- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/424/371
- Title:
- 1.4GHz First Look Survey (FLS)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/424/371
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The First Look Survey (FLS) is the first scientific product to emerge from the Spitzer Space Telescope. A small region of this field (the verification strip) has been imaged very deeply, permitting the detection of cosmologically distant sources. We present Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations of this region, encompassing a 1 sq. deg field, centred on the verification strip (J2000 RA=17:17:00.00, DE=59:45:00.000). The radio images reach a noise level of 8.5 microJy per beam - the deepest WSRT image made to date. We summarise here the first results from the project, and present the final mosaic image, together with a list of detected sources. The effect of source confusion on the position, size and flux density of the faintest sources in the source catalogue are also addressed. The results of a serendipitous search for HI emission in the field are also presented. Using a subset of the data, we clearly detect HI emission associated with four galaxies in the central region of the FLSv. These are identified with nearby, massive galaxies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/474/1093
- Title:
- 30GHz flux densities of CJF sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/474/1093
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The aim was to measure the 30-GHz flux densities of the 293 sources in the Caltech-Jodrell Bank flat-spectrum (CJF) sample. The measurements are part of an ongoing programme to measure the spectral energy distributions of flat spectrum radio sources and to correlate them with the milliarcsecond structures from VLBI and other measured astrophysical properties. The 30-GHz data were obtained with a twin-beam differencing radiometer system mounted on the Torun 32-m telescope. The system has an angular resolution of 1.2arcmin. Together with radio spectral data obtained from the literature, the 30-GHz data have enabled us to identify 42 of the CJF sources as Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. Seventeen percent of the sources have rising spectra (alpha>0) between 5 and 30GHz.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/488/224
- Title:
- 4.85 GHz fluxes of H II regions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/488/224
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an all-sky flux catalog of 760 H II regions with angular sizes ranging up to 10' at 4.85GHz. The data were compiled in a self-consistent manner from existing images of the Green Bank and Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz radio continuum surveys. Nearly 35% of these H II regions have fluxes measured from these surveys for the first time. We compared our results to the previously published source catalogs which fit the same data. The new flux measurements agree within 5%-7% of these values and fall well within the formal errors. The diameters fall within 16% of the previously published fits to the same data, within the formal uncertainties of these values.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/604/A111
- Title:
- 22GHz image of 3C 273
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/604/A111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- RadioAstron is a 10m orbiting radio telescope mounted on the Spektr-R satellite, launched in 2011, performing Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (SVLBI) observations supported by a global ground array of radio telescopes. With an apogee of ~350000km, it is offering for the first time the possibility to perform as-resolution imaging in the cm-band. The RadioAstron Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) polarization Key Science Project (KSP) aims at exploiting the unprecedented angular resolution provided by RadioAstron to study jet launching/collimation and magnetic-field configuration in AGN jets. The targets of our KSP are some of the most powerful blazars in the sky. We present observations at 22GHz of 3C 273, performed in 2014, designed to reach a maximum baseline of approximately nine Earth diameters. Reaching an angular resolution of 0.3mas, we study a particularly low-activity state of the source, and estimate the nuclear region brightness temperature, comparing with the extreme one detected one year before during the RadioAstron early science period.We also make use of the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR survey data, at 43GHz, to study the kinematics of the jet in a ~1.5-year time window. We find that the nuclear brightness temperature is two orders of magnitude lower than the exceptionally high value detected in 2013 with RadioAstron at the same frequency (1.4x10^13^K, source-frame), and even one order of magnitude lower than the equipartition value. The kinematics analysis at 43 GHz shows that a new component was ejected ~2 months after the 2013 epoch, visible also in our 22GHz map presented here. Consequently this was located upstream of the core during the brightness temperature peak. Fermi-LAT observations for the period 2010-2014 do not show any gamma-ray flare in conjunction with the passage of the new component by the core at 43GHz. These observations confirm that the previously detected extreme brightness temperature in 3C 273, exceeding the inverse Compton limit, is a short-lived phenomenon caused by a temporary departure from equipartition. Thus, the availability of interferometric baselines capable of providing as angular resolution does not systematically imply measured brightness temperatures over the known physical limits for astrophysical sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/123/1784
- Title:
- 1.4 GHz imaging of the Bootes field
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/123/1784
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results from our deep (16x12hr) Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations of the approximately 7{deg}^2^ Bootes Deep Field, centered at 14h 32min 05.75s, 34{deg} 16' 47.5" (J2000.0). Our survey consists of 42 discrete pointings, with enough overlap to ensure a uniform sensitivity across the entire field, with a limiting sensitivity of 28{mu}Jy (1{sigma}_rms_). The catalog contains 3172 distinct sources, of which 316 are resolved by the 13"x27" beam. The Bootes field is part of the optical/near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy survey effort conducted at various institutions. The combination of these data sets and the deep nature of the radio observations will allow unique studies of a large range of topics including the redshift evolution of the luminosity function of radio sources, the K-z relation, the clustering environment of radio galaxies, the radio/far-infrared correlation for distant starbursts, and the nature of obscured radio-loud active galactic nuclei. The observations were carried out by the WSRT operating at 1.380GHz. The WSRT consists of 14 25m-telescopes arranged in a 2.7km east-west configuration. As the back end, we used the digital continuum back end with eight subbands of 10MHz bandwidth each. The smallest baseline (9-A) was set to 54m to limit shadowing at the expense of a reduction in large spatial structure sensitivity (~800" for this minimum baseline and frequency).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/474/219
