We present the results of a Fourier photometric decomposition of a representative sample of ~100 isolated Sb-Sc CIG/AMIGA galaxies. It complements the analysis presented in Durbala et al. 2008 for the same sample by allowing a description of the spiral structure morphology. We estimate dynamical measures like torque strength for bar and spiral, and also the total nonaxisymmetric torque. We explore the interplay between the spiral and bar components of galaxies. Both the length and the contrast of the Fourier bars decrease along the morphological sequence Sb-Sbc-Sc, with bars in earlier types being longer and showing higher contrast. Bars of Sb galaxies are ~3x longer than bars in Sc types. We find that longer bars are not necessarily stronger (as quantified by the torque Q_{b} measure), but longer bars show a higher contrast, in very good agreement with theoretical predictions. Our data suggests that bar and spiral components are rather independent in the sense that the torque strengths of the two components are not correlated. The total strength Q_{g} is a very reliable tracer of the bar strength Q_{b}, the two quantities showing a very tight linear correlation. Comparison with a similar sample of disk galaxies extracted from the OSUBGS indicates that the isolated CIG/AMIGA galaxies host significantly longer Fourier bars and possibly show a different distribution of spiral torque Q_{s}. The Fourier analysis also revealed a potential case of counterwinding spiral structure (NGC 5768), which deserves further kinematic study. We find that m = 2 (i.e., dominating two-armed pattern) is the most common spiral arm multiplicity among the sample of Sb-Sc CIG/AMIGA galaxies (~40%), m = 2&3 and m = 1&2 are found in ~28% and ~13% of isolated galaxies, respectively.
The size of the HI disk across different environments: isolated, compact groups, clusters, and pairs
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)(安达卢西亚天体物理研究所);Chalmers University of Technology(查尔姆斯理工大学);ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy(荷兰射电天文研究所);Caltech(加州理工学院);INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari(意大利国家天体物理研究所卡利亚里天文台)
Multi-Wavelength Properties of Barred Galaxies in the Local Universe: Environment and evolution across the Hubble sequence
我们调查可能的环境和形态的趋势,在$z\sim0$酒吧部分使用两个精心挑选的样品代表的低密度环境(孤立的星系从AMIGA样本)和密集的环境(在室女座星系团的星系)。星系的恒星质量范围从$10^8$到$10^{12}$ M $_{\odot}$,并使用高分辨率近红外(H波段)成像和光学\texttt{rgb}图像进行视觉分类。我们发现,在盘状星系的酒吧分数是独立的环境表明,酒吧的形成可能发生之前的星系团的形成。早型螺线($Sa-Sb$)中的棒分数为$\sim$ 50%,是晚型螺线($Sbc-Sm$)的两倍。早期型螺旋中较高的杆分数可能是由于它们的凸起的显著部分是通过杆的屈曲不稳定性形成的伪凸起。也就是说,哈勃序列的很大一部分是由于长期的过程,使盘状星系从晚期移动到早期类型。有一个暗示,更高的酒吧分数与更高的恒星质量,这可能是由于酒吧的不稳定性的敏感性,作为重子分数增加晕较大的质量。总体而言,$S0$人口有一个较低的酒吧比$Sa-Sb$星系和他们的酒吧分数下降显着减少恒星质量。这支持了$S0s$是通过进入星系团环境的盘状星系的转变而形成的观点。引力骚扰使恒星盘变厚,消除了螺旋图案,最终消除了酒吧-这一过程在较低的星系质量中更有效。
Star Formation Properties of Isolated Blue Compact Galaxies
我们报告了对位于大宇宙空洞方向的一个非常孤立的蓝色致密星系(BCGs)样本的H $α$观测,以了解它们的恒星星族组成、当前恒星形成(SF)性质和恒星形成历史(SFHs)。我们的观测结果与斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的光度数据和2微米全天巡天(2 MASS)的近红外数据相结合,只要这些数据可用。将合并的数据集与Bruzual和Charlot(2003 a,2003 b)的进化合成模型的预测进行比较。目前的恒星形成率(SFR)确定的H $α$测量,和简化的恒星形成历史来自宽带和H $α$测光和与模型的比较。我们发现,恒星形成率范围在0.1- 1.0 M $_{\odot}$ yr $^{-1}$之间,中位数为0.6 M $_{\odot}$ yr $^{-1}$。观测到的星系颜色更好地解释了一个连续的SF过程与最近的瞬时SF爆发相结合,而不是由几个瞬时爆发的组合,如前所述。我们比较了我们的结果的样本星系的恒星形成率的样本的矮星系的室女星系团,发现BCGs有显着更强的SFR。BCGs遵循H $α$发射和在室女星系团和其他BCGs中发现的星光之间的相关性。
Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most promising cosmological probes to constrain dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of gravity at cosmic scales. Intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies have been recognized as one of the most serious systematic effects facing gravitational lensing. Such alignments must be isolated and removed to obtain a pure lensing signal. Furthermore, the alignments are related to the processes of galaxy formation, so their extracted signal can help in understanding such formation processes and improving their theoretical modeling. We report in this Letter the f…
Around $10^5$ strongly lensed galaxies are expected to be discovered with Euclid and the LSST. Utilising these large samples to study the inner structure of lens galaxies requires source redshifts, to turn lens models into mass measurements. However, obtaining spectroscopic source redshifts for large lens samples is prohibitive with the capacity of spectroscopic facilities. Alternatively, we study the possibility of obtaining source photometric redshifts (photo-zs) for large lens samples. Our strategy consists of deblending the source and lens light by simultaneously modelling the lens and bac…
Using photometric galaxies from the HSC survey, we measure the stellar mass density profiles for satellite galaxies as a function of the projected distance, $r_p$, to isolated central galaxies (ICGs) selected from SDSS/DR7 spectroscopic galaxies at $z\sim0.1$. By stacking HSC images, we also measure the projected stellar mass density profiles for ICGs and their stellar halos. The total mass distributions are further measured from HSC weak lensing signals. ICGs dominate within $\sim$0.15 times the halo virial radius ($0.15R_{200}$). The stellar mass versus total mass fractions drop with the inc…