- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/26D
- Title:
- Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC)
- Short Name:
- VII/26D
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) is an essentially complete catalogue of galaxies to a limiting diameter of 1.0' and/or to a limiting apparent magnitude of 14.5 on the blue prints of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). Coverage is limited to the sky north of declination -02.5degrees. Galaxies smaller than 1.0' in diameter but brighter than 14.5 mag may be included from the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG, Zwicky et al. 1961-1968); all such galaxies in the CGCG are included in the UGC. The galaxies are ordered by 1950 right ascension. The catalogue contains descriptions of the galaxies and their surrounding areas, plus conventional system classifications and position angles for flattened galaxies. Galaxy diameters on both the blue and red POSS prints are included and the classifications and descriptions are given in such a way as to provide as accurate an account as possible of the appearance of the galaxies on the prints. Only the data portion of the published UGC is included in the machine-readable version. The order of the records is strictly by UGC number; i.e., the Addenda records follow their main catalogue counterparts in the file. The colons (indicating uncertainty) and various other codes (parentheses, brackets) are not included in the machine-readable version of the catalogue. Several possible improvements to the catalogue might consist of adding codes corresponding to the published version, a second file containing abbreviations and terminology and a third file with the extensive notes. It would also be important to add an asterisk or some other code to data records having a note in the proposed third file. This document describes the machine-readable version of the UGC as distributed by the Astronomical Data Centers. It is intended to enable users to read and process the data without problems or guesswork. For additional details regarding the classifications, measurement of apparent magnitudes, and data content, the source reference should be consulted. A copy of this document should accompany any machine-readable copy of the catalogue.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/125/1352
- Title:
- Ursa Minor dSph M,T2, DDO51 photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/125/1352
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a large-area photometric survey of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy and its environs. This survey is intended to trace the distribution of stars outside the nominal tidal radius of this system. Observations were made with the Washington M, Washington T2, and DDO51 filters, which in combination have been shown to provide reliable stellar luminosity classification for K-type stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/647/A167
- Title:
- Using H-bump to identify RSGs in NGC6822
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/647/A167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a case study in which we used a novel method to identify red supergiant (RSG) candidates in NGC 6822 based on their 1.6um H-bump. We collected 32 bands of photometric data for NGC 6822 ranging from the optical to the mid-infrared (MIR), derived from Gaia, PS1, LGGS, VHS, UKIRT, IRSF, HAWK-I, Spitzer, and WISE. Using the theoretical spectra from MARCS, we demonstrate that there is a prominent difference around 1.6um (H-bump) between targets with high and low surface gravity (HSG and LSG). Taking advantage of this feature, we identify efficient color-color diagrams of rzH (r-z versus z-H) and rzK (r-z versus z-K) to separate HSG (mostly foreground dwarfs) and LSG targets (mainly background red giant stars, asymptotic giant branch stars, and RSGs) from crossmatching of optical and near-infrared (NIR) data. Moreover, synthetic photometry from ATLAS9 gives similar results. We further separated RSG candidates from the remaining LSG candidates as determined by the H-bump method by using semi-empirical criteria on NIR color-magnitude diagrams, where both the theoretic cuts and morphology of the RSG population are considered. This separation produced 323 RSG candidates. The simulation of foreground stars with Besancon models also indicates that our selection criteria are largely free from the contamination of Galactic giants. In addition to the H-bump method, we used the traditional BVR method (B-V versus V-R) as a comparison and/or supplement by applying a slightly aggressive cut to select as many RSG candidates as possible (358 targets). Furthermore, the Gaia astrometric solution was used to constrain the sample, where 181 and 193 targets were selected with the H-bump and BVR method, respectively. The percentages of selected targets in the two methods are similar at ~60%, indicating a comparable accuracy of the two methods. In total, there are 234 RSG candidates after combining targets from the two methods, and 140 (~60%) of them are in common. The final RSG candidates are in the expected locations on the mid-infrared color-magnitude diagram with [3.6]-[4.5]<~0 and J-[8.0]~1.0. The spatial distribution is also coincident with the far-ultraviolet-selected star formation regions, suggesting that the selection is reasonable and reliable. We indicate that our method can also be used to identify other LSG targets, such as red giants and asymptotic giant branch stars, and it can also be applied to most of the nearby galaxies by using recent large-scale ground-based surveys. Future ground- and space-based facilities may promote its application beyond the Local Group.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/164/38
