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731. Cosmicflows-3 catalog (CF3)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/50
Title:
Cosmicflows-3 catalog (CF3)
Short Name:
J/AJ/152/50
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Cosmicflows database of galaxy distances that in the second edition contained 8188 entries is now expanded to 17669 entries. The major additions are 2257 distances that we have derived from the correlation between galaxy rotation and luminosity with photometry at 3.6{mu}m obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope and 8885 distances based on the Fundamental Plane methodology from the Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey collaboration. There are minor augmentations to the Tip of the Red Giant Branch and Type Ia supernova compilations. A zero-point calibration of the supernova luminosities gives a value for the Hubble Constant of 76.2+/-3.4+/-2.7 (+/-rand.+/-sys.)km/s/Mpc. Alternatively, a restriction on the peculiar velocity monopole term representing global infall/outflow implies H_0_=75+/-2km/s/Mpc.
732. Cosmicflows-2 catalog (CF2)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/86
Title:
Cosmicflows-2 catalog (CF2)
Short Name:
J/AJ/146/86
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Cosmicflows-2 is a compilation of distances and peculiar velocities for over 8000 galaxies. Numerically the largest contributions come from the luminosity-line width correlation for spirals, the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR), and the related fundamental plane relation for E/S0 systems, but over 1000 distances are contributed by methods that provide more accurate individual distances: Cepheid, tip of the red giant branch (TRGB), surface brightness fluctuation, Type Ia supernova, and several miscellaneous but accurate procedures. Our collaboration is making important contributions to two of these inputs: TRGB and TFR. A large body of new distance material is presented. In addition, an effort is made to ensure that all the contributions, both our own and those from the literature, are on the same scale. Overall, the distances are found to be compatible with a Hubble constant H_0_=74.4+/-3.0km/s/Mpc. The great interest going forward with this data set will be with velocity field studies. Cosmicflows-2 is characterized by a great density and high accuracy of distance measures locally, falling to sparse and coarse sampling extending to z=0.1.
733. Cosmic flows observations
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/414/2005
Title:
Cosmic flows observations
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/414/2005
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The neutral hydrogen properties of 1822 galaxies are being studied with the Green Bank 100-m and the Parkes 64-m telescopes as part of the 'Cosmic Flows' programme. Observed parameters include systemic velocities, profile linewidths and integrated fluxes. The linewidth information can be combined with the optical and infrared photometry to obtain distances. The 1822 HI observations complement an inventory of archives.
734. Cosmicflows-4: Tully-Fisher relation calibrations
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/896/3
Title:
Cosmicflows-4: Tully-Fisher relation calibrations
Short Name:
J/ApJ/896/3
Date:
07 Mar 2022 07:21:25
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This study is a part of the Cosmicflows-4 project with the aim of measuring the distances of more than ~10000 spiral galaxies in the local universe up to ~15000km/s. New HI line width information has come primarily from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. Photometry of our sample galaxies has been carried out in optical (SDSS u, g, r, i, and z) and infrared (WISE W1 and W2) bands. Inclinations have been determined using an online graphical interface accessible to a collaboration of citizen scientists. Galaxy distances are measured based on the correlation between the rotation rate of spirals and their absolute luminosity, known as the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR). In this study, we present the calibration of the TFR using a subsample of ~600 spirals located in 20 galaxy clusters. Correlations among such observables as color, surface brightness, and relative HI content are explored in an attempt to reduce the scatter about the TFR with the goal of obtaining more accurate distances. A preliminary determination of the Hubble constant from the distances and velocities of the calibrator clusters is H0=76.0+/-1.1(stat.)+/-2.3(sys.)km/s/Mpc.
735. Cosmic Horseshoe (J1148+1930) Ha and OIII spectra
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A40
Title:
Cosmic Horseshoe (J1148+1930) Ha and OIII spectra
Short Name:
J/A+A/631/A40
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a detailed analysis of the inner mass structure of the Cosmic Horseshoe (J1148+1930) strong gravitational lens system observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). In addition to the spectacular Einstein ring, this systems shows a radial arc. We obtained the redshift of the radial arc counter image z_s,r_=1.961+/-0.001 from Gemini observations. To disentangle the dark and luminous matter, we consider three different profiles for the dark matter distribution: a power-law profile, the NFW, and a generalized version of the NFW profile. For the luminous matter distribution, we base it on the observed light distribution that is fitted with three components: a point mass for the central light component resembling an active galactic nucleus, and the remaining two extended light components scaled by a constant M/L. To constrain the model further, we include published velocity dispersion measurements of the lens galaxy and perform a self-consistent lensing and axisymmetric Jeans dynamical modeling. Our model fits well to the observations including the radial arc, independent of the dark matter profile. Depending on the dark matter profile, we get a dark matter fraction between 60% and 70%. With our composite mass model we find that the radial arc helps to constrain the inner dark matter distribution of the Cosmic Horseshoe independently of the dark matter profile.
736. Cosmic web filaments in the SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/438/3465
Title:
Cosmic web filaments in the SDSS
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/438/3465
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The main feature of the spatial large-scale galaxy distribution is its intricate network of galaxy filaments. This network is spanned by the galaxy locations that can be interpreted as a three-dimensional point distribution. The global properties of the point process can be measured by different statistical methods, which, however, do not describe directly the structure elements. The morphology of the large scale structure, on the other hand, is an important property of the galaxy distribution. Here we apply an object point process with interactions (the Bisous model) to trace and extract the filamentary network in the presently largest galaxy redshift survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We search for filaments in the galaxy distribution that have a radius of about 0.5Mpc/h. We divide the detected network into single filaments and present a public catalogue of filaments. We study the filament length distribution and show that the longest filaments reach the length of 60Mpc/h. The filaments contain 35-40% of the total galaxy luminosity and they cover roughly 5-8% of the total volume, in good agreement with N-body simulations and previous observational results.
737. Cosmic web of galaxies in the COSMOS field
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.
738. Cosmology from galaxy lensing and clustering
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.
739. COSMOS AGN spectroscopic survey. I.
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.
740. COSMOS2015 dataset machine learning photo-z
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/507/5034
Title:
COSMOS2015 dataset machine learning photo-z
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/507/5034
Date:
03 Dec 2021 13:07:03
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In order to answer the open questions of modern cosmology and galaxy evolution theory, robust algorithms for calculating photometric redshifts (photo-z) for very large samples of galaxies are needed. Correct estimation of the various photo-z algorithms' performance requires attention to both the performance metrics and the data used for the estimation. In this work, we use the supervised machine learning algorithm MLPQNA (Multi-Layer Perceptron with Quasi-Newton Algorithm) to calculate photometric redshifts for the galaxies in the COSMOS2015 catalogue and the unsupervised Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) to determine the reliability of the resulting estimates. We find that for z_spec_<1.2, MLPQNA photo-z predictions are on the same level of quality as spectral energy distribution fitting photo-z. We show that the SOM successfully detects unreliable zspec that cause biases in the estimation of the photo-z algorithms' performance. Additionally, we use SOM to select the objects with reliable photo-z predictions. Our cleaning procedures allow us to extract the subset of objects for which the quality of the final photo-z catalogues is improved by a factor of 2, compared to the overall statistics.