Morphologies of S4G galaxies

DOI

We present a catalogue and images of visually detected features, such as asymmetries, extensions, warps, shells, tidal tails, polar rings, and obvious signs of mergers or interactions, in the faint outer regions (at and outside of R_25_) of nearby galaxies. This catalogue can be used in future quantitative studies that examine galaxy evolution due to internal and external factors. We are able to reliably detect outer region features down to a brightness level of 0.03MJy/sr/pixel at 3.6{mu}m in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). We also tabulate companion galaxies. We find asymmetries in the outer isophotes in 22+/-1% of the sample. The asymmetry fraction does not correlate with galaxy classification as an interacting galaxy or merger remnant, or with the presence of companions. We also compare the detected features to similar features in galaxies taken from cosmological zoom re-simulations. The simulated images have a higher fraction (33%) of outer disc asymmetries, which may be due to selection effects and an uncertain star formation threshold in the models. The asymmetries may have either an internal (e.g. lopsidedness due to dark halo asymmetry) or external origin.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.74443015
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Provenance
Creator Laine S.; Knapen J.H.; Munoz-Mateos J.-C.; Kim T.; Comeron S.; Martig M.,Holwerda B.W.; Athanassoula E.; Bosma A.; Johansson P.H.; Erroz-Ferrer S.,Gadotti D.A.; Gil De Paz A.; Hinz J.; Laine J.; Laurikainen E.,Menendez-Delmestre K.; Mizusawa T.; Regan M.W.; Salo H.; Sheth K.,Seibert M.; Buta R.J.; Cisternas M.; Elmegreen B.G.; Elmegreen D.M.,Ho L.C.; Madore B.F.; Zaritsky D.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2015
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics