- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/1022
- Title:
- Emission-line galaxies from HST PEARS survey
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/1022
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a search for emission-line galaxies (ELGs) in the southern fields of the Hubble Space Telescope Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS) grism survey. The PEARS South Fields consist of five Advanced Camera for Surveys pointings (including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field) with the G800L grism for a total of 120 orbits, revealing thousands of faint object spectra in the GOODS-South region of the sky. ELGs are one subset of objects that are prevalent among the grism spectra. Using a two-dimensional detection and extraction procedure, we find 320 emission lines originating from 226 galaxy "knots" within 192 individual galaxies. Line identification results in 118 new grism-spectroscopic redshifts for galaxies in the GOODS-South Field. We measure emission-line fluxes using standard Gaussian fitting techniques. The star formation rates of the ELGs are presented, as well as a sample of distinct giant star-forming regions at z~0.1-0.5 across individual galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/772/48
- Title:
- Emission-line galaxies from PEARS. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/772/48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a full analysis of the Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS) slitess grism spectroscopic data obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board Hubble Space Telescope. PEARS covers fields within both the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) North and South fields, making it ideal as a random survey of galaxies, as well as the availability of a wide variety of ancillary observations complemented by the spectroscopic results. Using the PEARS data, we are able to identify star-forming galaxies (SFGs) within the redshift volume 0<z<1.5. Star-forming regions in the PEARS survey are pinpointed independently of the host galaxy. This method allows us to detect the presence of multiple emission-line regions (ELRs) within a single galaxy. We identified a total of 1162 H{alpha}, [OIII], and/or [OII] emission lines in the PEARS sample of 906 galaxies to a limiting flux of ~10^-18^erg/s/cm2. The ELRs have also been compared to the properties of the host galaxy, including morphology, luminosity, and mass. From this analysis, we find three key results: (1) the computed line luminosities show evidence of a flattening in the luminosity function with increasing redshift; (2) the star-forming systems show evidence of complex morphologies with star formation occurring predominantly within one effective (half-light) radius. However, the morphologies show no correlation with host stellar mass. (3) Also, the number density of SFGs with M_*_>=10^9^M_{sun}_ decreases by an order of magnitude at z<=0.5 relative to the number at 0.5<z<0.9, supporting the argument of galaxy downsizing.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/201/31
- Title:
- Emission-line galaxies from SDSS. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/201/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recently, much attention has been paid to double-peaked narrow emission-line (NEL) galaxies, some of which are suggested to be related to merging galaxies. We make a systematic search to build the largest sample of these sources from Data Release 7 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). With reasonable criteria for fluxes, FWHMs of the emission lines, and separations of the peaks, we select 3030 double-peaked NEL galaxies. In light of the existence of broad Balmer lines and the locations of the two components of double-peaked NELs distinguished by the Kauffmann et al. (2003MNRAS.346.1055K) criteria in the Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich diagram, we find that there are 81 Type I active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 837 double Type II AGNs (2-Type II), 708 galaxies with double star-forming components (2-SF), 400 with mixed star-forming and Type II AGN components (Type II + SF), and 1004 unknown-type objects. As a by-product, a sample of galaxies (12582) with asymmetric or top-flat profiles of emission lines is established. After visually inspecting the SDSS images of the two samples, we find 54 galaxies with dual cores.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/79
- Title:
- Emission-line galaxies from the FIGS survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/888/79
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 10:14:43
