- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A59
- Title:
- CALIFA galaxies stellar angular momentum
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the apparent stellar angular momentum over the optical extent of 300 galaxies across the Hubble sequence using integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) data from the CALIFA survey. Adopting the same {lambda}_R_ parameter previously used to distinguish between slow and fast rotating early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies, we show that spiral galaxies are almost all fast rotators, as expected. Given the extent of our data, we provide relations for {lambda}_R_ measured in different apertures (e.g. fractions of the effective radius: 0.5R_e_, R_e_, 2R_e_), including conversions to long-slit 1D apertures. Our sample displays a wide range of {lambda}_Re_ values, consistent with previous IFS studies. The fastest rotators are dominated by relatively massive and highly star-forming Sb galaxies, which preferentially reside in the main star-forming sequence. These galaxies reach {lambda}_Re_ values of ~0.85, and they are the largest galaxies at a given mass, while also displaying some of the strongest stellar population gradients. Compared to the population of S0 galaxies, our findings suggest that fading may not be the dominant mechanism transforming spirals into lenticulars. Interestingly, we find that {lambda}_Re_ decreases for late-type Sc and Sd spiral galaxies, with values that occasionally set them in the slow-rotator regime. While for some of them this can be explained by their irregular morphologies and/or face-on configurations, others are edge-on systems with no signs of significant dust obscuration. The latter are typically at the low-mass end, but this does not explain their location in the classical (V/{sigma}, {epsilon}) and ({lambda}_Re_, {epsilon}) diagrams. Our initial investigations, based on dynamical models, suggest that these are dynamically hot disks, probably influenced by the observed important fraction of dark matter within R_e_.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/584/A87
- Title:
- CALIFA sample SFR calibration
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/584/A87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The star formation rate (SFR) is one of the main parameters used to analyze the evolution of galaxies through time. The need for recovering the light reprocessed by dust commonly requires the use of low spatial resolution far-infrared data. Recombination line luminosities provide an alternative, although uncertain dust-extinction corrections based on narrowband imaging or long-slit spectroscopy have traditionally posed a limit to their applicability. Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) is clearly the way to overcome this kind of limitation. We obtain integrated H{alpha}, ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR)-based SFR measurements for 272 galaxies from the CALIFA survey at 0.005<z<0.03 using single-band and hybrid tracers. We aim to determine whether the extinction-corrected H{alpha} luminosities provide a good measure of the SFR and to shed light on the origin of the discrepancies between tracers. Updated calibrations referred to H{alpha} are provided. The well-defined selection criteria and large statistics allow us to carry out this analysis globally and split by properties, including stellar mass and morphological type. We derive integrated, extinction-corrected H{alpha} fluxes from CALIFA, UV surface and asymptotic photometry from GALEX and integrated WISE 22{mu}m and IRAS fluxes. We find that the extinction-corrected H{alpha} luminosity agrees with the hybrid updated SFR estimators based on either UV or H{alpha} plus IR luminosity over the full range of SFRs (0.03-20M_{sun}_/yr). The coefficient that weights the amount of energy produced by newly-born stars that is reprocessed by dust on the hybrid tracers, a_IR_, shows a large dispersion. However, this coefficient does not became increasingly small at high attenuations, as expected if significant highly-obscured H{alpha} emission were missed, i.e., after a Balmer decrement-based attenuation correction is applied. Lenticulars, early-type spirals, and type-2 AGN host galaxies show smaller coefficients because of the contribution of optical photons and AGN to dust heating. In the local Universe, the H{alpha} luminosity derived from IFS observations can be used to measure SFR, at least in statistically-significant, optically-selected galaxy samples, once stellar continuum absorption and dust attenuation effects are accounted for. The analysis of the SFR calibrations by galaxies properties could potentially be used by other works to study the impact of different selection criteria in the SFR values derived, and to disentangle selection effects from other physically motivated differences, such as environmental or evolutionary effects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/848/87
- Title:
- CALIFA SFRs. II. Bulges, bars & disks
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/848/87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We estimate the current extinction-corrected H{alpha} star formation rate (SFR) of the different morphological components that shape galaxies (bulges, bars, and disks). We use a multicomponent photometric decomposition based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging to Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) datacubes for a sample of 219 galaxies. This analysis reveals an enhancement of the central SFR and specific SFR (sSFR = SFR/M*) in barred galaxies. Along the main sequence, we find that more massive galaxies in total have undergone efficient suppression (quenching) of their star formation, in agreement with many studies. We discover that more massive disks have had their star formation quenched as well. We evaluate which mechanisms might be responsible for this quenching process. The presence of type 2 AGNs plays a role at damping the sSFR in bulges and less efficiently in disks. Also, the decrease in the sSFR of the disk component becomes more noticeable for stellar masses around 10^10.5^M_{sun}_; for bulges, it is already present at ~10^9.5^M_{sun}_. The analysis of the line- of-sight stellar velocity dispersions ({sigma}) for the bulge component and of the corresponding Faber-Jackson relation shows that AGNs tend to have slightly higher {sigma} values than star-forming galaxies for the same mass. Finally, the impact of environment is evaluated by means of the projected galaxy density, {Sigma}5. We find that the SFR of both bulges and disks decreases in intermediate- to high-density environments. This work reflects the potential of combining IFS data with 2D multicomponent decompositions to shed light on the processes that regulate the SFR.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/593/A114
- Title:
- CALIFA space density distribution of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/593/A114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measure the distribution in absolute magnitude-circular velocity space for a well-defined sample of 199 rotating Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey (CALIFA) galaxies using their stellar kinematics. Our aim in this analysis is to avoid subjective selection criteria and to take volume and large-scale structure factors into account. Using stellar velocity fields instead of gas emission line kinematics allows including rapidly rotating early type galaxies. Our initial sample contains 277 galaxies with available stellar velocity fields and growth curve r-band photometry. After rejecting 51 velocity fields that could not be modelled due to the low number of bins, foreground contamination or significant interaction we perform Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) modelling of the velocity fields, obtaining the rotation curve and kinematic parameters and their realistic uncertainties. We perform an extinction correction and calculate the circular velocity v_circ_ accounting for pressure support a given galaxy has. The resulting galaxy distribution on the M_r_-v_circ_ plane is then modelled as a mixture of two distinct populations, allowing robust a nd reproducible rejection of outliers, a significant fraction of which are slow rotators. The selection effects are understood well enough that the incompleteness of thesample can be corrected for and the 199 galaxies can be weighted by volume and large-scale structure factors enabling us to fit a volume-corrected Tully-Fisher relation (TFR). More importantly, we also provide the volume-corrected distribution of galaxies in the M_r_-v_circ_ plane, which can be compared with cosmological simulations. The joint distribution of the luminosity and circular velocity space densities, representative over the range of -20>M_r_>-22mag, can place more stringent constraints on the galaxy formation and evolution scenarios than linear TFR fit parameters or the luminosity function alone.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/581/A103
- Title:
- CALIFA survey across the Hubble sequence
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/581/A103
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Various different physical processes contribute to the star formation and stellar mass assembly histories of galaxies. One important approach to understanding the significance of these different processes on galaxy evolution is the study of the stellar population content of today's galaxies in a spatially resolved manner. The aim of this paper is to characterize in detail the radial structure of stellar population properties of galaxies in the nearby universe, based on a uniquely large galaxy sample, considering the quality and coverage of the data. The sample under study was drawn from the CALIFA survey and contains 300 galaxies observed with integral field spectroscopy. These cover a wide range of Hubble types, from spheroids to spiral galaxies, while stellar masses range from M_*_~10^9^ to 7x10^11^M_{sun}_. We apply the fossil record method based on spectral synthesis techniques to recover the following physical properties for each spatial resolution element in our target galaxies: the stellar mass surface density ({mu}_*_), stellar extinction (A_V_), light-weighted and mass-weighted ages (<logage>_L_, <logage>_M_), and mass-weighted metallicity (<logZ_*_>_M_). To study mean trends with overall galaxy properties, the individual radial profiles are stacked in seven bins of galaxy morphology (E, S0, Sa, Sb, Sbc, Sc, and Sd). We confirm that more massive galaxies are more compact, older, more metal rich, and less reddened by dust. Additionally, we find that these trends are preserved spatially with the radial distance to the nucleus. Deviations from these relations appear correlated with Hubble type: earlier types are more compact, older, and more metal rich for a given M_*_, which is evidence that quenching is related to morphology, but not driven by mass. Negative gradients of <logage>_L_ are consistent with an inside-out growth of galaxies, with the largest <logage>_L_ gradients in Sb-Sbc galaxies. Further, the mean stellar ages of disks and bulges are correlated and with disks covering a wider range of ages, and late-type spirals hosting younger disks. However, age gradients are only mildly negative or flat beyond R~2HLR (half light radius), indicating that star formation is more uniformly distributed or that stellar migration is important at these distances. The gradients in stellar mass surface density depend mostly on stellar mass, in the sense that more massive galaxies are more centrally concentrated. Whatever sets the concentration indices of galaxies obviously depends less on quenching/morphology than on the depth of the potential well. There is a secondary correlation in the sense that at the same M_*_ early-type galaxies have steeper gradients. The {mu}_*_ gradients outside 1HLR show no dependence on Hubble type. We find mildly negative <logZ_*_>_M_ gradients, which are shallower than predicted from models of galaxy evolution in isolation. In general, metallicity gradients depend on stellar mass, and less on morphology, hinting that metallicity is affected by both - the depth of the potential well and morphology/quenching. Thus, the largest <logZ_*_>_M_ gradients occur in Milky Way-like Sb-Sbc galaxies, and are similar to those measured above the Galactic disk. Sc spirals show flatter <logZ_*_>_M_ gradients, possibly indicating a larger contribution from secular evolution in disks. The galaxies from the sample have decreasing-outward stellar extinction; all spirals show similar radial profiles, independent from the stellar mass, but redder than E and S0. Overall, we conclude that quenching processes act in manners that are independent of mass, while metallicity and galaxy structure are influenced by mass-dependent processes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/594/A36
- Title:
- CALIFA Survey DR3 list of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/594/A36
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper describes the third public data release (DR3) of the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey. Science-grade quality data for 667 galaxies are made public, including the 200 galaxies of the second public data release (DR2). Data were obtained with the integral-field spectrograph PMAS/PPak mounted on the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory. Three different spectral setups are available: i) a low-resolution V500 setup covering the wavelength range 3745-7500{AA} (4240-7140{AA} unvignetted) with a spectral resolution of 6.0{AA} (FWHM) for 646 galaxies, ii) a medium-resolution V1200 setup covering the wavelength range 3650-4840{AA} (3650-4620{AA} unvignetted) with a spectral resolution of 2.3{AA} (FWHM) for 484 galaxies, and iii) the combination of the cubes from both setups (called COMBO) with a spectral resolution of 6.0{AA} and a wavelength range between 3700-7500{AA} (3700-7140{AA} unvignetted) for 446 galaxies. The Main Sample, selected and observed according to the CALIFA survey strategy covers a redshift range between 0.005 and 0.03, spans the color-magnitude diagram and probes a wide range of stellar masses, ionization conditions, and morphological types. The Extension Sample covers several types of galaxies that are rare in the overall galaxy population and are therefore not numerous or absent in the CALIFA Main Sample. All the cubes in the data release were processed using the latest pipeline, which includes improved versions of the calibration frames and an even further improved image reconstruction quality. In total, the third data release contains 1576 datacubes, including ~1.5 million independent spectra.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/120/2190
- Title:
- Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey. XIV
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/120/2190
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Morphological classifications are reported for Hubble Space Telescope images of 241 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field and its flanking fields with measured redshifts in the interval 0.25<z<1.2, drawn from a magnitude-limited redshift survey to R=24.0. The galaxies are divided into three groups with redshifts in the intervals 0.25-0.6, 0.6-0.8, and 0.8-1.2. R_606_ images from the first group and I814 images from the second and third groups are compared with B-band images of nearby galaxies. All classifications were therefore made at approximately the same rest wavelength. Selection biases are discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/122/611
- Title:
- Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey. XV.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/122/611
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To circumvent the spatial effects of resolution on galaxy classification, the images of 233 objects of known redshift in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) and its flanking fields that have redshifts in the range 0.20<z<1.10 were degraded to the resolution that they would have had if they were all located at a redshift of z=1.00. As in Paper XIV (Cat. <J/AJ/120/2190>) of the present series, the effects of shifts in rest wavelength were mitigated by using R-band images for the classification of galaxies with 0.2<z<0.6 and I-band images for objects with redshifts 0.6<z<1.1. A special effort was made to search for bars in distant galaxies. The present data strongly confirm the previous conclusion that the Hubble tuning fork diagram only provides a satisfactory framework for the classification of galaxies with z<0.3. More distant disk galaxies are often difficult to shoehorn into the Hubble classification scheme. The paucity of barred spirals and grand-design spirals at large redshifts is confirmed. It is concluded that the morphology of disk galaxies observed at look-back times smaller than 3-4Gyr differs systematically from that of more distant galaxies viewed at look-back times of 4-8Gyr. The disks of late-type spirals at z>0.5 are seen to be more chaotic than those of their nearer counterparts. Furthermore, the spiral structure in distant early-type spirals appears to be less well developed than it is in nearby early galaxies.
449. CALYMHA survey. I.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/1242
- Title:
- CALYMHA survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/466/1242
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the CAlibrating LYMan-{alpha} with H{alpha} (CALYMHA) pilot survey and new results on Lyman {alpha} (Ly{alpha}) selected galaxies at z~2. We use a custom-built Ly{alpha} narrow-band filter at the Isaac Newton Telescope, designed to provide a matched volume coverage to the z=2.23H{alpha} HiZELS survey. Here, we present the first results for the COSMOS and UDS fields. Our survey currently reaches a 3{sigma} line flux limit of ~4x10^-17^erg/s/cm^2^, and a Ly{alpha} luminosity limit of ~10^42.3^erg/s. We find 188 Ly{alpha} emitters over 7.3x10^5^Mpc^3^, but also find significant numbers of other line-emitting sources corresponding to HeII, CIII] and CIV emission lines. These sources are important contaminants, and we carefully remove them, unlike most previous studies. We find that the Ly{alpha} luminosity function at z=2.23 is very well described by a Schechter function up to L_Ly{alpha}_~=10^43^erg/s^ with L*=10^42.59(10^42.75^-10^42.01^)erg/s, {phi}*=10^-3.09^(10^-3.43^-10^2.95)Mpc^-3^ and {alpha}=-1.75+/-0.25. Above L_Ly{alpha}_~=10^43^erg/s, the Ly{alpha} luminosity function becomes power-law like, driven by X-ray AGN. We find that Ly{alpha}-selected emitters have a high escape fraction of 37+/-7 per cent, anticorrelated with Ly{alpha} luminosity and correlated with Ly{alpha} equivalent width. Ly{alpha} emitters have ubiquitous large (~=40kpc) Ly{alpha} haloes, ~2 times larger than their H{alpha} extents. By directly comparing our Ly{alpha} and H{alpha} luminosity functions, we find that the global/overall escape fraction of Ly{alpha} photons (within a 13kpc radius) from the full population of star-forming galaxies is 5.1+/-0.2 per cent at the peak of the star formation history. An extra 3.3+/-0.3 per cent of Ly{alpha} photons likely still escape, but at larger radii.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/317/102
- Title:
- Cancer cluster 1.4GHz continuum sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/317/102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on 1.4GHZ continuum observations for 11 VLA fields, using the D-configuration, which contain the A group of the Cancer Cluster. Sixteen Zwicky spiral galaxies in the Cancer Cluster were detected, but no ellipticals. We corroborate the finding that spiral galaxies with close companions tend to have enhanced radio emission. Over 200 continuum sources beyond the Cancer Cluster are tabulated. The spectral index (relative to 610MHz) is given for many of the sources, including some of the Zwicky galaxies. There is a suggestion for a nonuniform number surface-density distribution of the sources, not correlated with the Cancer Cluster. Possible predictions of such nonuniformities, from assumptions on " super-superclusters," are discussed.
