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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/679/239
- Title:
- Associated MgII absorbers
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/679/239
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We studied a sample of 415 associated (z_abs_~z_em_; relative velocity with respect to QSO in units of c, {beta}<0.01) MgII absorption systems with 1.0<=z_abs_<=1.86, in the spectra of SDSS DR3 QSOs, to determine the dust content and ionization state in the absorbers. We also compared these properties to those of a similarly selected sample of 809 intervening systems ({beta}>0.01), so as to understand their origin. Normalized, composite spectra were derived for absorption line measurements, for the full sample and for several subsamples, chosen on the basis of the line strengths and other absorber and QSO properties. From these, and from the equivalent widths in individual spectra, we conclude that the associated MgII absorbers have higher ionization (higher ratios of the strengths of CIV and MgII lines), than the intervening absorbers. The ionization decreases with increasing {beta}. Average extinction curves were obtained for the subsamples by comparing their geometric mean QSO spectra with those of matching (in z_em_ and i magnitude) samples of QSOs without absorption lines. There is clear evidence for SMC-like dust attenuation in these systems; the 2175{AA} absorption feature is absent. The extinction is almost twice that observed in intervening systems. We reconfirm that QSOs with nonzero FIRST radio flux are intrinsically redder than the QSOs with no detection in the FIRST survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/644/A17
- Title:
- Astrometrically-selected QSO candidates
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/644/A17
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Here we explore the efficiency and fidelity of a purely astrometric selection of quasars as point sources with zero proper motions in the Gaia data release 2 (DR2). We have built a complete candidate sample including 104 Gaia-DR2 point sources, which are brighter than 20th magnitude in the Gaia G-band within one degree of the north Galactic pole (NGP); all of them have proper motions that are consistent with zero within 2{sigma} uncertainty. In addition to pre-existing spectra, we have secured long-slit spectroscopy of all the remaining candidates and find that all 104 stationary point sources in the field can be classified as either quasars (63) or stars (41). One of the new quasars that we discover is particularly interesting as the line-of-sight to it passes through the disc of a foreground (z=0.022) galaxy, which imprints both NaD absorption and dust extinction on the quasar spectrum. The selection efficiency of the zero-proper-motion criterion at high Galactic latitudes is thus =~60%. Based on this complete quasar sample, we examine the basic properties of the underlying quasar population within the imposed limiting magnitude. We find that the surface density of quasars is 20deg^-2^ (at G<20mag), the redshift distribution peaks at z~1.5, and only eight systems (13_-3_^+5^%) show significant dust reddening. We then explore the selection efficiency of commonly used optical, near-, and mid-infrared quasar identification techniques and find that they are all complete at the 85-90% level compared to the astrometric selection. Finally, we discuss how the astrometric selection can be improved to an efficiency of =~70% by including an additional cut requiring parallaxes of the candidates to be consistent with zero within 2{sigma}. The selection efficiency will further increase with the release of future, more sensitive astrometric measurements from the Gaia mission. This type of selection, which is purely based on the astrometry of the quasar candidates, is unbiased in terms of colours and intrinsic emission mechanisms of the quasars and thus provides the most complete census of the quasar population within the limiting magnitude of Gaia.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/487/539
- Title:
- A survey for quasars near quasars - QNQ
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/487/539
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of our slitless spectroscopic survey for quasars near 18 known high-redshift quasars (QNQ). The three tables list the survey fields (26.2'x33.5'), the newly confirmed quasars and the remaining unconfirmed quasar candidates, respectively. For each confirmed quasar we give the equatorial coordinates, the redshift measured from the follow-up slit spectra, the redshift uncertainty and the Johnson B magnitude with uncertainty. The redshift uncertainty has been determined from the redshift dispersions of several emission lines. For the remaining candidates we list the equatorial coordinates, the approximate V magnitude, the redshift based on the slitless spectrum and our assessment of the redshift confidence.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/956
- Title:
- AT20G high-angular-resolution catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/434/956
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the high-angular-resolution catalogue for the Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G, Cat. J/MNRAS/402/2403) survey, using the high-angular-resolution 6-km antenna data at the baselines of ~4500m of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We have used the data to produce the visibility catalogue that separates the compact active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the extended radio sources at the 0.15arcsec angular scale, corresponding to the linear size scale of 1kpc at redshifts higher than 0.7. We find the radio population at 20GHz to be dominated by compact AGNs constituting 77% of the total sources in the AT20G. We introduce the visibility-spectra diagnostic plot, produced using the AT20G cross-matches with lower frequency radio surveys at 1GHz [the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS, Cat. VIII/65) and the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS, Cat. VIII/81)], that separates the 20GHz population into distinct sub-populations of the compact AGNs, the compact steep-spectrum (CSS) sources, the extended AGN-powered sources and extended flat-spectrum sources. The extended flat-spectrum sources include a local thermal emitting population of high-latitude planetary nebulae and also gravitational lens and binary black hole candidates among the AGNs. We find a smooth transition in properties between the CSS sources and the AGN populations. The visibility catalogue, together with the main AT20G survey, provides an estimate of angular size scales for sources in the AT20G and an estimate of the flux arising from central cores of extended radio sources. The identification of the compact AGNs in the AT20G survey provides high-quality calibrators for high-frequency radio telescope arrays and very large baseline interferometry observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/107
- Title:
- Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) quasar catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/107
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of quasar selection using the supernova fields of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completeness and efficiency of selection methods involving color, probabilistic modeling, variability, and combinations of color/probabilistic modeling with variability. In all cases, we considered only objects that appear as point sources in the DES images. We examine color selection methods based on the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) (Wright et al. 2010AJ....140.1868W) mid-IR W1-W2 color, a mixture of WISE and DES colors (g-i and i-W1), and a mixture of Vista Hemisphere Survey (McMahon et al. 2013Msngr.154...35M) and DES colors (g-i and i-K). For probabilistic quasar selection, we used XDQSO, an algorithm that employs an empirical multi-wavelength flux model of quasars to assign quasar probabilities. Our variability selection uses the multi-band {chi}^2^-probability that sources are constant in the DES Year 1 griz-band light curves. The completeness and efficiency are calculated relative to an underlying sample of point sources that are detected in the required selection bands and pass our data quality and photometric error cuts. We conduct our analyses at two magnitude limits, i<19.8 mag and i<22 mag. For the subset of sources with W1 and W2 detections, the W1-W2 color or XDQSOz method combined with variability gives the highest completenesses of >85% for both i-band magnitude limits and efficiencies of >80% to the bright limit and >60% to the faint limit; however, the giW1 and giW1+variability methods give the highest quasar surface densities. The XDQSOz method and combinations of W1W2/giW1/XDQSOz with variability are among the better selection methods when both high completeness and high efficiency are desired. We also present the OzDES Quasar Catalog of 1263 spectroscopically confirmed quasars from three years of OzDES observation in the 30 deg^2^ of the DES supernova fields. The catalog includes quasars with redshifts up to z~4 and brighter than i=22 mag, although the catalog is not complete up to this magnitude limit.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/165/1
- Title:
- BAL QSOs from SDSS DR3
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/165/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a total of 4784 unique broad absorption line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release (Cat. <VII/243>). An automated algorithm was used to match a continuum to each quasar and to identify regions of flux at least 10% below the continuum over a velocity range of at least 1000km/s in the CIV and MgII absorption regions. The model continuum was selected as the best-fit match from a set of template quasar spectra binned in luminosity, emission line width, and redshift, with the power-law spectral index and amount of dust reddening as additional free parameters. We characterize our sample through the traditional balnicity index and a revised absorption index, as well as through parameters such as the width, outflow velocity, fractional depth, and number of troughs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/791/128
- Title:
- Basic galaxy data for spiral-rich group members
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/791/128
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, the COS Science Team has conducted a high signal-to-noise survey of 14 bright QSOs. In a previous paper (Savage et al., 2014ApJS..212....8S), these far-UV spectra were used to discover 14 "warm" (T >= 10^5^ K) absorbers using a combination of broad Ly{alpha} and broad O VI absorptions. A reanalysis of a few of this new class of absorbers using slightly relaxed fitting criteria finds as many as 20 warm absorbers could be present in this sample. A shallow, wide spectroscopic galaxy redshift survey has been conducted around these sight lines to investigate the warm absorber environment, which is found to be spiral-rich groups or cluster outskirts with radial velocity dispersions {sigma}=250-750 km/s. While 2{sigma} evidence is presented favoring the hypothesis that these absorptions are associated with the galaxy groups and not with the individual, nearest galaxies, this evidence has considerable systematic uncertainties and is based on a small sample size so it is not entirely conclusive. If the associations are with galaxy groups, the observed frequency of warm absorbers (idN/dz = 3.5-5 per unit redshift) requires them to be very extended as an ensemble on the sky (~1 Mpc in radius at high covering factor). Most likely these warm absorbers are interface gas clouds whose presence implies the existence of a hotter (T ~ 10^6.5^ K), diffuse, and probably very massive (>10^11^ M_{sun}_) intra-group medium which has yet to be detected directly.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/132/K4102
- Title:
- Beamed and unbeamed emission of gamma-ray blazars
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/132/K4102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A two-component model of radio emission has been used to explain some radio observational properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and, in particular, of blazars. In this work, we extend the two-component idea to the {gamma}-ray emission and assume that the total {gamma}-ray output of blazars consists of relativistically beamed and unbeamed components. The basic idea leverages the correlation between the radio core-dominance parameter and the {gamma}-ray beaming factor. To do so, we evaluate this correlation for a large sample of 584 blazars taken from the fourth source catalog of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and correlated their {gamma}-ray core-dominance parameters with radio core-dominance parameters. The {gamma}-ray beaming factor is then used to estimate the beamed and unbeamed components. Our analysis confirms that the {gamma}-ray emission in blazars is mainly from the beamed component.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/645/856
- Title:
- Beamed radio-intermediate quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/645/856
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Whether radio-intermediate quasars possess relativistic jets as radio-loud quasars do is an important issue in the understanding of the origin of radio emission in quasars. In this paper, using the two-epoch radio data obtained during the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST) and NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), we identified 89 radio-variable sources in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among them, more than half are radio-intermediate quasars (RL=f_20cm_/f_2500{AA}_<250). For all objects with available multiple-band radio observations, the radio spectra are either flat or inverted. The brightness temperature inferred from the variability is larger than the synchrotron self-Compton limit for a stationary source in 87 objects, indicating relativistic beaming. Considering the sample selection and the viewing angle effect, we conclude that relativistic jets probably exist in a substantial fraction of radio-intermediate quasars.