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 208 0.3<z<2.1 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) selected from 1D slitless spectroscopy obtained using Hubble's WFC3 G102 grism, as part of the Faint Infrared Grism Survey. We identify ELG candidates by searching for significant peaks in all continuum-subtracted G102 spectra and, where possible, confirm candidates by identifying consistent emission lines in other available spectra or with published spectroscopic redshifts. We provide derived emission-line fluxes and errors, redshifts, and equivalent widths for H{alpha}{lambda}6563, [OIII]{lambda}{lambda}4959,5007, and [OII]{lambda}3727 emission lines, for ELGs down to AB(F105W)>28 and >10^-17^erg/cm^2^/s line flux. We use the resulting line catalog to investigate a possible relationship between line emission and a galaxy's environment. We use seventh-nearest-neighbor distances to investigate the typical surroundings of ELGs compared to non-ELGs, and we find that [OIII] emitters are preferentially found at intermediate galaxy densities near galaxy groups. We characterize these ELGs in terms of the galaxy specific star formation rate (SFR) versus stellar mass and find no significant influence of environment on that relation. We calculate SFRs and find no dependence of SFR on local galaxy surface density for 0.3<z<0.8 H{alpha} emitters and for 0.8<z<1.3 [OIII] emitters. We find similar rates of close-pair interaction between ELGs and non-ELGs. For galaxy surface densities {Sigma}<=30Mpc^-2^, we find no consistent effect of environment on star formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/145
- Title:
- Emission-line objects from ALFALFA H{alpha} survey
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/143/145
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- During a wide-field narrowband H{alpha} imaging survey, we noted the presence of numerous isolated emission-line point sources in the data. These objects could represent ultra-low-luminosity galaxies at low-redshift (detection via H{alpha}), isolated extragalactic HII regions associated with the galaxy targeted by the original observation, or background galaxies or QSOs where strong emission lines (most often [OIII]{lambda}5007) redshift into our narrowband filter. We have carried out a systematic search for these "H{alpha} dots" in over 200 15x15arcmin fields. To date we have cataloged 61 candidate emission-line sources in roughly 11.7deg^2^. The sample has a median R magnitude of 19.5, and detects objects as faint as R=22.6. Follow-up spectroscopy reveals that ~85% of the candidates are bona fide emission-line objects, with roughly 60% of the real sources being lower-redshift objects (detection via H{alpha}) and 40% being higher-redshift objects detected via [OIII] emission or some other emission line. Here we present the results of our initial survey and follow-up spectroscopy. We use our sample to study the properties (including star-formation rates and metal abundances) of low-luminosity star-forming galaxies in the nearby universe and of low-metallicity star-forming galaxies at z~0.33.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/865/56
- Title:
- Emission line & R-band continuum LCs of 17 QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/865/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present reverberation mapping (RM) results for 17 high-redshift, high-luminosity quasars with good-quality R-band and emission-line light curves. We are able to measure statistically significant lags for Ly{alpha} (11 objects), Si IV (5 objects), C IV (11 objects), and C III] (2 objects). Using our results and previous lag determinations taken from the literature, we present an updated C IV radius-luminosity relation and provide for the first time radius-luminosity relations for Ly{alpha}, Si IV, and C III]. While in all cases the slopes of the correlations are statistically significant, the zero points are poorly constrained because of the lack of data at the low- luminosity end. We find that the emissivity-weighted distances from the central source of the Ly{alpha}, Si IV, and C III] line-emitting regions are all similar, which corresponds to about half that of the H{beta} region. We also find that 3/17 of our sources show an unexpected behavior in some emission lines, two in the Ly{alpha} light curve and one in the Si IV light curve, in that they do not seem to follow the variability of the UV continuum. Finally, we compute RM black hole (BH) masses for those quasars with highly significant lag measurements and compare them with C IV single-epoch (SE) mass determinations. We find that the RM-based BH mass determinations seem smaller than those found using SE calibrations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/812/89
- Title:
- Environmental COntext (ECO) catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/812/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the relationships between galaxy environments and galaxy properties related to disk (re)growth, considering two highly complete samples that are approximately baryonic mass limited into the high-mass dwarf galaxy regime, the Environmental COntext (ECO) catalog (data release herein) and the B-semester region of the REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) survey. We quantify galaxy environments using both group identification and smoothed galaxy density field methods. We use by-eye and quantitative morphological classifications plus atomic gas content measurements and estimates. We find that blue early-type (E/S0) galaxies, gas-dominated galaxies, and UV-bright disk host galaxies all become distinctly more common below group halo mass ~10^11.5^M_{sun}_, implying that this low group halo mass regime may be a preferred regime for significant disk growth activity. We also find that blue early-type and blue late-type galaxies inhabit environments of similar group halo mass at fixed baryonic mass, consistent with a scenario in which blue early-types can regrow late-type disks. In fact, we find that the only significant difference in the typical group halo mass inhabited by different galaxy classes is for satellite galaxies with different colors, where at fixed baryonic mass red early- and late-types have higher typical group halo masses than blue early- and late-types. More generally, we argue that the traditional morphology-environment relation (i.e., that denser environments tend to have more early-types) can be largely attributed to the morphology-galaxy mass relation for centrals and the color-environment relation for satellites.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/854/24
