- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/444/2498
- Title:
- Radio-Quiet BAL quasars sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/444/2498
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Studies of radio-loud (RL) broad absorption line (BAL) quasars indicate that popular orientation-based BAL models fail to account for all observations. Are these results extendable to radio-quiet (RQ) BAL quasars? Comparisons of RL and RQ BAL quasars show that many of their properties are quite similar. Here, we extend these analyses to the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectral properties, using a sample of 73 RL and 473 RQ BAL quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Each RQ quasar is individually matched to an RL quasar in both redshift (over the range 1.5<z<3.5) and continuum luminosity. We compare several continuum, emission line, and absorption line properties, as well as physical properties derived from these measurements. Most properties in the samples are statistically identical, though we find slight differences in the velocity structure of the BALs that cause apparent differences in C iv emission line properties. Differences in the velocities may indicate an interaction between the radio jets and the absorbing material. We also find that UV FeII emission is marginally stronger in RL BAL quasars. All of these differences are subtle, so in general we conclude that RL and RQ BAL QSOs are not fundamentally different objects, except in their radio properties. They are therefore likely to be driven by similar physical phenomena, suggesting that results from samples of RL BAL quasars can be extended to their RQ counterparts.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/641/L4
- Title:
- Radio source J1402+5347 1.4GHz light curves
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/641/L4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Propagation of the radio waves from distant compact radio sources through turbulent interstellar plasma in our Galaxy leads to twinkling of these sources, a phenomenon called interstellar scintillation. Such scintillations are a unique probe of the micro-arcsecond structure of radio sources as well as of the sub-AU-scale structure of the Galactic interstellar medium. Weak scintillations (i.e. intensity modulation of a few per cent) on timescales of a few days or longer are commonly seen at centimetre wavelengths and are thought to result from the line-of-sight integrated turbulence in the Milky Way's interstellar plasma. So far, only three sources were known that show more extreme variations, with modulations at the level of tens of per cent on timescales less than an hour. This requires propagation through nearby (d<~10pc) anomalously dense (n_e_>10^2^cm^3^) plasma clouds. Here we report the discovery with Apertif of a source (J1402+5347) showing extreme (~50%) and rapid variations on a timescale of just 6.5 minutes in the decimetre band (1.4GHz). The spatial scintillation pattern is highly anisotropic with a semi-minor axis of about 20,000 km. Canonical theory of refractive scintillation constrains the scattering plasma to be within the Oort cloud. The sight-line to J1402+5347 however passes unusually close to the B3 star Alkaid (eta UMa) at a distance of 32pc. If the scintillations are associated with Alkaid, then the angular size of J1402+5347 along the minor-axis of the scintels must be smaller than 10 microarcseconds yielding an apparent brightness temperature for an isotropic source of >10^14^K.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/86/23
- Title:
- Radio source 111MHz interplan. scintillation. I
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/86/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A complete sample of core-dominated radio sources has been studied using the interplanetary-scintillation method. In total, 72 sources were observed, with scintillations detected in 28 of them. The remaining sources have upper limits on their flux densities. Integrated flux densities are estimated for 24 sources. Cut-offs have been observed in the spectra of many sources. The thermal-electron densities have been estimated, assuming that these cut-offs are due to free-free absorption of the synchrotron radio emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/86/35
- Title:
- Radio source 111MHz interplan. scintillation. II
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/86/35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A complete sample of radio sources has been studied using the interplanetary scintillation method. In total, 32 sources were observed, with scintillations detected in 12 of them. The remaining sources have upper limits for the flux densities of their compact components. Integrated flux densities are estimated for 18 sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/108/1163
- Title:
- Radio structure of Quasars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/108/1163
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Images of resolved radio sources in the Palomar Bright Quasar Survey are presented with an angular resolution of 0.5 and 18arcsec. The observed structure of some well resolved radio quiet quasars and AGN's show large scale linear structures or unresolved central cores similar to radio loud objects in the BQS sample as well as the more luminous radio selected quasars. We suggest that at least some of these less luminous radio quiet objects may contain compact central engines characteristic of radio loud quasars and radio galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/510/64
- Title:
- Radio time delay of gravitational lens 0957+561
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/510/64
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The gravitational lens 0957+561 was monitored with the Very Large Array from 1979 to 1997. The 6 cm light-curve data from 1995 to 1997 and the 4cm data from 1990 to 1997 are reported here. At 4cm the intrinsic source variations occur earlier and are twice as large as the corresponding variations at 6cm. The VLBI core and jet components have different magnification factors, leading to different flux ratios for the varying and nonvarying portions of the VLA light curves. Using both the Press, Rybicki, & Hewitt Q (1992ApJ...385..404P) and dispersion statistical techniques, we determined the time delay, core flux ratio, and excess nonvarying B image flux density. The fits were performed for the 4 and 6 cm light curves, both individually and jointly, and we used Gaussian Monte Carlo data to estimate 68% statistical confidence levels. The delay estimates from each individual wavelength were inconsistent given the formal uncertainties, suggesting that there are unmodeled systematic errors in the analysis. We roughly estimate the systematic uncertainty in the joint result from the difference between the 6 and 4cm results, giving 409+/-30 days for the PRHQ statistic and 397+/-20 days for the dispersion statistic. These results are consistent with the current optical time delay of 417+/-3 days, reconciling the long-standing difference between the optical and radio light curves and between different statistical analyses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/704/652
