- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/333
- Title:
- URAT Parallax Catalog (UPC)
- Short Name:
- I/333
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The URAT Parallax Catalog (UPC) consists of 112177 parallaxes. The catalog utilizes all Northern Hemisphere epoch data from the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT). This data includes all individual exposures from April 2012 to June 2015 giving a larger epoch baseline for determining parallaxes over the 2-year span of the First USNO Robotic Astrometric Telescope Catalog (URAT1) (Zacharias et al., 2015, Cat. I/329) published data. The URAT parallax pipeline is custom code that utilizes routines from (Jao, C.-W., 2004, PhD thesis Georgia Stat), the JPL DE405 ephemeris and Green's parallax factor (Green, R.M., 1985, Spherical Astronomy) for determining parallaxes from a weighted least-squares reduction. The relative parallaxes have been corrected to absolute by using the distance color relation described in (Finch et. al, 2014, Cat. J/AJ/148/119) to determine a mean distance of all UCAC4 reference stars (R=8-16 mag) used in the astrometric reductions. Presented here are all significant parallaxes from the URAT Northern Hemisphere epoch data comprising of 2 groups: a) URAT parallax results for stars with prior published parallax, and b) first time trigonometric parallaxes as obtained from URAT data of stars without prior published parallax. Note, more stringent selection criteria have been applied to the second group than the first in order to keep the rate of false detections low. For specific information about the astrometric reductions please see 'The First U.S. Naval Observatory Robotic Astrometric Telescope Catalog' published paper (Zacharias et al., 2015AJ....150..101Z, Cat. I/329). For complete details regarding the parallax pipeline please see 'Parallax Results From URAT Epoch Data' (Finch and Zacharias, 2016, AJ, in press). This catalog gives all positions on the ICRS at Epoch J2014.0; it covers the magnitude range 6.56 to 16.93 in the URAT band-pass, with an average parallax precision of 4.3mas for stars having no known parallax and 10.8mas for stars matched to external parallax sources. This catalog covers the sky from about North of -12.75{deg} declination. This catalog was matched with the Hipparcos catalog, Yale Parallax Catalog, (Finch & Zacharias, 2016, AJ, in press), MEarth (Dittmann et. al., 2014ApJ...784..156D) and the SIMBAD database to obtain known parallax and star names. For stars matched to SIMBAD using the automated search feature, only the parallaxes are given so no information on the parallax errors or source for the parallax are reported for those stars in this catalog. A flag is included to show which catalog or database the URAT parallax was matched with. Only the data from the first catalog that was matched is reported here according to the following priority list. This means for example, if a star was matched with Hipparcos, that information was used while possible other catalog data are not listed here. -------------------------------------------------------- # stars flg catalog -------------------------------------------------------- 53500 0 no catalog match 55549 1 Hipparcos 254 2 Yale Parallax Catalog 1041 3 Finch and Zacharias 2016 (UPM NNNN-NNNN) 1431 4 MEarth parallaxes 402 5 SIMBAD Database (w/parallax) -------------------------------------------------------- 112177 total number stars in catalog -------------------------------------------------------- Not all parallaxes from the URAT epoch data are included in this catalog. Only those data meeting the following criteria have been included. For the epoch data we only used data having a FWHM<=7.0pixel; amplitude between 500 and 30000ADU; sigma x,y <=90.0mas; number of observations >=20 and epoch span>=1.0 years. The limits imposed on individual image amplitude, image profile width (FWHM) and position fit errors (sigma) are set to not allow saturated stars, stars with too few photons or poorly determined positions to be used in the parallax solution. We present all URAT parallax solutions having a known parallax from an external data source regardless of the quality of the solution (srcflg=1-5). This was done for the user to better understand the limitations for determining parallaxes with the current URAT epoch data. For the remaining URAT parallaxes without a match to any published trigonometric parallax (srcflg=0) we only present a parallax solutions having: 1) a parallax error <=10mas 2) a parallax error <=1/4 the relative parallax 3) epoch span >=1.5 years 4) number of observations used >=30 5) fit sigma<=1.4 (unit weight) 6) average image elongation <1.1. All of these cuts have been implemented in an attempt to lower the number of possible erroneous parallax solutions entering our catalog. However, the URAT reduction process does not take provisions for close doubles (blended images) of arcsecond-level separations. Many of the parallaxes, particularly those with large mean elongation, large parallax error, large fit sigma and many rejected observations are possibly blended images leading to a higher chance of an erroneous parallax solutions. A visual inspection of all residual plots and real sky images would not be practical for the entire catalog. However, we have included information in the catalog to help the user to determine if a solution should be investigated further.
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1982. UV-bright quasars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/1181
- Title:
- UV-bright quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/690/1181
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Investigations of HeII Ly{alpha} (304{AA} rest-frame) absorption toward a half-dozen quasars at z~3-4 have demonstrated the great potential of helium studies of the intergalactic medium, but the current critically small sample size of clean sightlines for the HeII Gunn-Peterson test limits confidence in cosmological inferences, and a larger sample is required. Although the unobscured quasar sightlines to high redshift are extremely rare, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR6 provides thousands of z>2.8 quasars. We have cross-correlated these SDSS quasars with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) GR2/GR3 to establish a catalog of 200 higher-confidence (~70% secure) cases of quasars at z=2.8-5.1 potentially having surviving far-UV (rest-frame) flux. We also catalog another 112 likely far-UV-bright quasars from GALEX cross-correlation with other (non-SDSS) quasar compilations. Reconnaissance UV prism observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of 24 of our SDSS/GALEX candidates confirm 12 as detected in the far-UV, with at least nine having flux extending to very near the HeII break; with refinements our success rate is even higher. Our SDSS/GALEX selection approach is thereby confirmed to be an order of magnitude more efficient than previous HeII quasar searches, more than doubles the number of spectroscopically confirmed clean sightlines to high redshift, and provides a resource list of hundreds of high-confidence sightlines for upcoming HeII and other far-UV studies from the HST. Our reconnaissance HST prism spectra suggest some far-UV diversity, confirming the need to obtain a large sample of independent quasar sightlines across a broad redshift range to assess such issues as the epoch(s) of helium reionization, while averaging over individual-object pathology and/or cosmic variance.
1983. UV-bright quasars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/185/20
- Title:
- UV-bright quasars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/185/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Absorption along quasar sightlines remains among the most sensitive direct measures of HeII reionization in much of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Until recently, fewer than a half-dozen unobscured quasar sightlines suitable for the HeII Gunn-Peterson test were known; although these handful demonstrated great promise, the small sample size limited confidence in cosmological inferences. We have recently added nine more such clean HeII quasars, exploiting Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar samples, broadband ultraviolet (UV) imaging from Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), and high-yield UV spectroscopic confirmations from Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Here we markedly expand this approach by cross-correlating SDSS DR7 and GALEX GR4+5 to catalog 428 SDSS and 165 other quasars with z>2.78 having likely (~70%) GALEX detections, suggesting they are bright into the far-UV. Reconnaissance HST Cycle 16 Supplemental prism data for 29 of these new quasar-GALEX matches spectroscopically confirm 17 as indeed far-UV bright. At least 10 of these confirmations have clean sightlines all the way down to HeII Ly{alpha}, substantially expanding the number of known clean HeII quasars, and reaffirming the order of magnitude enhanced efficiency of our selection technique. Combined confirmations from this and our past programs yield more than 20 HeII quasars, quintupling the sample. These provide substantial progress toward a sample of HeII quasar sightlines large enough, and spanning a sufficient redshift range, to enable statistical IGM studies that may avoid individual object peculiarity and sightline variance. Our expanded catalog of hundreds of high-likelihood far-UV-bright QSOs additionally will be useful for understanding the extreme-UV properties of the quasars themselves.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/549/A78
- Title:
- uvby{beta} photometric catalog toward Anticenter
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/549/A78
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A uvbyH{beta} Stromgren photometric survey covering 16sq.deg in the anticenter direction was carried out using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) at the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), with a typical seeing of 1-1.5". Data from three different observing runs (2009A, 2010B, 2011A) were used for the catalog. The calibration to the standard system was undertaken using open clusters. A main catalog of 35974 stars with all Stromgren indexes, and a more extended one with 96980 stars with partial data. The central 8sq.deg have a limiting magnitude of V=17mag while the outer region reaches V=15.5mag. Two catalogs are available, the first one with the final mean values and a second one with all the individual measurements for each star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/104/429
- Title:
- uvby Photometry of G-type dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/104/429
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/4074
- Title:
- UVES Advanced Data Products Quasar Sample. VI.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/4074
