- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/627/32
- Title:
- Gravitationally lensed arcs in the HST WFPC2 archive
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/627/32
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a systematic search for gravitationally lensed arcs in clusters of galaxies located in the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 data archive. By carefully examining the images of 128 clusters we have located 12 candidate radial arcs and 104 tangential arcs, each of whose length-to-width ratio exceeds 7. In addition, 24 other radial arc candidates were identified with a length-to-width ratio of less than 7. Keck spectroscopy of 17 candidate radial arcs suggests that contamination of the radial arc sample from nonlensed objects is ~30%-50%.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/352/39
- Title:
- Great Attractor region redshifts
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/352/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the third of a series of papers on large-scale structures behind the southern Milky Way, we report here on redshifts obtained at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in the Great Attractor region (318{deg}<~l<~340{deg}, |b|<=10{deg}, Woudt, 1998, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Cape Town). This region encompasses the peak in the reconstructed mass density field, associated with the Great Attractor (Kolatt et al., 1995MNRAS.275..797K, Dekel et al., 1999ApJ...522....1D) and covers the crossing of the Supergalactic Plane with the Galactic Plane. Our deep optical galaxy search in the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) in this region (Woudt, 1998, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Cape Town) has resulted in the detection of 4423 galaxies with observed diameters larger than 0.2arcmin. We have obtained reliable redshifts for 309 galaxies of the 4423 galaxies with the ``Unit'' spectrograph (first with a Reticon, then with a CCD detector) at the 1.9-m telescope of the SAAO. An additional 13 tentative redshifts are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/536/A89
- Title:
- g'r'i' and redshift of Abell 2254 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/536/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mechanisms giving rise to diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters and, in particular, their connection with cluster mergers are still being debated. We explore the internal dynamics of Abell 2254, which has been shown to host a very clumpy and irregular radio halo. Our analysis is mainly based on redshift data for 128 galaxies acquired at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. We combined galaxy velocities and positions to select 110 cluster galaxies and analyze its internal dynamics. We also used new (g', r', i') photometric data acquired at the Isaac Newton Telescope, and (V, i') photometric data available in the Subaru Archive. X-ray data from the XMM-Newton Science Archive were analyzed to study the hot gas component.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/1562
- Title:
- gri photometry of 48 galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/119/1562
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present gri CCD photometry of 44 Abell clusters and four cluster candidates. Twenty-one clusters in our sample have spectroscopic redshifts. Fitting a relation between mean g, r, and i magnitudes and redshift for this subsample, we have calculated photometric redshifts for the remainder with an estimated accuracy of approximately 0.03. The resulting redshift range for the sample is 0.03 < z < 0.38. Color-magnitude diagrams are presented for the complete sample and used to study evolution of the galaxy population in the cluster environment.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/812/114
- Title:
- Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/812/114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of 10 massive clusters of galaxies at redshift z=0.308-0.686, including the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF). The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) yields near-infrared spectra of the cluster cores covering the wavelength range 0.81-1.69{mu}m through grisms G102 and G141, while the Advanced Camera for Surveys in parallel mode provides G800L spectra of the infall regions of the clusters. The WFC3 spectra are taken at two almost orthogonal position angles in order to minimize the effects of confusion. After summarizing the scientific drivers of GLASS, we describe the sample selection as well as the observing strategy and data processing pipeline. We then utilize MACS J0717.5+3745, a HFF cluster and the first one observed by GLASS, to illustrate the data quality and the high-level data products. Each spectrum brighter than H_AB_=23 is visually inspected by at least two co-authors and a redshift is measured when sufficient information is present in the spectra. Furthermore, we conducted a thorough search for emission lines through all of the GLASS WFC3 spectra with the aim of measuring redshifts for sources with continuum fainter than H_AB_=23. We provide a catalog of 139 emission-line-based spectroscopic redshifts for extragalactic sources, including three new redshifts of multiple image systems (one probable, two tentative).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/596/A14
- Title:
- Group catalogues of the local universe
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/596/A14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Friends-of-friends algorithms are a common tool to detect galaxy groups and clusters in large survey data. In order to be as precise as possible, they have to be carefully calibrated using mock catalogues. We create an accurate and robust description of the matter distribution in the local Universe using the most up-to-date available data. This will provide the input for a specific cosmological test planned as follow-up to this work, and will be useful for general extragalactic and cosmological research. We create a set of galaxy group catalogues based on the 2MRS (Huchra et al., 2012, Cat. J/ApJS/199/26) and SDSS DR12 galaxy samples using a friends-of-friends based group finder algorithm. The algorithm is carefully calibrated and optimised on a new set of wide-angle mock catalogues from the Millennium simulation, in order to provide accurate total mass estimates of the galaxy groups taking into account the relevant observational biases in 2MRS and SDSS. We provide four different catalogues: (i) a 2MRS based group catalogue; (ii) a SDSS DR12 based group catalogue reaching out to a redshift z=0.11 with stellar mass estimates for 70% of the galaxies; (iii) a catalogue providing additional fundamental plane distances for all groups of the SDSS catalogue that host elliptical galaxies; (iv) a catalogue of the mass distribution in the local Universe based on a combination of our 2MRS and SDSS catalogues. While motivated by a specific cosmological test, three of the four catalogues that we produced are well suited to act as reference databases for a variety of extragalactic and cosmological science cases. Our catalogue of fundamental plane distances for SDSS groups provides further added value to this paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/494/2090
- Title:
- Group galaxies in ALFALFA survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/494/2090
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We estimate the HI mass function (HIMF) of galaxies in groups based on thousands of ALFALFA (Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey) HI detections within the galaxy groups of four widely used SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) groups catalogues. Although differences between the catalogues mean that there is no one definitive group galaxy HIMF, in general we find that the low-mass slope is flat, in agreement with studies based on small samples of individual groups, and that the 'knee' mass is slightly higher than that of the global HIMF of the full ALFALFA sample. We find that the observed fraction of ALFALFA galaxies in groups is approximately 22 per cent. These group galaxies were removed from the full ALFALFA source catalogue to calculate the field HIMF using the remaining galaxies. Comparison between the field and group HIMFs reveals that group galaxies make only a small contribution to the global HIMF as most ALFALFA galaxies are in the field, but beyond the HIMF 'knee' group galaxies dominate. Finally we attempt to separate the group galaxy HIMF into bins of group halo mass, but find that too few low-mass galaxies are detected in the most massive groups to tightly constrain the slope, owing to the rarity of such groups in the nearby Universe where low-mass galaxies are detectable with existing HI surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/150
- Title:
- Group galaxies in the RCS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/749/150
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the evolution of the red-galaxy fraction (f_red_) in 905 galaxy groups with 0.15<=z<0.52. The galaxy groups are identified by the "probability friends-of-friends" algorithm from the first Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS1) photometric-redshift sample. There is a high degree of uniformity in the properties of the red sequence of the group galaxies, indicating that the luminous red-sequence galaxies in the groups are already in place by z~0.5 and that they have a formation epoch of z>~2. In general, groups at lower redshifts exhibit larger f_red_ than those at higher redshifts, showing a group Butcher-Oemler effect. We investigate the evolution of f_red_ by examining its dependence on four parameters, one of which can be classified as intrinsic and three of which can be classified as environmental: galaxy stellar mass (M_*_), total group stellar mass (M_*,grp_, a proxy for group halo mass), normalized group-centric radius (r_grp_), and local galaxy density ({Sigma}_5_).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/407/2207
- Title:
- Group of early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/407/2207
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The fundamental plane of early-type galaxies is a rather tight three-parameter correlation discovered more than 20yr ago. It has resisted both a global and precise physical interpretation despite a consequent number of works, observational, theoretical or using numerical simulations. It appears that its precise properties depend on the population of galaxies in study. Instead of selecting a priori these populations, we propose to objectively construct homologous populations from multivariate analyses. We have undertaken multivariate cluster and cladistic analyses of a sample of 56 low-redshift galaxy clusters containing 699 early-type galaxies, using four parameters: effective radius, velocity dispersion, surface brightness averaged over effective radius and Mg_2_ index.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/833/194
- Title:
- Group of galaxies in gravitational lens fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/833/194
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- With a large, unique spectroscopic survey in the fields of 28 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses, we identify groups of galaxies in the 26 adequately sampled fields. Using a group-finding algorithm, we find 210 groups with at least 5 member galaxies; the median number of members is 8. Our sample spans redshifts of 0.04<=z_grp_<=0.76 with a median of 0.31, including 174 groups with 0.1<z_grp_<0.6. The groups have radial velocity dispersions of 60<={sigma}_grp_<=1200km/s with a median of 350km/s. We also discover a supergroup in field B0712+472 at z=0.29 that consists of three main groups. We recover groups similar to ~85% of those previously reported in these fields within our redshift range of sensitivity and find 187 new groups with at least five members. The properties of our group catalog, specifically, (1) the distribution of {sigma}_grp_, (2) the fraction of all sample galaxies that are group members, and (3) the fraction of groups with significant substructure, are consistent with those for other catalogs. The distribution of group virial masses agrees well with theoretical expectations. Of the lens galaxies, 12 of 26 (46%) (B1422+231, B1600+434, B2114+022, FBQS J0951+2635, HE0435-1223, HST J14113+5211, MG0751+2716, MGJ1654+1346, PG 1115+080, Q ER 0047-2808, RXJ1131-1231, and WFI J2033-4723) are members of groups with at least five galaxies, and one more (B0712+472) belongs to an additional, visually identified group candidate. There are groups not associated with the lens that still are likely to affect the lens model; in six of 25 (24%) fields (excluding the supergroup), there is at least one massive ({sigma}_grp_>=500km/s) group or group candidate projected within 2' of the lens.