- Title:
- Radio transients in a 1.4GHz drift-scan survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/704/652
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report two new radio transients at high Galactic latitude, WJN J0951+3300 (RA=09h51m22s+/-10s, DE=33{deg}00'+/-0.4{deg}, b=50{deg}54.2') and WJN J1039+3300 (RA=10h39m26s+/-10s, DE=33{deg}00'+/-0.4{deg}, b=60{deg}58.5'), which were detected by interferometric drift-scan observations at 1.4GHz at the Waseda Nasu Pulsar Observatory. WJN J0951+3300 was detected at 16:49:32UT on 2006 January 12 with the flux density of approximately 1760.5+/-265.9mJy, and WJN J1039+3300 was detected at 17:13:32UT on 2006 January 18 with the flux density of approximately 2242.5+/-228.7mJy. Both of them lasted for a short duration (<=2 days). The possibility that the distribution of the WJN radio transients is isotropic was suggested in a previous study. Having re-evaluated the log N-log S relation with the addition of the two new objects reported in this paper, we find that the slope is consistent with a slope of -1.5 and the previous result. Additionally, although there are several counterparts to WJN radio transients, we found that one of the quasar counterparts within the positional error of WJN J0951+3300 could be a radio-loud quasar. We have discussed whether or not WJN J0951+3300 could be of this quasar origin.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/162/72
- Title:
- Random forests method to discover high-redshift QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/162/72
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 07:01:17
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a method of selecting quasars up to redshift ~6 with random forests, a supervised machine-learning method, applied to Pan-STARRS1 and WISE data. We find that, thanks to the increasing set of known quasars, we can assemble a training set that enables supervised machine-learning algorithms to become a competitive alternative to other methods up to this redshift. We present a candidate set for the redshift range 4.8-6.3, which includes the region around z=5.5 where selecting quasars is difficult due to their photometric similarity to red and brown dwarfs. We demonstrate that, under our survey restrictions, we can reach a high completeness (66%{+/-}7% below redshift 5.6/83_-9_^+6^% above redshift 5.6) while maintaining a high selection efficiency (78_-8_^+10^%/94_-8_^+5^% ). Our selection efficiency is estimated via a novel method based on the different distributions of quasars and contaminants on the sky. The final catalog of 515 candidates includes 225 known quasars. We predict the candidate catalog to contain additional 148_-33_^+41^ new quasars below redshift 5.6 and 45_-8_^+5^ above, and we make the catalog publicly available. Spectroscopic follow-up observations of 37 candidates led us to discover 20 new high redshift quasars (18 at 4.6<~z<~5.5, 2z~5.7). These observations are consistent with our predictions on efficiency. We argue that random forests can lead to higher completeness because our candidate set contains a number of objects that would be rejected by common color cuts, including one of the newly discovered redshift 5.7 quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/756/52
- Title:
- R-band light curve of QSO J0158-4325 images
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/756/52
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present four new seasons of optical monitoring data and six epochs of X-ray photometry for the doubly imaged lensed quasar Q J0158-4325. The high-amplitude, short-period microlensing variability for which this system is known has historically precluded a time delay measurement by conventional methods. We attempt to circumvent this limitation by the application of a Monte Carlo microlensing analysis technique, but we are only able to prove that the delay must have the expected sign (image A leads image B). Despite our failure to robustly measure the time delay, we successfully model the microlensing at optical and X-ray wavelengths to find a half-light radius for soft X-ray emission log (r_1/2,X,soft_/cm)=14.3^+0.4^_-0.5_, an upper limit on the half-light radius for hard X-ray emission log (r_1/2,X,hard_/cm)<=14.6, and a refined estimate of the inclination-corrected scale radius of the optical R-band (rest frame 3100{AA}) continuum emission region of log (r_s_/cm)=15.6+/-0.3.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/609/A71
- Title:
- R-band light curves of DES J0408-5359
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/609/A71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present time-delay measurements for the new quadruply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, the first quadruply imaged quasar found in the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Our result is made possible by implementing a new observational strategy using almost daily observations with the MPIA 2.2m telescope at La Silla observatory and deep exposures reaching a signal-to-noise ratio of about 1000 per quasar image. This data quality allows us to catch small photometric variations (a few mmag rms) of the quasar, acting on temporal scales much shorter than microlensing, hence making the time delay measurement very robust against microlensing. In only 7 months we measure very accurately one of the time delays in DES J0408-5354: Dt(AB)=-112.1+/-2.1-days (1.8%) using only the MPIA 2.2m data. In combination with data taken with the 1.2m Euler Swiss telescope, we also measure two delays involving the D component of the system Dt(AD)=-155.5+/-12.8-days (8.2%) and Dt(BD)=-42.4+/-17.6-days (41%), where all the error bars include systematics. Turning these time delays into cosmological constraints will require deep HST imaging or ground-based Adaptive Optics (AO), and information on the velocity field of the lensing galaxy.
