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951. The third realization of the ICRF, ICRF3
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/644/A159
Title:
The third realization of the ICRF, ICRF3
Short Name:
J/A+A/644/A159
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A new realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) is presented based on the work achieved by a working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) mandated for this purpose. This new realization follows the initial realization of theICRF completed in 1997 and its successor, ICRF2, adopted as a replacement in 2009. The new frame, referred to as ICRF3, is based on nearly 40 years of data acquired by very long baseline interferometry at the standard geodetic and astrometric radio frequencies (8.4 and 2.3GHz), supplemented with data collected at higher radio frequencies (24GHz and dual-frequency 32 and 8.4GHz) over the past 15 years. State-of-the-art astronomical and geophysical modeling has been used to analyze these data and derive source positions. The modeling integrates, for the first time, the effect of the galactocentric acceleration of the solar system (directly estimated from the data) which, if not considered, induces significant deformation of the frame due to the data span. The new frame includes positions at 8.4GHz for 4536 extragalactic sources. Of these, 303 sources, uniformly distributed on the sky, are identified as "defining sources" and as such serve to define the axes of the frame. Positions at 8.4GHz are supplemented with positions at 24GHz for 824 sources and at 32GHz for 678 sources. In all, ICRF3 comprises 4588 sources, with three-frequency positions available for 600 of these. Source positions have been determined independently at each of the frequencies in order to preserve the underlying astrophysical content behind such positions. They are reported for epoch 2015.0 and must be propagated for observations at other epochs for the most accurate needs, accounting for the acceleration toward the Galactic center, which results in a dipolar proper motion field of amplitude 0.0058 milliarcsecond/yr (mas/yr). The frame is aligned onto the International Celestial Reference System to within the accuracy of ICRF2 and shows a median positional uncertainty of about 0.1mas in right ascension and 0.2 mas in declination, with a noise floor of 0.03mas in the individual source coordinates. A subset of 500 sources is found to have extremely accurate positions, in the range of 0.03 to 0.06mas, at the traditional 8.4GHz frequency. Comparing ICRF3 with the recently released Gaia Celestial Reference Frame 2 in the optical domain, there is no evidence for deformations larger than 0.03 mas between the two frames, in agreement with the ICRF3 noise level. Significant positional offsets between the three ICRF3 frequencies are detected for about 5% of the sources.Moreover, a notable fraction (22%) of the sources shows optical and radio positions that are significantly offset. There are indications that these positional offsets may be the manifestation of extended source structures. This third realization of the ICRF was adopted by the IAU at its 30th General Assembly in August 2018 and replaced the previous realization, ICRF2, on January 1, 2019.
952. The UV-bright Quasar Survey (UVQS) DR1
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/25
Title:
The UV-bright Quasar Survey (UVQS) DR1
Short Name:
J/AJ/152/25
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the first data release (DR1) from our UV-bright Quasar Survey for new z~1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) across the sky. Using simple GALEX UV and WISE near-IR color selection criteria, we generated a list of 1450 primary candidates with FUV<18.5mag. We obtained discovery spectra, primarily on 3m-class telescopes, for 1040 of these candidates and confirmed 86% as AGNs, with redshifts generally at z>0.5. Including a small set of observed secondary candidates, we report the discovery of 217 AGNs with FUV<18mag that previously had no reported spectroscopic redshift. These are excellent potential targets for UV spectroscopy before the end of the Hubble Space Telescope mission. The main data products are publicly available through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
953. The XMM-ATLAS catalogues
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/577/A121
Title:
The XMM-ATLAS catalogues
Short Name:
J/A+A/577/A121
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Wide area X-ray and far infrared surveys are a fundamental tool to investigate the link between AGN growth and star formation, especially in the low-redshift universe (z<1). The Herschel Terahertz Large Area survey (H-ATLAS) has covered 550deg^2^ in five far-infrared and sub-mm bands, 16deg^2^ of which have been presented in the Science Demonstration Phase (SDP) catalogue. Here we introduce the XMM-Newton observations in H-ATLAS SDP area, covering 7.1deg^2^ with flux limits of 2*10^-15^, 6*10^-15^, and 9*10^-15^erg/s/cm^2^ in the 0.5-2, 0.5-8 and 2-8keV bands, respectively. We present the source detection and the catalogue, which includes 1700, 1582 and 814 sources detected by emldetect in the 0.5-8, 0.5-2 and 2-8keV bands, respectively; the number of unique sources is 1816. We extract spectra and derive fluxes from power-law fits for 398 sources with more than 40 counts in the 0.5-8keV band. We compare the best-fit fluxes with the catalogue ones, obtained by assuming a common photon index of Gamma=1.7; we find no bulk difference between the fluxes, and a moderate dispersion of s=0.33dex. Using wherever possible the fluxes from the spectral fits, we derive the 2-10keV Log N-Log S, which is consistent with a Euclidean distribution. Finally, we release computer code for the tools developed for this project.
954. The XMM-CDFS catalogues
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A42
Title:
The XMM-CDFS catalogues
Short Name:
J/A+A/555/A42
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Nuclear obscuration plays a key role in the initial phases of AGN growth, yet not many highly obscured AGN are currently known beyond the local Universe, and their search is an active topic of research. The XMM-Newton survey in the Chandra Deep Field South (XMM-CDFS) aims at detecting and studying the spectral properties of a significant number of obscured and Compton-thick (NH=10^24^cm^-2^ ) AGN. The large effective area of XMM-Newton in the 2-10 and 5-10keV bands, coupled with a 3.45Ms nominal exposure time (2.82 and 2.45Ms after lightcurve cleaning for MOS and PN respectively), allows us to build clean samples in both bands, and makes the XMM-CDFS the deepest XMM-Newton survey currently published in the 5-10keV band. The large multi- wavelength and spectroscopic coverage of the CDFS area allows for an immediate and abundant scientific return. In this paper, we present the data reduction of the XMM-CDFS observations, the method for source detection in the 2-10 and 5-10keV bands, and the resulting catalogues. A number of 339 and 137 sources are listed in the above bands with flux limits of 6.6x10^-16^ and 9.5x10^-16^erg/s/cm^2^, respectively. The flux limits at 50% of the maximum sky coverage are 1.8x10^-15^ and 4.0x10^-15^erg/s/cm^2^, respectively. The catalogues have been cross-correlated with the Chandra ones: 315 and 130 identifications have been found with a likelihood- ratio method, respectively. A number of 15 new sources, previously undetected by Chandra, is found; 5 of them lie in the 4Ms area. Redshifts, either spectroscopic or photometric, are available for ~92% of the sources. The number counts in both bands are presented and compared to other works. The survey coverage has been calculated with the help of two extensive sets of simulations, one set per band. The simulations have been produced with a newly-developed simulator, written with the aim of the most careful reproduction of the background spatial properties. For this reason, we present a detailed decomposition of the XMM-Newton background into its components: cosmic, particle, and residual soft protons. The three components have different spatial distributions. The importance of these three components depends on the band and on the camera; the particle background is the most important one (80-90% of the background counts), followed by the soft protons (4-20%).
955. Third catalog of LAT-detected AGNs (3LAC)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/810/14
Title:
Third catalog of LAT-detected AGNs (3LAC)
Short Name:
J/ApJ/810/14
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected between 100MeV and 300GeV with a Test Statistic greater than 25, between 2008 August 4 and 2012 July 31. The 3LAC includes 1591 AGNs located at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10{deg}), a 71% increase over the second catalog based on 2 years of data. There are 28 duplicate associations, thus 1563 of the 2192 high-latitude gamma-ray sources of the 3FGL catalog are AGNs. Most of them (98%) are blazars. About half of the newly detected blazars are of unknown type, i.e., they lack spectroscopic information of sufficient quality to determine the strength of their emission lines. Based on their gamma-ray spectral properties, these sources are evenly split between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lacs. The most abundant detected BL Lacs are of the high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) type. About 50% of the BL Lacs have no measured redshifts. A few new rare outliers (HSP-FSRQs and high-luminosity HSP BL Lacs) are reported. The general properties of the 3LAC sample confirm previous findings from earlier catalogs. The fraction of 3LAC blazars in the total population of blazars listed in BZCAT remains non-negligible even at the faint ends of the BZCAT-blazar radio, optical, and X-ray flux distributions, which hints that even the faintest known blazars could eventually shine in gamma-rays at LAT-detection levels. The energy-flux distributions of the different blazar populations are in good agreement with extrapolation from earlier catalogs.
956. Time delays and H0 from WFI J2033-4723
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/481
Title:
Time delays and H0 from WFI J2033-4723
Short Name:
J/A+A/488/481
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Gravitationally lensed quasars can be used to map the mass distribution in lensing galaxies and to estimate the Hubble constant H0 by measuring the time delays between the quasar images. Here we report the measurement of two independent time delays in the quadruply imaged quasar WFI J2033-4723 (z=1.66). Our data consist of R-band images obtained with the Swiss 1.2m EULER telescope located at La Silla and with the 1.3m SMARTS telescope located at Cerro Tololo. The light curves have 218 independent epochs spanning 3 full years of monitoring between March 2004 and May 2007, with a mean temporal sampling of one observation every 4th day. We measure the time delays using three different techniques, and we obtain Dt(B-A)=35.5+/-1.4days (3.8%) and Dt(B-C)=62.6^+4.1^_-2.3_days (^+6.5%^_-3.7%_), where A is a composite of the close, merging image pair. After correcting for the time delays, we find R-band flux ratios of FA/FB=2.88+/-0.04, FA/FC=3.38+/-0.06, and FA1/FA2=1.37+/-0.05 with no evidence for microlensing variability over a time scale of three years. However, these flux ratios do not agree with those measured in the quasar emission lines, suggesting that longer term microlensing is present. Our estimate of H0 agrees with the concordance value: non-parametric modeling of the lensing galaxy predicts H0=67^+13^_-10_km/s/Mpc, while the Single Isothermal Sphere model yields H0=63^+7^_-3_km/s/Mpc (68% confidence level). More complex lens models using a composite de Vaucouleurs plus NFW galaxy mass profile show twisting of the mass isocontours in the lensing galaxy, as do the non-parametric models. As all models also require a significant external shear, this suggests that the lens is a member of the group of galaxies seen in field of view of WFI J2033-4723.
