KINGFISH—Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel: Survey Description and Image Atlas

By Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., D. Calzetti, G. Aniano, P. Appleton, Lee Armus, P. Beirão, A. Bolatto, B. Brandl, A. Crocker, K. Croxall and 33 more. 2011

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The KINGFISH project (Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey of 61 nearby (d < 30 Mpc) galaxies, chosen to cover a wide range of galaxy properties and local interstellar medium (ISM) environments found in the nearby universe. Its broad goals are to characterize the ISM of present-day galaxies, the heating and cooling of their gaseous and dust components, and to better understand the physical processes linking star formation and the ISM. KINGFISH is a direct descendant of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), which produced complete Spitzer imaging and spectroscopic mapping and a comprehensive set of multiwavelength ancillary observations for the sample. The Herschel imaging consists of complete maps for the galaxies at 70, 100, 160, 250, 350, and 500 μm. The spectral line imaging of the principal atomic ISM cooling lines ([O I] 63 μm, [O III] 88 μm, [N II] 122,205 μm, and [C II] 158 μm) covers the subregions in the centers and disks that already have been mapped in the mid-infrared with Spitzer. The KINGFISH and SINGS multiwavelength data sets combined provide panchromatic mapping of the galaxies sufficient to resolve individual star-forming regions, and tracing the important heating and cooling channels of the ISM, across a wide range of local extragalactic ISM environments. This article summarizes the scientific strategy for KINGFISH, the properties of the galaxy sample, the observing strategy, and data processing and products. It also presents a combined Spitzer and Herschel image atlas for the KINGFISH galaxies, covering the wavelength range 3.6–500 μm. All imaging and spectroscopy data products will be released to the Herschel user-generated product archives.

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• An Overview of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey (2013, background): “…on populating our highest metallicity bins, since metal-rich galaxies are plentiful in other surveys, such as the Herschel Reference Survey (Boselli et al. 2010; Ciesla et al. 2012), Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (Davies et al. 2012) and the KINGFISH survey (Kennicutt et al. 2011), for example.”
• THE MASS–METALLICITY RELATION WITH THE DIRECT METHOD ON STACKED SPECTRA OF SDSS GALAXIES (2012, background): “…(Pilbratt et al. 2010) measurements of the far-IR fine-structure lines (K. Croxall et al. 2013, in preparation) from the KINGFISH survey (Kennicutt et al. 2011) will provide a valuable check on the absolute abundance scale (see also Garnett et al. 2004a), which is a major outstanding…”
• PHIBSS: Unified Scaling Relations of Gas Depletion Time and Molecular Gas Fractions (2017, background): “…by dust in atomic gas (section 2.2 above and also sections 3.2 and 3.3 below), such that the dust and inferred gas masses in this redshift range overestimate the true molecular masses (e.g. Draine et al. 2007, Kennicutt et al. 2011, Dale et al. 2012, Eales et al. 2012, Sandstrom et al. 2013).”
• MOLECULAR GAS AND STAR FORMATION IN NEARBY DISK GALAXIES (2013, methodology): “We adopt distances from Kennicutt et al. (2011) where possible and from Walter et al. (2008) elsewhere.”
• An ALMA [C ii] Survey of 27 Quasars at z > 5.94 (2018, methodology): “Our [C II]-based SFR estimates follow the fit to the [C II]SFR (24 μm-based) relation in 46 local galaxies from the KINGFISH sample (Kennicutt et al. 2011) derived by Herrera-Camus et al. (2015): = Y - - ⎛ ⎝⎜ ⎞ ⎠⎟ ( ) ( )[ ] [ ] M L ySFR yr 0.052 10 erg s 4CII 1 C 40 1 1.034 II where Y = a( ) ( )y…”
• Gas-to-dust mass ratios in local galaxies over a 2 dex metallicity range (2013, methodology): “A31, page 2 of 22 A. Rémy-Ruyer et al.: Gas-to-dust mass ratios in local galaxies over a 2 dex metallicity range such as positions and distances can be found in Madden et al. (2013) for the DGS; Kennicutt et al. (2011) for KINGFISH; and Galametz et al. (2011) for the G11 sample.”
• Planck2013 results. XXVIII. ThePlanckCatalogue of Compact Sources (2013, background): “At high flux densities, the brightest objects in the KINGFISH survey are extended galaxies that are resolved by Planck so their flux densities are underestimated by DETFLUX, APERFLUX and PSFFLUX.”
• Dust spectral energy distributions of nearby galaxies: an insight from the Herschel Reference Survey (2014, background): “This sample and the SINGS/KINGFISH (Kennicutt et al. 2003, 2011) sample have 4 galaxies in common: M 99, M 100, NGC 4536 and NGC 4725.”
• A multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction method: getsources (2012, methodology): “Users installing getsources on their computers are advised to test it on a multi-wavelength extraction using Herschel images of the galaxy NGC4559 that was chosen as our validation field (the galaxy was observed as part of the KINGFISH project, see Kennicutt et al. 2011).”
• Deriving Physical Properties from Broadband Photometry with Prospector: Description of the Model and a Demonstration of its Accuracy Using 129 Galaxies in the Local Universe (2016, methodology): “One potential caveat is that the Herschel photometry in the Brown et al. (2014) sample comes from overlap with the KINGFISH survey (Kennicutt et al. 2011), and that the galaxies in this overlap may not be representative of the whole Brown et al. (2014) sample.”
• ANDROMEDA'S DUST (2013, methodology): “…(SED) from 6–500 μm, and to estimate the dust mass surface density, intensities of starlight heating the dust, and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) abundance, using methods recently developed by Aniano et al. (2012) for studying the galaxies in the KINGFISH sample (Kennicutt et al. 2011).”
• Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies (2012, methodology): “…galaxies such as the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) (Kennicutt et al. 2003), the GALEX Nearby Galaxies Survey (Gil de Paz et al. 2007), the Spitzer/GALEX Local Volume Legacy survey (LVL; Dale et al. 2009; Lee et al. 2011), and the Herschel KINGFISH Survey (Kennicutt et al. 2011).”
• THE PdBI ARCSECOND WHIRLPOOL SURVEY (PAWS). I. A CLOUD-SCALE/MULTI-WAVELENGTH VIEW OF THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IN A GRAND-DESIGN SPIRAL GALAXY (2013, methodology): “The version used here was reduced using the KINGFISH pipeline for PACS spectroscopy (Kennicutt et al. 2011) in HIPE v9.”
• THE CO-TO-H2 CONVERSION FACTOR AND DUST-TO-GAS RATIO ON KILOPARSEC SCALES IN NEARBY GALAXIES (2012, background): “…from “The HI Nearby Galaxies Survey” (THINGS; Walter et al. 2008), 12CO J=(2−1) from the “HERA CO Line Emission Survey” (Leroy et al. 2009a, 2013, HERACLES;)and far-infrared dust emission from“Key Insights into Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel” (KINGFISH; Kennicutt et al. 2011).”
• THE HERSCHEL REFERENCE SURVEY: DUST IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES AND ACROSS THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE (2011, background): “(Kennicutt et al. 2011) results based on 10 nearby early types (Skibba et al. 2011).”
• CIGALE: a python Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (2018, methodology): “To answer this question, Hunt et al. (2019) modelled the SED of the galaxies of the KINGFISH sample (Kennicutt et al. 2011) comparing results from CIGALE, MAGPHYS (da Cunha et al. 2008), and the latest iteration of grasil (Silva et al. 1998).”