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The circumgalactic medium (CGM) can be probed through the analysis of absorbing systems in the line of sight to bright background quasars. We present measurements of the metallicity of a new sample of 15 sub-damped Lyman {alpha} absorbers (sub-DLAs, defined as absorbers with 19.0 z_abs_<=3.104 from the ESO Ultra-Violet Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) Advanced Data Products Quasar Sample (EUADP). We combine these results with other measurements from the literature to produce a compilation of metallicity measurements for 92 sub-DLAs as well as a sample of 362 DLAs. We apply a multi-element analysis to quantify the amount of dust in these two classes of systems. We find that either the element depletion patterns in these systems differ from the Galactic depletion patterns or they have a different nucleosynthetic history than our own Galaxy. We propose a new method to derive the velocity width of absorption profiles, using the modelled Voigt profile features. The correlation between the velocity width {Delta}V_90_ of the absorption profile and the metallicity is found to be tighter for DLAs than for sub-DLAs. We report hints of a bimodal distribution in the [Fe/H] metallicity of low redshift (z<1.25) sub-DLAs, which is unseen at higher redshifts. This feature can be interpreted as a signature from the metal-poor, accreting gas and the metal-rich, outflowing gas, both being traced by sub-DLAs at low redshifts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/107/385
- Title:
- UV-excess objects Spacelab-1 survey IV.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/107/385
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/824/70
- Title:
- UV-FIR SED results of SDSS QSOs and their hosts
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/824/70
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work, we present a study of 207 quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalogs and the Herschel Stripe 82 survey. Quasars within this sample are high-luminosity quasars with a mean bolometric luminosity of 10^46.4^erg/s. The redshift range of this sample is within z Herschel-SPIRE bands, the quasar sample is complete yet highly biased. Based on the multi-wavelength photometric observation data, we conducted a spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting through UV to FIR. Parameters such as active galactic nucleus (AGN) luminosity, far-IR (FIR) luminosity, stellar mass, as well as many other AGN and galaxy properties are deduced from the SED fitting results. The mean star formation rate (SFR) of the sample is 419M_{sun}_/yr and the mean gas mass is ~10^11.3^M_{sun}_. All of these results point to an IR luminous quasar system. Compared with star formation main sequence (MS) galaxies, at least 80 out of 207 quasars are hosted by starburst galaxies. This supports the statement that luminous AGNs are more likely to be associated with major mergers. The SFR increases with the redshift up to z=2. It is correlated with the AGN bolometric luminosity, where L_FIR_{propto}L_Bol_^0.46+/-0.03^. The AGN bolometric luminosity is also correlated with the host galaxy mass and gas mass. Yet the correlation between L_FIR_ and L_Bol_ has higher significant level, implies that the link between AGN accretion and the SFR is more primal. The M_BH_/M_*_ ratio of our sample is 0.02, higher than the value 0.005 in the local universe. It might indicate an evolutionary trend of the M_BH_/M_*_ scaling relation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/756/164
- Title:
- UV galaxies in CANDELS from z=8 to z=4
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/756/164
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the evolution of galaxy rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) colors in the epoch 4<~z<~8. We use new wide-field near-infrared data in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-South field from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey, Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) 2009, and Early Release Science programs to select galaxies via photometric redshift measurements. Our sample consists of 2812 candidate galaxies at z>~3.5, including 113 at z=~7-8. We fit the observed spectral energy distribution to a suite of synthetic stellar population models and measure the value of the UV spectral slope ({beta}) from the best-fit model spectrum. We run simulations to show that this measurement technique results in a smaller scatter on {beta} than other methods, as well as a reduced number of galaxies with catastrophically incorrect {beta} measurements (i.e., {Delta}{beta}>1).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/810/71
- Title:
- UV mag of candidate galaxies at 3~<z~<8.5
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/810/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a robust measurement and analysis of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) luminosity functions at z=4-8. We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging over the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey/GOODS fields, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and the Hubble Frontier Field deep parallel observations near the Abell 2744 and MACS J0416.1-2403 clusters. The combination of these surveys provides an effective volume of 0.6-1.2x10^6^Mpc^3^ over this epoch, allowing us to perform a robust search for faint (M_UV_=-18) and bright (M_UV_<-21) high-redshift galaxies. We select candidate galaxies using a well-tested photometric redshift technique with careful screening of contaminants, finding a sample of 7446 candidate galaxies at 3.5<z<8.5, with >1000 galaxies at z~6-8. We measure both a stepwise luminosity function for candidate galaxies in our redshift samples, and a Schechter function, using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to measure robust uncertainties. At the faint end, our UV luminosity functions agree with previous studies, yet we find a higher abundance of UV-bright candidate galaxies at z>=6.
