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The COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopy Survey (CLASSY) Treasury Atlas* Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained from the Data Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.

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Far-ultraviolet (FUV; ∼1200-2000 Å) spectra are fundamental to our understanding of star-forming galaxies, providing a unique window on massive stellar populations, chemical evolution, feedback processes, and reionization. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will soon usher in a new era, pushing the UV spectroscopic frontier to higher redshifts than ever before; however, its success hinges on a comprehensive understanding of the massive star populations and gas conditions that power the observed UV spectral features. This requires a level of detail that is only possible with a combination of ample wavelength coverage, signal-to-noise, spectral-resolution, and sample diversity that has not yet been achieved by any FUV spectral database. We present the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Legacy Spectroscopic Survey (CLASSY) treasury and its first high-level science product, the CLASSY atlas. CLASSY builds on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive to construct the first high-quality (S/N1500 Å ≳ 5/resel), high-resolution (R ∼ 15,000) FUV spectral database of 45 nearby (0.002 < z < 0.182) star-forming galaxies. The CLASSY atlas, available to the public via the CLASSY website, is the result of optimally extracting and coadding 170 archival+new spectra from 312 orbits of HST observations. The CLASSY sample covers a broad range of properties including stellar mass (6.2 < log M (M ) < 10.1), star formation rate (−2.0 < log SFR (M yr−1) < +1.6), direct gas-phase metallicity (7.0 < 12+log(O/H) < 8.8), ionization (0.5 < O32 < 38.0), reddening (0.02 < E(B − V) < 0.67), and nebular density (10 < n e (cm−3) < 1120). CLASSY is biased to UV-bright star-forming galaxies, resulting in a sample that is consistent with the z ∼ 0 mass-metallicity relationship, but is offset to higher star formation rates by roughly 2 dex, similar to z ≳ 2 galaxies. This unique set of properties makes the CLASSY atlas the benchmark training set for star-forming galaxies across cosmic time.

Idioma originalEnglish
Número de artículo31
PublicaciónAstrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volumen261
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublished - ago 1 2022

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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

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This paper made use of the modsIDL spectral data reduction pipeline developed in part with funds provided by NSF grant AST-1108693 and a generous gift from OSU Astronomy alumnus David G. Price through the Price Fellowship in Astronomical Instrumentation. This research has made use of the HSLA database, developed and maintained at STScI, Baltimore, USA. The CLASSY team thanks the referee for thoughtful feedback that significantly improved both the paper and the HLSPs. D.A.B. is grateful for the support for this program, HST-GO-15840, that was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Associations of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. B.L.J. is grateful for support from the European Space Agency (ESA). The CLASSY collaboration extends special gratitude to the Lorentz Center for useful discussions during the “Characterizing Galaxies with Spectroscopy with a view for JWST” 2017 workshop that led to the formation of the CLASSY collaboration and survey. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III website is http://www.sdss3.org/ .

FinanciadoresNúmero del financiador
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science ProgramAST-1108693
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Alfred P Sloan Foundation
Office of Science Programs
Space Telescope Science InstituteNAS5-26555
European Space Agency

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    • Space and Planetary Science

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