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2441. MUSE datacube of MRC 0943-242
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/A102
Title:
MUSE datacube of MRC 0943-242
Short Name:
J/A+A/625/A102
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) to study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a z=2.92 radio galaxy, MRC 0943-242 by parametrising its emitting and absorbing gas. In both Ly{alpha} {lambda}1216 and HeII {lambda}1640 lines, we observe emission with velocity shifts of {Delta}v=~-1000km/s from the systemic redshift of the galaxy. These blueshifted components represent kinematically perturbed gas that is aligned with the radio axis, which we interpret as jet-driven outflows. Three of the four known Ly absorbers are detected at the same velocity as CIV {lambda}{lambda}1548,1551 and NV {lambda}{lambda}1239,1243 absorbers, proving that the gas is metal-enriched more so than previously thought. At the velocity of a strong Ly{alpha} absorber with an HI column of N_HI_/cm^-2^=10^19.2^ and velocity shift of Delta}v=~-400km/s, we also detect SiII {lambda}1260 and SiII {lambda}1527 absorption, which suggests that the absorbing gas is ionisation bounded. With the added sensitivity of this MUSE observation, we are more capable of adding constraints to absorber column densities and consequently determining what powers their ionisation. To do this, we obtain photoionisation grid models in cloudy which show that AGN radiation is capable of ionising the gas and producing the observed column densities in a gas of metallicity of Z/Z_{sun}_~=0.01 with a nitrogen abundance a factor of 10 greater than that of hydrogen. This metal-enriched absorbing gas, which is also spatially extended over a projected distance of r>~60kpc, is likely to have undergone chemical enrichment through stellar winds that have swept up metals from the interstellar-medium and deposited them in the outer regions of the galaxy's halo.
2442. MUSE data for MR 2251-178 and PG 1126-041
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/644/A15
Title:
MUSE data for MR 2251-178 and PG 1126-041
Short Name:
J/A+A/644/A15
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use MUSE adaptive optics (AO) data in Narrow Field Mode to study the properties of the ionised gas in MR 2251-178 and PG 1126-041, two nearby (z~0.06) bright quasars hosting sub-pc scale Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) detected in the X-ray band. We decompose the optical emission from diffuse gas into a low- and a high-velocity components. The former is characterised by a clean, regular velocity field and a low (~80 km/s) velocity dispersion. It traces regularly rotating gas in PG 1126-041, while in MR 2251-178 it is possibly associated to tidal debris from a recent merger or flyby. The other component is found to be extended up to a few kpc from the nuclei, and shows a high (~800km/s) velocity dispersion and a blue-shifted mean velocity, as expected from AGN-driven outflows. We estimate mass outflow rates up to a few Mo/yr and kinetic efficiencies between 0.1-0.4 per cent, in line with those of galaxies hosting AGNs of similar luminosity. The momentum rates of these ionised outflows are comparable to those measured for the UFOs at sub-pc scales, consistent with a momentum-driven wind propagation. Pure energy-driven winds are excluded unless about 100x additional momentum is locked in massive molecular winds. By comparing the outflow properties of our sources with those of a small sample of well-studied QSOs hosting UFOs from the literature, we find that winds seem to systematically lie either in a momentum-driven or in an energy-driven regime, indicating that these two theoretical models bracket very well the physics of AGN-driven winds.
