- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/506/1477
- Title:
- Radio source distribution
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/506/1477
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Information on physical characteristics of astrometric radio sources, such as magnitude and redshift, is of great importance for many astronomical studies. However, data usually used in radio astrometry is often incomplete and outdated. Our purpose is to study the optical characteristics of more than 4000 radio sources observed by the astrometric VLBI technique since 1979. We also studied the effect of the asymmetry in the distribution of the reference radio sources on the correlation matrices between vector spherical harmonics of the first and second degrees. The radio source characteristics were mainly taken from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). Characteristics of the gravitational lenses were checked with the CfA-Arizona Space Telescope LEns Survey. SIMBAD and HyperLeda databases were also used to clarify the characteristics of some objects. Also we simulated and investigated a list of 4000 radio sources evenly distributed around the celestial sphere. We estimated the correlation matrices between the vector spherical harmonics using the real as well as modelled distribution of the radio sources.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/897
- Title:
- Radio sources toward galaxy clusters at 30GHz
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/897
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Extragalactic radio sources are a significant contaminant in cosmic microwave background and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect experiments. Deep interferometric observations with the BIMA and OVRO arrays are used to characterize the spatial, spectral, and flux distributions of radio sources toward massive galaxy clusters at 28.5GHz. We compute counts of millijansky source fluxes from 89 fields centered on known massive galaxy clusters and 8 noncluster fields.
- 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.
1065. RASS AGN sample. II.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/590/73
- Title:
- RASS AGN sample. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/590/73
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work studies the optical emission line properties of a sample of 155 low-redshift bright X-ray-selected ROSAT Seyfert 1-type active galactic nuclei for which adequate signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopic observations are available. We measured emission-line properties by performing multicomponent fits to the emission-line profiles, covering the effect of blended iron emission. We also obtained continuum parameters, including 250eV X-ray luminosities derived from the ROSAT database. In addition, the measured properties are gathered for a correlation analysis, which confirms the well-known relations between the strengths of Fe II, [O III] emission and the X-ray slope. We also detect striking correlations between H{beta} redshift (or blueshift) and flux ratios of Fe II to H{beta} broad component and [O III] to H{beta} narrow component. These trends are most likely driven by the Eddington ratio.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/534/114
- Title:
- RASSCALS: X-ray and optical study
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/534/114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Center for Astrophysics Loose Systems (RASSCALS), the largest X-ray and optical survey of low-mass galaxy groups to date. We draw 260 groups from the combined Center for Astrophysics and Southern Sky Redshift Surveys, covering one-quarter of the sky to a limiting Zwicky magnitude of m_z_=15.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/140/239
- Title:
- RASS: clusters of galaxies around SGP
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/140/239
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A field of 1.013sr in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), centered on the south Galactic pole (SGP), has been searched in a systematic, objective manner for clusters of galaxies. The procedure relied on a correlation of the X-ray positions and properties of ROSAT sources in the field with the distribution of galaxies in the COSMOS digitized database, which was obtained from scanning the plates of the UK Schmidt IIIa-J optical survey of the southern sky. The study used the second ROSAT survey database (RASS-2) and included several optical observing campaigns to measure cluster redshifts. The search, which is a precursor to the larger REFLEX survey encompassing the whole southern sky, reached the detection limits of both the RASS and the COSMOS data and yielded a catalog of 186 clusters in which the lowest flux is 1.5x10-12ergs/cm^2^/s in the 0.1-2.4keV band. Of these 157 have measured redshifts. Using a flux limit of 3.0x10-12ergs/cm^2^/s a complete subset of 112 clusters was obtained, of which 110 have measured redshifts. The spatial distribution of the X-ray clusters out to a redshift of 0.15 shows an extension of the Local Supercluster to the Pisces-Cetus supercluster (z<0.07), and an orthogonal structure at higher redshift (0.07<z<0.15). This result is consistent with large-scale structure suggested by optical surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/423/449
- Title:
- RASS-SDSS Galaxy Clusters Survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/423/449
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The tables list the optical and X-rays properties of the RASS-SDSS galaxy clusters catalog. The catalog contains 114 X-ray selected systems in the area observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The X-ray data are taken from the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS, <IX/10>) while the optical data are taken from the SDSS (<J/AJ/123/567>) archive.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/461/397
- Title:
- RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster survey. V.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/461/397
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we consider a large sample of optically selected clusters, in order to elucidate the physical reasons for the existence of X-ray underluminous clusters. For this purpose we analyzed the correlations of the X-ray and optical properties of a sample of 137 spectroscopically confirmed Abell clusters in the SDSS database. We searched for the X-ray counterpart of each cluster in the ROSAT All Sky Survey. We find that 40% of our clusters have a marginal X-ray detection or remain undetected in X-rays. These clusters appear too X-ray faint on average for their mass as determined by velocity dispersion; i.e. they do not follow the scaling relation between X-ray luminosity and virial mass traced by the other clusters. On the other hand, they do follow the general scaling relation between optical luminosity and virial mass. We refer to these clusters as the X-ray-underluminous Abell clusters (AXU clusters, for short) and designate as "normal" the X-ray detected Abell systems. We separately examined the distributions and properties of the galaxy populations of the normal and the AXU clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/820/33
- Title:
- R-band light curves of type II supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/820/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- During the first few days after explosion, Type II supernovae (SNe) are dominated by relatively simple physics. Theoretical predictions regarding early-time SN light curves in the ultraviolet (UV) and optical bands are thus quite robust. We present, for the first time, a sample of 57 R-band SN II light curves that are well-monitored during their rise, with >5 detections during the first 10 days after discovery, and a well-constrained time of explosion to within 1-3 days. We show that the energy per unit mass (E/M) can be deduced to roughly a factor of five by comparing early-time optical data to the 2011 model of Rabinak & Waxman, while the progenitor radius cannot be determined based on R-band data alone. We find that SN II explosion energies span a range of E/M=(0.2-20)x10^51^erg/(10M_{sun}), and have a mean energy per unit mass of <E/M>=0.85x10^51^erg/(10M_{sun}), corrected for Malmquist bias. Assuming a small spread in progenitor masses, this indicates a large intrinsic diversity in explosion energy. Moreover, E/M is positively correlated with the amount of ^56^Ni produced in the explosion, as predicted by some recent models of core-collapse SNe. We further present several empirical correlations. The peak magnitude is correlated with the decline rate ({Delta}m_15_), the decline rate is weakly correlated with the rise time, and the rise time is not significantly correlated with the peak magnitude. Faster declining SNe are more luminous and have longer rise times. This limits the possible power sources for such events.
