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Spectral classification and composites of galaxies in LAMOST DR4

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-12-27 v1

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