<i> SkyView </i>
has copied the NVSS intensity data from the NRAO FTP site. The full
NVSS survey data includes information on other Stokes parameters.
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Observations for the 1.4 GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) began in 1993
September and should cover the sky north of -40 deg declination (82%
of the celestial sphere) before the end of 1996. The principal data
products are:
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<li> A set of 2326 continuum map "cubes," each covering 4 deg X 4 deg
with three planes containing Stokes I, Q, and U images. These maps
were made with a relatively large restoring beam (45 arcsec FWHM) to
yield the high surface-brightness sensitivity needed for completeness
and photometric accuracy. Their rms brightness fluctuations are
about 0.45 mJy/beam = 0.14 K (Stokes I) and 0.29 mJy/beam = 0.09 K
(Stokes Q and U). The rms uncertainties in right ascension and
declination vary from 0.3 arcsec for strong (S > 30 mJy) point
sources to 5 arcsec for the faintest (S = 2.5 mJy) detectable
sources.
<li> Lists of discrete sources.
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The NVSS is being made as a service to the astronomical community, and
the data products are being released as soon as they are produced and
verified.
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The NVSS survey is included on the <b>SkyView High Resolution Radio
Coverage </b><a href="https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/high_res_radio.jpg"> map</a>. This map shows
coverage on an Aitoff projection of the sky in equatorial coordinates.
<p> Provenance: National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The NVSS
project includes J. J. Condon, W. D. Cotton, E. W. Greisen, Q. F. Yin,
R. A. Perley (NRAO), and J. J. Broderick (VPI).. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
We estimate the number counts of line emitters at high redshift and their evolution with cosmic time based on a combination of photometry and spectroscopy. We predict the H{alpha}, H{beta}, [OII], and [OIII] line fluxes for more than 35000 galaxies down to stellar masses of ~10^9^M_{sun}_ in the COSMOS and GOODS-S fields, applying standard conversions and exploiting the spectroscopic coverage of the FMOS-COSMOS survey at z~1.55 to calibrate the predictions. We calculate the number counts of H{alpha}, [OII], and [OIII] emitters down to fluxes of 1x10^-17^erg/cm^2^/s in the range 1.4<z<1.8 covered by the FMOS-COSMOS survey. We model the time evolution of the differential and cumulative H{alpha} counts, steeply declining at the brightest fluxes. We expect ~9300-9700 and ~2300-2900-galaxies/deg^2^ for fluxes >=1x10^-16^ and >=2x10^-16^erg/cm^2^/s over the range of 0.9<z<1.8. We show that the observed evolution of the main sequence of galaxies with redshift is enough to reproduce the observed counts variation at 0.2<z<2.5. We characterize the physical properties of the H{alpha} emitters with fluxes >=2x10^-16^erg/cm^2^/s including their stellar masses, UV sizes, [NII]/H{alpha} ratios and H{alpha} equivalent widths. An aperture of R~R_e_~0.5arcsec maximizes the signal-to-noise ratio for a detection, whilst causing a factor of ~2x flux losses, influencing the recoverable number counts, if neglected. Our approach, based on deep and large photometric data sets, reduces the uncertainties on the number counts due to the selection and spectroscopic samplings whilst exploring low fluxes. We publicly release the line flux predictions for the explored photometric samples.
We present the NuSTAR extragalactic survey of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field. The survey covers a ~0.16deg^2^ area with a total exposure of 681ks acquired in a total of nine observations from three epochs. The survey sensitivities at 20% of the area are 2.39, 1.14, 2.76, 1.52, and 5.20x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s in the 3-24, 3-8, 8-24, 8-16, and 16-24keV bands, respectively. The NEP survey is one of the most sensitive extragalactic surveys with NuSTAR so far. A total of 33 sources were detected above 95% reliability in at least one of the five bands. We present the number counts, logN-logS, measured in the hard X-ray 8-24 and 8-16keV bands, uniquely accessible by NuSTAR down to such faint fluxes. We performed source detection on the XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the same field to search for soft X-ray counterparts of each NuSTAR detection. The soft band positions were used to identify optical and infrared associations. We present the X-ray properties (hardness ratio and luminosity) and optical-to-X-ray properties of the detected sources. The measured fraction of candidate Compton-thick (NH>=10^24^cm^-2^) active galactic nuclei, derived from the hardness ratio, is between 3% to 27%. As this survey was designed to have variability as its primary focus, we present preliminary results on multi-epoch flux variability in the 3-24keV band.
