- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/122/598
- Title:
- HDF-North serendipitously galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/122/598
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 74 galaxies detected serendipitously during a campaign of spectroscopic observations of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF) and its environs. Among the identified objects are five candidate Ly{alpha} emitters at z>~5, a galaxy cluster at z=0.85, and a Chandra source with a heretofore undetermined redshift of z=2.011. We report redshifts for 25 galaxies in the central HDF, 13 of which had no prior published spectroscopic redshift. Of the remaining 49 galaxies, 30 are located in the single-orbit HDF flanking fields. We discuss the redshift distribution of the serendipitous sample, which contains galaxies in the range 0.10<z<5.77 with a median redshift of z=0.85, and we present strong evidence for redshift clustering. By comparing our spectroscopic redshifts with optical/IR photometric studies of the HDF, we find that photometric redshifts are in most cases capable of producing reasonable predictions of galaxy redshifts. Finally, we estimate the line-of-sight velocity dispersion and the corresponding mass and expected X-ray luminosity of the galaxy cluster, we present strong arguments for interpreting the Chandra source as an obscured active galactic nucleus, and we discuss in detail the spectrum of one of the candidate z>~5 Ly{alpha} emitters.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/364/517
- Title:
- HDF-N spiral and irregular galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/364/517
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze a morphologically-selected complete sample of 52 late-type (spiral and irregular) galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North with total K-magnitudes brighter than K=20.47 and typical redshifts z~0.5 to 1.4. This sample exploits in particular the ultimate imaging quality achieved by HST in this field, allowing us to clearly disentangle the early- from late-type galaxy morphologies, based on accurate profiles of the surface brightness distributions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/513/34
- Title:
- HDF photometric redshifts catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/513/34
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the newly available infrared images of the Hubble Deep Field in the J, H, and K bands and an optimal photometric method, we have refined a technique to estimate the redshifts of 1067 galaxies. A detailed comparison of our results with the spectroscopic redshifts in those cases where the latter are available shows that this technique gives very good results for bright enough objects [AB(814nm)<26.0]. From a study of the distribution of residuals [{Delta}z_rms_/(1+z)~0.1 at all redshifts], we conclude that the observed errors are mainly due to cosmic variance. This very important result allows for the assessment of errors in quantities to be directly or indirectly measured from the catalog. We present some of the statistical properties of the ensemble of galaxies in the catalog, and we finish by presenting a list of bright high-redshift (z~5) candidates extracted from our catalog together with recent spectroscopic redshift determinations confirming that two of them are at z=5.34 and z=5.60.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/655/51
- Title:
- HDFS IRAC observations of 2<z<3.5 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/655/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze very deep HST, VLT, and Spitzer photometry of galaxies at 2<z<3.5 in the Hubble Deep Field-South. The sample is selected from the deepest public K-band imaging currently available. We show that the rest-frame U-V versus V-J color-color diagram is a powerful diagnostic of the stellar populations of distant galaxies. Galaxies with red rest-frame U-V colors are generally red in rest-frame V-J as well. However, at a given U-V color a range in V-J colors exists, and we show that this allows us to distinguish young, dusty galaxies from old, passively evolving galaxies. We quantify the effects of IRAC photometry on estimates of masses, ages, and the dust content of z>2 galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/122/2205
- Title:
- HDF-South K photometric redshift catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/122/2205
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from the Faint Infra-Red Extragalactic Survey of the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S). Using a combination of deep near-infrared (NIR) data obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph and Array Camera at the VLT and the WFPC2 Hubble Space Telescope data, we construct a K-band-selected sample which is 50% and 90% complete for K_s,AB_<=23.5 and K_s,AB_<=22.0, respectively, where the magnitudes are measured over a 2.0" diameter aperture. For z<=3, our selection by the K-band flux chooses galaxies based on wavelengths redder than the rest-frame V band, and so selects them in a way that is less dependent on their current star formation rates than selection in the rest-frame UV.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/538/493
- Title:
- HDF-South NICMOS field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/538/493
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of photometry and photometric redshifts of 335 faint objects in the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) near-infrared camera and multiobject spectrograph (NICMOS) field. The analysis is based on (1) infrared images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) using the NICMOS with the F110W, F160W, and F222M filters; (2) an optical image obtained with HST using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph with no filter; and (3) optical images obtained with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope with U, B, V, R, and I filters. The primary utility of the catalog of photometric redshifts is as a survey of faint galaxies detected in the NICMOS F160W and F222M images. The sensitivity of the survey varies significantly with position, reaching a limiting depth of AB(1.6{mu}m)~28.7 and covering 1.01arcmin^2^ to AB(1.6{mu}m)=27 and 1.05arcmin^2^ to AB(1.6{mu}m)=26.5. The catalog of photometric redshifts identifies 21 galaxies (or 6% of the total) of redshift z>5, eight galaxies (or 2% of the total) of redshift z>10, and 11 galaxies (or 3% of the total) of best-fit spectral type E/S0, of which five galaxies (or 1% of the total) are of redshift z>1.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/172
