- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/2818
- Title:
- 87 radio loud quasars (RLS) with 3.6<=z<=4.4
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/2818
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We obtain a sample of 87 radio-loud quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) in the redshift range 3.6<=z<=4.4 by cross-correlating sources in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) radio survey (S_1.4GHz_>1mJy) with star-like objects having r<20.2 in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7. Of these 87 QSOs, 80 are spectroscopically classified in previous work (mainly SDSS), and form the training set for a search for additional such sources. We apply our selection to 2916 FIRST-DR7 pairs and find 15 likely candidates. Seven of these are confirmed as high-redshift quasars, bringing the total to 87. The candidates were selected using a neural-network, which yields 97 percent completeness (fraction of actual high-z QSOs selected as such) and an efficiency (fraction of candidates which are high-z QSOs) in the range of 47-60 percent. We use this sample to estimate the binned optical luminosity function (LF) of radio-loud QSOs at z~4, and also the LF of the total QSO population and its comoving density. Our results suggest that the radio-loud fraction at high z is similar to that at low z and that other authors may be underestimating the fraction at high z. Finally, we determine the slope of the optical LF and obtain results consistent with previous studies of radio-loud QSOs and of the whole population of QSOs. The evolution of the LF with redshift was for many years interpreted as a flattening of the bright-end slope, but has recently been re-interpreted as strong evolution of the break luminosity for high-z QSOs, and our results, for the radio-loud population, are consistent with this.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/1331
- Title:
- Radio observation of HDFS at 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/1331
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deep radio observations of a wide region centered on the Hubble Deep Field-South have been performed, providing one of the most sensitive sets of radio observations acquired on the Australia Telescope Compact Array to date. A central rms of ~10uJy is reached at four frequencies (1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz). In this paper the full source catalogs from the 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz observations are presented to complement Paper II (Huynh et al., 2005, Cat. J/AJ/130/1373) in this series, along with a detailed analysis of image quality and noise. We produce a consolidated catalog by matching sources across all four frequencies of our survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1358
- Title:
- Radio observations of the HDFS region. I
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1358
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper is the first of a series describing the results of the Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South radio survey. The survey was conducted at four wavelengths, 20, 11, 6, and 3cm, over a 4 year period and achieves an rms sensitivity of about 10{mu}Jy at each wavelength. We describe the observations and data reduction processes and present data on radio sources close to the center of the Hubble Deep Field-South. We discuss in detail the properties of a subset of these sources. The sources include both starburst galaxies and galaxies powered by an active galactic nucleus and range in redshift from 0.1 to 2.2. Some of them are characterized by unusually high radio-to-optical luminosities, presumably caused by dust extinction.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1373
- Title:
- Radio observations of the HDFS region. II
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1373
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper is part of a series describing the results from the Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South (ATHDFS) survey obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. This survey consists of observations at 1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz, all centered on the Hubble Deep Field-South. Here we present the first results from the extended observing campaign at 1.4GHz. A total of 466 sources have been cataloged to a local sensitivity of 5{sigma} (11{mu}Jy rms). A source extraction technique is developed that (1) successfully excludes spurious sources from the final source catalogs and (2) accounts for the nonuniform noise in our image. A source catalog is presented, and the general properties of the 1.4GHz image are discussed. We also present source counts derived from our ATHDFS 1.4GHz catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/2470
- Title:
- Radio observations of the HDFS region. IV.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/2470
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South (ATHDF-S) survey of the Hubble Deep Field-South (HDF-S) reaches sensitivities of ~10uJy at 1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz, making the ATHDF-S one of the deepest surveys ever performed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). Here, we present the optical identifications of the ATHDF-S radio sources using data from the literature. We find that ~66% of the radio sources have optical counterparts to I=23.5mag. Deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of the area identifies a further 12% of radio sources. We present new spectroscopic observations for 98 of the radio sources and supplement these spectroscopic redshifts with photometric ones calculated from five-band optical imaging.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/921
- Title:
- Radio properties of z < 0.3 quasars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/466/921
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To better constrain the hypotheses proposed to explain why only a few quasars are radio loud (R_L_), we compare the characteristics of 1958 nearby (z<=0.3) SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) quasars, covered by the FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) and NVSS (NRAO VLA Sky Survey) radio surveys. Only 22 per cent are R_L_ with log(L_1.4GHz_)>=22.5W/Hz, the majority being compact (C), weak radio sources (WRS), with log(L_1.4GHz_)<24.5W/Hz. 15 per cent of the RL quasars have extended radio morphologies: 3 per cent have a core and a jet (J), 2 per cent have a core with one lobe (L), and 10 per cent have a core with two lobes (T), the majority being powerful radio sources (PRS), with log(L_1.4GHz_)>=24.5W/Hz. In general, RL quasars have higher bolometric luminosities and ionization powers than radio-quiet (RQ) quasars. The WRS have comparable black hole (BH) masses as the RQ quasars, but higher accretion rates or radiative efficiencies. The PRS have higher BH masses than the WRS, but comparable accretion rates or radiative efficiencies. The WRS also have higher FWHM_{[OIII]} than the PRS, consistent with a coupling of the spectral characteristics of the quasars with their radio morphologies. Inspecting the SDSS images and applying a neighbour search algorithm reveal no difference between the RQ and RL quasars of their host galaxies, environments, and interaction. Our results prompt the conjecture that the phenomenon that sparks the RL phase in quasars is transient, intrinsic to the active galactic nuclei, and stochastic, due to the chaotic nature of the accretion process of matter on to the BHs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/375/931
- Title:
- Radio sources in the 6dFGS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/375/931
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have identified 7824 radio sources from the 1.4GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS, Cat. <VIII/65>) with galaxies brighter than K=12.75mag in the Second Incremental Data Release of the 6 degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS DR2, Cat. <VII/249>). The resulting sample of redshifts and optical spectra for radio sources over an effective sky area of 7076deg^2^ (about 17 per cent of the celestial sphere) is the largest of its kind ever obtained. NVSS radio sources associated with galaxies in the 6dFGS span a redshift range 0.003<z<0.3 and have median z{bar}=0.043. Through visual examination of 6dF spectra we have identified the dominant mechanism for radio emission from each galaxy. 60 per cent are fuelled by star formation and 40 per cent are fuelled by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered by a supermassive black hole. We have accurately determined the local radio luminosity function (RLF) at 1.4GHz for both classes of radio source and have found it to agree well with other recent determinations. From the RLF of star-forming galaxies we derive a local star formation density of 0.022+/-0.001M_{sun}_/yr/Mpc^3^, in broad agreement with recent determinations at radio and other wavelengths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/378/995
- Title:
- Radio survey of the 1H XMM/Chandra field
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/378/995
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a deep 610-MHz survey of the 1^H^ XMM-Newton/Chandra survey area with the Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope. The resulting maps have a resolution of ~7arcsec and an rms noise limit of 60Jy. To a 5{sigma} detection limit of 300Jy, we detect 223 sources within a survey area of 64arcmin in diameter. We compute the 610-MHz source counts and compare them to those measured at other radio wavelengths.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/391/297
- Title:
- Radio Survey of 7 X-ray Clusters of Galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/391/297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used at 1.38 and 2.38GHz to survey seven southern Abell clusters of galaxies with high X-ray luminosities: A2746, A2837, A3126, A3216, A3230, A3827 and A3836. The clusters have also been surveyed at 0.843GHz with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST). We have listed a complete 1.38-GHz sample of 149 radio sources within the Abell circles centred on their X-ray centroids. We compare their identification fractions, emitted 1.38-GHz and optical powers, radio spectral indices and radial variation in projected source density with those of the radio-selected samples of Slee et al. (1998AuJPh..51..971S). We compare our fractional radio luminosity function with that of the radio-selected samples of Ledlow and Owen (1996AJ....112....9L) and Slee et al. (1998AuJPh..51..971S). Three significant differences are noted between X-ray and radio-selected samples of clusters; (1) the X-ray sample has an excess of flat-spectrum radio sources; (2) the fractional radio luminosity function for the FR I sources in the X-ray selected sample is much steeper, implying that fewer of their cluster galaxies become hosts for the stronger FR I radio galaxies; (3) a complete absence of FR II radio galaxies in the X-ray selected sample. The average excess projected density of radio sources near our cluster centres is approx. 5 times the background source density.
1350. RASS-6dFGS catalogue
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/401/1151
- Title:
- RASS-6dFGS catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/401/1151
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of 3405 X-ray sources from the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) Bright Source Catalogue which fall within the area covered by the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). The catalogue is count-rate limited at 0.05cts/s in the X-ray and covers the area of sky with {delta}<0{deg} and |b|>10{deg}. The RASS-6dFGS sample was one of the additional target catalogues of the 6dFGS and as a result we obtained optical spectra for 2224 (65 per cent) RASS sources. Of these, 1715 (77 per cent) have reliable redshifts with a median redshift of z=0.16 (excluding the Galactic sources). For the optically bright sources (b_J_<=17.5) in the observed sample, over 90 per cent have reliable redshifts. The catalogue mainly comprises quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and active galaxies but also includes 238 Galactic sources. Of the sources with reliable redshifts the majority are type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN, 69 per cent), while 12 per cent are type 2 AGN, 6 per cent absorption-line galaxies and 13 per cent are stars. We also identify a small number of optically faint, very low redshift, compact objects which fall outside the general trend in the b_J_-z plane. The RASS-6dFGS catalogue complements a number of Northern hemisphere samples, particularly the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue-NRAO VLA Sky Survey (RBSC-NVSS) sample (Bauer et al., 2000, Cat. J/ApJS/129/547/), and furthermore, in the same region of sky (-40{deg}<{delta}<0{deg}) reveals an additional 561 sources that were not identified as part of that sample. We detect 918 sources (27 per cent) of the RASS-6dFGS sample in the radio using either the 1.4GHz NVSS or the 843MHz Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) catalogues and find that the detection rate changes with redshift. At redshifts larger than 1 virtually all of these sources have radio counterparts and with a median flux density of 1.15Jy, they are much stronger than the median flux density of 28.6mJy for the full sample. We attribute this to the fact that the X-ray flux of these objects is being boosted by a jet component, possibly Doppler boosted, that is only present in radio-loud AGN. The RASS-6dFGS sample provides a large set of homogeneous optical spectra ideal for future studies of X-ray emitting AGN.
