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2671. Observational comparison between ULXs and XRBs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/687/471
Title:
Observational comparison between ULXs and XRBs
Short Name:
J/ApJ/687/471
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
To test the idea that ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in external galaxies represent a class of accreting intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), we have undertaken a program to identify ULXs and a lower luminosity X-ray comparison sample with the highest quality data in the Chandra archive. We establish as a general property of ULXs that the most X-ray-luminous objects possess the flattest X-ray spectra (in the Chandra bandpass). No prior sample studies have established the general hardening of ULX spectra with luminosity. This hardening occurs at the highest luminosities (absorbed luminosity >=5x10^39^erg/s) and is in line with recent models arguing that ULXs are actually stellar mass black holes. From spectral modeling, we show that the evidence originally taken to mean that ULXs are IMBHs - i.e., the "simple IMBH model" - is nowhere near as compelling when a large sample of ULXs is looked at properly. During the last couple of years, XMM-Newton spectroscopy of ULXs has to a large extent begun to negate the simple IMBH model based on fewer objects. We confirm and expand these results, which validates the XMM-Newton work in a broader sense with independent X-ray data.
2672. Observation & modelling for radio-loud AGN
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/2682
Title:
Observation & modelling for radio-loud AGN
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/453/2682
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The interactions between radio-loud AGN and their environments play an important role in galaxy and cluster evolution. Recent work has demonstrated fundamental differences between high- and low-excitation radio galaxies (HERGs and LERGs), and shown that they may have different relationships with their environments. In the Chandra Large Project ERA (Environments of Radio-loud AGN), we made the first systematic X-ray environmental study of the cluster environments of radio galaxies at a single epoch (z~0.5), and found tentative evidence for a correlation between radio luminosity and cluster X-ray luminosity. We also found that this relationship appeared to be driven by the LERG subpopulation. We have now repeated the analysis with a low-redshift sample (z~0.1), and found strong correlations between radio luminosity and environment richness and between radio luminosity and central density for the LERGs but not for the HERGs. These results are consistent with models in which the HERGs are fuelled from accretion discs maintained from local reservoirs of gas, while LERGs are fuelled more directly by gas ingested from the intracluster medium. Comparing the samples, we found that although the maximum environment richness of the HERG environments is similar in both samples, there are poorer HERG environments in the z~0.1 sample than in the z~0.5 sample. We have therefore tentative evidence of evolution of the HERG environments. We found no differences between the LERG subsamples for the two epochs, as would be expected if radio and cluster luminosities are related.
2673. Observation of 57 spirals
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/116/15
Title:
Observation of 57 spirals
Short Name:
J/A+AS/116/15
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this paper we present short H I synthesis observations of 57 galaxies without H I information in the RC3. These are a by-product of a large survey with the WSRT of the neutral hydrogen gas in spiral and irregular galaxies. Global profiles and related quantities are given for the 42 detected galaxies and upper limits for the remaining 15. A number of galaxies have low values of H I mass-to-blue luminosity ratio.
2674. Observations of candidate GPS sources
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/489/49
Title:
Observations of candidate GPS sources
Short Name:
J/A+A/489/49
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources are likely the precursors of local radio galaxies. Existing GPS source samples are small (<200). We aim to extend the available sample of the Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) and High Frequency Peaker (HFP) sources in order to study their nature with greater detail and higher statistical significance.
2675. Observations of Galaxies 1985-1989
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/139
Title:
Observations of Galaxies 1985-1989
Short Name:
VII/139
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this catalog a complete list of new publications which include CO observations of external galaxies has been edited so that new observations are reported only once, preferably in refereed journals (pub.dat). Therefore the catalog of publications also serves as an inventory of distinct observational projects. This catalog lists all publications that have appeared since the submission of Verter (1985) and before the end of 1989. For each publication, the number and nature of the observations are summarized.
2676. Observations of NOAO Bootes field at 153MHz
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/535/A38
Title:
Observations of NOAO Bootes field at 153MHz
Short Name:
J/A+A/535/A38
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present deep, high-resolution radio interferometric observations at 153MHz to complement the extensively studied NOAO Bootes field. We provide a description of the observations, data reduction and source catalog construction. From our single pointing GMRT observation of ~12 hours we obtain a high-resolution (26"x22") image of ~11.3 square degrees, fully covering the Bootes field region and beyond.
