The S-PLUS Fornax Project (S+FP): A first 12-band glimpse of the Fornax galaxy cluster

SMITH CASTELLI, A V; CORTESI, A; HAACK, R F; LOPES, A R; THAINÁ-BATISTA, J; CID FERNANDES, R; LOMELÍ-NÚÑEZ, L; RIBEIRO, U; DE BOM, C R; CERNIC, V; SODRÉ JR, L; ZENOCRATTI, L; DE ROSSI, M E; CALDERÓN, J P; HERPICH, F; TELLES, E; SAHA, K; LOPES, P A A; LOPES-SILVA, V H; GONÇALVES, T S; BAMBRILA, D; CARDOSO, N M; BUZZO, M L; ASTUDILLO SOTOMAYOR, P; DEMARCO, R; LEIGH, N; SARZI, M; MENÉNDEZ-DELMESTRE, K; FAIFER, F R; JIMÉNEZ-TEJA, Y; GROSSI, M; HERNÁNDEZ-JIMÉNEZ, J A; KRABBE, A C; GUTIÉRREZ SOTO, L A; BRANDÃO, D; ESPINOSA, L; OLAVE-ROJAS, D E; OLIVEIRA SCHWARZ, G B; ALMEIDA-FERNANDES, F; SCHOENELL, W; RIBEIRO, T; KANAAN, A; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2024 vol. 530 p. 3787 - 3811

0035-8711

The Fornax galaxy cluster is the richest nearby (D ~ 20 Mpc) galaxy association in the southern sky. As such, it provides a wealth of opportunities to elucidate on the processes where environment holds a key role in transforming galaxies. Although it has been the focus of many studies, Fornax has never been explored with contiguous homogeneous wide-field imaging in 12 photometric narrow and broad bands like those provided by the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS). In this paper, we present the S-PLUS Fornax Project (S+FP) that aims to comprehensively analyse the galaxy content of the Fornax cluster using S-PLUS. Our data set consists of 106 S-PLUS wide-field frames (FoV~1.4 × 1.4 deg**2) observed in five Sloan Digital Sky Survey-like ugriz broad bands and seven narrow bands covering specific spectroscopic features like [O II], Ca II H+K, Hδ, G band, Mg b triplet, Hα, and the Ca II triplet. Based on S-PLUS specific automated photometry, aimed at correctly detecting Fornax galaxies and globular clusters in S-PLUS images, our data set provides the community with catalogues containing homogeneous 12-band photometry for ~3 × 10**6 resolved and unresolved objects within a region extending over ~208 deg**2 (~5 Rvir in RA) around Fornax´ central galaxy, NGC 1399. We further explore the EAGLE and ILLUSTRISTNG cosmological simulations to identify 45 Fornax-like clusters and generate mock images on all 12 S-PLUS bands of these structures down to galaxies with M⋆ ≥ 10**8 M⊙. The S+FP data set we put forward in this first paper of a series will enable a variety of studies some of which are briefly presented.