- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/91/503
- Title:
- Compact radio sources near Galactic center
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/91/503
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using literature data on approximately 400 compact radio sources detected with the Very Large Array and located in the direction of the Galactic center within 2{deg} of the compact source Sgr A*, 69 sources whose angular sizes are determined by scattering on electron density inhomogeneities were distinguished. Fifty-five of these are extragalactic, two are supercompact HII regions, ten are sources of maser emission, and two are variable Galactic sources. The excess of the apparent angular sizes of maser sources within 2{deg} of the Galactic center above the mean size of objects of this class in other parts of the Galaxy found in many studies cannot be explained purely by the effect of scattering of their radio emission on interstellar plasma inhomogeneities. The angular sizes of these objects are increased due to scattering only within Galactic longitudes of about 0.4{deg} and Galactic latitudes less than 0.1{deg}. The turbulent medium responsible for scattering of radio emission of compact sources in the immediate vicinity of the Galactic center is strongly concentrated toward the compact source Sgr A* at the Galactic center. No extragalactic sources are observed within 0.4{deg} in longitude and 0.2{deg} in latitude of the Galactic center, because of their low brightness due to the superstrong scattering in this region. Data on scatter broadening can be used to study the distribution of turbulent plasma near the Galactic center.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/88/355
- Title:
- Compact radio sources near l=140, b=0
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/88/355
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/773/67
- Title:
- Compact radio sources near the Galactic center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/773/67
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have observed the Galactic center (GC) region at 0.154 and 0.255GHz with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. A total of 62 compact likely extragalactic (EG) sources are detected. Their scattering sizes decrease linearly with increasing angular distance from the GC up to about 1{deg}. The apparent scattering sizes of the sources are more than an order of magnitude less than predicted earlier by the NE2001 model of Galactic electron distribution within 359.5{deg}<l<0.5{deg} and -0.5{deg}<b<0.5{deg} (Hyperstrong Scattering Region) of the Galaxy. High free-free optical depths ({tau}) are observed toward most of the extended non-thermal sources within 0.6{deg} from the GC. Significant variation of {tau} indicates that the absorbing medium is patchy at an angular scale of ~10' and n_e_ is ~10/cm3, which matches the NE2001 model. This model predicts the EG sources to be resolved out from 1.4GHz interferometric surveys. However, out of 10 EG sources expected in the region, 8 likely EG are present in the 1.4GHz catalog. Ionized interfaces of dense molecular clouds to the ambient medium are most likely responsible for strong scattering and low radio frequency absorption. However, dense GC clouds traced by CS J=1-0 emission are found to have a narrow distribution of ~0.2{deg} across the Galactic plane. Angular distribution of most EG sources seen through the so-called Hyperstrong Scattering Region are random in b, and typically ~7 out of 10 sources will not be seen through the dense molecular clouds, which explains why most of them are not scatter broadened at 1.4GHz.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/80/211
- Title:
- Compact Radio Sources Near the Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/80/211
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of the extension of the 20-cm Galactic-plane survey reported by Zoonematkermani to Galactic latitudes of +/-1.8{deg} over the central region of the Milky Way are reported. A total of 1457 discrete radio sources down to flux densities of less than about 5mJy, and 95% completion is achieved at 20mJy. A detailed comparison of all radio sources from the survey in this longitude range with the IRAS Point Source Catalog provides classification for 13% of the objects, including 159 compact H II regions, and nearly 100 planetary nebulae, over 70 of which are identified. The identity of the remaining radio sources is discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/809/10
- Title:
- Compact radio sources within 30" of Sgr A*
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/809/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent broadband 34 and 44GHz radio continuum observations of the Galactic center have revealed 41 massive stars identified with near-IR (NIR) counterparts, as well as 44 proplyd candidates within 30" of SgrA*. Radio observations obtained in 2011 and 2014 have been used to derive proper motions of eight young stars near Sgr A*. The accuracy of proper motion estimates based on NIR observations by Lu et al. (2009ApJ...690.1463L) and Paumard et al. (2006, J/ApJ/643/1011) have been investigated by using their proper motions to predict the 2014 epoch positions of NIR stars and comparing the predicted positions with those of radio counterparts in the 2014 radio observations. Predicted positions from Lu et al. show an rms scatter of 6mas relative to the radio positions, while those from Paumard et al. show rms residuals of 20mas. We also determine the mass-loss rates of 11 radio stars, finding rates that are on average ~2 times smaller than those determined from model atmosphere calculations and NIR data. Clumpiness of ionized winds would reduce the mass loss rate of WR and O stars by additional factors of 3 and 10, respectively. One important implication of this is a reduction in the expected mass accretion rate onto Sgr A* from stellar winds by nearly an order of magnitude to a value of a few x10^-7^m_{sun}_/yr. Finally, we present the positions of 318 compact radio sources within 30" of Sgr A*, 45 of which have stellar counterparts in the NIR K_s_ (2.18{mu}m) and L' (3.8{mu}m) bands.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/405/1293
