- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/455/2551
- Title:
- SDSS/3XMM X-ray-selected LINERs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/455/2551
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A sample of 576 X-ray-selected LINERs was constructed by combining data from the 3XMM-DR4 and SDSS-DR7 catalogues. The sample was used to investigate the fraction of galaxies hosting a LINER, finding that the fraction is a strong function of both stellar mass and black hole mass (increasing as f_LINER_{prop.to}M*^1.6+/-0.2^ and f_LINER_{propto}M_BH_^0.6+/-0.1^, respectively) and that it rises close to unity at the highest black hole masses and lowest X-ray luminosities. After obtaining radio flux densities from the FIRST survey, the sample was also used to investigate the Fundamental Plane of black hole activity - a scale-invariant relationship between black hole mass, X-ray luminosity and radio luminosity that is believed to hold across at least nine orders of magnitude of mass. There are key advantages in using only LINERs for the derivation as these are the counterparts of the 'low-hard' X-ray binaries for which the relationship is tightest. The Fundamental Plane was found to be log(L_R_/(erg/s)) = 0.65(+/-0.07)log(L_X_/(10^42^erg/s)) + 0.69(+/-0.10)log(M_BH_/10^8^M_{sun}_) + 38.35(+/-0.10). The scatter around the plane was 0.73+/-0.03dex, too large to suggest that the Fundamental Plane can be used as a tool to estimate black hole mass from the observables of X-ray and radio luminosity. The black hole mass scaling is sensitive to the slope of the mass - velocity dispersion relation and, in order to achieve consistency with X-ray binaries, the analysis favours a steep gradient for this relationship, as found in recent research.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/695/276
- Title:
- Search for megamasers in type-2 AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/695/276
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report a search for H_2_O megamasers in 274 SDSS type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs; 0.3<z<0.83), half of which can be classified as type-2 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) from their [OIII]5007 luminosity, using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Effelsberg 100m radio telescope. Apart from the detection of the extremely luminous water vapor megamaser SDSS J080430.99+360718.1, already reported by Barvainis & Antonucci (2005ApJ...628...89B), we do not find any additional line emission. This high rate of nondetections is compared to the water maser luminosity function created from the 78 water maser galaxies known to date and its extrapolation toward the higher luminosities of "gigamasers" that we would have been able to detect given the sensitivity of our survey. The properties of the known water masers are summarized and discussed with respect to the nature of high-z type-2 AGNs and megamasers in general. In the Appendix (tables 4 and 5), we list 173 additional objects (mainly radio galaxies, but also QSOs and galaxies) that were observed with the GBT, the Effelsberg 100m radio telescope, or Arecibo Observatory without leading to the detection of water maser emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/759/6
- Title:
- SEDs of type I AGN in COSMOS. I. XMM-COSMOS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/759/6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The "Cosmic Evolution Survey" (COSMOS) enables the study of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) because of the deep coverage and rich sampling of frequencies from X-ray to radio. Here we present an SED catalog of 413 X-ray (XMM-Newton)-selected type 1 (emission line FWHM>2000km/s) AGNs with Magellan, SDSS, or VLT spectrum. The SEDs are corrected for Galactic extinction, broad emission line contributions, constrained variability, and host galaxy contribution. We present the mean SED and the dispersion SEDs after the above corrections in the rest-frame 1.4GHz to 40keV, and show examples of the variety of SEDs encountered. In the near-infrared to optical (rest frame ~8{mu}m-4000{AA}), the photometry is complete for the whole sample and the mean SED is derived from detections only. Reddening and host galaxy contamination could account for a large fraction of the observed SED variety.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A127
- Title:
- 5 Seyferts reduced CO(2-1) cubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/643/A127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Active galactic nucleus (AGN) driven outflows are believed to play an important role in regulating the growth of galaxies, mostly via negative feedback. However, their effects on their hosts are far from clear, especially for low- and moderate-luminosity Seyferts. To investigate this issue, we obtained cold molecular gas observations, traced by the CO(2-1) transition, using the NOEMA interferometer of five nearby (distances between 19 and 58Mpc) Seyfert galaxies. The resolution of ~0.3-0.8 (~30-100pc) and field of view of NOEMA allowed us to study the CO(2-1) morphology and kinematics in the nuclear regions (~100pc) and up to radial distances of ~900pc. We detected CO(2-1) emission in all five galaxies with disky or circumnuclear ring-like morphologies. We derived cold molecular gas masses on nuclear (~100pc) and circumnuclear (~650pc) scales in the range from 10^6^ to 10^7^M_{sun}_ and from 10^7^ to 10^8^M_{sun}_, respectively. In all of our galaxies, the bulk of this gas is rotating in the plane of the galaxy. However, noncircular motions are also present. In NGC 4253, NGC 4388, and NGC 7465, we can ascribe the streaming motions to the presence of a large-scale bar. In Mrk 1066 and NGC 4388, the noncircular motions in the nuclear regions are explained as outflowing material due to the interaction of the AGN wind with molecular gas in the galaxy disk. We conclude that for an unambiguous and precise interpretation of the kinematics of the cold molecular gas, we need detailed knowledge of the host galaxy (i.e., presence of bars, interactions, etc.), and also of the ionized gas kinematics and ionization cone geometry.
- 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/224/26
- Title:
- Spectral energy distributions of Roma BZCAT blazars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/224/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We combined multi-wavelength data for blazars from the Roma-BZCAT catalog and analyzed hundreds of X-ray spectra. We present the fluxes and spectral energy distributions (SEDs), in 12 frequency bands from radio to {gamma}-rays, for a final sample of 2214 blazars. Using a model-independent statistical approach, we looked for systematic trends in the SEDs; the most significant trends involved the radio luminosities and X-ray spectral indices of the blazars. We used a principal component analysis (PCA) to determine the basis vectors of the blazar SEDs and, in order to maximize the size of the sample, imputed missing fluxes using the K-nearest neighbors method. Using more than an order of magnitude more data than was available when Fossati et al. first reported trends of SED shape with blazar luminosity, we confirmed the anti-correlation between radio luminosity and synchrotron peak frequency, although with greater scatter than was seen in the smaller sample. The same trend can be seen between bolometric luminosity and synchrotron peak frequency. Finally, we used all of the available blazar data to determine an empirical SED description that depends only on the radio luminosity at 1.4GHz and the redshift. We verified that this statistically significant relation was not a result of the luminosity-luminosity correlations that are natural in flux-limited samples (i.e., where the correlation is actually caused by the redshift rather than the luminosity).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/660/167
- Title:
- Spitzer AGN candidates in CDFN
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/660/167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We define a sample of 62 galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field-North whose Spitzer IRAC SEDs exhibit the characteristic power-law emission expected of luminous AGNs. We study the multi-wavelength properties of this sample and compare the AGNs selected in this way to those selected via other Spitzer color-color criteria. Only 55% of the power-law galaxies are detected in the X-ray catalog at exposures of >0.5Ms, although a search for faint emission results in the detection of 85% of the power-law galaxies at the >=2.5sigma detection level. Most of the remaining galaxies are likely to host AGNs that are heavily obscured in the X-ray. Because the power-law selection requires the AGNs to be energetically dominant in the near- and mid-infrared, the power-law galaxies comprise a significant fraction of the Spitzer-detected AGN population at high luminosities and redshifts. The high 24um detection fraction also points to a luminous population. The power-law galaxies comprise a subset of color-selected AGN candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/629/A6
- Title:
- 3 starburst galaxies 12C/13C ALMA datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/629/A6
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive molecular-gas-phase ^12^C/^13^C isotope ratios for the central few hundred parsecs of the three nearby starburst galaxies NGC253, NGC1068, and NGC4945 making use of the {lambda}~3mm ^12^CN and ^13^CN N=1-0 lines in the ALMA Band 3. The ^12^C/^13^C isotopic ratios derived from the ratios of these lines range from 30 to 67 with an average of 41.6+/-0.2 in NGC253, from 24 to 62 with an average of 38.3+/-0.4 in NGC1068, and from 6 to 44 with an average of 16.9+/-0.3 in NGC4945. The highest ^12^C/^13^C isotopic ratios are determined in some of the outskirts of the nuclear regions of the three starburst galaxies. The lowest ratios are associated with the northeastern and southwestern molecular peaks of NGC253, the northeastern and southwestern edge of the mapped region in NGC1068, and the very center of NGC4945. In the case of NGC 1068, the measured ratios suggest inflow from the outer part of NGC1068 into the circum-nuclear disk through both the halo and the bar. Low ^12^C/^13^C isotopic ratios in the central regions of these starburst galaxies indicate the presence of highly processed material.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/97
- Title:
- Star Formation in Radio Survey (SFRS): 33GHz obs.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/761/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 33GHz photometry of 103 galaxy nuclei and extranuclear star-forming complexes taken with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) as part of the Star Formation in Radio Survey (SFRS). Among the sources without evidence for an active galactic nucleus, and also having lower frequency radio data, we find a median thermal fraction at 33GHz of {approx}76% with a dispersion of {approx}24%. For all sources resolved on scales <~0.5kpc, the thermal fraction is even larger, being >~90%. This suggests that the rest-frame 33GHz emission provides a sensitive measure of the ionizing photon rate from young star-forming regions, thus making it a robust star formation rate (SFR) indicator. Taking the 33 GHz SFRs as a reference, we investigate other empirical calibrations relying on different combinations of warm 24{mu}m dust, total infrared (IR; 8-1000{mu}m), H{alpha} line, and far-UV continuum emission. The recipes derived here generally agree with others found in the literature, albeit with a large dispersion that most likely stems from a combination of effects. Comparing the 33GHz to total IR flux ratios as a function of the radio spectral index, measured between 1.7 and 33GHz, we find that the ratio increases as the radio spectral index flattens which does not appear to be a distance effect. Consequently, the ratio of non-thermal to total IR emission appears relatively constant, suggesting only moderate variations in the cosmic-ray electron injection spectrum and ratio of synchrotron to total cooling processes among star-forming complexes. Assuming that this trend solely arises from an increase in the thermal fraction sets a maximum on the scatter of the non-thermal spectral indices among the star-forming regions of {sigma}_{alpha}_NT<~0.13.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/421/3060
- Title:
- Subaru/XMM Deep Field radio imaging. III.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/421/3060
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic and 11-band photometric redshifts for galaxies in the 100-uJy Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field radio source sample. We find good agreement between our redshift distribution and that predicted by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Simulated Skies project. We find no correlation between K-band magnitude and radio flux, but show that sources with 1.4-GHz flux densities below ~1mJy are fainter in the near-infrared than brighter radio sources at the same redshift, and we discuss the implications of this result for spectroscopically incomplete samples where the K-z relation has been used to estimate redshifts. We use the infrared-radio correlation to separate our sample into radio-loud and radio-quiet objects and show that only radio-loud hosts have spectral energy distributions consistent with predominantly old stellar populations, although the fraction of objects displaying such properties is a decreasing function of radio luminosity.