- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/448/411
- Title:
- The DRAO polarization survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/448/411
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The fits files contain the observed and interpolated data of a survey of linear polarization (Stokes U and Q) at 1.4GHz, obtained with the 25.6-m telescope of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Canada. The angular resolution is 36 arcmin. The data are corrected for ground radiation and tied to absolute determinations of zero levels. Survey observations were carried out by drift scanning the sky between -29{deg} and +90{deg} declination. The fully Nyquist- sampled drift scans were observed in steps of 0.25{deg} to about 2.5{deg} in declination. The rms noise is 12mK in Stokes U and Q.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/854/99
- Title:
- The Einstein@Home gamma-ray pulsar survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/854/99
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the analysis of 13 gamma-ray pulsars discovered in the Einstein@Home blind search survey using Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data. The 13 new gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by searching 118 unassociated LAT sources from the third LAT source catalog (3FGL), selected using the Gaussian Mixture Model machine-learning algorithm on the basis of their gamma-ray emission properties being suggestive of pulsar magnetospheric emission. The new gamma-ray pulsars have pulse profiles and spectral properties similar to those of previously detected young gamma-ray pulsars. Follow-up radio observations have revealed faint radio pulsations from two of the newly discovered pulsars and enabled us to derive upper limits on the radio emission from the others, demonstrating that they are likely radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars. We also present results from modeling the gamma-ray pulse profiles and radio profiles, if available, using different geometric emission models of pulsars. The high discovery rate of this survey, despite the increasing difficulty of blind pulsar searches in gamma rays, suggests that new systematic surveys such as presented in this article should be continued when new LAT source catalogs become available.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/24
- Title:
- The Einstein Observatory HRI Source List
- Short Name:
- IX/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Einstein Observatory is the second of NASA's three High Energy Astrophysical Observatories, HEAO-2, renamed Einstein after launch, and was the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space. It observed in the energy range 0.2-20keV. It was launched on 12 November 1978, and remained in operation until April 1981. The High Resolution Imager (HRI) is one fo the four instruments aboard the Einstein Observatory, operating in the 0.2-3.0keV energy range, with a spatial resolution of a few arcseconds, and a field of view of 25arcmin. Field and source parameters observed with this instrument are given here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/863/144
- Title:
- The ELQS in SDSS footprint. II. North Gal. Cap
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/863/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the North Galactic Cap sample of the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS-N), which targets quasars with M_1450_{<}-27 at 2.8<=z<5 in an area of ~7600deg^2^ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) footprint with 90{deg}<RA<270{deg}. Based on a near-infrared/infrared JKW2 color cut, the ELQS selection efficiently uses random forest methods to classify quasars and to estimate photometric redshifts; this scheme overcomes some of the difficulties of pure optical quasar selection at z~3. As a result, we retain a completeness of >70% over z~3.0-5.0 at m_i_<~17.5, limited toward fainter magnitudes by the depth of the Two Micron All Sky Survey. The presented quasar catalog consists of a total of 270 objects, of which 39 are newly identified in this work with spectroscopy obtained at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and the MMT 6.5m telescope. In addition to the high completeness, which allowed us to discover new quasars in the already well-surveyed SDSS North Galactic Cap, the efficiency of our selection is relatively high at ~79%. Using 120 objects of this quasar sample we are able to extend the previously measured optical quasar luminosity function (QLF) by one magnitude toward the bright end at 2.8<=z<=4.5. A first analysis of the QLF suggests a relatively steep bright-end slope of {beta}~-4 for this sample. This result contrasts with previous results in the same redshift range, which find a much flatter slope around {beta}~-2.5, but agrees with recent measurements of the bright-end slope at lower and higher redshifts. Our results constrain the bright-end slope at z=2.8-4.5 to {beta}{<}-2.94 with a 99% confidence.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/243/5
- Title:
- The ELQS in the PS1 footprint (PS-ELQS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/243/5
- Date:
- 08 Mar 2022 13:10:17
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey in the 3{pi} survey of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS; PS1). This effort applies the successful quasar selection strategy of the Extremely Luminous Survey in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint (~12000deg^2^) to a much larger area (~21486deg^2^). This spectroscopic survey targets the most luminous quasars (M_1450_<=-26.5; m_i_<=18.5) at intermediate redshifts (z>=2.8). Candidates are selected based on a near-infrared JKW2 color cut using WISE AllWISE and 2MASS photometry to mainly reject stellar contaminants. Photometric redshifts (z_reg_) and star-quasar classifications for each candidate are calculated from near-infrared and optical photometry using the supervised machine learning technique random forests. We select 806 quasar candidates at z_reg_>=2.8 from a parent sample of 74318 sources. After exclusion of known sources and rejection of candidates with unreliable photometry, we have taken optical identification spectra for 290 of our 334 good PS-ELQS candidates. We report the discovery of 190 new z>=2.8 quasars and an additional 28 quasars at lower redshifts. A total of 44 good PS-ELQS candidates remain unobserved. Including all known quasars at z>=2.8, our quasar selection method has a selection efficiency of at least 77%. At lower declinations, -30<=DEC<=0, we approximately treble the known population of extremely luminous quasars. We provide the PS-ELQS quasar catalog with a total of 592 luminous quasars (m_i_<=18.5, z>=2.8). This unique sample will not only be able to provide constraints on the volume density and quasar clustering of extremely luminous quasars, but also offers valuable targets for studies of the intergalactic medium.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/606/A76
- Title:
- The ESO DIBs Large Exploration Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/606/A76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are largely unidentified molecules ubiquitously present in the interstellar medium (ISM). After decades of study, two strong and possibly three weak near-infrared DIBs have recently been attributed to the C^+^_60_ fullerene based on observational and laboratory measurements. There is great promise for the identification of the over 400 other known DIBs, as this result could provide chemical hints towards other possible carriers. In an effort to systematically study the properties of the DIB carriers, we have initiated a new large-scale observational survey: the ESO Diffuse Interstellar Bands Large Exploration Survey (EDIBLES). The main objective is to build on and extend existing DIB surveys to make a major step forward in characterising the physical and chemical conditions for a statistically significant sample of interstellar lines-of-sight, with the goal to reverse-engineer key molecular properties of the DIB carriers. EDIBLES is a filler Large Programme using the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Chile. It is designed to provide an observationally unbiased view of the presence and behaviour of the DIBs towards early-spectral-type stars whose lines-of-sight probe the diffuse-to-translucent ISM. Such a complete dataset will provide a deep census of the atomic and molecular content, physical conditions, chemical abundances and elemental depletion levels for each sightline. Achieving these goals requires a homogeneous set of high-quality data in terms of resolution (R~70000-100000), sensitivity (S/N up to 1000 per resolution element), and spectral coverage (305-1042nm), as well as a large sample size (100+ sightlines). In this first paper the goals, objectives and methodology of the EDIBLES programme are described and an initial assessment of the data is provided.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/351
- Title:
- The extended Gaia-PS1-SDSS (GPS1+) proper motion catalog
- Short Name:
- I/351
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Gaia + PanSTARRS1 (PS1) + Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) + Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) (GPS1) catalog was released in 2017. It delivered precise proper motions for around 350 million sources down to a magnitude of r~20mag. In this study, we present GPS1+, the extension GPS1 catalog down to r~22.5mag, based on Gaia data release 2 (DR2), PS1, SDSS, and 2MASS astrometry. GPS1+ totally provides proper motions for ~400 million sources with a characteristic systematic error of less than 0.1mas/yr. This catalog is divided into two subsamples, i.e., the primary and secondary parts. The primary ~264 million sources have either or both Gaia and SDSS astrometry, with a typical precision of 2.0-5.0mas/yr. In this part, ~160 million sources have Gaia proper motions, and we provide another new proper motion for each of them by building a Bayesian model. Relative to Gaia's values, the precision is improved by ~0.1dex on average; ~50 million sources are the objects whose proper motions are missing in Gaia DR2, and we provide their proper motions with a precision of ~4.5mas/yr. The remaining ~54 million faint sources are beyond Gaia detecting capability, and we provide their proper motions for the first time with a precision of 7.0mas/yr. However, the secondary ~136 million sources only have PS1 astrometry, where the average precision is worse than 15.0mas/yr. The large uncertainty probably limits it to qualitative applications. All the proper motions have been validated using QSOs and the existing Gaia proper motions. The catalog will be available via the TAP Service in the German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/157
- Title:
- The Extended 12um galaxy sample
- Short Name:
- VII/157
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The authors have used the IRAS data to compile a sample of 893 galaxies, including 118 Seyfert galaxies. Please refer to the "12micron.doc" (ascii) or "12micron.tex" (LaTeX) file for complete descriptions.
1799. The EZOA survey
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/489/2907
- Title:
- The EZOA survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/489/2907
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of galaxies in the northern Zone of Avoidance (ZoA), extracted from the shallow version of the blind HI survey with the Effelsberg 100m radio telescope, EBHIS, that has a sensitivity of 23mJy/beam at 10.24km/s velocity resolution. The catalogue comprises 170 detections in the region Dec>=-5{deg} and |b|<6{deg}. About a third of the detections (N=67) have not been previously recorded in HI. While 29 detections have no discernible counterpart at any wavelength other than HI, 48 detections (28%) have a counterpart visible on optical or NIR images but are not recorded as such in the literature. New HI detections were found as close as 7.5Mpc (EZOA J2120+45), and at the edge of the Local Volume, at 10.1Mpc, we have found two previously unknown dwarf galaxies (EZOA J0506+31 and EZOA J0301+56). Existing large-scale structures crossing the northern ZoA have been established more firmly by the new detections, with the possibility of new filaments. We conclude that the high rate of 39% new HI\detections in the northern ZoA, which has been extensively surveyed with targeted observations in the past, proves the power of blind HI surveys. The full EBHIS survey, which will cover the full northern sky with a sensitivity comparable to the HIPASS survey of the southern sky, is expected to add many new detections and uncover new structures in the northern ZoA.
1800. The Fermi GBM catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/199/18
- Title:
- The Fermi GBM catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/199/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is designed to enhance the scientific return from Fermi in studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In its first two years of operation GBM triggered on 491 GRBs. We summarize the criteria used for triggering and quantify the general characteristics of the triggered GRBs, including their locations, durations, peak flux, and fluence. This catalog is an official product of the Fermi GBM science team, and the data files containing the complete results are available from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.
