- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/617/A53
- Title:
- Red-sequence early-type galaxies. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/617/A53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work aims to observationally investigate the history of size growth of early-type galaxies and how the growth depends on cosmic epoch and the mass of the halo in which they are embedded. We carried out a photometric and structural analysis in the rest-frame V band of a mass-selected (logM/M_{sun}_>10.7) sample of red-sequence early-type galaxies with spectroscopic/grism redshift in the general field up to z=2 to complement a previous work presenting an identical analysis but in halos 100 times more massive and 1000 times denser. We homogeneously derived sizes (effective radii) fully accounting for the multi-component nature of galaxies and the common presence of isophote twists and ellipticity gradients. By using these mass-selected samples, composed of 170 red-sequence early-type galaxies in the general field and 224 identically selected and analyzed in clusters, we isolate the effect on galaxy sizes of the halo in which galaxies are embedded and its dependence on epoch. We find that the log of the galaxy size at a fixed stellar mass, log M/M_{sun}_=11, has increased with epoch at a rate twice as fast in the field than in cluster in the last 10Gyr (0.26+/-0.03 versus 0.13+/-0.02dex per unit redshift). Red-sequence early-type galaxies in the general field reached the size of their cousins in denser environment by z=0.25+/-0.13 in spite of being three times smaller at z~2. Data point toward a model where size growth is epoch-independent (i.e., {\partial}logre/{\partial}z=c), but with a rate c depending on environment, {\partial}c/{\partial}logM_halo_~=0.05. Environment determines the growth rate (dlogre/dz) at all redshifts, indicating an external origin for the galaxy growth without any clear epoch where it ceases to have an effect. The larger size of early-type galaxies in massive halos at high redshift indicates that their size grew buildup earlier (at z>2) at an accelerated rate, slowing down at some still unidentified z>2 redshift. Instead, the size growth rate of red-sequence early-type galaxies in low-mass halos is reversed: it proceeds at an increased rate at late epochs after an early period (z>2) of reduced growth, in agreement with the qualitative hierarchical picture of galaxy evolution. We found similar values of scatter around the mass-size relation independently of environment and epoch, indicating that the amount of dissipation in the system forming the observed galaxy does not vary greatly with epoch or environment.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/178
- Title:
- Redshift catalog of galaxies in GOODS-South field
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/149/178
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combine Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera3 (WFC3) imaging and G141 grism observations from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and 3D-HST surveys to produce a catalog of grism spectroscopic redshifts for galaxies in the CANDELS/GOODS-South field. The WFC3/G141 grism spectra cover a wavelength range of 1.1{<=}{lambda}{<=}1.7{mu}m with a resolving power of R~130 for point sources, thus providing rest-frame optical spectra for galaxies out to z~3.5. The catalog is selected in the H-band (F160W) and includes both galaxies with and without previously published spectroscopic redshifts. Grism spectra are extracted for all H-band detected galaxies with H<=24 and a CANDELS photometric redshift z_phot_>=0.6. The resulting spectra are visually inspected to identify emission lines, and redshifts are determined using cross-correlation with empirical spectral templates. To establish the accuracy of our redshifts, we compare our results against high-quality spectroscopic redshifts from the literature. Using a sample of 411 control galaxies, this analysis yields a precision of {sigma}_NMAD_=0.0028 for the grism-derived redshifts, which is consistent with the accuracy reported by the 3D-HST team. Our final catalog covers an area of 153arcmin^2^ and contains 1019 redshifts for galaxies in GOODS-S. Roughly 60% (608/1019) of these redshifts are for galaxies with no previously published spectroscopic redshift. These new redshifts span a range of 0.677{<=}z{<=}3.456 and have a median redshift of z=1.282. The catalog contains a total of 234 new redshifts for galaxies at z>1.5. In addition, we present 20 galaxy pair candidates identified for the first time using the grism redshifts in our catalog, including four new galaxy pairs at z~2, nearly doubling the number of such pairs previously identified.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/471/L5
- Title:
