- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/226/8
- Title:
- Spitzer/IRS survey of Class II objects in Orion A. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/226/8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present our investigation of 319 Class II objects in Orion A observed by Spitzer/IRS. We also present the follow-up observations of 120 of these Class II objects in Orion A from the Infrared Telescope Facility/SpeX. We measure continuum spectral indices, equivalent widths, and integrated fluxes that pertain to disk structure and dust composition from IRS spectra of Class II objects in Orion A. We estimate mass accretion rates using hydrogen recombination lines in the SpeX spectra of our targets. Utilizing these properties, we compare the distributions of the disk and dust properties of Orion A disks with those of Taurus disks with respect to position within Orion A (Orion Nebular Cluster [ONC] and L1641) and with the subgroups by the inferred radial structures, such as transitional disks (TDs) versus radially continuous full disks (FDs). Our main findings are as follows. (1) Inner disks evolve faster than the outer disks. (2) The mass accretion rates of TDs and those of radially continuous FDs are statistically significantly displaced from each other. The median mass accretion rate of radially continuous disks in the ONC and L1641 is not very different from that in Taurus. (3) Less grain processing has occurred in the disks in the ONC compared to those in Taurus, based on analysis of the shape index of the 10{mu}m silicate feature (F_11.3_/F_9.8_). (4) The 20-31{mu}m continuum spectral index tracks the projected distance from the most luminous Trapezium star, {theta}^1^ Ori C. A possible explanation is UV ablation of the outer parts of disks.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/1261
- Title:
- Spitzer/MIPS observations of the COSMOS field
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/1261
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Spitzer 70 and 160um observations of the COSMOS Spitzer survey (S-COSMOS). The data processing techniques are discussed for the publicly released products consisting of images and source catalogs. We present accurate 70 and 160um source counts of the COSMOS field and find reasonable agreement with measurements in other fields and with model predictions. The previously reported counts for GOODS-North and the extragalactic First Look Survey are updated with the latest calibration, and counts are measured based on the large area SWIRE survey to constrain the bright source counts. We measure an extragalactic confusion noise level of {sigma}_c_=9.4+/-3.3mJy (q=5) for the MIPS 160um band based on the deep S-COSMOS data and report an updated confusion noise level of {sigma}_c_=0.35+/-0.15mJy (q=5) for the MIPS 70um band.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/208/24
- Title:
- Spitzer MIR AGN survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/208/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a program of optical and near-infrared spectroscopic follow-up of candidate active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected in the mid-infrared. This survey selects both normal and obscured AGNs closely matched in luminosity across a wide range, from Seyfert galaxies with bolometric luminosities L _bol_~10^10^L_{sun}_ to highly luminous quasars (L_bol_~10^14^L_{sun}_), all with redshifts ranging from 0 to 4.3. Samples of candidate AGNs were selected with mid-infrared color cuts at several different 24{mu}m flux density limits to ensure a range of luminosities at a given redshift. The survey consists of 786 candidate AGNs and quasars, of which 672 have spectroscopic redshifts and classifications. Of these, 137 (20%) are type 1 AGNs with blue continua, 294 (44%) are type 2 objects with extinctions A_V_>~5 toward their AGNs, 96 (14%) are AGNs with lower extinctions (A_V_~1), and 145 (22%) have redshifts, but no clear signs of AGN activity in their spectra. Of the survey objects 50% have L_bol_>10^12^L_{sun}_, in the quasar regime. We present composite spectra for type 2 quasars and objects with no signs of AGN activity in their spectra. We also discuss the mid-infrared - emission-line luminosity correlation and present the results of cross correlations with serendipitous X-ray and radio sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/664/850
- Title:
- Spitzer observations of stars in M33
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/664/850
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze five epochs of Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations of the nearby spiral galaxy M33. Each epoch covered nearly a square degree at 3.6, 4.5, and 8.0um. The point-source catalog from the full data set contains 37650 stars. The stars have luminosities characteristic of the asymptotic giant branch and can be separated into oxygen-rich and carbon-rich populations by their [3.6]-[4.5] colors. The [3.6]-[8.0] colors indicate that over 80% of the stars detected at 8.0um have dust shells. Photometric comparison of epochs using conservative criteria yields a catalog of 2923 variable stars. These variables are most likely long-period variables amid an evolved stellar population. At least one-third of the identified carbon stars are variable.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/703/1778
- Title:
- Spitzer sources in SWIRE/XMM/ELAIS-S1 field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/703/1778
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of optical spectroscopic identifications of sources detected by Spitzer at 3.6 or 24um down to ~10 and ~280uJy, respectively, in the SWIRE/XMM-Newton/ELAIS-S1 field and classified via line width analysis and diagnostic diagrams. A total of 1376 sources down to R~24.2mag have been identified (1362 detected at 3.6um, 419 at 24um, and 405 at both) by low-resolution optical spectroscopy carried out with FORS2, VIMOS, and EFOSC2 at the Very Large Telescope and 3.6m ESO telescope. The spectroscopic campaigns have been carried out over the central 0.6deg^2^ area of ELAIS-S1 which, in particular, has also been observed by XMM-Newton and Chandra. We find the first direct optical spectroscopic evidence that the fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGNs; mostly AGN2) increases with increasing F(24um)/F(R) ratio, reaching values of 70(+/-20)% in the range 316<F(24um)/F(R)<1000. We present an Infrared Array Camera-Multiband Imaging Photometer color-color diagram able to separate AGN1 from obscured AGN2 candidates. After having corrected for the spectroscopic incompleteness of our sample, the result is that the AGN fraction at F(24um)~0.8mJy is ~22(+/-7)% and decreases slowly to ~19(+/-5)% down to F(24um)~0.3mJy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/663/1149
- Title:
- Spitzer survey of Serpens YSO population
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/663/1149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss the combined IRAC/MIPS c2d Spitzer Legacy observations of the Serpens star-forming region. We describe criteria for isolating bona fide YSOs from the extensive background of extragalactic objects. We then discuss the properties of the resulting high-confidence set of 235 YSOs. An additional 51 lower confidence YSOs outside this area are identified from the MIPS data and 2MASS photometry. We present color-color diagrams to compare our observed source properties with those of theoretical models for star/disk/envelope systems and our own modeling of the objects that are well represented by a stellar photosphere plus circumstellar disk.
