GALEX BCG galaxies sample properties Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Boissier S.
  2. Cucciati O.
  3. Boselli A.
  4. Mei S.
  5. Ferrarese L.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

At low redshift, early-type galaxies often exhibit a rising flux with decreasing wavelength in the 1000-2500{AA} range, called "UV upturn". The origin of this phenomenon is debated, and its evolution with redshift is poorly constrained. The observed GALEX FUV-NUV color can be used to probe the UV upturn up to redshift about 0.5. We aim to provide constraints on the existence of the UV upturn up to redshift ~0.4 in Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) galaxies located behind the Virgo cluster, using data from the GUViCS survey. We estimate the FUV and NUV observed magnitudes for BCGs from the maxBCG catalog in the GUViCS fields. We increase the number of non local galaxies identified as BCGs with GALEX photometry from a few tens of galaxies to 166 (64 when restricting this sample to relatively small error-bars). We also estimate a central color within a 20-arcsec aperture. By using the r band luminosity from the maxBCG catalog, we can separate blue FUV-NUV due to recent star formation and candidate upturn cases. We use Lick indices to verify their similitude to redshift 0 upturn cases. We clearly detect a population of blue FUV-NUV BCGs in the redshift range 0.10-0.35, vastly improving the existing constraints at these epochs by increasing the number of galaxies studied, and by exploring a redshift range with no previous data (beyond 0.2), spanning 1 more Gyr in the past. These galaxies bring new constrains that can help distinguish between assumptions concerning the stellar populations causing the UV upturn phenomenon. The existence of a large number of UV upturns around redshift 0.25 favors the existence of a binary channel among the sources proposed in the literature.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. galaxies
  3. photometry
  4. ultraviolet-photometry
  5. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018A&A...611A..42B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/611/A42
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/611/A42
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36110042

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/611/A42
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/611/A42
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/611/A42
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/611/A42/table2?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/611/A42/table2?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/611/A42/table2?

History

2018-03-20T08:16:37Z
Resource record created
2018-03-20T08:16:37Z
Created
2020-01-13T12:19:57Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr