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411. Candidate member stars of the Sagittarius stream
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/635/L3
Title:
Candidate member stars of the Sagittarius stream
Short Name:
J/A+A/635/L3
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We aim to measure the proper motion along the Sagittarius stream, which is the missing piece in determining its full 6D phase space coordinates. We conduct a blind search of over-densities in proper motion from the Gaia second data release (DR2) in a broad region around the Sagittarius stream by applying wavelet transform techniques. We find that for most of the sky patches, the highest intensity peaks delineate the path of the Sagittarius stream. The 1500 peaks identified depict a continuous sequence spanning almost 2pi in the sky, only obscured when the stream crosses the Galactic disk. Altogether, around 100000 stars potentially belong to the stream as indicated by a coarse inspection of the color-magnitude diagrams. From these stars, we determine the proper motion along the Sagittarius stream, making it the proper-motion sequence with the largest span and continuity ever measured for a stream. A first comparison with existing N-body models of the stream reveals some discrepancies, especially near the pericenter of the trailing arm and an underestimation of the total proper motion for the leading arm. Our study provides a starting point for determining the variation of the population of stars along the stream, the distance to the stream from the red clump stars, and the solar motion. It also permits much more accurate measurement of the Milky Way potential.
412. Candidates of z~5.5-7 galaxies in the HST-UDF
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/612/L93
Title:
Candidates of z~5.5-7 galaxies in the HST-UDF
Short Name:
J/ApJ/612/L93
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report results from our z~5.5-7 galaxy search in the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field (UDF). Using the 400 orbit of Advanced Camera for Surveys data, we found 108 plausible 5.5<=z<=6.5 (or z~6 for short) candidates to m_AB_(z_850_)=30.0mag.
413. Candidate strong lens systems from DES obs.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/232/15
Title:
Candidate strong lens systems from DES obs.
Short Name:
J/ApJS/232/15
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the results of searches for strong gravitational lens systems in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification and Year1 observations. The Science Verification data span approximately 250{deg}^2^ with a median i-band limiting magnitude for extended objects (10{sigma}) of 23.0. The Year 1 data span approximately 2000{deg}^2^ and have an i-band limiting magnitude for extended objects (10{sigma}) of 22.9. As these data sets are both wide and deep, they are particularly useful for identifying strong gravitational lens candidates. Potential strong gravitational lens candidate systems were initially identified based on a color and magnitude selection in the DES object catalogs or because the system is at the location of a previously identified galaxy cluster. Cutout images of potential candidates were then visually scanned using an object viewer and numerically ranked according to whether or not we judged them to be likely strong gravitational lens systems. Having scanned nearly 400000 cutouts, we present 374 candidate strong lens systems, of which 348 are identified for the first time. We provide the R.A. and decl., the magnitudes and photometric properties of the lens and source objects, and the distance (radius) of the source(s) from the lens center for each system.
414. 3C388 145, 392, 614, 1400 and 4850MHz images
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/638/A29
Title:
3C388 145, 392, 614, 1400 and 4850MHz images
Short Name:
J/A+A/638/A29
Date:
23 Mar 2022 16:29:17
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Restarted radio galaxies represent a unique tool to investigate the duty cycle of the jet activity in Active Galactic Nuclei. Due to a sharp discontinuity of the GHz spectral index distribution within its lobes, the radio galaxy 3C388 has for long being claimed to be a peculiar example of AGN with multi-epoch activity The goal of this work is to perform for the first time a spatially resolved study of the radio spectrum of this source down to MHz-frequencies, in order to investigate its radiative age and constrain its duty cycle. We have used new low frequency observations at 144MHz performed with the Low Frequency Array and at 350MHz performed with the Very Large Array combined with archival data at higher frequencies (614, 1400, 4850MHz). Results. We find that the spectral indices in the lower frequency range 144-614MHz have flatter values ({alpha}_low_~0.55-1.14) than those observed in the higher frequency range 1400-4850MHz ({alpha}_high_~0.75-1.57) but follow the same distribution across the lobes, with a systematic steepening towards the edges. However, the spectral shape throughout the source is not uniform and often deviates from standard models. This suggests that mixing of different particle populations is occurring, although it remains difficult to understand whether this is caused by observational limitations (insufficient spatial resolution and/or projection effects) or by the intrinsic presence of multiple particle populations, possibly related to the two different outbursts. By using single-injection radiative models we compute that the total source age is <~80Myr and that the duty cycle is about t_on_/t_tot_~60%, which is enough to prevent the intracluster medium from cooling according to X-ray estimates. While to date the radio spectral distribution of 3C388 remains a rare case among radio galaxies, multi-frequency surveys performed with new generation instruments will soon allow us to investigate whether more sources with the same characteristics do actually exist.
415. C- and S-shaped radio galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/19.127
Title:
C- and S-shaped radio galaxies
Short Name:
J/other/RAA/19.1
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the environment of radio galaxies with different morphological types using the Proctor sample, which was built from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) survey archive. Among the 15 radio galaxy types classified by Proctor, 199 C-shaped (i.e., wide- or narrow-angle tail) and 203 S-shaped (i.e., S- or Z-shaped) sources are selected in this work, which are located in the redshift range of 0.02<z<1, because these two subsamples are relatively larger than the other subsamples in the Proctor sample. By cross-matching these radio galaxies with the optical sources drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database and counting the SDSS sources with an r-band absolute magnitude brighter than -19 located within a 0.5Mpc distance around each source (i.e., the richness), we find that the fraction of C-shaped sources with a richness above 10 is larger than that of S-shaped sources. We have also correlated the radio galaxies in our sample with the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) defined in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), and infer that the C-shaped sources are more likely to be BCGs than the S-shaped sources. These results support the idea that C-shaped radio galaxies often reside in a richer environment than radio galaxies with other morphological types.
416. Canes Venatici I images with LOFAR
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/2663
Title:
Canes Venatici I images with LOFAR
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/496/2663
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Dwarf galaxies are dark matter-dominated and therefore promising targets for the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are well-known candidates for dark matter. Annihilation of WIMPs produce ultra-relativistic cosmic-ray electrons and positrons that emit synchrotron radiation in the presence of magnetic fields. For typical magnetic field strengths (few G) and O(GeV-TeV) WIMP masses (and thus typical electron energies of the same order) this emission peaks at hundreds of MHz. Here, we use the non-detection of 150-MHz radio continuum emission from the dwarf spheroidal galaxy 'Canes Venatici I' with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LO-FAR) to derive constraints on the annihilation cross section of WIMPs into primary electron-positron and other fundamental particle-antiparticle pairs. In this first-of-its-kind LOFAR study, we obtain new constraints on annihilating WIMP dark matter (DM). Using conservative estimates for the magnetic field strengths and diffusion coefficients, we obtain limits that are comparable with those by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) using gamma-ray observations. Assuming s-wave annihilation and WIMPs making up 100% of the DM density, our limits exclude several thermal WIMP realisations in the [2, 20]-GeV mass range. A more ambitious multi-wavelength and multi-target LOFAR study could improve these limits by a few orders of magnitude.
417. Capodimonte Deep Field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/428/339
Title:
Capodimonte Deep Field
Short Name:
J/A+A/428/339
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the Capodimonte Deep Field (OACDF), a deep field covering an area of 0.5{deg}^2^ in the B, V, R optical bands plus six medium-band filters in the wavelength range 773-913nm. The field reaches the following limiting magnitudes: B_AB_~25.3, V_AB_~24.8 and R_AB_~25.1 and contains ~50000 extended sources in the magnitude range 18<=R_AB_<=25.0. Hence, it is intermediate between deep pencil beam surveys and very wide but shallow surveys.
418. Carbon star list (90<l<270, |b|<6)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/10.541
Title:
Carbon star list (90<l<270, |b|<6)
Short Name:
J/other/RAA/10.5
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The availability of astrometric data and radial velocities of carbon stars near the Galactic plane enables us to investigate the kinematics of the Milky Way, especially the rotation curve. The recently published Third U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC3) provides the opportunity to test this problem using three-dimensional velocity in order to obtain more reliable rotation curves. We intend to study the Galactic rotation curve up to 15kpc using the radial velocities and proper motions of carbon stars. The motivation for using UCAC3 is to provide high precision proper motions which have hardly been used in determining the rotation velocity of tracers. Seventy-four carbon stars and carbon-rich Mira variables toward the anti-center direction (90{deg}<l<270{deg}, |b|<6{deg}) are picked up from the literature then matched with UCAC3 carbon star candidates to obtain their proper motions. A rigorous geometrical method is employed to compute the rotation velocity of each object. Taking carbon stars as tracers, we find a flat rotation curve of 210+/-12km/s assuming R0=8.0kpc for the galactocentric distance and V0=220km/s for the rotation velocity of the Sun. Due to the uncertainties of distances, the rotation velocities are more dispersed if tangential velocities enter the calculation, compared to those derived from radial velocities only. However, the whole rotation curve shows coherence with previous results. Increasing observation and study of carbon stars would be desirable in order to provide more homogeneous data for the kinematical study of the Galactic disk.
419. Carbon stars in IC10
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/424/125
Title:
Carbon stars in IC10
Short Name:
J/A+A/424/125
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present wide field CFH12K observations of the highly reddened Local Group galaxy IC 10. Using R,I,CN and TiO filters we identify 676 carbon stars in the field of IC 10. After mapping the reddening in the field, from the colours of the G dwarfs seen along the line of sight, we determine the mean apparent magnitude of the C star population to be <I_0_>=19.78, leading to a true modulus of (m-M)_0_=24.35+/-0.11 (741+/-37kpc). The old red giant stars define an asymmetric halo. With a halo diameter of at least 30', IC 10 is among the largest dwarfs of the Local Group. The surface density of C stars follows a radial power law with a scale length of 2.36', a value nearly identical to the scale length defined by the old giants thus IC 10 has a stellar halo where the old and intermediate-age populations are well mixed.
420. Carbon stars in the Galaxy and its satellites
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/2653
Title:
Carbon stars in the Galaxy and its satellites
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/453/2653
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We assemble 121 spectroscopically confirmed halo carbon stars, drawn from the literature, exhibiting measurable variability in the Catalina Surveys. We present their periods and amplitudes, which are used to estimate distances from period-luminosity relationships. The location of the carbon stars - and their velocities when available - allow us to trace the streams of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal galaxy. These are compared to a canonical numerical simulation of the accretion of Sgr. We find that the data match this model well for heliocentric distances of 15-50kpc, except for a virtual lack of carbon stars in the trailing arm just north of the Galactic plane, and there is only tentative evidence of the leading arm south of the plane. The majority of the sample can be attributed to the Sgr accretion. We also find groups of carbon stars which are not part of Sgr; most of which are associated with known halo substructures. A few have no obvious attribution and may indicate new substructure. We find evidence that there may be a structure behind the Sgr leading stream apocentre, at ~100kpc, and a more distant extension to the Pisces Overdensity also at ~100kpc. We study a further 75 carbon stars for which no good period data could be obtained, and for which NIR magnitudes and colours are used to estimate distances. These data add support for the features found at distances beyond 100kpc.