- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/579/A115
- Title:
- SUDARE-VOICE variability-selection of AGN
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/579/A115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- One of the most peculiar characteristics of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is their variability over all wavelengths. This property has been used in the past to select AGN samples and is foreseen to be one of the detection techniques applied in future multi-epoch surveys, complementing photometric and spectroscopic methods. In this paper, we aim to construct and characterise an AGN sample using a multi-epoch dataset in the r band from the SUDARE-VOICE survey. Our work makes use of the VST monitoring programme of an area surrounding the Chandra Deep Field South to select variable sources. We use data spanning a six-month period over an area of 2 square degrees, to identify AGN based on their photometric variability. The selected sample includes 175 AGN candidates with magnitude r<23mag. We distinguish different classes of variable sources through their lightcurves, as well as X-ray, spectroscopic, SED, optical, and IR information overlapping with our survey. We find that 12% of the sample (21/175) is represented by supernovae (SN). Of the remaining sources, 4% (6/154) are stars, while 66% (102/154) are likely AGNs based on the available diagnostics. We estimate an upper limit to the contamination of the variability selected AGN sample =~34%, but we point out that restricting the analysis to the sources with available multi-wavelength ancillary information, the purity of our sample is close to 80% (102 AGN out of 128 non-SN sources with multi-wavelength diagnostics). Our work thus confirms the efficiency of the variability selection method, in agreement with our previous work on the COSMOS field. In addition we show that the variability approach is roughly consistent with the infrared selection.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/610/A25
- Title:
- Sulamitis and Clarissa asteroids spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/610/A25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The low-inclination (i<80{deg}) primitive asteroid families in the inner main belt, that is, Polana-Eulalia, Erigone, Sulamitis, and Clarissa, are considered to be the most likely sources of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu. These two primitive NEAs will be visited by NASA OSIRIS-REx and JAXA Hayabusa 2 missions, respectively, with the aim of collecting samples of material from their surfaces and returning them back to Earth. In this context, the Primitive Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (PRIMASS) was born, with the main aim to characterize the possible origins of these NEAs and constrain their dynamical evolution. As part of the PRIMASS survey we have already studied the Polana and Erigone collisional families in previously published works. The main goal of the work presented here is to compositionally characterize the Sulamitis and Clarissa families using visible spectroscopy. We have observed 97 asteroids (64 from Sulamitis and 33 from Clarissa) with the OSIRIS instrument (0.5-0.9um) at the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We found that about 60% of the sampled asteroids from the Sulamitis family show signs of aqueous alteration on their surfaces. We also found that the majority of the Clarissa members present no signs of hydration. The results obtained here show similarities between Sulamitis-Erigone, and Clarissa-Polana collisional families.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/253/3
- Title:
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy clusters surveyed by ACT
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/253/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise ratio >4 in 13211deg^2^ of sky surveyed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Cluster candidates were selected by applying a multifrequency matched filter to 98 and 150GHz maps constructed from ACT observations obtained from 2008 to 2018 and confirmed using deep, wide-area optical surveys. The clusters span the redshift range 0.04<z<1.91 (median z=0.52). The catalog contains 222 z>1 clusters, and a total of 868 systems are new discoveries. Assuming an SZ signal versus mass-scaling relation calibrated from X-ray observations, the sample has a 90% completeness mass limit of M_500c_>3.8x10^14^M_{sun}_, evaluated at z=0.5, for clusters detected at signal-to-noise ratio >5 in maps filtered at an angular scale of 2.4'. The survey has a large overlap with deep optical weak-lensing surveys that are being used to calibrate the SZ signal mass-scaling relation, such as the Dark Energy Survey (4566deg^2^), the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (469deg^2^), and the Kilo Degree Survey (825deg^2^). We highlight some noteworthy objects in the sample, including potentially projected systems, clusters with strong lensing features, clusters with active central galaxies or star formation, and systems of multiple clusters that may be physically associated. The cluster catalog will be a useful resource for future cosmological analyses and studying the evolution of the intracluster medium and galaxies in massive clusters over the past 10Gyr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/75/241
- Title:
- Supergalactic plane redshift survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/75/241
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Redshift measurements, about 1000 of which are new, are presented for 1314 galaxies in a survey toward the apex of the large-scale streaming flow for ellipticals.
