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261. Gravitationally lensed quasars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/2
Title:
Gravitationally lensed quasars
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/458/2
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of an imaging observation campaign conducted with the Subaru Telescope adaptive optics system (IRCS+AO188) on 28 gravitationally lensed quasars and candidates (23 doubles, 1 quad, 1 possible triple, and 3 candidates) from the SDSS Quasar Lens Search. We develop a novel modelling technique that fits analytical and hybrid point spread functions (PSFs), while simultaneously measuring the relative astrometry, photometry, as well as the lens galaxy morphology. We account for systematics by simulating the observed systems using separately observed PSF stars. The measured relative astrometry is comparable with that typically achieved with the Hubble Space Telescope, even after marginalizing over the PSF uncertainty. We model for the first time the quasar host galaxies in five systems, without a priori knowledge of the PSF, and show that their luminosities follow the known correlation with the mass of the supermassive black hole. For each system, we obtain mass models far more accurate than those previously published from low-resolution data, and we show that in our sample of lensing galaxies the observed light profile is more elliptical than the mass, for ellipticity >~0.25. We also identify eight doubles for which the sources of external and internal shear are more reliably separated, and should therefore be prioritized in monitoring campaigns aimed at measuring time delays in order to infer the Hubble constant.
262. griz light curves of 15 DES quasars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/123
Title:
griz light curves of 15 DES quasars
Short Name:
J/ApJ/862/123
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present accretion disk size measurements for 15 luminous quasars at 0.7<=z<=1.9 derived from griz light curves from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the disk sizes with continuum reverberation mapping using two methods, both of which are derived from the expectation that accretion disks have a radial temperature gradient and the continuum emission at a given radius is well described by a single blackbody. In the first method we measure the relative lags between the multiband light curves, which provides the relative time lag between shorter and longer wavelength variations. From this, we are only able to constrain upper limits on disk sizes, as many are consistent with no lag the 2{sigma} level. The second method fits the model parameters for the canonical thin disk directly rather than solving for the individual time lags between the light curves. Our measurements demonstrate good agreement with the sizes predicted by this model for accretion rates between 0.3 and 1 times the Eddington rate. Given our large uncertainties, our measurements are also consistent with disk size measurements from gravitational microlensing studies of strongly lensed quasars, as well as other photometric reverberation mapping results, that find disk sizes that are a factor of a few (~3) larger than predictions.
263. Group of quasars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/249/218
Title:
Group of quasars
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/249/218
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have found evidence for a large, elongated group of at least ten quasars with largest dimension ~100-200h-1Mpc at z~1.3, in the direction of ESO/SERC field 927, which has the field centre (1950) 10h40m00s, 05deg00'00". There are probably further members that have not yet been observed. The morphology of the group seems to be like a clump, but there might be some sub-grouping on scales ~20h-1Mpc. The group is similar in size and number of quasars to that found by Crampton, Cowley & Hartwick (1989). The fact that two such groups are now known is evidence that the distribution of quasars is not so simple as was previously thought: at large scales (>10h-1Mpc) the majority of quasars may be distributed uniformly and at random, but rare, large groups also occur. The groups may be large physical structures, but a strong association with the large structures of galaxies seems doubtful.
264. GTC spectra of z~2.3 quasars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/570/A96
Title:
GTC spectra of z~2.3 quasars
Short Name:
J/A+A/570/A96
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The advent of 8-10m class telescopes for the first time makes it possible to compare in detail quasars with similar luminosity and very different redshifts. We conducted a search for z-dependent gradients in line-emission diagnostics and derived physical properties by comparing, in a narrow bolometric luminosity range (logL~46.1+/-0.4erg/s), some of the most luminous local z<0.6 quasars with some of the lowest luminosity sources yet found at redshift z=2.1-2.5. Moderate signal-to-noise ratio spectra for 22 high-redshift sources were obtained with the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), for which the HST (largely the Faint Object Spectrograph) archive provides a low-redshift control sample. We compared the spectra in the context of the 4D Eigenvector 1 formalism, meaning that we divided both source samples into highly accreting population A and population B sources accreting at a lower rate. CIV {lambda}1549, the strongest and most reliable diagnostic line, shows very similar properties at both redshifts, which confirms the CIV {lambda}1549 profile differences at high redshift between populations A and B, which are well established in local quasars. The CIV {lambda}1549 blueshift that appears quasi-ubiquitous in higher L sources is found in only half (population A) of the quasars observed in the two samples. A CIV {lambda}1549 evolutionary Baldwin effect is certainly disfavored. We find evidence for lower metallicity in the GTC sample that may point toward a gradient with z. No evidence for a gradient in black hole mass or Eddington ratio is found. Spectroscopic differences established at low z are also present in much higher redshift quasars. Our results on the CIV {lambda}1549 blueshift suggest that it depends both on source luminosity and Eddington ratio. Given that our samples involve sources with very similar luminosity, the evidence for a systematic metallicity decrease, if real, points toward an evolutionary effect. Our samples are not large enough to effectively constrain possible changes of black hole mass or Eddington ratio with redshift. The two samples appear representative of a slowly evolving quasar population that is most likely present at all redshifts.
265. H{alpha} & H{beta} spectral regions of low-z QSOs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/234/16
Title:
H{alpha} & H{beta} spectral regions of low-z QSOs
Short Name:
J/ApJS/234/16
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Using the quasars with z_em_<0.9 from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, we measure the spectral characteristics, including continuum and emission lines, around the H{beta} and H{alpha} spectral regions, which are lacking in Quasar Data Release 12 (DR12Q). We estimate the virial black hole mass from broad H{alpha} and/or H{beta}, and infer quasar redshifts from [OIII]{lambda}5007 emission lines. All the measurements and derived quantities are publicly available. A comparison between [OIII]{lambda}5007 redshifts and the visual inspection redshifts included in DR12Q indicates that the visual inspection redshifts are robust. We find that the full widths at half maximum of the broad H{alpha} are consistent with those of the broad H{beta}, while both the equivalent widths and line luminosities of the broad H{alpha} are obviously larger than the corresponding quantities of the broad H{beta}. We also find that there is an obviously systematic offset between the H{beta} and H{alpha} based mass if they are inferred from the empirical relationships in the literature. Using our large quasar sample, we have improved the H{beta} and H{alpha} based mass estimators by minimizing the difference between the H{beta}- and H{alpha}-based masses. For the black hole mass estimator (Equation (1)), we find that the coefficients (a,b)=(7.00,0.50) for H{alpha} and (a,b)=(6.96,0.50) for H{beta} are the best choices.
266. Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. III.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/358/77
Title:
Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. III.
Short Name:
J/A+A/358/77
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Appendix to the above paper, containing the two large tables A.1 and B.1 described in the paper. Table A.1 gives the basic properties of the 207 survey fields used to construct the flux-limited sample, including field-dependent magnitude limits and adopted extinction values. Table B.1 lists the 415 QSOs and Seyfert 1 galaxies that form the sample, with positions, redshift and magnitudes, plus a cross-identification with the 1995 version of the AGN catalogue by Veron-Cetty & Veron (see Cat. <VII/215>).
267. Hamburg/RASS Cat. of optical ident. V3.0
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/406/535
Title:
Hamburg/RASS Cat. of optical ident. V3.0
Short Name:
J/A+A/406/535
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the Hamburg/RASS Catalogue (HRC) of optical identifications of X-ray sources at high-galactic latitude. The HRC includes all X-ray sources from the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC) with galactic latitude |b|>=30{deg} and declination DE>=0{deg}. In this part of the sky covering ~10 000 deg^2^ the RASS-BSC contains 5341 X-ray sources. For the optical identification we used blue Schmidt prism and direct plates taken for the northern hemisphere Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) which are now available in digitized form. The limiting magnitudes are 18.5 and 20, respectively. For 82% of the selected RASS-BSC an identification could be given. For the rest either no counterpart was visible in the error circle or a plausible identification was not possible. With ~42% AGN represent the largest group of X-ray emitters, ~31% have a stellar counterpart, whereas galaxies and cluster of galaxies comprise only ~4% and ~5%, respectively. In ~3% of the RASS-BSC sources no object was visible on our blue direct plates within 40" around the X-ray source position. The catalogue is used as a source for the selection of (nearly) complete samples of the various classes of X-ray emitters.
268. Hamburg/SAO Survey for ELGs. VI.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/442/109
Title:
Hamburg/SAO Survey for ELGs. VI.
Short Name:
J/A+A/442/109
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the sixth list with results of the Hamburg/SAO Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies. The final list resulted from follow-up spectroscopy conducted with the 4.5m MMT telescope in 1996, and with 2.2m CAHA and 6m SAO telescopes in 2000 to 2003. The data of this snap-shot spectroscopy survey confirmed 134 emission-line objects out of 182 observed candidates and allowed their quantitative spectral classification and redshift determination. We classify 73 emission-line objects as definite or probable blue compact or HII galaxies (BCG), 8 as QSOs, 4 as Seyfert 1 and 2 galaxies. 30 low-excitation objects were classified as definite or probable starburst nuclei (SBN), 3 as dwarf amorphous nuclei starburst galaxies (DANS) and 2 as LINERs. Due to the low signal-to-noise ratio we could not classify 14 ELGs (NON). For another 9 galaxies we did not detect any significant emission lines. For 98 emission-line galaxies, the redshifts and/or line intensities are determined for the first time. For the remaining 28 previously-known ELGs we give either improved data the line intensities or some independent measurements. The detection rate of ELGs is ~70%. This paper completes the classification of strong-lined ELGs found in the zone of the Hamburg/SAO survey. Together with previously known BCG/HII galaxies in this zone, this sample of ~500 objects is the largest to date in a well bound region.
269. HAQ survey: red QSO candidates follow-up
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/217/5
Title:
HAQ survey: red QSO candidates follow-up
Short Name:
J/ApJS/217/5
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) whose spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are reddened by dust either in their host galaxies or in intervening absorber galaxies are to a large degree missed by optical color selection criteria like the ones used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To overcome this bias against red QSOs, we employ a combined optical and near-infrared (near-IR) color selection. In this paper, we present a spectroscopic follow-up campaign of a sample of red candidate QSOs which were selected from the SDSS and the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The spectroscopic data and SDSS/UKIDSS photometry are supplemented by mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. In our sample of 159 candidates, 154 (97%) are confirmed to be QSOs. We use a statistical algorithm to identify sightlines with plausible intervening absorption systems and identify nine such cases assuming dust in the absorber similar to Large Magellanic Cloud sightlines. We find absorption systems toward 30 QSOs, 2 of which are consistent with the best-fit absorber redshift from the statistical modeling. Furthermore, we observe a broad range in SED properties of the QSOs as probed by the rest-frame 2{mu}m flux. We find QSOs with a strong excess as well as QSOs with a large deficit at rest-frame 2{mu}m relative to a QSO template. Potential solutions to these discrepancies are discussed. Overall, our study demonstrates the high efficiency of the optical/near-IR selection of red QSOs.
270. Hard 2-10kev X-ray selected sources
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/466/823
Title:
Hard 2-10kev X-ray selected sources
Short Name:
J/A+A/466/823
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present Chandra and Spitzer data for the 186, extragalactic, hard 2-10keV X-ray selected sources, which lie in the central part of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). For the vast majority of sources (99.5%), there is a spectroscopic or photometric redshift available. We classify 17 sources as X-ray obscured QSOs, strictly according to X-ray criteria, i.e. defined as having large hydrogen column densities (NH>10^22cm^-2^) and luminosities (LX>10^44^erg/s). The surface density of X-ray obscured QSOs is ~210{deg}^-2^. We find 18 candidate Compton-thick NH>10^24^cm^-2^ sources, of which three have QSO luminosities (LX>10^44^erg/s). The X-ray obscured QSO comprise a mixed bag of objects, covering the redshift range z=1.3-4.3. Eight of these show narrow-line optical spectra, two show no obscuration in their optical spectra that present broad lines, while for the other seven there is only a photometric redshift available. About half of the X-ray obscured QSOs show high X-ray to optical flux ratios, X/O>1, and red colours, I-3.6{mu}m>4. Combining the X-ray with the mid-IR 8{mu}m or 24{mu}m flux can be used as an additional diagnostic to sift out the heavily obscured AGN. All X-ray selected QSOs present red mid-IR colours and can be easily separated among mid-IR sources, demonstrating that mid-IR selection provides a powerful tool for detecting obscured QSOs.