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2161. MAGNUM survey galaxies images
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/A146
Title:
MAGNUM survey galaxies images
Short Name:
J/A+A/622/A146
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) properties of the disk and outflowing gas in the central regions of nine nearby Seyfert galaxies, all characterised by prominent single- or bi-conical outflows. These objects are part of the MAGNUM (Measuring Active Galactic Nuclei Under MUSE Microscope) survey, that aims at probing their physical conditions and ionisation mechanism, by exploiting the unprecedented sensitivity of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), combined with its spatial and spectral coverage. Specifically, we study the different properties of the gas in the disk and in the outflow with spatially and kinematically resolved maps, by dividing the strongest emission lines in velocity bins. We associate the core of the lines to the disk, consistent with the stellar velocity, and the redshifted and the blueshifted wings to the outflow. We measure the reddening, density, ionisation parameter and dominant ionisation source of the emitting gas for both components in each galaxy. We find that the outflowing gas is characterised by higher values of density and ionisation parameter than the disk, which presents a higher dust extinction. Moreover, we distinguish high- and low-ionisation regions across the portion of spatially resolved narrow line region (NLR) traced by the outflowing gas. The high ionisation regions characterised by the lowest [NII]/H{alpha} and [SII]/H{alpha} line ratios, generally trace the innermost parts along the axis of the emitting cones, where the [SIII]/[SII] line ratio is enhanced, while the low ionisation ones follow the cone edges and/or the regions perpendicular to the axis of the outflows, characterised also by a higher [OIII] velocity dispersion. A possible scenario to explain these features relies on the presence of two distinct population of line emitting clouds: one is optically thin to the radiation and characterised by the highest excitation, while the other, optically thick, is impinged by a filtered - and thus harder - radiation field, which generates strong low-excitation lines. The highest values of [NII]/H{alpha} and [SII]/H{alpha} line ratios may be due to shocks and/or a hard filtered radiation field from the AGN.
2162. Major galaxy mergers at z<~3
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/1183
Title:
Major galaxy mergers at z<~3
Short Name:
J/AJ/126/1183
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper presents direct evidence for hierarchical galaxy assembly out to redshifts z~3. We identify major mergers using the model-independent CAS (concentration, asymmetry, clumpiness) physical morphological system on galaxies detected, and photometrically selected, in the WFPC2 and NICMOS Hubble Deep Field North. We specifically use the asymmetric distributions of rest-frame optical light measured through the asymmetry parameter (A) to determine the fraction of galaxies undergoing major mergers as a function of redshift (z), stellar mass (M*), and absolute magnitude (M_B_).
2163. MALATANG survey NGC253 dense gas & SFR formation
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/494/1276
Title:
MALATANG survey NGC253 dense gas & SFR formation
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/494/1276
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In order to study the high-transition dense-gas tracers and their relationships to the star formation of the inner ~2kpc circumnuclear region of NGC 253, we present HCN J=4-3 and HCO^+^ J=4-3 maps obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope(JCMT). With the spatially resolved data, we compute the concentration indices r90/r50 for the different tracers. HCN and HCO^+^ 4-3 emission features tend to be centrally concentrated, which is in contrast to the shallower distribution of CO 1-0 and the stellar component. The dense-gas fraction (fdense, traced by the velocity-integrated-intensity ratios of HCN/CO and HCO^+^/CO) and the ratio R31 (CO 3-2/1-0) decline towards larger galactocentric distances, but increase with higher SFR surface density. The radial variation and the large scatter of fdense and R31 imply distinct physical conditions in different regions of the galactic disc. The relationships of fdense versus Sigma_stellar, and SFE_dense versus Sigma_stellar are explored. SFE_dense increases with higher Sigma_stellar in this galaxy, which is inconsistent with previous work that used HCN 1-0 data. This implies that existing stellar components might have different effects on the high-J HCN and HCO+ than their low-J emission. We also find that SFE_dense seems to be decreasing with higher f_dense which is consistent with previous works, and it suggests that the ability of the dense gas to form stars diminishes when the average density of the gas increases. This is expected in a scenario where only the regions with high-density contrast collapse and form stars.
