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16331. Ultraviolet survey of M31 with UVIT on AstroSat
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/47
Title:
Ultraviolet survey of M31 with UVIT on AstroSat
Short Name:
J/ApJS/247/47
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
An ultraviolet survey of M31 has been carried out during 2017-19 with the UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) instrument on board the AstroSat Observatory. Here we analyze far- and near-ultraviolet (FUV and NUV) observations from the M31 UVIT survey, which covers a sky area of ~3{deg}x1{deg} with spatial resolution of ~1". The observations included six filter bands in the wavelength range of 120-280nm. The limiting magnitude (AB) in the FUV band (CaF2 filter), which has the largest number of detected sources, is ~23. The primary product of this work is the M31 UVIT point-source catalog containing positions and photometry. In total ~75000 sources were detected at FUV or NUV wavelengths.
16332. UltraVISTA Catalogue Release DR1
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/544/A156
Title:
UltraVISTA Catalogue Release DR1
Short Name:
J/A+A/544/A156
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this paper we describe the first data release of the UltraVISTA near-infrared imaging survey of the COSMOS field. We summarise the key goals and design of the survey and provide a detailed description of our data reduction techniques. We provide stacked, sky-subtracted images in Y JHKs and narrow-band filters constructed from data collected during the first year of UltraVISTA observations.
16333. UltraVISTA ConeSearch
ID:
ivo://archive.stsci.edu/catalogs/ultravista
Title:
UltraVISTA ConeSearch
Short Name:
UltraVISTA CS
Date:
23 Jul 2020 20:36:35
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
All MAST catalog holdings are available via Cone Search endpoints. This service provides access to the MAST copy of the UltraVISTA survey: This is the deepest and narrowest VISTA survey. It is imaging one patch of sky over and over again to unprecedented depths. The science goals of UltraVISTA include studying the first galaxies, understanding the stellar mass build-up during the peak epoch of star formation activity and dust-obscured star formation. All available missions are listed at http://archive.stsci.edu/vo/mast_services.html.
16334. ULX candidates in luminous infrared galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/470
Title:
ULX candidates in luminous infrared galaxies
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/446/470
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present results from a Chandra study of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in a sample of 17 nearby (D_L_<60Mpc) luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), selected to have star formation rates (SFRs) in excess of 7M_{sun}_/yr and low foreground Galactic column densities (N_H_<~5x10^20^cm^-2^). A total of 53 ULXs were detected and we confirm that this is a complete catalogue of ULXs for the LIRG sample. We examine the evolution of ULX spectra with luminosity in these galaxies by stacking the spectra of individual objects in three luminosity bins, finding a distinct change in spectral index at luminosity ~2x10^39^erg/s. This may be a change in spectrum as 10M_{sun}_ black holes transit from an ~ Eddington to a super-Eddington accretion regime, and is supported by a plausible detection of partially ionized absorption imprinted on the spectrum of the luminous ULX (L_X_~5x10^39^erg/s) CXOU J024238.9-000055 in NGC 1068, consistent with the highly ionized massive wind that we would expect to see driven by a super-Eddington accretion flow. This sample shows a large deficit in the number of ULXs detected per unit SFR (0.2 versus 2 ULXs, per M_{sun}_/yr) compared to the detection rate in nearby (D_L_<14.5Mpc) normal star-forming galaxies. This deficit also manifests itself as a lower differential X-ray luminosity function normalization for the LIRG sample than for samples of other star-forming galaxies. We show that it is unlikely that this deficit is a purely observational effect. Part of this deficit might be attributable to the high metallicity of the LIRGs impeding the production efficiency of ULXs and/or a lag between the star formation starting and the production of ULXs; however, we argue that the evidence - including very low N_ULX_/L_FIR_, and an even lower ULX incidence in the central regions of the LIRGs - shows that the main culprit for this deficit is likely to be the high column of gas and dust in these galaxies, that fuels the high SFR but also acts to obscure many ULXs from our view.
16335. ULX candidates in nearby Arp galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/144
Title:
ULX candidates in nearby Arp galaxies
Short Name:
J/AJ/143/144
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have conducted a statistical analysis of the ultra-luminous X-ray point sources (ULXs; L_X_>=10^39^erg/s) in a sample of galaxies selected from the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1996, Cat. VII/192; Webb, 1996, Cat. VII/192). We find a possible enhancement of a factor of ~2-4 in the number of ULXs per blue luminosity for the strongly interacting subset. Such an enhancement would be expected if ULX production is related to star formation, as interacting galaxies tend to have enhanced star formation rates on average. For most of the Arp galaxies in our sample, the total number of ULXs compared to the far-infrared luminosity is consistent with values found earlier for spiral galaxies. This suggests that for these galaxies, ULXs trace recent star formation. However, for the most infrared-luminous galaxies, we find a deficiency of ULXs compared to the infrared luminosity. For these very infrared-luminous galaxies, active galactic nuclei may contribute to powering the far-infrared; alternatively, ULXs may be highly obscured in the X-ray in these galaxies and therefore not detected by these Chandra observations. We determined local UV/optical colors within the galaxies in the vicinity of the candidate ULXs using Galaxy Evolution Explorer UV and Sloan Digitized Sky Survey optical images. In most cases, the distributions of colors are similar to the global colors of interacting galaxies. However, the u-g and r-i colors at the ULX locations tend to be bluer on average than these global colors, suggesting that ULXs are preferentially found in regions with young stellar populations. In the Arp sample there is a possible enhancement of a factor of ~2-5 in the fraction of galactic nuclei that are X-ray-bright compared to more normal spirals.