We present the results and the source catalog of the NuSTAR survey in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field, bridging the gap in depth and area between NuSTAR's ECDFS and COSMOS surveys. The survey covers a ~0.6deg^2^ area of the field for a total observing time of ~1.75Ms, to a half-area depth of ~155ks corrected for vignetting at 3-24keV, and reaching sensitivity limits at half-area in the full (3-24keV), soft (3-8keV), and hard (8-24keV) bands of 2.2x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s, 1.0x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s, and 2.7x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s, respectively. A total of 67 sources are detected in at least one of the three bands, 56 of which have a robust optical redshift with a median of <z>~1.1. Through a broadband (0.5-24keV) spectral analysis of the whole sample combined with the NuSTAR hardness ratios, we compute the observed Compton-thick (CT; N_H_>10^24^cm^-2^) fraction. Taking into account the uncertainties on each NH measurement, the final number of CT sources is 6.8+/-1.2. This corresponds to an observed CT fraction of 11.5%+/-2.0%, providing a robust lower limit to the intrinsic fraction of CT active galactic nuclei and placing constraints on cosmic X-ray background synthesis models.
We present the first full catalog and science results for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) serendipitous survey. The catalog incorporates data taken during the first 40 months of NuSTAR operation, which provide ~20Ms of effective exposure time over 331 fields, with an areal coverage of 13deg^2^, and 497 sources detected in total over the 3-24keV energy range. There are 276 sources with spectroscopic redshifts and classifications, largely resulting from our extensive campaign of ground-based spectroscopic follow-up. We characterize the overall sample in terms of the X-ray, optical, and infrared source properties. The sample is primarily composed of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), detected over a large range in redshift from z=0.002 to 3.4 (median of <z>=0.56), but also includes 16 spectroscopically confirmed Galactic sources. There is a large range in X-ray flux, from log(f_3-24keV_/erg/s/cm^2^)~-14 to -11, and in rest-frame 10-40keV luminosity, from log(L_10-40keV_/erg/s)~39 to 46, with a median of 44.1. Approximately 79% of the NuSTAR sources have lower-energy (<10keV) X-ray counterparts from XMM-Newton, Chandra, and Swift XRT. The mid-infrared (MIR) analysis, using WISE all-sky survey data, shows that MIR AGN color selections miss a large fraction of the NuSTAR-selected AGN population, from ~15% at the highest luminosities (L_X_>10^44^erg/s) to ~80% at the lowest luminosities (L_X_<10^43^erg/s). Our optical spectroscopic analysis finds that the observed fraction of optically obscured AGNs (i.e., the type 2 fraction) is F_Type2_=53_-15_^+14^% , for a well-defined subset of the 8-24keV selected sample. This is higher, albeit at a low significance level, than the type 2 fraction measured for redshift- and luminosity-matched AGNs selected by <10keV X-ray missions.
To provide the census of the sources contributing to the X-ray background peak above 10keV, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is performing extragalactic surveys using a three-tier "wedding cake" approach. We present the NuSTAR survey of the COSMOS field, the medium sensitivity, and medium area tier, covering 1.7deg^2^ and overlapping with both Chandra and XMM-Newton data. This survey consists of 121 observations for a total exposure of ~3Ms. To fully exploit these data, we developed a new detection strategy, carefully tested through extensive simulations. The survey sensitivity at 20% completeness is 5.9, 2.9, and 6.4x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s in the 3-24, 3-8, and 8-24keV bands, respectively. By combining detections in 3 bands, we have a sample of 91 NuSTAR sources with 10^42^-10^45.5^erg/cm^2^/s luminosities and redshift z=0.04-2.5. Thirty-two sources are detected in the 8-24keV band with fluxes ~100 times fainter than sources detected by Swift-BAT. Of the 91 detections, all but 4 are associated with a Chandra and/or XMM-Newton point-like counterpart. One source is associated with an extended lower energy X-ray source. We present the X-ray (hardness ratio and luminosity) and optical-to-X-ray properties. The observed fraction of candidate Compton-thick active galactic nuclei measured from the hardness ratio is between 13%-20%. We discuss the spectral properties of NuSTAR J100259+0220.6 (ID 330) at z=0.044, with the highest hardness ratio in the entire sample. The measured column density exceeds 10^24^/cm2, implying the source is Compton-thick. This source was not previously recognized as such without the >10keV data.
