Spectral classification and composites of galaxies in LAMOST DR4
Abstract
We study the classification and composite spectra of galaxy in the fourth data release (DR4) of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). We select 40,182 spectra of galaxies from LAMOST DR4, which have photometric in- formation but no spectroscopic observations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS). These newly observed spectra are re-calibrated and classified into six classes, i.e. pas- sive, H{\alpha}-weak, star-forming, composite, LINER and Seyfert using the line intensity (H\b{eta}, [OIII]{\lambda}5007, H{\alpha} and [NII]{\lambda}6585). We also study the correlation between spectral classes and morphological types through three parameters: concentration index, (u - r) color, and D4000n index. We calculate composite spectra of high signal-to-noise ra- tio(S/N) for six spectral classes, and using these composites we pick out some features that can differentiate the classes effectively, including H\b{eta}, Fe5015, H{\gamma}A, HK, and Mg2 band etc. In addition, we compare our composite spectra with the SDSS ones and analyse their difference. A galaxy catalogue of 40,182 newly observed spectra (36,601 targets) and the composite spectra of the six classes are available online.
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@article{arxiv.1710.10611,
title = {Spectral classification and composites of galaxies in LAMOST DR4},
author = {Li-Li Wang and A-Li Luo and Shi-Yin Shen and Wen Hou and Xiao Kong and Yi-Han Song and Jian-Nan Zhang and Wu Hong and Zi-Huang Cao and Yong-Hui Hou and Yue-Fei Wang and Yong Zhang and Yong-Heng Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10611},
year = {2017}
}
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14 pages, 11 figures