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J-PLUS: Tools to identify compact planetary nebulae in the Javalambre and southern photometric local Universe surveys
(EDP Sciences, 2020-01-21) Gutiérrez Soto, L. A.; Gonçalves, D. R.; Akras, S.; Cortesi, A.; López Sanjuan, C.; Guerrero, Martín A.; Daflon, S.; Borges Fernandes, M.; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia L.; Ederoclite, A.; Sodré, L.; Pereira, C. B.; Kanaan, A.; Werle, A.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Alcaniz, J. S.; Angulo, R. E.; Cenarro, A. J.; Cristóbal Hornillos, D.; Dupke, R. A.; Hernández Monteagudo, C.; Marín Franch, A.; Moles, M.; Varela, J.; Ribeiro, T.; Schoenell, W.; Álvarez Candal, A.; Galbany, L.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Logroño García, R.; Sobral, D.; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); European Research Council (ERC); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Guitiérrez Soto, L. A. [0000-0002-9891-8017]
Context. From the approximately 3500 planetary nebulae (PNe) discovered in our Galaxy, only 14 are known to be members of the Galactic halo. Nevertheless, a systematic search for halo PNe has never been performed.
Aims. In this study, we present new photometric diagnostic tools to identify compact PNe in the Galactic halo by making use of the novel 12-filter system projects, Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) and Southern-Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS).
Methods. We reconstructed the Isaac Newton Telescope Photometric H alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane diagnostic diagram and propose four new ones using (i) the J-PLUS and S-PLUS synthetic photometry for a grid of photo-ionisation models of halo PNe, (ii) several observed halo PNe, as well as (iii) a number of other emission-line objects that resemble PNe. All colour-colour diagnostic diagrams are validated using two known halo PNe observed by J-PLUS during the scientific verification phase and the first data release (DR1) of S-PLUS and the DR1 of J-PLUS.
Results. By applying our criteria to the DR1s (similar to 1190 deg(2)), we identified one PN candidate. However, optical follow-up spectroscopy proved it to be a HII region belonging to the UGC 5272 galaxy. Here, we also discuss the PN and two HII galaxies recovered by these selection criteria. Finally, the cross-matching with the most updated PNe catalogue (HASH) helped us to highlight the potential of these surveys, since we recover all the known PNe in the observed area.
Conclusions. The tools here proposed to identify PNe and separate them from their emission-line contaminants proved to be very efficient thanks to the combination of many colours, even when applied - like in the present work - to an automatic photometric search that is limited to compact PNe.
J-PLUS: Discovery and characterisation of ultracool dwarfs using Virtual Observatory tools
(EDP Sciences, 2019-06-27) Martín, E. L.; Caballero, J. A.; Rodrigo, C.; Angulo, R. E.; Alcaniz, J. S.; Borges Fernandes, M.; Cenarro, A. J.; Cristóbal Hornillos, D.; Dupke, R. A.; Alfaro, E. J.; Ederoclite, A.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Hernández Jiménez, J. A.; Hernández Monteagudo, C.; Lopes de Oliveira, R.; López Sanjuan, C.; Marín Franch, A.; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia L.; Moles, M.; Orsi, Álvaro A.; Schmidtobreick, L.; Sobral, D.; Sodré, L.; Varela, J.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Solano, Enrique; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT); European Research Council (ERC); Caballero, J. A. [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7349-1387]; Jailson Souza de Alcaniz. [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-1413]; Alfaro, Emilio J. [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-7035]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
Context. Ultracool dwarfs are objects with spectral types equal to or later than M7. Most of them have been discovered using wide-field imaging surveys. The Virtual Observatory has proven to be very useful for efficiently exploiting these astronomical resources.
Aims. We aim to validate a Virtual Observatory methodology designed to discover and characterise ultracool dwarfs in the J-PLUS photometric survey. J-PLUS is a multiband survey carried out with the wide-angle T80Cam optical camera mounted on the 0.83 m telescope JAST/T80 in the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre. We make use of the Internal Data Release covering 528 deg2.
Methods. We complemented J-PLUS photometry with other catalogues in the optical and infrared using VOSA, a Virtual Observatory tool that estimates physical parameters from the spectral energy distribution fitting to collections of theoretical models. Objects identified as ultracool dwarfs were distinguished from background M giants and highly reddened stars using parallaxes and proper motions from Gaia DR2.
Results. We identify 559 ultracool dwarfs, ranging from i = 16.2 mag to i = 22.4 mag, of which 187 are candidate ultracool dwarfs not previously reported in the literature. This represents an increase in the number of known ultracool dwarfs of about 50% in the region of the sky we studied, particularly at the faint end of our sensitivity, which is interesting as reference for future wide and deep surveys such as Euclid. Three candidates are interesting targets for exoplanet surveys because of their proximity (distances less than 40 pc). We also analysed the kinematics of ultracool dwarfs in our catalogue and found evidence that it is consistent with a Galactic thin-disc population, except for six objects that might be members of the thick disc.
Conclusion. The results we obtained validate the proposed methodology, which will be used in future J-PLUS and J-PAS releases. Considering the region of the sky covered by the Internal Data Release used in this work, we estimate that 3000–3500 new ultracool dwarfs will be discovered at the end of the J-PLUS project.
Stellar populations of galaxies in the ALHAMBRA survey up to z ∼ 1 IV. Properties of quiescent galaxies on the stellar mass–size plane
(EDP Sciences, 2019-11-13) Cenarro, A. J.; López Sanjuan, C.; Peralta de Arriba, L.; Ferreras, I.; Cerviño, M.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Del Olmo, A.; Perea, J.; Díaz García, Pedro; Gobierno de Aragón; Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST); Academia Sinica; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN); Generalitat Valenciana; Junta de Andalucía; Generalitat de Catalunya; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Cerviño, M. [0000-0001-8009-231X]; De Arribas, L. P. [0000-0002-3084-084X]; López Sanjuan, C. [0000-0002-5743-3160]; Márquez Pérez, I. [0000-0003-2629-1945]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
Aims. We perform a comprehensive study of the stellar population properties (formation epoch, age, metallicity, and extinction) of quiescent galaxies as a function of size and stellar mass to constrain the physical mechanism governing the stellar mass assembly and the likely evolutive scenarios that explain their growth in size.
Methods. After selecting all the quiescent galaxies from the ALHAMBRA survey by the dust-corrected stellar mass–colour diagram, we built a shared sample of ∼850 quiescent galaxies with reliable measurements of sizes from the HST. This sample is complete in stellar mass and luminosity, I ≤ 23. The stellar population properties were retrieved using the fitting code for spectral energy distributions called MUlti-Filter FITting for stellar population diagnostics (MUFFIT) with various sets of composite stellar population models. Age, formation epoch, metallicity, and extinction were studied on the stellar mass–size plane as function of size through a Monte Carlo approach. This accounted for uncertainties and degeneracy effects amongst stellar population properties.
Results. The stellar population properties of quiescent galaxies and their stellar mass and size since z ∼ 1 are correlated. At fixed stellar mass, the more compact the quiescent galaxy, the older and richer in metals it is (1 Gyr and 0.1 dex, respectively). In addition, more compact galaxies may present slight lower extinctions than their more extended counterparts at the same stellar mass (< 0.1 mag). By means of studying constant regions of stellar population properties across the stellar mass–size plane, we obtained empirical relations to constrain the physical mechanism that governs the stellar mass assembly of the form M⋆ ∝ rcα, where α amounts to 0.50–0.55 ± 0.09. There are indications that support the idea that the velocity dispersion is tightly correlated with the stellar content of galaxies. The mechanisms driving the evolution of stellar populations can therefore be partly linked to the dynamical properties of galaxies, along with their gravitational potential.
