- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/818/30
- Title:
- Lag measurements for 15 z<0.8 QSOs from the SDSS-RM
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/818/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Reverberation mapping (RM) measurements of broad-line region (BLR) lags in z>0.3 quasars are important for directly measuring black hole masses in these distant objects, but so far there have been limited attempts and success given the practical difficulties of RM in this regime. Here we report preliminary results of 15 BLR lag measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, a dedicated RM program with multi-object spectroscopy designed for RM over a wide redshift range. The lags are based on the 2014 spectroscopic light curves alone (32 epochs over six months) and focus on the H{beta} and Mg II broad lines in the 100 lowest-redshift (z<0.8) quasars included in SDSS-RM; they represent a small subset of the lags that SDSS-RM (including 849 quasars to z~4.5) is expected to deliver. The reported preliminary lag measurements are for intermediate-luminosity quasars at 0.3<~z<0.8, including nine H{beta} lags and six Mg II lags, for the first time extending RM results to this redshift-luminosity regime and providing direct quasar black hole mass estimates over approximately half of cosmic time. The Mg II lags also increase the number of known Mg II lags by several fold and start to explore the utility of Mg II for RM at high redshift. The location of these new lags at higher redshifts on the observed BLR size-luminosity relationship is statistically consistent with previous H{beta} results at z<0.3. However, an independent constraint on the relationship slope at z>0.3 is not yet possible owing to the limitations in our current sample. Our results demonstrate the general feasibility and potential of multi-object RM for z>0.3 quasars.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/213
- Title:
- LALA Bootes field X-ray source catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/213
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of a deep, 172ks Chandra observation of the Large Area Lyman Alpha survey (LALA) Bootes field, obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-I) on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This is one of the deepest Chandra images of the extragalactic sky; only the 2Ms Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N) and 1Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) are substantially deeper. In this paper we present the X-ray source catalog obtained from this image, along with an analysis of source counts and optical identifications. The X-ray image is composed of two individual observations obtained in 2002 and reaches 0.5-2.0 and 2.0-10.0keV flux limits of 1.5x10^-16^ and 1.0x10^-15^ergs/cm^2^/s, respectively, for point sources near the aim point. A total of 168 X-ray sources were detected: 160 in the 0.5-7.0keV band, 132 in the 0.5-2.0keV band, and 111 in the 2.0-7.0keV band. Our primary optical data are R-band imaging from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), with a limiting magnitude of R=25.7 (Vega, 3{sigma}, and 4" diameter aperture).
923. LAMOST DR5 catalogs
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/164
- Title:
- LAMOST DR5 catalogs
- Short Name:
- V/164
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We totally published 9,026,365 targets in this table, including 8,183,160 stars, 152,863 galaxies, 52,453 quasars, and 637,889 unknown objects. In addition, there are 5,808,985 objects with g band S/Ns larger than 10, 7,701,235 objects with i band S/Ns larger than 10, and 5,734,239 objects with g band S/Ns larger than 10 and i band S/Ns larger than 10. On the website http://dr5.lamost.org/catalogue, we provide two format LAMOST general catalogs, which include a FITS table and a CSV table, and the two catalog files have the same contents.