2164. Malin 1 images at 6 wavelengths
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/593/A126
Title:
Malin 1 images at 6 wavelengths
Short Name:
J/A+A/593/A126
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) represent a significant percentage of local galaxies but their formation and evolution remain elusive. They may hold crucial information for our understanding of many key issues (i.e., census of baryonic and dark matter, star formation in the low density regime, mass function). The most massive examples - the so called giant LSBGs - can be as massive as the Milky Way, but with this mass being distributed in a much larger disk. Malin 1 is an iconic giant LSBG - perhaps the largest disk galaxy known. We attempt to bring new insights on its structure and evolution on the basis of new images covering a wide range in wavelength. We have computed surface brightness profiles (and average surface brightnesses in 16 regions of interest), in six photometric bands (FUV, NUV, u, g, i, z). We compared these data to various models, testing a variety of assumptions concerning the formation and evolution of Malin 1.
2165. MALT90 Catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PASA/33.30
Title:
MALT90 Catalogue
Short Name:
J/other/PASA/33.
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90GHz survey aims to characterise the physical and chemical evolution of high-mass clumps. Recently completed, it mapped 90GHz line emission towards 3246 high-mass clumps identified from the ATLASGAL 870um Galactic plane survey. By utilising the broad frequency coverage of the Mopra telescope's spectrometer, maps in 16 different emission lines were simultaneously obtained. Here, we describe the first catalogue of the detected line emission, generated by Gaussian profile fitting to spectra extracted towards each clumps' 870um dust continuum peak. Synthetic spectra show that the catalogue has a completeness of >95%, a probability of a false-positive detection of <0.3%, and a relative uncertainty in the measured quantities of <20% over the range of detection criteria. The detection rates are highest for the (1-0) transitions of HCO^+^, HNC, N_2_H^+^, and HCN (~77-89%). Almost all clumps (~95%) are detected in at least one of the molecular transitions, just over half of the clumps (~53%) are detected in four or more of the transitions, while only one clump is detected in 13 transitions. We find several striking trends in the ensemble of properties for the different molecular transitions when plotted as a function of the clumps' evolutionary state as estimated from Spitzer mid-IR images, including (1) HNC is relatively brighter in colder, less evolved clumps than those that show active star formation, (2) N2H+ is relatively brighter in the earlier stages, (3) that the observed optical depth decreases as the clumps evolve, and (4) the optically thickest HCO^+^ emission shows a 'blue-red asymmetry' indicating overall collapse that monotonically decreases as the clumps evolve. This catalogue represents the largest compiled database of line emission towards high-mass clumps and is a valuable data set for detailed studies of these objects.
2166. MAMBO observations of SWIRE sources
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/692/422
Title:
MAMBO observations of SWIRE sources
Short Name:
J/ApJ/692/422
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report on-off pointed MAMBO observations at 1.2mm of 61 Spitzer-selected star-forming galaxies from the Spitzer Wide Area Infrared Extragalactic Legacy survey (SWIRE). The sources are selected on the basis of bright 24um fluxes (F24um>0.4mJy) and of stellar dominated near-infrared spectral energy distributions in order to favor z~2 starburst galaxies. The average 1.2mm flux for the whole sample is 1.5+/-0.2mJy. Our analysis focuses on 29 sources in the Lockman Hole field where the average 1.2mm flux (1.9+/-0.3mJy) is higher than in other fields (1.1+/-0.2mJy). The analysis of the multiwavelength spectral energy distributions indicates that these sources are starburst galaxies with far-infrared luminosities from 10^12^ to 10^13.3^L_{sun}_, and stellar masses of ~0.2-6x10^11^M_{sun}_. Compared to submillimeter selected galaxies (SMGs), the SWIRE-MAMBO sources are among those with the largest 24um/1.2mm flux ratios. The origin of such large ratios is investigated by comparing the average mid-infrared spectra and the stacked far-infrared spectral energy distributions of the SWIRE-MAMBO sources and of SMGs.
2167. M31 and M33 UBVRI photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/2478
Title:
M31 and M33 UBVRI photometry
Short Name:
J/AJ/131/2478
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present UBVRI photometry obtained from Mosaic images of M31 and M33 using the Kitt Peak National Observatory 4m telescope. We describe our data reduction and automated photometry techniques in some detail, as we will shortly perform a similar analysis of other Local Group galaxies. The present study covered 2.2deg^2^ along the major axis of M31 and 0.8deg^2^ on M33, chosen so as to include all of the regions currently active in forming massive stars. We calibrated our data using photometry from the Lowell 1.1m telescope, and this external method resulted in millimagnitude differences in the photometry of overlapping fields, providing some assurance that our photometry is reliable. The final catalog contains 371781 and 146622 stars in M31 and M33, respectively, where every star has a counterpart in (at least) the B, V, and R passbands. Our survey goes deep enough to achieve 1%-2% photometry at 21mag (corresponding to stars more massive than 20M_{sun}_) and achieves <10% errors at ~U ~B ~V ~R ~I 23mag.
