J/ApJ/776/71 ZENS: galaxies in groups along the cosmic web. I. (Carollo+, 2013) ================================================================================ The Zurich Environmental Study of galaxies in groups along the cosmic web. I. Which environment affects galaxy evolution? Carollo C.M., Cibinel A., Lilly S.J., Miniati F., Norberg P., Silverman J.D., van Gorkom J., Cameron E., Finoguenov A., Peng Y., Pipino A., Rudick C.S. =2013ApJ...776...71C ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, photometry ; Morphology ; Clusters, galaxy Keywords: galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: groups: general galaxies: star formation; galaxies: stellar content galaxies: structure Abstract: The Zurich Environmental Study (ZENS) is based on a sample of ~1500 galaxy members of 141 groups in the mass range ~10^12.5-14.5^M_{sun}_ within the narrow redshift range 0.0510^10^M_{sun}_, satellite galaxies in relaxed and unrelaxed groups have similar size, color, and (specific) star formation rate distributions; at lower galaxy masses, satellites are marginally redder in relaxed relative to unrelaxed groups, suggesting quenching of star formation in low-mass satellites by physical processes active in relaxed halos. Overall, relaxed and unrelaxed groups show similar stellar mass populations, likely indicating similar stellar mass conversion efficiencies. Description: The entire ZENS sample of 141 galaxy groups was selected from the 2PIGG catalog (Eke et al. 2004, J/MNRAS/348/866), which is based on a friends-of-friends (FOF; Huchra & Geller 1982, VII/86) percolation algorithm thoroughly tested on realistic mock galaxy catalogs generated from cosmological N-body simulations. The 2PIGG catalog covers 1500deg^2^ of the 2dFGRS (Colless+, 2001, VII/250). The data were taken in several observing runs over the period 2005-2009. Following a pilot-project time allocation in 2005, most of the observations were carried out as service-mode observations in the context of the ESO Large Program 177.A-0680. Paper II (Cibinel+, 2013ApJ...776...72C) provides details of the observing runs, the raw data properties, the data reduction procedures, and the photometric calibration for WFI data of the ZENS groups. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 93 141 Coordinates, properties, and large-scale structure (LSS) environment of the ZENS groups table4.dat 2033 1656 The ZENS catalog of structural, photometric and environmental properties for the sample galaxies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: II/294 : The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 7 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2009) VII/233 : The 2MASS Extended sources (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006) VII/250 : The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) (2dFGRS Team, 1998-2003) VII/86 : Groups of Galaxies. I. Nearby Groups (Huchra+ 1982) J/ApJ/751/50 : Galaxy groups from DEEP2 Redshift Survey (Gerke+ 2012) J/A+A/540/A106 : SDSS-DR8 groups and clusters of galaxies (Tempel+, 2012) J/MNRAS/416/727 : Padova-Millennium Galaxy and Group Catalogue (Calvi+, 2011) J/MNRAS/405/783 : Passive red spirals in Galaxy Zoo (Masters+, 2010) J/A+A/514/A102 : SDSS DR7 groups of galaxies (Tago+, 2010) J/MNRAS/398/1129 : Central galaxies in groups and clusters (Guo+, 2009) J/ApJ/697/1842 : zCOSMOS 10K sample group catalog to z=1 (Knobel+, 2009) J/MNRAS/395/255 : Compact groups of galaxies in SDSS DR6 (McConnachie+, 2009) J/A+A/479/927 : Group of galaxies in SDSS 5 (Tago+, 2008) J/ApJ/658/960 : SB profiles of 9 late-type disk galaxies (Carollo+, 2007) J/AJ/133/791 : Spitzer phot. of normal+interacting galaxies (Smith+, 2007) J/ApJS/167/1 : Galaxy groups and clusters from SDSS (Berlind+, 2006) J/ApJ/625/6 : Galaxy groups in the DEEP2 GRS (Gerke+, 2005) J/AJ/127/1811 : Catalog of SDSS compact groups of galaxies (Lee+, 2004) J/MNRAS/352/939 : 2dFGRS Wiener reconstruction of cosmic web (Erdogdu+, 2004) J/MNRAS/348/866 : 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) (Eke+, 2004) J/MNRAS/318/703 : H-alpha in Abell 2390 (Balogh+ 2000) J/ApJS/126/209 : Bright SHARC survey cluster catalog (Romer+, 2000) http://www.astro.ethz.ch/carollo/research/zens.html : ZENS project home page Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 I1 --- Run [1/6] Observing run (1) 3- 8 A6 --- --- [2PIGG-] 9- 13 A5 --- Group Group ID (n1267-n1829 for the Northern Galactic Hemisphere or s1248-s1935 for the Southern groups) 15 A1 --- f_Group [a] Fossil group (2) 17- 18 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (B1950) 20- 21 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (B1950) 23- 27 F5.2 s RAs Second of right ascension (B1950) 29 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination (B1950) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (B1950) 33- 34 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (B1950) 36- 39 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of declination (B1950) 41- 47 F7.5 --- zgr [0.05/0.06] 2dFGRS redshift 49- 53 F5.3 Mpc Rrms [0.1/1.9] 2PIGG rms radius 55- 59 F5.3 Mpc R200 [0.2/1.8] Group size r{hat}_200_ 61- 65 F5.1 km/s sigma [-70/692] 2PIGG velocity dispersion (3) 67- 73 F7.3 10+10Lsun Lgr [2.1/201] Total group luminosity 75- 77 I3 --- Nm [5/159] Number of members (4) 79- 85 F7.3 10+12Msun Mgr [1.4/667] Total group mass 87- 91 F5.2 [-] dLSS [-0.6/1.9] Value of LSS overdensity (5) 93 I1 --- qLSS [1/4] Overdensity quartile to which the groups belong (6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): The observing run during which the WFI B- and I-band imaging was acquired for a given group; see Paper II (Cibinel et al. 2013ApJ...776...72C). Note (2): a = groups that satisfy the criterion for being "fossil" according to the definition presented in Section 2.4. Note (3): Groups that have a velocity dispersion derived with the gapper estimator that is smaller than the typical 2dFGRS redshift error (~70-85km/s) have null {sigma} values in the original 2PIGG catalog (see Equation (4.6) in Eke et al. 2004, J/MNRAS/348/866). For these groups, the entry in the column for {sigma} lists "-70," i.e., the velocity dispersion is set equal to the 2dFGRS redshift error of 70km/s at z~0.05 and the minus sign is used as a flag to identify the groups in question. Note (4): Number of members above the magnitude limit of the survey. Note (5): The value of LSS overdensity calculated with our fifth-nearest-group algorithm (log(1+{delta}_LSS_)). Note (6): The overdensity quartile to which the groups belong relative to the global distribution of overdensities in the redshift window 0.035