The PDS starburst galaxies

Details The PDS starburst galaxies The PDS starburst galaxies

1998-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807136v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

38 pages including 4 tables, 7 postscript figures. To appear in ApJS, December 1998 Vol. 119 #2 issue

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(Abridged) We discuss the nature of the galaxies found in the Pico dos Dias Survey (PDS) for young stellar objects. The PDS galaxies were selected from the IRAS Point Source catalog. They have flux density of moderate or high quality at 12, 25 and 60 $\mu$m and spectral indices in the ranges $-3.00 \leq \alpha(25,12) \leq +0.35$ and $-2.50 \leq \alpha(60,25) \leq +0.85$. These criteria allowed the detection of 382 galaxies, which are a mixture of starburst and Seyfert galaxies. The starburst galaxies show an excess of FIR luminosity and their IRAS colors are significantly different from those of Seyfert galaxies -- 99% of the starburst galaxies in our sample have a spectral index $\alpha(60,25) < -1.9$. As opposed to Seyfert galaxies, very few PDS starbursts are detected in X-rays. In the infrared, the starburst galaxies form a continuous sequence with normal galaxies. But they generally can be distinguished from normal galaxies by their spectral index $\alpha(60,25) > -2.5$. This color cut--off also marks a change in the dominant morphologies of the galaxies: the normal IRAS galaxies are preferentially late--type spirals (Sb and later), while the starbursts are more numerous among early--type spirals (earlier than Sbc). No difference is found between the starbursts detected in the FIR and those detected on the basis of UV excess. The PDS starburst galaxies represent the FIR luminous branch of the UV-bright starburst nucleus galaxies, with mean FIR luminosity $\log({\rm L}_{\rm IR}/{\rm L}_\odot) = 10.3 \pm 0.5$ and redshifts smaller than 0.1. They form a complete sample limited in flux in the FIR at $2\times10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$.

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