- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/4341
- Title:
- Seven recent novae BVI light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/4341
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The BVI light curves of seven recent novae (i.e. V1534 Sco, V1535 Sco, V2949 Oph, V3661 Oph, MASTER OT J010603.18-744715.8, TCP J18102829-2729590 and ASASSN-16ma) have been extensively mapped with daily robotic observations from Atacama (Chile): five belong to the Galactic bulge, one to the Small Magellanic Cloud and another is a Galactic disc object. The two programme novae detected in {gamma}-rays by Fermi-LAT (i.e. TCP J18102829-2729590 and ASASSN-16ma) are bulge objects with unevolved companions. They distinguish themselves by showing a double-component optical light curve. The first component to develop is the fireball from freely expanding, ballistic-launched ejecta, with a time of passage through maximum that is strongly dependent on wavelength (~1d delay between the B and I bands). The second component, emerging simultaneously with the nova detection in {gamma}-rays, evolves at a slower pace, its optical brightness being proportional to the {gamma}-ray flux, and its passage through maximum not dependent on wavelength. The fact that {gamma}-rays are detected at a flux level that differs by four times from novae at the distance of the bulge seems to suggest that {gamma}-ray emission is not a widespread property of normal novae. We discuss the advantages offered by high-quality photometric observations collected with only one telescope (as opposed to data provided by a number of different instruments). We also observe the effects of the wavelength dependence of fireball expansion, the recombination in the flashed wind of a giant companion, the subtle presence of hiccups and plateaus, and the super-soft X-ray emission and its switch-off. Four programme novae (V2949 Oph, V3661 Oph, TCP J18102829-2729590 and ASASSN-16ma) have normal dwarf companions: V1534 Sco contains an M3 III giant, V1535 Sco a K-type giant and MASTER OT J010603.18-744715.8 a subgiant. We also comment briefly on the maximum absolute magnitude relation with decline time (MMRD).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/159
- Title:
- 17 Seyfert 1 galaxies light curves
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/788/159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a dust reverberation survey for 17 nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies, which provides the largest homogeneous data collection for the radius of the innermost dust torus. A delayed response of the K-band light curve after the V-band light curve was found for all targets, and 49 measurements of lag times between the flux variation of the dust emission in the K band and that of the optical continuum emission in the V band were obtained by the cross-correlation function analysis and also by an alternative method for estimating the maximum likelihood lag. The lag times strongly correlated with the optical luminosity in the luminosity range of M_V_=-16 to -22 mag, and the regression analysis was performed to obtain the correlation log {Delta}t (days)=-2.11 -0.2 M_V_ assuming {Delta}t{prop.to}L^0.5^, which was theoretically expected. We discuss the possible origins of the intrinsic scatter of the dust lag-luminosity correlation, which was estimated to be approximately 0.13 dex, and we find that the difference of internal extinction and delayed response of changes in lag times to the flux variations could have partly contributed to intrinsic scatter. However, we could not detect any systematic change of the correlation with the subclass of the Seyfert type or the Eddington ratio. Finally, we compare the dust reverberation radius with the near-infrared interferometric radius of the dust torus and the reverberation radius of broad Balmer emission lines. The interferometric radius in the K band was found to be systematically larger than the dust reverberation radius in the same band by the about a factor of two, which could be interpreted by the difference between the flux-weighted radius and response-weighted radius of the innermost dust torus. The reverberation radius of the broad Balmer emission lines was found to be systematically smaller than the dust reverberation radius by about a factor of four to five, which strongly supports the unified scheme of the Seyfert type of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Moreover, we examined the radius-luminosity correlations for the hard X-ray (14-195 keV) and the [O IV] {lambda}25.89 {mu}m emission-line luminosities, which would be applicable for obscured AGNs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/172/599
- Title:
- SFI++ II. A new I-band Tully-Fisher catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/172/599
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the SFI++ data set, a homogeneously derived catalog of photometric and rotational properties and the Tully-Fisher distances and peculiar velocities derived from them. We make use of digital optical images, optical long-slit spectra, and global HI line profiles to extract parameters of relevance to disk scaling relations, incorporating several previously published data sets as well as a new photometric sample of some 2000 objects. According to the completeness of available redshift samples over the sky area, we exploit both a modified percolation algorithm and the Voronoi-Delaunay method to assign individual galaxies to groups as well as clusters, thereby reducing scatter introduced by local orbital motions. We also provide corrections to the peculiar velocities for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous Malmquist bias, making use of the 2MASS Redshift Survey density field to approximate large-scale structure. The final SFI++ peculiar velocity catalog contains 4861 field and cluster galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/8
- Title:
- SFR for WISE + SDSS spectroscopic galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/219/8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine Sloan Digitital Sky Survey (SDSS) and WISE photometry for the full SDSS spectroscopic galaxy sample, creating spectral energy distributions (SEDs) that cover {lambda}=0.4-22{mu}m for an unprecedentedly large and comprehensive sample of 858365 present-epoch galaxies. Using MAGPHYS (da Cunha+ 2008MNRAS.388.1595D), we then simultaneously and consistently model both the attenuated stellar SED and the dust emission at 12 and 22{mu}m, producing robust new calibrations for monochromatic mid-IR star formation rate (SFR) proxies. These modeling results provide the first mid-IR-based view of the bimodality in star formation activity among galaxies, exhibiting the sequence of star-forming galaxies ("main sequence") with a slope of dlogSFR/dlogM_*_=0.80 and a scatter of 0.39dex. We find that these new SFRs along the SF main sequence are systematically lower by a factor of 1.4 than those derived from optical spectroscopy. We show that for most present-day galaxies, the 0.4-22{mu}m SED fits can exquisitely predict the fluxes measured by Herschel at much longer wavelengths. Our analysis also illustrates that the majority of stars in the present-day universe are formed in luminous galaxies (~L*) in and around the "green valley" of the color-luminosity plane. We make publicly available the matched photometry catalog and SED modeling results.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/474/1307
- Title:
- S0 galaxies morpho-kinematic properties
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/474/1307
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study a sample of 28 S0 galaxies extracted from the integral field spectroscopic (IFS) survey Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area. We combine an accurate two-dimensional (2D) multicomponent photometric decomposition with the IFS kinematic properties of their bulges to understand their formation scenario. Our final sample is representative of S0s with high stellar masses (M*/M_{sun}_>10^10^). They lay mainly on the red sequence and live in relatively isolated environments similar to that of the field and loose groups. We use our 2D photometric decomposition to define the size and photometric properties of the bulges, as well as their location within the galaxies. We perform mock spectroscopic simulations mimicking our observed galaxies to quantify the impact of the underlying disc on our bulge kinematic measurements ({nu} and v/{lambda}). We compare our bulge corrected kinematic measurements with the results from Schwarzschild dynamical modelling. The good agreement confirms the robustness of our results and allows us to use bulge deprojected values of {lambda} and v/{sigma}. We find that the photometric (n and B/T) and kinematic (v/{sigma} and {lambda}) properties of our field S0 bulges are not correlated. We demonstrate that this morpho-kinematic decoupling is intrinsic to the bulges and it is not due to projection effects. We conclude that photometric diagnostics to separate different types of bulges (disc-like versus classical) might not be useful for S0 galaxies. The morpho-kinematics properties of S0 bulges derived in this paper suggest that they are mainly formed by dissipational processes happening at high redshift, but dedicated high-resolution simulations are necessary to better identify their origin.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/154
- Title:
- Sgr stream K- & M-giants and BHB stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/154
- Date:
- 07 Dec 2021 13:01:04
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We characterize the kinematic and chemical properties of ~3000 Sagittarius (Sgr) stream stars, including K-giants, M-giants, and blue horizontal branch stars (BHBs), selected from SEGUE-2, Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey separately in Integrals-of-Motion space. The orbit of the Sgr stream is quite clear from the velocity vector in the X-Z plane. Stars traced by K-giants and M-giants show that the apogalacticon of the trailing steam is ~100kpc. The metallicity distributions of Sgr K-giants, M-giants, and BHBs indicate that the M-giants are on average the most metal-rich population, followed by K-giants and BHBs. All of the K-giants, M-giants, and BHBs indicate that the trailing arm is on average more metal-rich than the leading arm, and the K-giants show that the Sgr debris is the most metal-poor part. The {alpha}-abundance of Sgr stars exhibits a similar trend with the Galactic halo stars at lower metallicity ([Fe/H]<~-1.0dex), and then evolve down to lower [{alpha}/Fe] than disk stars at higher metallicity, which is close to the evolution pattern of the {alpha}-element of Milky Way dwarf galaxies. We find that VY and metallicity of K-giants have gradients along the direction of the line of sight from the Galactic center in the X-Z plane, and the K-giants show that VY increases with metallicity at [Fe/H]>~-1.5dex. After dividing the Sgr stream into bright and faint streams according to their locations in equatorial coordinates, the K-giants and BHBs show that the bright and faint streams present different VY and metallicities, the bright stream is on average higher in VY and metallicity than the faint stream.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/585/A84