2677. Observed sample of z~0.7 massive galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/72
Title:
Observed sample of z~0.7 massive galaxies
Short Name:
J/ApJ/788/72
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Detailed studies of the stellar populations of intermediate-redshift galaxies can shed light onto the processes responsible for the growth of the massive galaxy population in the last 8 billion years. We here take a step toward this goal by means of deep, multiobject rest-frame optical spectroscopy, performed with the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph on the Magellan telescope, of a sample of ~70 galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South survey with redshift 0.65<=z<=0.75, apparent R>22.7 mag_Vega_, and stellar mass >10^10^ M_{sun}_. We measure velocity dispersion and stellar absorption features for individual sources. We interpret them by means of a large Monte Carlo library of star formation histories, following the Bayesian approach adopted for previous low redshift studies, and derive constraints on the stellar mass, mean stellar age, and stellar metallicity of these galaxies. We characterize for the first time the relations between stellar age and stellar mass and between stellar metallicity and stellar mass at z~0.7 for the galaxy population as a whole and for quiescent and star-forming galaxies separately. These relations of increasing age and metallicity with galaxy mass for the galaxy population as a whole have a similar shape as the z~0.1 analog derived for Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies but are shifted by -0.28 dex in age and by -0.13 dex in metallicity, at odds with simple passive evolution. Considering z=0.7 quiescent galaxies alone, we find that no additional star formation and chemical enrichment are required for them to evolve into the present-day quiescent population. However, other observations require the quiescent population to grow from z=0.7 to the present day. This growth could be supplied by the quenching of a fraction of z=0.7 M_{sstarf}_>10^11^ M_{sun}_ star-forming galaxies with metallicities already comparable to those of quiescent galaxies, thus leading to the observed increase of the scatter in age without affecting the metallicity distribution. However, rapid quenching of the entire population of massive star-forming galaxies at z=0.7 would be inconsistent with the age- and metallicity-mass relations for the population as a whole and with the metallicity distribution of star-forming galaxies only, which are, on average, 0.12 dex less metal rich than their local counterparts. This indicates chemical enrichment until the present in at least a fraction of the z=0.7 star-forming galaxies in our sample.
2678. Occulting galaxy pairs in SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/2385
Title:
Occulting galaxy pairs in SDSS
Short Name:
J/AJ/134/2385
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A spiral galaxy partially overlapping a more distant elliptical offers a unique opportunity to measure the dust extinction in the foreground spiral. From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR4 spectroscopic sample, we selected 83 occulting galaxy pairs and measured disk opacity over the redshift range z=0.0-0.2 with the goal of determining the recent evolution of disk dust opacity. The enrichment of the ISM changes over the lifetime of a disk, and it is reasonable to expect the dust extinction properties of spiral disks as a whole to change over their lifetime. When they do, the change will affect our measurements of galaxies over the observable universe. From the SDSS pairs we conclude that spiral disks show evidence of extinction to ~2 effective radii.
2679. OCSVM anomalies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/606/A39
Title:
OCSVM anomalies
Short Name:
J/A+A/606/A39
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Wide-angle photometric surveys of previously uncharted sky areas or wavelength regimes will always bring in unexpected sources - novelties or even anomalies - whose existence and properties cannot be easily predicted from earlier observations. Such objects can be efficiently located with novelty detection algorithms. Here we present an application of such a method, called one-class support vector machines (OCSVM), to search for anomalous patterns among sources preselected from the mid-infrared AllWISE catalogue covering the whole sky. To create a model of expected data we train the algorithm on a set of objects with spectroscopic identifications from the SDSS DR13 database, present also in AllWISE. The OCSVM method detects as anomalous those sources whose patterns - WISE photometric measurements in this case - are inconsistent with the model. Among the detected anomalies we find artefacts, such as objects with spurious photometry due to blending, but more importantly also real sources of genuine astrophysical interest. Among the latter, OCSVM has identified a sample of heavily reddened AGN/quasar candidates distributed uniformly over the sky and in a large part absent from other WISE-based AGN catalogues. It also allowed us to find a specific group of sources of mixed types, mostly stars and compact galaxies. By combining the semi-supervised OCSVM algorithm with standard classification methods it will be possible to improve the latter by accounting for sources which are not present in the training sample, but are otherwise well-represented in the target set. Anomaly detection adds flexibility to automated source separation procedures and helps verify the reliability and representativeness of the training samples. It should be thus considered as an essential step in supervised classification schemes to ensure completeness and purity of produced catalogues.
2680. Offset discs and bars in SDSS galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/3363
Title:
Offset discs and bars in SDSS galaxies
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/469/3363
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use multiwavelength Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images and Galaxy Zoo morphologies to identify a sample of ~270 late-type galaxies with an off-centre bar. We measure offsets in the range 0.2-2.5kpc between the photometric centres of the stellar disc and stellar bar. The measured offsets correlate with global asymmetries of the galaxies, with those with largest offsets showing higher lopsidedness. These findings are in good agreement with predictions from simulations of dwarf-dwarf tidal interactions producing off-centre bars. We find that the majority of galaxies with off-centre bars are of Magellanic type, with a median mass of 10^9.6^M_{sun}_, and 91 per cent of them having M*<3x10^10^M_{sun}_, the characteristic mass at which galaxies start having higher central concentrations attributed to the presence of bulges. We conduct a search for companions to test the hypothesis of tidal interactions, but find that a similar fraction of galaxies with offset bars have companions within 100kpc as galaxies with centred bars. Although this may be due to the incompleteness of the SDSS spectroscopic survey at the faint end, alternative scenarios that give rise to offset bars such as interactions with dark companions or the effect of lopsided halo potentials should be considered. Future observations are needed to confirm possible low-mass companion candidates and to determine the shape of the dark matter halo, in order to find the explanation for the off-centre bars in these galaxies.