The GALANTE photometric survey of the northern Galactic plane: project description and pipeline
(Oxford Academics: Oxford University Press, 2021-07-02) Maíz Apellániz, J.; Alfaro, E. J.; Barbá, R. H.; Holgado, G.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Varela, J.; Ederoclite, A.; Lorenzo Gutiérrez, A.; García Lario, P.; García Escudero, H.; García, M.; Coelho, P. R. T.; Centros de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE ANDALUCIA (IAA), SEV-2017-0709; European Space Agency (ESA); Gobierno de Aragón; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Coelho, P. R. T. [0000-0003-1846-4826]
The GALANTE optical photometric survey is observing the northern Galactic plane and some adjacent regions using seven narrow- and intermediate-filters, covering a total of 1618 deg2. The survey has been designed with multiple exposure times and at least two different air masses per field to maximize its photometric dynamic range, comparable to that of Gaia, and ensure the accuracy of its photometric calibration. The goal is to reach at least 1 per cent accuracy and precision in the seven bands for all stars brighter than AB magnitude 17 while detecting fainter stars with lower values of the signal-to-noise ratio. The main purposes of GALANTE are the identification and study of extinguished O+B+WR stars, the derivation of their extinction characteristics, and the cataloguing of F and G stars in the solar neighbourhood. Its data will be also used for a variety of other stellar studies and to generate a high-resolution continuum-free map of the Hα emission in the Galactic plane. We describe the techniques and the pipeline that are being used to process the data, including the basis of an innovative calibration system based on Gaia DR2 and 2MASS photometry.
J-PLUS: photometric calibration of large-area multi-filter surveys with stellar and white dwarf loci
(EDP Sciences, 2019-11-05) López Sanjuan, C.; Varela, J.; Cristóbal Hornillos, D.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Carrasco, J. M.; Tremblay, P. E.; Whitten, D. D.; Placco, V. M.; Marín Franch, A.; Cenarro, A. J.; Ederoclite, A.; Alfaro, Emilio J.; Coelho, P. R. T.; Civera, T.; Hernández Fuertes, J.; Jiménez Esteban, F. M.; Jiménez Teja, Y.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Sobral, D.; Vílchez, J. M.; Alcaniz, J. S.; Angulo, R. E.; Dupke, R. A.; Hernández Monteagudo, C.; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia L.; Moles, M.; Sodré, L.; Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Carrasco Martínez, J. M. [0000-0002-3029-5853]; Sobral, D. [0000-0001-8823-4845]; Mendes de Oliveira, C. [0000-0002-5267-9065]; Vilchez, J. M. [0000-0001-7299-8373]; Jiménez Esteban, F. M. [0000-0002-6985-9476]; Placco, V. [0000-0003-4479-1265]; López Sanjuan, C. [0000-0002-5743-3160]; Coelho, P. R. T. [0000-0003-1846-4826]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos (ICCUB), MDM-2014-0369
Aims. We present the photometric calibration of the 12 optical passbands observed by the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS).
Methods. The proposed calibration method has four steps: (i) definition of a high-quality set of calibration stars using Gaia information and available 3D dust maps; (ii) anchoring of the J-PLUS gri passbands to the Pan-STARRS photometric solution, accounting for the variation in the calibration with the position of the sources on the CCD; (iii) homogenization of the photometry in the other nine J-PLUS filters using the dust de-reddened instrumental stellar locus in (𝒳 − r) versus (g − i) colours, where 𝒳 is the filter to calibrate. The zero point variation along the CCD in these filters was estimated with the distance to the stellar locus. Finally, (iv) the absolute colour calibration was obtained with the white dwarf locus. We performed a joint Bayesian modelling of 11 J-PLUS colour–colour diagrams using the theoretical white dwarf locus as reference. This provides the needed offsets to transform instrumental magnitudes to calibrated magnitudes outside the atmosphere.
Results. The uncertainty of the J-PLUS photometric calibration, estimated from duplicated objects observed in adjacent pointings and accounting for the absolute colour and flux calibration errors, are ∼19 mmag in u, J0378, and J0395; ∼11 mmag in J0410 and J0430; and ∼8 mmag in g, J0515, r, J0660, i, J0861, and z.
Conclusions. We present an optimized calibration method for the large-area multi-filter J-PLUS project, reaching 1–2% accuracy within an area of 1022 square degrees without the need for long observing calibration campaigns or constant atmospheric monitoring. The proposed method will be adapted for the photometric calibration of J-PAS, that will observe several thousand square degrees with 56 narrow optical filters.