2443. MUSE 3D view of HDF-S
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/575/A75
Title:
MUSE 3D view of HDF-S
Short Name:
J/A+A/575/A75
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We observed Hubble Deep Field South with the new panoramic integral-field spectrograph MUSE that we built and have just commissioned at the VLT. The data cube resulting from 27h of integration covers one arcmin^2^ field of view at an unprecedented depth with a 1{sigma} emission-line surface brightness limit of 1x10^-19^erg/s/cm2/arcsec2, and contains ~90000 spectra. We present the combined and calibrated data cube, and we performed a first-pass analysis of the sources detected in the Hubble Deep Field South imaging. We measured the redshifts of 189 sources up to a magnitude I_814_=29.5, increasing the number of known spectroscopic redshifts in this field by more than an order of magnitude. We also discovered 26 Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies that are not detected in the HST WFPC2 deep broad-band images. The intermediate spectral resolution of 2.3{AA} allows us to separate resolved asymmetric Ly{alpha} emitters, [OII]3727 emitters, and [CIII]1908 emitters, and the broad instantaneous wavelength range of 4500{AA} helps to identify single emission lines, such as [OIII]5007, H{beta}, and H{alpha}, over a very wide redshift range. We also show how the three-dimensional information of MUSE helps to resolve sources that are confused at ground-based image quality. Overall, secure identifications are provided for 83% of the 227 emission line sources detected in the MUSE data cube and for 32% of the 586 sources identified in the HST catalogue. The overall redshift distribution is fairly flat to z=6.3, with a reduction between z=1.5 to 2.9, in the well-known redshift desert. The field of view of MUSE also allowed us to detect 17 groups within the field. We checked that the number counts of [OII]3727 and Ly{alpha} emitters are roughly consistent with predictions from the literature. Using two examples, we demonstrate that MUSE is able to provide exquisite spatially resolved spectroscopic information on the intermediate-redshift galaxies present in the field. This unique data set can be used for a wide range of follow-up studies. We release the data cube, the associated products, and the source catalogue with redshifts, spectra, and emission-line fluxes.
2444. MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A2
Title:
MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. II.
Short Name:
J/A+A/608/A2
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have conducted a two-layered spectroscopic survey (1'x1' ultra deep and 3'x3'deep regions) in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). The combination of a large field of view, high sensitivity, and wide wavelength coverage provides an order of magnitude improvement in spectroscopically confirmed redshifts in the HUDF; i.e., 1206 secure spectroscopic redshifts for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continuum selected objects, which corresponds to 15% of the total (7904). The redshift distribution extends well beyond z>3 and to HST/F775W magnitudes as faint as ~=30mag (AB, 1{sigma}). In addition, 132 secure redshifts were obtained for sources with no HST counterparts that were discovered in the MUSE data cubes by a blind search for emission-line features. In total, we present 1338 high quality redshifts, which is a factor of eight increase compared with the previously known spectroscopic redshifts in the same field. We assessed redshifts mainly with the spectral features [OII] at z<1.5 (473 objects) and Ly{alpha} at 2.9<z<6.7 (692 objects). With respect to F775W magnitude, a 50% completeness is reached at 26.5mag for ultra deep and 25.5mag for deep fields, and the completeness remains >=20% up to 28-29mag and ~=27mag, respectively. We used the determined redshifts to test continuum color selection (dropout) diagrams of high-z galaxies. The selection condition for F336W dropouts successfully captures ~=80% of the targeted z~2.7 galaxies. However, for higher redshift selections (F435W, F606W, and F775W dropouts), the success rates decrease to ~=20-40%. We empirically redefine the selection boundaries to make an attempt to improve them to ~=60%. The revised boundaries allow bluer colors that capture Ly{alpha} emitters with high Ly{alpha} equivalent widths falling in the broadbands used for the color-color selection. Along with this paper, we release the redshift and line flux catalog.
2445. MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. VIII
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A8
Title:
MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. VIII
Short Name:
J/A+A/608/A8
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the detection of 145 extended Lyman-alpha haloes around individual high-z (3-6) star-forming galaxies in the UDF field observed by MUSE/VLT. Using a 2D, two-component (continuum-like and halo) decomposition of Lyman-alpha emission assuming circular exponential distributions, we measure scale lengths and luminosities of Lyman-alpha haloes.
2446. MUSE MATLAS-2019 spectral datacube
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A106
Title:
MUSE MATLAS-2019 spectral datacube
Short Name:
J/A+A/640/A106
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The MATLAS deep imaging survey has uncovered a plethora of dwarf galaxies in the low density environment it has mapped. A fraction of them are unusually extended and have a low-surface brightness. Among these so-called ultra-diffuse galaxies, a few seem to host an excess of globular clusters. With the integral-field unit spectrograph MUSE we have observed one of these galaxies - MATLAS J15052031+0148447 (MATLAS-2019) - located towards the nearby group NGC 5846 and measured its systemic velocity,age, and metallicity, and that of its globular clusters candidates. For the stellar body of MATLAS-2019 we derive a metallicity of -1.33^+0.19^-_0.01_dex and an age of 11.2^+1.8^_-0.8_Gyr. For some of the individual GCs and the stacked GC population, we derive consistent ages and metallicities. From the 11 confirmed globular clusters and using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach we derived a dynamical mass-to-light ratio of 4.2^+8.6^-_3.4_M/L. This is at the lower end of the luminosity-mass scaling relation defined by the Local Group dwarf galaxies. Furthermore, we couldn't confirm nor reject the possibility of a rotational component of the GC system. If present, this would further modify the inferred mass. Follow-up observations of the globular cluster population and of the stellar body of the galaxy are needed to assess whether this galaxy is lacking dark matter like it was suggested for the pair of dwarf galaxies in the field of NGC 1052, or if this is a miss-interpretation arising from systematic uncertainties of the method commonly used for these systems and the large uncertainties of the individual globular cluster velocities.
2447. MUSE observations SBS 0335-052E
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/606/L11
Title:
MUSE observations SBS 0335-052E
Short Name:
J/A+A/606/L11
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report on the discovery of ionised gas filaments in the circum-galactic halo of the extremely metal-poor compact starburst SBS 0335-052E in a 1.5h integration with the MUSE integral-field spectrograph. We detect these features in H{alpha} and [OIII] emission down to a limiting surface-brightness of 5x10^-19^erg/s/cm^2^/arcsec^2^. The filaments have projected diameters of 2.1kpc and extend more than 9kpc to the north and north-west from the main stellar body. We also detect extended nebular HeII {lambda}4686 emission that brightens towards the north-west at the rim of a starburst driven super-shell. We also present a velocity field of the ionised gas. The filaments appear to connect seamlessly in velocity space to the kinematical disturbances caused by the shell. Similar to high-z star-forming galaxies, the ionised gas in this galaxy is dispersion dominated. We argue that the filaments were created via feedback from the starburst and that these ionised structures in the halo may act as escape channels for Lyman continuum radiation in this gas-rich system.
2448. MUSE-Wide DR1 - Simple Spectrum Access
ID:
ivo://lam.cesam.aspic/muse_wide_dr1/q/ssa
Title:
MUSE-Wide DR1 - Simple Spectrum Access
Short Name:
MUSEWIDE1 SSAP
Date:
24 Aug 2021 14:22:32
Publisher:
The CeSAM VO team
Description:
Spectra of MUSE-Wide (version 1.0) sources on GOODS-South field.
