scholarly journals Red Misfits in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: properties of star-forming red galaxies

2018 ◽  
Vol 476 (4) ◽  
pp. 5284-5302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fraser A Evans ◽  
Laura C Parker ◽  
Ian D Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Red Galaxies

scholarly journals Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16

2021 ◽  
Vol 504 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Abhijeet Anand ◽  
Dylan Nelson ◽  
Guinevere Kauffmann
Keyword(s):  
Formation Rate ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Gas Absorption ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Optical Continuum ◽  
Circumgalactic Medium ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies ◽  
Red Galaxies

ABSTRACT In order to study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies we develop an automated pipeline to estimate the optical continuum of quasars and detect intervening metal absorption line systems with a matched kernel convolution technique and adaptive S/N criteria. We process ∼ one million quasars in the latest Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compile a large sample of ∼ 160 000 Mg ii absorbers, together with ∼ 70 000 Fe ii systems, in the redshift range 0.35 < zabs < 2.3. Combining these with the SDSS DR16 spectroscopy of ∼1.1 million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and ∼200 000 emission line galaxies (ELGs), we investigate the nature of cold gas absorption at 0.5 < z < 1. These large samples allow us to characterize the scale dependence of Mg ii with greater accuracy than in previous work. We find that there is a strong enhancement of Mg ii absorption within ∼50 kpc of ELGs, and the covering fraction within 0.5rvir of ELGs is 2–5 times higher than for LRGs. Beyond 50 kpc, there is a sharp decline in Mg ii for both kinds of galaxies, indicating a transition to the regime where the CGM is tightly linked with the dark matter halo. The Mg ii-covering fraction correlates strongly with stellar mass for LRGs, but weakly for ELGs, where covering fractions increase with star formation rate. Our analysis implies that cool circumgalactic gas has a different physical origin for star-forming versus quiescent galaxies.

scholarly journals The Bimodal Color Distribution of Galaxies at Redshift of z=0-0.15 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Hareth Saad Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Photometric Data ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efficient Tool ◽  
Color Distribution ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Blue Galaxies ◽  
Red Galaxies ◽  
Two Peaks

This work aims to use the color distribution of galaxies to differentiate between blue and red galaxies. The photometric data of 300000 galaxies at redshift of z = 0 – 0.15 were collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three redshift ranges were considered for the purpose of this work: 100000 galaxies at z = 0-0.05, 100000 galaxies at z = 0.05-0.1 and 100000 galaxies at z = 0.1-0.15. The color distributions for all redshift ranges were determined. The results have clearly shown that the color distributions for all redshift ranges are bimodal. One of the two peaks corresponds to the blue galaxies (young and star-forming galaxies), whereas the other peak corresponds to the red galaxies (old and non-star-forming galaxies). Therefore, the color distribution of galaxies can be considered as an efficient tool to distinguish between blue and red galaxies.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectroscopic Lens Search. I. Discovery of Intermediate-Redshift Star-forming Galaxies behind Foreground Luminous Red Galaxies

2004 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 1860-1882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam S. Bolton ◽  
Scott Burles ◽  
David J. Schlegel ◽  
Daniel J. Eisenstein ◽  
J. Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Luminous Red Galaxies ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Red Galaxies ◽  
Intermediate Redshift

scholarly journals The weak imprint of environment on the stellar populations of galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (4) ◽  
pp. 4469-4490 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Trussler ◽  
Roberto Maiolino ◽  
Claudia Maraston ◽  
Yingjie Peng ◽  
Daniel Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Satellite Galaxies ◽  
Projected Distance ◽  
Environmental Dependence

ABSTRACT We investigate the environmental dependence of the stellar populations of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Echoing earlier works, we find that satellites are both more metal-rich (<0.1 dex) and older (<2 Gyr) than centrals of the same stellar mass. However, after separating star-forming, green valley, and passive galaxies, we find that the true environmental dependence of both stellar metallicity (<0.03 dex) and age (<0.5 Gyr) is in fact much weaker. We show that the strong environmental effects found when galaxies are not differentiated result from a combination of selection effects brought about by the environmental dependence of the quenched fraction of galaxies, and thus we strongly advocate for the separation of star-forming, green valley, and passive galaxies when the environmental dependence of galaxy properties are investigated. We also study further environmental trends separately for both central and satellite galaxies. We find that star-forming galaxies show no environmental effects, neither for centrals nor for satellites. In contrast, the stellar metallicities of passive and green valley satellites increase weakly (<0.05 and <0.08 dex, respectively) with increasing halo mass, increasing local overdensity and decreasing projected distance from their central; this effect is interpreted in terms of moderate environmental starvation (‘strangulation’) contributing to the quenching of satellite galaxies. Finally, we find a unique feature in the stellar mass–stellar metallicity relation for passive centrals, where galaxies in more massive haloes have larger stellar mass (∼0.1 dex) at constant stellar metallicity; this effect is interpreted in terms of dry merging of passive central galaxies and/or progenitor bias.

scholarly journals Searching for Mg ii absorbers in and around galaxy clusters

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (3) ◽  
pp. 4309-4319
Author(s):  
Jong Chul Lee ◽  
Ho Seong Hwang ◽  
Hyunmi Song
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Clusters ◽  
Detection Rate ◽  
Massive Star ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Cluster Galaxies ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Quasar Spectra ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
The Galaxy

ABSTRACT To study environmental effects on the circumgalactic medium (CGM), we use the samples of redMaPPer galaxy clusters, background quasars, and cluster galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). With ∼82 000 quasar spectra, we detect 197 Mg ii absorbers in and around the clusters. The detection rate per quasar is 2.7 ± 0.7 times higher inside the clusters than outside the clusters, indicating that Mg ii absorbers are relatively abundant in clusters. However, when considering the galaxy number density, the absorber-to-galaxy ratio is rather low inside the clusters. If we assume that Mg ii absorbers are mainly contributed by the CGM of massive star-forming galaxies, a typical halo size of cluster galaxies is smaller than that of field galaxies by 30 ± 10 per cent. This finding supports that galaxy haloes can be truncated by interaction with the host cluster.

scholarly journals Mg II λ2797, λ2803 emission in a large sample of low-metallicity star-forming galaxies from SDSS DR14

2019 ◽  
Vol 624 ◽  
pp. A21 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. Guseva ◽  
Y. I. Izotov ◽  
K. J. Fricke ◽  
C. Henkel
Keyword(s):  
Noble Gas ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Magnesium Depletion ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Solar Metallicity ◽  
Low Metallicity ◽  
Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

A large sample of Mg II emitting star-forming galaxies with low metallicity [O/H] = log(O/H) – log(O/H)⊙ between –0.2 and –1.2 dex is constructed from Data Release 14 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We selected 4189 galaxies with Mg II λ2797, λ2803 emission lines in the redshift range z ∼ 0.3–1.0 or 35% of the total Sloan Digital Sky Survey star-forming sample with redshift z ≥ 0.3. We study the dependence of the magnesium-to-oxygen and magnesium-to-neon abundance ratios on metallicity. Extrapolating this dependence to [Mg/Ne] = 0 and to solar metallicity we derive a magnesium depletion of [Mg/Ne] ≃ –0.4 (at solar metallicity). We prefer neon instead of oxygen to evaluate the magnesium depletion in the interstellar medium because neon is a noble gas and is not incorporated into dust, contrary to oxygen. Thus, we find that more massive and more metal abundant galaxies have higher magnesium depletion. The global parameters of our sample, such as the mass of the stellar population and star formation rate, are compared with previously obtained results from the literature. These results confirm that Mg II emission has a nebular origin. Our data for interstellar magnesium-to-oxygen abundance ratios relative to the solar value are in good agreement with similar measurements made for Galactic stars, for giant stars in the Milky Way satellite dwarf galaxies, and with low-metallicity damped Lyman-alpha systems.

