Bibcode
Venhola, Aku; Peletier, Reynier; Laurikainen, Eija; Salo, Heikki; Iodice, Enrichetta; Mieske, Steffen; Hilker, Michael; Wittmann, Carolin; Lisker, Thorsten; Paolillo, Maurizio; Cantiello, Michele; Janz, Joachim; Spavone, Marilena; D'Abrusco, Raffaele; Ven, Glennvande; Napolitano, Nicola; Kleijn, GijsVerdoes; Maddox, Natasha; Capaccioli, Massimo; Grado, Aniello; Valentijn, Edwin; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Limatola, Luca
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 620, id.A165, 31 pp.
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2018
Journal
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95
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Description
Context. The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS), an imaging survey in the u', g',
r', and i'-bands, has a supreme resolution and image depth compared to
the previous spatially complete Fornax Cluster Catalog (FCC). Our new
data allows us to study the galaxies down to r'-band magnitude
mr' ≈ 21 mag (Mr' ≈ -10.5 mag), which opens
a new parameter regime to investigate the evolution of dwarf galaxies in
the cluster environment. After the Virgo cluster, Fornax is the second
nearest galaxy cluster to us, and with its different mass and
evolutionary state, it provides a valuable comparison that makes it
possible to understand the various evolutionary effects on galaxies and
galaxy clusters. These data provide an important legacy dataset to study
the Fornax cluster. Aims: We aim to present the Fornax Deep
Survey (FDS) dwarf galaxy catalog, focusing on explaining the data
reduction and calibrations, assessing the quality of the data, and
describing the methods used for defining the cluster memberships and
first order morphological classifications for the catalog objects. We
also describe the main scientific questions that will be addressed based
on the catalog. This catalog will also be invaluable for future
follow-up studies of the Fornax cluster dwarf galaxies. Methods:
As a first step we used the SExtractor fine-tuned for dwarf galaxy
detection, to find galaxies from the FDS data, covering a 26
deg2 area of the main cluster up to its virial radius, and
the area around the Fornax A substructure. We made 2D-decompositions of
the identified galaxies using GALFIT, measure the aperture colors, and
the basic morphological parameters like concentration and residual flux
fraction. We used color-magnitude, luminosity-radius and
luminosity-concentration relations to separate the cluster galaxies from
the background galaxies. We then divided the cluster galaxies into
early- and late-type galaxies according to their morphology and gave
first order morphological classifications using a combination of visual
and parametric classifications. Results: Our final catalog
includes 14 095 galaxies. We classify 590 galaxies as being likely
Fornax cluster galaxies, of which 564 are dwarfs (Mr' >
-18.5 mag) consisting our Fornax dwarf catalog. Of the cluster dwarfs we
classify 470 as early-types, and 94 as late-type galaxies. Our final
catalog reaches its 50% completeness limit at magnitude Mr' =
-10.5 mag and surface brightness μ¯e,r' = 26 mag
arcsec-2, which is approximately three magnitudes deeper than
the FCC. Based on previous works and comparison with a spectroscopically
confirmed subsample, we estimate that our final Fornax dwarf galaxy
catalog has ≲10% contamination from the background objects.
The catalogs are only at the CDS via anonymous ftp to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
(ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/620/A165