- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/725/1252
- Title:
- Confirmed members of RX J0152.7-1357
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/725/1252
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectrophotometric analysis of galaxies belonging to the dynamically young, massive cluster RX J0152.7-1357 at z~0.84, aimed at understanding the effects of the cluster environment on the star formation history (SFH) of cluster galaxies and the assembly of the red sequence (RS). We use VLT/FORS spectroscopy, ACS/WFC optical, and NTT/SofI near-IR data to characterize SFHs as a function of color, luminosity, morphology, stellar mass, and local environment from a sample of 134 spectroscopic members. In order to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, individual galaxy spectra are stacked according to these properties. Moreover, the D4000, Balmer, CN3883, Fe4383, and C4668 indices are also quantified.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/564/A128
- Title:
- Continuum and CO maps of 3C 293
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/564/A128
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Powerful radio galaxies show evidence of ongoing active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback, mainly in the form of fast, massive outflows. But it is not clear how these outflows affect the star formation of their hosts. We investigate the different manifestations of AGN feedback in the evolved, powerful radio source 3C 293 and their impact on the molecular gas of its host galaxy, which harbors young star-forming regions and fast outflows of H i and ionized gas. We study the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas of 3C 293 using high spatial resolution observations of the ^12^CO(1-0) and ^12^CO(2-1) lines, and the 3mm and 1 continuum taken with the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer. We mapped the molecular gas of 3C 293 and compared it with the dust and star-formation images of the host. We searched for signatures of outflow motions in the CO kinematics, and re-examined the evidence of outflowing gas in the HI spectra. We also derived the star formation rate (SFR) and star formation efficiency (SFE) of the host with all available SFR tracers from the literature, and compared them with the SFE of young and evolved radio galaxies and normal star-forming galaxies. The ^12^CO(1-0) emission line shows that the molecular gas in 3C 293 is distributed along a massive (M(H_2_)~2.2x10^10^M_{sun}_) ~24" (21kpc) diameter warped disk, that rotates around the AGN. Our data show that the dust and the star formation are clearly associated with the CO disk. The ^12^CO(2-1) emission is located in the inner 7kpc (diameter) region around the AGN, coincident with the inner part of the ^12^CO(1-0) disk. Both the ^12^CO(1-0) and ^12^CO(2-1) spectra reveal the presence of an absorber against the central regions of 3C 293 that is associated with the disk. We do not detect any fast (500km/s) outflow motions in the cold molecular gas. The host of 3C 293 shows an SFE consistent with the Kennicutt-Schmidt law of normal galaxies and young radio galaxies, and it is 10-50 times higher than the SFE estimated with the 7.7um PAH emission of evolved radio galaxies. Our results suggest that the apparently low SFE of evolved radio galaxies may be caused by an underestimation of the SFR and/or an overestimation of the molecular gas densities in these sources. The molecular gas of 3C 293, while not incompatible with a mild AGN-triggered flow, does not reach the high velocities (500km/s) observed in the HI spectrum. We find no signatures of AGN feedback in the molecular gas of 3C 293.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/836/186
- Title:
- Continuum-band lags in SDSS QSOs from PS1 obs.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/836/186
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the time lags between the continuum emission of quasars at different wavelengths, based on more than four years of multi-band (g, r, i, z) light curves in the Pan-STARRS Medium Deep Fields. As photons from different bands emerge from different radial ranges in the accretion disk, the lags constrain the sizes of the accretion disks. We select 240 quasars with redshifts of z~1 or z~0.3 that are relatively emission-line free. The light curves are sampled from day to month timescales, which makes it possible to detect lags on the scale of the light crossing time of the accretion disks. With the code JAVELIN, we detect typical lags of several days in the rest frame between the g band and the riz bands. The detected lags are ~2-3 times larger than the light crossing time estimated from the standard thin disk model, consistent with the recently measured lag in NGC 5548 and microlensing measurements of quasars. The lags in our sample are found to increase with increasing luminosity. Furthermore, the increase in lags going from g-r to g-i and then to g-z is slower than predicted in the thin disk model, particularly for high-luminosity quasars. The radial temperature profile in the disk must be different from what is assumed. We also find evidence that the lags decrease with increasing line ratios between ultraviolet Fe II lines and Mg II, which may point to changes in the accretion disk structure at higher metallicity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/843/76
- Title:
