- 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.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/421/3622
- Title:
- Candidate Be stars in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/421/3622
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Mennickent et al. (2002A&A...393..887M) and Sabogal et al. (2005, Cat. J/MNRAS/361/1055) identified a large number of classical Be (CBe) candidates (~3500) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) based on their photometric variability using the OGLE II data base (Udalski et al., 1998, Cat. J/AcA/48/147; 2000, Cat. J/AcA/50/307). They classified these stars into four different groups based on the appearance of their variability. In order to refine and understand the nature of this large number of stars, we studied the infrared properties of the sample and the spectroscopic properties of a subsample. We cross-correlated the optical sample with the IRSF-MCPS catalogue to obtain the J, H, Ks magnitudes of all the four types of stars (~2500) in the LMC and SMC. Spectra of 120 stars belonging to the types 1, 2 and 3 were analysed to study their spectral properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/816/L4
- Title:
- Candidate BHB stars in Ophiuchus stream
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/816/L4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Ophiuchus stellar stream presents a dynamical puzzle: its old stellar populations (~12Gyr) cannot be reconciled with (1) its orbit in a simple model for the Milky Way potential and (2) its short angular extent, both of which imply that the observed stream formed within the last <1Gyr. Recent theoretical work has shown that streams on chaotic orbits may abruptly fan out near their apparent ends; stars in these fans are dispersed in both position and velocity and may be difficult to associate with the stream. Here we present the first evidence of such stream-fanning in the Ophiuchus stream, traced by four blue horizontal branch stars beyond the apparent end of the stream. These stars stand out from the background by their high velocities (v_los_>230km/s) against ~40 other stars: their velocities are comparable to those of the stream, but would be exceptional if they were unrelated halo stars. Their positions and velocities are, however, inconsistent with simple extrapolation of the observed cold, high-density portion of the stream. These observations suggest that stream-fanning may be a real, observable effect and, therefore, that Ophiuchus may be on a chaotic orbit. They also show that the Ophiuchus stream is more extended and hence dynamically older than previously thought, easing the stellar population versus dynamical age tension.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/790/164
- Title:
- Candidate bulge WDs in the SWEEPS field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/790/164
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Hubble Space Telescope data of the low-reddening Sagittarius window in the Galactic bulge. The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search field (~3'x3'), together with three more Advanced Camera for Surveys and eight Wide-Field Camera 3 fields, were observed in the F606W and F814W filters, approximately every two weeks for 2 yr, with the principal aim of detecting a hidden population of isolated black holes and neutron stars through astrometric microlensing. Proper motions were measured with an accuracy of ~0.1 mas/yr (~4 km/s) at F606W ~25.5 mag, and better than ~0.5 mas/yr (~20 km/s) at F606W ~28 mag, in both axes. Proper-motion measurements allowed us to separate disk and bulge stars and obtain a clean bulge color-magnitude diagram. We then identified for the first time a white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence in the Galactic bulge, together with a dozen candidate extreme horizontal branch stars. The comparison between theory and observations shows that a substantial fraction of the WDs (~30%) are systematically redder than the cooling tracks for CO-core H-rich and He-rich envelope WDs. This evidence would suggest the presence of a significant number of low-mass WDs and WD-main-sequence binaries in the bulge. This hypothesis is further supported by the finding of two dwarf novae in outburst, two short-period (P <~ 1 day) ellipsoidal variables, and a few candidate cataclysmic variables in the same field.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A177
- Title:
- Candidate Cluster Members with Deep learning
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A177
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The next generation of extensive and data-intensive surveys are bound to produce a vast amount of data, which can be efficiently dealt with using machine-learning and deep-learning methods to explore possible correlations within the multi-dimensional parameter space. We explore the classification capabilities of convolution neural networks (CNNs) to identify galaxy cluster members (CLMs) by using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of fifteen galaxy clusters at redshift 0.19<~z<~0.60, observed as part of the CLASH and Hubble Frontier Field programmes. We used extensive spectroscopic information, based on the CLASH-VLT VIMOS programme combined with MUSE observations, to define the knowledge base. We performed various tests to quantify how well CNNs can identify cluster members on ht basis of imaging information only. Furthermore, we investigated the CNN capability to predict source memberships outside the training coverage, in particular, by identifying CLMs at the faint end of the magnitude distributions. We find that the CNNs achieve a purity-completeness rate >~90%, demonstrating stable behaviour across the luminosity and colour of cluster galaxies, along with a remarkable generalisation capability with respect to cluster redshifts. We concluded that if extensive spectroscopic information is available as a training base, the proposed approach is a valid alternative to catalogue-based methods because it has the advantage of avoiding photometric measurements, which are particularly challenging and time-consuming in crowded cluster cores. As a byproduct, we identified 372 photometric cluster members, with mag(F814)<25, to complete the sample of 812 spectroscopic members in four galaxy clusters RX J2248-4431, MACS J0416-2403, MACS J1206-0847 and MACS J1149+2223. When this technique is applied to the data that are expected to become available from forthcoming surveys, it will be an efficient tool for a variety of studies requiring CLM selection, such as galaxy number densities, luminosity functions, and lensing mass reconstruction.
