J/ApJS/243/14 The Ogle et al. Galaxy Catalog (OGC) (Ogle+, 2019)
A catalog of the most optically luminous galaxies at z<0.3: super spirals,
super lenticulars, super post-mergers, and giant ellipticals.
Ogle P.M., Lanz L., Appleton P.N., Helou G., Mazzarella J.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 243, 14 (2019)>
=2019ApJS..243...14O 2019ApJS..243...14O
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs; Photometry, SDSS ; Morphology
Keywords: galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD ; galaxies: spiral
Abstract:
We present a catalog of the 1525 most optically luminous galaxies from
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with r-band luminosity Lr>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 1011.3-1012M☉, 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.
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 59 1527 The Ogle et al. Galaxy Catalog (OGC)
table3.dat 41 50 Luminous galaxy rejects: inaccurate photometry
table6.dat 92 114 OGC super spirals, lenticulars, and post-mergers
table8.dat 101 35 Super spiral and lenticular cluster and
group associations
table9.dat 70 44 Super spiral and lenticular mergers and
interacting pairs
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See also:
VII/233 : The 2MASS Extended sources (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006)
V/139 : The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 9 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2012)
V/147 : The SDSS Photometric Catalogue, Release 12 (Alam+, 2015)
J/PASP/111/438 : Updated Zwicky catalog (UZC) (Falco+, 1999)
J/A+A/414/487 : Optically bright AGN in ROSAT-FSC (Veron-Cetty+, 2004)
J/ApJ/645/955 : ChaMP serendipitous galaxy cluster survey (Barkhouse+, 2006)
J/A+A/495/707 : WINGS spectroscopy of 48 galaxy clusters (Cava+, 2009)
J/A+A/499/357 : REFLEX galaxies redshifts (Guzzo+, 2009)
J/AJ/139/2525 : UNAM-KIAS cat. of isolated gal. (Hernandez-Toledo+, 2010)
J/ApJ/723/1119 : Optical properties of radio galaxies at z<0.3 (Lin+, 2010)
J/MNRAS/405/783 : Passive red spirals in Galaxy Zoo (Masters+, 2010)
J/MNRAS/410/166 : Morphological types from Galaxy Zoo 1 (Lintott+, 2011)
J/ApJS/196/11 : Bulge+disk decompositions of SDSS galaxies (Simard+, 2011)
J/ApJ/746/178 : The augmented maxBCG cluster catalog (Rykoff+, 2012)
J/MNRAS/431/2034 : SED of K+A galaxies from UV to mid-IR (Melnick+, 2013)
J/ApJS/219/8 : SFR for WISE + SDSS spectroscopic galaxies (Chang+, 2015)
J/MNRAS/462/L11 : Passive spiral galaxy candidates (Fraser-McKelvie+, 2016)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- OGC [21/1662] Ogle et al. galaxy catalog number
6- 34 A29 --- Name NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database preferred name
36- 39 F4.1 --- Lr [7.9/19.8] SDSS r-band luminosity (G1)
41- 45 F5.2 mag rmag [13.3/17.7] SDSS r-band CModel magnitude
47- 54 F8.6 --- z [0.05/0.3] NED preferred redshift,
primarily from SDSS DR6
56- 59 A4 --- Morph Galaxy morphology (1)
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Note (1): Galaxy morphology as follows:
G = unclassified galaxy (8 occurrences);
E = elliptical (1401 occurrences);
Epec = peculiar elliptical (15 occurrences);
S0 = super lenticular (14 occurrences);
S = spiral;
SS = super spiral (84 occurrences);
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- OGC [1/1585] Ogle et al. galaxy catalog number
6- 29 A24 --- Name NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database preferred name
31- 41 A11 --- Notes Notes
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 A2 --- Type Type (1)
4- 7 I4 --- OGC [44/1662] Ogle et al. galaxy catalog number
9- 32 A24 --- Name NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
preferred name
34- 41 F8.6 --- z [0.089/0.3] SDSS DR9 redshift
43- 46 F4.1 --- Lr [7.9/15.1] Sloan r-band luminosity L/L* (G1)
48- 50 I3 kpc Diam [43/142] Isophotal diameter at r=25mag/arcsec2
52- 56 F5.2 Msun logM* [11.3/12.1]? log of mass in stars
58 A1 --- l_logSFR Limit flag on logSFR
59- 62 F4.2 Msun/yr logSFR [0.1/2]? log of star formation rate
64- 68 A5 --- Morph Morphology (2)
70- 92 A23 --- Notes Notes on SDSS spectroscopy (3)
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Note (1): Type as follows:
s = super spirals (84 occurrences);
l = super lenticulars (15 occurrences);
pm = super post-merger galaxies (15 occurrences).
Note (2): Lenticular galaxies are denoted S0/Sa. Galaxies with stellar bars are
indicated as such.
Note (3): Hα indicates detection of that line in the SDSS spectrum. AGNs
are marked as Seyfert 1 (Sey1), Seyfert 2 (Sey2), LINER, or QSO.
Galaxies with nuclear starbursts are marked sb. K+A indicates a
post-starburst spectrum dominated by A stars.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table8.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- OGC [44/1559] Ogle et al. galaxy catalog number
6- 29 A24 --- Name NED preferred name
31- 38 F8.6 --- z [0.089/0.3] SDSS DR9 redshift
40 I1 --- N1 [1/5] Number of galaxies within 1Mpc and
500km/s
42- 44 I3 --- N10 [2/310] Number of galaxies within 10Mpc and 5000km/s
46- 74 A29 --- Cl Cluster name
76- 81 A6 --- Type Cluster type ("GClstr" or "GGroup")
83- 90 F8.6 --- zCl [0.089/0.32]? Cluster redshift
92- 95 A4 --- n_zCl Redshift type, from NED or reference therein
("EST"=estimated, "PHOT"=photometric, and
"SPEC"=spectroscopic)
97-101 F5.3 arcmin Sep [0/1.91] Separation of the cluster or group
catalog position in NED from the super spiral
or super lenticular (1)
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Note (1): In many cases the separation is zero because the brightest galaxy
(i.e., the super spiral) position was apparently used to define the
cluster position.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table9.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- OGC [44/1608]? Ogle et al. galaxy catalog number
6- 17 A12 --- Merger Merger
19- 26 A8 --- Features Features
28- 51 A24 --- Comp Companion identifier
53- 59 F7.5 --- z2 [0.27/0.3]? Redshift
61- 64 F4.1 arcsec Sep [1/44] Separation in arcsec
66- 70 F5.1 kpc pSep [4/131] Projected separation in kpc
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Global notes:
Note (G1): SDSS r-band luminosity is k-corrected and normalized by
L*=5.41E+43erg/s at 6200Å.
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Prepared by [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 12-Dec-2019