J/ApJ/832/90ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/832/90doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18320090CDSWen Z.Z.Zheng X.Z.2019-10-10T12:23:17Z2017-03-27T16:16:50ZCDS support team

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

cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiesphotometryhst-photometryredshiftedinfrared-photometryTidal tails are created in major mergers involving disk galaxies. It remains to be explored how the tidal tails trace the assembly history of massive galaxies. We identify a sample of 461 merging galaxies with long tidal tails, from 35076 galaxies mass-complete at M*>=10^9.5^M_{sun}_ and 0.2<=z<=1, based on Hubble Space Telescope/ACS F814W imaging data and public catalogs of the COSMOS field. The long tails refer to those with length equal to or greater than the diameter of their host galaxies. The mergers with tidal tails are selected using our novel A_O_-D_O_ technique for strong asymmetric features, along with visual examination. Our results show that the fraction of tidal-tailed mergers evolves mildly with redshift, as ~(1+z)^2.0+/-0.4^, and becomes relatively higher in less-massive galaxies, out to z=1. With a timescale of 0.5Gyr for the tidal-tailed mergers, we obtain that the occurrence rate of such mergers follows 0.01+/-0.007(1+z)^2.3+/-1.4^Gyr^-1^, and corresponds to ~0.3 events since z=1, as well as roughly one-third of the total budget of major mergers from the literature. For disk-involved major mergers, nearly half of them have undergone a phase with long tidal tails.2016ApJ...832...90Whttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/832/90CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toB/hst : HST Archived Exposures Catalog (STScI, 2007)VII/246 : GOODS Morphological Catalog (Bundy+, 2005)VI/76 : Simulation Atlas of Tidal Features in Galaxies (Howard+ 1993)J/ApJ/805/99 : Star cluster ages in tidal tails of 3 gal. (Mulia+, 2015)J/AJ/148/137 : Merging galaxies in COSMOS to z~1 (Lackner+, 2014)J/ApJS/206/8 : COSMOS/UltraVISTA Ks-selected catalogs v4.1 (Muzzin+, 2013)J/MNRAS/428/1460 : Massive early-type galaxies (Buitrago+, 2013)J/A+A/556/A55 : Multi-color photom. of star-forming galaxies (Ilbert+, 2013)J/A+A/544/A156 : UltraVISTA Catalogue Release DR1 (McCracken+, 2012)J/ApJ/706/1364 : SINS survey of high-redshift gal. (Forster Schreiber+, 2009)J/ApJ/697/1369 : GOODS Ks-selected multiwavelength compilations (Bundy+, 2009)J/ApJS/184/218 : The zCOSMOS 10k-bright spectroscopic sample (Lilly+, 2009)J/ApJ/663/734 : Interacting Galaxies in GEMS and GOODS (Elmegreen+, 2007)J/AJ/130/2647 : Tidal features of 126 nearby red galaxies (van Dokkum+, 2005)J/AJ/128/163 : Galaxy morphological classification (Lotz+, 2004)J/ApJS/147/1 : Classification of nearby galaxies (Conselice+, 2003)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/832/90https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/832/90http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/832/90https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/832/90https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/832/90http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/832/90GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/832/90/table1 (Catalog of merging galaxies with tidal tails)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/832/90/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/832/90/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/832/90/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true150.409679171.640972220.0055555555555555565/6814 6/27245 272477.952274030004205e-20 2.565265938961496e-19https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/832/90?format=asciiInfrareddefaultJ/ApJ/832/90/table1Catalog of merging galaxies with tidal tailsSimbadNameSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.idcharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintID[218/262523] UltraVISTA identifier from Muzzin+, 2013, J/ApJS/206/8; <[MMS2013] NNNNNN> in Simbadmeta.id;meta.mainintRAJ2000[9/10] Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000[1/2] Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainz[0.2/1] Redshiftsrc.redshiftfloatlogM[9.5/11.5] Log stellar masslog(solMass)phys.massfloatImag[16.9/24] The HST/ACS F814W band AB magnitudemagphot.mag;em.opt.IfloatKsmag[15.8/22.4] The K_s_ band AB magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.KfloatU-V[0.3/2.2] Rest frame U-V color indexmagphot.color;em.opt.U;em.opt.VfloatV-J[0.1/1.8] Rest frame V-J color indexmagphot.color;em.opt.V;em.IR.JfloatDo[0.2/6.4] Centroid deviation parameter (1)stat.fit.paramfloatAo[0.5/1.8] Outer asymmetry parameter (2)stat.fit.paramfloatzCOSMOSDisplay data from Lilly+, 2009, J/ApJS/184/218, within 0.5"meta.ref.urlintnullableUVISTADisplay data from McCracken+, 2012, J/A+A/544/A156 and Muzzin+, 2013, J/ApJS/206/8 within 0.5"meta.ref.urlchar