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1701. SHARDS: GOODS-N spectrophotometry survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/762/46
Title:
SHARDS: GOODS-N spectrophotometry survey
Short Name:
J/ApJ/762/46
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the Survey for High-z Absorption Red and Dead Sources (SHARDS), an ESO/GTC Large Program carried out using the OSIRIS instrument on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). SHARDS is an ultra-deep optical spectro-photometric survey of the GOODS-N field covering 130arcmin2 at wavelengths between 500 and 950nm with 24 contiguous medium-band filters (providing a spectral resolution R~50). The data reach an AB magnitude of 26.5 (at least at a 3{sigma} level) with sub-arcsec seeing in all bands. SHARDS' main goal is to obtain accurate physical properties of intermediate- and high-z galaxies using well-sampled optical spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with sufficient spectral resolution to measure absorption and emission features, whose analysis will provide reliable stellar population and active galactic nucleus (AGN) parameters. Among the different populations of high-z galaxies, SHARDS' principal targets are massive quiescent galaxies at z>1, whose existence is one of the major challenges facing current hierarchical models of galaxy formation. In this paper, we outline the observational strategy and include a detailed discussion of the special reduction and calibration procedures which should be applied to the GTC/OSIRIS data. An assessment of the SHARDS data quality is also performed. We present science demonstration results on the detection and study of emission-line galaxies (star-forming objects and AGNs) at z=0-5. We also analyze the SEDs for a sample of 27 quiescent massive galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the range 1.0<z<~1.4.
1702. SHARDS S0 and E/S0 with anti-truncated disc
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/604/A119
Title:
SHARDS S0 and E/S0 with anti-truncated disc
Short Name:
J/A+A/604/A119
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The controversy about the origin of the structure of early-type S0-E/S0 galaxies may be due to the difficulty of comparing surface brightness profiles with different depths, photometric corrections and point spread function (PSF) effects (which are almost always ignored). We aim to quantify the properties of Type-III (anti-truncated) discs in a sample of S0 galaxies at 0.2<z<0.6. In this paper, we present the sample selection and describe in detail the methods to robustly trace the structure in their outskirts and correct for PSF effects. We have selected and classified a sample of 150 quiescent galaxies at 0.2<z<0.6 in the GOODS-N field. We performed a quantitative structural analysis of 44 S0-E/S0 galaxies. We have corrected their surface brightness profiles for PSF distortions and analysed the biases in the structural and photometric parameters when the PSF correction is not applied. Additionally, we have developed Elbow, an automatic statistical method to determine whether a possible break is significant - or not - and its type. We have made this method publicly available. We find 14 anti-truncated S0-E/S0 galaxies in the range 0.2<z<0.6 (~30% of the final sample). This fraction is similar to the those reported in the local Universe. In our sample, ~25% of the Type-III breaks observed in PSF-uncorrected profiles are artifacts, and their profiles turn into a Type I after PSF correction. PSF effects also soften Type-II profiles. We find that the profiles of Type-I S0 and E/S0 galaxies of our sample are compatible with the inner profiles of the Type-III, in contrast with the outer profiles. We have obtained the first robust and reliable sample of 14 anti-truncated S0-E/S0 galaxies beyond the local Universe, in the range 0.2<z<0.6. PSF effects significantly affect the shape of the surface brightness profiles in galaxy discs even in the case of the narrow PSF of HST/ACS images, so future studies on the subject should make an effort to correct them.
1703. SHELS: complete galaxy redshift survey for R<=20.6
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/213/35
Title:
SHELS: complete galaxy redshift survey for R<=20.6
Short Name:
J/ApJS/213/35
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The SHELS (Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey) is a complete redshift survey covering two well-separated fields (F1 and F2) of the Deep Lens Survey to a limiting R=20.6. Here we describe the redshift survey of the F2 field (RA_J2000_=09h19m32.4s and DE_J2000_=+30{deg}00'00"). The survey includes 16294 new redshifts measured with the Hectospec on the MMT. The resulting survey of the 4deg^2^ F2 field is 95% complete to R=20.6, currently the densest survey to this magnitude limit. The median survey redshift is z=0.3; the survey provides a view of structure in the range 0.1<~z<~0.6. An animation displays the large-scale structure in the survey region. We provide a redshift, spectral index D_n_4000, and stellar mass for each galaxy in the survey. We also provide a metallicity for each galaxy in the range 0.2<z<0.38. To demonstrate potential applications of the survey, we examine the behavior of the index D_n_4000 as a function of galaxy luminosity, stellar mass, and redshift. The known evolutionary and stellar mass dependent properties of the galaxy population are cleanly evident in the data. We also show that the mass-metallicity relation previously determined from these data is robust to the analysis approach.
