- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/210/7
- Title:
- BOSS narrow CIV absorption lines. I. zem<=2.4
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/210/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have assembled absorption systems by visually identifying CIV {lambda}{lambda}1548, 1551 absorption doublets in the quasar spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) one by one. This paper is the first of the series of work. In this paper, we focus on quasars with relatively low redshifts and high signal-to-noise ratio spectra, and hence we limit our analysis to quasars with z_em_<=2.4 and to doublets with W_r_{lambda}1548>=0.2{AA}. Out of the more than 87000 quasars in Data Release 9, we limit our search to 10121 quasars that have the appropriate redshifts and spectra with high enough signal-to-noise ratios to identify narrow CIV absorption lines. Among them, 5442 quasars are detected to have at least one CIV {lambda}{lambda}1548, 1551 absorption doublet. We obtain a catalog containing 8368 CIV {lambda}{lambda}1548, 1551 absorption systems, whose redshifts are within z_abs_=1.4544-2.2805. In this catalog, about 33.7% absorbers have 0.2{AA}<=W_r_{lambda}1548<0.5{AA}, about 45.9% absorbers have 0.5{AA}<=W_r_{lambda}1548<1.0{AA}, about 19.2% absorbers have 1.0{AA}<=W_r_{lambda}1548<2.0{AA}, and about 1.2% absorbers have W_r_{lambda}1548>=2.0{AA}.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/773/14
- Title:
- BOSS: quasar luminosity function
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/773/14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new measurement of the optical quasar luminosity function (QLF), using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-III: BOSS). From the SDSS-III Data Release Nine, a uniform sample of 22301 i<~21.8 quasars are selected over an area of 2236deg^2^, with confirmed spectroscopic redshifts between 2.2<z<3.5, filling in a key part of the luminosity-redshift plane for optical quasar studies. The completeness of the survey is derived through simulated quasar photometry, and this completeness estimate is checked using a sample of quasars selected by their photometric variability within the BOSS footprint. We investigate the level of systematics associated with our quasar sample using the simulations, in the process generating color-redshift relations and a new quasar K-correction. We probe the faint end of the QLF to M_i_(z=2.2){approx}-24.5 and see a clear break in the QLF at all redshifts up to z=3.5. A log-linear relation (in log{Phi}*-M*) for a luminosity evolution and density evolution model is found to adequately describe our data within the range 2.2<z<3.5; across this interval the break luminosity increases by a factor of ~2.6 while {Phi}* declines by a factor of ~8. At z<~2.2 our data are reasonably well fit by a pure luminosity evolution model, and only a weak signature of "AGN downsizing" is seen, in line with recent studies of the hard X-ray luminosity function. We compare our measured QLF to a number of theoretical models and find that models making a variety of assumptions about quasar triggering and halo occupation can fit our data over a wide range of redshifts and luminosities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/145/405
- Title:
- Box- and peanut-shaped bulges. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/145/405
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- NIR observations reveal that dust extinction does almost not influence the shape of bulges. There is no substantial difference between the shape of bulges in the optical and in the NIR. Our analysis reveals that 45% of all bulges are box- and peanut-shaped (b/p). The frequency of b/p bulges for all morphological types from S0 to Sd is >40%. In particular, this is for the first time that such a large frequency of b/p bulges is reported for galaxies as late as Sd. The fraction of the observed b/p bulges is large enough to explain the origin of b/p bulges by a barred potential (Luetticke et al., 2000, A&A, accepted).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/468/2058
- Title:
- Boxy/peanut-shaped bulges in barred galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/468/2058
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- From a sample of 84 local barred, moderately inclined disc galaxies, we determine the fraction that hosts boxy or peanut-shaped (B/P) bulges (the vertically thickened inner parts of bars). We find that the frequency of B/P bulges in barred galaxies is a very strong function of stellar mass: 79 per cent of the bars in galaxies with log (M*/M_{sun}_)w>=10.4 have B/P bulges, while only 12 per cent of those in lower mass galaxies do. (We find a similar dependence in data published by Yoshino & Yamauchi for edge-on galaxies.) There are also strong trends with other galaxy parameters - e.g. Hubble type: 77 per cent of S0-Sbc bars, but only 15 per cent of Sc-Sd bars, have B/P bulges - but these appear to be side effects of the correlations of these parameters with stellar mass. In particular, despite indications from models that a high gas content can suppress bar buckling, we find no evidence that the (atomic) gas mass ratio M_HI+He_/M* affects the presence of B/P bulges, once the stellar-mass dependence is controlled for. The semimajor axes of B/P bulges range from one-quarter to three-quarters of the full bar size, with a mean of R_box_/L_bar_=0.42+/-0.09 and R_box_/a_{epsilon}_=0.53+/-0.12 (where R_box_ is the size of the B/P bulge and a_{epsilon}_ and L_bar_ are lower and upper limits on the size of the bar).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/336/953
- Title:
- Bp-Ap stars HR-diagram from Hipparcos data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/336/953
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using Hipparcos (Cat. <I/239>) parallaxes and proper motions together with radial velocity data, the luminosity calibration and kinematics of Bp-Ap stars have been obtained. The used statistical method allows to treat inhomogeneous samples and to identify the different groups. Six types of Bp-Ap stars (He-rich, He-weak, Hg-Mn, Si, Si+ and SrCrEu) have been considered. In most of the samples, with the exception of the He-rich and He-weak stars, two groups have been separated. Individual distances and luminosities are given for the stars belonging to the main groups which contain the largest number of stars. The list of stars in the secondary groups is given
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/2663
- Title:
- B photometry of M31 variable star candidates
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/2663
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A search for variable stars is performed using two epochs of Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging data for a 9.28arcmin^2^ portion of M31. This data set reveals 254 sources that vary by at least 4{sigma} between epochs. The positions and two-epoch B-band (equivalent) photometry of these sources are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/398/1073
- Title:
- BP Mus Geneva 7-colour light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/398/1073
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The semi-detached eclipsing binary system BP Muscae has been analysed using the Wilson-Devinney program. The physical and orbital parameters have been determined through a self-consistent simultaneous solution of light curves in seven colours and of the radial velocity curves of both components. The 373 photometric measurements of BP Mus in the 7-colour GENEVA system are listed in the table. P and Q are the weights in colours and V magnitude (see Rufener, 1988, Cat. <II/169>).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/A209
- Title:
- B2 0258+35 polarisation images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/622/A209
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The contribution of active galactic nuclei to the magnetisation of the Universe can be constrained by knowing their duty cycles, jet and magnetic field morphologies, and the physical processes dominating their interaction with the surrounding environment. The magnetic field morphology and strength of radio lobes of AGN has an influence on the mechanisms for the propagation of cosmic rays into intergalactic space. Using the source B2 0258+35 we want to investigate the interaction of its radio lobes with the surrounding environment and examine the underlying physical effects. Published HI and radio continuum data at {lambda}21cm were combined with newly reduced archival Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope polarisation data at the same wavelength to investigate the polarised emission in the radio lobes of B2 0258+35. We assumed energy equipartition between the cosmic rays and the magnetic field to calculate their pressure and investigate the physical processes leading to the detected emission. We detected a unique S-shaped diffuse polarised structure. The lobes have a pressure of p=1.95+/-0.4x10^-14^dyn/cm^2^. The calculated total magnetic field strengths are low (B_eq_=1.21+/-0.12uG). We observe depolarisation in the northern lobe, which might originate from the HI-disc in the foreground. In addition we see an anti-correlation between the pressure and the fractional polarisation along the S-shaped structure. Therefore we consider magnetic draping and magnetic field compression as possible effects that might have created the observed S-shape. Our results suggest that magnetic draping can be effectively used to explain the observed polarised structures. This is likely due to the combination of a relatively low magnetic field strength, enabling super-Alfvenic motion of the rising lobes (with M_A_=2.47-3.50), and the coherency of the surrounding magnetic field. Moreover, the draped layer tends to suppress any mixing of the material between the radio lobes and the surrounding environment, but can enhance the mixing and re-acceleration efficiencies inside the lobes, providing an explanation for the average flat spectral index observed in the lobes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NewA/32.6
- Title:
- BP Peg times of maximum light
- Short Name:
- J/other/NewA/32.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New CCD photometric monitoring on the high-amplitude delta Scuti variable BP Peg was carried out on November 4, 2013 by using the 1.0-m reflecting telescope of Yunnan Observatories in China as well as on December 29, 2013 by using the 85-cm telescope at Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatory in China. BP Peg is a new high-amplitude delta Scuti variable with a period of 0.10954357-day. We have collected all the times of light maximum from the literature together with our data, and the pulsation period changes are analyzed through Observed-Calculated (O-C) method. With the available data, we discover that the pulsating period of BP Peg shows a cyclic oscillation with a period of 24.5-years and an amplitude of 0.0060-days. If the cyclic period changes are caused by light-time effect in a binary system, the reckoned mass of the hidden companion could be 0.20M_{sun}_ and possibly, it is an M-type star.
2040. BRAVA Catalog
- ID:
- ivo://irsa.ipac/BRAVA/Catalog
- Title:
- BRAVA Catalog
- Short Name:
- BRAVA Catalog
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2018 20:27:21
- Publisher:
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- Description:
- The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA) consists of spectra of approximately 8500 red giants in the Galactic bulge.
