- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/563/A57
- Title:
- Long-term variability of AGN at hard X-rays
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/563/A57
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Variability at all observed wavelengths is a distinctive property of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Hard X-rays provide us with a view of the innermost regions of AGN, mostly unbiased by absorption along the line of sight. Characterizing the intrinsic hard X-ray variability of a large AGN sample and comparing it to the results obtained at lower X-ray energies can significantly contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the high-energy radiation. Swift/BAT provides us with the unique opportunity to follow, on time scales of days to years and with regular sampling, the 14-195keV emission of the largest AGN sample available up to date for this kind of investigation. As a continuation of an early work using the first 9 months of BAT data, we study the amplitude of the variations and their dependence on subclass and on energy, for a sample of 110 radio quiet and radio loud AGN selected from the BAT 58-month survey.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/612/437
- Title:
- Low-luminosity hard X-ray binaries candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/612/437
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a search for hard X-ray binaries (HXRBs) among previously unidentified sources from ROSAT PSPC pointed observations, using the automated X-ray source classifier ClassX.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/235/40
- Title:
- Low-mass black holes in Sy1 galaxies. II. SDSS-DR7
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/235/40
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A new sample of 204 low-mass black holes (LMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is presented with black hole masses in the range of (1-20)x10^5^M_{sun}_. The AGNs are selected through a systematic search among galaxies in the Seventh Data Release (DR7) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and careful analyses of their optical spectra and precise measurement of spectral parameters. Combining them with our previous sample selected from SDSS DR4 makes it the largest LMBH sample so far, totaling over 500 objects. Some of the statistical properties of the combined LMBH AGN sample are briefly discussed in the context of exploring the low-mass end of the AGN population. Their X-ray luminosities follow the extension of the previously known correlation with the [OIII] luminosity. The effective optical-to-X-ray spectral indices {alpha}_OX_, albeit with a large scatter, are broadly consistent with the extension of the relation with the near-UV luminosity L_2500{AA}_. Interestingly, a correlation of {alpha}_OX_ with black hole mass is also found, with {alpha}OX being statistically flatter (stronger X-ray relative to optical) for lower black hole masses. Only 26 objects, mostly radio loud, were detected in radio at 20cm in the FIRST survey, giving a radio-loud fraction of 4%. The host galaxies of LMBHs have stellar masses in the range of 10^8.8^-10^12.4^M_{sun}_ and optical colors typical of Sbc spirals. They are dominated by young stellar populations that seem to have undergone continuous star formation history.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/846/44
- Title:
- Luminous persistent sources in nearby galaxies search
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/846/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 121102, suggests that it is associated with a persistent radio-luminous compact source in the FRB host galaxy. Using the FIRST radio catalog, I present a search for luminous persistent sources in nearby galaxies, with radio luminosities >10% of the FRB 121102 persistent source luminosity. The galaxy sample contains about 30% of the total galaxy g-band luminosity within <108Mpc, in a footprint of 10600deg^2^. After rejecting sources likely due to active galactic nuclei activity or background sources, I am left with 11 candidates that are presumably associated with galactic disks or star-formation regions. At least some of these candidates are likely to be due to chance alignment. In addition, I find 85 sources within 1" of galactic nuclei. Assuming that the radio persistent sources are not related to galactic nuclei and that they follow the galaxy g-band light, the 11 sources imply a 95% confidence upper limit on the space density of luminous persistent sources of <~5x10^-5^Mpc^-3^, and that at any given time only a small fraction of galaxies host a radio-luminous persistent source (<~10^-3^L_*_^-1^). Assuming a persistent source lifetime of 100 years, this implies a birth rate of <~5x10^-7^yr^-1^Mpc^-3^. Given the FRB volumetric rate, and assuming that all FRBs repeat and are associated with persistent radio sources, this sets a lower limit on the rate of FRB events per persistent source of >~0.8yr^-1^. I argue that these 11 candidates are good targets for FRB searches and I estimate the FRB event rate from these candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/861/37
- Title:
- Luminous WISE-selected quasars in SDSS Stripe 82
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/861/37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectroscopically complete sample of 147 infrared-color-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) down to a 22{mu}m flux limit of 20mJy over the ~270deg^2^ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 region. Most of these sources are in the QSO luminosity regime (Lbol>~10^12^L_{sun}_) and are found out to z~3. We classify the AGNs into three types, finding 57 blue, unobscured Type-1 (broad-lined) sources; 69 obscured, Type-2 (narrow-lined) sources; and 21 moderately reddened Type-1 sources (broad-lined and E(B-V)>0.25). We study a subset of this sample in X-rays and analyze their obscuration to find that our spectroscopic classifications are in broad agreement with low, moderate, and large amounts of absorption for Type-1, red Type-1, and Type-2 AGNs, respectively. We also investigate how their X-ray luminosities correlate with other known bolometric luminosity indicators such as [OIII] line luminosity (L[OIII]) and infrared luminosity (L6{mu}m). While the X-ray correlation with L[OIII] is consistent with previous findings, the most infrared-luminous sources appear to deviate from established relations such that they are either underluminous in X-rays or overluminous in the infrared. Finally, we examine the luminosity function evolution of our sample, and by AGN type, in combination with the complementary, infrared-selected, AGN sample of Lacy et al. (2013), spanning over two orders of magnitude in luminosity. We find that the two obscured populations evolve differently, with reddened Type-1 AGNs dominating the obscured AGN fraction (~30%) for L_5{mu}m_>10^45^erg/s, while the fraction of Type-2 AGNs with L_5{mu}m_<10^45^erg/s rises sharply from 40% to 80% of the overall AGN population.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/222/12
- Title:
- Luminous X-ray candidates within D25 of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/222/12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using Chandra archive data we conduct a thorough survey of luminous X-ray sources. We directly analyze about 9400 ACIS Observations and cross-correlate the X-ray sources with 77000 galaxies within 250Mpc. The final catalog includes 119 unique luminous X-ray source candidates with L_X_>3x10^40^erg/s from 93 galaxies or 41 HLX candidates with L_X_>1x10^41^erg/s from 35 galaxies. We derive a moderate contamination rate due to foreground or background sources. We also cross-correlate the catalog with FIRST, perform variability and periodicity tests, and analyze one HLX candidate in particular. Our catalog could be a starting point to perform follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/154/155
- Title:
- Luminous X-ray sources Chandra fluxes
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/154/155
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the luminous X-ray sources in the Lockman Hole (LH) and the extended Groth strip (EGS) detected at 24{mu}m using the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) and also with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. We assemble optical/infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 45 X-ray/24{mu}m sources in the EGS and LH. Only about one-quarter of the hard X-ray/24{mu}m sources show pure type 1 active galactic nucleus (AGN) SEDs. More than half of the X-ray/24{mu}m sources have stellar emission-dominated or obscured SEDs, similar to those of local type 2 AGN and spiral/starburst galaxies. One-third of the sources detected in hard X-rays do not have a 24{mu}m counterpart. Two such sources in the LH have SEDs resembling those of S0/elliptical galaxies. The broad variety of SEDs in the optical-to-Spitzer bands of X-ray-selected AGNs means that AGNs selected according to the behavior in the optical/infrared will have to be supplemented by other kinds of data (e.g., X-ray) to produce unbiased samples of AGNs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/389/1074
- Title:
- LX-{sigma} relation of galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/389/1074
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use the ROSAT All-Sky Survey to study the X-ray properties of a sample of 625 groups and clusters of galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We stack clusters with similar velocity dispersions and investigate whether their average X-ray luminosities and surface brightness profiles vary with the radio activity level of their central galaxies. We find that at a given value of {sigma}, clusters with a central radio active galactic nucleus (AGN) have more concentrated X-ray surface brightness profiles, larger central galaxy masses and higher X-ray luminosities than clusters with radio-quiet central galaxies. The enhancement in X-ray luminosity is more than a factor of 2, is detected with better than 6{sigma} significance and cannot be explained by X-ray emission from the radio AGN itself. This difference is largely due to a subpopulation of radio-quiet, high velocity dispersion clusters with low-mass central galaxies. These clusters are underluminous at X-ray wavelengths when compared to otherwise similar clusters where the central galaxy is radio-loud, more massive, or both.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/424/2086
- Title:
- LX-T relation in galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/424/2086
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We measure the evolution of the X-ray luminosity-temperature (L_X_-T) relation since z~1.5 using a sample of 211 serendipitously detected galaxy clusters with spectroscopic redshifts drawn from the XMM Cluster Survey first data release (XCS-DR1). This is the first study spanning this redshift range using a single, large, homogeneous cluster sample. We compare our results to numerical simulations, where we fit simulated cluster samples using the same methods used on the XCS data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/667/79
- Title:
- Ly{alpha} emission-line galaxies at z=3.1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/667/79
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the results of an extremely deep, 0.28{deg}^2^ survey for z=3.1 Ly{alpha} emission-line galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South. By using a narrowband 5000{AA} filter and complementary broadband photometry from the MUSYC survey, we identify a statistically complete sample of 162 galaxies with monochromatic fluxes brighter than 1.5x10^-17^ergs/cm^2^/s and observer's frame equivalent widths greater than 80{AA}