scholarly journals The optically selected 1.4-GHz quasar luminosity function below 1 mJy

2020 ◽  
Vol 492 (4) ◽  
pp. 5297-5312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliab Malefahlo ◽  
Mario G Santos ◽  
Matt J Jarvis ◽  
Sarah V White ◽  
Jonathan T L Zwart
Keyword(s):  
Luminosity Function ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Detection Threshold ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Radio Luminosity ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Radio Luminosity Function

ABSTRACT We present the radio luminosity function (RLF) of optically selected quasars below 1 mJy, constructed by applying a Bayesian-fitting stacking technique to objects well below the nominal radio flux density limit. We test the technique using simulated data, confirming that we can reconstruct the RLF over three orders of magnitude below the typical 5σ detection threshold. We apply our method to 1.4-GHz flux densities from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) survey, extracted at the positions of optical quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey over seven redshift bins up to z = 2.15, and measure the RLF down to two orders of magnitude below the FIRST detection threshold. In the lowest redshift bin (0.2 < z < 0.45), we find that our measured RLF agrees well with deeper data from the literature. The RLF for the radio-loud quasars flattens below $\log _{10}[L_{1.4}/{\rm W\, Hz}^{-1}] \approx 25.5$ and becomes steeper again below $\log _{10}[L_{1.4}/{\rm W\, Hz}^{-1}] \approx 24.8$, where radio-quiet quasars start to emerge. The radio luminosity where radio-quiet quasars emerge coincides with the luminosity where star-forming galaxies are expected to start dominating the radio source counts. This implies that there could be a significant contribution from star formation in the host galaxies, but additional data are required to investigate this further. The higher redshift bins show a similar behaviour to the lowest z bin, implying that the same physical process may be responsible.

scholarly journals A method for classification of red, blue, and green galaxies using fuzzy set theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (1) ◽  
pp. L31-L35
Author(s):  
Biswajit Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Fuzzy Set Theory ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Blue Galaxies ◽  
Boundary Sets ◽  
Red Galaxies

ABSTRACT Red and blue galaxies are traditionally classified using some specific cuts in colour or other galaxy properties, which are supported by empirical arguments. The vagueness associated with such cuts are likely to introduce a significant contamination in these samples. Fuzzy sets are vague boundary sets that can efficiently capture the classification uncertainty in the absence of any precise boundary. We propose a method for classification of galaxies according to their colours using fuzzy set theory. We use data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to construct a fuzzy set for red galaxies with its members having different degrees of ‘redness’. We show that the fuzzy sets for the blue and green galaxies can be obtained from it using different fuzzy operations. We also explore the possibility of using fuzzy relation to study the relationship between different galaxy properties and discuss its strengths and limitations.

scholarly journals Redshift measurement through star formation

2019 ◽  
Vol 629 ◽  
pp. A7
Author(s):  
Mikkel O. Lindholmer ◽  
Kevin A. Pimbblet
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galaxy Clusters ◽  
Main Sequence ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Galaxy Population

In this work we use the property that, on average, star formation rate increases with redshift for objects with the same mass – the so called galaxy main sequence – to measure the redshift of galaxy clusters. We use the fact that the general galaxy population forms both a quenched and a star-forming sequence, and we locate these ridges in the SFR–M⋆ plane with galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in discrete redshift bins. We fitted the evolution of the galaxy main sequence with redshift using a new method and then subsequently apply our method to a suite of X-ray selected galaxy clusters in an attempt to create a new distance measurement to clusters based on their galaxy main sequence. We demonstrate that although it is possible in several galaxy clusters to measure the main sequences, the derived distance and redshift from our galaxy main sequence fitting technique has an accuracy of σz = ±0.017 ⋅ (z + 1) and is only accurate up to z ≈ 0.2.

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