- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/84
- Title:
- Host galaxies of Superluminous Supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/84
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 UV and near-IR (nIR) imaging of 21 Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) host galaxies, providing a sensitive probe of star formation and stellar mass within the hosts. Comparing the photometric and morphological properties of these host galaxies with those of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), we find SLSN hosts are fainter and more compact at both UV and nIR wavelengths, in some cases we barely recover hosts with absolute magnitude around M_V_~=-14. With the addition of ground based optical observations and archival results, we produce spectral energy distribution fits to these hosts, and show that SLSN hosts possess lower stellar mass and star formation rates. This is most pronounced for the hydrogen deficient Type-I SLSN hosts, although Type-II H-rich SLSN host galaxies remain distinct from the bulk of CCSNe, spanning a remarkably broad range of absolute magnitudes, with ~30 per cent of SLSNe-II arising from galaxies fainter than M_nIR_~-14. The detection of our faintest SLSN hosts increases the confidence that SLSNe-I hosts are distinct from those of LGRBs in star formation rate and stellar mass, and suggests that apparent similarities in metallicity may be due to the limited fraction of hosts for which emission line metallicity measurements are feasible. The broad range of luminosities of SLSN-II hosts is difficult to describe by metallicity cuts, and does not match the expectations of any reasonable UV-weighted luminosity function, suggesting additional environmental constraints are likely necessary to yield hydrogen rich SLSNe.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/830/13
- Title:
- Host-galaxy NUV-NIR data of 32 superluminous SNe
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/830/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the host galaxies of all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory prior to 2013 and derive measurements of their luminosities, star formation rates, stellar masses, and gas-phase metallicities. We find that Type I (hydrogen-poor) SLSNe (SLSNe I) are found almost exclusively in low-mass (M_*_<2x10^9^M_{sun}_) and metal-poor (12+log_10_[O/H]<8.4) galaxies. We compare the mass and metallicity distributions of our sample to nearby galaxy catalogs in detail and conclude that the rate of SLSNe I as a fraction of all SNe is heavily suppressed in galaxies with metallicities >~0.5Z_{sun}_. Extremely low metallicities are not required and indeed provide no further increase in the relative SLSN rate. Several SLSN I hosts are undergoing vigorous starbursts, but this may simply be a side effect of metallicity dependence: dwarf galaxies tend to have bursty star formation histories. Type II (hydrogen-rich) SLSNe (SLSNe II) are found over the entire range of galaxy masses and metallicities, and their integrated properties do not suggest a strong preference for (or against) low-mass/low-metallicity galaxies. Two hosts exhibit unusual properties: PTF 10uhf is an SLSN I in a massive, luminous infrared galaxy at redshift z=0.29, while PTF 10tpz is an SLSN II located in the nucleus of an early-type host at z=0.04.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/614/671
- Title:
- Hot, dusty ultraluminous galaxies at z~2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/614/671
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report spectroscopic redshifts for 18 {mu}Jy radio galaxies at a mean redshift of z=2.2 that are faint at both submillimeter and optical wavelengths. While the radio fluxes of these galaxies could indicate far-IR luminosities comparable to high-redshift submillimeter-selected galaxies (>~10^12^L{Sun}), none are detected in the submillimeter.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/866
- Title:
- Hot populations in M87 globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/866
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To explore the production of UV-bright stars in old, metal-rich populations like those in elliptical galaxies, we have obtained Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph far- and near-UV photometry of globular clusters (GCs) in four fields in the giant elliptical (gE) galaxy M87. To a limit of m_FUV_~25 we detect a total of 66 GCs in common with the deep HST optical-band study of Kundu et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJ/513/733>).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/58
- Title:
- 1H 0323+342 rest frame optical spectrum with GHAO
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/58
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) imaging data of the radio-loud, narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0323+342, which shows intense and variable gamma-ray activity discovered by the Fermi satellite with the Large Area Telescope. Near-infrared and optical images are used to investigate the structural properties of the host galaxy of 1H 0323+342; this together with optical spectroscopy allows us to examine its black hole mass. Based on two-dimensional (2D) multiwavelength surface-brightness modeling, we find that statistically, the best model fit is a combination of a nuclear component and a Sersic profile (n~2.8). However, the presence of a disk component (with a small bulge n~1.2) also remains a possibility and cannot be ruled out with the present data. Although at first glance a spiral-arm-like structure is revealed in our images, a 2D Fourier analysis of the imagery suggests that this structure corresponds to an asymmetric ring, likely associated with a recent violent dynamical interaction. We discuss our results in the context of relativistic jet production and galaxy evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A71
