Spectral classification and composites of galaxies in LAMOST DR4
arXiv:1710.10611 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2798
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, Hα-weak, star-forming, composite, LINER and Seyfert using the line intensity (H\b{eta}, [OIII]λ5007, Hα and [NII]λ6585). 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, HγA, 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.
14 pages, 11 figures
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