- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/629/L2
- Title:
- [TT2009] 25 vicinity VI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/629/L2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dwarf galaxies are key objects for small-scale cosmological tests like the abundance problems or the planes-of-satellites problem. A crucial task is therefore to get accurate information for as many nearby dwarf galaxies as possible. Using extremely deep, groundbased V and i-band Subaru Suprime Cam photometry with a completeness of i=27mag, we measure the distance of the dwarf galaxy [TT2009] 25 using the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) as a standard candle. This dwarf resides in the field around the Milky Way-analog NGC891. Using a Bayesian approach, we measure a distance of 10.28Mpc, which is consistent with the distance of NGC891, and thus confirm it as a member of NGC891. The dwarf galaxy follows the scaling relations defined by the Local Group dwarfs. We do not find an extended stellar halo around [TT2009] 25. In the small field of view of 100kpc covered by the survey, only one bright dwarf galaxy and the giant stream are apparent. This is comparable to the Milky Way, where one bright dwarf resides in the same volume, as well as the Sagittarius stream - excluding satellites which are farther away but would be projected in the line-of-sight. It is thus imperative to survey for additional dwarf galaxies in a larger area around NGC891 to test the abundance of dwarf galaxies and compare this to the number of satellites around the Milky Way.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/630/A116
- Title:
- Tucana dSph CMD and star formation history
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/630/A116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report a new star formation history for the Tucana dwarf spheroidal galaxy, obtained from a new look at a deep HST/ACS colour-magnitude diagram. We combined information from the main sequence turn-off and the horizontal branch to resolve the ancient star formation rates on a finer temporal scale than previously possible. We show that Tucana experienced three major phases of star formation, two very close together at ancient times and the last one ending between 6 and 8 Gyr ago. We show that the three discrete clumps of stars on the horizontal branch are linked to the distinct episodes of star formation in Tucana. The spatial distribution of the clumps reveals that each generation of stars presents a higher concentration than the previous one. The simultaneous modelling of the horizontal branch and the main sequence turn-off also allows us to measure the amount of mass lost by red giant branch stars in Tucana with unprecedented precision, confirming dwarf spheroidals to be excellent laboratories to study the advanced evolution of low-mass stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/635/A152
- Title:
- Tucana dSph galaxy spectroscopic dataset
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/635/A152
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Isolated local group (LG) dwarf galaxies have evolved most or all of their life unaffected by interactions with the large LG spirals and therefore offer the opportunity to learn about the intrinsic characteristics of this class of objects. Our aim is to explore the internal kinematic and metallicity properties of one of the three isolated LG early-type dwarf galaxies, the Tucana dwarf spheroidal. This is an intriguing system, as it has been found in the literature to have an internal rotation of up to 16km/s, a much higher velocity dispersion than dwarf spheroidals of similar luminosity, and a possible exception to the too-big-too-fail problem. We present the results of a new spectroscopic dataset that we procured from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) taken with the FORS2 instrument in the region of the Ca II triplet for 50 candidate red giant branch stars in the direction of the Tucana dwarf spheroidal. These yielded line-of-sight (l.o.s.) velocity and metallicity ([Fe/H]) measurements of 39 effective members that double the number of Tucana's stars with such measurements. In addition, we re-reduce and include in our analysis the other two spectroscopic datasets presented in the literature, the VLT/FORS2 sample by Fraternali et al. (2009A&A...499..121F), and the VLT/FLAMES one from Gregory et al. (2019MNRAS.485.2010G). Across the various datasets analyzed, we consistently measure a l.o.s. systemic velocity of 180+/-1.3km/s and find that a dispersion-only model is moderately favored over models that also account for internal rotation. Our best estimate of the internal l.o.s. velocity dispersion is 6.2_-1.3_^+1.6^km/s, much smaller than the values reported in the literature and in line with similarly luminous dwarf spheroidals; this is consistent with NFW halos of circular velocities <30km/s. Therefore, Tucana does not appear to be an exception to the too-big-to-fail problem, nor does it appear to reside in a dark matter halo much more massive than those of its siblings. As for the metallicity properties, we do not find anything unusual; there are hints of the presence of a metallicity gradient, but more data are needed to pinpoint its presence.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/310/715
- Title:
- Tucana dwarf galaxy VI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/310/715
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep CCD photometry for the dwarf galaxy in Tucana (l=323, b=-47.4). The data indicate that the galaxy is dominated by an intermediate/old stellar population with metallicity similar to that of the galactic globular clusters NGC 6752 and NGC 7089 (M2) (we find [Fe/H]=~-1.56). The distance modulus we derived, (m-M)_V_=~24.72+/-0.2, makes clear that this galaxy belongs to the Local Gro up. Tucana is clearly different from other dwarf galaxies, such as Leo I (Lee et al., 1993AJ....106.1420L), or Phoenix (Ortolani and Gratton, 1988PASP..100.1405O), because there is no evidence of a young stellar population (t<=5Gyrs) We suggest that the Tucana Galaxy is a genuine dwarf spheroidal in which no recent burst of star formation occurred.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/444/527
- Title:
- Tully-Fisher distances for Spitzer galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/444/527