- Title:
- 6.7 GHz methanol masers observations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/474/219
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report results of 6.7GHz methanol maser monitoring of 139 star-forming sites with the Torun 32-m radio telescope from 2009 June to 2013 February. The targets were observed at least once a month, with higher cadences of two to four measurements per week for circumpolar objects. Nearly 80 per cent of the sources display variability greater than 10 per cent on a time-scale between a week and a few years, but about three quarters of the sample have only one to three spectral features that vary significantly. Irregular intensity fluctuation is the dominant type of variability and only nine objects show evidence for cyclic variations with periods of 120 to 416d. Synchronized and anticorrelated variations of maser features are detected in four sources with a disc-like morphology. Rapid and high-amplitude bursts of individual features are seen on three to five occasions in five sources. Long (>50d to 20 months) lasting bursts are observed mostly for individual or groups of features in 19 sources and only one source experienced a remarkable global flare. A few flaring features display a strong anticorrelation between intensity and line-width that is expected for unsaturated amplification. There is a weak anticorrelation between the maser feature luminosity and variability measure, i.e. maser features with low luminosity tend to be more variable than those with high luminosity. The analysis of the spectral energy distribution and continuum radio emission reveals that the variability of the maser features increases when the bolometric luminosity and Lyman flux of the exciting object decreases. Our results support the concept of a major role for infrared pumping photons in triggering outburst activity of maser emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/403/1095
- Title:
- 6.7GHz methanol masers survey of low-mass YSO
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/403/1095
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a search for 6.7-GHz methanol masers toward low-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) and (pre)protostellar condensations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). Our sample consisted of 13 class 0 protostars and 44 class I YSOs as well as 66 (pre)protostellar condensations. A single detection was obtained toward NGC 2024: FIR4 in the Orion B region. This is the first detection of a 6.7-GHz methanol maser in Orion. The nature of FIR4 has been a subject of debate with some evidence suggesting that it is a very cold high-mass (pre)protostellar condensation and others arguing that it is a low-mass YSO. The discovery of a methanol maser associated with this source is inconsistent with both of these hypotheses and we suggest that FIR4 probably harbours an intermediate- or high-mass YSO.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/96
- Title:
- 6-GHz methanol multibeam maser catalogue
- Short Name:
- VIII/96
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a Galactic plane survey of methanol masers at 6668 MHz using a seven-beam receiver on the Parkes telescope, refered to as MX observations. Paper I provides sensitive unbiased coverage of a large region around the Galactic Centre. Details are given for 183 methanol maser sites in the longitude range 345{deg} through the Galactic Centre to 6{deg}. Within 6{deg} of the Galactic Centre, we found 88 maser sites, of which more than half (48) are new discoveries. The masers are confined to a narrow Galactic latitude range, indicative of many sources at the Galactic Centre distance and beyond, and confined to a thin disc population; there is no high-latitude population that might be ascribed to the Galactic bulge. Paper II spans the longitude range 6{deg} to 20{deg}. We report the detection of 119 maser sources, of which 42 are new discoveries. Paper III covers the longitude range 330{deg}-345{deg}, yielding 198 masers, of which more than 40 per cent are new discoveries. Paper IV span the longitude range 186{deg}-330{deg}. We report 207 maser detections, 89 new to the survey. This completes the southern sky part of the methanol multibeam survey and includes a large proportion of new sources, 43 per cent. We also include results from blind observations of the Orion-Monoceros star-forming region, formally outside the latitude range of the methanol multibeam survey; only the four previously known methanol emitting sites were detected, of which we present new positions and spectra for masers at Orion A (south) and Orion B, obtained with the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) array.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/137/3718
- Title:
- 15GHz monitoring of AGN jets with VLBA
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/137/3718
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present images from a long-term program (MOJAVE: Monitoring of Jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with VLBA Experiments) to survey the structure and evolution of parsec-scale jet phenomena associated with bright radio-loud active galaxies in the northern sky. The observations consist of 2424 15GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) images of a complete flux-density-limited sample of 135 AGNs above declination -20{deg}, spanning the period 1994 August to 2007 September. These data were acquired as part of the MOJAVE and 2cm Survey programs, and from the VLBA archive. The sample-selection criteria are based on multi-epoch parsec-scale (VLBA) flux density, and heavily favor highly variable and compact blazars. The sample includes nearly all the most prominent blazars in the northern sky, and is well suited for statistical analysis and comparison with studies at other wavelengths. Our multi-epoch and stacked-epoch images show 94% of the sample to have apparent one-sided jet morphologies, most likely due to the effects of relativistic beaming. Of the remaining sources, five have two-sided parsec-scale jets, and three are effectively unresolved by the VLBA at 15GHz, with essentially all of the flux density contained within a few tenths of a milliarcsecond.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/65
- Title:
- 1.4GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS)
- Short Name:
- VIII/65
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) is a radio continuum survey covering the sky north of -40{deg} declination at 1.4GHz. The principal data products of the NVSS are a set of 2326 4x4{deg} continuum "cubes" with three planes containing Stokes I, Q, and U images, plus a catalog of almost 2 million discrete sources stronger than a flux density of about 2.5mJy. The images all have 45 arcsecond FWHM angular resolution and nearly uniform sensitivity. Their rms brightness fluctuations are approximately 0.45mJy/beam=0.14K (Stokes I) and 0.29mJy/beam=0.09K (Stokes Q and U). The rms uncertainties in right ascension and declination vary from <= ~1arcsecond for the 400,000 sources stronger than 15mJy to 7arcseconds at the survey limit. A more detailed description is provided in the printed paper and at the NVSS website at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/ where all data products, user software, and updates were released as soon as they were produced and verified.