2168. M54 and Sgr dSph VI photometry
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/119/1760
Title:
M54 and Sgr dSph VI photometry
Short Name:
J/AJ/119/1760
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present deep VI-band photometry of the globular cluster M54, a nearby field in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, and a control field. The color-magnitude diagrams reach well below the oldest main-sequence turnoffs, thus enabling an analysis of the galaxy's age-metallicity relation with unprecedented clarity. We also study the variable stars in the direction of M54. From 67 RR Lyrae variables, we confirm and improve on our previous estimates of the cluster horizontal branch magnitude, foreground reddening, and horizontal branch morphology. These values are used in determining the ages of M54 and the Sagittarius field populations. We confirm our previous result that M54 is the same age as Galactic globular clusters of similar metallicity.
2169. MaNGA catalog, DR15
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/86
Title:
MaNGA catalog, DR15
Short Name:
J/AJ/154/86
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We describe the sample design for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey and present the final properties of the main samples along with important considerations for using these samples for science. Our target selection criteria were developed while simultaneously optimizing the size distribution of the MaNGA integral field units (IFUs), the IFU allocation strategy, and the target density to produce a survey defined in terms of maximizing signal-to-noise ratio, spatial resolution, and sample size. Our selection strategy makes use of redshift limits that only depend on i-band absolute magnitude (M_i_), or, for a small subset of our sample, M i and color (NUV-i). Such a strategy ensures that all galaxies span the same range in angular size irrespective of luminosity and are therefore covered evenly by the adopted range of IFU sizes. We define three samples: the Primary and Secondary samples are selected to have a flat number density with respect to M_i_ and are targeted to have spectroscopic coverage to 1.5 and 2.5 effective radii (Re), respectively. The Color-Enhanced supplement increases the number of galaxies in the low-density regions of color-magnitude space by extending the redshift limits of the Primary sample in the appropriate color bins. The samples cover the stellar mass range 5x10^8^<=M*<=3x10^11^M_{sun}/h^2^ and are sampled at median physical resolutions of 1.37 and 2.5kpc for the Primary and Secondary samples, respectively. We provide weights that will statistically correct for our luminosity and color-dependent selection function and IFU allocation strategy, thus correcting the observed sample to a volume-limited sample.
2170. MaNGA E and S galaxies properties
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/476/1765
Title:
MaNGA E and S galaxies properties
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/476/1765
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We perform full spectrum fitting stellar population analysis and Jeans Anisotropic modelling of the stellar kinematics for about 2000 early-type galaxies (ETGs) and spiral galaxies from the MaNGA DR14 sample. Galaxies with different morphologies are found to be located on a remarkably tight mass plane which is close to the prediction of the virial theorem, extending previous results for ETGs. By examining an inclined projection ('the mass-size' plane), we find that spiral and early-type galaxies occupy different regions on the plane, and their stellar population properties (i.e. age, metallicity, and stellar mass-to-light ratio) vary systematically along roughly the direction of velocity dispersion, which is a proxy for the bulge fraction. Galaxies with higher velocity dispersions have typically older ages, larger stellar mass-to-light ratios and are more metal rich, which indicates that galaxies increase their bulge fractions as their stellar populations age and become enriched chemically. The age and stellar mass-to-light ratio gradients for low-mass galaxies in our sample tend to be positive (centre<outer), while the gradients for most massive galaxies are negative. The metallicity gradients show a clear peak around velocity dispersion log_10_{sigma}_e_~=2.0, which corresponds to the critical mass ~3x10^10^M_{sun}_ of the break in the mass-size relation. Spiral galaxies with large mass and size have the steepest gradients, while the most massive ETGs, especially above the critical mass M_crit_>=2x 10^11^M_{sun}_, where slow rotator ETGs start dominating, have much flatter gradients. This may be due to differences in their evolution histories, e.g. mergers.

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