924. LAMOST DR4 catalogs
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/153
- Title:
- LAMOST DR4 catalogs
- Short Name:
- V/153
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a Chinese national scientific research facility operated by the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a special reflecting Schmidt telescope with 4000 fibers in a field of view of 20 deg22in the sky. Until July 2016, LAMOST has completed its pilot survey which was launched in October 2011 and ended in June 2012, and the first four years of regular survey which was initiated on September 2012. After this five-year-survey, we totally obtain 7,617,035 spectra, which consist of stars, galaxies, quasars and other unknown objects. Now, the fourth data release (DR4) has published online (http://dr4.lamost.org/), and released data products include 1. Spectra. - In general, there are 7,617,035 flux- and wavelength-calibrated, sky-subtracted spectra in DR4, including 6,943,865 stars, 117,254 galaxies, 36,575 quasars, and 519,341 unknown objects, and these spectra cover the wavelength range of 3690-9100 angstrom with a resolution of 1800 at the 5500 angstrom. 2. Spectroscopic Parameters Catalogs. - In this data release, six spectroscopic parameters catalogs are also published, they are the LAMOST general catalog, the A, F, G and K type star catalog, the A type star catalog, the M dwarf catalog, the observed plate information catalog, and the input catalog respectively. For the first four catalogs, they all include 36 columns of basic spectroscopic information, for example, right ascension, declination, signal to noise ratio, magnitude, classification and redshift. Also, the A type star catalog publish line indices of six spectral lines and four balmer line widths at 20% below the local continua, the A, F, G and K type star catalog provides effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity, and the M dwarf catalog releases the equivalent width of Halpha line, ten line indices, one metallicity sensitive parameter and a flag that indicates whether or not exist magnetic activity. For the observed plate information catalog, it mainly contains nine basic plate information for all published plates. At last, the input catalog includes 24 basic fields mentioned above, and three new fields which are not included in the above catalogs.
925. LAMOST DR2 catalogs
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/149
- Title:
- LAMOST DR2 catalogs
- Short Name:
- V/149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) general survey is a spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately half of the celestial sphere and collect 10 million spectra of stars, galaxies and QSOs.
926. LAMOST DR1 catalogs
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/146
- Title:
- LAMOST DR1 catalogs
- Short Name:
- V/146
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) general survey is a spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately half of the celestial sphere and collect 10 million spectra of stars, galaxies and QSOs. Objects in both the pilot survey and the first year regular survey are included in the LAMOST DR1. The pilot survey started in October 2011 and ended in June 2012, and the data have been released to the public as the LAMOST Pilot Data Release in August 2012. The regular survey started in September 2012, and completed its first year of operation in June 2013. The LAMOST DR1 includes a total of 1202 plates containing 2955336 spectra, of which 1790879 spectra have observed signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)>=10. All data with SNR>=2 are formally released as LAMOST DR1 under the LAMOST data policy. This data release contains a total of 2204696 spectra, of which 1944329 are stellar spectra, 12082 are galaxy spectra and 5017 are quasars. The DR1 not only includes spectra, but also three stellar catalogs with measured parameters: late A,FGK-type stars with high quality spectra (1061918 entries), A-type stars (100073 entries), and M-type stars (121522 entries). This paper introduces the survey design, the observational and instrumental limitations, data reduction and analysis, and some caveats. A description of the FITS structure of spectral files and parameter catalogs is also provided.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/15.1197
- Title:
- LAMOST DR2 star clusters candidate members
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/15.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this work, we provide 2189 photometrically- and kinematically-selected candidate members of 24 star clusters from the LAMOST DR2 catalog. We perform two-step membership identification: selection along the stellar track in the color-magnitude diagram, i.e., photometric identification, and selection from the distribution of radial velocities, i.e. the kinematic identification. We find that the radial velocities from the LAMOST data are very helpful in the membership identification. The mean probability of membership is 40% for the sample selected with radial velocity. With these 24 star clusters, we investigate the performance of the radial velocity and metallicity estimated with the LAMOST pipeline. We find that the systematic offsets in radial velocity and metallicity are 0.85+/-1.26km/s and -0.08+/-0.04dex, with dispersions of 5.47^+1.16^_-0.71_km/s and 0.13^+0.04^_-0.02_dex, respectively. Finally, we propose that the photometrically-selected candidate members of the clusters covered by the LAMOST footprint should be assigned higher priority so that more candidate stars can be observed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/454/2787
- Title:
- LAMOST DR2 white dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/454/2787
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Here we present a catalogue of 1056 spectroscopically identified hydrogen-dominated white dwarfs (DAWDs), 34 helium-dominated white dwarfs (DBWDs) and 276 white dwarf main sequence (WDMS) binaries from the Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) survey data release 2 (DR2). 383 DAWDs, 4 DBWDs and 138 WDMSs are new identifications after cross-match with literature. There are ~4100k spectra in total from DR 2. The low ratio of white dwarfs found in LAMOST is attributed to biased selection of LAMOST input catalogue and much brighter targets relative to stars observed in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In this paper, a new DAWD selection method is adopted as a new attempt and supplement to the traditional methods. The effective temperature, surface gravity, mass, cooling age and distance of high signal-to-noise DAWDs are estimated. The peak of the mass distribution is found to be ~0.6M_{sun}_, which is consistent with previous work. The parameters of WDMS binaries are also provided in this paper. As the foundation of our future work, which is to identify more WDs with debris disc, WDs found in LAMOST showed a lot of potential. Interesting infrared-excess WDs will be reported in our forthcoming paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/15.1392
- Title:
- LAMOST globular clusters in M 31 and M 33
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/15.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 908 objects observed with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) in fields in the vicinity of M31 and M33, targeted as globular clusters (GCs) and candidates. The targets include known GCs and candidates selected from the literature, as well as new candidates selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Analysis shows that 356 of them are likely GCs with various confidence levels, while the remaining ones turn out to be background galaxies and quasars, stars and HII regions in M31 or foreground Galactic stars. The 356 likely GCs include 298 bona fide GCs and 26 candidates known in the literature. Three candidates, selected from the Revised Bologna Catalog of M31 GCs and candidates (RBC) and one possible cluster from Johnson et al.(2012, Cat. J/ApJ/752/95), are confirmed to be bona fide clusters. We search for new GCs in the halo of the M31 among the new candidates selected from the SDSS photometry. Based on radial velocities yielded by LAMOST spectra and visual examination of the SDSS images, we find 28 objects, 5 bona fide and 23 likely GCs. Among the five bona fide GCs, three have been recently discovered independently by others, and the remaining 25 are our new identifications, including two bona fide ones. The newly identified objects fall at projected distances ranging from 13 to 265kpc from M31. Of the two newly discovered bona fide GCs, one is located near M33, probably a GC belonging to M33. The other bona fide GC falls on the Giant Stream with a projected distance of 78kpc from M31. Of the 23 newly identified likely GCs, one has a projected distance of about 265kpc from M31 and could be an intergalactic cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/159
- Title:
- LAMOST. II. ugriz photometry of 526 new quasars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/145/159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new quasars discovered in the vicinity of the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, also named the Guoshoujing Telescope, during the 2010 and 2011 observational seasons. Quasar candidates are selected based on the available Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Kitt Peak National Observatory 4m telescope, Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey optical, and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer near-infrared photometric data. We present 509 new quasars discovered in a stripe of ~135deg^2^ from M31 to M33 along the Giant Stellar Stream in the 2011 pilot survey data sets, and also 17 new quasars discovered in an area of ~100 deg^2^ that covers the central region and the southeastern halo of M31 in the 2010 commissioning data sets. These 526 new quasars have i magnitudes ranging from 15.5 to 20.0, redshifts from 0.1 to 3.2. They represent a significant increase of the number of identified quasars in the vicinity of M31 and M33. There are now 26, 62, and 139 known quasars in this region of the sky with i magnitudes brighter than 17.0, 17.5, and 18.0, respectively, of which 5, 20, and 75 are newly discovered. These bright quasars provide an invaluable collection with which to probe the kinematics and chemistry of the interstellar/intergalactic medium in the Local Group of galaxies. A total of 93 quasars are now known with locations within 2.5{deg} of M31, of which 73 are newly discovered. Tens of quasars are now known to be located behind the Giant Stellar Stream, and hundreds are behind the extended halo and its associated substructures of M31. The much enlarged sample of known quasars in the vicinity of M31 and M33 can potentially be utilized to construct a perfect astrometric reference frame to measure the minute proper motions (PMs) of M31 and M33, along with the PMs of substructures associated with the Local Group of galaxies. Those PMs are some of the most fundamental properties of the Local Group.
