An Integrated Spectrophotometric Survey of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

By John Moustakas, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.. 2005

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We present integrated optical spectrophotometry for a sample of 417 nearby galaxies. Our observations consist of spatially integrated, S/N = 10-100 spectroscopy between 3600 and 6900 Å at ~8 Å FWHM resolution. In addition, we present nuclear (2.″5 × 2.″5) spectroscopy for 153 of these objects. Our sample targets a diverse range of galaxy types, including starbursts, peculiar galaxies, interacting/merging systems, dusty, infrared-luminous galaxies, and a significant number of normal galaxies. We use population synthesis to model and subtract the stellar continuum underlying the nebular emission lines. This technique results in emission-line measurements reliably corrected for stellar absorption. Here we present the integrated and nuclear spectra, the nebular emission-line fluxes and equivalent widths, and a comprehensive compilation of ancillary data available in the literature for our sample. In a series of subsequent papers we use these data to study optical star formation rate indicators, nebular abundance diagnostics, the luminosity-metallicity relation, the dust properties of normal and starburst galaxies, and the star formation histories of infrared-luminous galaxies.

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• The role of cold gas and environment on the stellar mass-metallicity relation of nearby galaxies (2012, methodology): “…this data with emission line measurements from integrated spectra presented in Gavazzi et al. (2004), Kennicutt (1992), Jansen et al. (2000), Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006) and Moustakas et al. (2010), a homogeneous dataset of the spectral properties of 236 of the 260 HRS late-types has been…”
• COMPARISON OF Hα AND UV STAR FORMATION RATES IN THE LOCAL VOLUME: SYSTEMATIC DISCREPANCIES FOR DWARF GALAXIES (2009, methodology): “Using the integrated spectroscopy of Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006) we derive an empirical scaling relation between AHα and MB which is shown in Figure 3.”
• The applicability of far-infrared fine-structure lines as star formation rate tracers over wide ranges of metallicities and galaxy types (2014, background): “Total Hα fluxes are taken from Gil de Paz et al. (2003); Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006); Kennicutt et al. (2008); Östlin et al. (2009).”
• GALAXY-WIDE SHOCKS IN LATE-MERGER STAGE LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES (2011, methodology): “Our routine fits and subtracts a stellar continuum from each spectrum using population synthesis models from González Delgado et al. (2005) and an IDL routine which fits a linear combination of stellar templates to a galaxy spectrum using the method of Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006).”
• THE MULTIPHASE STRUCTURE AND POWER SOURCES OF GALACTIC WINDS IN MAJOR MERGERS (2013, methodology): “This is confirmed for the NW nucleus by nuclear data from Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006).”
• OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND NEBULAR OXYGEN ABUNDANCES OF THE SPITZER/SINGS GALAXIES (2010, methodology): “…spectrum of a galaxy from its integrated emission-line spectrum, so that the emission-line strengths can be studied free from the systematic effects of Balmer and metal-line absorption (e.g., Brinchmann et al. 2004; Cid Fernandes et al. 2005; Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006a; Asari et al. 2007).”
• Optical Star Formation Rate Indicators (2005, unknown): “As part of a larger effort to characterize the physical properties of star-forming galaxies, we have obtained high-S/N optical spectrophotometry (3600–6900 8 at 8 8 FWHM resolution) for a diverse sample of 417 nearby galaxies (Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006a, hereafter MK06).”
• FORMING COMPACT MASSIVE GALAXIES (2015, unknown): “We adopt EWHα,abs= 3 Å (Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006; Alonso-Herrero et al. 2010).”
• DIRECT OXYGEN ABUNDANCES FOR LOW-LUMINOSITY LVL GALAXIES (2012, methodology): “The MMT observations were processed using ISPEC2D (Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006), a long-slit spectroscopy data reduction package written in IDL.”
• New fully empirical calibrations of strong-line metallicity indicators in star forming galaxies (2016, background): “…the variation of the relative contribution of each Hii region for different ionic species, together with the contribution from diffuse ionized gas (Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006), can explain the different distributions in the t2-t3 plane for different temperature diagnostics as well as the offset…”
• Semi‐empirical analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies – III. How to distinguish AGN hosts (2006, background): “Recent spectroscopic surveys of galaxies (e.g. Jansen et al. 2000; Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006) have shown that the emission-line sequence of NSF galaxies is actually very close to the giant H II region sequence.”
• DUST-CORRECTED STAR FORMATION RATES OF GALAXIES. II. COMBINATIONS OF ULTRAVIOLET AND INFRARED TRACERS (2011, methodology): “SUMMARY We have calibrated log [L(TIR)/L(FUV)obs] (i.e., IRX) and the FUV-NUV color as FUV dust attenuation indicators using a nearby star-forming galaxy sample studied by Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006).”
• GAS-PHASE OXYGEN GRADIENTS IN STRONGLY INTERACTING GALAXIES. I. EARLY-STAGE INTERACTIONS (2010, methodology): “The software fitting package that we wrote for this purpose, UHSPECFIT, was based on the stellar fitting routines of Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006), who fit stellar continua using a linear combination of several template spectra.”
• DISCOVERY OF AN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS DRIVEN MOLECULAR OUTFLOW IN THE LOCAL EARLY-TYPE GALAXY NGC 1266 (2011, background): “AGN Feedback and Comparison to Other Molecular Outflows NGC 1266 is classified as a low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) (Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006).”
• The Luminosity Function and Star Formation Rate between Redshifts of 0.07 and 1.47 for Narrowband Emitters in the Subaru Deep Field (2006, background): “The best fit is log [ O iii Hα ] = (0.073± 0.013)MoB + 1.274± 0.233, (11) which has less scatter and a higher [O iii]-Hα ratio compared to nearby star-forming galaxies of Jansen et al. (2000) and Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006).”
• GHASP: an Hα kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies – V. Dark matter distribution in 36 nearby spiral galaxies (2007, unknown): “Jam04=James et al. 2004 ; Kar04=Karachentsev et al. 2004 ; Koo06=Koopmann et al. 2006 ; Mou06=Moustakas & Kennicutt 2006 ; Saha06=Saha et al. 2006 ; Sha01=Shapley et al.2001 ; Sw02=Swaters & Balcells 2002.”
• AN ATLAS OF GALAXY SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET TO THE MID-INFRARED (2013, methodology): “The bulk of the optical spectra are taken from Moustakas & Kennicutt (2006) and Moustakas et al. (2010), who used the Bok 2.3-m and CITO 1.5-m telescopes, with some additional spectra of elliptical galaxies taken from Kennicutt (1992) and Gavazzi et al. (2004).”