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1231. NORAS II. I. First results
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/220
Title:
NORAS II. I. First results
Short Name:
J/AJ/153/220
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
As the largest, clearly defined building blocks of our universe, galaxy clusters are interesting astrophysical laboratories and important probes for cosmology. X-ray surveys for galaxy clusters provide one of the best ways to characterize the population of galaxy clusters. We provide a description of the construction of the NORAS II galaxy cluster survey based on X-ray data from the northern part of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. NORAS II extends the NORAS survey down to a flux limit of 1.8x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ (0.1-2.4keV), increasing the sample size by about a factor of two. The NORAS II cluster survey now reaches the same quality and depth as its counterpart, the southern REFLEX II survey, allowing us to combine the two complementary surveys. The paper provides information on the determination of the cluster X-ray parameters, the identification process of the X-ray sources, the statistics of the survey, and the construction of the survey selection function, which we provide in numerical format. Currently NORAS II contains 860 clusters with a median redshift of z=0.102. We provide a number of statistical functions, including the log N-log S and the X-ray luminosity function and compare these to the results from the complementary REFLEX II survey. Using the NORAS II sample to constrain the cosmological parameters, {sigma}_8_ and {Omega}_m_, yields results perfectly consistent with those of REFLEX II. Overall, the results show that the two hemisphere samples, NORAS II and REFLEX II, can be combined without problems into an all-sky sample, just excluding the zone of avoidance.
1232. Northern high proper motion stars in DSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/124/1190
Title:
Northern high proper motion stars in DSS
Short Name:
J/AJ/124/1190
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have conducted a systematic search for high proper motion stars in the Digitized Sky Survey, in the area of the sky north of -2.8 degrees in declination and within 25 degrees of the Galactic plane. Using the SUPERBLINK software, a powerful automated blink comparator developed by us, we have identified 601 stars in the magnitude range 9<r<20 with proper motions in the range 0.5"/yr<{mu}<2.0"/yr which have not been observed with the Hipparcos satellite. Among those, we recovered 460 stars previously listed in Luyten's proper motion catalogs (LHS <I/87>, NLTT <I/98>) and discovered 141 new high proper motion stars, ranging in magnitude from R=13.0 to R=19.8. Only nine stars from the Luyten catalogs that were not observed by Hipparcos could not be recovered with SUPERBLINK: three had proper motions larger than the search limit of the code ({mu}>2.0"/yr), and five were missed because they were either too bright for SUPERBLINK to handle or they are in the immediate proximity of very bright stars. Only one of Luyten's stars (LHS 1657) could not be recovered at all, even by visual inspection of the POSS plates, and is now suspected to be bogus. The very high success rate in the recovery by SUPERBLINK of faint Luyten stars suggests that our new survey of high proper motion stars is at least 99% complete for stars with proper motions 0.5"/yr<{mu}<2.0"/yr down to R=19. This paper includes a list of positions, proper motions, magnitudes, and finder charts for all the new high proper motion stars.
1233. Northern HI Parkes All Sky Survey Catalogue (HIPASS)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/89
Title:
Northern HI Parkes All Sky Survey Catalogue (HIPASS)
Short Name:
VIII/89
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Northern HIPASS catalogue (NHICAT) is the northern extension of the HIPASS catalogue, HICAT. This extension adds the sky area between the declination (Dec.) range of +2{deg}<DE<+25{deg}30' to HICAT's Dec. range of -90{deg}<DE<+2{deg}. HIPASS is a blind HI survey using the Parkes Radio Telescope covering 71 per cent of the sky (including this northern extension) and a heliocentric velocity range of -1280 to 12700km/s. The entire Virgo Cluster region has been observed in the Northern HIPASS. The galaxy catalogue, NHICAT, contains 1002 sources with v_hel_>300km/s. Sources with -300<v_hel_<300km/s were excluded to avoid contamination by Galactic emission. In total, the entire HIPASS survey has found 5317 galaxies identified purely by their HI content. The full galaxy catalogue is publicly available at http://hipass.aus-vo.org.
1234. Northern Optical Cluster Survey. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/125/2064
Title:
Northern Optical Cluster Survey. II.
Short Name:
J/AJ/125/2064
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a new, objectively defined catalog of candidate galaxy clusters based on the galaxy catalogs from the digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. This cluster catalog, derived from the best calibrated plates in the high-latitude (|b|>30{deg}) northern Galactic cap region, covers 5800deg^2^ and contains 8155 candidate clusters. A simple adaptive kernel density mapping technique, combined with the SExtractor object detection algorithm, is used to detect galaxy overdensities, which we identify as clusters. Simulations of the background galaxy distribution and clusters of varying richnesses and redshifts allow us to optimize detection parameters and measure the completeness and contamination rates for our catalog. Cluster richnesses and photometric redshifts are measured, using integrated colors and magnitudes for each cluster. An extensive spectroscopic survey is used to confirm the photometric results. This catalog, with well-characterized sample properties, provides a sound basis for future studies of cluster physics and large-scale structure.
1235. Northern Optical Cluster Survey. III.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/137/2981
Title:
Northern Optical Cluster Survey. III.
Short Name:
J/AJ/137/2981
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the complete galaxy cluster catalog from the Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey, a new, objectively defined catalog of candidate galaxy clusters at z<~0.25 drawn from the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). The data presented here cover the Southern Galactic Cap, as well as the less well-calibrated regions of the Northern Galactic Cap. In addition, due to improvements in our cluster finder and measurement methods, we provide an updated catalog for the well-calibrated Northern Galactic Cap region previously published in Paper II (Cat. J/AJ/125/2064). The complete survey covers 11411deg^2^, with over 15000 candidate clusters.
1236. Northern Optical Cluster Survey. IV.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/128/1017
Title:
Northern Optical Cluster Survey. IV.
Short Name:
J/AJ/128/1017
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present an optically selected galaxy cluster catalog from 2700{deg}^2^ of the digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS), spanning the redshift range 0.1~<z~<0.5, providing an intermediate-redshift supplement to the previous DPOSS cluster survey. This new catalog contains 9956 cluster candidates and is the largest resource of rich clusters in this redshift range to date.
1237. Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/287
Title:
Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS)
Short Name:
II/287
Date:
23 Nov 2021 00:31:33
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) is a temporal record of the sky over the optical magnitude range from 8 to 15.5. It was conducted in the course of the first-generation Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I) using a robotic system of four comounted unfiltered telephoto lenses equipped with CCD cameras. The survey was conducted from Los Alamos, New Mexico, and primarily covers the entire northern sky. Some data in southern fields between declinations 0{deg} and -38{deg} are also available, although with fewer epochs and noticeably lesser quality. The NSVS contains light curves for approximately 14 million objects. With a 1-yr baseline and typically 100-500 measurements per object, the NSVS is the most extensive record of stellar variability across the bright sky available today. In a median field, bright unsaturated stars attain a point-to-point photometric scatter of ~0.02mag and position errors within 2. At Galactic latitudes |b|<20{deg}, the data quality is limited by severe blending due to the ~14" pixel size. We present basic characteristics of the data set and describe data collection, analysis, and distribution. All NSVS photometric measurements are available for on-line public access from the Sky Database for Objects in Time-Domain (SkyDOT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Copies of the full survey photometry may also be requested on tape.
1238. Northern XMM-XXL field AGN catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/457/110
Title:
Northern XMM-XXL field AGN catalog
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/457/110
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper presents a survey of X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with optical spectroscopic follow-up in a ~18deg^2^ area of the equatorial XMM-XXL north field. A sample of 8445 point-like X-ray sources detected by XMM-Newton above a limiting flux of F_0.5-10keV_>10^-15^erg/cm2/s was matched to optical (Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS) and infrared (IR; WISE) counterparts. We followed up 3042 sources brighter than r=22.5mag with the SDSS Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph. The spectra yielded a reliable redshift measurement for 2578 AGNs in the redshift range z=0.02-5.0, with 0.5-2keV luminosities ranging from 10^39^-10^46^erg/s. This is currently the largest published spectroscopic sample of X-ray-selected AGNs in a contiguous area. The BOSS spectra of AGN candidates show a distribution of optical line widths which is clearly bimodal, allowing an efficient separation between broad- and narrow-emission line AGNs. The former dominate our sample (70 per cent) due to the relatively bright X-ray flux limit and the optical BOSS magnitude limit. We classify the narrow-emission line objects (22 per cent of the full sample) using standard optical emission line diagnostics: the majority have line ratios indicating the dominant source of ionization is the AGN. A small number (8 per cent of the full sample) exhibit the typical narrow line ratios of star-forming galaxies, or only have absorption lines in their spectra. We term the latter two classes 'elusive' AGN, which would not be easy to identify correctly without their X-ray emission. We also compare X-ray (XMM-Newton), optical colour (SDSS) and and IR (WISE) AGN selections in this field. X-ray observations reveal, by far, the largest number of AGN. The overlap between the selections, which is a strong function of the imaging depth in a given band, is also remarkably small. We show using spectral stacking that a large fraction of the X-ray AGNs would not be selectable via optical or IR colours due to host galaxy contamination. A substantial fraction of AGN may therefore be missed by these longer wavelength selection methods.
1239. NOT survey of subdwarf B stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/513/A6
Title:
NOT survey of subdwarf B stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/513/A6
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A search programme for pulsating subdwarf B stars was conducted with the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma over 59 nights between 1999 and 2009. The purpose of the programme was to significantly extend the number of rapidly pulsating sdB stars to better understand the properties of this new group of variable compact stars. Candidates were selected initially from the HS and HE surveys, but were supplemented with additional objects from other surveys. Short sequences of time-series photometry were made on the candidates to determine the presence of rapid pulsations.
1240. NRAO 5GHz Strong Source Survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/77/797
Title:
NRAO 5GHz Strong Source Survey
Short Name:
J/AJ/77/797
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The 140-ft telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has been used to extend the 5-GHz strong source (S) survey over an area of 1.14 steradian. Some 240 sources have been detected in this region, of which 135 are above the completeness limit of 0.6f.u. The distribution of spectral indices for sources above the completeness limit is much broader than for samples selected from long-wavelength surveys, owing to an increase in the fraction of compact sources with flat spectra. For about half of the sources selected at 6 cm, the spectral index {alpha}>-0.5. Analysis of the dependence of the spectral index on the flux density shows that, as expected from the 408-MHz number counts and spectral index distribution, at 5 GHz there are fewer flat spectra among the weak sources than among the stronger ones. The spectral index distributions for the identified galaxies and quasars show the familiar forms: the galaxies have a strong concentration near {alpha}=-0.8 with a small tail extending toward flat spectra. The quasars show a much broader distribution of indices, but the fraction (80%) of quasars having flat spectra ({alpha}>-0.5) is much greater than that found in the low-frequency surveys. The number-flux density relation for various groups of sources selected from the 5-GHz survey show that the anomalously steep slope is confined to (a) unidentified sources, (b) sources with steep spectra ({alpha}<-0.5), and (c) sources located in the north galactic hemisphere. Sources identified with radio galaxies or quasars, or which have flat spectra, or which are in the south galactic hemisphere all show a number-flux density slope near -1.5.