Examinando por Autor "Aguerri, J. A. L."

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Dynamical Structure of Small Bulges Reveals Their Early Formation in ΛCDM Paradigm
(The Institute of Physics (IOP), 2020-01-17) Costantin, L.; Méndez Abreu, J.; Corsini, E. M.; Morelli, L.; De Lorenzo Cáceres, A.; Pagotto, I.; Cuomo, V.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Rubino, M.; Comunidad de Madrid; Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR); 0000-0001-6820-0015; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
The Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) paradigm of galaxy formation predicts that dense spheroidal stellar structures invariably grow at early cosmic time. These primordial spheroids evolve toward a virialized dynamical status as they finally become today's elliptical galaxies and large bulges at the center of disk galaxies. However, observations reveal that small bulges in spiral galaxies are common in the nearby universe. The prevailing belief that all small bulges form at later times from internal processes occurring in the disk represents a challenge for the ΛCDM scenario. Notably, the coevolution of bulges and central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at early phases of galaxy evolution is also at stake. However, observations have so far not provided conclusive evidence against their possible early origin. Here, we report new observations of small bulges showing that they follow the mass–velocity dispersion relation expected for virialized systems. Contrary to previous claims, small bulges bridge the gap between massive ellipticals and globular clusters. This dynamical picture supports a scenario where systems over seven orders of magnitude in stellar mass form at early cosmic time. These results alleviate the tension between ΛCDM simulations and observations at galactic scales. We hypothesize that these small bulges are actually the low-mass descendants of compact objects observed at high redshift, also known as red nuggets, which are consistently produced in cosmological ΛCDM simulations. Therefore, this also suggests that the established coevolution of SMBHs and large bulges naturally extends to spheroids in the low-mass regime.
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J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey
(EDP Sciences, 2019-02-21) Cenarro, A. J.; Moles, M.; Cristóbal Hornillos, D.; Marín Franch, A.; Ederoclite, A.; Varela, J.; López Sanjuan, C.; Hernández Monteagudo, C.; Angulo, R. E.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Viironen, K.; Díaz Martín, M. C.; Beers, T. C.; Domínguez Martínez, M.; Rueda Teruel, F.; Garzarán Calderaro, J.; Iñiguez, C.; Tilve, V.; Jiménez Ruiz, J. M.; Lasso Cabrera, N.; Alcaniz, J. S.; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia L.; López Alegre, G.; Muniesa, D. J.; Lopes de Oliveira, R.; Tamm, A.; Rodríguez Llano, S.; Rueda Teruel, S.; Akras, S.; Alfaro, Emilio J.; Soriano Laguía, I.; Valdivielso, L.; Lyman, J. D.; Beasley, M. A.; Borges Fernandes, M.; Yanes Díaz, A.; Sodré, L.; Carrasco, J. M.; Coelho, P. R. T.; Xavier, H. S.; Costa Duarte, M. V.; Abramo, L. R.; Álvarez Candal, A.; Galarza, A.; Galbany, L.; Ascaso, B.; Bruzual, G.; González Serrano, J. I.; Gutiérrez Soto, L. A.; Buzzo, M. L.; Cepa, J.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Landim, R. C. G.; Cortesi, A.; De Prá, M.; Orsi, Álvaro A.; Lima Neto, G. B.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Favole, G.; García, K.; Nogueira Cavalcante, J. P.; González Delgado, R. M.; Hernández Jiménez, J. A.; Oteo Gómez, I.; Kanaan, A.; Laur, J.; Rebassa-Mansergas, A.; Reis, R. R. R.; Lincandro, J.; Miralda Escudé, J.; Salvador Rusiñol, N.; Sampedro, L.; Morate, D.; Novais, P. M.; Schmidtobreick, L.; Siffert, B. B.; Oncins, M.; Overzier, R. A.; Molino, A.; Bonoli, S.; Hurier, G.; Pereira, C. B.; Roig, F.; Vilella-Rojo, G.; Sako, M.; Sánchez Blázquez, Patricia; Gurung López, S.; Santos, W. A.; Telles, E.; Allende Prieto, C.; Bonatto, C.; Vilchez, J. M.; San Roman, I.; Daflon, S.; Dupke, R. A.; Greisel, N.; Díaz García, L. A.; Jiménez Teja, Y.; Placco, V. M.; Logroño García, R.; Spinoso, D.; Maícas, N.; Izquierdo Villalba, D.; Abril, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Carvano, J. M.; Bielsa de Toledo, S.; Chies Santos, A. L.; Falcón Barroso, J.; Civera, T.; Gonçalves, D. R.; Solano, Enrique; Hernández Fuertes, J.; Iglesias Marzoa, R.; Whitten, D. D.; Antón, J. L.; Kruuse, K.; Lamadrid, J. L.; Bello, R.; Castillo Ramírez, J.; López Sainz, A.; Moreno Signes, A.; Chueca, S.; Gobierno de Aragón; European Commission (EC); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO); 0000-0002-2573-2342; Jailson Souza de Alcaniz. [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-1413]; Coelho, P. R. T. [0000-0003-1846-4826]; Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737
The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS ) is an ongoing 12-band photometric optical survey, observing thousands of square degrees of the Northern Hemisphere from the dedicated JAST/T80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). The T80Cam is a camera with a field of view of 2 deg2 mounted on a telescope with a diameter of 83 cm, and is equipped with a unique system of filters spanning the entire optical range (3500–10 000 Å). This filter system is a combination of broad-, medium-, and narrow-band filters, optimally designed to extract the rest-frame spectral features (the 3700–4000 Å Balmer break region, Hδ, Ca H+K, the G band, and the Mg b and Ca triplets) that are key to characterizing stellar types and delivering a low-resolution photospectrum for each pixel of the observed sky. With a typical depth of AB ∼21.25 mag per band, this filter set thus allows for an unbiased and accurate characterization of the stellar population in our Galaxy, it provides an unprecedented 2D photospectral information for all resolved galaxies in the local Universe, as well as accurate photo-z estimates (at the δ z/(1 + z)∼0.005–0.03 precision level) for moderately bright (up to r ∼ 20 mag) extragalactic sources. While some narrow-band filters are designed for the study of particular emission features ([O II]/λ3727, Hα/λ6563) up to z < 0.017, they also provide well-defined windows for the analysis of other emission lines at higher redshifts. As a result, J-PLUS has the potential to contribute to a wide range of fields in Astrophysics, both in the nearby Universe (Milky Way structure, globular clusters, 2D IFU-like studies, stellar populations of nearby and moderate-redshift galaxies, clusters of galaxies) and at high redshifts (emission-line galaxies at z ≈ 0.77, 2.2, and 4.4, quasi-stellar objects, etc.). With this paper, we release the first ∼1000 deg2 of J-PLUS data, containing about 4.3 million stars and 3.0 million galaxies at r < 21 mag. With a goal of 8500 deg2 for the total J-PLUS footprint, these numbers are expected to rise to about 35 million stars and 24 million galaxies by the end of the survey.