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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 569, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322954
关键词
galaxies: structure; galaxies: interactions; surveys
资金
- People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme [PITN-GA-2011-289313]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy Office of Science
- University of Arizona
- Brazilian Participation Group
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- University of Cambridge
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Florida
- French Participation Group
- German Participation Group
- Harvard University
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
- Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- New Mexico State University
- New York University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- Spanish Participation Group
- University of Tokyo
- University of Utah
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Yale University
- US Government [NAG W-2166]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M003035/1, ST/M000095/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/M000095/1, ST/M003035/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Context. The Spitzer Survey for Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S(4)G) and its more recently approved extension will lead to a set of 3.6 and 4.5 mu m images for 2829 galaxies, which can be used to study many different aspects of the structure and evolution of local galaxies. Aims. We have collected and re-reduced optical images of 1768 of the survey galaxies, aiming to make these available to the community as ready-to-use FITS files to be used in conjunction with the mid-IR images. Our sky-subtraction and mosaicking procedures were optimised for imaging large galaxies. We also produce false-colour images of some of these galaxies to be used for illustrative and public outreach purposes. Methods. We collected and re-processed images in five bands from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for 1657 galaxies, which are publicly released with the publication of this paper. We observed, in only the g-band, an additional 111 S(4)G galaxies in the northern hemisphere with the 2.5m Liverpool Telescope, so that optical imaging is released for 1768 galaxies, or for 62% of the S(4)G sample. We visually checked all images. We noted interactions and close companions in our optical data set and in the S(4)G sample, confirming them by determining the galaxies' radial velocities and magnitudes in the NASA-IPAC Extragalactic Database. Results. We find that 17% of the S(4)G galaxies (21% of those brighter than 13.5mag) have a close companion (within a radius of five times the diameter of the sample galaxy, a recession velocity within +/- 200 km s(-1) and not more than 3 mag fainter) and that around 5% of the bright part of the S(4)G sample show significant morphological evidence of an ongoing interaction. This confirms and further supports previous estimates of these fractions. Conclusions. The over 8000 science images described in this paper, the re-processed Sloan Digital Sky Survey ones, the new Liverpool Telescope images, the set of 29 false-colour pictures, and the catalogue of companion and interacting galaxies, are all publicly released for general use for scientific, illustrative, or public outreach purposes.
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