- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/92
- Title:
- Star-forming clumps in local luminous IR galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/888/92
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 10:18:57
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present HST narrowband near-infrared imaging of Pa{alpha} and Pa{beta} emission of 48 local luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) from the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey. These data allow us to measure the properties of 810 spatially resolved star-forming regions (59 nuclei and 751 extranuclear clumps) and directly compare their properties to those found in both local and high-redshift star-forming galaxies. We find that in LIRGs the star-forming clumps have radii ranging from ~90 to 900pc and star formation rates (SFRs) of ~1x10^-3^ to 10M_{sun}_/yr, with median values for extranuclear clumps of 170pc and 0.03M_{sun}_/yr. The detected star-forming clumps are young, with a median stellar age of 8.7Myr, and have a median stellar mass of 5x10^5^M_{sun}_. The SFRs span the range of those found in normal local star-forming galaxies to those found in high-redshift star-forming galaxies at z=1-3. The luminosity function of the LIRG clumps has a flatter slope than found in lower-luminosity, star-forming galaxies, indicating a relative excess of luminous star-forming clumps. In order to predict the possible range of star-forming histories and gas fractions, we compare the star-forming clumps to those measured in the MassiveFIRE high-resolution cosmological simulation. The star-forming clumps in MassiveFIRE cover the same range of SFRs and sizes found in the local LIRGs and have total gas fractions that extend from 10% to 90%. If local LIRGs are similar to these simulated galaxies, we expect that future observations with ALMA will find a large range of gas fractions, and corresponding star formation efficiencies, among the star-forming clumps in LIRGs.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/752/146
- Title:
- Star forming complexes in Galactic WMAP sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/752/146
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze Spitzer GLIMPSE, Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) images of the Milky Way to identify 8{mu}m and free-free sources in the Galaxy. Seventy-two of the 88 WMAP sources have coverage in the GLIMPSE and MSX surveys suitable for identifying massive star-forming complexes (SFCs). We measure the ionizing luminosity functions of the SFCs and study their role in the turbulent motion of the Galaxy's molecular gas. We find a total Galactic free-free flux f_{nu}_=46177.6Jy; the 72 WMAP sources with full 8{mu}m coverage account for 34263.5Jy (~75%), with both measurements made at {nu}=94GHz (W band). We find a total of 280 SFCs, of which 168 have unique kinematic distances and free-free luminosities. We use a simple model for the radial distribution of star formation to estimate the free-free and ionizing luminosity for the sources lacking distance determinations. The total dust-corrected ionizing luminosity is Q=(2.9+/-0.5)x10^53^photons/s, which implies a Galactic star formation rate of \dot{M}_{star}_=1.2+/-0.2{M}_{sun}_/yr. We present the (ionizing) luminosity function of the SFCs and show that 24 sources emit half the ionizing luminosity of the Galaxy. The SFCs appear as bubbles in GLIMPSE or MSX images; the radial velocities associated with the bubble walls allow us to infer the expansion velocity of the bubbles. We calculate the kinetic luminosity of the bubble expansion and compare it to the turbulent luminosity of the inner molecular disk. SFCs emitting 80% of the total Galactic free-free luminosity produce a kinetic luminosity equal to 65% of the turbulent luminosity in the inner molecular disk. This suggests that the expansion of the bubbles is a major driver of the turbulent motion of the inner Milky Way molecular gas.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/773/86
- Title:
- Star-forming galaxies in ACO 2029
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/773/86
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Dense environments are known to quench star formation in galaxies, but it is still unknown what mechanism(s) are directly responsible. In this paper, we study the star formation of galaxies in A2029 and compare it to that of Coma, combining indicators at 24{mu}m, H{alpha}, and UV down to rates of 0.03M_{sun}_/yr. We show that A2029's star-forming galaxies follow the same mass-SFR relation as the field. The Coma cluster, on the other hand, has a population of galaxies with star formation rates (SFRs) significantly lower than the field mass-SFR relation, indicative of galaxies in the process of being quenched. Over half of these galaxies also host active galactic nuclei. Ram-pressure stripping and starvation/strangulation are the most likely mechanisms for suppressing the star formation in these galaxies, but we are unable to disentangle which is dominating. The differences we see between the two clusters' populations of star-forming galaxies may be related to their accretion histories, with A2029 having accreted its star-forming galaxies more recently than Coma. Additionally, many early-type galaxies in A2029 are detected at 24{mu}m and/or in the far-UV, but this emission is not directly related to star formation. Similar galaxies have probably been classified as star forming in previous studies of dense clusters, possibly obscuring some of the effects of the cluster environment on true star-forming galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A15
- Title:
- Star-forming galaxies in AKARI Deep Field-South
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The main aim of this work is the characterization of physical properties of galaxies detected in the far infrared (FIR) in the AKARI Deep Field-South (ADF-S) survey. Starting from a catalog of the brightest 1000 ADF-S sources in the WIDE-S (90um) AKARI band, we constructed a subsample of galaxies with spectral coverage from the ultraviolet to the far-infrared. Then, we analyzed the multiwavelength properties of this 90um-selected sample of galaxies. For galaxies without known spectroscopic redshifts we computed photometric redshifts using codes Le PHARE and CIGALE, tested these photometric redshifts using spectroscopic redshifts, and compared the performances of both codes. To test the reliability of parameters obtained by fitting Spectral Energy Distributions, a mock catalogue has been generated. We built a large multiwavelength catalog of more than 500 ADF-S galaxies. We successfully fitted Spectral Energy Distributions of 186 galaxies with {chi}^2^<4, and analyzed the output parameters of the fits. We conclude that our sample consists mostly of nearby actively star-forming galaxies, and all our galaxies have a relatively high metallicity. We estimated photometric redshifts for 113 galaxies from the whole ADF-S sample. Comparing the performance of Le PHARE and CIGALE, we found that CIGALE gives more reliable redshift estimates for our galaxies, which implies that including the IR photometry allows for substantial improvement of photometric redshift estimation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/2861
- Title:
- Star-forming galaxies in near-IR
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/2861
