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1401. gri photometry of variables in NGC 4258
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/183
Title:
gri photometry of variables in NGC 4258
Short Name:
J/AJ/149/183
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present results of a ground-based survey for Cepheid variables in NGC4258. This galaxy plays a key role in the Extragalactic Distance Scale due to its very precise and accurate distance determination via very long baseline interferometry observations of water masers. We imaged two fields within this galaxy using the Gemini North telescope and the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph, obtaining 16 epochs of data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey gri bands over 4yr. We carried out point-spread function photometry and detected 94 Cepheids with periods between 7 and 127 days, as well as an additional 215 variables which may be Cepheids or Population II pulsators. We used the Cepheid sample to test the absolute calibration of theoretical gri Period-Luminosity relations and found good agreement with the maser distance to this galaxy. The expected data products from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope should enable Cepheid searches out to at least 10Mpc.
1402. Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). I.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/812/114
Title:
Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). I.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/812/114
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of 10 massive clusters of galaxies at redshift z=0.308-0.686, including the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF). The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) yields near-infrared spectra of the cluster cores covering the wavelength range 0.81-1.69{mu}m through grisms G102 and G141, while the Advanced Camera for Surveys in parallel mode provides G800L spectra of the infall regions of the clusters. The WFC3 spectra are taken at two almost orthogonal position angles in order to minimize the effects of confusion. After summarizing the scientific drivers of GLASS, we describe the sample selection as well as the observing strategy and data processing pipeline. We then utilize MACS J0717.5+3745, a HFF cluster and the first one observed by GLASS, to illustrate the data quality and the high-level data products. Each spectrum brighter than H_AB_=23 is visually inspected by at least two co-authors and a redshift is measured when sufficient information is present in the spectra. Furthermore, we conducted a thorough search for emission lines through all of the GLASS WFC3 spectra with the aim of measuring redshifts for sources with continuum fainter than H_AB_=23. We provide a catalog of 139 emission-line-based spectroscopic redshifts for extragalactic sources, including three new redshifts of multiple image systems (one probable, two tentative).
1403. griz and CT1 photometry in M87
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/431/1405
Title:
griz and CT1 photometry in M87
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/431/1405
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present Gemini griz' photometry for 521 globular cluster (GC) candidates in a 5.5x5.5arcmin^2^ field centred 3.8-arcmin to the south and 0.9-arcmin to the west of the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4486. All these objects have previously published (C-T1) photometry. We also present new (C-T1) photometry for 338 globulars, within 1.7-arcmin in galactocentric radius, which have (g-z) colours in the photometric system adopted by the Virgo Cluster Survey of the Advanced Camera for Surveys of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These photometric data are used to define a self-consistent multicolour grid (avoiding polynomial fits) and preliminarily calibrated in terms of two chemical abundance scales. The resulting multicolour colour-chemical abundance relations are used to test GC chemical abundance distributions. This is accomplished by modelling the 10 GC colour histograms that can be defined in terms of the Cgriz' bands. Our results suggest that the best fit to the GC observed colour histograms is consistent with a genuinely bimodal chemical abundance distribution N_GC_(Z). On the other side, each ('blue' and 'red') GC subpopulation follows a distinct colour-colour relation.
1404. Group catalogues of the local universe
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/596/A14
Title:
Group catalogues of the local universe
Short Name:
J/A+A/596/A14
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Friends-of-friends algorithms are a common tool to detect galaxy groups and clusters in large survey data. In order to be as precise as possible, they have to be carefully calibrated using mock catalogues. We create an accurate and robust description of the matter distribution in the local Universe using the most up-to-date available data. This will provide the input for a specific cosmological test planned as follow-up to this work, and will be useful for general extragalactic and cosmological research. We create a set of galaxy group catalogues based on the 2MRS (Huchra et al., 2012, Cat. J/ApJS/199/26) and SDSS DR12 galaxy samples using a friends-of-friends based group finder algorithm. The algorithm is carefully calibrated and optimised on a new set of wide-angle mock catalogues from the Millennium simulation, in order to provide accurate total mass estimates of the galaxy groups taking into account the relevant observational biases in 2MRS and SDSS. We provide four different catalogues: (i) a 2MRS based group catalogue; (ii) a SDSS DR12 based group catalogue reaching out to a redshift z=0.11 with stellar mass estimates for 70% of the galaxies; (iii) a catalogue providing additional fundamental plane distances for all groups of the SDSS catalogue that host elliptical galaxies; (iv) a catalogue of the mass distribution in the local Universe based on a combination of our 2MRS and SDSS catalogues. While motivated by a specific cosmological test, three of the four catalogues that we produced are well suited to act as reference databases for a variety of extragalactic and cosmological science cases. Our catalogue of fundamental plane distances for SDSS groups provides further added value to this paper.
