- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/512
- Title:
- LMXBs and globulars in early-type galaxies. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/690/512
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an astrometry and photometry catalogue of globular cluster (GC) candidates detected with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in a sample of 19 early-type galaxies, appropriate for comparison with the low-mass X-ray binary populations observed with Chandra. In a companion paper (Cat. J/ApJ/689/983), we present the Chandra data and investigate the relation between these populations. We demonstrate that, although there is little evidence of a color-magnitude correlation for the GCs, after estimating mass and metallicity from the photometry under the assumption of a single-age simple stellar population, there is a significant positive correlation between mass and metallicity.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/689/983
- Title:
- LMXBs in early-type galaxies. I. Chandra
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/689/983
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a Chandra survey of LMXBs in 24 early-type galaxies. Correcting for detection incompleteness, the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of each galaxy is consistent with a power law with negative logarithmic differential slope, {beta}~2.0. However, {beta} strongly correlates with incompleteness, indicating the XLF flattens at low-L_X_. Although the XLFs are similar, we find evidence of some variation between galaxies. The high-L_X_ XLF slope does not correlate with age, but may correlate with [{alpha}/Fe]. Considering only LMXBs with L_X_>10^37^ergs/s, matching the LMXBs with globular clusters (GCs) identified in HST observations of 19 of the galaxies, we find the probability a GC hosts an LMXB is proportional to L^{alpha}^_GC_Z^{gamma}^_Fe_ where {alpha}=1.01+/-0.19 and {gamma}=0.33+/-0.11. The spatial distribution of LMXBs resembles that of GCs, and the specific frequency of LMXBs is proportional to the GC specific luminosity, consistent with the hypothesis that all LMXBs form in GCs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/662/525
- Title:
- LMXBs in globular clusters of 5 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/662/525
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of LMXBs and GCs in five early-type galaxies using Chandra X-ray and HST optical data. Of the 186 LMXBs within the optical fields of view, 71 are in GCs, confirming that LMXBs are formed particularly efficiently in clusters due to dynamical interactions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/468/49
- Title:
- LMXBs in the bulge of M31
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/468/49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the population of X-ray point sources in the bulge of M31 to contrast properties of various subpopulations, such as persistent and transient sources and primordial LMXBs and dynamically formed ones. Based on the data from 26 archival Chandra observations we study the source content and properties of various subpopulations of X-ray sources to a maximum distance of 12' from the centre of M 31.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A38
- Title:
- Local galaxies dust properties
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derived the dust properties for 753 local galaxies and examine how these relate to some of their physical properties. We present the derived dust emission properties, including model spectral energy distribution (SEDs), star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses, as well as their relations. We modelled the global dust-SEDs for 753 galaxies, treated statistically as an ensemble within a hierarchical Bayesian dust-SED modelling approach, so as to derive their infrared (IR) emission properties. To create the observed dust-SEDs, we used a multi-wavelength set of observations, ranging from near-IR to far-IR-to-submillimeter wavelengths. The model-derived properties are the dust masses (Mdust), the average interstellar radiation field intensities (Uav), the mass fraction of very small dust grains ("QPAH" fraction), as well as their standard deviations. In addition, we used mid-IR observations to derive SFR and stellar masses, quantities independent of the dust-SED modelling. We derive distribution functions of the properties for the galaxy ensemble and as a function of galaxy type. The mean value of Mdust for the early-type galaxies (ETGs) is lower than that for the late-type and irregular galaxies (LTGs and Irs, respectively), despite ETGs and LTGs having stellar masses spanning across the whole range observed. The U_av_ and "QPAH" fraction show no difference among different galaxy types. When fixing Uav to the Galactic value, the derived "QPAH" fraction varies across the Galactic value (0.071). The specific SFR increases with galaxy type, while this is not the case for the dust-specific SFR (SFR/M_dust_), showing an almost constant star formation efficiency per galaxy type. The galaxy sample is characterised by a tight relationship between the dust mass and the stellar mass for the LTGs and Irs, while ETGs scatter around this relation and tend towards smaller dust masses. While the relation indicates that Mdust may fundamentally be linked to M*, metallicity and U_av_ are the second parameter driving the scatter, which we investigate in a forthcoming work. We used the extended Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) law to estimate the gas mass and the gas-to-dust mass ratio (GDR). The gas mass derived from the extended KS law is on average ~20% higher than that derived from the KS law, and a large standard deviation indicates the importance of the average star formation present to regulate star formation and gas supply. The average GDR for the LTGs and Irs is 370, and including the ETGs gives an average of 550.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/330/547
- Title:
- Local galaxy ages and metallicities
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/330/547
