The Ogle et al. Galaxy Catalog (OGC) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ogle P.M.
  2. Lanz L.
  3. Appleton P.N.
  4. Helou G.
  5. Mazzarella J.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a catalog of the 1525 most optically luminous galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with r-band luminosity L_r_>8L* and redshift z<0.3, including 84 super spirals, 15 super lenticulars, 14 super post-merger galaxies, and 1400 giant ellipticals. With mass in stars of 10^11.3^-10^12^M_{sun}_, super spirals and lenticulars are the most massive disk galaxies currently known. The specific star formation rates of super spirals place them on or below the star-forming main sequence. They must have formed stars at a high rate throughout their history in order to grow their massive, gigantic stellar disks and maintain their blue u-r integrated colors. Their disks are red on the inside and blue on the outside, consistent with inside-out growth. They tend to have small bulge-to-total (B/T) r-band luminosity ratios, characteristic of disk building via minor mergers and cold accretion. A large percentage of super disk galaxies (41%) have double nuclei, double disks, or other signatures of ongoing mergers. Most (72%) are found in moderate- to low-density environments, while the rest are found at the outskirts of clusters. It is likely that super spirals survive in these environments because they continue to accrete cold gas and experience only minor mergers at late times, by virtue of their enormous masses and angular momenta. We suggest that super post-mergers are the product of super spiral major mergers and may be the precursors of some giant elliptical galaxies found in low-density environments.

Keywords
  1. Galaxies
  2. Catalogs
  3. Optical astronomy
  4. Sloan photometry
  5. Galaxy classification systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJS..243...14O
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22430014

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History

2020-02-06T16:17:19Z
Resource record created
2020-02-06T16:17:19Z
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