- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/530/A86
- Title:
- Hubble Legacy Archive ACS grism data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/530/A86
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A public release of slitless spectra, obtained with ACS/WFC and the G800L grism, is presented. Spectra were automatically extracted in a uniform way from 153 archival fields (or "associations") distributed across the two Galactic caps, covering all observations to 2008. The ACS G800L grism provides a wavelength range of 0.55-1.00um, with a dispersion of 40{AA}/pixel and a resolution of ~80{AA} for point-like sources. The ACS G800L images and matched direct images were reduced with an automatic pipeline that handles all steps from archive retrieval, alignment and astrometric calibration, direct image combination, catalogue generation, spectral extraction and collection of metadata. The large number of extracted spectra (73,581) demanded automatic methods for quality control and an automated classification algorithm was trained on the visual inspection of several thousand spectra. The final sample of quality controlled spectra includes 47919 datasets (65% of the total number of extracted spectra) for 32149 unique objects, with a median i_AB_-band magnitude of 23.7, reaching 26.5 AB for the faintest objects. Each released dataset contains science-ready 1D and 2D spectra, as well as multi-band image cutouts of corresponding sources and a useful preview page summarising the direct and slitless data, astrometric and photometric parameters. This release is part of the continuing effort to enhance the content of the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) with highly processed data products which significantly facilitate the scientific exploitation of the Hubble data. In order to characterize the slitless spectra, emission-line flux and equivalent width sensitivity of the ACS data were compared with public ground-based spectra in the GOODS-South field. An example list of emission line galaxies with two or more identified lines is also included, covering the redshift range 0.2-4.6. Almost all redshift determinations outside of the GOODS fields are new. The scope of science projects possible with the ACS slitless release data is large, from studies of Galactic stars to searches for high redshift galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/342
- Title:
- Hubble Source Catalog (V1 and V2)
- Short Name:
- II/342
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Hubble Source Catalog is designed to help optimize science from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) by combining the tens of thousands of visit-based source lists in the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) into a single master catalog. Version 1 of the Hubble Source Catalog includes WFPC2, ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS, and WFC3/IR photometric data generated using SExtractor software to produce the individual source lists. The catalog includes roughly 80 million detections of 30 million objects involving 112 different detector/filter combinations, and about 160,000 HST exposures. Source lists from Data Release 8 of the HLA are matched using an algorithm developed by Budavari & Lubow (2012ApJ...761..188B). The mean photometric accuracy for the catalog as a whole is better than 0.10mag, with relative accuracy as good as 0.02mag in certain circumstances (e.g., bright isolated stars). The relative astrometric residuals are typically within 10mas, with a value for the mode (i.e., most common value) of 2.3mas. The absolute astrometric accuracy is better than 0.1" for most sources, but can be much larger for a fraction of fields that could not be matched to the PanSTARRS, SDSS, or 2MASS reference systems. In this paper we describe the database design with emphasis on those aspects that enable the users to fully exploit the catalog while avoiding common misunderstandings and potential pitfalls. We provide usage examples to illustrate some of the science capabilities and data quality characteristics, and briefly discuss plans for future improvements to the Hubble Source Catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/413/80
- Title:
- Hubble Space Telescope GOODS NICMOS Survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/413/80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the details and early results from a deep near-infrared survey utilizing the NICMOS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope centred around massive M*>10^11^M_{sun}_ galaxies at 1.7<z<2.9 found within the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) fields North and South. The GOODS NICMOS Survey (GNS) was designed to obtain deep F160W (H-band) imaging of 80 of these massive galaxies and other colour-selected objects such as Lyman-break dropouts, BzK objects, distant red galaxies (DRGs), extremely red objects (EROs), Spitzer-selected EROs, BX/BM galaxies, as well as flux-selected submillimetre galaxies. We present in this paper details of the observations, our sample selection, as well as a description of the properties of the massive galaxies found within our survey fields. This includes photometric redshifts, rest-frame colours and stellar masses. We furthermore provide an analysis of the selection methods for finding massive galaxies at high redshifts, including colour-selection methods and how galaxy populations selected through these colour methods overlap.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/1729
- Title:
- Hubble Ultra Deep Field BVI-dropout sources
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/1729
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), a 1 million secs exposure of an 11arcmin^2^ region in the southern sky with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope using Director's Discretionary Time. The exposure time was divided among four filters, F435W (B435), F606W (V606), F775W (i775), and F850LP (z850), to give approximately uniform limiting magnitudes m_AB_~29 for point sources. The image contains at least 10000 objects, presented here as a catalog, the vast majority of which are galaxies. Visual inspection of the images shows few if any galaxies at redshifts greater than ~4 that resemble present-day spiral or elliptical galaxies. The image reinforces the conclusion from the original Hubble Deep Field that galaxies evolved strongly during the first few billion years in the infancy of the universe. Using the Lyman break dropout method to derive samples of galaxies at redshifts between 4 and 7, it is possible to study the apparent evolution of the galaxy luminosity function and number density.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/258
- Title:
- Hubble Ultra Deep Field Catalog (UDF)
- Short Name:
- II/258
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (PI: Steven V. W. Beckwith) is a 400-orbit Cycle 12 program to image a single field of the Wide Field Camera (WFC) of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in four filters: F435W (B), F606W (V), F775W (i), and F850LP (z). The observations took place over 4 months from September 2003 to January 2004 under two program IDs: 9978 and 10086. The observations consist of half-orbit exposures, cycling through each of the filters in a 4-point dither pattern to provide sub-pixel sampling, as well as a larger-scale 3-point line pattern to cover the 2 second of arc gap between the two ACS/WFC chips. The total exposure times are summarized below, with typical exposure times of 1200s for individual images. The AB magnitude zero-points for ACS are current as of March 2004. --------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Number of Total Exp. AB mag. Orbits Exposures Time (s) zero-point --------------------------------------------------------------- B (F435W): 56 112 134880 25.673 V (F606W): 56 112 135320 26.486 i (F775W): 144 288 347110 25.654 z (F850LP): 144 288 346620 24.862 --------------------------------------------------------------- More details are found in the "intro.txt" file, or from the UDF home page.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/660/311
