- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/229/32
- Title:
- CANDELS: multiwavelength catalogs in the EGS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/229/32
- Date:
- 03 Nov 2021 09:14:43
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a 0.4-8{mu}m multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field. This catalog is built on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 and ACS data from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), and it incorporates the existing HST data from the All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey (AEGIS) and the 3D-HST program. The catalog is based on detections in the F160W band reaching a depth of F160W=26.62 AB (90% completeness, point sources). It includes the photometry for 41457 objects over an area of ~206arcmin^2^ in the following bands: HST/ACS F606W and F814W; HST WFC3 F125W, F140W, and F160W; Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)/Megacam u*, g' , r', i' and z'; CFHT/WIRCAM J, H, and K_S_; Mayall/NEWFIRM J1, J2, J3, H1, H2, and K; Spitzer IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0{mu}m. We are also releasing value-added catalogs that provide robust photometric redshifts and stellar mass measurements.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/775/106
- Title:
- CANDELS passive and massive early-type galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/775/106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the evolution of the number density, as a function of the size, of passive early-type galaxies (ETGs) with a wide range of stellar masses (10^10^M_{sun}_<M_*_<~10^11.5^M_{sun}_) from z~3 to z~1, exploiting the unique data set available in the GOODS-South field, including the recently obtained WFC3 images as part of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). In particular, we select a sample of ~107 massive (M_*_>10^10^M_{sun}_), passive (SSFR<10^-2^/Gyr), and morphologically spheroidal galaxies at 1.2<z<3, taking advantage of the panchromatic data set available for GOODS, including VLT, CFHT, Spitzer, Chandra, and HST ACS+WFC3 data. We find that at 1<z<3 the passively evolving ETGs are the reddest and most massive objects in the universe, and we prove that a correlation between mass, morphology, color, and star formation activity is already in place at that epoch. We measure a significant evolution in the mass-size relation of passive ETGs from z~3 to z~1, with galaxies growing on average by a factor of two in size in a 3Gyr timescale only. We also witness an increase in the number density of passive ETGs of 50 times over the same time interval. We find that the first ETGs to form at z>~2 are all compact or ultra-compact, while normal-sized ETGs (meaning ETGs with sizes comparable to those of local counterparts of the same mass) are the most common ETGs only at z<1. The increase of the average size of ETGs at 0<z<1 is primarily driven by the appearance of new large ETGs rather than by the size increase of individual galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/793/101
- Title:
- CANDELS z~2 galaxy properties
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/793/101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use CANDELS imaging, 3D-HST spectroscopy, and Chandra X-ray data to investigate if active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially fueled by violent disk instabilities funneling gas into galaxy centers at 1.3<z<2.4. We select galaxies undergoing gravitational instabilities using the number of clumps and degree of patchiness as proxies. The CANDELS visual classification system is used to identify 44 clumpy disk galaxies, along with mass-matched comparison samples of smooth and intermediate morphology galaxies. We note that despite being mass-matched and having similar star formation rates, the smoother galaxies tend to be smaller disks with more prominent bulges compared to the clumpy galaxies. The lack of smooth extended disks is probably a general feature of the z~2 galaxy population, and means we cannot directly compare with the clumpy and smooth extended disks observed at lower redshift. We find that z~2 clumpy galaxies have slightly enhanced AGN fractions selected by integrated line ratios (in the mass-excitation method), but the spatially resolved line ratios indicate this is likely due to extended phenomena rather than nuclear AGNs. Meanwhile, the X-ray data show that clumpy, smooth, and intermediate galaxies have nearly indistinguishable AGN fractions derived from both individual detections and stacked non-detections. The data demonstrate that AGN fueling modes at z~1.85 - whether violent disk instabilities or secular processes - are as efficient in smooth galaxies as they are in clumpy galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/509/A81
- Title:
- Candidate clusters detected in six CFHTLS fields
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/509/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Counting clusters is one of the methods to constrain cosmological parameters, but has been limited up to now both by the redshift range and by the relatively small sizes of the homogeneously surveyed areas. In order to enlarge publicly available optical cluster catalogs, in particular at high redshift, we have performed a systematic search for clusters of galaxies in the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). We considered the deep 2, 3 and 4 CFHTLS Deep fields (each 1x1deg^2^), as well as the wide 1, 3 and 4 CFHTLS Wide fields. We used the Le Phare photometric redshifts for the galaxies detected in these fields with magnitude limits of i'=25 and 23 for the Deep and Wide fields respectively. We then constructed galaxy density maps in photometric redshift bins of 0.1 based on an adaptive kernel technique and detected structures with SExtractor at various detection levels. In order to assess the validity of our cluster detection rates, we applied a similar procedure to galaxies in Millennium simulations. We measured the correlation function of our cluster candidates. We analyzed large scale properties and substructures, including filaments, by applying a minimal spanning tree algorithm both to our data and to the Millennium simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/613/A67
- Title:
- Candidate clusters in 4 CFHTLS T0007 Wide fields
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/613/A67
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Obtaining large samples of galaxy clusters is important for cosmology: cluster counts as a function of redshift and mass can constrain the parameters of our Universe. They are also useful in order to understand the formation and evolution of clusters. We develop an improved version of the Adami & MAzure Cluster FInder (AMACFI), now the Adami, MAzure & Sarron Cluster FInder (AMASCFI), and apply it to the 154deg^2^ of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) to obtain a large catalogue of 1371 cluster candidates with mass M_200_>10^14^M{_sun}_ and redshift z<=0.7. We derive the selection function of the algorithm from the Millennium simulation, and cluster masses from a richness-mass scaling relation built from matching our candidates with X-ray detections. We study the evolution of these clusters with mass and redshift by computing the i'-band galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) for the early-type (ETGs) and late-type galaxies (LTGs). This sample is 90% pure and 70% complete, and therefore our results are representative of a large fraction of the cluster population in these redshift and mass ranges. We find an increase in both the ETG and LTG faint populations with decreasing redshift (with Schechter slopes {sigma}_ETG_=-0.65+/-0.03 and {sigma}_LTG_=-0.95+/-0.04 at z=0.6, and {sigma}_ETG_=-0.79+/-0.02 and {sigma}_LTG_=-1.26+/-0.03 at z=0.2) and also a decrease in the LTG (but not the ETG) bright end. Our large sample allows us to break the degeneracy between mass and redshift, finding that the redshift evolution is more pronounced in high-mass clusters, but that there is no significant dependence of the faint end on mass for a given redshift. These results show that the cluster red sequence is mainly formed at redshift z>0.7, and that faint ETGs continue to enrich the red sequence through quenching of brighter LTGs at z<=0.7. The efficiency of this quenching is higher in large-mass clusters, while the accretion rate of faint LTGs is lower as the more massive clusters have already emptied most of their environment at higher redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/598/A107
- Title:
- Candidate galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/598/A107
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we present the tools used to search for galaxy clusters in the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), and our first results. The cluster detection is based on an implementation of the optimal filtering technique that enables us to identify clusters as over-densities in the distribution of galaxies using their positions on the sky, magnitudes, and photometric redshifts. The contamination and completeness of the cluster catalog are derived using mock catalogs based on the data themselves. The optimal signal to noise threshold for the cluster detection is obtained by randomizing the galaxy positions and selecting the value that produces a contamination of less than 20%. Starting from a subset of clusters detected with high significance at low redshifts, we shift them to higher redshifts to estimate the completeness as a function of redshift: the average completeness is ~85%. An estimate of the mass of the clusters is derived using the richness as a proxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/157
- Title:
- Candidate ICRF flat-spectrum radio sources. III.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In extending our spectroscopic program, which targets sources drawn from the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) Catalog, we have obtained spectra for ~160 compact, flat-spectrum radio sources and determined redshifts for 112 quasars and radio galaxies. A further 14 sources with featureless spectra have been classified as BL Lac objects. Spectra were obtained at three telescopes: the 3.58m European Southern Observatory New Technology Telescope, and the two 8.2m Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. While most of the sources are powerful quasars, a significant fraction of radio galaxies is also included from the list of non-defining ICRF radio sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/461/823