3635. Supergiants in NGC 672
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/112/2559
- Title:
- Supergiants in NGC 672
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/112/2559
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- V, R, and I CCD images are used to investigate the photometric properties and spatial distribution of supergiants in the nearby interacting galaxy NGC 672. Not counting stars imbedded in H II regions, our sample consists of 237 objects. The (V-R,V-I) two-color diagram indicates that the majority of these stars have spectral types between A-K. Statistical tests show that the outer region of NGC 672 contains a redder population of supergiants than the inner region. Comparisons with theoretical evolutionary tracks indicate that the majority of the supergiants in NGC 672 have progenitor masses between 15M_{sun}_ and 25M_{sun}_, and that the inner regions contain stars that are more massive than in the outer disk, indicating that an age gradient is present. The luminosity functions in all three bandpasses follow power laws, and the exponent in V=0.79+/-0.06, in good agreement with other galaxies. The brightest red supergiants occur at V~22.0, from which we derive a distance modulus of 29.5, corresponding to 7.9(+1.0)(-0.9)Mpc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/887/23
- Title:
- SUPER GOODS. IV. 850um data of CDFS X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/887/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Chandra Deep Field (CDF)-S is the deepest X-ray image available and will remain so for the near future. We provide a spectroscopic (64.5%; 64% with spectral classifications) and photometric redshift catalog for the full 7Ms sample, but much of our analysis focuses on the central (off-axis angles <5.7') region, which contains a large, faint ALMA sample of 75 >4.5{sigma} 850{mu}m sources. We measure the 850{mu}m fluxes at the X-ray positions using the ALMA images, where available, or an ultradeep SCUBA-2 map. We find that the full X-ray sample produces ~10% of the 850{mu}m extragalactic background light. We separate the submillimeter-detected X-ray sources into star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using a star formation rate (SFR) versus X-ray luminosity calibration for high-SFR galaxies. We confirm this separation using the X-ray photon indices. We measure the X-ray fluxes at the accurate positions of the 75 ALMA sources and detect 70% at >3{sigma} in either the 0.5-2 or 2-7keV bands. However, many of these may produce both their X-ray and submillimeter emission by star formation. Indeed, we find that only 20% of the ALMA sources have intermediate X-ray luminosities (rest-frame 8-28 keV luminosities of 10^42.5^-10^44^erg/s), and none has a high X-ray luminosity (>10^44^erg/s). Conversely, after combining the CDF-S with the CDF-N, we find extreme star formation (SFR>300M_{sun}_/yr) in some intermediate X-ray luminosity sources but not in any high X-ray luminosity sources. We argue that the quenching of star formation in the most luminous AGNs may be a consequence of the clearing of gas in these sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/901/133
- Title:
- Supermassive BH masses of reverberation-mapped AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/901/133
- Date:
- 21 Feb 2022 08:57:26
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using different kinds of velocity tracers derived from the broad H{beta} profile (in the mean or rms spectrum) and the corresponding virial factors f, the central supermassive black hole masses (M_BH_) are calculated for a compiled sample of 120 reverberation-mapped (RM) active galactic nuclei (AGNs). For its subsample of RM AGNs with measured stellar velocity dispersion ({sigma}_*_), the multivariate linear regression technique is used to calibrate the mean value f, as well as the variable FWHM-based f. It is found that, whether excluding the pseudobulges or not, the M_BH_ from the H{beta} line dispersion in the mean spectrum ({sigma}_H{beta},mean_) has the smallest offset rms with respect to the M_BH_-{sigma}_*_ relation. For the total sample excluding SDSS-RM AGNs, with respect to M_BH_ from {sigma}_*_ or that from the H{beta} line dispersion in the rms spectrum ({sigma}_H{beta},rms_), it is found that we can obtain M_BH_ from the {sigma}_H{beta},mean_ with the smallest offset rms of 0.38 or 0.23dex, respectively. It implies that, with respect to the H{beta} FWHM, we prefer {sigma}_H{beta},mean_ to calculate M_BH_ from the single-epoch spectrum. Using the FWHM-based f, we can improve the M_BH_ calculation from FWHM(H{beta}) and the mean f, with a decreased offset rms from 0.52 to 0.39 dex with respect to M_BH_ from {sigma}_*_ for the subsample of 36 AGNs with {sigma}_*_. The value of 0.39dex is almost the same as that from {sigma}_H{beta},mean_ and the mean f.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/544/A81
- Title:
- Supernovae and their hosts in the SDSS DR8
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/544/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the creation of large and well-defined database that combines extensive new measurements and a literature search of 3876 supernovae (SNe) and their 3679 host galaxies located in the sky area covered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 8 (DR8). This database should be much larger than previous ones, and should contain a homogenous set of global parameters of SN hosts, including morphological classifications and measures of nuclear activity. Identification of the host galaxy sample is 91% complete (with 3536 SNe in 3340 hosts), of which the SDSS names of ~1100 anonymous hosts are listed for the first time. The morphological classification is available for 2104 host galaxies, including 73 (56) hosts in interacting (merging) systems. The total sample of host galaxies collects heliocentric redshifts for 3317 (~90%) galaxies. The g-band magnitudes, D_25_, b/a, and PA are available for 2030 hosts of the morphologically classified sample of galaxies. Nuclear activity measures are provided for 1189 host galaxies. We analyze and discuss many selection effects and biases that can significantly affect any future analysis of our sample. The creation of this large database will help to better understand how the different types of SNe are correlated with the properties of the nuclei and global physical parameters of the host galaxies, and minimize possible selection effects and errors that often arise when data are selected from different sources and catalogues.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/657/A64
- Title:
- Supernovae ZTF light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/657/A64
- Date:
- 16 Mar 2022 13:01:07
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Stripped-envelope supernovae (SE SNe) of Type Ib and Type Ic are thought to result from explosions of massive stars having lost their outer envelopes. The favoured explosion mechanism is by core-collapse, with the shock later revived by neutrino heating. However, there is an upper limit to the amount of radioactive ^56^Ni that such models can accomplish. Recent literature point to a tension between the maximum luminosity from such simulations and observations. We use a well characterized sample of SE SNe from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Bright Transient Survey (BTS). We scrutinize the observational caveats regarding estimating the maximum luminosity (and thus the amount of ejected radioactive nickel) for the members of this sample. We employ the strict selection criteria for the BTS to collect a sample of spectroscopically classified normal Type Ibc SNe for which we use the ZTF light curves to determine the maximum luminosity. We cull the sample further based on data quality, light-curve shape, distance and colors, and examine uncertainties that may affect the numbers. The methodology of the sample construction from this BTS sample can be used for many other future investigations. We analyze observational data, consisting of optical light curves and spectra, for the selected sub-samples. In total we use 129 Type Ib or Type Ic BTS SNe with an initial rough luminosity distribution peaked at M_r_=-17.61+/-0.72, and where 36% are apparently brighter than the theoretically predicted maximum brightness of M_r_=-17.8. When we further cull this sample to ensure that the SNe are normal Type Ibc with good LC data within the Hubble flow, the sample of 94 objects has M_r_=-17.64+/-0.54. A main uncertainty in absolute magnitude determinations for SNe is the host galaxy extinction correction, but the reddened objects only get more luminous after corrections. If we simply exclude objects with red, unusual or uncertain colors, we are left with 14 objects at M_r_=-17.90+/-0.73, whereof a handful are most certainly brighter than the suggested theoretical limit. The main result of this study is thus that normal SNe Ibc do indeed reach luminosities above 10^42.6^erg/s, apparently in conflict with existing explosion models.
3640. Supernova light echoes
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/138/253
- Title:
- Supernova light echoes
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/138/253
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Supernova (SN) light echoes could be a powerful tool for determining distances to galaxies geometrically, Sparks (1994ApJ...433...19S). In this paper we present CCD photometry of the environments of 64 historical supernovae, the first results of a program designed to search for light echoes from these SNe. We commonly find patches of optical emission at, or close to, the sites of the supernovae. The color distribution of these patches is broad, and generally consistent with stellar population colors, possibly with some reddening. However there are in addition patches with both unusually red and unusually blue colors. We expect light echoes to be blue, and while none of the objects are quite as blue in V-R as the known light echo of SN 1991T, there are features that are unusually blue and we identify these as candidate light echoes for follow-on observations.
