Updated 34-band Photometry for the Sings/KINGFISH Samples of Nearby Galaxies
Abstract
We present an update to the ultraviolet-to-radio database of global broadband photometry for the 79 nearby galaxies that comprise the union of the KINGFISH (Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel) and SINGS (Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey) samples. The 34-band data set presented here includes contributions from observational work carried out with a variety of facilities including GALEX, SDSS, Pan-STARRS1, NOAO, 2MASS, Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, Spitzer, Herschel, Planck, JCMT, and the VLA. Improvements of note include recalibrations of previously published SINGS BVR C I C and KINGFISH far-infrared/submillimeter photometry. Similar to previous results in the literature, an excess of submillimeter emission above model predictions is seen primarily for low-metallicity dwarf or irregular galaxies. This 33-band photometric data set for the combined KINGFISH+SINGS sample serves as an important multiwavelength reference for the variety of galaxies observed at low redshift. A thorough analysis of the observed spectral energy distributions is carried out in a companion paper.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- March 2017
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1702.05205
- Bibcode:
- 2017ApJ...837...90D
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: photometry;
- galaxies: ISM;
- infrared: ISM;
- ISM: general;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal