^) each with two orbits divided among four filters (F105W, F125W, F140W, and F160W) and ACS imaging as needed to achieve single-orbit depth in each of three filters (F435W, F606W, and F814W). As previously reported by Salmon+ (2020ApJ...889..189S), we discovered over 300 z~6-10 candidates, including the brightest z~6 candidates known, and the most distant spatially resolved lensed arc known at z~10. Spitzer IRAC imaging (945hr awarded, plus 100 archival, spanning 3.0-5.0{mu}m) has crucially enabled us to distinguish z~10 candidates from z~2 interlopers. For each cluster, two HST observing epochs were staggered by about a month, enabling us to discover 11 supernovae, including 3 lensed supernovae, which we followed up with 20 orbits from our program.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/832/126
- Title:
- RESOLVE survey: 21cm obs. with GBT & Arecibo
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/832/126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the HI mass inventory for the REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) survey, a volume-limited, multi-wavelength census of >1500 z=0 galaxies spanning diverse environments and complete in baryonic mass down to dwarfs of ~10^9^M_{sun}_. This first 21cm data release provides robust detections or strong upper limits (1.4M_HI_<5%-10% of stellar mass M*) for ~94% of RESOLVE. We examine global atomic gas-to-stellar mass ratios (G/S) in relation to galaxy environment using several metrics: group dark matter halo mass M_h_, central/satellite designation, relative mass density of the cosmic web, and distance to the nearest massive group. We find that at fixed M*, satellites have decreasing G/S with increasing M_h_ starting clearly at M_h_~10^12^M_{sun}_, suggesting the presence of starvation and/or stripping mechanisms associated with halo gas heating in intermediate-mass groups. The analogous relationship for centrals is uncertain because halo abundance matching builds in relationships between central G/S, stellar mass, and halo mass, which depend on the integrated group property used as a proxy for halo mass (stellar or baryonic mass). On larger scales G/S trends are less sensitive to the abundance matching method. At fixed M_h_<=10^12^M_{sun}_, the fraction of gas-poor centrals increases with large-scale structure density. In overdense regions, we identify a rare population of gas-poor centrals in low-mass (M_h_<10^11.4^M_{sun}_) halos primarily located within ~1.5x the virial radius of more massive (M_h_>10^12^M_{sun}_) halos, suggesting that gas stripping and/or starvation may be induced by interactions with larger halos or the surrounding cosmic web. We find that the detailed relationship between G/S and environment varies when we examine different subvolumes of RESOLVE independently, which we suggest may be a signature of assembly bias.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/489/849
- Title:
- Revised catalogue of EGRET gamma-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/489/849
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of point gamma-ray sources detected by the EGRET detector on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We used the entire gamma-ray dataset of reprocessed photons at energies above 100MeV and new Galactic interstellar emission models based on CO, HI, dark gas, and interstellar radiation field data. Two different assumptions are used to describe the cosmic-ray distribution in the Galaxy to analyse the systematic uncertainties in source detection and characterization. We applied a 2-dimensional maximum-likelihood detection method similar to that used to analyze the 3rd EGRET catalogue. The revised catalogue lists 188 sources, 14 of which are marked as confused, in contrast to the 271 entries of the 3rd EGRET (3EG) catalogue. We do not detect 107 sources discovered previously because additional structure is present in the interstellar background.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/902/14
- Title:
- Revised redshifts of the Pantheon supernovae Ia
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/902/14
- Date:
- 17 Mar 2022 14:41:40
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Redshifts used in current cosmological supernova samples are measured using two primary techniques, one based on well-measured host galaxy spectral lines and the other based on supernova-dominated spectra. Here, we construct an updated Pantheon catalog with revised redshifts, redshift sources, and estimated uncertainties for the entire sample to investigate whether these two techniques yield consistent results. The best-fit cosmological parameters using these two measurement techniques disagree, with a supernova-only sample producing {Omega}_m_ 3.2{sigma} higher and H_0_ 2.5{sigma} lower than a hostz-only sample, and we explore several possible sources of bias that could result from using the lower-precision supernova-dominated redshifts. In a pilot study, we show that using a host redshift-only subsample will generically produce lower {Omega}_m_ and matter density {Omega}_m_h^2^ and slightly higher H_0_ than previous analysis which, for the Pantheon data set, could result in supernova and cosmic microwave background measurements agreeing on {Omega}_m_h^2^ despite tension in H_0_. To obtain rigorous results, though, the Pantheon catalog should be improved by obtaining host spectra for supernovae that have faded, and future surveys should be designed to use host galaxy redshifts rather than lower-precision methods.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/31
- Title:
- Revised source list for the Rees 38-MHz survey
- Short Name:
- VIII/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a revised machine-readable source list for the Rees 38-MHz (or '8C') survey with improved positions and no redundancy. The Rees 38-MHz survey covers an area of about 1 sr north of declination +60 degrees. The angular resolution is 4.5 x 4.5cosec(Dec) arcmin**2 and the limiting flux density over much of the survey area is about 1 Jy. Both of these figures are an improvement by nearly an order of magnitude on previous surveys at this frequency. Users of these data should consult and cite the original survey paper by Rees as primary reference (1990MNRAS.244..233R) with the present publication (1995MNRAS.274..447H) as a supplementary revision. The recommended style of reference is thus : "The revised Rees 38-MHz survey (Rees 1990, catalogue revised Hales et. al 1995)." Note that for interest the source list includes data on some sources at declinations lower than +60 degrees, but that the right ascension coverage is not complete below +60 degrees.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/326
- Title:
- Revised SWIRE photometric redshifts
- Short Name:
- II/326
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have revised the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic survey (SWIRE) Photometric Redshift Catalogue to take account of new optical photometry in several of the SWIRE areas, and incorporating Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) near-infrared data. Aperture matching is an important issue for combining near-infrared and optical data, and we have explored a number of methods of doing this. The increased number of photometric bands available for the redshift solution results in improvements both in the rms error and, especially, in the outlier rate. We have also found that incorporating the dust torus emission into the quasi-stellar object (QSO) templates improves the performance for QSO redshift estimation. Our revised redshift catalogue contains over 1 million extragalactic objects, of which 26 288 are QSOs.
