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Updated 34-band Photometry for the SINGS/KINGFISH Samples of Nearby Galaxies

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Dale, DA 
Cook, DO 
Roussel, H 
Turner, JA 
Armus, L 

Abstract

The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..We present an update to the ultraviolet-to-radio database of global broadband photometry for the 79 nearby galaxies that comprise the union of the KINGFISH (Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel) and SINGS (Spitzer  Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey) samples. The 34-band data set presented here includes contributions from observational work carried out with a variety of facilities including GALEX, SDSS, Pan-STARRS1, NOAO, 2MASS,  Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, Spitzer, Herschel, Planck, JCMT, and the VLA. Improvements of note include recalibrations of previously published SINGS BVR C I C and KINGFISH far-infrared/submillimeter photometry. Similar to previous results in the literature, an excess of submillimeter emission above model predictions is seen primarily for low-metallicity dwarf or irregular galaxies. This 33-band photometric data set for the combined KINGFISH+SINGS sample serves as an important multiwavelength reference for the variety of galaxies observed at low redshift. A thorough analysis of the observed spectral energy distributions is carried out in a companion paper.

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Keywords

ISM: general, galaxies: ISM, infrared: ISM

Journal Title

Astrophysical Journal

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Journal ISSN

0004-637X
1538-4357

Volume Title

837

Publisher

Institute of Physics
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000927/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M001334/1)