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The near-infrared spectral region is becoming a very useful wavelength range to detect and quantify the stellar population of galaxies. Models are developing to predict the contribution of the thermally pulsating stars on the asymptotic giant branch stars that should dominate the near-infrared region (NIR) spectra of populations 0.3 to 2Gyr old. When present in a given stellar population, these stars leave unique signatures that can be used to detect them unambiguously. However, these models have to be tested in a homogeneous data base of star-forming galaxies, to check if the results are consistent with what is found from different wavelength ranges. In this work, we performed stellar population synthesis on the nuclear and extended regions of 23 star-forming galaxies to understand how the star formation tracers in the NIR can be used in practice. The stellar population synthesis shows that for the galaxies with strong emission in the NIR, there is an important fraction of young/intermediate population contributing to the spectra, which is probably the ionization source in these galaxies. Galaxies that had no emission lines measured in the NIR were found to have older average ages and less contribution of young populations. Although the stellar population synthesis method proved to be very effective to find the young ionizing population in these galaxies, no clear correlation between these results and the NIR spectral indexes were found. Thus, we believe that, in practice, the use of these indexes is still very limited due to observational limitations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/692/556
- Title:
- Star forming galaxy templates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/692/556
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We show that measures of star formation rates (SFRs) for infrared galaxies using either single-band 24um or extinction-corrected Pa{alpha} luminosities are consistent in the total infrared luminosity =L(IR)~10^10^L_{{sun}}_ range. As a part of this work, we constructed spectral energy distribution templates for eleven luminous and ultraluminous purely star forming infrared galaxies and over the spectral range 0.4um to 30cm. We use these templates and the SINGS data to construct average templates from 5um to 30cm for infrared galaxies with L(IR)=5x10^9^ to 10^13^L_{{sun}}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/514/A3
- Title:
- Star-galaxy separation in AKARI FIS All-Sky Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/514/A3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To separate stars and galaxies in the far infrared AKARI All-Sky Survey data, we have selected a sample with the complete color information available in the low extinction regions of the sky and constructed color-color plots for these data.We looked for the method to separate stars and galaxies using the color information. We performed an extensive search for the counterparts of these selected All-Sky Survey objects in the NED and SIMBAD databases. Among 5176 selected objects, we found 4272 galaxies, 382 other extragalactic objects, 349 Milky Way stars, 50 other Galactic objects, and 101 sources detected before in various wavelengths but of an unknown origin. 22 sources were left unidentified. Then, we checked colors of stars and galaxies in the far-infrared flux-color and color-color plots.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A31
- Title:
- Statistial HATLAS Lensed Objects Selec.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/627/A31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The statistical analysis of large sample of strong lensing events can be a powerful tool to extract astrophysical or cosmological valuable information. Their selection using submillimetre galaxies has been demonstrated to be very effective with more than ~200 proposed candidates in the case of Herschel-ATLAS data and several tens in the case of the South Pole Telescope. However, the number of confirmed events is still relatively low, i.e. a few tens, mostly because of the lengthy observational validation process on individual events. In this work we propose a new methodology with a statistical selection approach to increase by a factor of ~5 the number of such events within the Herschel-ATLAS data set. Although the methodology can be applied to address several selection problems, it has particular benefits in the case of the identification of strongly lensed galaxies: objectivity, minimal initial constrains in the main parameter space, and preservation of statistical properties. The proposed methodology is based on the Bhattacharyya distance as a measure of the similarity between probability distributions of properties of two different cross-matched galaxies. The particular implementation for the aim of this work is called SHALOS and it combines the information of four different properties of the pair of galaxies: angular separation, luminosity percentile, redshift, and the ratio of the optical to the submillimetre flux densities. The SHALOS method provides a ranked list of strongly lensed galaxies. The number of candidates within ~340{deg}^2^ of the Herschel-ATLAS surveyed area for the final associated probability, P_tot_>0.7, is 447 and they have an estimated mean amplification factor of 3.12 for a halo with a typical cluster mass. Additional statistical properties of the SHALOS candidates, as the correlation function or the source number counts, are in agreement with previous results indicating the statistical lensing nature of the selected sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A3
- Title:
- Stellar clusters from UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/542/A3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Data mining techniques must be developed and applied to analyse the large public data bases containing hundreds to thousands of millions entries. We develop methods for locating previously unknown stellar clusters from the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) catalogue data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/819/L27
- Title:
- Stellar masses of optical & IR QSO hosts
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/819/L27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The relation between star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses, i.e., the galaxy main sequence, is a useful diagnostic of galaxy evolution. We present the distributions relative to the main sequence of 55 optically selected PG and 12 near-IR-selected Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) quasars at z<=0.5. We estimate the quasar host stellar masses from Hubble Space Telescope or ground-based AO photometry, and the SFRs through the mid-infrared aromatic features and far-IR photometry. We find that PG quasar hosts more or less follow the main sequence defined by normal star-forming galaxies while 2MASS quasar hosts lie systematically above the main sequence. PG and 2MASS quasars with higher nuclear luminosities seem to have higher specific SFRs (sSFRs), although there is a large scatter. No trends are seen between sSFRs and SMBH masses, Eddington ratios, or even morphology types (ellipticals, spirals, and mergers). Our results could be placed in an evolutionary scenario with quasars emerging during the transition from ULIRGs/mergers to ellipticals. However, combined with results at higher redshift, they suggest that quasars can be widely triggered in normal galaxies as long as they contain abundant gas and have ongoing star formation.
