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arxiv 1207.4374 v2 pith:PGJEXDQZ submitted 2012-07-18 astro-ph.CO

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): spectral classification through Principal Component Analysis

A. Marchetti , B. R. Granett , L. Guzzo , A. Fritz , B. Garilli , M. Scodeggio , U. Abbas , C. Adami
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S. Arnouts M. Bolzonella D. Bottini A. Cappi J. Coupon O. Cucciati G. De Lucia S. de la Torre P. Franzetti M. Fumana O. Ilbert A. Iovino J. Krywult V. Le Brun O. Le Fevre D. Maccagni K. Malek F. Marulli H. J. McCracken B. Meneux L. Paioro M. Polletta A. Pollo H. Schlagenhaufer L. Tasca R. Tojeiro D. Vergani A. Zanichelli J. Bel M. Bersanelli J. Blaizot E. Branchini A. Burden I. Davidzon C. Di Porto L. Guennou C. Marinoni Y. Mellier L. Moscardini R.C. Nichol J.A. Peacock W.J. Percival S. Phleps C. Schimd M. Wolk G. Zamorani
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We develop a Principal Component Analysis aimed at classifying a sub-set of 27,350 spectra of galaxies in the range 0.4 < z < 1.0 collected by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We apply an iterative algorithm to simultaneously repair parts of spectra affected by noise and/or sky residuals, and reconstruct gaps due to rest-frame transformation, and obtain a set of orthogonal spectral templates that span the diversity of galaxy types. By taking the three most significant components, we find that we can describe the whole sample without contamination from noise. We produce a catalogue of eigen-coefficients and template spectra that will be part of future VIPERS data releases. Our templates effectively condense the spectral information into two coefficients that can be related to the age and star formation rate of the galaxies. We examine the spectrophotometric types in this space and identify early, intermediate, late and starburst galaxies.

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