J/ApJ/771/88 Mid-IR Tully-Fisher relation with WISE & 2MTF (Lagattuta+, 2013)
WISE TF: a mid-infrared, 3.4µm extension of the Tully-Fisher relation using
WISE photometry.
Lagattuta D.J., Mould J.R., Staveley-Smith L., Hong T., Springob C.M.,
Masters K.L., Koribalski B.S., Jones D.H.
<Astrophys. J., 771, 88 (2013)>
=2013ApJ...771...88L 2013ApJ...771...88L
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, IR ; H I data ; Photometry, infrared ; Morphology
Keywords: distance scale; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: spiral;
infrared: galaxies
Abstract:
We present a mid-infrared Tully-Fisher (TF) relation using photometry
from the 3.4µm W1 band of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
(WISE) satellite. The WISE TF relation is formed from 568 galaxies
taken from the all-sky 2MASS Tully-Fisher (2MTF) galaxy catalog,
spanning a range of environments including field, group, and cluster
galaxies. This constitutes the largest mid-infrared TF relation
constructed to date. After applying a number of corrections to galaxy
magnitudes and line widths, we measure a master TF relation given by
Mcorr=-22.24-10.05[log(Wcorr)-2.5], with an average dispersion of
σWISE=0.686mag. There is some tension between WISE TF and a
preliminary 3.6µm relation, which has a shallower slope and almost
no intrinsic dispersion. However, our results agree well with a more
recent relation constructed from a large sample of cluster galaxies.
We additionally compare WISE TF to the near-infrared 2MTF template
relations, finding a good agreement between the TF parameters and
total dispersions of WISE TF and the 2MTF K-band template. This fact,
coupled with typical galaxy colors of (K-W1)∼0, suggests that these
two bands are tracing similar stellar populations, including the
older, centrally-located stars in the galactic bulge which can (for
galaxies with a prominent bulge) dominate the light profile.
Description:
We select the initial Tully-Fisher (TF) candidate galaxies by
cross-matching magnitudes from the WISE W1 (3.4um) all-sky data
release catalog (II/311) with rotational velocity (HI line width)
measurements from the 2MASS Tully-Fisher (2MTF; Masters et al.
2008AJ....135.1738M 2008AJ....135.1738M) all-sky galaxy catalog (Hong et al. 2013,
Cat. J/MNRAS/432/1178).
File Summary:
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 125 568 WISE Tully-Fisher data
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See also:
II/311 : WISE All-Sky Data Release (Cutri+ 2012)
VII/233 : The 2MASS Extended sources (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006)
VIII/77 : HI spectral properties of galaxies (Springob+, 2005)
VII/238 : HYPERLEDA. II. Homogenized HI data (Paturel+, 2003)
VII/75 : IR photometry and 21cm data for nearby galaxies (Aaronson+, 1982)
J/AJ/147/134 : Tully-Fisher relation for S4G galaxies (Zaritsky+, 2014)
J/ApJ/765/94 : Calibration of the mid-IR Tully-Fisher relation (Sorce+, 2013)
J/MNRAS/432/1178 : 2MTF. HI observations of 303 southern galaxies (Hong+, 2013)
J/AJ/144/49 : Quasars from SDSS-DR7, WISE and UKIDSS surveys (Wu+, 2012)
J/ApJS/199/26 : The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) (Huchra+, 2012)
J/ApJS/190/147 : Mid-IR galaxy morphology from S4G (Buta+, 2010)
J/ApJ/716/530 : Mid-IR variability from the SDWFS (Kozlowski+, 2010)
J/ApJ/713/970 : Low-resolution SED templates for galaxies (Assef+, 2010)
J/ApJ/708/584 : SEXSI Spitzer catalog (Eckart+, 2010)
J/ApJS/172/599 : SFI++ II. A new I-band Tully-Fisher catalog (Springob+, 2007)
J/A+A/465/71 : 21cm observations of 452 galaxies (Theureau+, 2007)
J/A+A/430/373 : HI lines in 586 galaxies (Theureau+, 2005)
J/ApJ/533/744 : Calibration of the Tully-Fischer relation (Tully+, 2000)
J/A+AS/130/333 : 2112 new 21-cm line measurements (Theureau+ 1998)
J/AJ/113/22 : Tully-Fisher Relation. I. (Giovanelli+ 1997)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 34 F10.6 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
36- 45 F10.6 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
47- 50 F4.1 deg i [45/90] Inclination angle
52 I1 --- T de Vaucouleurs T-Type galaxy morphology
54- 58 I5 km/s vobs [303/13289] Observed velocity
60- 64 I5 km/s vH [242/13517] Hubble-flow recessional velocity
66- 71 F6.3 mag W1mag [5.2/11.4] Observed, apparent WISE W1 band
magnitude (3.35um)
73- 79 F7.3 mag DM [-35.7/-26.9] Distance modulus µH (3)
81- 85 F5.3 mag mInt [0.001/0.3] Internal extinction magnitude
correction
87- 91 F5.3 mag A3.6 [0.02/0.3] Galactic extinction magnitude
correction
93- 98 F6.3 mag DelM [-3.6/2.2] Morphology-based magnitude
correction (1)
100-106 F7.3 mag W1Mag [-27.6/-16.1] Final, fully corrected absolute
WISE W1 (3.35um) band magnitude
108-112 F5.3 mag e_W1Mag [0.2/0.3] Error in W1Mag
114-116 I3 km/s WIC [72/924] Observed HI line width;
instrument-corrected
118-120 I3 km/s Wcorr [92/986] Fully-corrected line width
122-123 I2 km/s e_Wcorr [3/58] Error in Wcorr
125 A1 --- Clip [NY] The σ-clipping flag used (2)
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Note (1): Normalizing all galaxies to type Sc (T=5).
Note (2): Code as follows:
N = galaxy is included in the final TF fit;
Y = galaxy is removed prior to the final fit.
Note (3): here µH = -5log(vH/100h) - 25
(the opposite of the distance modulus)
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 21-Jan-2015