- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/122/81
- Title:
- HST snapshot survey of 3CR radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/122/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and describe optical counterparts to 46 3CR radio galaxies of redshifts less than 0.1 that were imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) WFPC2 camera through the broadband F702W filter as part of the 3CR Snapshot Survey. This is the fifth and last such paper describing the 252 radio galaxies of this R-band survey. At the 0.1'' resolution of the images, a wealth of detail is visible. Approximately 89% of the galaxies are ellipticals, and nearly all reside in groups or clusters of galaxies of various richness and compactness. Nearby elliptical companions of slightly smaller size and mass are common. Dust is prevalent in the cores of the 3C hosts; nearly half of the galaxies possess some type of dust structure, such as irregular dust lanes, filaments, or disks. Besides the well-known dust disks of 3C 264 and 3C 270, we have found five new candidates in 3C 31, 3C 40, 3C 296, 3C 449, and 3C 465, as well as in the central regions of the nearby neighbors of 3C 31 and 3C 465. Our sample includes six confirmed optical synchrotron jets in 3C 15, 3C 66B, 3C 78, 3C 264, 3C 274, and 3C 371, or approximately 13% of the sample. Unresolved nuclei, consistent with the point spread function of WFPC2, are found in 43%-54% of the galaxies and in the majority of galaxies with dust disks and optical jets.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A93
- Title:
- IC 342 multi-frequency radio polarization study
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/578/A93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation and stabilization of spiral structures in galaxies, but the interaction between interstellar gas and magnetic fields has not yet been understood. In particular, the phenomenon of "magnetic arms" located between material arms is a mystery. The strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields and their relation to spiral arms in gas and dust are investigated in the nearby and almost face-on spiral galaxy IC 342.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/873/132
- Title:
- ICRF3 radio-loud quasars with Gaia DR2 data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/873/132
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate a sample of 3413 International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) extragalactic radio-loud sources with accurate positions determined by very long baseline interferometry in the S/X band, mostly active galactic nuclei and quasars, which are cross-matched with optical sources in the second Gaia data release (Gaia DR2). The main goal of this study is to determine a core sample of astrometric objects that define the mutual orientation of the two fundamental reference frames, the Gaia (optical) and the ICRF3 (radio) frames. The distribution of normalized offsets between the VLBI sources and their optical counterparts is non-Rayleigh, with a deficit around the modal value and a tail extending beyond the 3{sigma} confidence level. A few filters are applied to the sample in order to discard double cross-matches, confusion sources, and Gaia astrometric solutions of doubtful quality. Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System and Dark Energy Survey stacked multicolor images are used to further deselect objects that are less suitable for precision astrometry, such as extended galaxies, double and multiple sources, and obvious misidentifications. After this cleaning, 2643 quasars remain, of which 20% still have normalized offset magnitudes exceeding 3, or a 99% confidence level. We publish a list of 2119 radio-loud quasars of prime astrometric quality. The observed dependence of binned median offset on redshift shows the expected decline at small redshifts, but also an unexpected rise at z~1.6, which may be attributed to the emergence of the CIV emission line in the Gaia's G band. The Gaia DR2 parallax zero-point is found to be color-dependent, suggesting an uncorrected instrumental calibration effect.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/KFNT/27.299
- Title:
- ICRF stars near extragalactic radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/other/KFNT/27.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The compiled catalogue of 231044 stars was created from photographic and CCD observations of position catalogues observed by ground based telescopes. The catalogue destine for optical observations VLBI-ICRS astrometrical extragalactic radiosources (ERS) with telescopes equiped with CCD-cameras. The main purpose of this catalogue is to ensure the reference stars in optics for reducing positions of faint astrometrical ERS 17-22mag relative to more bright reference stars 14-17mag. The catalogue contains 231044 star positions in fields 40'x40' near 240 ERS. More than nine catalogues of stars coordinates were used for compiling the Pul-ERS catalogue. For 69% of stars the proper motions were taken from UCAC3 catalogue to convert the position stars to the common epoch. The number of position measurements for each star varies from one to more than ten records. The inner precision of positions of stars in Pul-ERS is from 4 to 150mas. 159331 stars of the compiled catalogue were identified with stars of the UCAC3. The average internal accuracy of positions on both coordinates is not worse 0.11".
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/25/447
- Title:
- Identification of radio sources. I.
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/25/447
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detailed identification of radio sources within the Abell radii in 26 rich galactic clusters of the FIRST catalog with optical objects of the APM and DSS surveys had been carried out. Of the 326 radio sources in the cluster fields, 99 are identified, 40 have probable identifications, and 187 are unidentified. Among last sources, 20 are definitely located in the clusters and 34 are cluster members with high probability. Thus, 30-40% of the FIRST radio sources could be identified using APM and DSS data, and there were two sources in each cluster on the average.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/73/835
- Title:
- Identifications of objects from RC Catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/73/835
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results from a continuing program for identification of sources from the RC catalog (from observations with the RATAN-600 radio telescope) with the APM (Automatic Plate Measuring) Northern Sky Catalogs available via the Internet are presented. The coordinate accuracy for the optical objects is better than 1".
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A70
- Title:
- Imaging GRB 980425 in millimetic and submm
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A70
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as a tool to study star formation in the Universe, so it is crucial to investigate whether their host galaxies and immediate environments are in any way special compared with other star-forming galaxies. Here we present spatially resolved maps of dust emission of the host galaxy of the closest known GRB 980425 at z=0.0085 using our new high-resolution observations from Herschel, APEX, ALMA and ATCA. We modeled the spectral energy distributions of the host and of the star-forming region displaying the Wolf-Rayet signatures in the spectrum (WR region), located 800pc away from the GRB position. The host is characterised by low dust content and high fraction of UV-visible star-formation, similar to other dwarf galaxies. Such galaxies are abundant in the local universe, so it is not surprising to find a GRB in one of them, assuming the correspondence between the GRB rate and star-formation. The WR region contributes substantially to the host emission at the far-infrared, millimeter and radio wavelengths and we propose this to be a consequence of its high gas density. If dense environments are also found close to the positions of other GRBs, then the ISM density should also be considered as an important factor influencing whether a given stellar population can produce a GRB, in a similar way as metallicity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/439/545
- Title:
- Infrared-faint radio sources catalog
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/439/545
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 1317 Infrared-faint radio sources (IFRSs) that, for the first time, are reliably detected in the infrared, generated by cross-correlating the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky survey with major radio surveys. Our IFRSs are brighter in both radio and infrared than the first-generation IFRSs that were undetected in the infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. We present the first spectroscopic redshifts of IFRSs, and find that all but one of the IFRSs with spectroscopy have z>2. We also report the first X-ray counterparts of IFRSs, and present an analysis of radio spectra and polarization, and show that they include gigahertz peaked-spectrum, compact steep-spectrum and ultra-steep-spectrum sources. These results, together with their WISE infrared colours and radio morphologies, imply that our sample of IFRSs represents a population of radio-loud active galactic nuclei at z>2. We conclude that our sample consists of lower redshift counterparts of the extreme first-generation IFRSs, suggesting that the fainter IFRSs are at even higher redshift.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/83/542
- Title:
- Integrated Radio Luminosities of Pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/83/542
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The integrated radio luminosities of 311 long-period (P>0.1s) and 27 short-period (P<0.1s) pulsars have been calculated using a new compilation of radio spectra. The luminosities are in the range 10^27^-10^30^erg/s for 88% of the long-period pulsars and 10^28^-10^31^erg/s for 88% of the short-period pulsars. We find a high correlation between the luminosity L and the estimate L1=S_(400)_*d^2^ from the catalog of Taylor et al. (1993, See Cat. <VII/189>. The factor 'eta' for transformation of the rotational energy of the neutron star into radio emission increases/decreases with increasing period for long-period/short-period pulsars. The mean value of 'eta'=-3.73 for the long-period and -4.85 for the short-period pulsars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/872/16
- Title:
- Integrated star formation law revisited. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/872/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use new and updated gas- and dust-corrected star formation rate (SFR) surface densities to revisit the integrated star formation law for local "quiescent" spiral, dwarf, and low surface brightness galaxies. Using UV-based SFRs with individual IR-based dust corrections, we find that "normal" spiral galaxies alone define a tight Σ<SUB>(HI+H2)–Σ</SUB>SFR_ relation described by an n=1.41<SUB>–0.07</SUB><SUP>+0.07</SUP> power law with a dispersion of 0.28<SUB>–0.02</SUB><SUP>+0.02</SUP> (errors reflect fitting and statistical uncertainties). The SFR surface densities are only weakly correlated with HI surface densities alone, exhibiting a stronger and roughly linear correlation with H<SUB>2</SUB> surface densities, similar to what is seen in spatially resolved measurements of disks. However, many dwarf galaxies lie below the star formation law defined by spirals, suggesting a low-density threshold in the integrated star formation law. We consider alternative scaling laws that better describe both spirals and dwarfs. Our improved measurement precision also allows us to determine that much of the scatter in the star formation law is intrinsic, and we search for correlations between this intrinsic scatter and secondary physical parameters. We find that dwarf galaxies exhibit second-order correlations with the total gas fraction, stellar mass surface density, and dynamical time, which may explain much of the scatter in the star formation law. Finally, we discuss various systematic uncertainties that should be kept in mind when interpreting any study of the star formation law, particularly the X(CO) conversion factor and the diameter chosen to define the star-forming disk in a galaxy.