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have assembled a catalogue of relative ages, metallicities and abundance ratios for about 150 local galaxies in field, group and cluster environments. The galaxies span morphological types from cD and ellipticals, to late-type spirals. Ages and metallicities were estimated from high-quality published spectral line indices using Worthey & Ottaviani (1997, Cat. <J/ApJS/111/377>) single stellar population evolutionary models. The identification of galaxy age as a fourth parameter in the fundamental plane (Forbes, Ponman & Brown, 1998ApJ...508L..43F) is confirmed by our larger sample of ages. We investigate trends between age and metallicity, and with other physical parameters of the galaxies, such as ellipticity, luminosity and kinematic anisotropy. We demonstrate the existence of a galaxy age-metallicity relation similar to that seen for local galactic disc stars, whereby young galaxies have high metallicity, while old galaxies span a large range in metallicities. We also investigate the influence of environment and morphology on the galaxy age and metallicity, especially the predictions made by semi-analytic hierarchical clustering models (HCM). We confirm that non-cluster ellipticals are indeed younger on average than cluster ellipticals as predicted by the HCM models. However we also find a trend for the more luminous galaxies to have a higher [Mg/Fe] ratio than the lower luminosity galaxies, which is opposite to the expectation from HCM models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/398/479
- Title:
- Local galaxy flows within 5 Mpc
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/398/479
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 images of sixteen dwarf galaxies as part of our snapshot survey of nearby galaxy candidates. We derive their distances from the luminosity of the tip of the red giant branch stars with a typical accuracy of ~12%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/711/361
- Title:
- Local Group dE galaxies. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/711/361
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present kinematic and metallicity profiles for the M 31 dwarf elliptical (dE) satellite galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185. The profiles represent the most extensive spectroscopic radial coverage for any dE galaxy, extending to a projected distance of 8 half-light radii (8r_eff_~14'). We achieve this coverage via Keck/DEIMOS multislit spectroscopic observations of 520 and 442 member red giant branch stars in NGC 147 and NGC 185, respectively. In contrast to previous studies, we find that both dEs have significant internal rotation. We measure a maximum rotational velocity of 17+/-2km/s for NGC 147 and 15+/-5km/s for NGC 185. The velocity dispersions decrease gently with radius with average dispersions of 16+/-1km/s and 24+/-1km/s for NGC 147 and NGC 185, respectively. The average metallicities for NGC 147 and NGC 185 are [Fe/H]=-1.1+/-0.1 and [Fe/H]=-1.3+/-0.1, respectively; both dEs have internal metallicity dispersions of 0.5dex, but show no evidence for a radial metallicity gradient.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/3731
- Title:
- Local Group dSph radio survey with ATCA
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/3731
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are key objects in near-field cosmology, especially in connection to the study of galaxy formation and evolution at small scales. In addition, dSphs are optimal targets to investigate the nature of dark matter. However, while we begin to have deep optical photometric observations of the stellar population in these objects, little is known so far about their diffuse emission at any observing frequency, and hence on thermal and non-thermal plasma possibly residing within dSphs. In this paper, we present deep radio observations of six local dSphs performed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 16cm wavelength. We mosaicked a region of radius of about 1{deg} around three 'classical' dSphs, Carina, Fornax, and Sculptor, and of about half of degree around three 'ultrafaint' dSphs, BootesII, Segue2, and Hercules. The rms noise level is below 0.05 mJy for all the maps. The restoring beams full width at half-maximum ranged from 4.2"x2.5" to 30.0"x2.1" in the most elongated case. A catalogue including the 1392 sources detected in the six dSph fields is reported. The main properties of the background sources are discussed, with positions and fluxes of brightest objects compared with the FIRST, NVSS, and SUMSS observations of the same fields. The observed population of radio emitters in these fields is dominated by synchrotron sources. We compute the associated source number counts at 2GHz down to fluxes of 0.25mJy, which prove to be in agreement with AGN count models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/657/A54
- Title:
- Local Group Gaia eDR3 systemic motions
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/657/A54
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We perform a comprehensive determination of the systemic proper motions of 74 dwarf galaxies and dwarf galaxy candidates in the Local Group based on Gaia early data release 3. The outputs of the analysis for each galaxy, including probabilities of membership, will be made publicly available. The analysis is augmented by a determination of the orbital properties of galaxies within 500kpc. We adopt a flexible Bayesian methodology presented in the literature, which takes into account the location of the stars on the sky, on the colour-magnitude diagram, and on the proper motion plane. We applied some modifications, in particular to the way the colour-magnitude diagram and spectroscopic information are factored in, for example, by including stars in several evolution phases. The bulk motions were integrated in three gravitational potentials: two where the Milky Way was treated in isolation and has a mass 0.9 & 1.6x10^12^M_{sun}_, and a time-varying potential, which includes the infall of a massive Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We were able to determine bulk proper motions for 73 systems, and we consider 66 to be reliable measurements. For the first time, systemic motions are presented for galaxies out to a distance of 1.4Mpc in the NGC 3109 association. The inclusion of the infall of a massive LMC significantly modifies the orbital trajectories of the objects, with respect to orbit integration in static Milky-Way-only potentials, and this leads to six galaxies likely being associated with the LMC, three possibly being associated with it, and one recently captured object. We discuss the results of the orbit integration in the context of the relation of the galaxies to the system of Milky Way satellites, implications for the too-big-to-fail problem, the impact on star formation histories, and tidal disruption.