- Title:
- UV and FIR properties of nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/164/38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work presents the main ultraviolet (UV) and far-infrared (FIR) properties of two samples of nearby galaxies selected from the GALEX ({lambda}=2315{AA}, hereafter NUV) and IRAS ({lambda}=60{mu}m) surveys, respectively. They are built in order to obtain detection at both wavelengths for most of the galaxies. Star formation rate (SFR) estimators based on the UV and FIR emissions are compared. Systematic differences are found between the SFR estimators for individual galaxies based on the NUV fluxes corrected for dust attenuation and on the total IR luminosity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/757/52
- Title:
- UV and IR observations for SINGS galaxies. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/757/52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The correlation between infrared-to-ultraviolet luminosity ratio and ultraviolet color (or ultraviolet spectral slope), i.e., the IRX-UV (or IRX-{beta}) relation, found in studies of starburst galaxies is a prevalent recipe for correcting extragalactic dust attenuation. Considerable dispersion in this relation discovered for normal galaxies, however, complicates its usability. In order to investigate the cause of the dispersion and to have a better understanding of the nature of the IRX-UV relation, in this paper, we select five nearby spiral galaxies, and perform spatially resolved studies on each of the galaxies, with a combination of ultraviolet and infrared imaging data. We measure all positions within each galaxy and divide the extracted regions into young and evolved stellar populations. By means of this approach, we attempt to discover separate effects of dust attenuation and stellar population age on the IRX-UV relation for individual galaxies. In this work, in addition to dust attenuation, stellar population age is interpreted to be another parameter in the IRX-UV function, and the diversity of star formation histories is suggested to disperse the age effects. At the same time, strong evidence shows the need for more parameters in the interpretation of observational data, such as variations in attenuation/extinction law. Fractional contributions of different components to the integrated luminosities of the galaxies suggest that the integrated measurements of these galaxies, which comprise different populations, would weaken the effect of the age parameter on IRX-UV diagrams. The dependence of the IRX-UV relation on luminosity and radial distance in galaxies presents weak trends, which offers an implication of selective effects. The two-dimensional maps of the UV color and the infrared-to-ultraviolet ratio are displayed and show a disparity in the spatial distributions between the two galaxy parameters, which offers a spatial interpretation of the scatter in the IRX-UV relation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/789/76
- Title:
- UV and IR properties for galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/789/76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Variations in the attenuation law have a significant impact on observed spectral energy distributions for galaxies. As one important observational property for galaxies at ultraviolet and infrared wavelength bands, the correlation between infrared-to-ultraviolet luminosity ratio and ultraviolet color index (or ultraviolet spectral slope), i.e., the IRX-UV relation (or IRX-{beta} relation), offered a widely used formula for correcting dust attenuation in galaxies, but the usability appears to be in doubt now because of considerable dispersion in this relation found by many studies. In this paper, on the basis of spectral synthesis modeling and spatially resolved measurements of four nearby spiral galaxies, we provide an interpretation of the deviation in the IRX-UV relation with variations in the attenuation law. From both theoretical and observational viewpoints, two components in the attenuation curve, the linear background and the 2175 {AA} bump, are suggested to be the parameters in addition to the stellar population age (addressed in the first paper of this series) in the IRX-UV function; different features in the attenuation curve are diagnosed for the galaxies in our sample. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to ascertain the attenuation law for galaxies in actual observations. Possible reasons for preventing the successful detection of the parameters in the attenuation curve are also discussed in this paper, including the degeneracy of the linear background and the 2175 {AA} bump in observational channels, the requirement for young and dust-rich systems to study, and the difficulty in accurate estimates of dust attenuations at different wavelength bands.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/1208