- Title:
- Hypervelocity stars. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/660/311
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are stars ejected completely out of the Milky Way by three-body interactions with the massive black hole in the Galactic center. We describe 643 new spectroscopic observations from our targeted survey for HVSs. We find a significant (3.5{sigma}) excess of B-type stars with large velocities +275km/s<V_rf_<450km/s and distances d>10kpc that are most plausibly explained as a new class of HVSs: stars ejected from the Galactic center on bound orbits. If a Galactic center ejection origin is correct, the distribution of HVSs on the sky should be anisotropic for a survey complete to a fixed limiting apparent magnitude. The unbound HVSs in our survey have a marginally anisotropic distribution on the sky, consistent with the Galactic center ejection picture.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/671/1708
- Title:
- Hypervelocity stars. III
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/671/1708
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of three new unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs), stars travelling with such extreme velocities that dynamical ejection from a massive black hole (MBH) is their only suggested origin. We also detect a population of possibly bound HVSs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/456/1359
- Title:
- IAC Stripe 82 Legacy Project: Photometry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/456/1359
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new deep co-adds of data taken within Stripe 82 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), especially stacked to reach the faintest surface brightness limits of this data set. Stripe 82 covers 275 square degrees within -50{deg}<=RA<=+60{deg} and -1.26{deg}<=DE<=+1.25{deg}. We discuss the steps of our reduction which puts special emphasis on preserving the characteristics of the background (sky + diffuse light) in the input images using a non-aggressive sky subtraction strategy. Our reduction reaches a limit of ~28.5 mag/arcsec^2^ (3{sigma}, 10x10 arcsec^2^) in the r band. The effective surface brightness limit (50 per cent completeness for exponential light distribution) lies at <{mu}e(r)>~25.5mag/arcsec^2^. For point sources, we reach 50 per cent completeness limits (3{sigma} level) of (24.2, 25.2, 24.7, 24.3, 23.0) mag in (u, g, r, i, z). This is between 1.7 and 2.0mag deeper than the single-epoch SDSS releases. The co-adds show point spread functions (PSFs) with median full width at half-maximum values ranging from 1-arcsec in i and z to 1.3-arcsec in the u band. The imaging data are made publicly available at http://www.iac.es/proyecto/stripe82. The release includes deep co-adds and representations of the PSF for each field. Additionally, we provide object catalogues with stars and galaxies confidently separated until g~23mag. The IAC Stripe 82 co-adds offer a rather unique possibility to study the low surface brightness Universe, exemplified by the discovery of stellar streams around NGC 0426 and NGC 0936. We also discuss further science cases like stellar haloes and disc truncations, low surface brightness galaxies, the intracluster light in galaxy clusters and the diffuse emission of Galactic dust known as Galactic Cirrus.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/2797
- Title:
- ICRF2 sources of the Rio survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/2797
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We obtained improved optical positions for 300 ICRF2 sources - the Rio survey. We compared the Rio survey with 10 other selected optical astrometric surveys and studied the link between the Hipparcos Catalogue Reference Frame (HCRF) and the International Celestial Reference Frame, Second Realization (ICRF2). We investigated the possible causes for the observed non-coincidence between the optical and ICRF2 positions. The Rio survey positions were referred to the second version of the United States Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2), currently the best tested HCRF densification. The sources are between -90{deg}<{delta}<+30{deg}. We used two telescopes with suitable diameters and focal lengths to properly link the observed ICRF2 sources with the UCAC2, using intermediate brightness stars. We certified the astrometry done with many statistical tests. The average 'optical minus ICRF2' offsets and respective standard deviations in ({alpha}, {delta}) were -3mas (41mas) and +4 (45mas). The Rio survey represents well the zero-point offset of the other surveys. The standard error of 3.5mas found for the HCRF/ICRF2 link indicates an error excess that can be originated by a non-coincidence between the observed optical/VLBI positions. We thus discussed the influence of the errors from the UCAC2. Then, we searched for correlations with the source morphology, represented by structure indices defined in the radio and in the optical domain. Finally, we studied how the position offsets could originate from the perturbation of the optical point spread function (PSF) of the source's core, by a second source of flux. We found an analytical relation that describes the resulting centroid shift, as a function of the atmospheric seeing, the brightness ratio and the relative distance between the two contributing flux sources. Two scenarios, modelled by this relation, are discussed: an extinction window in the dust torus nearby the core, and a Galactic star near the line of sight.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/628/411
- Title:
- Identification and analysis of eclipsing binaries
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/628/411
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have developed a fully automated pipeline for systematically identifying and analyzing eclipsing binaries within large data sets of light curves. The pipeline is made up of multiple tiers that subject the light curves to increasing levels of scrutiny. After each tier, light curves that did not conform to a given criteria were filtered out of the pipeline, reducing the load on the following, more computationally intensive tiers. As a central component of the pipeline, we created the fully automated Detached Eclipsing Binary Light curve fitter (DEBiL), which rapidly fits large numbers of light curves to a simple model. Using the results of DEBiL, light curves of interest can be flagged for follow-up analysis. As a test case, we analyzed the 218,699 light curves within the bulge fields of the OGLE II survey and produced 10,862 model fits. We point out a small number of extreme examples, as well as unexpected structure found in several of the population distributions. We expect this approach to become increasingly important as light-curve data sets continue growing in both size and number.
