Simulating Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei in the LSST Image Simulation Effort

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Simulating Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei in the LSST Image Simulation Effort
المؤلفون: Pizagno II, Jim, Ahmad, Z., Bankert, J., Bard, D., Connolly, A., Chang, C., Gibson, R. R., Gilmore, K., Grace, E., Hannel, M., Jernigan, J. G., Jones, L., Kahn, S. M., Krughoff, S. K., Lorenz, S., Marshall, S., Shmakova, S. M., Sylvestri, N., Todd, N., Young, M.
المساهمون: Astronomy
المصدر: American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 43
سنة النشر: 2011
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
الوصف: We present an extragalactic source catalog, which includes galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei, that is used for the Large Survey Synoptic Telescope Imaging Simulation effort. The galaxies are taken from the De Lucia et. al. (2006) semi-analytic modeling (SAM) of the Millennium Simulation. The LSST Image Simulation effort requires full SED information and galaxy morphological information, which is added to the catalog by fitting Bruzual & Charlot (2003) stellar population models, with Cardelli, Clayton, Mathis (1989) dust models, to the BVRIK colors provided by the De Lucia et. al. (2006) SAM. Galaxy morphology is modeled as a double Sersic profile for the disk and bulge. Galaxy morphological information and number counts are matched to existing observations. The catalog contains galaxies with a limiting r-band magnitude of mr=28, which results in roughly 1E6 galaxies per square degree. An existing AGN catalog (MacLeod et. al. 2010) is matched to galaxy hosts in the galaxy catalog using SDSS observations. AGN are morphologically modeled as variable point sources located at the center of the host galaxy. We demonstrate how this extragalactic source catalog allows LSST to plan for extended object extraction, variable extragalactic source detection, sensitivity level determination after image stacking, and perform various other cosmological tests.
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=narcis______::f467a5c15b60c61da47bbd71347694a6
https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/93cf0520-c6c6-4e5f-974a-9796e5ad5671
حقوق: RESTRICTED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.narcis........f467a5c15b60c61da47bbd71347694a6
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE