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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/602/A89
- Title:
- Star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/602/A89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To produce an homogeneous catalog of astrophysical parameters of 239 resolved star clusters located in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, observed in the Washington photometric system. The cluster sample was processed with the recently introduced Automated Stellar Cluster Analysis (ASteCA) package, which ensures both an automatized and a fully reproducible treatment, together with a statistically based analysis of their fundamental parameters and associated uncertainties. The fundamental parameters determined with this tool for each cluster, via a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis, are: metallicity, age, reddening, distance modulus, and total mass. We generated an homogeneous catalog of structural and fundamental parameters for the studied cluster sample, and performed a detailed internal error analysis along with a thorough comparison with values taken from twenty-six published articles. We studied the distribution of cluster fundamental parameters in both Clouds, and obtained their age-metallicity relationships. The ASteCA package can be applied to an unsupervised determination of fundamental cluster parameters; a task of increasing relevance as more data becomes available through upcoming surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/161/304
- Title:
- Star clusters in the Milky Way and satellites
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/161/304
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a database of structural and dynamical properties for 153 spatially resolved star clusters in the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and the Fornax dwarf spheroidal. This database complements and extends others in the literature, such as those of Harris (Cat. <VII/202>) and Mackey & Gilmore (2003MNRAS.338...85M, 2003MNRAS.338..120M, 2003MNRAS.340..175M). Our cluster sample comprises 50 "young massive clusters" in the LMC and SMC, and 103 old globular clusters between the four galaxies. The parameters we list include central and half-light-averaged surface brightnesses and mass densities; core and effective radii; central potentials, concentration parameters, and tidal radii; predicted central velocity dispersions and escape velocities; total luminosities, masses, and binding energies; central phase-space densities; half-mass relaxation times; and "{kappa}-space" parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/1037
- Title:
- Star formation in Centaurus A Group dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/1037
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present H{alpha} narrow-band imaging of 17 dwarf irregular (dI) galaxies in the nearby Centaurus A Group. Although all large galaxies of the group are or recently have been through a period of enhanced star formation, the dIs have normal star formation rates (SFRs) and do not contain a larger fraction of dwarf starbursts than other nearby groups such as the Sculptor Group or the Local Group. Most of the galaxies in the group now have fairly accurately known distances, which enables us to obtain relative distances between dIs and larger galaxies of the group. We find four transition dwarfs in the Group, dwarfs that show characteristics of both dE/dSphs and dIs, and which contain cold gas but no current star formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/285/404
- Title:
- Star formation in compact groups of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/285/404
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/894
- Title:
- Star formation in DDO 210 and NGC 3109
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/894
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The method proposed in Paper I [Tosi et al., AJ, 102, 951 (1991)] to study the star formation histories in nearby irregulars is here applied to the galaxies DDO 210 and NGC 3109. To this purpose we have obtained deep CCD photometry of two regions in DDO 210 and three regions in NGC 3109, reaching V = 24 with the required accuracy of Sigma(V) <= 0.1 mag. Major information on the stellar populations, star formation rates, and initial mass functions of these regions in the last 1 Gyr are derived from the comparison of the observational color-magnitude diagrams and luminosity functions, with the corresponding synthetic diagrams and luminosity functions generated by a numerical simulation code based on stellar evolutionary tracks. In general, for both galaxies we find that in the last 1 Gyr the star formation activity has been rather continuous, possibly occurring in long episodes of moderate activity separated by short quiescent periods. According to our models the metallicity should be fairly low (in the range 0.05 <= Z/Zsun <= 0.5) and the initial mass function exponent in the vicinity of Salpeter's value, i.e., slightly flatter than in the solar neighborhood. The studied regions of NGC 3109 appear to contain different stellar populations (i.e., with slightly different metallicity and star formation histories), whereas those of DDO 210 seem to have fairly similar stellar contents, although for this galaxy the interpretation is more uncertain. As a by-product of our method we find that the distance modulus to DDO 210 should be (m-M)0 approx. 28, which places this galaxy beyond the edge of the Local Group.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/613/914
- Title:
- Star formation in HI-selected galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/613/914
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A sample of 69 galaxies with radial velocities of less than 2500km/s was selected from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS, Cat. <VIII/73>) and imaged in broadband B and R and narrowband H{alpha}, to deduce details about star formation in nearby disk galaxies while avoiding surface brightness selection effects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/482/560
- Title:
- Star formation in nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/482/560
- Date:
- 18 Jan 2022 13:35:08
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present multiwavelength global star formation rate (SFR) estimates for 326 galaxies from the Star Formation Reference Survey in order to determine the mutual scatter and range of validity of different indicators. The widely used empirical SFR recipes based on 1.4GHz continuum, 8.0um polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and a combination of far-infrared (FIR) plus ultraviolet (UV) emission are mutually consistent with scatter of <~0.3dex. The scatter is even smaller, <~0.24dex, in the intermediate luminosity range 9.3<log(L_60um_/L_{sun}_)<10.7. The data prefer a non-linear relation between 1.4GHz luminosity and other SFR measures. PAH luminosity underestimates SFR for galaxies with strong UV emission. A bolometric extinction correction to far-UV luminosity yields SFR within 0.2dex of the total SFR estimate, but extinction corrections based on UV spectral slope or nuclear Balmer decrement give SFRs that may differ from the total SFR by up to 2dex. However, for the minority of galaxies with UV luminosity >5x10^9^L_{sun}_ or with implied far-UV extinction <1mag, the UV spectral slope gives extinction corrections with 0.22dex uncertainty.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/174/337
- Title:
- Star formation in nuclear rings
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/174/337
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a photometric H{alpha} survey of 22 nuclear rings, aiming to provide insight into their star formation properties, including age distribution, dynamical timescales, star formation rates, and galactic bar influence. We find a clear relationship between the position angles and ellipticities of the rings and those of their host galaxies, which indicates the rings are in the same plane as the disk and circular. We use population synthesis models to estimate ages of each H{alpha}-emitting (HII) region, which range from 1 to 10Myr throughout the rings. We find that approximately half of the rings contain azimuthal age gradients that encompass at least 25% of the ring, although there is no apparent relationship between the presence or absence of age gradients and the morphology of the rings or their host galaxies. NGC 1343, NGC 1530, and NGC 4321 show clear bipolar age gradients, where the youngest HII regions are located near the two contact points of the bar and ring. We speculate in these cases that the gradients are related to an increased mass inflow rate and/or an overall higher gas density in the ring, which would allow for massive star formation to occur on short timescales, after which the galactic rotation would transport the HII regions around the ring as they age. Two-thirds of the barred galaxies show correlation between the locations of the youngest HII region(s) in the ring and the location of the contact points, which is consistent with predictions from numerical modeling.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/683/822
- Title:
- Star formation in Ophiuchus and Perseus II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/683/822
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a census of the population of deeply embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex based on a combination of Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared data from the "Cores to Disks" (c2d) legacy team and JCMT/SCUBA submillimeter maps from the COMPLETE team. We have applied a method developed for identifying embedded protostars in Perseus to these data sets and in this way construct a relatively unbiased sample of 27 candidate embedded protostars with envelopes more massive than our sensitivity limit (about 0.1M_{sun}_).
