J/ApJ/795/158 The MASSIVE survey : 116 candidate galaxies (Ma+, 2014)
The MASSIVE survey.
I. A volume-limited integral-field spectroscopic study of the most massive
early-type galaxies within 108 mpc.
Ma C.-P., Greene J.E., McConnell N., Janish R., Blakeslee J.P., Thomas J.,
Murphy J.D.
<Astrophys. J., 795, 158 (2014)>
=2014ApJ...795..158M 2014ApJ...795..158M (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Velocity dispersion ; Surveys
Keywords: dark matter - galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD -
galaxies: evolution - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics -
galaxies: stellar content - galaxies: structure
Abstract:
Massive 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*≳1011.5 M☉ 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.
Description:
Within the survey volume, our goal is to select galaxies above a given
total stellar mass. Since selection based on K-band luminosities is
close to a stellar mass selection, particularly for these red
galaxies, we use the near-infrared K-band magnitude from the Extended
Source Catalog (XSC; Jarrett et al. 2000AJ....119.2498J 2000AJ....119.2498J) of the 2MASS
(Skrutskie et al. 2006AJ....131.1163S 2006AJ....131.1163S, Cat. VII/233). This catalog
contains photometric measurements in the J, H, and K bands of ∼1.6x106
objects with K≤13.5 mag. Peculiar velocities add uncertainties to
the determination of distances and absolute magnitudes, and
consequently the selection of our sample. We use the 2MASS Galaxy
Redshift Survey (2MRS; Huchra et al. 2012, J/ApJS/199/26) and the group
catalog based on 2MRS (Crook et al. 2007, J/ApJ/655/790) to correct
the radial velocity-derived distances. Finally, we restrict our sample
to galaxies classified as elliptical or S0 in the HyperLeda database7
(Paturel et al. 2003A&A...412...45P 2003A&A...412...45P, Cat. VII/237).
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table3.dat 90 116 116 Candidate MASSIVE Galaxies
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See also:
VII/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)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- Name Galaxy name
11 A1 --- n_Name [a] Note on Name (1)
13- 20 F8.4 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
22- 28 F7.4 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
30- 34 F5.1 Mpc Dist Distance
35 A1 --- n_Dist [*] Note on Dist (2)
37- 40 F4.2 mag Kmag ? Apparent K-band magnitude from 2MASS XSC
42- 46 F5.3 mag AV Foreground galactic extinction in Landolt V
band (Schlafly & Finkbeiner
2011ApJ...737..103S 2011ApJ...737..103S) with reddening relation
of Fitzpatrick (1999PASP..111...63F 1999PASP..111...63F)
48- 53 F6.2 mag KMag ? Extinction-corrected "total" absolute K-band
magnitude (3)
55- 57 I3 km/s sigmaHL ? Central stellar velocity dispersion from
HyperLeda
59- 61 I3 km/s sigmaNSA ? Central stellar velocity dispersion from
the NASA-Sloan Atlas
63- 66 F4.1 arcsec Rad ? Effective radius from 2MASS (4)
68- 71 F4.1 arcsec RadNSA ? Optical half-light radius from
the NASA-Sloan Atlas
73- 75 I3 --- Env Galaxy environment (5)
77 A1 --- n_Env [B] Note on Env (6)
79- 90 A12 --- Com Additional comments (e.g., alternative names,
associated clusters)
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Note (1): Note as follows:
a = NGC 545 is a close companion of NGC 547. It is not listed in 2MASS but is
designated the BCG of A194 with MV=-22.98 in Lauer et al.
(2007, J/ApJ/662/808).
Note (2): Note as follows:
* = Indicates SBF distances.
Others are from group-corrected flow velocities, as described in Section 2.2.
Note (3): Derived from distance (Dist), apparent magnitude (Kmag), and
foreground extinction (AV), using Equation (1) :
MK=K-5log10D-25-0.11AV.
Note (4): Defined in Equation (3) :
Re=median(jreff,hreff,kreff).sqrt(sup_ba).
Note (5): Number of group members in the 2MASS HDC group catalog
(Crook et al. 2007, J/ApJ/655/790).
Note (6): Note as follows:
B = Indicates brightest group galaxy.
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
References:
Ma et al. Paper I 2014ApJ...795..158M 2014ApJ...795..158M This catalog
Greene et al. Paper II 2015ApJ...807...11G 2015ApJ...807...11G
Davis et al. Paper III 2016MNRAS.455..214D 2016MNRAS.455..214D
Goulding et al. Paper IV 2016ApJ...826..167G 2016ApJ...826..167G
Veale et al. Paper V 2017MNRAS.464..356V 2017MNRAS.464..356V
Pandya et al. Paper VI 2017ApJ...837...40P 2017ApJ...837...40P Cat. J/ApJ/837/40
(End) Prepared by Tiphaine Pouvreau [CDS] 24-May-2017