957. Tuorla Quasar Monitoring
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/143/357
Title:
Tuorla Quasar Monitoring
Short Name:
J/A+AS/143/357
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The observations presented in table 3 were made by using the 1.03m Dall-Kirkham-type telescope (f/8.45) of Tuorla Observatory with a SBIG ST-8 CCD-camera and a standard V-band filter. Table 4 includes data (B-, V- , and R-bands) observed at the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) on La Palma. Corrections for dark-current effects, additive effects (bias) and multiplicative effects (flatfield) were applied. Due to the relatively small field of view of the telescope separate frames of comparison stars were exposed for Mrk 421 and 4C 29.45. For the other objects normal differential photometry methods were applied. Exposure times with the Tuorla 1.03 meter telescope were between 60 and 240 seconds for objects brighter than 16 mag. For fainter objects, we have combined several exposures to achieve a sufficiently high signal to noise ratio.
958. Type 1 AGN at low z. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/426/2703
Title:
Type 1 AGN at low z. II.
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/426/2703
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We explore the relative strength of the narrow emission lines in a Sloan Digital Sky Survey based sample of broad H{alpha} selected active galactic nuclei (AGN), defined in Paper I (Stern & Laor, 2010, Cat. J/MNRAS/423/600).
959. Type-2 AGN from XMM-COSMOS bolometric output
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/534/A110
Title:
Type-2 AGN from XMM-COSMOS bolometric output
Short Name:
J/A+A/534/A110
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Study of the multi-wavelength properties of a sample of 255 spectroscopically identified X-ray selected Type-2 AGN from the XMM-COSMOS survey. For each source, X-ray ID, spectroscopic redshift, logarithm of the 2-10keV luminosity, logarithm of the bolometric luminosity, bolometric correction, logarithm of the stellar mass, star formation rate, absolute magnitude M_U_, absolute magnitude M_V_, absolute magnitude M_J_ (Johnson-Kron-Cousin system), morphological class.
960. Type-1 low-z AGN emission properties
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/423/600
Title:
Type-1 low-z AGN emission properties
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/423/600
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We analyze the emission properties of a new sample of 3,579 type 1 AGN, selected from the SDSS DR7 based on the detection of broad H-{alpha} emission. The sample extends over a broad H-{alpha} luminosity L_bHa_ of 10^40^-10^44^erg/s and a broad H-{alpha} FWHM of 1,000-25,000km/s, which covers the range of black hole mass 10^6^<M_BH_/M{sun}<10^9.5^ and luminosity in Eddington units 10^-3^<L/L_Edd_<1. We combine ROSAT, GALEX and 2MASS observations to form the SED from 2.2um to 2keV. We find the following: 1. The distribution of the H-{alpha} FWHM values is independent of luminosity. 2. The observed mean optical-UV SED is well matched by a fixed shape SED of luminous quasars, which scales linearly with L_bHa_, and a host galaxy contribution. 3. The host galaxy r-band (fibre) luminosity function follows well the luminosity function of inactive non-emission line galaxies (NEG), consistent with a fixed fraction of ~3% of NEG hosting an AGN, regardless of the host luminosity. 4. The hosts of lower luminosity AGN have a mean z band luminosity and u-z colour which are identical to NEG with the same redshift distribution. With increasing L_bHa_ the AGN hosts become bluer and less luminous than NEG. The implied increasing star formation rate with L_bHa_ is consistent with the relation for SDSS type 2 AGN of similar bolometric luminosity. 5. The optical-UV SED of the more luminous AGN shows a small dispersion, consistent with dust reddening of a blue SED, as expected for thermal thin accretion disc emission. 6. There is a rather tight relation of {nu}L_{nu}_(2keV) and L_bHa_, which provides a useful probe for unobscured (true) type 2 AGN. 7. The primary parameter which drives the X-ray to UV emission ratio is the luminosity, rather than M_BH_ or L/L_Edd_.