J/ApJ/795/158ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/158doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17950158CDSMa C.-P.Greene J.E.McConnell N.Janish R.Blakeslee J.P.Thomas J.,Murphy J.D.2017-07-18T15:24:01Z2017-05-31T15:55:41ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiescatalogsgalaxy-kinematicssurveysMassive early-type galaxies represent the modern day remnants of the earliest major star formation episodes in the history of the universe. These galaxies are central to our understanding of the evolution of cosmic structure, stellar populations, and supermassive black holes, but the details of their complex formation histories remain uncertain. To address this situation, we have initiated the MASSIVE Survey, a volume-limited, multi-wavelength, integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) and photometric survey of the structure and dynamics of the ~100 most massive early-type galaxies within a distance of 108 Mpc. This survey probes a stellar mass range M*>~10^11.5^ M_{sun}_ and diverse galaxy environments that have not been systematically studied to date. Our wide-field IFS data cover about two effective radii of individual galaxies, and for a subset of them, we are acquiring additional IFS observations on sub-arcsecond scales with adaptive optics. We are also acquiring deep K-band imaging to trace the extended halos of the galaxies and measure accurate total magnitudes. Dynamical orbit modeling of the combined data will allow us to simultaneously determine the stellar, black hole, and dark matter halo masses. The primary goals of the project are to constrain the black hole scaling relations at high masses, investigate systematically the stellar initial mass function and dark matter distribution in massive galaxies, and probe the late-time assembly of ellipticals through stellar population and kinematical gradients. In this paper, we describe the MASSIVE sample selection, discuss the distinct demographics and structural and environmental properties of the selected galaxies, and provide an overview of our basic observational program, science goals and early survey results.2014ApJ...795..158Mhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/795/158CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toVII/233 : The 2MASS Extended sources (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006)VII/237 : HYPERLEDA. I. Catalog of galaxies (Paturel+, 2003)J/ApJ/655/790 : Groups of galaxies in 2MASS survey (Crook+, 2007)J/ApJ/662/808 : Cusp radius in luminous elliptical galaxies (Lauer+, 2007)J/ApJS/199/26 : The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) (Huchra+, 2012)J/ApJ/762/83 : Massive early-type galaxies in K-band (Chang+, 2013)J/MNRAS/428/1460 : Massive early-type galaxies (Buitrago+, 2013)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/795/158https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/795/158http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/795/158https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/795/158https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/795/158http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/795/158GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/795/158/table3 (116 Candidate MASSIVE Galaxies)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/795/158/table3?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/795/158/table3?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/795/158/table3?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true3.878717.32840.0055555555555555566/140 379 948 975 979 1680 1700 1701 2142 2214 2227 2230 2251 2311 2388 2409 2432 2531 2537 2636 2868 3564 4691 4957 4966 4990 5165 5701 6213 6668 6944 6962 6963 6968 7072 7225 7597 7642 7655 7682 7742 7923 8763 9946 10378 10379 10400 10523 10637 10781 11543 11791 12231 13128 13380 13543 13550 13611 13760 17662 17745 17779 17982 18103 18184 18208 18241 18285 18742 18935 19321 19851 19900 20031 20042 22361 22519 22746 22826 22915 23088 26381 26393 26422 26596 27462 27491 27652 27719 27765 27907 28075 28143 28249 28251 28253 28273 28365 28436 31923 32285 32350 32545 32620 32675https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/795/158?format=asciidefaultJ/ApJ/795/158/table3116 Candidate MASSIVE GalaxiesrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintNameGalaxy namemeta.id;meta.maincharn_Name[a] Note on Name (1)meta.notecharRAJ2000Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainDistDistanceMpcpos.distancefloatn_Dist[*] Note on Dist (2)meta.notecharKmag? Apparent K-band magnitude from 2MASS XSCmagphot.mag;em.IR.KfloatnullableAVForeground galactic extinction in Landolt V band (Schlafly & Finkbeiner 2011ApJ...737..103S) with reddening relation of Fitzpatrick (1999PASP..111...63F)magphys.absorption;em.opt.VfloatKMag? Extinction-corrected "total" absolute K-band magnitude (3)magphys.magAbs;em.IR.KfloatnullablesigmaHL? Central stellar velocity dispersion from HyperLedakm/sphys.veloc.dispersionintnullablesigmaNSA? Central stellar velocity dispersion from the NASA-Sloan Atlaskm/sphys.veloc.dispersionintnullableRad? Effective radius from 2MASS (4)arcsecphys.angSize;srcfloatnullableRadNSA? Optical half-light radius from the NASA-Sloan Atlasarcsecphys.angSize;srcfloatnullableEnvGalaxy environment (5)meta.numberintn_Env[B] Note on Env (6)meta.notecharComAdditional comments (e.g., alternative names, associated clusters)meta.notecharSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar