- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/77
- Title:
- Imaging and spectroscopy in three galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/145/77
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of stellar populations and evolutionary history of galaxies in three similarly rich galaxy clusters MS0451.6-0305 (z=0.54), RXJ0152.7-1357 (z=0.83), and RXJ1226.9+3332 (z=0.89). Our analysis is based on high signal-to-noise ground-based optical spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope imaging for a total of 17-34 members in each cluster. Using the dynamical masses together with the effective radii and the velocity dispersions, we find no indication of evolution of sizes or velocity dispersions with redshift at a given galaxy mass. We establish the Fundamental Plane (FP) and scaling relations between absorption line indices and velocity dispersions. We confirm that the FP is steeper at z~0.86 compared to the low-redshift FP, indicating that under the assumption of passive evolution the formation redshift, z_form_, depends on the galaxy velocity dispersion (or alternatively mass). At a velocity dispersion of {sigma}=125km/s (Mass=10^10.55^M_{sun}_) we find z_form_=1.24+/-0.05, while at {sigma}=225km/s (Mass=10^11.36^M_{sun}_) the formation redshift is z_form_=1.95^+0.3^_-0.2_, for a Salpeter initial mass function. The three clusters follow similar scaling relations between absorption line indices and velocity dispersions as those found for low-redshift galaxies. The zero point offsets for the Balmer lines depend on cluster redshifts. However, the offsets indicate a slower evolution, and therefore higher formation redshift, than the zero point differences found from the FP, if interpreting the data using a passive evolution model. Specifically, the strength of the higher order Balmer lines H{delta} and H{gamma} implies z_form_>2.8. The scaling relations for the metal indices in general show small and in some cases insignificant zero point offsets, favoring high formation redshifts for a passive evolution model.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/121/169
- Title:
- Imaging and spectroscopy of Tol 1214-277
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/121/169
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectrophotometric study based on VLT/FORS I observations of one of the most metal-deficient blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies known, Tol 1214-277 (Z~Zsolar/25). The data show that roughly half of the total luminosity of the BCD originates from a bright and compact starburst region located at the northeastern tip of a faint dwarf galaxy with cometary appearance. The starburst has ignited less than 4 Myr ago and its emission is powered by several thousand O7V stars and ~170 late-type nitrogen Wolf-Rayet stars located within a compact region with <~500pc in diameter. For the first time in a BCD, a relatively strong [Fe V] {lambda}4227 emission line is seen which together with intense He II {lambda}4686 emission indicates the presence of a very hard radiation field in Tol 1214-277. We argue that this extraordinarily hard radiation originates from both Wolf-Rayet stars and radiative shocks in the starburst region. The structural properties of the low surface brightness (LSB) component underlying the starburst have been investigated by means of surface photometry down to 28 B mag.arcsec^-2^. We find that, for a surface brightness level fainter than ~24.5 B mag.arcsec^-2^, an exponential fitting law provides an adequate approximation to its radial intensity distribution. The broadband colors in the outskirts of the LSB component of Tol 1214-277 are nearly constant and are consistent with an age below one Gyr. This conclusion is supported by the comparison of the observed spectral energy distribution (SED) of the LSB host with theoretical SEDs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/845/157
- Title:
- IMF in 3 low-redshift strong lenses from SNELLS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/845/157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new observations of the three nearest early-type galaxy (ETG) strong lenses discovered in the SINFONI Nearby Elliptical Lens Locator Survey (SNELLS). Based on their lensing masses, these ETGs were inferred to have a stellar initial mass function (IMF) consistent with that of the Milky Way, not the bottom-heavy IMF that has been reported as typical for high-{sigma} ETGs based on lensing, dynamical, and stellar population synthesis techniques. We use these unique systems to test the consistency of IMF estimates derived from different methods. We first estimate the stellar M*/L using lensing and stellar dynamics. We then fit high-quality optical spectra of the lenses using an updated version of the stellar population synthesis models developed by Conroy & van Dokkum. When examined individually, we find good agreement among these methods for one galaxy. The other two galaxies show 2-3{sigma} tension with lensing estimates, depending on the dark matter contribution, when considering IMFs that extend to 0.08M_{sun}_. Allowing a variable low-mass cutoff or a nonparametric form of the IMF reduces the tension among the IMF estimates to <2{sigma}. There is moderate evidence for a reduced number of low-mass stars in the SNELLS spectra, but no such evidence in a composite spectrum of matched-{sigma} ETGs drawn from the SDSS. Such variation in the form of the IMF at low stellar masses (m<~0.3M_{sun}_), if present, could reconcile lensing/dynamical and spectroscopic IMF estimates for the SNELLS lenses and account for their lighter M*/L relative to the mean matched-{sigma} ETG. We provide the spectra used in this study to facilitate future comparisons.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/398/109
- Title:
- Imperial IRAS-FSC redshift catalogue (IIFSCz)
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/398/109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new catalogue, the Imperial IRAS-FSC Redshift Catalogue (IIFSCz), of 60303 galaxies selected at 60um from the IRAS Faint Source Catalogue (FSC). The IIFSCz consists of accurate position, optical, near-infrared and/or radio identifications, spectroscopic redshift (if available) or photometric redshift (if possible), predicted far-infrared (FIR) and submillimetre (submm) fluxes ranging from 12 to 1380um based upon the best-fitting infrared template. About 55% of the galaxies in the IIFSCz have spectroscopic redshifts, and a further 20% have photometric redshifts obtained through either the training set or the template-fitting method. For S(60)>0.36Jy, the 90% completeness limit of the FSC, 90% of the sources have either spectroscopic or photometric redshifts. Scientific applications of the IIFSCz include validation of current and forthcoming infrared and submm/mm surveys such as AKARI, Planck and Herschel, follow-up studies of rare source populations, large-scale structure and galaxy bias, local multiwavelength luminosity functions and source counts. The catalogue is publicly available at http://astro.imperial.ac.uk/~mrr/fss/.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/659/122
- Title:
- Improved distances to type Ia supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/659/122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an updated version of the multicolor light-curve shape method to measure distances to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), incorporating new procedures for K-correction and extinction corrections. We also develop a simple model to disentangle intrinsic color variations and reddening by dust and expand the method to incorporate U-band light curves and to more easily accommodate prior constraints on any of the model parameters. We apply this method to 133 nearby SNe Ia, including 95 objects in the Hubble flow (cz>=2500km/s), which give an intrinsic dispersion of less than 7% in distance. The Hubble flow sample, which is of critical importance to all cosmological uses of SNe Ia, is the largest ever presented with homogeneous distances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/523/A17
- Title:
- Individual stars in Fornax dSph center
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/523/A17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- For the first time we show the detailed, late-stage, chemical evolution history of a small nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the Local Group. We present the results of a high-resolution (R~20000, {lambda}=5340-5620; 6120-6701) FLAMES/GIRAFFE abundance study at ESO/VLT of 81 photometrically selected, red giant branch stars in the central 25' of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We also carried out a detailed comparison of the effects of recent developments in abundance analysis (e.g., spherical models vs. plane-parallel) and the automation that is required to efficiently deal with such large data sets. We present abundances of alpha-elements (Mg, Si, Ca, and Ti), iron-peak elements (Fe, Ni, and Cr), and heavy elements (Y, Ba, La, Nd, and Eu).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/461/2288
- Title:
- Infall motions in massive star-forming regions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/461/2288
