- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/659/A94
- Title:
- HI-detected Coma and field galaxies properties
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/659/A94
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 06:46:08
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the blind Westerbork Coma Survey probing the HI content of the Coma galaxy cluster with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The survey covers the inner ~1Mpc around the cluster centre, extending out to 1.5Mpc towards the south-western NGC 4839 group. The survey probes the atomic gas in the entire Coma volume down to a sensitivity of ~10^19^cm^-2^ and 10^8^M_{sun}_. Combining automated source finding with source extraction at optical redshifts and visual verification, we obtained 40 HI detections of which 24 are new. Over half of the sample displays perturbed HI morphologies indicative of an ongoing interaction with the cluster environment. With the use of ancillary UV and mid-IR, data we measured their stellar masses and star formation rates and compared the HI properties to a set of field galaxies spanning a similar stellar mass and star formation rate range. We find that ~75% of HI-selected Coma galaxies have simultaneously enhanced star formation rates (by ~0.2dex) and are HI deficient (by ~0.5dex) compared to field galaxies of the same stellar mass. According to our toy model, the simultaneous HI deficiency and enhanced star formation activity can be attributed to either HI stripping of already highly star forming galaxies on a very short timescale, while their H_2_ content remains largely unaffected, or to HI stripping coupled to a temporary boost of the HI-to-H_2_ conversion, causing a brief starburst phase triggered by ram pressure before eventually quenching the galaxy.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/575/A30
- Title:
- HIFLUGCS XMM/Chandra cross-calibration
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/575/A30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Robust X-ray temperature measurements of the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters require an accurate energy-dependent effective area calibration. Since the hot gas X-ray emission of galaxy clusters does not vary on relevant timescales, they are excellent cross-calibration targets. Moreover, cosmological constraints from clusters rely on accurate gravitational mass estimates, which in X-rays strongly depend on cluster gas temperature measurements. Therefore, systematic calibration differences may result in biased, instrument-dependent cosmological constraints. This is of special interest in light of the tension between the Planck results of the primary temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-plus-X-ray cluster-count analyses. We quantify in detail the systematics and uncertainties of the cross-calibration of the effective area between five X-ray instruments, EPIC-MOS1/MOS2/PN onboard XMM-Newton and ACIS-I/S onboard Chandra, and the influence on temperature measurements. Furthermore, we assess the impact of the cross-calibration uncertainties on cosmology. Using the HIFLUGCS sample, consisting of the 64 X-ray brightest galaxy clusters, we constrain the ICM temperatures through spectral fitting in the same, mostly isothermal regions and compare the different instruments. We use the stacked residual ratio method to evaluate the cross-calibration uncertainties between the instruments as a function of energy. Our work is an extension to a previous one using X-ray clusters by the International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration (IACHEC) and is carried out in the context of IACHEC. Performing spectral fitting in the full energy band, (0.7-7)keV, as is typical of the analysis of cluster spectra, we find that best-fit temperatures determined with XMM-Newton/EPIC are significantly lower than Chandra/ACIS temperatures. This confirms the previous IACHEC results obtained with older calibrations with high precision. The difference increases with temperature, and we quantify this dependence with a fitting formula. For instance, at a cluster temperature of 10keV, EPIC temperatures are on average 23% lower than ACIS temperatures. We also find systematic differences between the three XMM-Newton/EPIC instruments, with the PN detector typically estimating the lowest temperatures. Testing the cross-calibration of the energy-dependence of the effective areas in the soft and hard energy bands, (0.7-2)keV and (2-7)keV, respectively, we confirm the previously indicated relatively good agreement between all instruments in the hard and the systematic differences in the soft band. We provide scaling relations to convert between the different instruments based on the effective area, gas temperature, and hydrostatic mass. We demonstrate that effects like multitemperature structure and different relative sensitivities of the instruments at certain energy bands cannot explain the observed differences. We conclude that using XMM-Newton/EPIC instead of Chandra/ACIS to derive full energy band temperature profiles for cluster mass determination results in an 8% shift toward lower {Omega}_M_ values and <1% change of {sigma}_8_ values in a cosmological analysis of a complete sample of galaxy clusters. Such a shift alone is insufficient to significantly alleviate the tension between Planck CMB primary anisotropies and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-plus-XMM-Newton cosmological constraints.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/471/1766
- Title:
- High-redshift AGN feedback in SZ clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/471/1766
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback at higher redshifts (0.3<z<1.2) using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich selected samples of clusters from the South Pole Telescope and Atacama Cosmology Telescope surveys. In contrast to studies of nearby systems, we do not find a separation between cooling flow (CF) clusters and non-CF clusters based on the radio luminosity of the central radio source (cRS). This lack may be due to the increased incidence of galaxy-galaxy mergers at higher redshift that triggers AGN activity. In support of this scenario, we find evidence for evolution in the radio-luminosity function of the cRS, while the lower luminosity sources do not evolve much, the higher luminosity sources show a strong increase in the frequency of their occurrence at higher redshifts. We interpret this evolution as an increase in high-excitation radio galaxies (HERGs) in massive clusters at z>0.6, implying a transition from HERG-mode accretion to lower power low-excitation radio galaxy (LERG)-mode accretion at intermediate redshifts. Additionally, we use local radio-to-jet power scaling relations to estimate feedback power and find that half of the CF systems in our sample probably have enough heating to balance cooling. However, we postulate that the local relations are likely not well suited to predict feedback power in high-luminosity HERGs, as they are derived from samples composed mainly of lower luminosity LERGs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/442/841
