- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/119/547
- Title:
- IR photometry of ESO calibration stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/119/547
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the infrared (IR) photometric system for the single channel photometers at ESO, which have been used from 1983 until 1994. In addition to the broadband near infrared (NIR, 1-5{mu}m) photometric system presented in 1991 by Bouchet et al. and Bersanelli et al., we describe a narrow-band NIR photometric system and a mid infrared (MIR, 7-20{mu}m) photometric system. We also extend the set of NIR standard stars by Bouchet et al. towards fainter objects (K=~9). The photometric data of the standard stars in these systems were extracted from the complete IR photometric data archive of ESO, covering 10 years. The zeropoints of the NIR photometry are set by assuming that HR 3314 has a V-magnitude of 3.89, and that V-K=-0.05, J-K=-0.01, H-K=-0.01, K-L'=0.00, K-M=0.00. The zeropoints of the MIR photometry are set by assuming that the colours of{beta} Hyi (HR 0098) and {alpha} CenA (HR 5459) are equal to the colours of the Sun. We adopt the absolute calibration of Megessier (1995A&A...296..771M) for the NIR and we argue that this calibration can be extrapolated to 20{mu}m, using the MIR calibrations by Rieke et al. (1985AJ.....90..900R) and Cohen et al. (1992AJ....104.1650C). The definition of the zeropoints is consistent with the absolute calibration. We obtained accurate ({sigma}=~0.02mag.) NIR photometry of about 240 standard stars and MIR photometry of about 40 standard stars ({sigma}=~0.04mag). Comparison of our NIR photometric system with other well established systems shows that there are some small colour dependencies and zeropoint offsets which are always smaller than about 0.02mag. except for the L' band.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/1416
- Title:
- IR Photometry of nearby globular clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/1416
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We compare the near-infrared (JHK) globular cluster luminosity functions (GCLFs) of the Milky Way, M31, and the Sculptor Group spiral galaxies. We obtained near-infrared photometry with the Persson's Auxiliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera on the Baade Telescope for 38 objects (mostly globular cluster candidates) in the Sculptor Group. We also have near-infrared photometry from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)-6X database for 360 M31 globular cluster candidates and aperture photometry for 96 Milky Way globular cluster candidates from the 2MASS All-Sky and Second Incremental Release databases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/624/L5
- Title:
- IR photometry of z~10 galaxies in NICMOS fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/624/L5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use all available fields with deep NICMOS imaging to search for J_110_-dropouts (H_160,AB_<~28) at z~10. Our primary data set for this search is the two J_110_+H_160_ NICMOS fields taken in parallel with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The 5{sigma} limiting magnitudes were ~28.6 in J_110_ and ~28.5 in H_160_ (0.6" apertures).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/741/112
- Title:
- IR polarization data in the BN region
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/741/112
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New visible and K-band polarization measurements of stars surrounding molecular clouds in Orion A and stars in the Becklin-Neugebauer (BN) vicinity are presented. Our results confirm that magnetic fields located inside the Orion A molecular clouds and in their close neighborhood are spatially connected. On and around the BN object, we measured the angular offsets between the K-band polarization data and available submillimeter (submm) data. We find high values of the polarization degree, P_K_, and of the optical depth, {tau}_K_, close to an angular offset position of 90{deg} whereas lower values of P_K_ and {tau}_K_ are observed for smaller angular offsets. We interpret these results as evidence for the presence of various magnetic field components toward lines of sight in the vicinity of BN. On a larger scale, we measured the distribution of angular offsets between available H-band polarization data and the same submm data set. Here we find an increase of <P_H_> with angular offset, which we interpret as a rotation of the magnetic field by <~60{deg}. This trend generalizes previous results on small scales toward and around lines of sight to BN and is consistent with a twist of the magnetic field on a larger scale toward OMC-1. A comparison of our results with several other studies suggests that a two-component magnetic field, perhaps helical, could be wrapping the OMC-1 filament.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/707/890