2449. MUSE-Wide Lyman alpha luminosity function 3<z<6
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/621/A107
Title:
MUSE-Wide Lyman alpha luminosity function 3<z<6
Short Name:
J/A+A/621/A107
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We investigate the Lyman{alpha} emitter (LAE) luminosity function (LF) within the redshift range 2.9<=z<=6 from the first instalment of the blind integral field spectroscopic MUSE-Wide survey. This initial part of the survey probes a region of 22.2arcmin^2^ in the CANDELS/GOODS-S field (24 MUSE pointings with 1h integrations). The dataset provided us with 237 LAEs from which we construct the LAE LF in the luminosity range 42.2<=logL_Ly{alpha}_[erg/s]<=43.5 within a volume of 2.3x10^5^Mpc^3^. For the LF construction we utilise three different non-parametric estimators: the classical 1/V_max_ method, the C^-^ method, and an improved binned estimator for the differential LF. All three methods deliver consistent results, with the cumulative LAE LF being {Phi}(logL_Ly{alpha}_[erg/s]=43.5)~=3x10^-6^Mpc^-3^ and {Phi}(logL_Ly{alpha}_[erg/s]=42.2)~=2x10^-3^Mpc^-3^ towards the bright and faint end of our survey, respectively. By employing a non-parametric statistical test, and by comparing the full sample to subsamples in redshift bins, we find no supporting evidence for an evolving LAE LF over the probed redshift and luminosity range. Using a parametric maximum-likelihood technique we determine the best-fitting Schechter function parameters {alpha}=-1.84^+0.42^_-0.41_ and logL^*^[erg/s]=42.2^+0.22^_-0.16_ with the corresponding normalisation log{phi}^*^[Mpc^-3^]=-2.71. However, the dynamic range in Ly{alpha} luminosities probed by MUSE-Wide leads to a strong degeneracy between {alpha} and L^*^. Moreover, we find that a power-law parametrisation of the LF appears to be less consistent with the data compared to the Schechter function, even so when not excluding the X-Ray identified AGN from the sample. When correcting for completeness in the LAE LF determinations, we take into account that LAEs exhibit diffuse extended low surface brightness halos. We compare the resulting LF to one obtained by applying a correction assuming compact point-like emission. We find that the standard correction underestimates the LAE LF at the faint end of our survey by a factor of 2.5. Contrasting our results to the literature we find that at logL_Ly{alpha}_[erg/s]~<42.5 previous LAE LF determinations from narrow-band surveys appear to be affected by a similar bias.
2450. MUSE-Wide+MUSE-Deep EWs of Lyman{alpha} emitters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/659/A183
Title:
MUSE-Wide+MUSE-Deep EWs of Lyman{alpha} emitters
Short Name:
J/A+A/659/A183
Date:
25 Mar 2022 09:08:03
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The hydrogen Lyman{alpha} line is often the only measurable feature in optical spectra of high-redshift galaxies. Its shape and strength are influenced by radiative transfer processes and the properties of the underlying stellar population. High equivalent widths of several hundred {AA} are especially hard to explain by models and could point towards unusual stellar populations, for example with low metallicities, young stellar ages, and a top-heavy initial mass function. Other aspects influencing equivalent widths are the morphology of the galaxy and its gas properties. The aim of this study is to better understand the connection between the Lyman{alpha} rest-frame equivalent width (EW0) and spectral properties as well as ultraviolet (UV) continuum morphology by obtaining reliable EW0 histograms for a statistical sample of galaxies and by assessing the fraction of objects with large equivalent widths. We used integral field spectroscopy from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) combined with broad-band data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure EW0 . We analysed the emission lines of 1920 Lyman{alpha} emitters (LAEs) detected in the full MUSE-Wide (one hour exposure time) and MUSE-Deep (ten hour exposure time) surveys and found UV continuum counterparts in archival HST data. We fitted the UV continuum photometric images using the Galfit software to gain morphological information on the rest-UV emission and fitted the spectra obtained from MUSE to determine the double peak fraction, asymmetry, full-width at half maximum, and flux of the Lyman{alpha} line. The two surveys show different histograms of Lyman{alpha} EW0 . In MUSE-Wide, 20% of objects have EW0>240{AA}, while this fraction is only 11% in MUSE-Deep and ~=16% for the full sample. This includes objects without HST continuum counterparts (one-third of our sample), for which we give lower limits for EW0. The object with the highest securely measured EW0 has EW0=589+/-193{AA} (the highest lower limit being EW0=4464{AA}). We investigate the connection between EW0 and Lyman{alpha} spectral or UV continuum morphological properties. The survey depth has to be taken into account when studying EW0 distributions. We find that in general, high EW0 objects can have a wide range of spectral and UV morphological properties, which might reflect that the underlying causes for high EW0 values are equally varied.

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