- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/635/243
- Title:
- Sample of GOODS/CDFS early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/635/243
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the evolution of field early-type galaxies in a sample extracted from the ACS images of the southern GOODS field. The galaxies are selected by means of a nonparametric analysis, followed by visual inspection of the candidates with a concentrated surface brightness distribution. We furthermore exclude from the final sample those galaxies that are not consistent with an evolution into the Kormendy relation between surface brightness and size that is observed for z=0 ellipticals. The final set, which comprises 249 galaxies with a median redshift z_m_=0.71, represents a sample of early-type systems not selected with respect to color, with similar scaling relations as those of bona fide elliptical galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/476/4725
- Title:
- SC4K catalogue of candidate LAEs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/476/4725
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and explore deep narrow- and medium-band data obtained with the Subaru and the Isaac Newton Telescopes in the ~2deg^2^ COSMOS field. We use these data as an extremely wide, low-resolution (R~20-80) Integral Field Unit survey to slice through the COSMOS field and obtain a large sample of ~4000 Ly{alpha} emitters (LAEs) from z~2 to 6 in 16 redshift slices (SC4K). We present new Ly {alpha} luminosity functions (LFs) covering a comoving volume of ~10^8^Mpc^3^. SC4K extensively complements ultradeep surveys, jointly covering over 4dex in Ly{alpha} luminosity and revealing a global (2.5<z<6) synergy LF with {alpha}=-1.93^+0.12^_-0.12_, log_10_{Phi}^*^_Ly{alpha}_=-3.45^+0.22^_-0.29_Mpc^-3^, and log_10_L^*^_Ly{alpha}_=42.93^+0.15^_-0.11_erg/s. The Schechter component of the Ly{alpha} LF reveals a factor ~5 rise in L^*^_Ly{alpha}_ and a ~7 x decline in {Phi}^*^_Ly{alpha}_ from z~2 to 6. The data reveal an extra power-law (or Schechter) component above L_Ly{alpha}_~=10^43.3^erg/s at z~2.2-3.5 and we show that it is partially driven by X-ray and radio active galactic nucleus (AGN), as their Ly{alpha} LF resembles the excess. The power-law component vanishes and/or is below our detection limits above z>3.5, likely linked with the evolution of the AGN population. The Ly {alpha} luminosity density rises by a factor ~2 from z~2 to 3 but is then found to be roughly constant (1.1^+0.2^_-0.2_x10^40^erg/s/Mpc^3^) to z~6, despite the ~0.7 dex drop in ultraviolet (UV) luminosity density. The Ly{alpha}/UV luminosity density ratio rises from 4+/-1 per cent to 30+/-6 per cent from z~2.2 to 6. Our results imply a rise of a factor of ~=2 in the global ionization efficiency ({xi}_ion_) and a factor ~=4+/-1 in the Ly{alpha} escape fraction from z~2 to 6, hinting for evolution in both the typical burstiness/stellar populations and even more so in the typical interstellar medium conditions allowing Ly{alpha} photons to escape.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/820/82
- Title:
- S2CLS: multiwavelength counterparts to SMGs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/820/82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present multiwavelength identifications for the counterparts of 1088 submillimeter sources detected at 850{mu}m in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS) study of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey-Ultra-Deep Survey (UDS) field. By utilizing an Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) pilot study on a subset of our bright SCUBA-2 sample as a training set, along with the deep optical-near-infrared (OIR) data available in this field, we develop a novel technique, Optical-IR Triple Color (OIRTC), using z-K, K-[3.6], [3.6]-[4.5] colors to select the candidate submillimeter galaxy (SMG) counterparts. By combining radio identification and the OIRTC technique, we find counterpart candidates for 80% of the Class = 1 >=4{sigma} SCUBA-2 sample, defined as those that are covered by both radio and OIR imaging and the base sample for our scientific analyses. Based on the ALMA training set, we expect the accuracy of these identifications to be 82%+/-20%, with a completeness of 69%+/-16%, essentially as accurate as the traditional p-value technique but with higher completeness. We find that the fraction of SCUBA-2 sources having candidate counterparts is lower for fainter 850{mu}m sources, and we argue that for follow-up observations sensitive to SMGs with S_850_>~1mJy across the whole ALMA beam, the fraction with multiple counterparts is likely to be >40% for SCUBA-2 sources at S_850_>~4mJy. We find that the photometric redshift distribution for the SMGs is well fit by a lognormal distribution, with a median redshift of z=2.3+/-0.1. After accounting for the sources without any radio and/or OIRTC counterpart, we estimate the median redshift to be z=2.6+/-0.1 for SMGs with S_850_>1mJy. We also use this new large sample to study the clustering of SMGs and the far-infrared properties of the unidentified submillimeter sources by stacking their Herschel SPIRE far-infrared emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/784/9
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 high-redshift galaxies sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/784/9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope's SCUBA-2 camera to image a 400 arcmin^2^ area surrounding the GOODS-N field. The 850 {mu}m rms noise ranges from a value of 0.49 mJy in the central region to 3.5 mJy at the outside edge. From these data, we construct an 850 {mu}m source catalog to 2 mJy containing 49 sources detected above the 4{sigma} level. We use an ultradeep (11.5 {mu}Jy at 5{sigma}) 1.4 GHz image obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array together with observations made with the Submillimeter Array to identify counterparts to the submillimeter galaxies. For most cases of multiple radio counterparts, we can identify the correct counterpart from new and existing Submillimeter Array data. We have spectroscopic redshifts for 62% of the radio sources in the 9' radius highest sensitivity region (556/894) and 67% of the radio sources in the GOODS-N region (367/543). We supplement these with a modest number of additional photometric redshifts in the GOODS-N region (30). We measure millimetric redshifts from the radio to submillimeter flux ratios for the unidentified submillimeter sample, assuming an Arp 220 spectral energy distribution. We find a radio-flux-dependent K-z relation for the radio sources, which we use to estimate redshifts for the remaining radio sources. We determine the star formation rates (SFRs) of the submillimeter sources based on their radio powers and their submillimeter fluxes and find that they agree well. The radio data are deep enough to detect star-forming galaxies with SFRs>2000 M_{sun}_/yr to z~6. We find galaxies with SFRs up to ~6000 M_{sun}_/yr over the redshift range z=1.5-6, but we see evidence for a turn-down in the SFR distribution function above 2000 M_{sun}_/yr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/832/78
- Title:
- SCUBA-2 & LABOCA obs. of HATLAS ultrared galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/832/78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Until recently, only a handful of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) were known at z>4, most of them significantly amplified by gravitational lensing. Here, we have increased the number of such DSFGs substantially, selecting galaxies from the uniquely wide 250, 350, and 500{mu}m Herschel-ATLAS imaging survey on the basis of their extremely red far-infrared colors and faint 350 and 500{mu}m flux densities, based on which, they are expected to be largely unlensed, luminous, rare, and very distant. The addition of ground-based continuum photometry at longer wavelengths from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment allows us to identify the dust peak in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs), with which we can better constrain their redshifts. We select the SED templates that are best able to determine photometric redshifts using a sample of 69 high-redshift, lensed DSFGs, then perform checks to assess the impact of the CMB on our technique, and to quantify the systematic uncertainty associated with our photometric redshifts, {sigma}=0.14(1+z), using a sample of 25 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts, each consistent with our color selection. For Herschel-selected ultrared galaxies with typical colors of S_500_/S_250_~2.2 and S_500_/S_350_~1.3 and flux densities, S500~50mJy, we determine a median redshift, z_phot_=3.66, an interquartile redshift range, 3.30-4.27, with a median rest-frame 8-1000{mu}m luminosity, L_IR_, of 1.3x10^13^L_{sun}_. A third of the galaxies lie at z>4, suggesting a space density, {rho}_z>4_, of ~6x10^-7^Mpc^-3^. Our sample contains the most luminous known star-forming galaxies, and the most overdense cluster of starbursting proto-ellipticals found to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/657/738
- Title:
- SDF galaxies multi-photometry
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/657/738
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- SDF (Subaru Deep Field) line-emitting galaxies in four narrow-band filters at low and intermediate redshifts are presented. Broadband colors, follow-up optical spectroscopy, and multiple NB filters are used to distinguish H{alpha}, [OII], and [OIII] emitters at z=0.07-1.47 to construct their LFs. These LFs are derived down to faint magnitudes, allowing for an accurate determination of the faint-end slope. With a large (N~200) sample for each redshift interval, a Schechter profile is fitted to each LF.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/732/110
- Title:
