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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.
J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey
(EDP Sciences, 2019-02-21) Cenarro, A. J.; Moles, M.; Cristóbal Hornillos, D.; Marín Franch, A.; Ederoclite, A.; Varela, J.; López Sanjuan, C.; Hernández Monteagudo, C.; Angulo, R. E.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Viironen, K.; Reis, R. R. R.; Molino, A.; Roig, F.; Vilella-Rojo, G.; Sako, M.; Sánchez Blázquez, P.; Gurung López, S.; Santos, W. A.; Telles, E.; Allende Prieto, C.; Bonatto, C.; Vilchez, J. M.; San Roman, I.; Daflon, S.; Dupke, R. A.; Greisel, N.; Jiménez Teja, Y.; Placco, V. M.; Logroño García, R.; Spinoso, D.; Maícas, N.; Izquierdo Villalba, D.; Abril, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Carvano, J. M.; Bielsa de Toledo, S.; Chies Santos, A. L.; Falcón Barroso, J.; Civera, T.; Gonçalves, D. R.; Hernández Fuertes, J.; Iglesias Marzoa, R.; Whitten, D. D.; Antón, J. L.; Kruuse, K.; Lamadrid, J. L.; Bello, R.; Castillo Ramírez, J.; López Sainz, A.; Moreno Signes, A.; Chueca, S.; Díaz Martín, M. C.; Beers, T. C.; Domínguez Martínez, M.; Rueda Teruel, F.; Garzarán Calderaro, J.; Iñiguez, C.; Tilve, V.; Jiménez Ruiz, J. M.; Lasso Cabrera, N.; Alcaniz, J. S.; López Alegre, G.; Muniesa, D. J.; Lopes de Oliveira, R.; Tamm, A.; Rodríguez Llano, S.; Rueda Teruel, S.; Akras, S.; Alfaro, E. J.; Soriano Laguía, I.; Valdivielso, L.; Beasley, M. A.; Borges Fernandes, M.; Yanes Díaz, A.; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia L.; Lyman, J. D.; Sodré, L.; Carrasco, J. M.; Coelho, P. R. T.; Xavier, H. S.; Costa Duarte, M. V.; Abramo, L. R.; Álvarez Candal, A.; Galarza, A.; Ascaso, B.; Bruzual, G.; González Serrano, J. I.; Gutiérrez Soto, L. A.; Buzzo, M. L.; Cepa, J.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Landim, R. C. G.; Cortesi, A.; De Prá, M.; Lima Neto, G. B.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Favole, G.; Galbany, L.; Orsi, Álvaro A.; García, K.; Nogueira Cavalcante, J. P.; González Delgado, R. M.; Hernández Jiménez, J. A.; Oteo, I.; Kanaan, A.; Laur, J.; Rebassa-Mansergas, A.; Lincandro, J.; Miralda Escudé, J.; Salvador Rusiñol, N.; Sampedro, L.; Morate, D.; Novais, P. M.; Schmidtobreick, L.; Siffert, B. B.; Oncins, M.; Overzier, R. A.; Bonoli, S.; Hurier, G.; Pereira, C. B.; Díaz García, Pedro; Solano, Enrique; Gobierno de Aragón; European Commission (EC); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); 0000-0002-2573-2342; Jailson Souza de Alcaniz. [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-1413]; 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
The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS ) is an ongoing 12-band photometric optical survey, observing thousands of square degrees of the Northern Hemisphere from the dedicated JAST/T80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). The T80Cam is a camera with a field of view of 2 deg2 mounted on a telescope with a diameter of 83 cm, and is equipped with a unique system of filters spanning the entire optical range (3500–10 000 Å). This filter system is a combination of broad-, medium-, and narrow-band filters, optimally designed to extract the rest-frame spectral features (the 3700–4000 Å Balmer break region, Hδ, Ca H+K, the G band, and the Mg b and Ca triplets) that are key to characterizing stellar types and delivering a low-resolution photospectrum for each pixel of the observed sky. With a typical depth of AB ∼21.25 mag per band, this filter set thus allows for an unbiased and accurate characterization of the stellar population in our Galaxy, it provides an unprecedented 2D photospectral information for all resolved galaxies in the local Universe, as well as accurate photo-z estimates (at the δ z/(1 + z)∼0.005–0.03 precision level) for moderately bright (up to r ∼ 20 mag) extragalactic sources. While some narrow-band filters are designed for the study of particular emission features ([O II]/λ3727, Hα/λ6563) up to z < 0.017, they also provide well-defined windows for the analysis of other emission lines at higher redshifts. As a result, J-PLUS has the potential to contribute to a wide range of fields in Astrophysics, both in the nearby Universe (Milky Way structure, globular clusters, 2D IFU-like studies, stellar populations of nearby and moderate-redshift galaxies, clusters of galaxies) and at high redshifts (emission-line galaxies at z ≈ 0.77, 2.2, and 4.4, quasi-stellar objects, etc.). With this paper, we release the first ∼1000 deg2 of J-PLUS data, containing about 4.3 million stars and 3.0 million galaxies at r < 21 mag. With a goal of 8500 deg2 for the total J-PLUS footprint, these numbers are expected to rise to about 35 million stars and 24 million galaxies by the end of the survey.
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.