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper involves a data release of the observational campaign: Cosmicflows with Spitzer (CFS). Surface photometry of the 1270 galaxies constituting the survey is presented. An additional ~400 galaxies from various other Spitzer surveys are also analysed. CFS complements the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies, that provides photometry for an additional 2352 galaxies, by extending observations to low galactic latitudes (|b|<30{deg}). Among these galaxies are calibrators, selected in the K band, of the Tully-Fisher relation. The addition of new calibrators demonstrates the robustness of the previously released calibration. Our estimate of the Hubble constant using supernova host galaxies is unchanged, H_0_=75.2+/-3.3km/s/Mpc. Distance-derived radial peculiar velocities, for the 1935 galaxies with all the available parameters, will be incorporated into a new data release of the Cosmicflows project. The size of the previous catalogue will be increased by 20 percent, including spatial regions close to the Zone of Avoidance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/420/97
- Title:
- Tully-Fisher relation at 0.1<z<1.0
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/420/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the Very Large Telescope in Multi Object Spectroscopy mode, we have observed a sample of 113 field spiral galaxies in the FORS Deep Field (FDF) with redshifts in the range 0.1<z<1.0. The galaxies were selected based on apparent brightness (R<23) and encompass all late spectrophotometric types from Sa to Sdm/Im. Spatially resolved rotation curves have been extracted for 77 galaxies and fitted with synthetic velocity fields taking into account all observational effects from inclination and slit misalignment to seeing and slit width. We also compared different shapes for the intrinsic rotation curve. To obtain robust values of Vmax, our analysis is focused on galaxies with rotation curves that extend well into the region of constant rotation velocity at large radii. If the slope of the local Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) is held fixed, we find evidence for a mass-dependent luminosity evolution which is as large as up to 2mag for the lowest-mass galaxies, but is small or even negligible for the highest-mass systems in our sample. In effect, the TFR slope is shallower at z~0.5 in comparison to the local sample. We argue for a mass-dependent evolution of the mass-to-light ratio. An additional population of blue, low-mass spirals does not seem a very appealing explanation. The flatter tilt we find for the distant TFR is in contradiction to the predictions of recent semi-analytic simulations.
- 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).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/945
- Title:
- Tully-Fisher relation for SDSS galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/945
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measure the relation between galaxy luminosity and disk circular velocity (the Tully-Fisher [TF] relation), in the g, r, i, and z bands, for a broadly selected sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, with the goal of providing well-defined observational constraints for theoretical models of galaxy formation. The input sample of 234 galaxies has a roughly flat distribution of absolute magnitudes in the range -18.5>M_r_>-22, and our only morphological selection is an isophotal axis ratio cut b/a<=0.6 to allow accurate inclination corrections. Long-slit spectroscopy from the Calar Alto and MDM observatories yields usable Halpha rotation curves for 162 galaxies (69%), with a representative color and morphology distribution. We define circular velocities V_80_ by evaluating the rotation curve at the radius containing 80% of the i-band light.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/147/134
- Title:
- Tully-Fisher relation for S^4^G galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/147/134
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine data from the Spitzer Survey for Stellar Structure in Galaxies, a recently calibrated empirical stellar mass estimator from Eskew et al., and an extensive database of HI spectral line profiles to examine the baryonic Tully-Fisher (BTF) relation. We find (1) that the BTF has lower scatter than the classic Tully-Fisher (TF) relation and is better described as a linear relationship, confirming similar previous results, (2) that the inclusion of a radial scale in the BTF decreases the scatter but only modestly, as seen previously for the TF relation, and (3) that the slope of the BTF, which we find to be 3.5+/-0.2({Delta}logM_baryon_/{Delta}logv_c_), implies that on average a nearly constant fraction (~0.4) of all baryons expected to be in a halo are "condensed" onto the central region of rotationally supported galaxies. The condensed baryon fraction, M_baryon_/M_total_, is, to our measurement precision, nearly independent of galaxy circular velocity (our sample spans circular velocities, v _c_, between 60 and 250km/s, but is extended to v_c_~10km/s using data from the literature). The observed galaxy-to-galaxy scatter in this fraction is generally {<=} a factor of 2 despite fairly liberal selection criteria. These results imply that cooling and heating processes, such as cold versus hot accretion, mass loss due to stellar winds, and active galactic nucleus driven feedback, to the degree that they affect the global galactic properties involved in the BTF, are independent of halo mass for galaxies with 10<v_c_<250km/s and typically introduce no more than a factor of two range in the resulting M_baryon_/M_total_. Recent simulations by Aumer et al. of a small sample of disk galaxies are in excellent agreement with our data, suggesting that current simulations are capable of reproducing the global properties of individual disk galaxies. More detailed comparison to models using the BTF holds great promise, but awaits improved determinations of the stellar masses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/816/L14
- Title:
- Tully-Fisher relation in disk galaxies from SPARC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/816/L14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In a {Lambda} cold dark matter ({Lambda}CDM) cosmology, the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) is expected to show significant intrinsic scatter resulting from the mass-concentration relation of dark matter halos and the baryonic-to-halo mass ratio. We study the BTFR using a sample of 118 disk galaxies (spirals and irregulars) with data of the highest quality: extended HI rotation curves (tracing the outer velocity) and Spitzer photometry at 3.6{mu}m (tracing the stellar mass). Assuming that the stellar mass-to-light ratio ({Upsilon}_*_) is nearly constant at 3.6{mu}m, we find that the scatter, slope, and normalization of the BTFR systematically vary with the adopted {Upsilon}_*_. The observed scatter is minimized for {Upsilon}_*_>~0.5M_{Sun}_/L_{Sun}_, corresponding to nearly maximal disks in high-surface-brightness galaxies and BTFR slopes close to ~4. For any reasonable value of {Upsilon}_*_, the intrinsic scatter is ~0.1dex, below general {Lambda}CDM expectations. The residuals show no correlations with galaxy structural parameters (radius or surface brightness), contrary to the predictions from some semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. These are fundamental issues for {Lambda}CDM cosmology.
