The S-PLUS Fornax Project (S+FP): A first 12-band glimpse of the Fornax galaxy cluster

A. V. Smith Castelli, A. Cortesi, R. F. Haack, A. R. Lopes, J. Thainá-Batista, R. Cid Fernandes, L. Lomelí-Núñez, U. Ribeiro, C. R. De Bom, V. Cernic, L. Sodré, L. Zenocratti, M. E. De Rossi, J. P. Calderón, F. Herpich, E. Telles, K. Saha, P. A.A. Lopes, V. H. Lopes-Silva, T. S. GonçalvesD. Bambrila, N. M. Cardoso, M. L. Buzzo, P. Astudillo Sotomayor, R. Demarco, N. Leigh, M. Sarzi, K. Menéndez-Delmestre, F. R. Faifer, Y. Jiménez-Teja, M. Grossi, J. A. Hernández-Jiménez, A. C. Krabbe, L. A. Gutiérrez Soto, D. Brandão, L. Espinosa, D. E. Olave-Rojas, G. B. Oliveira Schwarz, F. Almeida-Fernandes, W. Schoenell, T. Ribeiro, A. Kanaan, C. Mendes De Oliveira

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Abstract

The Fornax galaxy cluster is the richest nearby (D ∼20 Mpc) galaxy association in the southern sky. As such, it provides a wealth of opportunities to elucidate on the processes where environment holds a key role in transforming galaxies. Although it has been the focus of many studies, Fornax has never been explored with contiguous homogeneous wide-field imaging in 12 photometric narrow and broad bands like those provided by the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS). In this paper, we present the S-PLUS Fornax Project (S+FP) that aims to comprehensively analyse the galaxy content of the Fornax cluster using S-PLUS. Our data set consists of 106 S-PLUS wide-field frames (FoV∼1.4 × 1.4 deg2) observed in five Sloan Digital Sky Survey-like ugriz broad bands and seven narrow bands covering specific spectroscopic features like [O ii], Ca ii H+K, Hδ, G band, Mg b triplet, Hα, and the Ca ii triplet. Based on S-PLUS specific automated photometry, aimed at correctly detecting Fornax galaxies and globular clusters in S-PLUS images, our data set provides the community with catalogues containing homogeneous 12-band photometry for ∼3 × 106 resolved and unresolved objects within a region extending over ∼208 deg2 (∼5 Rvir in RA) around Fornax' central galaxy, NGC 1399. We further explore the eagle and IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations to identify 45 Fornax-like clusters and generate mock images on all 12 S-PLUS bands of these structures down to galaxies with M ≥ 108 M. The S+FP data set we put forward in this first paper of a series will enable a variety of studies some of which are briefly presented.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3787-3811
Number of pages25
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume530
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2024

Keywords

  • galaxies: clusters: individual: Fornax
  • galaxies: evolution
  • galaxies: luminosity function, mass function
  • software: data analysis
  • surveys
  • techniques: photometric

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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