16336. ULX candidates in nearby galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/741/49
Title:
ULX candidates in nearby galaxies
Short Name:
J/ApJ/741/49
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
One hundred seven ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with 0.3-10.0keV luminosities in excess of 10^39^erg/s are identified in a complete sample of 127 nearby galaxies. The sample includes all galaxies within 14.5Mpc above the completeness limits of both the Uppsala Galaxy Catalogue (Cat. VII/26) and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite survey (Cat. II/125). The galaxy sample spans all Hubble types, a four-decade range in mass, 7.5<log(M/M_{sun}_)<11.4, and in star formation rate, 0.0002<SFR(M_{sun}_/yr)<=3.6. ULXs are detected in this sample at rates of one per 3.2x10^10^M_{sun}_, one per ~0.5M_{sun}_/yr star formation rate, and one per 57Mpc^3^ corresponding to a luminosity density of ~2x10^37^erg/s/Mpc^3^. At these rates we estimate as many as 19 additional ULXs remain undetected in fainter dwarf galaxies within the survey volume. An estimated 14 objects, or 13%, of the 107 ULX candidates are expected to be background sources. The differential ULX luminosity function shows a power-law slope {alpha}~-0.8 to -2.0 with an exponential cutoff at ~20x10^39^erg/s with precise values depending on the model and on whether the ULX luminosities are estimated from their observed numbers of counts or, for a subset of candidates, from their spectral shapes. Extrapolating the observed luminosity function predicts at most one very luminous ULX, L_X_~10^41^erg/s, within a distance as small as 100Mpc. The luminosity distribution of ULXs within the local universe cannot account for the recent claims of luminosities in excess of 2x10^41^erg/s, requiring a new population class to explain these extreme objects.
16337. ULX population in nearby galaxies from XMM
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/649/730
Title:
ULX population in nearby galaxies from XMM
Short Name:
J/ApJ/649/730
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of an archival XMM-Newton study of the bright X-ray point sources (LX>10^38^ergs/s) in 32 nearby galaxies. From our list of approximately 100 point sources, we attempt to determine if there is a low-state counterpart to the ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) population, searching for a soft-hard state dichotomy similar to that known for Galactic X-ray binaries and testing the specific predictions of the intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) hypothesis. To this end, we searched for low-state objects, which we defined as objects within our sample that had a spectrum well fitted by a simple absorbed power law, and high-state objects, which we defined as objects better fitted by a combined blackbody and a power law.
16338. ULX sources and FIRST radio sources
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/452/739
Title:
ULX sources and FIRST radio sources
Short Name:
J/A+A/452/739
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We search for ultra luminous X-ray source (ULXs) radio counterparts located in nearby galaxies in order to constrain their physical nature. Our work is based on a systematic cross-identification of the most recent and extensive available ULX catalogues and archival radio data. A catalogue of 70 positional coincidences is reported. Most of them are located within the galaxy nucleus. Among them, we find 11 new cases of non-nuclear ULX sources with possibly associated radio emission.
16339. ULXs with multiepoch Spitzer/IRAC obs.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/878/71
Title:
ULXs with multiepoch Spitzer/IRAC obs.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/878/71
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a mid-infrared (IR) sample study of nearby ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) using multiepoch observations with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer/IRAC observations taken after 2014 were obtained as part of the Spitzer Infrared Intensive Transients Survey. Our sample includes 96 ULXs located within 10 Mpc. Of the 96 ULXs, 12 have candidate counterparts consistent with absolute mid-IR magnitudes of supergiants, and 16 counterparts exceeded the mid-IR brightness of single supergiants and are thus more consistent with star clusters or non-ULX background active galactic nuclei. The supergiant candidate counterparts exhibit a bimodal color distribution in a Spitzer/IRAC color-magnitude diagram, where "red" and "'blue" ULXs fall in IRAC colors [3.6]-[4.5]~0.7 and [3.6]-[4.5]~0.0, respectively. The mid-IR colors and absolute magnitudes of four "red" and five "blue" ULXs are consistent with those of supergiant B[e] (sgB[e]) and red supergiant (RSG) stars, respectively. Although "blue," RSG-like mid-IR ULX counterparts likely host RSG mass donors; we propose that "red" counterparts are ULXs exhibiting the "B[e] phenomenon" rather than hosts of sgB[e] mass donors. We show that the mid-IR excess from the "red" ULXs is likely due to thermal emission from circumstellar or circumbinary dust. Using dust as a probe for total mass, we estimate mass-loss rates of dM/dt~1x10^-4^M_{sun}_/yr in dust-forming outflows of red ULXs. Based on the transient mid-IR behavior and its relatively flat spectral index, {alpha}=-0.19+/-0.1, we suggest that the mid-IR emission from Holmberg IX X-1 originates from a variable jet.
16340. ULYSSES supplement to GRB 3B catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/120/399
Title:
ULYSSES supplement to GRB 3B catalog
Short Name:
J/ApJS/120/399
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present interplanetary network localization information for 218 gamma-ray bursts in the third BATSE catalog obtained by analyzing the arrival times of these bursts with the Ulysses and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory spacecraft. For any given burst observed by these two spacecraft, arrival time analysis (or "triangulation") results in an annulus of possible arrival directions whose half-width varies between 7'' and 32', depending on the intensity and time history of the burst and the distance of the Ulysses spacecraft from Earth. This annulus generally intersects the BATSE error circle, which results in an average reduction of a factor of 30 of the error box area.

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