- Title:
- HRS galaxies Halpha kinematic survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new 2D high resolution Fabry-Perot spectroscopic observations of 152 star-forming galaxies which are part of the Herschel Reference Survey (HRS), a complete K-band selected, volume-limited sample of nearby galaxies, spanning a wide range in stellar mass and morphological type. Using improved data reduction techniques that provide adaptive binning based on Voronoi tessellation, using large field-of-view observations, we derive high spectral resolution (R>10,000) H{alpha} datacubes from which we compute H{alpha} maps and radial 2D velocity fields that are based on several thousand independent measurements. A robust method based on such fields allows us to accurately compute rotation curves and kinematical parameters, for which uncertainties are calculated using a method based on the power spectrum of the residual velocity fields. We check the consistency of the rotation curves by comparing our maximum rotational velocities to those derived from Hi data, and computing the i-band, NIR, stellar and baryonic Tully-Fisher relations. We use this set of kinematical data combined to those available at other frequencies to study for the first time the relation between the dynamical and the total baryonic mass (stars, atomic and molecular gas, metals and dust), and derive the baryonic and dynamical main sequence on a representative sample of the local universe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/615/A104
- Title:
- HRS gal. nuclear vs. integrated spectroscopy
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/615/A104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The determination of the relative frequency of active galactic nuclei (AGN) versus other spectral classes, for example, HII region-like (HII), transition objects (TRAN), passive (PAS), and retired (RET), in a complete set of galaxies in the local Universe is of primary importance to discriminate the source of ionization in the nuclear region of galaxies (e.g., supermassive black holes vs. young and old stars). Here we aim to provide a spectroscopic characterization of the nuclei of galaxies belonging to the Herschel Reference Survey (HRS), a volume and magnitude limited sample representative of the local Universe, which has become a benchmark for local and high- z studies, for semianalytical models and cosmological simulations. The comparison between the nuclear spectral classification and the one determined on the global galactic scale provides information about how galaxy properties change from the nuclear to the outer regions. Moreover, the extrapolation of the global star formation (SF) properties from the SDSS fiber spectroscopy compared to the one computed by H{alpha} photometry can be useful for testing the method based on aperture correction for determining the global star formation rate for local galaxies. By collecting the existing nuclear spectroscopy available from the literature, complemented with new observations obtained using the Loiano 1.52m telescope, we analyze the 322 nuclear spectra of HRS galaxies; their integrated spectroscopy is available from the literature as well. Using two diagnostic diagrams (the BPT and the WHAN) we provide a nuclear and an integrated spectral classification for the HRS galaxies. The BPT and the WHAN methods for nuclei consistently give a frequency of 53-64% HII, around 21-27% AGNs (including TRAN), and 15-20% of PAS (including RET), whereas for integrated spectra they give 69-84% HII, 4-11% of AGNs and 12-20% PAS. Solely among late-type galaxies (LTGs) do the nuclear percentages become 67-77% HII, 22-27% AGNs (including TRAN), and only 1-7% of PAS. For the integrated spectra these frequencies become: 80-85% HII, 9-11% AGNs and 4-9% PAS. We find that the fraction of HII region-like spectra is strongly anticorrelated with the stellar mass. On the contrary the frequency of AGNs increases significantly with stellar mass, such that at M*>10^10.0^M_{sun}_~66% of the LTGs are AGNs or TRAN. Moreover there is not a significant dependence of the frequency of AGNs as a function of environment: AGNs+TRAN above 10^9.0^M_{sun}_ are consistent with ~30% irrespective of their membership to the Virgo cluster, suggesting that the AGNs population is not sensitive to the environment. Finally, extrapolation of the global SF properties from the nuclear spectroscopy including aperture corrections leads to underestimates with respect to values derived from direct integrated H{alpha} photometry.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/617/A33
- Title:
- HRS sample stellar, dust, gas mass functions
