- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/601/A81
- Title:
- FIRST catalog of FR II radio galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/601/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We built a catalog of 122 FR II radio galaxies, called FRIICAT, selected from a published sample obtained by combining observations from the NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. The catalog includes sources with redshift <=0.15, an edge-brightened radio morphology, and those with at least one of the emission peaks located at radius r larger than 30 kpc from the center of the host. The radio luminosity at 1.4GHz of the FRIICAT sources covers the range L1.4~10^39.5^-10^42.5^erg/s. The FRIICAT catalog has 90% of low and 10% of high excitation galaxies (LEGs and HEGs), respectively. The properties of these two classes are significantly different. The FRIICAT LEGs are mostly luminous (-20>~Mr>~-24), red early-type galaxies with black hole masses in the range 10^8^<~M_BH_<~10^9^M_{sun}_; they are essentially indistinguishable from the FR Is belonging to the FRICAT. The HEG FR IIs are associated with optically bluer and mid-IR redder hosts than the LEG FR IIs and to galaxies and black holes that are smaller, on average, by a factor ~2. FR IIs have a factor ~3higher average radio luminosity than FR Is. Nonetheless, most (~90%) of the selected FR IIs have a radio power that is lower, by as much as a factor of ~100, than the transition value between FR Is and FR IIs found in the 3C sample. The correspondence between the morphological classification of FR I and FR II and the separation in radio power disappears when including sources selected at low radio flux thresholds, which is in line with previous results. In conclusion, a radio source produced by a low power jet can be edge brightened or edge darkened, and the outcome is not related to differences in the optical properties of the host galaxy.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/135/133
- Title:
- First DENIS I-band extragalactic catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/135/133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- REDCAT is the release of the provisional extragalactic catalogue constructed from the "Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey" (DENIS). This catalogue contains 20260 galaxies with coordinates and I-band photometry (magnitude, diameter, axis ratio, position angle and a parameter related to the morphological type). In this new version photometric parameters are homogeneized to I-band measurements by Mathewson and Ford (1997, Cat. <J/ApJS/107/97>). Additional information on galaxies cross-identified with known objects can be obtained through the LEDA database at: http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/leda/leda-consult.html This catalogue is the result of a tremendous work done along the chain Chile-Paris-Lyon. Many people are involved in this programm conducted by the P.I. N. Epchtein. We will not take the risk to mention them all. Their names will appear in forthcoming papers. The distribution on the sky is made of strips of 30 degrees in declination (180 frames per strip) south of +02{deg}. If you are satisfied with this catalogue, try to push the Community to support the DENIS project. Your suggestions are welcome for any improvement of this first release.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/128/1
- Title:
- First Look Survey: NOAO R-band Mosaic
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/128/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present R-band images covering more than 11 square degrees of sky that were obtained in preparation for the Spitzer Space Telescope First-Look Survey (FLS). The FLS was designed to characterize the mid-infrared sky at depths 2 orders of magnitude deeper than previous surveys. The extragalactic component is the first cosmological survey done with Spitzer. Source catalogs extracted from the R-band images are also presented. The R-band images were obtained using the Mosaic-1 camera on the 4m Mayall Telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Two relatively large regions of the sky were observed to modest depth: the main FLS extragalactic field (17h18m00s, +59{deg}30'00.0"[J2000]; l=88.3{deg}, b=+34.9{deg}) and the ELAIS-N1 field (16h10m01s, +54{deg}30'36.0"; l=84.2{deg}, b=+44.9{deg}). While both these fields were in early plans for the FLS, only a single deep-pointing test observation was made at the ELAIS-N1 location. The larger Legacy program SWIRE will include this region among its surveyed areas. The data products of our KPNO imaging (images and object catalogs) are made available to the community through the World Wide Web (via the Spitzer Science Center and NOAO Science Archive, http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/fls/). The overall quality of the images is high. The measured positions of sources detected in the images have rms uncertainties in their absolute positions on the order of 0.35" with possible systematic offsets on the order of 0.1", depending on the reference frame of comparison. The relative astrometric accuracy is much better than 1/10 of an arcsecond. Typical delivered image quality in the images is 1.1" full width at half-maximum. The images are relatively deep, since they reach a median 5{sigma} depth limiting magnitude of R=25.5 (Vega) as measured within a 1.35 FWHM aperture, for which the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) is maximal. Catalogs have been extracted with SExtractor, using thresholds in area and flux for which the number of false detections is below 1% at R=25. Only sources with S/N>3 have been retained in the final catalogs. Comparing the galaxy number counts from our images with those of deeper R-band surveys, we estimate that our observations are 50% complete at R=24.5. These limits in depth are sufficient to identify a substantial fraction of the infrared sources that will be detected by Spitzer.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/757/51
- Title:
- FIRST-2MASS dust-reddened QSO spectra
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/757/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 120 dust-reddened quasars identified by matching radio sources detected at 1.4GHz in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters survey (FIRST) with the near-infrared Two Micron All Sky Survey catalog (2MASS) and color-selecting red sources. Optical and/or near-infrared spectroscopy provide broad wavelength sampling of their spectral energy distributions that we use to determine their reddening, characterized by E(B-V). We demonstrate that the reddening in these quasars is best described by Small-Magellanic-Cloud-like dust. This sample spans a wide range in redshift and reddening (0.1<~z<~3, 0.1<~E(B-V)<~1.5), which we use to investigate the possible correlation of luminosity with reddening. At every redshift, dust-reddened quasars are intrinsically the most luminous quasars. We interpret this result in the context of merger-driven quasar/galaxy co-evolution where these reddened quasars are revealing an emergent phase during which the heavily obscured quasar is shedding its cocoon of dust prior to becoming a "normal" blue quasar. When correcting for extinction, we find that, depending on how the parent population is defined, these red quasars make up <~15%-20% of the luminous quasar population. We estimate, based on the fraction of objects in this phase, that its duration is 15%-20% as long as the unobscured, blue quasar phase.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/607/60
- Title:
- FIRST-2MASS faint sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/607/60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have constructed a sample of bright near-infrared sources that are detected at radio wavelengths but undetected on the first-generation Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSSI) plates in order to search for a population of dust-obscured quasars. Optical and infrared spectroscopic follow-up of the sample has led to the discovery of 17 heavily reddened quasars (B-K>6.5), 14 of which are reported here for the first time. This has allowed us to define a region in the R-K, J-K color plane in which 50% of the radio-selected objects are highly reddened quasars. We compare the surface density of this previously overlooked population to that of ultraviolet-excess radio-selected quasars, finding that they make up ~20% of the total quasar population for K<~15.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/667/673
- Title:
- FIRST-2MASS red quasar survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/667/673
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Combining radio observations with optical and infrared color selection, demonstrated in our pilot study to be an efficient selection algorithm for finding red quasars, we have obtained optical and infrared spectroscopy for 120 objects in a complete sample of 156 candidates from a sky area of 2716deg^2^.