- Title:
- Candidate Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/461/823
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a large program conducted with the Very Large Telescope and augmented by observations with the Keck telescope to search for forming clusters of galaxies near powerful radio galaxies at 2.0<z<5.2. Besides MRC 1138-262 at z=2.16, the radio galaxy observed in our pilot program, we obtained narrow- and broad-band images of eight radio galaxies and their surroundings. The imaging was used to select candidate Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies in ~3x3Mpc^2^ areas near the radio galaxies. A total of 300 candidate emitters were found with a rest-frame Ly{alpha} equivalent width of EW0>15{AA} and significance Sigma{equiv.to}(EW0/DEW0)>3. Follow-up spectroscopy was performed on 152 candidates in seven of the radio galaxy fields. Of these, 139 were confirmed to be Ly{alpha} emitters, four were low redshift interlopers and nine were non-detections. With the adopted criteria the success rate is 139/152=91%. In addition, 14 objects with EW0<15 and/or Sigma<3 were confirmed to be Ly{alpha} emitters. Combined with the 15 Ly{alpha} emitters near MRC 1138-262, we have determined Ly{alpha} redshifts for 168 objects near eight radio galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/823/11
- Title:
- Candidate Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies at z~3.8
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/823/11
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new observations of the field containing the z=3.786 protocluster PC 217.96+32.3. We confirm that it is one of the largest known and most overdense high-redshift structures. Such structures are rare even in the largest cosmological simulations. We used the Mayall/MOSAIC1.1 imaging camera to image a 1.2x0.6{deg} area (~150x75 comoving Mpc) surrounding the protocluster's core and discovered 165 candidate Ly{alpha} emitting galaxies (LAEs) and 788 candidate Lyman Break galaxies (LBGs). There are at least two overdense regions traced by the LAEs, the largest of which shows an areal overdensity in its core (i.e., within a radius of 2.5 comoving Mpc) of 14+/-7 relative to the average LAE spatial density (\bar{rho}) in the imaged field. Further, \bar{rho} is twice that derived by other field LAE surveys. Spectroscopy with Keck/DEIMOS yielded redshifts for 164 galaxies (79 LAEs and 85 LBGs); 65 lie at a redshift of 3.785+/-0.010. The velocity dispersion of galaxies near the core is {sigma}=350+/-40km/s, a value robust to selection effects. The overdensities are likely to collapse into systems with present-day masses of >10^15^M_{sun}_ and >6x10^14^M_{sun}_. The low velocity dispersion may suggest a dynamically young protocluster. We find a weak trend between narrow-band (Ly{alpha}) luminosity and environmental density: the Ly{alpha} luminosity is enhanced on average by 1.35x within the protocluster core. There is no evidence that the Ly{alpha} equivalent width depends on environment. These suggest that star formation and/or active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity is enhanced in the higher-density regions of the structure. PC 217.96+32.3 is a Coma cluster analog, witnessed in the process of formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/232/15
- Title:
- Candidate strong lens systems from DES obs.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/232/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of searches for strong gravitational lens systems in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification and Year1 observations. The Science Verification data span approximately 250{deg}^2^ with a median i-band limiting magnitude for extended objects (10{sigma}) of 23.0. The Year 1 data span approximately 2000{deg}^2^ and have an i-band limiting magnitude for extended objects (10{sigma}) of 22.9. As these data sets are both wide and deep, they are particularly useful for identifying strong gravitational lens candidates. Potential strong gravitational lens candidate systems were initially identified based on a color and magnitude selection in the DES object catalogs or because the system is at the location of a previously identified galaxy cluster. Cutout images of potential candidates were then visually scanned using an object viewer and numerically ranked according to whether or not we judged them to be likely strong gravitational lens systems. Having scanned nearly 400000 cutouts, we present 374 candidate strong lens systems, of which 348 are identified for the first time. We provide the R.A. and decl., the magnitudes and photometric properties of the lens and source objects, and the distance (radius) of the source(s) from the lens center for each system.