- Title:
- IR properties of E and S0 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/707/890
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the infrared properties of a large sample of early-type galaxies, comparing data from the Spitzer archive with Ks-band emission from the Two Micron All Sky Survey. While most representations of this data result in correlations with large scatter, we find a remarkably tight relation among colors formed by ratios of luminosities in Spitzer-Multiband Imaging Photometer bands (24, 70, and 160um) and the Ks band. Remarkably, this correlation among E and S0 galaxies follows that of nearby normal galaxies of all morphological types.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/45
- Title:
- IR properties of Swift/BAT X-ray AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/754/45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the mid- (MIR) to far-infrared (FIR) properties of a nearly complete sample of local active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected in the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray (14-195 keV) survey, based on the cross correlation with the AKARI infrared survey catalogs complemented by those with Infrared Astronomical Satellite and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Out of 135 non-blazer AGNs in the Swift/BAT nine-month catalog, we obtain the MIR photometric data for 128 sources either in the 9, 12, 18, 22, and/or 25 {mu}m band. We find good correlation between their hard X-ray and MIR luminosities over three orders of magnitude (42 < log {lambda}L_{lambda}_(9, 18 {mu}m) < 45), which is tighter than that with the FIR luminosities at 90 {mu}m. This suggests that thermal emission from hot dusts irradiated by the AGN emission dominate the MIR fluxes. Both X-ray unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs follow the same correlation, implying isotropic infrared emission, as expected in clumpy dust tori rather than homogeneous ones. We find excess signals around 9 {mu}m in the averaged infrared spectral energy distribution from heavy obscured "new type" AGNs with small scattering fractions in the X-ray spectra. This could be attributed to the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission feature, suggesting that their host galaxies have strong starburst activities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/805/31
- Title:
- IR-radio luminosities & surface densities of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/805/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the global star formation law --the relation between gas and star formation (SF) rates-- in a sample of 181 local galaxies with infrared (IR) luminosities spanning almost five orders of magnitude (10^7.8^-10^12.3^L_{sun}_), which includes 115 normal spiral galaxies and 66 (ultra)luminous IR galaxies ((U)LIRGs, L_IR_>>10^11^L_{sun}_). We derive their atomic, molecular gas, and dense molecular gas masses using newly available HI, CO, and HCN data from the literature, and SF rates are determined both from total IR (8-1000um) and 1.4GHz radio continuum (RC) luminosities. In order to derive the disk-averaged surface densities of gas and SF rates, we have taken a novel approach and used high-resolution RC observations to measure the radio sizes for all 181 galaxies. In our sample, we find that the surface density of dense molecular gas (as traced by HCN) has the tightest correlation with that of SF rates ({Sigma}_SFR_), and is linear in log-log space (power-law slope of N=1.01+/-0.02) across the full galaxy sample. The correlation between surface densities of molecular gas ({Sigma}_H_2__, traced by CO) and {Sigma}_SFR_ is sensitive to the adopted value of the CO-to-H_2_ conversion factor ({alpha}_CO_) used to infer molecular gas masses from CO luminosities. For a fixed Galactic value of {alpha}_CO_, a power law index of 1.14+/-0.02 is found. If instead we adopt values for {alpha}_CO_ of 4.6 and 0.8 for disk galaxies and (U)LIRGs, respectively, we find the two galaxy populations separate into two distinct {Sigma}_SFR_ versus {Sigma}_H_2__ relations. Finally, applying a continuously varying {alpha}_CO_ to our sample, we recover a single {Sigma}_SFR_-{Sigma}_H_2__ relation with slope of 1.60+/-0.03. The {Sigma}_SFR_ is a steeper function of total gas {Sigma}_gas_ (molecular gas with atomic gas) than that of molecular gas {Sigma}_H_2__, and are tighter among low-luminosity galaxies. We find no correlation between global surface densities of SFRs and atomic gas (HI).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/757/13
- Title:
- IR SEDs of 24um z~0.3-3 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/757/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we characterize the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of mid-IR-selected z~0.3-3.0 and L_IR_~10^11^-10^13^L_{sun}_ galaxies, and study how their SEDs differ from those of local and high-z analogs. Infrared SEDs depend both on the power source (AGN or star formation) and the dust distribution. Therefore, differences in the SEDs of high-z and local galaxies provide clues as to differences in their physical conditions. Our mid-IR flux-limited sample of 191 sources is unique in size, and spectral coverage, including Spitzer mid-IR spectroscopy. Here, we add Herschel photometry at 250{mu}m, 350{mu}m, and 500{mu}m, which allows us, through fitting an empirical SED model, to obtain accurate total IR luminosities, as well as constrain the relative contributions of AGNs and starbursts to those luminosities. Our sample includes three broad categories of SEDs: ~23% of the sources are AGNs (i.e., where the AGN contributes >50% of L_IR_), ~30% are starbursts where an AGN contributes <20% of L_IR_, and the mid-IR spectra are starburst-like (i.e., strong polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon features); and the largest group (~47%) are composites which show both significant AGN and starburst activity. In summary, our results show that there is strong evolution in the SEDs between local and z~2 IR-luminous galaxies, as well as that there is a wide range of SEDs among high redshift IR-luminous sources. The publicly available SED templates we derive from our sample will be particularly useful for infrared population synthesis models, as well as in the interpretation of other mid-IR high-z galaxies, in particular those detected by the recent all sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/602/A28
- Title:
- IR signature of CMBH in nearby dwarf galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/602/A28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the possible presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in dwarf galaxies and other nearby galaxies to identify candidates for follow-up confirmation and dynamical mass measurements. We identify candidate active central massive black holes (CMBH) using their mid-infrared emission, verify their nature using existing catalogues and optical line emission diagnostics, and study the relationship between their mass and the mass of their host galaxy. We use the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) All-Sky Release Source Catalog and examine the infrared colours of a sample of dwarf galaxies and other nearby galaxies in order to identify both unobscured and obscured candidate AGN by applying the infrared colour diagnostic. Stellar masses of galaxies are obtained using a combination of three independent methods. Black hole masses are estimated using the bolometric luminosity of the AGN candidates and computed for three cases of the bolometric-to-Eddington luminosity ratio. We identify 303 candidate AGN, of which 276 were subsequently found to have been independently identified as AGN via other methods. The remaining 9% require follow-up observations for confirmation. The activity is detected in galaxies with stellar masses from ~10^6^ to 10^9^M_{sun}_; assuming the candidates are AGN, the black hole masses are estimated to be ~10^3^-10^6^M_{sun}_, adopting L_bol_=0.1L_Edd_. The black hole masses probed are several orders of magnitude smaller than previously reported for centrally located massive black holes. We examine the stellar mass versus black hole mass relationship in this low galaxy mass regime. We find that it is consistent with the existing relation extending linearly (in log-log space) into the lower mass regime. These findings suggest that CMBH are present in low-mass galaxies and in the Local Universe, and provide new impetus for follow-up dynamical studies of quiescent black holes in local dwarf galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/548/A29
- Title:
- IR source catalog of AKARI NEP-Wide field
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/548/A29
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The InfraRed Camera (IRC) onboard AKARI has a comprehensive wavelength coverage with 9 photometric bands at 2-24 micron. Based on the NEP-Wide survey of AKARI (which covered a 5.4 sq.deg circular area centered on the NEP), we constructed a catalog for the infrared sources found in the survey area. Here we present the catalog containing about 114,800 sources detected at the nine IRC filter bands. This is a band-merged catalogue including all of the photometry results from the supplementary optical data as well as the IRC bands. To validate a source at a given IRC band, we searched counterparts in the other bands. The band-merging was done based on this cross-matching of the sources among the filter bands. If there is no detection in a certain band, we assigned the 99.000. The NIR sources having no counterpart in any other bands are finally excluded to avoid the false objects. See the reference for the details of the NEP-Wide survey and data reduction.
