- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/15.1414
- Title:
- E+A galaxy candidates in LAMOST DR2
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/15.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A sample of 70 E+A galaxies is selected from 37206 galaxies in the second data release of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). This sample is selected according to the criteria for E+A galaxies defined by Goto, and each of these objects is further visually identified. In this sample, most objects are low redshift E+A galaxies with z<0.25, and are located in an area of the sky with high Galactic latitude and magnitude from 14 to 18mag in the g, r and i bands. A stellar population analysis of the whole sample indicates that the E+A galaxies are characterized by both young and old stellar populations (SPs), and the metal-rich SPs have relatively higher contributions than the metal-poor ones. Additionally, a morphological classification of these objects is performed based on images taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/423/422
- Title:
- Early-type BCGs with star formation
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/423/422
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify a total of 120 early-type brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at 0.1<z<0.4 in two recent large cluster catalogues selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). They are selected with strong emission lines in their optical spectra, with both H{alpha} and [OII]{lambda}3727 line emission, which indicates significant ongoing star formation. They constitute about ~0.5 per cent of the largest, optically selected, low-redshift BCG sample, and the fraction is a strong function of cluster richness. Their star formation history can be well described by a recent minor and short starburst superimposed on an old stellar component, with the recent episode of star formation contributing on average only less than 1 per cent of the total stellar mass. We show that the more massive star-forming BCGs in richer clusters tend to have higher star formation rate (SFR) and specific SFR (SFR per unit galaxy stellar mass). We also compare their statistical properties with a control sample selected from X-ray luminous clusters, and show that the fraction of star-forming BCGs in X-ray luminous clusters is almost one order of magnitude larger than that in optically selected clusters. BCGs with star formation in cooling flow clusters usually have very flat optical spectra and show the most active star formation, which may be connected with cooling flows.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/406/382
- Title:
- Early-type galaxies in the SDSS Stripe82
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/406/382
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We explore the properties of "peculiar" early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the local Universe that show (faint) morphological signatures of recent interactions such as tidal tails, shells and dust lanes. Standard-depth (~51s exposure) multicolour galaxy images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are combined with the significantly (~2mag) deeper monochromatic images from the public SDSS Stripe82 (-50{deg}<{alpha}<59{deg}, -1.25{deg}<{delta}<1.25{deg}) to extract, through careful visual inspection, a robust sample of nearby (z<0.05), luminous (M_r_<-20.5) ETGs, including a subset of ~70 peculiar systems. ~18% of ETGs exhibit signs of disturbed morphologies (e.g. shells), while ~7% show evidence of dust lanes and patches. An analysis of optical emission-line ratios indicates that the fraction of peculiar ETGs that are Seyferts or LINERs (19.4%) is twice the corresponding values in their relaxed counterparts (10.1%). LINER-like emission is the dominant type of nebular activity in all ETG classes, plausibly driven by stellar photoionization associated with recent star formation. An analysis of ultraviolet-optical colours indicates that, regardless of the luminosity range being considered, the fraction of peculiar ETGs that have experienced star formation in the last Gyr is a factor of ~1.5 higher than that in their relaxed counterparts. The spectrophotometric results strongly suggest that the interactions that produce the morphological peculiarities also induce low-level recent star formation which, based on the recent literature, are likely to contribute a few per cent of the stellar mass over the last ~1Gyr. Peculiar ETGs preferentially inhabit low-density environments (outskirts of clusters, groups or the field), either due to high peculiar velocities in clusters making merging unlikely or because shell systems are disrupted through frequent interactions within a cluster crossing time.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/327/1004
- Title:
- Early-type galaxy parameters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/327/1004
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We perform a series of comparisons between distance-independent photometric and spectroscopic properties used in the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) and fundamental plane (FP) methods of early-type galaxy distance estimation. The data are taken from two recent surveys: the SBF Survey of Galaxy Distances and the Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters (SMAC) FP survey. We derive a relation between (V-I)0 colour and Mg2 index using nearly 200 galaxies and discuss implications for Galactic extinction estimates and early-type galaxy stellar populations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/274/1071
- Title:
- Edinburgh-Milano cluster redshift survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/274/1071
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we present the redshifts of the galaxies and galaxy clusters which form the Edinburgh-Milano (EM) cluster redshift survey. A total of 777 galaxy redshifts have been measured in 94 clusters extracted from the digitized Edinburgh-Durham Cluster Catalogue. We also present the radial velocity dispersions for 37 clusters. Observational and data reduction techniques are discussed in detail, together with the strategy adopted to determine the mean redshift of a cluster and to identify and discard plausible phantom clusters. Some 10 per cent of our clusters show heavy contamination, indicating that projection is a serious problem for optically selected, rich clusters. The median velocity dispersion estimated for a subsample of richness R>=1 clusters is 742+/-63km/s. From a simple comparison with {OMEGA}=1 cold dark matter models of structure formation, these results favour a biasing parameter b=1.6-2.0 and are inconsistent with a bias outside of the range b=1.3-2.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/305/259
- Title:
- EFAR galaxies redshifts & velocity dispersions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/305/259
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the spectroscopic data for the galaxies studied in the EFAR project, which is designed to measure the properties and peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions. We have obtained 1319 spectra of 714 early-type galaxies over 33 observing runs on 10 different telescopes. We describe the observations and data reductions used to measure redshifts, velocity dispersions and the Mgb and Mg_2_ Lick linestrength indices. Detailed simulations and intercomparison of the large number of repeat observations lead to reliable error estimates for all quantities. The measurements from different observing runs are calibrated to a common zero-point or scale before being combined, yielding a total of 706 redshifts, 676 velocity dispersions, 676 Mgb linestrengths and 582 Mg_2_ linestrengths. The median estimated errors in the combined measurements are {Delta}cz=20km/s, {Delta}sigma/sigma=9.1%, {Delta}Mgb/Mgb=7.2% and {Delta}Mg_2_=0.015mag. Comparison of our measurements with published data sets shows no systematic errors in the redshifts or velocity dispersions, and only small zero-point corrections to bring our linestrengths on to the standard Lick system. We have assigned galaxies to physical clusters by examining the line-of-sight velocity distributions based on EFAR and ZCAT redshifts, together with the projected distributions on the sky. We derive mean redshifts and velocity dispersions for these clusters, which will be used in estimating distances and peculiar velocities and to test for trends in the galaxy population with cluster mass. The spectroscopic parameters presented here for 706 galaxies combine high-quality data, uniform reduction and measurement procedures, and detailed error analysis. They form the largest single set of velocity dispersions and linestrengths for early-type galaxies published to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/292/499
- Title:
- EFAR photometric data
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/292/499
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present R-band CCD photometry for 776 galaxies observed in the EFAR (Elliptical FAR away) project. The photometry is compared with photoelectric data, showing that a common zero-point good to better than 1% and a precision of 0.03mag per zero-point have been achieved. We give the circularly averaged surface brightness profiles and the photometric parameters of the 762 program galaxies, D(n) diameters (at 20.5mag/arcsec^2^), half-luminosity radii Re, total magnitudes m_T_, and average effective surface brightnesses <SBe>. More than 80% of the profiles have a global S/N ratio larger than 300. The extrapolation needed to derive total magnitudes is less than 10% for 80% of the fits. More than 80% of the galaxies have mean effective surface brightness larger than the observed sky brightness. In 90% of the profiles the estimate of the contamination of the sky by the galaxy light is less than 1%. We derive total magnitudes and half-luminosity radii to better than 0.15mag and 25%, respectively, for 90% of our sample. In contrast, external comparisons show that data in the literature can be strongly affected by systematic errors due to large extrapolations, small radial range, sky subtraction errors, seeing effects, and the use of a simple R^1/4^ fit. The resulting errors can easily amount to more than 0.5mag in the total magnitudes and 50% in the half-luminosity radii.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/351/1290
- Title:
- ELAIS: final band-merged catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/351/1290
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog represents the final band-merged European Large-Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) Catalogue at 6.7, 15, 90 and 175{mu}m, and the associated data at U, g', r', i', Z, J, H, K and 20cm. Details about the origin of the survey, the observations, data reduction and optical identification are described in the paper. In addition to fluxes in the radio, infrared and optical passbands, spectroscopic redshifts are tabulated, where available. For the N1 and N2 areas, the Isaac Newton Telescope ugriz Wide Field Survey permits photometric redshifts to be estimated for galaxies and quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/471/210
- Title:
- eMERGE Survey. I. VLA 5.5GHz sources
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/471/210
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new observations of the GOODS-N field obtained at 5.5GHz with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. The central region of the field was imaged to a median rms of 3{mu}Jy/beam with a resolution of 0.5 arcsec. From a 14-arcmin diameter region, we extracted a sample of 94 radio sources with signal-to-noise ratio greater than 5. Near-IR identifications are available for about ~88 per cent of the radio sources. We used different multiband diagnostics to separate active galactic nuclei (AGNs), both radiatively efficient and inefficient, from star-forming galaxies. From our analysis, we find that about 80 per cent of our radio-selected sample is AGN dominated, with the fraction rising to 92 per cent when considering only the radio sources with redshift >1.5. This large fraction of AGN-dominated radio sources at very low flux densities (the median flux density at 5.5GHz is 42{mu}Jy), where star-forming galaxies are expected to dominate, is somewhat surprising and at odds with other results. Our interpretation is that both the frequency and angular resolution of our radio observations strongly select against radio sources whose brightness distribution is diffuse on a scale of several kpc. Indeed, we find that the median angular sizes of the AGN-dominated sources is around 0.2-0.3arcsec against 0.8 arcsec for star-forming galaxies. This highlights the key role that high frequency radio observations can play in pinpointing AGN-driven radio emission at {mu}Jy levels. This work is part of the eMERGE legacy project.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/365/454
- Title:
- Emission line analysis of HII galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/365/454
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a statistical study of a very large sample of HII galaxies taken from the literature. We focus on the differences in several properties between galaxies that show the auroral line [OIII]{lambda}4363 and those that do not present this feature in their spectra.