- Redshift clustering in the Hubble Deep Field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/471/L5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present initial results from a redshift survey carried out with the low-resolution imaging spectrograph on the 10m W. M. Keck Telescope in the Hubble Deep Field. In the redshift distribution of the 140 extragalactic objects in this sample, we find six strong peaks with velocity dispersions of ~400km/s. The areal density of objects within a particular peak, while it may be nonuniform, does not show evidence for strong central concentration. These peaks have characteristics (velocity dispersions, density enhancements, spacing, and spatial extent) similar to those seen in a comparable redshift survey in a different high Galactic latitude field (Cohen and coworkers), confirming that the structures are generic. They are probably the high-redshift counterparts of huge galaxy structures ("walls") observed locally.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/638/A27
- Title:
- Redshift database towards Shapley Supercluster
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/638/A27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a database and velocity catalogue towards the region of the Shapley Supercluster based on 18,129 measured velocities for 10,702 galaxies in the approximately 300 square degree area between 12:42:13.219<RA<14:16:59.210 and -38:29:35.70<Dec<-23:28:34.90. The data catalogue contains velocities from the literature found until 2015. It also includes 5,084 velocities, corresponding to 4617 galaxies, observed by us at Las Campanas and CTIO observatories and not reported individually until now. Of these, 2585 correspond to galaxies with no other previously published velocity measurement before 2015. Every galaxy in the velocity database has been identified with a galaxy extracted from the SuperCOSMOS photometric catalogues. We also provide a combined average velocity catalogue for all 10702 galaxies with measured velocities, adopting the SuperCOSMOS positions as a homogeneous base. A general magnitude cut-off at R2=18.0mag was adopted (with exceptions only for some of the new reported velocities). In general terms, we confirm the overall structure of the Shapley Supercluster, as found on earlier papers. However, the more extensive velocity data show finer structure, to be discussed in a future publication.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/2439
- Title:
- Redshift estimates in the SDSS DR2
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/2439
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have applied ClassX, an oblique decision tree classifier optimized for astronomical analysis, to the homogeneous multicolor imaging database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), training the software on subsets of SDSS objects whose nature is precisely known via spectroscopy. We find that the software, using photometric data only, correctly classifies a very large fraction of the objects with existing SDSS spectra, both stellar and extragalactic. ClassX also accurately predicts the redshifts of both normal and active galaxies in SDSS. To illustrate ClassX applications in SDSS research, we (1) derive the object content of the SDSS Data Release 2 photometric catalog and (2) provide a sample catalog of resolved SDSS objects that contains a large number of candidate active galactic nucleus (AGN) galaxies (27,000), along with 63,000 candidate normal galaxies at magnitudes substantially fainter than the typical magnitudes of SDSS spectroscopic objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/415/9
- Title:
- Redshifts behind the Southern Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/415/9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of our efforts to unveil extragalactic large-scale structures behind the southern Milky Way, we here present redshifts for 764 galaxies in the Hydra/Antlia, Crux and Great Attractor region (266{deg}<=l<=338{deg}, |b|<=10{deg}), obtained with the Meudon-ESO Fibre Object Spectrograph (MEFOS) at the 3.6-m telescope of ESO. The observations are part of a redshift survey of partially obscured galaxies recorded in the course of a deep optical galaxy search behind the southern Milky Way (Kraan-Korteweg 2000, Cat. <J/A+AS/141/123>; Woudt & Kraan-Korteweg 2001, Cat. <J/A+A/380/441>). A total of 947 galaxies have been observed, a small percentage of the spectra (N=109, 11.5%) were contaminated by foreground stars, and 74 galaxies (7.8%) were too faint to allow a reliable redshift determination. With MEFOS we obtained spectra down to the faintest galaxies of our optical galaxy survey, and hence probe large-scale structures out to larger distances (v<=30000km/s) than our other redshift follow-ups using the 1.9-m telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory (Kraan-Korteweg et al., 1995, Cat. <J/A+A/297/617>; Fairall et al., 1998, Cat. <J/A+AS/127/463>; Woudt et al., 1999, Cat. <J/A+A/352/39>) and the 64-m Parkes radio telescope (Kraan-Korteweg et al., 2002, Cat. <J/A+A/391/887>). The most distinct large-scale structures revealed in the southern Zone of Avoidance are discussed in context to known structures adjacent to the Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/532/A57
- Title:
- Redshifts in supercluster SCL 2243-0935
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/532/A57
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In archival 2.2m MPG-ESO/WFI data we discovered several mass peaks through weak gravitational lensing, forming a possible supercluster at redshift 0.45. Through wide-field imaging and spectroscopy we aim to identify the supercluster centre, confirm individual member clusters, and detect possible connecting filaments. Through multi-colour imaging with CFHT/Megaprime and INT/WFC we identify a population of early-type galaxies and use it to trace the supercluster network. EMMI/NTT multi-object spectroscopy is used to verify the initial shear-selected cluster candidates. We use weak gravitational lensing to obtain mass estimates for the supercluster centre and the filaments.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/391/887
- Title:
- Redshifts in the Hydra/Antlia Extension
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/391/887
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of our program to map the large-scale distribution of galaxies behind the Milky Way, we used the Parkes 210 ft (64m) radio telescope for pointed HI observations of a sample of low surface-brightness (due to heavy obscuration) spiral galaxies selected from the deep optical Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) galaxy catalog in the Hydra/Antlia region (Kraan-Korteweg, 2000, Cat. <J/A+AS/141/123>). Searching a simultaneous velocity range of either 300 to 5500km/s or 300 to 10500km/s to an rms level of typically 2-4mJy resulted in detections in 61 of the 139 pointings, leading to a total of 66 detections (an additional detection was made in a reference position, and two other pointings revealed two and four independent signals respectively). Except for 2 strong HI emitters identified in the shallow Zone of Avoidance HI survey (Henning et al., 2000AJ....119.2686H), all HI detections are new.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/781/2
- Title:
- Redshifts of 1151 galaxies from SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/781/2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Lines of sight with multiple projected cluster-scale gravitational lenses have high total masses and complex lens plane interactions that can boost the area of magnification, or etendue, making detection of faint background sources more likely than elsewhere. To identify these new "compound" cosmic telescopes, we have found directions in the sky with the highest integrated mass densities, as traced by the projected concentrations of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). We use new galaxy spectroscopy to derive preliminary magnification maps for two such lines of sight with total mass exceeding ~3x10^15^M_{sun}_. From 1151 MMT Hectospec spectra of galaxies down to i_AB_=21.2, we identify two to three group- and cluster-scale halos in each beam. These are well traced by LRGs. The majority of the mass in beam J085007.6+360428 (0850) is contributed by Zwicky 1953, a massive cluster at z=0.3774, whereas beam J130657.5+463219 (1306) is composed of three halos with virial masses of 6x10^14^-2x10^15^M_{sun}_, one of which is A1682. The magnification maps derived from our mass models based on spectroscopy and Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry alone display substantial etendue: the 68% confidence bands on the lens plane area with magnification exceeding 10 for a source plane of z_s_=10 are [1.2,3.8]arcmin^2^ for 0850 and [2.3,6.7]arcmin^2^ for 1306. In deep Subaru Suprime-Cam imaging of beam 0850, we serendipitously discover a candidate multiply imaged V-dropout source at z_phot_=5.03. The location of the candidate multiply imaged arcs is consistent with the critical curves for a source plane of z=5.03 predicted by our mass model. Incorporating the position of the candidate multiply imaged galaxy as a constraint on the critical curve location in 0850 narrows the 68% confidence band on the lens plane area with {mu}>10 and z_s_=10 to [1.8,4.2]arcmin^2^, an etendue range comparable to that of MACS 0717+3745 and El Gordo, two of the most powerful single cluster lenses known. The significant lensing power of our beams makes them powerful probes of reionization and galaxy formation in the early universe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/169
- Title:
- Redshifts of UDF emission-line objects
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/169
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present redshifts for 115 emission-line objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field identified through the Grism ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES) project using the slitless grism spectroscopy mode of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The sample was selected by an emission-line search on all extracted one-dimensional GRAPES spectra. We identify the emission lines using line wavelength ratios where multiple lines are detected in the grism wavelength range (5800{AA}<~lambda<~9600{AA}), and using photometric redshift information where multiple lines are unavailable. We then derive redshifts using the identified lines.