Using photometry from Data Release 10 of the northern footprint of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we detect two new stellar streams with lengths of between $25\arcdeg$ and $50\arcdeg$. The streams, which we designate Hermus and Hyllus, are at distances of between 15 and 23 kpc from the Sun and pass primarily through Hercules and Corona Borealis. Stars in the streams appear to be metal poor, with [Fe/H] $\sim -2.3$, though we cannot rule out metallicities as high as [Fe/H] = -1.2. While Hermus passes within $1\arcdeg$ (in projection) of the globular cluster NGC 6229, a roughly one magnitude difference in distance modulus, combined with no signs of connecting with NGC 6229's Roche lobe, argue against any physical association between the two. Though the two streams almost certainly had different progenitors, similarities in preliminary orbit estimates suggest that those progenitors may themselves have been a product of a single accretion event.
A compact group (CG) is a kind of special galaxy system where the galaxy members are separated at the distances of the order of galaxy size. The strong interaction between the galaxy members makes CGs ideal labs for studying the environmental effects on galaxy evolution. The traditional photometric selection algorithm biases against the CG candidates at low redshifts, while the spectroscopic identification technique is affected by the spectroscopic incompleteness of sample galaxies and typically biases against the high redshift candidates. In this study, we combine these two methods and select…
Automatic detection of peculiar galaxy pairs in Sloan Digital Sky Survey
我们应用计算工具自动检测奇特的星系对。我们首先在SDSS DR 7中检测到约400，000个i星等<18的星系图像，这些图像具有一个以上的点扩散函数，然后应用机器学习算法检测到约26，000个星系图像，这些星系图像的形态与星系合并的形态相似。该数据集是使用新颖性检测算法挖掘的，产生了一个由算法定量确定的500个最奇特星系的简短列表。对这些星系的人工检查表明，虽然列表中的大多数星系对不一定是独特的，但检测到了许多不寻常的星系对。在本文中，我们描述的协议和计算工具用于检测奇特的合并，并提供检测到奇特的星系对的例子。
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) program monitors 849 active galactic nuclei (AGN) both spectroscopically and photometrically. The photometric observations used in this work span over four years and provide an excellent baseline for variability studies of these objects. We present the photometric light curves from 2014 to 2017 obtained by the Steward Observatory's Bok telescope and the CFHT telescope with MegaCam. We provide details on the data acquisition and processing of the data from each telescope, the difference imaging photometry used to produce the light cur…
A Study of Active Galactic Nuclei in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectroscopy
低表面亮度星系（LSBG）中的活动星系核（AGN）在以往的研究中很少受到关注。本文对Impey等人（1996）的APM LSBG样品中的194个LSBG进行了详细的光谱分析，这些样品是由Sloan数字巡天数据发布5（SDSS DR 5）进行光谱观测的。我们精心的光谱分析使我们能够进行，第一次，可靠的光谱分类的基础上，严格的标准发射线诊断图在LSBGs的核活动。恒星形成星系是常见的，在大约52%的LSBG中发现。我们发现，与以前的一些说法相反，含有活动星系核的星系的比例显着低于附近的正常星系的高表面亮度。这与Impey等人（2001年）的研究结果定性一致。这一结果适用于每个形态类型，从Sa到Sc。具有较大的中心恒星速度色散，或较大的物理尺寸的LSBG，往往有更高的机会窝藏AGN。对于三个具有宽发射线的活动星系核，由发射线估算的黑洞质量与已知的正常星系和活动星系核的M- $σ_\ast$关系基本一致。
White dwarfs are the end state of the evolution of more than 97% of all stars, and therefore carry information on the structure and evolution of the Galaxy through their luminosity function and initial-to-final mass relation. Examining the new spectra of all white or blue stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16, we report the spectral classification of 2410 stars, down to our identification cut-off of signal-to-noise ratio equal to three. We newly identify 1404 DAs, 189 DZs, 103 DCs, 12 DBs, and 9 CVs. The remaining objects are a mix of carbon or L stars (dC/L), narrow-lined hydr…