1957. First month on SN 2013ej
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/438/L101
- Title:
- First month on SN 2013ej
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/438/L101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present early photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2013ej, a bright Type IIP supernova (SN) in M74. SN 2013ej is one of the closest SNe ever discovered. The available archive images and the early discovery help to constrain the nature of its progenitor. The earliest detection of this explosion was on 2013 July 24.125 ut and our spectroscopic monitoring with the FLOYDS spectrographs began on July 27.7 ut, continuing almost daily for two weeks. Daily optical photometric monitoring was achieved with the 1m telescopes of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) network, and was complemented by UV data from Swift and near-infrared spectra from Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects and Infrared Telescope Facility. The data from our monitoring campaign show that SN 2013ej experienced a 10d rise before entering into a well-defined plateau phase. This unusually long rise time for a Type IIP has been seen previously in SN 2006bp and SN 2009bw. A relatively rare strong absorption blueward of H{alpha} is present since our earliest spectrum. We identify this feature as SiII, rather than high-velocity H{alpha} as sometimes reported in the literature.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1977
- Title:
- FIRST-Optical-VLA survey for lensed radio lobes
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1977
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a survey for gravitationally lensed radio lobes. Lensed lobes are a potentially richer source of information about galaxy mass distributions than lensed point sources, which have been the exclusive focus of other recent surveys. Our approach is to identify radio lobes in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST, Cat. <VIII/71>) catalog and then search optical catalogs for coincident foreground galaxies, which are candidate lensing galaxies. We then obtain higher resolution images of these targets at both optical and radio wavelengths and obtain optical spectra for the most promising candidates. We present maps of several radio lobes that are nearly coincident with galaxies. We have not found any new and unambiguous cases of gravitational lensing. One radio lobe in particular, FOV J0743+1553, has two hot spots that could be multiple images produced by a z=0.19 spiral galaxy, but the lensing interpretation is problematic.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/121/1872
- Title:
- FIRST radio-selected QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/121/1872
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained single-epoch optical photometry for 202 quasars, taken from the FIRST Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS), which span a wide range in radio loudness. Comparison with the magnitudes of these objects on the POSS-I plates provides by far the largest sample of long-term variability amplitudes for radio-selected quasars yet produced. We find the quasars to be more variable in the blue than in the red band, consistent with work on optically selected samples. The previously noted trend of decreasing variability with increasing optical luminosity applies only to radio-quiet objects. Furthermore, we do not confirm a rise in variability amplitude with redshift, nor do we see any dependence on radio flux or luminosity. The variability over a radio-optical flux ratio range spanning a factor of 60000 from radio-quiet to extreme radio-loud objects is largely constant, although there is a suggestion of greater variability in the extreme radio-loud objects. We demonstrate the importance of Malmquist bias in variability studies and develop a procedure to correct for the bias in order to reveal the underlying variability properties of the sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/883/175
- Title:
- First release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/883/175
- Date:
- 29 Nov 2021 07:46:33
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), which is a large, well-calibrated, high-quality empirical library covering the wavelength range 3622-10354{AA} at a resolving power of R~1800. The spectra were obtained using the same instrument as used by the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) project, by piggybacking on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV)/Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment 2-N (APOGEE-2N) observations. Compared to previous empirical libraries, the MaStar library will have a higher number of stars and a more comprehensive stellar-parameter coverage, especially of cool dwarfs, low-metallicity stars, and stars with different [{alpha}/Fe], achieved by a sophisticated target-selection strategy that takes advantage of stellar-parameter catalogs from the literature. This empirical library will provide a new basis for stellar-population synthesis and is particularly well suited for stellar-population analysis of MaNGA galaxies. The first version of the library contains 8646 high-quality per-visit spectra for 3321 unique stars. Compared to photometry, the relative flux calibration of the library is accurate to 3.9% in g-r, 2.7% in r-i, and 2.2% in i-z. The data are released as part of SDSS Data Release 15. We expect the final release of the library to contain more than 10000 stars.