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/237/39
- Title:
- Spitzer survey of UltraVISTA deep Stripes (SMUVS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/237/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper describes new deep 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m imaging of three UltraVISTA near-infrared survey stripes within the COSMOS field. The observations were carried out with Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the Spitzer Matching Survey of the UltraVISTA Deep Stripes (SMUVS). In this work we present our data reduction techniques, and document the resulting mosaics, coverage maps, and catalogs in both IRAC passbands for the three easternmost UltraVISTA survey stripes, covering a combined area of about 0.66deg^2^, of which 0.45deg^2^ have at least 20hr of integration time. SMUVS reaches point-source sensitivities of about 25.0 AB mag (0.13{mu}Jy) at both 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m, with a significance of 4{sigma}, accounting for both survey sensitivity and source confusion. To this limit the SMUVS catalogs contain a total of ~350,000 sources, each of which is detected significantly in at least one IRAC band. Because of its uniform and high sensitivity, relatively large area coverage, and the wide array of ancillary data available in COSMOS, the SMUVS survey will be useful for a large number of cosmological investigations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/184/18
- Title:
- Spitzer survey of young stellar clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/184/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a uniform mid-infrared imaging and photometric survey of 36 young, nearby, star-forming clusters and groups using Spitzer IRAC and MIPS. We have confidently identified and classified 2548 young stellar objects (YSOs) using recently established mid-infrared color-based methods. We have devised and applied a new algorithm for the isolation of local surface density enhancements from point source distributions, enabling us to extract the overdense cores of the observed star-forming regions for further analysis. We have compiled several basic structural measurements of these cluster cores from the data, such as mean surface densities of sources, cluster core radii, and aspect ratios, in order to characterize the ranges for these quantities. We find that a typical cluster core is 0.39pc in radius, has 26 members with infrared excess in a ratio of Class II to Class I sources of 3.7, is embedded in a A_Ks_=0.8mag cloud clump, and has a surface density of 60pc^-2^. We examine the nearest neighbor distances among the YSOs in several ways, demonstrating similarity in the spacings between Class II and Class I sources but large member clusters appear more dense than smaller clusters. We demonstrate that near-uniform source spacings in cluster cores are common, suggesting that simple Jeans fragmentation of parsec-scale cloud clumps may be the dominant process governing star formation in nearby clusters and groups. Finally, we compare our results to other similar surveys in the literature and discuss potential biases in the data to guide further interpretation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/235/36
- Title:
- SPLASH-SXDF multi-wavelength photometric catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/235/36
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a multi-wavelength catalog in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF) as part of the Spitzer Large Area Survey with Hyper-Suprime-Cam (SPLASH). We include the newly acquired optical data from the Hyper-Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program, accompanied by IRAC coverage from the SPLASH survey. All available optical and near-infrared data is homogenized and resampled on a common astrometric reference frame. Source detection is done using a multi-wavelength detection image including the u-band to recover the bluest objects. We measure multi-wavelength photometry and compute photometric redshifts as well as physical properties for ~1.17 million objects over ~4.2deg^2^, with ~800000 objects in the 2.4deg^2^ HSC-Ultra-Deep coverage. Using the available spectroscopic redshifts from various surveys over the range of 0<z<6, we verify the performance of the photometric redshifts and we find a normalized median absolute deviation of 0.023 and outlier fraction of 3.2%. The SPLASH-SXDF catalog is a valuable, publicly available resource, perfectly suited for studying galaxies in the early universe and tracing their evolution through cosmic time.