- Title:
- Shape parameters of lensing galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/585/A84
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The luminosity profiles of galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses can be tricky to study. Indeed, strong gravitational lensing images display several lensed components, both point-like and diffuse, around the lensing galaxy. Those objects limit the study of the galaxy luminosity to its inner parts. Therefore, the usual fitting methods perform rather badly on such images. Previous studies of strong lenses luminosity profiles using software such as like GALFIT or IMFITFITS and various PSF-determining methods have resulted in somewhat discrepant results. The present work aims at investigating the causes of those discrepancies, as well as at designing more robust techniques for studying the morphology of early-type lensing galaxies with the ability to subtract a lensed signal from their luminosity profiles. The morphology of early-type lensing galaxies with the ability to subtract a lensed signal from their luminosity profiles. Methods. We design a new method to independently measure each shape parameter, namely, the position angle, ellipticity, and half- light radius of the galaxy. Our half-light radius measurement method is based on an innovative scheme for computing isophotes that is well suited to measuring the morphological properties of gravitational lensing galaxies. Its robustness regarding various specific aspects of gravitational lensing image processing is analysed and tested against GALFIT. It is then applied to a sample of systems from the CASTLES database.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/114/21
- Title:
- Shapley-Ames Galaxies at 2.8cm
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/114/21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present measurements of the radio continuum emission at 2.8 cm of a nearly complete sample of spiral galaxies. The sample consists of the Shapley-Ames galaxies north of {delta}=-25deg and brighter than B_T_=+12. The large, nearby galaxies were not observed during the survey, but measured with high sensitivity in individual projects. The radioweak galaxies were also excluded. The observational results and the derived flux densities are given and compared with that of other observations. Pecularities of the radio emission of individual galaxies are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/762/46
- Title:
- SHARDS: GOODS-N spectrophotometry survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/762/46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources (SHARDS), an ESO/GTC Large Program carried out using the OSIRIS instrument on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). SHARDS is an ultra-deep optical spectro-photometric survey of the GOODS-N field covering 130arcmin2 at wavelengths between 500 and 950nm with 24 contiguous medium-band filters (providing a spectral resolution R~50). The data reach an AB magnitude of 26.5 (at least at a 3{sigma} level) with sub-arcsec seeing in all bands. SHARDS' main goal is to obtain accurate physical properties of intermediate- and high-z galaxies using well-sampled optical spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with sufficient spectral resolution to measure absorption and emission features, whose analysis will provide reliable stellar population and active galactic nucleus (AGN) parameters. Among the different populations of high-z galaxies, SHARDS' principal targets are massive quiescent galaxies at z>1, whose existence is one of the major challenges facing current hierarchical models of galaxy formation. In this paper, we outline the observational strategy and include a detailed discussion of the special reduction and calibration procedures which should be applied to the GTC/OSIRIS data. An assessment of the SHARDS data quality is also performed. We present science demonstration results on the detection and study of emission-line galaxies (star-forming objects and AGNs) at z=0-5. We also analyze the SEDs for a sample of 27 quiescent massive galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the range 1.0<z<~1.4.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/344/943
- Title:
- Sh 138 BVRIJHK photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/344/943
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of the compact HII region Sh 138 and its associated stellar cluster. The positions and BVRIJHK magnitudes are obtained for more than 400 stars over a field of about 4' square centred on the HII region. Sh 138 is excited by a cluster of young massive stars. At the cluster's very centre are at least four O-B2 stars separated by less than 4". The brightest of these, both in the visible and the near infrared, exhibits a spectrum similar to those of the more massive Herbig Ae/Be stars. This star, our No. 183, is overluminous by a factor of 2.5 in the visible and four in the near IR with respect to the O9.5V star required to account for the ionization level of the HII region. However star 183's position in the J-H versus H-K diagram does not indicate a near-IR excess. We suggest that this star is a young massive object belonging to a binary or multiple system. The stellar cluster associated with Sh 138 is very reminiscent of the Orion Trapezium cluster: it is centrally peaked around several massive stars, and is dense - more than 550stars/pc^2^ at its centre. The visual extinction in the cluster varies between 5mag and more than 35mag; large variations are observed over very small scales (for example, more than 20mag over less than 4" among the central massive stars).
