- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/avo.rad
- Title:
- MERLIN+VLA images of HDF/HFF sources
- Short Name:
- B/avo.rad
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 18 days of MERLIN data and 42 hours of A-array VLA data at 1.4 GHz have been combined to image a 10 arcminute field centred on the Hubble Deep Field. This area includes both the Hubble Deep and Flanking Fields. A complete sample of 92 sources with flux densities above 40µJy have been detected using the VLA data, and imaged with the MERLIN+VLA combination at resolutions of 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5 arcsecond. These are the most sensitive 1.4 GHz images yet made, with rms noise levels of 3.3µJy/beam in the 0.2 arcsecond images. Virtually all the objects are resolved by the MERLIN+VLA combination images showing that they have angular sizes in the range 0.2 to 3 arcseconds, typically smaller than the sizes of the optical galaxy images. In addition to the imaging of 92 sources found with the VLA alone, the central 3 arcminutes, which encloses the HDF, has been separately imaged with the MERLIN+VLA combination at the full 3.3µJy/beam sensitivity to search for compact sources fainter than 40µJy. No additional sources were found that were not previously detected by the VLA, indicating that such sources are heavily resolved with MERLIN and hence must have typical angular sizes >0.5 arcseconds. In addition to the images, high quality astrometry is an equally important product of this work allowing reliable source identification in a crowded field. Radio sources associated with compact galaxies have been used to align both the HST WFPC2 frames and a CFHT optical field to the ICRF. The HST optical field has been aligned to better than 50 mas in the Deep Field itself, and to ∼150 mas in the outer parts of the Flanking Fields. The proportion of starburst systems is found to increase with decreasing source strength. At fluxes below 100µJy in excess of 70% of the µJy sources are found to be starburst type systems associated with major disc galaxies in the redshift range 0.3 - 1.3. Some 40% of the brighter sources are found to be intermediate luminosity AGN systems identified with galxies in a similar redshift range. Around 85% of the sources are identified with galaxies brighter than I=25mag. The remaining 15% are associated with optically faint systems close to or beyond the HDF limit; many of these may be dust-shrouded starburst galaxies at high redshift (z>3). Approaching half the sources in the 10 arcminute field are detected in X-rays by the Chandra Satellite. The X-ray detection rate appears to be uncorrelated with the radio source classification.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/2441
- Title:
- Metallicity of RR0 Lyrae in the galactic bulge
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/2441
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present metallicities of 2690 RR0 Lyrae stars observed toward the MACHO Survey fields in the Galactic bulge. These [Fe/H] values are based upon an empirically-calibrated relationship that uses the Fourier coefficients of the light curve and are accurate to +/-0.2dex. The majority of the RR0 Lyrae stars in our sample are located in the Galactic bulge, but 255 RR0 stars are associated with the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/698/819
- Title:
- MgII and LRGs cross-correlation analysis
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/698/819
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze the cross-correlation of MgII({lambda}2796, 2803) quasar absorption systems with luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The absorption line sample consists of 2705 unambiguously intervening MgII absorption systems, detected at a 4{sigma} level, covering a redshift range (0.36<=z_abs_<=0.8) and a rest equivalent-width range of 0.8{AA}<=W^{lambda}2796^_r_<=5.0{AA}. We cross-correlate these absorbers with 1495604 LRGs with accurate photometric redshifts in the same redshift range and examine the relationship of MgII equivalent width and clustering amplitude.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/75/801
- Title:
- MGIV (Fourth MIT-Green Bank) 5GHz Survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/75/801
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The MIT-Green Bank IV (MG IV) 5 GHz survey covers 0.504 sr of sky in the right ascension range 15.5 to 2.5 hours, between +37.00 and +50.98 degrees declination (B1950). The final MG IV catalog contains 3427 sources detected with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 5. The catalog was produced from two separate north and south surveys with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) 91m transit telescope. The north survey was produced from data collected while scanning the telescope north from +39.0 to +50.98 degrees declination and the south survey from data collected from scans from +48.98 to +37.00 degrees declination. The completeness and reliability of the final source list is checked by examination of north and south source lists in a twice observed comparison region, lying between +39.15 and +48.83 degrees declination and excluding the area between +/-10 degrees Galactic latitude. The comparison region covers 0.270 sr of sky and contains 1094 sources. In this region, the MG IV catalog contains 423 sources brighter than 90 mJy and is shown to be 99.1 +/- 1.2% complete at this flux density level. Spectral indices are computed for sources identified in the NRAO 1400 MHz Survey (published by Condon and Broderick in 1985). A comparison of the spectral index distributions between +/- 10 and outside of +/- 10 degrees Galactic latitude is presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/134/1488
- Title:
- MG1 Variable Star Catalog (MG1-VSC)
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/134/1488
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of the first MOTESS-GNAT variable-star survey, a deep, wide-field variability survey conducted over 2yr with a total sky coverage of 300deg^2^. In this survey, we identified 26042 variable-star candidates with magnitudes R=13-19, including 5271 that are periodic at the 99% confidence level. We recovered 59 out of 68 members of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) that are in this brightness range. We discuss the implications for completeness and accuracy for both this survey and the GCVS; the implied completeness for distinctly classifiable variable stars in our survey is ~85%-90%. We also discuss some of the caveats of our survey results. We conclude that this instrument design is ideal for an inexpensive, longitudinally distributed telescope network that could be used to study faint or rare transient phenomena in a previously unexplored regime of parameter space.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/402/2792
- Title:
- 1388MHz ATLBS Low-Brightness Survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/402/2792
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a radio survey carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. A motivation for the survey was to make a complete inventory of the diffuse emission components as a step towards a study of the cosmic evolution in radio source structure and the contribution from radio-mode feedback on galaxy evolution. The Australia Telescope Low-Brightness Survey (ATLBS) at 1388MHz covers 8.42deg^2^ of the sky in an observing mode designed to yield images with exceptional surface brightness sensitivity and low confusion. The survey was carried out in two adjacent regions on the sky centred at 00:35:00-67:00:00 and 00:59:17=-67:00:00 (J2000.0). The ATLBS radio images, made with 0.08mJy/beam rms noise and 50arcsec beam, detect a total of 1094 sources with peak flux exceeding 0.4mJy/beam. The ATLBS source counts were corrected for blending, noise bias, resolution and primary beam attenuation; the normalized differential source counts are consistent with no upturn down to 0.6mJy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/58/1
- Title:
- 1412 MHz catalogue of Westerbork survey. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/58/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A radio survey has been conducted with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope for nine fields in four high latitude areas for which deep, multicolor Kitt Peak 4-m plates are available. A total of 471 sources are tabulated; 306 of these form a well defined, complete sample. The influence of the selection criteria on sample completeness is discussed. Angular size distribution has been precisely derived, in virtue of the 3 km resolution obtainable with the present instrument, and a smaller fraction of sources larger than about 20arcsec is noted for the 1-10mJy range than for the 10-100mJy. The 1412MHz source counts are consistent at different cutoff levels, showing that the statistical corrections for population and resolution bias are reliable. The present counts are consistent with previous 1.4GHz counts, which are here given for the 1-100000mJy flux range.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/58/39
- Title:
- 1412 MHz catalogue of Westerbork survey. II
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/58/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A deep multicolor optical identification program is presented for a complete sample of 302 radio sources that were observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope within 5.52{deg}^2^ down to S_1.4GHz_>~0.6mJy (5{sigma}). Optical identifications are made from multicolor prime focus plates taken with the Kitt Peak 4 meter telescope in the passbands U,J,F and N with approximate respective limiting magnitudes of ~23.3, 23.7, 22.7 and 21.1. The astrometry has systematic errors smaller than 0.2"-0.3", while the random errors are of order 0.4". The agreement between the radio and optical coordinate frames is on average better than 0.25". Identifications are based on positional coincidence using the likelihood ratio method. For 171 out of the 302 radio sources likely identifications are proposed with an a posteriori identification percentage of 53%, 14 expected spurious objects (or 5% of all radio sources), while not more than 4 identifications have been missed. The sample reliability is 92% and its completeness 98%. About 20% of the identifications are stellar objects, the remaining have extended images or are too faint to be classified. About 15% of the identifications appear in possible clusters. The identification statistics are roughly constant from field to field, except for the Hercules 2 field which has an unusually high identification fraction (74%). The identification fraction is presented as a function of 21 cm flux density and limiting magnitude, and amounts to 15% for 1<~S_1.4GHz_<~100mJy down to the Palomar Sky Survey limit and 29% down to the effective 48" Schmidt limit. For S_1.4_<~100mJy the identification fraction remains roughly constant with flux density, contrary to the prediction of higher fractions by some models for cosmological evolution. The magnitude distributions for galaxies plus objects of unknown type generally increase towards fainter magnitudes; the quasar magnitude distributions are also increasing but not as steeply as for the radio galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/390/741
- Title:
- 150MHz GMRT survey in Eridanus
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/390/741
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a 150MHz survey of a field centred on {epsilon} Eridani, undertaken with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The survey covers an area with a diameter of ~2{deg}, has a spatial resolution of ~30arcsec and a noise level of {sigma}=3.1mJy at the pointing centre. These observations provide a deeper and higher resolution view of the 150MHz radio sky than the 7C survey (although the 7C survey covers a much larger area). A total of 113 sources were detected, most are point-like, but 20 are extended. We present an analysis of these sources, in conjunction with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Very Large Array (VLA) telescope Sky Survey (NVSS) (at 1.4GHz) and VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) (at 74MHz). This process allowed us to identify five Ultra-Steep Spectrum (USS) radio sources that are candidate high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs). In addition, we have derived the dN/dS distribution for these observations and compare our results with other low-frequency radio surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/650
- Title:
- 325MHz GMRT survey of Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA fields
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/650
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a 325MHz survey, undertaken with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), which covers a large part of the three equatorial fields at 9, 12 and 14.5h of right ascension from the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) in the area also covered by the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The full data set, after some observed pointings were removed during the data reduction process, comprises 212 GMRT pointings covering ~90deg^2^ of sky. We have imaged and catalogued the data using a pipeline that automates the process of flagging, calibration, self-calibration and source detection for each of the survey pointings. The resulting images have resolutions of between 14 and 24-arcsec and minimum rms noise (away from bright sources) of ~1mJy/beam, and the catalogue contains 5263 sources brighter than 5{sigma}. We investigate the spectral indices of GMRT sources which are also detected at 1.4GHz and find them to agree broadly with previously published results; there is no evidence for any flattening of the radio spectral index below S_1.4_=10mJy. This work adds to the large amount of available optical and infrared data in the H-ATLAS equatorial fields and will facilitate further study of the low-frequency radio properties of star formation and AGN activity in galaxies out to z~1.