- Cool-core clusters with Chandra obs.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/843/76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive and compare the fractions of cool-core clusters in the Planck Early Sunyaev-Zel'dovich sample of 164 clusters with z<=0.35 and in a flux- limited X-ray sample of 100 clusters with z<=0.30, using Chandra observations. We use four metrics to identify cool-core clusters: (1) the concentration parameter, which is the ratio of the integrated emissivity profile within 0.15 r_500_ to that within r_500_; (2) the ratio of the integrated emissivity profile within 40kpc to that within 400kpc; (3) the cuspiness of the gas density profile, which is the negative of the logarithmic derivative of the gas density with respect to the radius, measured at 0.04 r_500_; and (4) the central gas density, measured at 0.01 r_500_. We find that the sample of X-ray-selected clusters, as characterized by each of these metrics, contains a significantly larger fraction of cool-core clusters compared to the sample of SZ-selected clusters (44%+/-7% versus 28%+/-4% using the concentration parameter in the 0.15-1.0 r_500_ range, 61%+/-8% versus 36%+/-5% using the concentration parameter in the 40-400 kpc range, 64%+/-8% versus 38%+/-5% using the cuspiness, and 53%+/-7% versus 39+/-5% using the central gas density). Qualitatively, cool-core clusters are more X-ray luminous at fixed mass. Hence, our X-ray, flux-limited sample, compared to the approximately mass-limited SZ sample, is overrepresented with cool-core clusters. We describe a simple quantitative model that uses the excess luminosity of cool-core clusters compared to non-cool-core clusters at fixed mass to successfully predict the observed fraction of cool-core clusters in X-ray-selected samples.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/759/107
- Title:
- Core-collapse SNe and host galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/759/107
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have used images and spectra of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to examine the host galaxies of 519 nearby supernovae (SN). The colors at the sites of the explosions, as well as chemical abundances, and specific star formation rates (SFRs) of the host galaxies provide circumstantial evidence on the origin of each SN type. We examine separately SN II, SN IIn, SN IIb, SN Ib, SN Ic, and SN Ic with broad lines (SN Ic-BL). For host galaxies that have multiple spectroscopic fibers, we select the fiber with host radial offset most similar to that of the SN. Type Ic SN explode at small host offsets, and their hosts have exceptionally strongly star-forming, metal-rich, and dusty stellar populations near their centers. The SN Ic-BL and SN IIb explode in exceptionally blue locations, and, in our sample, we find that the host spectra for SN Ic-BL show lower average oxygen abundances than those for SN Ic. SN IIb host fiber spectra are also more metal-poor than those for SN Ib, although a significant difference exists for only one of two strong-line diagnostics. SN Ic-BL host galaxy emission lines show strong central specific SFRs. In contrast, we find no strong evidence for different environments for SN IIn compared to the sites of SN II. Because our SN sample is constructed from a variety of sources, there is always a risk that sampling methods can produce misleading results. We have separated the SN discovered by targeted surveys from those discovered by galaxy-impartial searches to examine these questions and show that our results do not depend sensitively on the discovery technique.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/887/5
- Title:
- COS CGM compendium (CCC). III. z<=1 Ly{alpha} syst.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/887/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We characterize the metallicities and physical properties of cool, photoionized gas in a sample of 152 z<=1 strong Ly{alpha} forest systems (SLFSs, absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<16.2). The sample is drawn from our Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) circumgalactic medium compendium (CCC), an ultraviolet survey of HI-selected circumgalactic gas around z<=1 galaxies that targets 261 absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<19. We show that the metallicity probability distribution function of the SLFSs at z<=1 is unimodal, skewed to low metallicities with a mean and median of [X/H]=-1.47 and -1.18dex. Very metal-poor gas with [X/H]{<}-1.4 represents about half of the population of absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<=18, while it is rare at higher N_HI_. Thus, there are important reservoirs of primitive (though not pristine) diffuse ionized gas around z<=1 galaxies. The photoionized gas around z<=1 galaxies is highly inhomogeneous based on the wide range of metallicities observed (-3<=[X/H]<=+0.4) and the fact that there are large metallicity variations (factors of 2 to 25) for most of the closely spaced absorbers ({Delta}v<=300km/s) along the same sightlines. These absorbers show a complex evolution with redshift and HI column density, and we identify subtle cosmic evolution effects that affect the interpretation of metallicity distributions and comparison with other absorber samples. We discuss the physical conditions and cosmic baryon and metal budgets of the CCC absorbers. Finally, we compare the CCC results to recent cosmological zoom simulations and explore the origins of the 15<logN_HI_<19 absorbers within the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) high-resolution simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/820/66
- Title:
- Cosmic evolution of long gamma-ray burst luminosity
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/820/66
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The cosmic evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity is essential for revealing the GRB physics and for using GRBs as cosmological probes. We investigate the luminosity evolution of long GRBs with a large sample of 258 Swift/BAT GRBs. By describing the peak luminosity evolution of individual GRBs as L_p_{prop.to}(1+z)^k^, we get k=1.49+/-0.19 using the nonparametric {tau} statistics method without considering observational biases of GRB trigger and redshift measurement. By modeling these biases with the observed peak flux and characterizing the peak luminosity function of long GRBs as a smoothly broken power law with a break that evolves as L_b_{prop.to}(1+z)^kb^, we obtain k_b_=1.14^+0.99^_-0.47_ through simulations based on the assumption that the long GRB rate follows the star formation rate incorporating the cosmic metallicity history. The derived k and k_b_ values are systematically smaller than those reported in previous papers. By removing the observational biases of the GRB trigger and redshift measurement based on our simulation analysis, we generate mock complete samples of 258 and 1000 GRBs to examine how these biases affect the {tau} statistics method. We get k=0.94+/-0.14 and k=0.80+/-0.09 for the two samples, indicating that these observational biases may lead to overestimating the k value. With the large uncertainty of k_b_ derived from our simulation analysis, one cannot even convincingly argue for a robust evolution feature of the GRB luminosity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/837/16
- Title:
- Cosmic web of galaxies in the COSMOS field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/837/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use a mass complete (log(M/M_{sun}_)>=9.6) sample of galaxies with accurate photometric redshifts in the COSMOS field to construct the density field and the cosmic web to z=1.2. The comic web extraction relies on the density field Hessian matrix and breaks the density field into clusters, filaments, and the field. We provide the density field and cosmic web measures to the community. We show that at z<~0.8, the median star formation rate (SFR) in the cosmic web gradually declines from the field to clusters and this decline is especially sharp for satellites (~1dex versus ~0.5dex for centrals). However, at z>~0.8, the trend flattens out for the overall galaxy population and satellites. For star-forming (SF) galaxies only, the median SFR is constant at z>~0.5 but declines by ~0.3-0.4dex from the field to clusters for satellites and centrals at z<~0.5. We argue that for satellites, the main role of the cosmic web environment is to control their SF fraction, whereas for centrals, it is mainly to control their overall SFR at z<~0.5 and to set their fraction at z>~0.5. We suggest that most satellites experience a rapid quenching mechanism as they fall from the field into clusters through filaments, whereas centrals mostly undergo a slow environmental quenching at z<~0.5 and a fast mechanism at higher redshifts. Our preliminary results highlight the importance of the large-scale cosmic web on galaxy evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A137
- Title:
- Cosmology from galaxy lensing and clustering
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/627/A137
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The combination of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing (GGL) and Redshift Space Distortion of galaxy clustering (RSD) is a privileged technique to test General Relativity predictions, and break degeneracies between the growth rate of structure parameter f and the amplitude of the linear power-spectrum {sigma}8. We perform a joint GGL and RSD analysis on 250 sq. degrees using shape catalogues from CFHTLenS and CFHT-Stripe 82, and spectroscopic redshifts from the BOSS CMASS sample. We adjust a model that includes non-linear biasing, RSD and Alcock-Paczynski effects. We find f(z=0.57)=0.95+/-0.23, {sigma}8(z=0.57)=0.55+/-0.07 and {OMEGA}m=0.31+/-0.08, in agreement with Planck cosmological results 2018. We also estimate the probe of gravity E_G_=0.43+/-0.10 in agreement with {LAMBDA}CDM-GR predictions of E_G_=0.40. This analysis reveals that RSD efficiently decreases the GGL uncertainty on {OMEGA}m by a factor of 4, and by 30% on {sigma}8. We use an N-body simulation supplemented by an abundance matching prescription for CMASS to build a set of overlapping lensing and clustering mocks. Together with additional spectroscopic data, this helps us to quantify and correct several systematic errors, such as photometric redshifts. We make our mock catalogues available on the Skies and Universe database.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/696/1195
- Title:
- COSMOS AGN spectroscopic survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/696/1195
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical spectroscopy for an X-ray and optical flux-limited sample of 677 XMM-Newton selected targets covering the 2deg^2^ Cosmic Evolution Survey field, with a yield of 485 high-confidence redshifts. The majority of the spectra were obtained over three seasons (2005-2007) with the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph instrument on the Magellan (Baade) telescope. We also include in the sample previously published Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra and supplemental observations with MMT/Hectospec. We detail the observations and classification analyses. The survey is 90% complete to flux limits of f_0.5-10keV_>8x10^-16-^erg/cm^2^/s and i^+^_AB_<22, where over 90% of targets have high-confidence redshifts. Making simple corrections for incompleteness due to redshift and spectral type allows for a description of the complete population to i^+^_AB_<23. The corrected sample includes a 57% broad emission line (Type 1, unobscured) active galactic nucleus (AGN) at 0.13<z<4.26, 25% narrow emission line (Type 2, obscured) AGN at 0.07<z<1.29, and 18% absorption line (host-dominated, obscured) AGN at 0<z<1.22 (excluding the stars that made up 4% of the X-ray targets). We show that the survey's limits in X-ray and optical fluxes include nearly all X-ray AGNs (defined by L_0.5-10keV_>3x10^42^erg/s) to z<1, of both optically obscured and unobscured types.