- Title:
- Environmental dependence of SN Ia luminosities
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/854/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It is established that there is a dependence of the luminosity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) on environment: SNe Ia in young, star-forming, metal-poor stellar populations appear fainter after light-curve shape corrections than those in older, passive, metal-rich environments. This is accounted for in cosmological studies using a global property of the SN host galaxy, typically the host galaxy stellar mass. However, recent low-redshift studies suggest that this effect manifests itself most strongly when using the local star formation rate (SFR) at the SN location, rather than the global SFR or the stellar mass of the host galaxy. At high-redshift, such local SFRs are difficult to determine; here, we show that an equivalent local correction can be made by restricting the SN Ia sample in globally star-forming host galaxies to a low-mass host galaxy subset (<=10^10^M_{sun}_). Comparing this sample of SNe Ia (in locally star-forming environments) to those in locally passive host galaxies, we find that SNe Ia in locally star-forming environments are 0.081+/0.018 mag fainter (4.5{sigma}), consistent with the result reported by Rigault+ (2013A&A...560A..66R), but our conclusion is based on a sample ~5 times larger over a wider redshift range. This is a larger difference than when splitting the SN Ia sample based on global host galaxy SFR or host galaxy stellar mass. This method can be used in ongoing and future high-redshift SN surveys, where local SN Ia environments are difficult to determine.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/874/32
- Title:
- Environment and hosts of Type Ia supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/874/32
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The reliability of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) may be limited by the imprint of their galactic origins. To investigate the connection between supernovae and their host characteristics, we developed an improved method to estimate the stellar population age of the host as well as the local environment around the site of the supernova. We use a Bayesian method to estimate the star formation history and mass weighted age of a supernova's environment by matching observed spectral energy distributions to a synthesized stellar population. Applying this age estimator to both the photometrically and spectroscopically classified Sloan Digital Sky Survey II supernovae (N=103), we find a 0.114+/-0.039mag "step" in the average Hubble residual at a stellar age of ~8Gyr; it is nearly twice the size of the currently popular mass step. We then apply a principal component analysis on the SALT2 parameters, host stellar mass, and local environment age. We find that a new parameter, PC1, consisting of a linear combination of stretch, host stellar mass, and local age, shows a very significant (4.7{sigma}) correlation with Hubble residuals. There is a much broader range of PC1 values found in the Hubble flow sample when compared with the Cepheid calibration galaxies. These samples have mildly statistically different average PC1 values, at ~2.5{sigma}, resulting in at most a 1.3% reduction in the evaluation of H0. Despite accounting for the highly significant trend in SN Ia Hubble residuals, there remains a 9% discrepancy between the most recent precision estimates of H0 using SN Ia and the CMB.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/889/185
- Title:
- Environment in galaxy evolution in SERVS. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/889/185
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use photometric redshifts derived from new u-band through 4.5{mu}m Spitzer IRAC photometry in the 4.8deg^2^ of the XMM-LSS field to construct surface density maps in the redshift range of 0.1-1.5. Our density maps show evidence for large-scale structure in the form of filaments spanning several tens of megaparsecs. Using these maps, we identify 339 overdensities that our simulated light-cone analysis suggests are likely associated with dark matter halos with masses, M_halo_, log(M_halo_/M_{sun}_)>13.7. From this list of overdensities we recover 43 of 70 known X-ray-detected and spectroscopically confirmed clusters. The missing X-ray clusters are largely at lower redshifts and lower masses than our target log(M_halo_/M_{sun}_)>13.7. The bulk of the overdensities are compact, but a quarter show extended morphologies that include likely projection effects, clusters embedded in apparent filaments, and at least one potential cluster merger (at z~1.28). The strongest overdensity in our highest-redshift slice (at z~1.5) shows a compact red galaxy core, potentially implying a massive evolved cluster.
