The EDGE-CALIFA survey provides spatially resolved optical integral field unit (IFU) and CO spectroscopy for 125 galaxies selected from the CALIFA Data Release 3 sample. The Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution (EDGE) presents the spatially resolved products of the survey as pixel tables that reduce the oversampling in the original images and facilitate comparison of pixels from different images. By joining these pixel tables to lower dimensional tables that provide radial profiles, integrated spectra, or global properties, it is possible to investigate the dependence of local conditions on large-scale properties. The database is freely accessible and has been utilized in several publications. We illustrate the use of this database and highlight the effects of CO upper limits on the inferred slopes of the local scaling relations between stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and H2 surface densities. We find that the correlation between H2 and SFR surface density is the tightest among the three relations.
@article{arxiv.2401.13181,
title = {The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: An Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution Studies},
author = {Tony Wong and Yixian Cao and Yufeng Luo and Alberto D. Bolatto and Sebastián F. Sánchez and Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros and Leo Blitz and Dario Colombo and Helmut Dannerbauer and Alex Green and Veselina Kalinova and Ferzem Khan and Andrew Kim and Eduardo A. D. Lacerda and Adam K. Leroy and Rebecca C. Levy and Xincheng Lin and Yuanze Luo and Erik W. Rosolowsky and Mónica Rubio and Peter Teuben and Dyas Utomo and Vicente Villanueva and Stuart N. Vogel and Xinyu Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13181},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
21 pages, accepted for publication in ApJS, see DOIs below for code and data access