We present the initial results and the source catalog from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (hereafter, ECDFS) --currently the deepest contiguous component of the NuSTAR extragalactic survey program. The survey covers the full ~30'x30' area of this field to a maximum depth of ~360ks (~220ks when corrected for vignetting at 3-24keV), reaching sensitivity limits of ~1.3x10^-14^erg/s/cm^2^ (3-8keV), ~3.4x10^-14^erg/s/cm^2^ (8-24keV), and ~3.0x10^-14^erg/s/cm^2^ (3-24keV). A total of 54 sources are detected over the full field, although five of these are found to lie below our significance threshold once contaminating flux from neighboring (i.e., blended) sources is taken into account. Of the remaining 49 that are significant, 19 are detected in the 8-24keV band. The 8-24 to 3-8keV band ratios of the 12 sources that are detected in both bands span the range 0.39-1.7, corresponding to a photon index range of {Gamma}~0.5-2.3, with a median photon index of {Gamma}{bar}=1.70+/-0.52. The redshifts of the 49 sources in our main sample span the range z=0.21-2.7, and their rest-frame 10-40keV luminosities (derived from the observed 8-24keV fluxes) span the range L_10-40keV_~(0.7-300)x10^43^erg/s, sampling below the "knee" of the X-ray luminosity function out to z~0.8-1. Finally, we identify one NuSTAR source that has neither a Chandra nor an XMM-Newton counterpart, but that shows evidence of nuclear activity at infrared wavelengths and thus may represent a genuine, new X-ray source detected by NuSTAR in the ECDFS.
We present an ultraviolet-selected sample of 268 objects in the two fields of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). We used the parallel observations taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in the U band (F300W), which covered 88% of the GOODS fields, to identify sources and selected only objects with GOODS Advanced Camera for Surveys counterparts. Spectroscopic redshifts for 95 of these sources are available, and we have used the multiwavelength GOODS data to estimate photometric redshifts for the others. Most of the objects have redshifts 0.2<z<0.8. We used the spectral types obtained by photometric redshift fitting to identify starburst galaxies. We have also visually checked all objects and looked for tidal effects and nearby companions.
The catalog from the first high-resolution U-band image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken with Hubble's Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 through the F300W filter, is presented. We detect 96 U-band objects and compare and combine this catalog with a Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey B-selected catalog that provides B, V, i, and z photometry, spectral types, and photometric redshifts. We have also obtained far-ultraviolet (FUV, 1614{AA}) data with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys Solar Blind Channel (ACS/SBC) and with GALEX. We detected 31 sources with ACS/SBC, 28 with GALEX/FUV, and 45 with GALEX/NUV. The methods of observations, image processing, object identification, catalog preparation, and catalog matching are presented.
Using GRENS plates taken at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, we have searched almost the whole extent of M31 for small-diameter objects with strong emission lines. Most are planetary nebulae candidates, but there are also many Wolf-Rayet star candidates and small HII regions or compact parts of large HII regions. A catalogue is presented with a cross-identification with previous catalogues. Many new planetary nebulae and Wolf-Rayet candidates are found. Their distribution is compared with those of other tracers in M31. In particular the distribution of planetary nebulae candidates is compared with that of the integrated blue light and we confirm the result obtained by Jacoby ( 1980ApJS...42....1J) and Ciardullo et al. (1989ApJ...339...53C): the number of planetary nebulae per unit total luminosity is a constant throughout the disk of M31. The Wolf- Rayet star candidates are concentrated in the well-known ring of star formation; their total number is estimated as 300 within the limit of detection of the deepest existing surveys, but this may still be an underestimate of the true number.
