CALIFA: a diameter-selected sample for an integral field spectroscopy galaxy survey

C. J. Walcher; L. Wisotzki; S. Bekeraité; B. Husemann; J. Iglesias-Páramo; N. Backsmann; J. Barrera Ballesteros; C. Catalán-Torrecilla; C. Cortijo; A. del Olmo; B. Garcia Lorenzo; J. Falcón-Barroso; L. Jilkova; V. Kalinova; D. Mast; R. A. Marino; J. Méndez-Abreu; A. Pasquali; S. F. Sánchez; S. Trager; S. Zibetti; J. A. L. Aguerri; J. Alves; J. Bland-Hawthorn; A. Boselli; A. Castillo Morales; R. Cid Fernandes; H. Flores; L. Galbany; A. Gallazzi; R. García-Benito; A. Gil de Paz; R. M. González-Delgado; K. Jahnke; B. Jungwiert; C. Kehrig; M. Lyubenova; I. Márquez Perez; J. Masegosa; A. Monreal Ibero; E. Pérez; A. Quirrenbach; F. F. Rosales-Ortega; M. M. Roth; P. Sanchez-Blazquez; K. Spekkens; E. Tundo; G. van de Ven; M. A. W. Verheijen; J. V. Vilchez; B. Ziegler

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CALIFA: a diameter-selected sample for an integral field spectroscopy galaxy survey

C. J. Walcher, L. Wisotzki, S. Bekeraité, B. Husemann, J. Iglesias-Páramo, N. Backsmann, J. Barrera Ballesteros, C. Catalán-Torrecilla, C. Cortijo, A. del Olmo, B. Garcia Lorenzo, J. Falcón-Barroso, L. Jilkova, V. Kalinova, D. Mast, R. A. Marino, J. Méndez-Abreu, A. Pasquali, S. F. Sánchez, S. TragerS. Zibetti, J. A. L. Aguerri, J. Alves, J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. Boselli, A. Castillo Morales, R. Cid Fernandes, H. Flores, L. Galbany, A. Gallazzi, R. García-Benito, A. Gil de Paz, R. M. González-Delgado, K. Jahnke, B. Jungwiert, C. Kehrig, M. Lyubenova, I. Márquez Perez, J. Masegosa, A. Monreal Ibero, E. Pérez, A. Quirrenbach, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, M. M. Roth, P. Sanchez-Blazquez, K. Spekkens, E. Tundo, G. van de Ven, M. A. W. Verheijen, J. V. Vilchez, B. Ziegler

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We describe and discuss the selection procedure and statistical properties of the galaxy sample used by the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey, a public legacy survey of 600 galaxies using integral field spectroscopy. The CALIFA "mother sample" was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 photometric catalogue to include all galaxies with an r-band isophotal major axis between 45'' and 79.2'' and with a redshift 0.005 <z <0.03. The mother sample contains 939 objects, 600 of which will be observed in the course of the CALIFA survey. The selection of targets for observations is based solely on visibility and thus keeps the statistical properties of the mother sample. By comparison with a large set of SDSS galaxies, we find that the CALIFA sample is representative of galaxies over a luminosity range of -19 > Mr > -23.1 and over a stellar mass range between 109.7 and 1011.4 M⊙. In particular, within these ranges, the diameter selection does not lead to any significant bias against - or in favour of - intrinsically large or small galaxies. Only below luminosities of Mr = -19 (or stellar masses

Original language	English
Article number	A1
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Volume	569
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424198
Publication status	Published - Sep-2014

Keywords

surveys
DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
POTSDAM MULTIAPERTURE SPECTROPHOTOMETER
ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
X-SIGMA RELATION
REDSHIFT SURVEY
LUMINOSITY FUNCTION
TARGET SELECTION
NEARBY GALAXIES
DISK GALAXIES
VIRGO CLUSTER

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Walcher, C. J., Wisotzki, L., Bekeraité, S., Husemann, B., Iglesias-Páramo, J., Backsmann, N., Barrera Ballesteros, J., Catalán-Torrecilla, C., Cortijo, C., del Olmo, A., Garcia Lorenzo, B., Falcón-Barroso, J., Jilkova, L., Kalinova, V., Mast, D., Marino, R. A., Méndez-Abreu, J., Pasquali, A., Sánchez, S. F., ... Ziegler, B. (2014). CALIFA: a diameter-selected sample for an integral field spectroscopy galaxy survey. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 569, [A1]. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424198

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