- Title:
- High-redshift galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/442/841
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new spectroscopic data in the field of five high-redshift (z>~0.6) candidate galaxy clusters, drawn from the EIS Cluster Candidate Catalog. A total of 327 spectra were obtained using FORS1 at the VLT, out of which 266 are galaxies with secure redshifts. In this paper, we use these data for confirming the existence of overdensities in redshift space at the approximate same location as the matched-filter detections in the projected distribution of galaxies from the EIS I-band imaging survey. The spectroscopic redshifts, associated to these overdensities, are consistent but, in general, somewhat lower than those predicted by the matched-filter technique. Combining the systems presented here with those analyzed earlier, we have spectroscopically confirmed a total of nine overdensities in the redshift range 0.6<z<1.3, providing an important first step in building an optically-selected, high-redshift sample for more detailed studies, complementing those based on the few available X-ray selected systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/734/68
- Title:
- High redshift galaxy clusters in deep fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/734/68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Identification of high-redshift clusters is important for studies of cosmology and cluster evolution. Using photometric redshifts of galaxies, we identify 631 clusters from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) wide field, 202 clusters from the CFHT deep field, 187 clusters from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field, and 737 clusters from the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE) field. The redshifts of these clusters are in the range 0.1<~z<~1.6. Merging these cluster samples gives 1644 clusters in the four survey fields, of which 1088 are newly identified and more than half are from the large SWIRE field. Among 228 clusters of z>=1, 191 clusters are newly identified, and most of them from the SWIRE field. With this large sample of high-redshift clusters, we study the color evolution of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/156
- Title:
- High-z galaxy candidates in the HFF cluster fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/862/156
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Acting as powerful gravitational lenses, the strong lensing galaxy clusters of the deep Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program permit access to lower-luminosity galaxies lying at higher redshifts than hitherto possible. We analyzed the HFF to measure the volume density of Lyman-break galaxies at z>4.75 by identifying a complete and reliable sample up to z~10. A marked deficit of such galaxies was uncovered in the highly magnified regions of the clusters relative to their outskirts, implying that the magnification of the sky area dominates over additional faint galaxies magnified above the flux limit. This negative magnification bias is consistent with a slow rollover at the faint end of the UV luminosity function and it indicates a preference for Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter with a light boson mass of m_B_~10^-22^eV over standard cold dark matter. We emphasize that measuring the magnification bias requires no correction for multiply-lensed images (with typically three or more images per source), whereas directly reconstructing the luminosity function will lead to an overestimate unless such images can be exhaustively matched up, especially at the faint end that is only accessible in the strongly lensed regions. In addition, we detected a distinctive downward transition in galaxy number density at z>~8, which may be linked to the relatively late reionization reported by Planck. Our results suggests that JWST will likely peer into an "abyss" with essentially no galaxies detected in deep NIR imaging at z>10.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/655/814
- Title:
- HII regions in IC 342/Maffei group
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/655/814
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained spectra of HII regions in the heavily obscured spiral galaxy Maffei 2. The observations have allowed for a determination of the Galactic extinction of this galaxy using a correlation between extinction and hydrogen column density observed among spiral galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/112/429
- Title:
- HI observations in Her Supercluster
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/112/429
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This part of the HI redshift survey in the region of the Hercules Supercluster presents HI spectra of 84 galaxies selected from the UGC and CGCG with extends in the previously begun survey of late-type spiral galaxies in that region. Measured HI parameters from the spectra are given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/449/929
- Title:
- HI observations of Coma Supercluster
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/449/929
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High sensitivity 21-cm HI line observations with an rms noise level of ~0.5mJy were made of 35 spiral galaxies in the Coma Supercluster, using the refurbished Arecibo telescope, leading to detection of 25 objects. These data, combined with the measurements available in the literature, provide the set of HI data for 94% of all late-type galaxies in the Coma Supercluster with an apparent photographic magnitude m_p_<=15.7mag. We confirm that the typical scale of HI deficiency around the Coma cluster is 2Mpc, i.e. one virial radius. Comparing the HI mass function (HIMF) of cluster with non-cluster members of the Coma Supercluster we detected a shortage of high HI mass galaxies among cluster members that can be attributed to the pattern of HI deficiency found in rich clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/352/478
- Title:
- HI obs. of low surface brightness dwarf gal.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/352/478
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- According to the cold dark matter (CDM) hierarchical clustering theory of galaxy and large-scale structure formation, there should be numerous low-mass dark matter haloes present in the Universe today. If these haloes contain sufficient stars, they should be detectable as low-luminosity stellar systems or dwarf galaxies. We have previously described a new detection method for faint low surface brightness objects and we have shown that there are relatively large numbers of very faint dwarf galaxies in the nearby Virgo cluster. In this paper, we present results from a similar survey carried out on the Millennium Galaxy strip (MGS, cat. <VII/240>), which runs along the celestial equator and samples a very different galaxy environment.