1704. SHELS: redshift survey of the F1 DLS field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/11
Title:
SHELS: redshift survey of the F1 DLS field
Short Name:
J/ApJS/224/11
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey (SHELS) is a complete redshift survey covering two well-separated fields (F1 and F2) of the Deep Lens Survey (DLS). Both fields are more than 94% complete to a Galactic extinction corrected R_0_=20.2. Here, we describe the redshift survey of the F1 field centered at RA=00:53:25.3 and DEC=12:33:55 (J2000); like F2, the F1 field covers ~4deg^2^. The redshift survey of the F1 field includes 9426 new galaxy redshifts measured with Hectospec on the MMT (published here). As a guide to future uses of the combined survey, we compare the mass metallicity relation and the distributions of D_n_4000 as a function of stellar mass and redshift for the two fields. The mass-metallicity relations differ by an insignificant 1.6{sigma}. For galaxies in the stellar mass range 10^10^-10^11^M_{sun}_, the increase in the star-forming fraction with redshift is remarkably similar in the two fields. The seemingly surprising 31%-38% difference in the overall galaxy counts in F1 and F2 is probably consistent with the expected cosmic variance given the subtleties of the relative systematics in the two surveys. We also review the DLS cluster detections in the two fields: poorer photometric data for F1 precluded secure detection of the single massive cluster at z=0.35 that we find in SHELS. Taken together, the two fields include 16055 redshifts for galaxies with R_0_<=20.2 and 20754 redshifts for galaxies with R<=20.6. These dense surveys in two well-separated fields provide a basis for future investigations of galaxy properties and large-scale structure.
1705. SHINING I. Survey observational trends
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/861/94
Title:
SHINING I. Survey observational trends
Short Name:
J/ApJ/861/94
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use the Herschel/PACS spectrometer to study the global and spatially resolved far-infrared (FIR) fine-structure line emission in a sample of 52 galaxies that constitute the SHINING survey. These galaxies include star-forming, active-galactic nuclei (AGNs), and luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). We find an increasing number of galaxies (and kiloparsec-size regions within galaxies) with low line-to-FIR continuum ratios as a function of increasing FIR luminosity (LFIR), dust infrared color, LFIR to molecular gas mass ratio (LFIR/Mmol), and FIR surface brightness ({Sigma}FIR). The correlations between the [CII]/FIR or [OI]/FIR ratios with {Sigma}FIR are remarkably tight (~0.3dex scatter over almost four orders of magnitude in {Sigma}FIR). We observe that galaxies with L_FIR_/M_mol_>~80L_{sun}_/M_{sun}_ and {Sigma}FIR>~10^11^L_{sun}_/kpc^2^ tend to have weak fine-structure line-to-FIR continuum ratios, and that LIRGs with infrared sizes >~1kpc have line-to-FIR ratios comparable to those observed in typical star-forming galaxies. We analyze the physical mechanisms driving these trends in Paper II. The combined analysis of the [CII], [NII]122{mu}m, and [OIII]88{mu}m lines reveals that the fraction of the [CII] line emission that arises from neutral gas increases from 60% to 90% in the most active star-forming regions and that the emission originating in the ionized gas is associated with low-ionization, diffuse gas rather than with dense gas in HII regions. Finally, we report the global and spatially resolved line fluxes of the SHINING galaxies to enable the comparison and planning of future local and high-z studies.
1706. Short-period var. stars OmegaWhite survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/454/507
Title:
Short-period var. stars OmegaWhite survey
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/454/507
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the goals, strategy and first results of the OmegaWhite survey: a wide-field high-cadence g-band synoptic survey which aims to unveil the Galactic population of short-period variable stars (with periods <80min), including ultracompact binary star systems and stellar pulsators. The ultimate goal of OmegaWhite is to cover 400deg^2^ along the Galactic plane reaching a depth of g=21.5mag (10{sigma}), using OmegaCam on the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). The fields are selected to overlap with surveys such as the Galactic Bulge Survey and the VST Photometric H{alpha} Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane for multiband colour information. Each field is observed using 38 exposures of 39s each, with a median cadence of ~2.7min for a total duration of two hours. Within an initial 26deg^2^, we have extracted the light curves of 1.6 million stars, and have identified 613 variable candidates which satisfy our selection criteria. Furthermore, we present the light curves and statistical properties of 20 sources which have the highest likelihood of being variable stars. One of these candidates exhibits the colours and light-curve properties typically associated with ultracompact AM CVn binaries, although its spectrum exhibits weak Balmer absorption lines and is thus not likely to be such a binary system. We also present follow-up spectroscopy of five other variable candidates, which identifies them as likely low-amplitude {delta} Sct pulsating stars.
1707. SIGGMA: inner galaxy data release
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/240/14
Title:
SIGGMA: inner galaxy data release
Short Name:
J/ApJS/240/14
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Survey of Ionized Gas of the Galaxy, Made with the Arecibo telescope (SIGGMA) provides a fully sampled view of the radio recombination line (RRL) emission from the portion of the Galactic plane visible with Arecibo. Observations use the Arecibo L-band Feed Array, which has a FWHM beam size of 3.4'. Twelve hydrogen RRLs from H163{alpha} to H174{alpha} are located within the instantaneous bandpass from 1225MHz to 1525MHz. We provide here cubes of average ("stacked") RRL emission for the inner Galaxy region 32{deg}<=l<=70{deg}, |b|<=1.5{deg}, with an angular resolution of 6'. The stacked RRL rms at 5.1km/s velocity resolution is ~0.65mJy/beam, making this the most sensitive large-scale fully sampled RRL survey extant. We use SIGGMA data to catalog 319 RRL detections in the direction of 244 known HII regions, and 108 new detections in the direction of 79 HII region candidates. We identify 11 carbon RRL emission regions, all of which are spatially coincident with known HII regions. We detect RRL emission in the direction of 14 of the 32 supernova remnants (SNRs) found in the survey area. This RRL emission frequently has the same morphology as the SNRs. The RRL velocities give kinematic distances in agreement with those found in the literature, indicating that RRLs may provide an additional tool to constrain distances to SNRs. Finally, we analyze the two bright star-forming complexes: W49 and W51. We discuss the possible origins of the RRL emission in directions of SNRs W49B and W51C.