- Title:
- HeCS-red: Hectospec surveys of redMaPPer clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/862/172
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use dense redshift surveys to explore the properties of galaxy clusters selected from the redMaPPer catalog. Our new survey, Hectospec Cluster Survey of red-sequence-selected clusters (HeCS-red), includes 10589 new or remeasured redshifts from MMT/Hectospec observations of 27 redMaPPer clusters at redshifts z=0.08-0.25 with large estimated richnesses (richness estimate {lambda}>64). Our spectra confirm that each candidate cluster corresponds to a large overdensity in redshift space. The redMaPPer photometric redshifts have a slight bias toward higher redshifts. We measure the relation between velocity dispersion {sigma}p and {lambda}. The relation shows intrinsic scatter of 24% (and a range of 2x) in velocity dispersion at fixed richness. We extend our analysis to HeCS-red-ext, a sample that includes several clusters selected by X-ray flux or Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal. The heterogeneous sample of 121 clusters in HeCS-red-ext shows similar intrinsic scatter in the {sigma}p-{lambda} relation as the HeCS-red sample, but the range of {sigma}p at fixed richness increases to 3x. We evaluate the membership probability estimates Pmem for individual galaxies provided by redMaPPer. The spectroscopic membership fraction is larger than Pmem for 0.05<=P_mem_<=0.7; conversely, the spectroscopic membership fraction is smaller than P_mem_ at P_mem_>=0.8. We compare spectroscopic richness estimates with redMaPPer richness estimates and find good agreement on average, but a range of a factor of two in spectroscopic richness at fixed redMaPPer richness. Overall, within the high-richness and low-redshift cut of our sample, spectroscopically estimated parameters such as velocity dispersion correlate well with photometric richness estimates, although the relations contain substantial scatter.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/767/15
- Title:
- Hectospec Cluster Survey (HeCS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/767/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The infall regions of galaxy clusters represent the largest gravitationally bound structures in a {Lambda}CDM universe. Measuring cluster mass profiles into the infall regions provides an estimate of the ultimate mass of these halos. We use the caustic technique to measure cluster mass profiles from galaxy redshifts obtained with the Hectospec Cluster Survey (HeCS), an extensive spectroscopic survey of galaxy clusters with MMT/Hectospec. We survey 58 clusters selected by X-ray flux at 0.1<z<0.3. The survey includes 22680 unique MMT/Hectospec redshifts for individual galaxies; 10145 of these galaxies are cluster members. For each cluster, we acquired high signal-to-noise spectra for ~200 cluster members and a comparable number of foreground/background galaxies. The cluster members trace out infall patterns around the clusters. The members define a very narrow red sequence. We demonstrate that the determination of velocity dispersion is insensitive to the inclusion of bluer members (a small fraction of the cluster population). We apply the caustic technique to define membership and estimate the mass profiles to large radii. The ultimate halo mass of clusters (the mass that remains bound in the far future of a {Lambda}CDM universe) is on average (1.99+/-0.11)M_200_, a new observational cosmological test in essential agreement with simulations. Summed profiles binned in M_200_ and in L_X_demonstrate that the predicted Navarro-Frenk-White form of the density profile is a remarkably good representation of the data in agreement with weak lensing results extending to large radius. The concentration of these summed profiles is also consistent with theoretical predictions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/819/63
- Title:
- Hectospec survey of SZ clusters (HeCS-SZ)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/819/63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We estimate cluster masses and velocity dispersions for 123 clusters from optical spectroscopy to compare the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) mass proxy and dynamical masses. Our new survey, HeCS-SZ (Hectospec Cluster Survey of SZ-selected clusters), includes 7721 new or remeasured redshifts from MMT/Hectospec observations of 21 SZ-selected clusters at redshifts z=0.05-0.20. We supplement the Hectospec data with spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and cluster data from the Cluster Infall Regions in SDSS project and the Hectospec Cluster Survey, our Hectospec survey of clusters selected by X-ray flux. We measure the scaling relation between velocity dispersion and SZ mass estimates from the integrated Compton parameter for an SZ-complete sample of 83 clusters. The observed relation agrees very well with a simple virial scaling from mass (based on SZ) to velocity dispersion. The SZ mass estimates (calibrated with hydrostatic X-ray mass estimates) are not significantly biased compared to dynamical mass estimates under the assumption of small velocity bias of galaxies compared to dark matter particles. Significant mass bias in SZ mass estimates could relieve tension between cosmological results from Planck SZ cluster counts and Planck CMB data. In principle, SZ mass bias and velocity bias of galaxies could conspire to yield good agreement, but the required velocity bias is {sigma}_galaxy_~0.77{sigma}_DM_, outside the range of recent models of velocity bias in the literature. More likely, SZ mass bias and velocity bias are both small, and the tension between SZ cluster counts and CMB data requires another explanation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/513/A15
- Title:
- Heidelberg InfraRed Optical Cluster Survey, HIROCS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/513/A15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a survey for distant clusters of galaxies that identified clusters as local overdensities in the 3D galaxy distribution. Optical and near-IR imaging in B, R, i, z, and H are used to derive photometric redshifts for objects as faint as m*+1 at a redshift of 1.5. We outline the astrometric and photometric data reduction. The 3D cluster search, based on the photometric redshifts, is described.
