Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21743036o&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #430.36; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We have established a new database of absorption and emission line measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 7th data release for the galaxies within a redshift of 0.2. This work used publicly available codes, pPXF(penalized pixel-fitting) and GANDALF(gas and absorption line fitting), to achieve robust spectral fits and reliable measurements. The absorption line strengths measured by SDSS pipeline are seriously contaminated by emission fill-in. We effectively separate emission lines from absorption lines. For instance, this work successfully extract [NI] doublet from Mgb and it leads to more realistic result of alpha enhancement on late-type galaxies compared to the previous database. Besides accurately measuring line strengths, the database will be provided with new parameters that are indicative of line strength measurement quality. Users can build a subset of database optimal for their studies using specific cuts in the fitting quality parameters as well as empirical signal-to-noise. Applying these parameters, we found galaxies with dramatically broad line regions among the galaxies with poor fitting quality parameters. We applied a new continuum finding prescriptions to newly identified BLRs and they turned out to be Seyfert I nuclei.
Oh Kyuseok
Sarzi Marc
Schawinski Kevin
Yi Kyung--Soo
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