- 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/ApJ/834/49
- Title:
- Constraining the epoch of reionization
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/834/49
- Date:
- 09 Feb 2022 14:54:48
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine observational data on a dozen independent cosmic properties at high-z with the information on reionization drawn from the spectra of distant luminous sources and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to constrain the interconnected evolution of galaxies and the intergalactic medium since the dark ages. The only acceptable solutions are concentrated in two narrow sets. In one of them reionization proceeds in two phases: a first one driven by Population III stars, completed at z~10, and after a short recombination period a second one driven by normal galaxies, completed at z~6. In the other set both kinds of sources work in parallel until full reionization at z~6. The best solution with double reionization gives excellent fits to all the observed cosmic histories, but the CMB optical depth is 3{sigma} larger than the recent estimate from the Planck data. Alternatively, the best solution with single reionization gives less good fits to the observed star formation rate density and cold gas mass density histories, but the CMB optical depth is consistent with that estimate. We make several predictions, testable with future observations, that should discriminate between the two reionization scenarios. As a byproduct our models provide a natural explanation to some characteristic features of the cosmic properties at high-z, as well as to the origin of globular clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/849/20
- Title:
- Contents of RESOLVE & ECO galaxy groups
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/849/20
- Date:
- 18 Nov 2021 00:26:09
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We examine the z=0 group-integrated stellar and cold baryonic (stars + cold atomic gas) mass functions (group SMF and CBMF) and the baryonic collapse efficiency (group cold baryonic to dark matter halo mass ratio) using the RESOLVE and ECO survey galaxy group catalogs and a GALFORM semi-analytic model (SAM) mock catalog. The group SMF and CBMF fall off more steeply at high masses and rise with a shallower low-mass slope than the theoretical halo mass function (HMF). The transition occurs at the group-integrated cold baryonic mass M_bary_^cold^~10^11^M_{sun}_. The SAM, however, has significantly fewer groups at the transition mass ~10^11^M_{sun}_ and a steeper low-mass slope than the data, suggesting that feedback is too weak in low-mass halos and conversely too strong near the transition mass. Using literature prescriptions to include hot halo gas and potential unobservable galaxy gas produces a group BMF with a slope similar to the HMF even below the transition mass. Its normalization is lower by a factor of ~2, in agreement with estimates of warm-hot gas making up the remaining difference. We compute baryonic collapse efficiency with the halo mass calculated two ways, via halo abundance matching (HAM) and via dynamics (extended all the way to three-galaxy groups using stacking). Using HAM, we find that baryonic collapse efficiencies reach a flat maximum for groups across the halo mass range of M_halo_~10^11.4-12^M_{sun}_, which we label "nascent groups". Using dynamics, however, we find greater scatter in baryonic collapse efficiencies, likely indicating variation in group hot-to-cold baryon ratios. Similarly, we see higher scatter in baryonic collapse efficiencies in the SAM when using its true groups and their group halo masses as opposed to friends-of-friends groups and HAM masses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/614/A48
- Title:
- Continuous rise of bulges out of galactic disks
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/614/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A key subject in extragalactic astronomy concerns the chronology and driving mechanisms of bulge formation in late-type galaxies (LTGs). The standard scenario distinguishes between classical bulges and pseudo-bulges (CBs and PBs, respectively), the first thought to form monolithically prior to disks and the second gradually out of disks. These two bulge formation routes obviously yield antipodal predictions on the bulge age and bulge-to-disk age contrast, both expected to be high (low) in CBs (PBs). Our main goal is to explore whether bulges in present-day LTGs segregate into two evolutionary distinct classes, as expected from the standard scenario. Other questions motivating this study center on evolutionary relations between LTG bulges and their hosting disks, and the occurrence of accretion-powered nuclear activity as a function of bulge stellar mass M* and stellar surface density {Sigma}*. In this study we have combined three techniques - surface photometry, spectral modeling of integral field spectroscopy data and suppression of stellar populations younger than an adjustable age cutoff with the code REMOVE YOUNG (RY) - toward a systematic analysis of the physical and evolutionary properties (e.g., M* , {Sigma}* and mass-weighted stellar age <t*>_M_ and metallicity <Z*>_M_, respectively) of a representative sample of 135 nearby (<=130Mpc) LTGs from the CALIFA survey that cover a range between 10^8.9^M_{sun}_ and 10^11.5^M_{sun}_ in total stellar mass M_*,T_. In particular, the analysis here revolves around <{delta}{mu}9G>, a new distance- and formally extinction-independent measure of the contribution by stellar populations of age >=9Gyr to the mean r-band surface brightness of the bulge. We argue that <{delta}{mu}9Gx > offers a handy semi-empirical tracer of the physical and evolutionary properties of LTG bulges and a promising means for their characterization.
- 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/866/133
- Title:
- Continuum-H{beta} light curves of 5 Seyfert 1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/866/133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from a reverberation-mapping campaign undertaken during the first half of 2012, with additional data on one active galactic nucleus (AGN) (NGC 3227) from a 2014 campaign. Our main goals are (1) to determine the black hole masses from continuum-H{beta} reverberation signatures, and (2) to look for velocity-dependent time delays that might be indicators of the gross kinematics of the broad-line region. We successfully measure H{beta} time delays and black hole masses for five AGNs, four of which have previous reverberation mass measurements. The values measured here are in agreement with earlier estimates, though there is some intrinsic scatter beyond the formal measurement errors. We observe velocity-dependent H{beta} lags in each case, and find that the patterns have changed in the intervening five years for three AGNs that were also observed in 2007.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/411/381
- Title:
- CO observation of isolated galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/411/381
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ^12^CO(J=1-0) line observations of 99 galaxies obtained with the SEST 15m, the Kitt Peak 12m and the IRAM 30m telescopes. The target galaxies were selected from the catalogue of isolated galaxies of Karachentseva (1973, Cat. <VII/82>). These data are thus representative of the CO properties of isolated late-type galaxies. All objects were observed in their central position, those with large angular sizes were mapped. These new measurements are used to estimate the molecular gas mass of the target galaxies. The molecular gas is on average ~18% of the atomic gas mass.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/37
- Title:
- CO observations in giant molecular clouds of M33
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/761/37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a giant molecular cloud (GMC) catalog of M33 (NGC598), containing 71 GMCs in total, based on wide-field and high-sensitivity CO(J=3-2) observations with a spatial resolution of 100pc using the ASTE 10m telescope. Employing archival optical data, we identify 75 young stellar groups (YSGs) from the excess of the surface stellar density, and estimate their ages by comparing with stellar evolution models. A spatial comparison among the GMCs, YSGs, and H II regions enable us to classify GMCs into four categories: Type A, showing no sign of massive star formation (SF); Type B, being associated only with H II regions; Type C, with both H II regions and <10Myr old YSGs; and Type D, with both H II regions and 10-30Myr YSGs. Out of 65 GMCs (discarding those at the edges of the observed fields), 1 (1%), 13 (20%), 29 (45%), and 22 (34%) are Types A, B, C, and D, respectively. We interpret these categories as stages in a GMC evolutionary sequence. Assuming that the timescale for each evolutionary stage is proportional to the number of GMCs, the lifetime of a GMC with a mass >10^5^M_{sun}_ is estimated to be 20-40Myr. In addition, we find that the dense gas fraction as traced by the CO(J=3-2)/CO(J=1-0) ratio is enhanced around SF regions. This confirms a scenario where dense gas is preferentially formed around previously generated stars, and will be the fuel for the next stellar generation. In this way, massive SF gradually propagates in a GMC until gas is exhausted.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/295/585
- Title:
- CO observations in NGC 1365
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/295/585
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of the J=1-0 and J=2-1 CO observations are presented
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/118/47
- Title:
- CO observations in spirals
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/118/47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 1300{mu}m continuum observations and measurements of the CO (1-0) and (2-1) emission from the inner regions of 98 normal galaxies. The spatial resolution ranges from 11arcsec to 45arcsec. The sources come from a complete FIR selected sample of 138 inactive spirals with an optical diameter D_25_<=180arcsec.
