- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/580
- Title:
- Sixth VLBA calibrator survey: VCS6
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/580
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the sixth part of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey. It contains the positions and maps of 264 sources of which 169 were not previously observed with very long baseline interferometry. This survey, based on two 24h VLBA observing sessions, was focused on (1) improving positions of 95 sources from previous VLBA Calibrator Surveys that were observed either with very large a priori position errors or were observed not long enough to get reliable positions and (2) observing remaining new flat-spectrum sources with predicted correlated flux density in the range 100-200mJy that were not observed in previous surveys. Source positions were derived from astrometric analysis of group delays determined at the 2.3 and 8.6GHz frequency bands using the Calc/Solve software package. The VCS6 catalog of source positions, plots of correlated flux density versus projected baseline length, contour plots and fits files of naturally weighted CLEAN images, as well as calibrated visibility function files, are available on the Web at http://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/vcs6.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/766/37
- Title:
- Sizes of MRC radio galaxies and QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/766/37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the currently popular orientation-based unified scheme, a radio galaxy appears as a quasar when its principal radio-axis happens to be oriented within a certain cone opening angle around the observer's line of sight. Due to geometrical projection, the observed sizes of quasars should therefore appear smaller than those of radio galaxies. We show that this simple, unambiguous prediction of the unified scheme is not borne out by the actually observed angular sizes of radio galaxies and quasars. Except in the original 3CR sample, based on which the unified scheme was proposed, in other much larger samples no statistically significant difference is apparent in the size distributions of radio galaxies and quasars. The population of low-excitation radio galaxies with apparently no hidden quasars inside, which might explain the observed excess number of radio galaxies at low redshifts, cannot account for the absence of any foreshortening of the sizes of quasars at large redshifts. On the other hand, from infrared and X-ray studies, there is evidence of a hidden quasar within a dusty torus in many radio galaxies, at z>0.5. It is difficult to reconcile this with the absence of foreshortening of quasar sizes at even these redshifts, and perhaps one has to allow that the major radio axis may not have anything to do with the optical axis of the torus. Otherwise, to resolve the dichotomy of radio galaxies and quasars, a scheme quite different from the present might be required.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/74/181
- Title:
- Small-diameter radiosources catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/74/181
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A survey of the Galactic plane in the longitude range -20deg=<l<=120deg for Galactic latitudes |b|=<0.8deg has been carried out at 1400MHz using the VLA in the B configuration. We present here a catalog of the 1992 discrete sources detected in this survey which is ~75% complete to a limiting peak flux density of 25mJy for sources smaller than ~20" in diameter, although sources as faint as 8mJy and as large as 90" are also included. The catalog includes for each entry a position accurate to ~<3", peak and integrated flux densities, source extent, and information on counterparts both from earlier radio surveys of the plane (for which a comprehensive bibliography is included) and from the IRAS point source catalog. An extensive analysis of the integrity and completeness of the survey is presented here: in separate publications, we discuss the source content of the survey as derived from statistical analysis of the spatial distribution of the sources and from radio, optical and infrared follow up observations .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/561/A55
- Title:
- Small-diameter sources in Sino-German 6cm survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/561/A55
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out the Sino-German 6cm polarisation survey of the Galactic plane at 6cm in total and polarised intensity using the Urumqi 25-m telescope of Xinjiang (formerly Urumqi) Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The angular resolution is 9.5-arcmin. The surveyed area covers 10{deg} to 230{deg} in Galactic longitude and absolute Galactic latitudes of up to 5{deg}. The measured rms-noise is about 6.1 mJy/beam area for total intensities and 3.05mJy/beam area for polarised intensities. The survey maps are accessible from http://zmtt.bao.ac.cn/6cm/ .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/587/A47
- Title:
- SMA 1.3mm image of OMC 1 North
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/587/A47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The filamentary structure of molecular clouds may set important constraints on the mass distribution of stars forming within them. It is therefore important to understand which physical mechanism dominates filamentary cloud fragmentation and core formation. Orion A is the nearest giant molecular cloud, and its so-called S-shaped filament is a very active star-forming region that is a good target for such a study. We have recently reported on the collapse and fragmentation properties of the northernmost part of this structure, located ~2.4pc north of Orion KL - Orion Molecular Cloud (OMC) 3. As part of our project to study the S-shaped filament, we analyze the fragmentation properties of the northern OMC 1 filament (located <~0.3pc north of Orion KL). This filament is a dense structure previously identified by JCMT/SCUBA submillimeter continuum and VLA NH_3_ observations and was shown to have fragmented into clumps. Our aim is to search for cores and young protostars embedded within OMC 1n and to study how the filament is fragmenting to form them. We observed OMC 1North (hereafter OMC 1n) with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 1.3mm and report on our analysis of the continuum data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/821/125
- Title:
- SMA obs. of giant molecular clouds in NGC 300
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/821/125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first high angular resolution study of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300, based on observations from the Submillimeter Array (SMA). We target eleven 500pc sized regions of active star formation within the galaxy in the ^12^CO(J=2-1) line at 40pc spatial and 1km/s spectral resolution and identify 45 individual GMCs. We characterize the physical properties of these GMCs, and find that they are similar to GMCs in the disks of the Milky Way and other nearby spiral galaxies. For example, the GMC mass spectrum in our sample has a slope of 1.80+/-0.07. Twelve clouds are spatially resolved by our observations, of which ten have virial mass estimates that agree to within a factor of two with mass estimates derived directly from ^12^CO integrated intensity, suggesting that the majority of these GMCs are bound. The resolved clouds show consistency with Larson's fundamental relations between size, linewidth, and mass observed in the Milky Way. We find that the linewidth scales with the size as {Delta}V{propto}R^0.52+/-0.20^, and the median surface density in the subsample is 54M_{sun}_/pc^2^. We detect ^13^CO in four GMCs and find a mean ^12^CO/^13^CO flux ratio of 6.2. Our interferometric observations recover between 30% and 100% of the integrated intensity from the APEX single dish ^12^CO observations of Faesi et al. (2014, J/ApJ/789/81), suggesting the presence of low-mass GMCs and/or diffuse gas below our sensitivity limit. The fraction of APEX emission recovered increases with the SMA total intensity, as well as with the star formation rate.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/121/321
- Title:
- SMC catalogue of radiosources
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/121/321
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present catalogues of radio sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud from observations with the Parkes radio telescope at 1.42, 2.45, 4.75 and 8.55GHz, and an additional catalogue from the Parkes-MIT-NRAO survey at 4.85GHz. A total of 224 sources were detected at at least one of these frequencies, 60 of which are reported here for the first time as radio sources. We compare positions and flux densities of these sources with previously published results and find no significant positional displacement or flux discrepancies.
1578. SN 1987A 3mm image
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/541/L2
- Title:
- SN 1987A 3mm image
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/541/L2
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The proximity of core-collapse supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and its rapid evolution make it a unique case study of the development of a young supernova remnant. We aim at resolving the remnant of SN 1987A for the first time in the 3-mm band (at 94GHz).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/431/2453
- Title:
- SN1996cr radio observations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/431/2453
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present newly reduced archival radio observations of SN 1996cr in the Circinus Galaxy from the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, and attempt to model its radio light curves using recent hydrodynamical simulations of the interaction between the supernova (SN) ejecta and the circumstellar material (CSM) at X-ray wavelengths. The radio data within the first 1000d show clear signs of free-free absorption (FFA), which decreases gradually and is minimal above 1.4GHz after day ~3000. Constraints on the FFA optical depth provide estimates of the CSM free electron density, which allows insight into the ionization of SN 1996cr's CSM and offers a test on the density distribution adopted by the hydrodynamical simulation. The intrinsic spectral index of the radiation shows evidence for spectral flattening, which is characterized by {alpha}=0.852+/-0.002 at day 3000 and a decay rate of {Delta}{alpha}=-0.014+/-0.001yr^-1^. The striking similarity in the spectral flattening of SN 1987A, SN 1993J and SN 1996cr suggests this may be a relatively common feature of SNe/CSM shocks. We adopt this spectral index variation to model the synchrotron radio emission of the shock, and consider several scalings that relate the parameters of the hydrodynamical simulation to the magnetic field and electron distribution. The simulated light curves match the large-scale features of the observed light curves, but fail to match certain tightly constraining sections. This suggests that simple energy density scalings may not be able to account for the complexities of the true physical processes at work, or alternatively, that the parameters of the simulation require modification in order to accurately represent the surroundings of SN 1996cr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/593/A18
- Title:
- SN 2008iz 4.8 and 8.4GHz images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/593/A18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on multi-frequency Very Large Array (VLA) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio observations for a monitoring campaign of supernova SN 2008iz in the nearby irregular galaxy M82.