1708. 3{sigma} hard sample of XMDS survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/467/73
Title:
3{sigma} hard sample of XMDS survey
Short Name:
J/A+A/467/73
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Our goal is to probe the populations of obscured and unobscured AGN investigating their optical-IR and X-ray properties as a function of X-ray flux, luminosity and redshift within a hard X-ray selected sample with wide multiwavelength coverage. We selected a sample of 136 X-ray sources detected at a significance of >=3{sigma} in the 2-10keV band (F_2-10_>~10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s) in a ~1deg^2^ area in the XMM Medium Deep Survey (XMDS, Cat. <J/A+A/439/413>). The XMDS area is covered with optical photometry from the VVDS and CFHTLS surveys and infrared Spitzer data from the SWIRE survey. Based on the X-ray luminosity and X-ray to optical ratio, 132 sources are likely AGN, of which 122 have unambiguous optical - IR identification. The observed optical and IR spectral energy distributions of all identified sources are fitted with AGN/galaxy templates in order to classify them and compute photometric redshifts. X-ray spectral analysis is performed individually for sources with a sufficient number of counts and using a stacking technique for subsamples of sources at different flux levels. Hardness ratios are used to estimate X-ray absorption in individual weak sources.
1709. SIGMA: Keck spectra of z~2 gal. in CANDELS fields
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/830/14
Title:
SIGMA: Keck spectra of z~2 gal. in CANDELS fields
Short Name:
J/ApJ/830/14
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present results from a survey of the internal kinematics of 49 star-forming galaxies at z~2 in the CANDELS fields with the Keck/MOSFIRE spectrograph, Survey in the near-Infrared of Galaxies with Multiple position Angles (SIGMA). Kinematics (rotation velocity V_rot_ and gas velocity dispersion {sigma}_g_) are measured from nebular emission lines which trace the hot ionized gas surrounding star-forming regions. We find that by z~2, massive star-forming galaxies (logM_*_/M_{sun}_>~10.2) have assembled primitive disks: their kinematics are dominated by rotation, they are consistent with a marginally stable disk model, and they form a Tully-Fisher relation. These massive galaxies have values of V_rot_/{sigma}_g_ that are factors of 2-5 lower than local well-ordered galaxies at similar masses. Such results are consistent with findings by other studies. We find that low-mass galaxies (logM_*_/M_{sun}_<~10.2) at this epoch are still in the early stages of disk assembly: their kinematics are often dominated by gas velocity dispersion and they fall from the Tully-Fisher relation to significantly low values of V_rot_. This "kinematic downsizing" implies that the process(es) responsible for disrupting disks at z~2 have a stronger effect and/or are more active in low-mass systems. In conclusion, we find that the period of rapid stellar mass growth at z~2 is coincident with the nascent assembly of low-mass disks and the assembly and settling of high-mass disks.
1710. SINS survey of high-redshift galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/706/1364
Title:
SINS survey of high-redshift galaxies
Short Name:
J/ApJ/706/1364
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the Spectroscopic Imaging survey in the near-infrared (near-IR) with SINFONI (SINS) of high-redshift galaxies. With 80 objects observed and 63 detected in at least one rest-frame optical nebular emission line, mainly H{alpha}, SINS represents the largest survey of spatially resolved gas kinematics, morphologies, and physical properties of star-forming galaxies at z~1-3. We describe the selection of the targets, the observations, and the data reduction. We then focus on the "SINS H{alpha} sample," consisting of 62 rest-UV/optically selected sources at 1.3<z<2.6 for which we targeted primarily the H{alpha} and [NII] emission lines. Only ~30% of this sample had previous near-IR spectroscopic observations. The galaxies were drawn from various imaging surveys with different photometric criteria; as a whole, the SINS H{alpha} sample covers a reasonable representation of massive M_*_>~10^10^M_{sun}_ star-forming galaxies at z~1.5-2.5, with some bias toward bluer systems compared to pure K-selected samples due to the requirement of secure optical redshift. The H{alpha} morphologies tend to be irregular and/or clumpy. About one-third of the SINS H{alpha} sample galaxies are rotation-dominated yet turbulent disks, another one-third comprises compact and velocity dispersion-dominated objects, and the remaining galaxies are clear interacting/merging systems; the fraction of rotation-dominated systems increases among the more massive part of the sample.

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