- 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/ApJ/795/L26
- Title:
- Candidate eruptive young stars in Lynds 1340
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/795/L26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the discovery of three candidate eruptive young stars, found during our comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the young stellar population of the dark cloud L1340. These stars are as follows. (1) IRAS 02224+7227 (2MASS 02270555+7241167, HH 487S) exhibited FUor-like spectrum in our low-resolution optical spectra. The available photometric data restrict its luminosity to 23L_{sun}_<L_bol_<59L_{sun}_. (2) 2MASS 02263797+7304575, identified as a classical T Tauri star during our H{alpha} survey, exhibited an EXor-type brightening in 2005 November at the time of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey observations of the region. (3) 2MASSJ02325605+7246055, a low-mass embedded young star, associated with a fan-shaped infrared nebula, underwent an outburst between the DSS 1 and DSS 2 surveys, leading to the appearance of a faint optical nebula. Our [SII] and H{alpha} images, as well as the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera 4.5{mu}m images, revealed Herbig-Haro objects associated with this star. Our results suggest that amplitudes and timescales of outbursts do not necessarily correlate with the evolutionary stage of the stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/67/461
- Title:
- Candidate field horizontal-branch stars catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/67/461
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Coordinates and brightness estimates are presented for 4408 candidate field horizontal-branch stars selected using an objective-prism, interference-filter survey technique. The candidates lie primarily in the southern Galactic hemisphere, and are distributed in color over the range B-V from -0.2 to 0.40. Previous spectroscopic observation of a subset of these candidates indicates that roughly 85 percent of the catalog objects are bona fide members of the field blue horizontal branch. The remaining candidates include, in order of frequency, stars with main-sequence gravity which are likely to be a mix of metal-deficient turnoff stars and field blue stragglers, metallic line (Am) stars, A stars of near-solar metallicity, and high-luminosity or binary stars.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/cgmw
- Title:
- Candidate Galaxies Behind the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- CG
- Date:
- 09 May 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog gathers the searches for galaxies of apparent size greater than 0.1 mm on film (6.7" in angular size) lieing behind the Milky Way from photographic surveys in the near-infrared. The four volumes (CGMW1, CGMW2, CGMW3, and CGMW4) cover the galactic longitude ranges from -7 to +43 degrees, and from 210 to 250 degrees. The two volumes, CGMW1 and CGMW2, giving about 7000 galaxies behind the Milky Way between l = 210 degrees and 250 degrees, represent a systematic search for galaxies by means of 32 film copies of the UK Schmidt Southern Infrared Atlas on the Milky Way covering about 900 square degrees. In the search galaxies with apparent sizes greater than 0.1mm on film (6.7 arcsec in size) were detected by visual inspection. The material and procedure of search are described as well as the detectability of galaxies in paper I and paper II appended before Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of the catalog, respectively, which have been published in Publ. Astron. Soc Japan, Vol. 42 (1990) and Vol. 43 (1991). The parameters of catalogued galaxies are also explained in paper I. Cross-identifications with other catalogs are also given. The third volume CGMW3 lists about 5300 galaxy candidates having sizes larger than 0.1 arcminutes that were found in a search of Schmidt atlases covering a Milky Way region of about 800 square degrees around l = 8 to 43 degrees, and b = -17 to +17 degrees. This surveyed region is located between the northern Local void and the Ophiuchus void. The fourth volume CGMW4 lists about 7150 galaxies and galaxy candidates having sizes larger than 0.1 arcminutes that were found in a search of Schmidt atlases covering a Milky Way region of about 260 square degrees around l = -7 to +16 degrees, and b = -19 to -1 degrees, i.e., a field in Sagittarius in the Galactic Center region. This database was created by the HEASARC in October 1999 based on a machine-readable version that was obtained from the CDS Data Center. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .