- 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.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/189
- Title:
- LAMOST Quasar Survey: quasar properties from DR2&3
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/155/189
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the second installment for the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Quasar Survey, which includes quasars observed from 2013 September to 2015 June. There are 9024 confirmed quasars in DR2 and 10911 in DR3. After cross-match with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar catalogs and NED, 12126 quasars are discovered independently. Among them, 2225 quasars were released by SDSS DR12 QSO catalog in 2014 after we finalized the survey candidates. 1801 sources were identified by SDSS DR14 as QSOs. The remaining 8100 quasars are considered as newly founded, and among them, 6887 quasars can be given reliable emission line measurements and the estimated black hole masses. Quasars found in LAMOST are mostly located at low-to-moderate redshifts, with a mean value of 1.5. The highest redshift observed in DR2 and DR3 is 5. We applied emission line measurements to H{alpha}, H{beta}, Mg II, and C IV. We deduced the monochromatic continuum luminosities using photometry data, and estimated the virial black hole masses for the newly discovered quasars. Results are compiled into a quasar catalog, which will be available online.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/24
- Title:
- LAMOST quasar survey: quasar properties from the DR1
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/151/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present preliminary results of the quasar survey in the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) first data release (DR1), which includes the pilot survey and the first year of the regular survey. There are 3921 quasars reliably identified, among which 1180 are new quasars discovered in the survey. These quasars are at low to median redshifts, with a highest z of 4.83. We compile emission line measurements around the H{alpha}, H{beta}, Mg II, and C IV regions for the new quasars. The continuum luminosities are inferred from SDSS photometric data with model fitting, as the spectra in DR1 are non-flux-calibrated. We also compile the virial black hole mass estimates, with flags indicating the selection methods, and broad absorption line quasars. The catalog and spectra for these quasars are also available. Of the 3921 quasars, 28% are independently selected with optical-infrared colors, indicating that the method is quite promising for the completeness of the quasar survey. LAMOST DR1 and the ongoing quasar survey will provide valuable data for studies of quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/109/1498
- Title:
- Large Bright Quasar Survey VI (LBQS)
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/109/1498
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/614/A140
- Title:
- Large Quasar Astrometric Catalogue 4, LQAC-4
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/614/A140
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- From an astrometric point of view, quasars constitute the best and almost ideal reference objects in the celestial sphere, with a priori no significant proper motion. Since the third release of the Large Quasar Astrometric Catalogue (LQAC-3, Cat. J/A+A/583/A75), a large number of quasars have been discovered, in particular those coming from the DR12Q release of the SDSS (Paris et al., 2017, Cat. VII/279). Moreover, for cross-matched objects, we have taken advantage of the very accurate determinations of the quasars identified within the recent Gaia DR1 catalogue (2018, Cat. I/345). Following the same procedure as in the three previous releases of the LQAC, our aim is to compile the large majority of all the quasars recorded so far. Our goal is to record their best coordinates and substantial information concerning their physical properties such as the redshift as well as multi-bands apparent and absolute magnitudes. Emphasis is given to the results of the cross-matches with the Gaia DR1 catalogue. New quasars coming from the DR12Q release were cross-matched with the precedent LQAC-3 compilation with a 1" search radius, in order to add the objects without counterpart to the LQAC-4 compilation. A similar cross-match was done with Gaia DR1 to identify the known quasars detected by Gaia. This enables one to improve significantly the positioning of these objects, and in parallel to study the astrometric performance of the individual catalogues of the LQAC-4 compilation. Finally, a new method was used to determine absolute magnitudes. Our final catalogue, called LQAC-4, contains 443 725 objects. This is roughly 37.82% more than the number of objects recorded in the LQAC-3. Among them, 249071 were found in common with the Gaia DR1, with a 1" search radius. That corresponds to 56.13% of the whole population in the compilation. The LQAC-4 delivers to the astronomical community a nearly complete catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed quasars (including a small proportion of compact AGNs), with the aim of giving their best equatorial coordinates with respect to the ICRF2 and with exhaustive additional information. For more than 50% of the sample, these coordinates come from the very recent Gaia DR1.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/71
- Title:
- Large-scale environment of radio galaxies. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/247/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In our previous analysis we investigated the large-scale environment of two samples of radio galaxies (RGs) in the local universe (i.e., with redshifts z_src_<=0.15), classified as FR I and FR II on the basis of their radio morphology. The analysis was carried out using (i) extremely homogeneous catalogs and (ii) a new method, known as cosmological overdensity, to investigate their large-scale environments. We concluded that, independently of the shape of their radio extended structure, RGs inhabit galaxy-rich large-scale environments with similar characteristics and richness. In the present work, we first highlight additional advantages of our procedure, which does not suffer cosmological biases and/or artifacts, and then we carry out an additional statistical test to strengthen our previous results. We also investigate properties of RG environments using those of the cosmological neighbors. We find that large-scale environments of both FR Is and FR IIs are remarkably similar and independent of the properties of central RG. Finally, we highlight the importance of comparing radio sources in the same redshift bins to obtain a complete overview of their large-scale environments.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/137/117
- Title:
- Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey (LCDCS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/137/117
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an optically selected catalog of 1073 galaxy cluster and group candidates at 0.3<~z<~1. These candidates are drawn from the Las Campanas Distant Clusters Survey (LCDCS), a drift-scan imaging survey of a 130 square degree strip of the southern sky. The survey data were obtained in 1995 March under photometric conditions using the Las Campanas 1 m telescope, the Great Circle Camera, and the Tek No. 5 CCD. To construct this catalog we utilize a novel detection process in which clusters are detected as positive surface brightness fluctuations in the background sky. This approach permits us to find clusters with significantly shallower data than other matched-filter methods that are based upon number counts of resolved galaxies. Selection criteria for the survey are fully automated so that this sample constitutes a well-defined, homogeneous sample that can be used to address issues of cluster evolution and cosmology. Estimated redshifts are derived for the entire sample, and an observed correlation between surface brightness and velocity dispersion, {sigma}, is used to estimate the limiting velocity dispersion of the survey as a function of redshift.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/681/1163
- Title:
- Late-type galaxies in Chandra deep fields
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/681/1163
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the X-ray evolution over the last ~9Gyr of cosmic history (i.e., since z=1.4) of late-type galaxy populations in the Chandra Deep Field-North and Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-N and E-CDF-S, respectively; jointly CDFs) survey fields. Our late-type galaxy sample consists of 2568 galaxies, which were identified using rest-frame optical colors and HST morphologies. We utilized X-ray stacking analyses to investigate the X-ray emission from these galaxies, emphasizing the contributions from normal galaxies that are not dominated by active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Over this redshift range, we find significant increases (factors of ~5-10) in the X-ray-to-optical mean luminosity ratio (L_X_/L_B_) and the X-ray-to-stellar mass mean ratio (L_X_/M_*_) for galaxy populations selected by L_B_ and M_*_, respectively. When analyzing galaxy samples selected via SFR, we find that the mean X-ray-to-SFR ratio (L_X_/SFR) is consistent with being constant over the entire redshift range for galaxies with SFR=1-100M_{sun}_/yr, thus demonstrating that X-ray emission can be used as a robust indicator of star formation activity out to z~1.4. We find that the star formation activity (as traced by X-ray luminosity) per unit stellar mass in a given redshift bin increases with decreasing stellar mass over the redshift range z=0.2-1, which is consistent with previous studies of how star formation activity depends on stellar mass. Finally, we extend our X-ray analyses to Lyman break galaxies at z~3 and estimate that L_X_/L_B_ at z~3 is similar to its value at z=1.4.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/130/237
- Title:
- LCRS loose groups of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/130/237
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A "friends-of-friends" percolation algorithm has been used to extract a catalog of {delta}n/n=80 density enhancements (groups) from the six slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). The full catalog contains 1495 groups and includes 35% of the LCRS galaxy sample. A clean sample of 394 groups has been derived by culling groups from the full sample that either are too close to a slice edge, have a crossing time greater than a Hubble time, have a corrected velocity dispersion of zero, or contain a 55"-'orphan' (a galaxy with a mock redshift that was excluded from the original LCRS redshift catalog due to its proximity to another galaxy, i.e., within 55").
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/860/100
- Title:
- LCs of 26 hydrogen-poor superluminous SNe
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/860/100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the light-curve properties of a sample of 26 spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) in the Palomar Transient Factory survey. These events are brighter than SNe Ib/c and SNe Ic-BL, on average, by about 4 and 2mag, respectively. The peak absolute magnitudes of SLSNe-I in rest-frame g band span -22<~M_g_<~-20mag, and these peaks are not powered by radioactive ^56^Ni, unless strong asymmetries are at play. The rise timescales are longer for SLSNe than for normal SNe Ib/c, by roughly 10 days, for events with similar decay times. Thus, SLSNe-I can be considered as a separate population based on photometric properties. After peak, SLSNe-I decay with a wide range of slopes, with no obvious gap between rapidly declining and slowly declining events. The latter events show more irregularities (bumps) in the light curves at all times. At late times, the SLSN-I light curves slow down and cluster around the ^56^Co radioactive decay rate. Powering the late-time light curves with radioactive decay would require between 1 and 10M_{sun}_ of Ni masses. Alternatively, a simple magnetar model can reasonably fit the majority of SLSNe-I light curves, with four exceptions, and can mimic the radioactive decay of ^56^Co, up to ~400days from explosion. The resulting spin values do not correlate with the host-galaxy metallicities. Finally, the analysis of our sample cannot strengthen the case for using SLSNe-I for cosmology.