- SDSS 2175{AA} extinction bump candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/732/110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report detections of 39 2175{AA} dust extinction bump candidates associated with strong MgII absorption lines at z~1-1.8 on quasar spectra in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR3. These strong MgII absorption line systems are detected among 2951 strong MgII absorbers with a rest equivalent width W_r_{lambda}2796>1.0{AA} at 1.0<z<1.86, which is part of a full sample of 7421 strong MgII absorbers compiled by Prochter et al. (2006, Cat. J/ApJ/639/766). The redshift range of the absorbers is chosen to allow the 2175{AA} extinction features to be completely covered within the SDSS spectrograph operation wavelength range. An upper limit of the background quasar emission redshift at z=2.1 is set to prevent the Ly{alpha} forest lines from contaminating the sensitive spectral region for the 2175{AA} bump measurements. A total of 12 absorbers are detected with 2175{AA} bumps at a 5{sigma} level of statistical significance, 10 are detected at a 4{sigma} level, and 17 are detected at a 3{sigma} level. Most of the candidate bumps in this work are similar to the relatively weak 2175{AA} bumps observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud LMC2 supershell rather than the strong ones observed in the Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/17
- Title:
- SDSS and CSP ugri photometry of 9 type Ia supernova
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/144/17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Consistency between Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) and SDSS-II Supernova Survey ugri measurements has been evaluated by comparing Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and CSP photometry for nine spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernova observed contemporaneously by both programs. The CSP data were transformed into the SDSS photometric system. Sources of systematic uncertainty have been identified, quantified, and shown to be at or below the 0.023mag level in all bands. When all photometry for a given band is combined, we find average magnitude differences of equal to or less than 0.011mag in ugri, with rms scatter ranging from 0.043 to 0.077mag. The u-band agreement is promising, with the caveat that only four of the nine supernovae are well observed in u and these four exhibit an 0.038mag supernova-to-supernova scatter in this filter.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/854/160
- Title:
- SDSS and DES long-term extreme variability QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/854/160
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We perform a systematic search for long-term extreme variability quasars (EVQs) in the overlapping Sloan Digital Sky Survey and 3 Year Dark Energy Survey imaging, which provide light curves spanning more than 15 years. We identified ~1000 EVQs with a maximum change in g-band magnitude of more than 1 mag over this period, about 10% of all quasars searched. The EVQs have L_bol_~10^45^-10^47^erg/s and L/L_Edd_~0.01-1. Accounting for selection effects, we estimate an intrinsic EVQ fraction of ~30%-50% among all g<~22 quasars over a baseline of ~15yr. We performed detailed multi-wavelength, spectral, and variability analyses for the EVQs and compared them to their parent quasar sample. We found that EVQs are distinct from a control sample of quasars matched in redshift and optical luminosity: (1) their UV broad emission lines have larger equivalent widths; (2) their Eddington ratios are systematically lower; and (3) they are more variable on all timescales. The intrinsic difference in quasar properties for EVQs suggests that internal processes associated with accretion are the main driver for the observed extreme long-term variability. However, despite their different properties, EVQs seem to be in the tail of a continuous distribution of quasar properties, rather than standing out as a distinct population. We speculate that EVQs are normal quasars accreting at relatively low rates, where the accretion flow is more likely to experience instabilities that drive the changes in flux by a factor of a few on multi-year timescales.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/719/1672
- Title:
- SDSS binary quasars at high redshift. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/719/1672
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The clustering of quasars on small scales yields fundamental constraints on models of quasar evolution and the buildup of supermassive black holes. This paper describes the first systematic survey to discover high-redshift binary quasars. Using color-selection and photometric redshift techniques, we searched 8142deg^2^ of Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data for binary quasar candidates, and confirmed them with follow-up spectroscopy. Our sample of 27 high-redshift binaries (24 of them new discoveries) at redshifts 2.9<z<4.3 with proper transverse separations 10kpc<R_T_<650kpc increases the number of such objects known by an order of magnitude. Eight members of this sample are very close pairs with R_T_<100kpc, and of these close systems four are at z>3.5. The completeness and efficiency of our well-defined selection algorithm are quantified using simulated photometry and we find that our sample is ~50% complete.