- Title:
- Compact star clusters in M81
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/405/1293
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the population of compact star clusters (CSCs) in M81, using the Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images in the filters F435W, F606W and F814W covering, for the first time, the entire optical extent of the galaxy. Our sample contains 435 clusters of full width at half-maximum less than 10 ACS pixels (9pc). The sample shows the presence of two cluster populations, a blue group of 263 objects brighter than B=22mag, and a red group of 172 objects, brighter than B=24mag. On the basis of analysis of colour-magnitude diagrams and making use of simple stellar population models,
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/824/71
- Title:
- Compact star clusters in M51 with HST
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/824/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new catalog of 3816 compact star clusters in the grand design spiral galaxy M51 based on observations taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The age distribution of the clusters declines starting at very young ages, and can be represented by a power law, dN/d{tau}{propto}{tau}^gamma^, with {gamma}=-0.65+/-0.15. No significant changes in the shape of the age distribution at different masses is observed. The mass function of the clusters younger than {tau}~400Myr can also be described by a power law, dN/dM{propto}M^{beta}^, with {beta}~-2.1+/-0.2. We compare these distributions with the predictions from various cluster disruption models, and find that they are consistent with models where clusters disrupt approximately independent of their initial mass, but not with models where lower mass clusters are disrupted earlier than their higher mass counterparts. We find that the half-light radii of clusters more massive than M~3x10^4^M_{sun}_ and with ages between 100 and 400Myr are larger by a factor of ~3-4 than their counterparts that are younger than 10^7^ years old, suggesting that the clusters physically expand during their early life.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/56/1025
- Title:
- Compact star clusters in SW field of M31
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/56/1025
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A survey for compact clusters with a dimension of 10pc order was conducted in an area of about 500 square arc-minutes of the south-west part of the M31 disk, making use of the high-resolution capability of Suprime-Cam. Photometry in the B, V and R broad-bands, and in the R* medium-band centered around H{alpha} with varying apertures was carried out for about 1200 targets, which are related to about 300 compact objects detected in the survey. The results for 101 prominent compact objects are presented as photometric catalogues and morphological atlases, separately for samples with and without strong H{alpha} emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/703/1872
- Title:
- Compact star clusters in the M31 disk
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/703/1872
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out a survey of compact star clusters (apparent size <~3") in the southwest part of the M31 galaxy, based on the high-resolution Suprime-Cam images (17.5'x28.5'), covering ~15% of the deprojected galaxy disk area. The UBVRI photometry of 285 cluster candidates (V<~20.5mag) was performed using frames of the Local Group Galaxies Survey. The final sample, containing 238 high probability star cluster candidates (typical half-light radius r_h_~1.5pc), was selected by specifying a lower limit of r_h_>~0.15" (>~0.6pc). We derived cluster parameters based on the photometric data and multiband images by employing simple stellar population models. The clusters have a wide range of ages from ~5Myr (young objects associated with 24um and/or H{alpha} emission) to ~10Gyr (globular cluster candidates), and possess mass in a range of 3.0<~log(m/m_{sun}_)<~4.3 peaking at m~4000m_{sun}_. Typical age of these intermediate-mass clusters is in the range of 30Myr<~t<~3Gyr, with a prominent peak at ~70Myr. These findings suggest a rich intermediate-mass star cluster population in M31, which appears to be scarce in the Milky Way galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/408/2261
- Title:
- Compact steep spectrum new sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/408/2261
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new sample of compact steep spectrum (CSS) sources with radio luminosity below 10^26^W/Hz at 1.4GHz; these are called low-luminosity compact (LLC) objects. The sources have been selected from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey and observed with the multi-element radio linked interferometer network (MERLIN) at the L and C bands. The main criterion used for selection was the luminosity of the objects, and approximately one-third of the CSS sources from the new sample have a value of radio luminosity comparable to Fanaroff-Riley type 1 sources (FR Is). About 80 per cent of the sources have been resolved and about 30 per cent have weak extended emission and disturbed structures when compared with the observations of higher-luminosity CSS sources. We have studied the correlation between radio power and linear size, and the redshift with a larger sample that also included published samples of compact objects and large-scale FR IIs and FR Is.
