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711. Radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars sample
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/461/2346
Title:
Radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars sample
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/461/2346
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We compare covering factors of circumnuclear dusty obscurers in radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars. The radio-loud quasars are represented by a sample of FR II quasars obtained by cross-matching a catalog of the FR II radio sources selected by van Velzen et al. with the SDSS DR7 catalog of quasars. Covering factors of FR II quasars are compared with covering factors of the radio-quiet quasars matched with them in redshift, black hole mass, and Eddington-ratio. We found that covering factors, proxied by the infrared-to-bolometric luminosity ratio, are on average slightly smaller in FR II quasars than in radio-quiet quasars, however, this difference is statistically significant only for the highest Eddington ratios. For both samples, no statistically significant dependence of a median covering factor on Eddington ratio, black hole mass, nor redshift can be claimed.
712. Radio-loud galaxies in the ROSAT survey. IV.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/363/141
Title:
Radio-loud galaxies in the ROSAT survey. IV.
Short Name:
J/A+A/363/141
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present multi-frequency radio data for 741 extragalactic sources with a 5GHz integrated flux density of >100mJy. These sources have been selected from a cross-correlation of an early ROSAT All-Sky Survey source list with a list of compact radio sources of the 5GHz Green Bank northern sky survey (RGB sample, Cat. <VIII/52>). The majority of sources were quasi-simultaneously observed with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope at 11cm, 6cm, and 2.8cm. We have determined the spectrum, size and linear polarization properties of these sources. We compare the radio data with ROSAT measurements and optical data. We find that the X-ray selected radio sources, when compared with unbiased radio source samples, are on average slightly more compact, show a higher fractional polarization, a higher absolute rotation measure (RM), and have flatter spectra. Absolute RMs are larger for steep spectrum than for flat spectrum sources and for extended than for compact sources. The average redshift increases with the radio flux density, which indicates that the X-ray selected radio sources have a larger fraction of beamed radio emission. All source characteristics of the sample are in accordance with present unification schemes for AGN, where X-ray selected sources are preferably looked at face on.
713. Radio loudness and classification for radio source
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/73/313
Title:
Radio loudness and classification for radio source
Short Name:
J/PASJ/73/313
Date:
03 Dec 2021 00:54:37
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The extragalactic radio sources are divided into two subclasses (radio-loud and radio-quiet sources) in the literature using radio loudness (R), which is defined as the ratio of radio emission to optical emission, but the boundary R-value separating the two classes is different in various sources. In this work, a sample of 2419 objects from the 13th catalog of quasars and active nuclei is used to build a boundary for the two subclasses. To do so, we compiled the radio and optical data, calculated their radio and optical indexes, made K-correction, obtained the radio loudness, and adopted a Bayesian analysis method to the logarithm of radio loudness for classification. We also investigated the correlations of radio loudness with radio/optical luminosities. Our main conclusions are summarized as follows: (1) The distribution of the logarithm of radio loudness (log R) is bimodal, the sources with log R<1.26 are classified as radio-quiet sources, and those with log R>1.26 are classified as radio-loud ones from the Bayesian analysis method. (2) The average radio-optical effective spectral index of radio-quiet sources is <RO>=0.05, while that of radio-loud sources is <{alpha}_RO_>=0.55. (3) There are positive correlations between radio luminosity and radio loudness for both radio-loud sources and radio-quiet sources. (4) A dividing line of separating the distribution of the clusters on the diagram of radio loudness against radio luminosity was obtained statistically to set the boundary between radio-loud sources and radio-quiet sources, with an accuracy of 99.73% based on the classification result from the Bayesian analysis method.
714. Radio-loud QSOs at z~4
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/348/857
Title:
Radio-loud QSOs at z~4
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/348/857
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We obtained spectra of 60 red, star-like objects (m_E_<18.8) identified with FIRST radio sources, S_1.4GHz_>1mJy. Eight are quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with redshift z>3.6. Combined with our earlier pilot search, our sample of 121 candidates yields a total of 18 z>3.6 QSOs (10 of these with z>4.0). 8 per cent of candidates with S_1.4GHz_<10mJy and 37 per cent of candidates with S_1.4GHz_>10mJy are QSOs with z>3.6. The surface density of m_E_<18.8, S_1.4GHz_>1mJy, z>4 QSOs is 0.003deg^-2^. This is currently the only well-defined sample of radio-loud QSOs at z~4 selected independently of radio spectral index. The QSOs are highly luminous in the optical (eight have M_B_<28, q_0_=0.5, H_0_=50km/s/Mpc). The SEDs are as varied as those seen in optical searches for high-redshift QSOs, but the fraction of objects with weak (strongly self-absorbed) Ly emission is marginally higher (3 out of 18) than for high-redshift QSOs from SDSS (5 out of 96).
715. 87 radio loud quasars (RLS) with 3.6<=z<=4.4
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/2818
Title:
87 radio loud quasars (RLS) with 3.6<=z<=4.4
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/449/2818
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We obtain a sample of 87 radio-loud quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) in the redshift range 3.6<=z<=4.4 by cross-correlating sources in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) radio survey (S_1.4GHz_>1mJy) with star-like objects having r<20.2 in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7. Of these 87 QSOs, 80 are spectroscopically classified in previous work (mainly SDSS), and form the training set for a search for additional such sources. We apply our selection to 2916 FIRST-DR7 pairs and find 15 likely candidates. Seven of these are confirmed as high-redshift quasars, bringing the total to 87. The candidates were selected using a neural-network, which yields 97 percent completeness (fraction of actual high-z QSOs selected as such) and an efficiency (fraction of candidates which are high-z QSOs) in the range of 47-60 percent. We use this sample to estimate the binned optical luminosity function (LF) of radio-loud QSOs at z~4, and also the LF of the total QSO population and its comoving density. Our results suggest that the radio-loud fraction at high z is similar to that at low z and that other authors may be underestimating the fraction at high z. Finally, we determine the slope of the optical LF and obtain results consistent with previous studies of radio-loud QSOs and of the whole population of QSOs. The evolution of the LF with redshift was for many years interpreted as a flattening of the bright-end slope, but has recently been re-interpreted as strong evolution of the break luminosity for high-z QSOs, and our results, for the radio-loud population, are consistent with this.
716. Radio luminosity function of FSRQs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/842/87
Title:
Radio luminosity function of FSRQs
Short Name:
J/ApJ/842/87
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the radio luminosity function (LF) of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ), using the largest and most complete sample to date. Cross-matching between the FIRST 20cm and GB6 6cm radio surveys, we find 638 flat-spectrum radio sources above 220mJy at 1.4GHz; of these, 327 are classified and verified using optical spectroscopy data, mainly from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12. We also considered flat-spectrum radio sources that lack both literature references and optical spectroscopy, and we identified 12 out of the 43 such sources to potentially be FSRQs, using their WISE colors. From the fully identified sample of 242 FSRQs, we derived the radio LF and cosmic evolution of blazars at 1.4GHz, finding good agreement with previous work at 5GHz. The number density of FSRQs increases dramatically to a redshift of z~2 and then declines for higher redshifts. Furthermore, the redshift at which the quasar density peaks is clearly dependent on luminosity, with more luminous sources peaking at higher redshifts. The approximate best-fit LF for a luminosity-dependent evolutionary model is a broken power-law with slopes ~0.7 and ~1.7 below and above the break luminosity, logL_1.4_~43.8erg/s, respectively.
717. Radio observations of the HDFS region. I
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1358
Title:
Radio observations of the HDFS region. I
Short Name:
J/AJ/130/1358
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper is the first of a series describing the results of the Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South radio survey. The survey was conducted at four wavelengths, 20, 11, 6, and 3cm, over a 4 year period and achieves an rms sensitivity of about 10{mu}Jy at each wavelength. We describe the observations and data reduction processes and present data on radio sources close to the center of the Hubble Deep Field-South. We discuss in detail the properties of a subset of these sources. The sources include both starburst galaxies and galaxies powered by an active galactic nucleus and range in redshift from 0.1 to 2.2. Some of them are characterized by unusually high radio-to-optical luminosities, presumably caused by dust extinction.
718. Radio observations of the HDFS region. II
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1373
Title:
Radio observations of the HDFS region. II
Short Name:
J/AJ/130/1373
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper is part of a series describing the results from the Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South (ATHDFS) survey obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. This survey consists of observations at 1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz, all centered on the Hubble Deep Field-South. Here we present the first results from the extended observing campaign at 1.4GHz. A total of 466 sources have been cataloged to a local sensitivity of 5{sigma} (11{mu}Jy rms). A source extraction technique is developed that (1) successfully excludes spurious sources from the final source catalogs and (2) accounts for the nonuniform noise in our image. A source catalog is presented, and the general properties of the 1.4GHz image are discussed. We also present source counts derived from our ATHDFS 1.4GHz catalog.
719. Radio-optical scrutiny of compact AGN
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/520/A62
Title:
Radio-optical scrutiny of compact AGN
Short Name:
J/A+A/520/A62
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the correlations between the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) radio emission at 15GHz, extended emission at 151MHz, and optical nuclear emission at 5100{AA} for a complete sample of 135 compact jets. We use the partial Kendall's tau correlation analysis to check the link between radio properties of parsec-scale jets and optical nuclear luminosities of host active galactic nuclei (AGN).
720. Radio polarimetry of CSS sources
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A4
Title:
Radio polarimetry of CSS sources
Short Name:
J/A+A/555/A4
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present multi-frequency VLA polarisation observations of compact steep spectrum (CSS) sources. About half of the sources are point-like even at the resolution of about 0.1x0.1 arcseconds. The remaining sources have double or triple structure. Low values for the percentage of polarised emission in CSS sources is confirmed. On the average, quasars are more polarised than galaxies. A wide range of RM values have been measured. There are clear indications of very large RMs up to about 5585rad/m^2^. CSS galaxies are characterized by RM values that are larger than CSS quasars. The majority of the objects show very large values of RM.