- Title:
- UVBI magnitudes and redshifts in HDF-South
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/1208
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 97 (*) spectroscopic redshifts of z<1 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) and its flanking fields (FFs). In the HDF-S proper we observed approximately half the galaxies brighter than I_814_(AB)=24 and obtained redshifts for 76% of them. Targets in our HDF-S sample were preselected to be at z<1 based on photometric redshifts, while in the FFs a simple magnitude cut was used. The photometric redshift preselection in the HDF-S resulted in a spectroscopic success rate that is significantly higher than in the FFs, where no preselection was applied. The rms precision of our redshift measurements, determined from repeat observations, is {delta}z=0.0003. We present the photometry and redshifts for the 97 objects for which we secured spectroscopic redshifts and describe the basic properties of this sample. The photometry was derived from the HST observations; the spectroscopy was obtained at the VLT using the FORS2 spectrograph on the Kueyen (UT2) and Yepun (UT4) 8.2m telescopes. (*) Actually, 103 redshifts in table1.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/653/A83
- Title:
- UVB/NIR spectroscopy GRB hosts
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/653/A83
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the updated census and statistics of Lyman-alpha emitting long gamma-ray bursts host galaxies (LAE-LGRBs). We investigate the properties of a sub-sample of four LAE-LGRBs (GRBs: 011211, 021004, 060926, 070110). The combined observations of their afterglow and host galaxy allow us to test the shell model commonly used to fit Lyman-alpha emission line spectra.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/399/728
- Title:
- UV-bright sources behind M31 halo
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/399/728
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have performed a wide-area ultraviolet (UV) imaging survey using the GALaxy Evolution eXplorer to search for bright, point-like UV sources behind M31's extended halo. Our survey consisted of 46 pointings covering an effective area of ~50deg^2^, in both the far-UV and near-UV channels. We combined these data with optical R-band observations acquired with the WIYN Mosaic-1 imager on the Kitt Peak National Observatory 0.9-m WIYN telescope. An analysis of the brightness and colours of sources matched between our photometric catalogues yielded ~100 UV-bright quasar candidates. We have obtained discovery spectra for 76 of these targets with the Kast spectrometer on the Lick 3-m telescope and confirmed 30 active galactic nuclei and quasars, 29 galaxies at z>0.02 including several early-type systems, 16 Galactic stars (hot main-sequence stars) and one featureless source previously identified as a BL Lac object. Future UV spectroscopy of the brightest targets with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope will enable a systematic search for diffuse gas in the extended halo of M31.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/83
- Title:
- UV continuum for z~4-7 star-forming galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/754/83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Ultra-deep Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and WFC3/IR HUDF+HUDF09 data, along with the wide-area GOODS+ERS+CANDELS data over the CDF-S GOODS field, are used to measure UV colors, expressed as the UV-continuum slope {beta}, of star-forming galaxies over a wide range of luminosity (0.1L*_z=3_ to 2L*_z=3_) at high redshift (z~7 to z~4). {beta} is measured using all ACS and WFC3/IR passbands uncontaminated by Ly{alpha} and spectral breaks. Extensive tests show that our {beta} measurements are only subject to minimal biases. Using a different selection procedure, Dunlop et al. (2012MNRAS.420..901D) recently found large biases in their {beta} measurements. To reconcile these different results, we simulated both approaches and found that {beta} measurements for faint sources are subject to large biases if the same passbands are used both to select the sources and to measure {beta}. High-redshift galaxies show a well-defined rest-frame UV color-magnitude (CM) relationship that becomes systematically bluer toward fainter UV luminosities. No evolution is seen in the slope of the UV CM relationship in the first 1.5 Gyr, though there is a small evolution in the zero point to redder colors from z~7 to z~4. This suggests that galaxies are evolving along a well-defined sequence in the L_UV_-color ({beta}) plane (a "star-forming sequence"?). Dust appears to be the principal factor driving changes in the UV color {beta} with luminosity. These new larger {beta} samples lead to improved dust extinction estimates at z~4-7 and confirm that the extinction is essentially zero at low luminosities and high redshifts. Inclusion of the new dust extinction results leads to (1) excellent agreement between the star formation rate (SFR) density at z~4-8 and that inferred from the stellar mass density; and (2) to higher specific star formation rates (SSFRs) at z>~4, suggesting that the SSFR may evolve modestly (by factors of ~2) from z~4-7 to z~2.