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/617/A33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss the results of the relationships between the K-band and stellar mass, far-infrared luminosities, star formation rate, dust and gas masses of nearby galaxies computing the bivariate K-band Luminosity Function (BLF) and bivariate K-band Mass Function (BMF) of the Herschel Reference Survey (HRS), a volume-limited sample with full wavelength coverage. We derive the BLFs and BMFs from the K-band and stellar mass, far-infrared luminosities, star formation rate, dust and gas masses cumulative distributions using a copula method which is outlined in detail. The use of the bivariate computed taking into account the upper limits allows us to derive on a more solid statistical ground the relationship between the observed physical quantities. The analysis shows that the behaviour of the morphological (optically selected) subsamples is quite different. A statistically meaningful result can be obtained over the whole HRS sample only from the relationship between the K-band and the stellar mass, while for the remaining physical quantities (dust and gas masses, far-IR luminosity and star formation rate), the analysis is distinct for late-type (LT) and early-type galaxies (ETG). However, the number of ETGs is small to perform a robust statistical analysis, and in most of the case results are discussed only for the LTG subsample. The Luminosity and Mass Functions (LFs, MFs) of LTGs are generally dependent on the K-band and the various dependencies are discussed in detail. We are able to derive the corresponding LFs and MFs and compare them with those computed with other samples. Our statistical analysis allows us to characterise the HRS, that, although non homogeneously selected and partially biased towards low IR luminosities, may be considered as representative of the local LT galaxy population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/103
- Title:
- HSC search of SDSS and GAMA dwarf gal. mergers
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Like massive galaxies, dwarf galaxies are expected to undergo major mergers with other dwarfs. However, the end state of these mergers and the role that merging plays in regulating dwarf star formation are uncertain. Using imaging from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program, we construct a sample of dwarf-dwarf mergers and examine the star formation and host properties of the merging systems. These galaxies are selected via an automated detection algorithm from a sample of 6875 spectroscopically selected isolated dwarf galaxies at z<0.12 and log(M_*_/M_{sun}_)<9.6 from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly and Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic campaigns. We find a total tidal feature detection fraction of 3.29% (6.1% when considering only galaxies at z<0.05). The tidal feature detection fraction rises strongly as a function of star formation activity; 15%-20% of galaxies with extremely high H{alpha} equivalent width (EW_H{alpha}_>250{AA}) show signs of tidal debris. Galaxies that host tidal debris are also systematically bluer than the average galaxy at fixed stellar mass. These findings extend the observed dwarf-dwarf merger sequence with a significant sample of dwarf galaxies, indicating that star formation triggered in mergers between dwarf galaxies continues after coalescence.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/780/34
- Title:
- H_160_-selected catalog of galaxies in the HUDF
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/780/34
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of an H_160_-selected photometric catalog of galaxies in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, using imaging from the WFC3/IR camera on the Hubble Space Telescope in combination with archival ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared imaging. Using these data, we measure the spectral energy distributions of ~1500 galaxies to a limiting H_160_ magnitude of 27.8, from which we fit photometric redshifts and stellar population estimates for all galaxies with well-determined Spitzer IRAC fluxes, allowing for the determination of the cumulative mass function within the range 1<z<6. By selecting samples of galaxies at a constant cumulative number density, we are able to explore the coevolution of stellar masses and star formation rates (SFRs) for progenitor galaxies and their descendants from z~6. We find a steady increase in the SFRs of galaxies at constant number density from z~6 to z~3, accompanied by gradually declining specific star formation rates (sSFRs) during this same period. The peak epoch of star formation is also found to shift to later times for galaxies with increasing number densities, in agreement with the expectations from cosmic downsizing. The observed SFRs can fully account for the mass growth to z~2 among galaxies with cumulative number densities greater than 10^-3.5^Mpc^-3^. For galaxies with a lower constant number density (higher mean mass), we find the observed stellar masses are ~three times greater than that which may be accounted for by the observed star formation alone at late times, implying that growth from mergers plays an important role at z<2. We additionally observe a decreasing sSFR, equivalent to approximately one order of magnitude, from z~6 to z~2 among galaxies with number densities less than 10^-3.5^Mpc^3^, along with significant evidence that at any redshift the sSFR is higher for galaxies at higher number density. The combination of these findings can qualitatively explain the previous findings of a specific star formation rate plateau at high redshift. Tracing the evolution of the fraction of quiescent galaxies for samples matched in cumulative number density over this redshift range, we find no unambiguous examples of quiescent galaxies at z>4.
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