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work, we aim to characterize high-mass clumps with infall motions. We selected 327 clumps from the Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90-GHz survey, and identified 100 infall candidates. Combined with the results of He et al. (2015, Cat. J/MNRAS/450/1926), we obtained a sample of 732 high-mass clumps, including 231 massive infall candidates and 501 clumps where infall is not detected. Objects in our sample were classified as pre-stellar, proto-stellar, HII or photodissociation region (PDR). The detection rates of the infall candidates in the pre-stellar, proto-stellar, HII and PDR stages are 41.2 per cent, 36.6 per cent, 30.6 per cent and 12.7 per cent, respectively. The infall candidates have a higher H_2_ column density and volume density compared with the clumps where infall is not detected at every stage. For the infall candidates, the median values of the infall rates at the pre-stellar, proto-stellar, HII and PDR stages are 2.6 x 10^-3^, 7.0x10^-3^, 6.5x10^-3^ and 5.5x10^-3^M_{sun}_/yr, respectively. These values indicate that infall candidates at later evolutionary stages are still accumulating material efficiently. It is interesting to find that both infall candidates and clumps where infall is not detected show a clear trend of increasing mass from the pre-stellar to proto-stellar, and to the HII stages. The power indices of the clump mass function are 2.04+/-0.16 and 2.17+/-0.31 for the infall candidates and clumps where infall is not detected, respectively, which agree well with the power index of the stellar initial mass function (2.35) and the cold Planck cores (2.0).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/450/1926
- Title:
- Infall motions in massive star-forming regions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/450/1926
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Massive star-forming regions with observed infall motions are good sites for studying the birth of massive stars. In this paper, 405 compact sources have been extracted from the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) compact sources that also have been observed in the Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90-GHz (MALT90) survey during years 1 and 2. These observations are complemented with Spitzer GLIMPSE/MIPSGAL mid-IR survey data to help classify the elected star-forming clumps into three evolutionary stages: pre-stellar, proto-stellar and UCHII regions. The results suggest that 0.05g/cm^2^ is a reliable empirical lower bound for the clump surface densities required for massive-star formation to occur. The optically thick HCO^+^(1-0) and HNC(1-0) lines, as well as the optically thin N_2_H^+^(1-0) line were used to search for infall motions towards these sources. By analysing the asymmetries of the optically thick HCO^+^(1-0) and HNC(1-0) lines and the mapping observations of HCO^+^(1-0), a total of 131 reliable infall candidates have been identified. The HCO^+^(1-0) line shows the highest occurrence of obvious asymmetric features, suggesting that it may be a better infall motion tracer than other lines such as HNC(1-0). The detection rates of infall candidates towards pre-stellar, proto-stellar and UCHII clumps are 0.3452, 0.3861 and 0.2152, respectively. The relatively high detection rate of infall candidates towards UCHII clumps indicates that many UCHII regions are still accreting matter. The peak column densities and masses of the infall candidates, in general, display an increasing trend with progressing evolutionary stages. However, the rough estimates of the mass infall rate show no obvious variation with evolutionary stage.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/737/73
- Title:
- Infrared extinction toward the Galactic Centre
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/737/73
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive the extinction curve toward the Galactic center (GC) from 1 to 19um. We use hydrogen emission lines of the minispiral observed by ISO-SWS and SINFONI. The extinction-free flux reference is the 2cm continuum emission observed by the Very Large Array. Toward the inner 14"x20", we find an extinction of A_2.166um_=2.62+/-0.11, with a power-law slope of {alpha}=-2.11+/-0.06 shortward of 2.8um, consistent with the average near-infrared slope from the recent literature. At longer wavelengths, however, we find that the extinction is grayer than shortward of 2.8um. We find that it is not possible to fit the observed extinction curve with a dust model consisting of pure carbonaceous and silicate grains only, and the addition of composite particles, including ices, is needed to explain the observations. Combining a distance-dependent extinction with our distance-independent extinction, we derive the distance to the GC to be R_0_=7.94+/-0.65kpc. Toward Sgr A* (r<0.5"), we obtain A_H_=4.21+/-0.10, A_Ks_=2.42+/-0.10, and A_L'_=1.09+/-0.13.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/31/332
- Title:
- Infrared Luminosities of Local Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/31/332
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Based on data from 2MASS (<II/246>) we analyzed the infrared properties of 451 Local-Volume galaxies at distances D<=10Mpc.