1405. Group-dominant elliptical galaxies CO spectra
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/573/A111
Title:
Group-dominant elliptical galaxies CO spectra
Short Name:
J/A+A/573/A111
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present IRAM 30m telescope observations of the CO(1-0) and (2-1) lines in a sample of 11 group-dominant elliptical galaxies selected from the CLoGS nearby groups sample. Our observations confirm the presence of molecular gas in 4 of the 11 galaxies at >4{sigma} significance, and combining these with data from the literature we find a detection rate of 43+/-14%, significantly higher than for the wider population of elliptical galaxies, and comparable to the detection rate for nearby radio galaxies. Those group-dominant galaxies which are detected typically contain ~2x10^8^M_{sun}_ of molecular gas, and although most have low star formation rates (<1M_{sun}_/yr) they have short depletion times, indicating that the gas must be replenished on timescales 10^8^yr. Almost all of the galaxies contain active nuclei, and we note that while CO detections are more common in the most radio-loud galaxies, the mass of molecular gas required to power the active nuclei through accretion is small compared to the masses observed. We consider the possible origin mechanisms for the gas, through cooling of stellar ejecta within the galaxies, group-scale cooling flows, and gas-rich mergers, and find probable examples of each type within our sample, confirming that a variety of processes act to drive the build up of molecular gas in group-dominant ellipticals.
1406. Group galaxies in ALFALFA survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/494/2090
Title:
Group galaxies in ALFALFA survey
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/494/2090
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We estimate the HI mass function (HIMF) of galaxies in groups based on thousands of ALFALFA (Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey) HI detections within the galaxy groups of four widely used SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) groups catalogues. Although differences between the catalogues mean that there is no one definitive group galaxy HIMF, in general we find that the low-mass slope is flat, in agreement with studies based on small samples of individual groups, and that the 'knee' mass is slightly higher than that of the global HIMF of the full ALFALFA sample. We find that the observed fraction of ALFALFA galaxies in groups is approximately 22 per cent. These group galaxies were removed from the full ALFALFA source catalogue to calculate the field HIMF using the remaining galaxies. Comparison between the field and group HIMFs reveals that group galaxies make only a small contribution to the global HIMF as most ALFALFA galaxies are in the field, but beyond the HIMF 'knee' group galaxies dominate. Finally we attempt to separate the group galaxy HIMF into bins of group halo mass, but find that too few low-mass galaxies are detected in the most massive groups to tightly constrain the slope, owing to the rarity of such groups in the nearby Universe where low-mass galaxies are detectable with existing HI surveys.
1407. Group galaxies in the RCS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/150
Title:
Group galaxies in the RCS
Short Name:
J/ApJ/749/150
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the evolution of the red-galaxy fraction (f_red_) in 905 galaxy groups with 0.15<=z<0.52. The galaxy groups are identified by the "probability friends-of-friends" algorithm from the first Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS1) photometric-redshift sample. There is a high degree of uniformity in the properties of the red sequence of the group galaxies, indicating that the luminous red-sequence galaxies in the groups are already in place by z~0.5 and that they have a formation epoch of z>~2. In general, groups at lower redshifts exhibit larger f_red_ than those at higher redshifts, showing a group Butcher-Oemler effect. We investigate the evolution of f_red_ by examining its dependence on four parameters, one of which can be classified as intrinsic and three of which can be classified as environmental: galaxy stellar mass (M_*_), total group stellar mass (M_*,grp_, a proxy for group halo mass), normalized group-centric radius (r_grp_), and local galaxy density ({Sigma}_5_).
1408. Group of early-type galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/407/2207
Title:
Group of early-type galaxies
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/407/2207
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The fundamental plane of early-type galaxies is a rather tight three-parameter correlation discovered more than 20yr ago. It has resisted both a global and precise physical interpretation despite a consequent number of works, observational, theoretical or using numerical simulations. It appears that its precise properties depend on the population of galaxies in study. Instead of selecting a priori these populations, we propose to objectively construct homologous populations from multivariate analyses. We have undertaken multivariate cluster and cladistic analyses of a sample of 56 low-redshift galaxy clusters containing 699 early-type galaxies, using four parameters: effective radius, velocity dispersion, surface brightness averaged over effective radius and Mg_2_ index.
1409. Group of galaxies in SDSS 5
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/479/927
Title:
Group of galaxies in SDSS 5
Short Name:
J/A+A/479/927
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We extract groups of galaxies from the SDSS Data Release 5 to study the supercluster-void network and environmental properties of groups therein. Groups of galaxies as density enhancements can be used to determine the luminosity density field of the supercluster-void network. We use a modified friends-of-friends (FoF) method with slightly variable linking lengths in transverse and radial directions to eliminate selection effects and to reliably find as many groups as possible. To determine the scaling of the linking length we calibrated group sizes and mean galaxy number densities within groups by shifting nearby groups to larger distances. Our final sample contains 17143 groups in the equatorial (E), and 33219 groups in the northern (N) part of the DR5 survey. The mean sizes and velocity dispersions of our groups practically do not change with their distance. This means that the selection effects have been properly taken into account when generating the group catalogue.
1410. Group of Galaxies in the SSRS2 catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/381/420
Title:
Group of Galaxies in the SSRS2 catalog
Short Name:
J/A+A/381/420
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present an automated method to detect populations of groups in galaxy redshift catalogs. This method uses both analysis of the redshift distribution along lines of sight in fixed cells to detect elementary structures and a friend-of-friend algorithm to merge these elementary structures into physical structures. We apply this method to the SSRS2 galaxy redshift catalog (Southern Sky Redshift Survey, Da Costa et al., Cat. J/AJ/116/1). The groups detected with our method are similar to group catalogs detected with pure friend-of-friend algorithms.

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