- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/217/5
- Title:
- HAQ survey: red QSO candidates follow-up
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/217/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) whose spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are reddened by dust either in their host galaxies or in intervening absorber galaxies are to a large degree missed by optical color selection criteria like the ones used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). To overcome this bias against red QSOs, we employ a combined optical and near-infrared (near-IR) color selection. In this paper, we present a spectroscopic follow-up campaign of a sample of red candidate QSOs which were selected from the SDSS and the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). The spectroscopic data and SDSS/UKIDSS photometry are supplemented by mid-infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. In our sample of 159 candidates, 154 (97%) are confirmed to be QSOs. We use a statistical algorithm to identify sightlines with plausible intervening absorption systems and identify nine such cases assuming dust in the absorber similar to Large Magellanic Cloud sightlines. We find absorption systems toward 30 QSOs, 2 of which are consistent with the best-fit absorber redshift from the statistical modeling. Furthermore, we observe a broad range in SED properties of the QSOs as probed by the rest-frame 2{mu}m flux. We find QSOs with a strong excess as well as QSOs with a large deficit at rest-frame 2{mu}m relative to a QSO template. Potential solutions to these discrepancies are discussed. Overall, our study demonstrates the high efficiency of the optical/near-IR selection of red QSOs.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/318/1073
- Title:
- Hard spectrum ROSAT sources. I.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/318/1073
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of 147 serendipitous X-ray sources selected to have hard spectra ({alpha}<0.5) from a survey of 188 ROSAT fields. Such sources must be the dominant contributors to the X-ray background at faint fluxes. We have used Monte Carlo simulations to verify that our technique is very efficient at selecting hard sources: the survey has >=10 times as much effective area for hard sources as it has for soft sources above a 0.5-2keV flux level of 10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s. The distribution of best-fitting spectral slopes of the hard sources suggests that a typical ROSAT hard source in our survey has a spectral slope {alpha}~0. The hard sources have a steep number flux relation (dN/dS_{mu}_S^-{gamma}^ with a best-fitting value of {gamma}=2.72+/-0.12) and make up about 15 per cent of all 0.5-2keV sources with S>10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s. If their N(S) continues to fainter fluxes, the hard sources will comprise ~40 per cent of sources with 5x10^-15^<S<10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s. The population of hard sources can therefore account for the harder average spectra of ROSAT sources with S<10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s. They probably make a strong contribution to the X-ray background at faint fluxes and could be the solution to the X-ray background spectral paradox.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/207/19
- Title:
- Hard X-ray survey from Swift-BAT 2004-2010
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/207/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the catalog of sources detected in 70 months of observations with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray detector on the Swift gamma-ray burst observatory. The Swift-BAT 70 month survey has detected 1171 hard X-ray sources (more than twice as many sources as the previous 22 month survey) in the 14-195 keV band down to a significance level of 4.8{sigma}, associated with 1210 counterparts. The 70 month Swift-BAT survey is the most sensitive and uniform hard X-ray all-sky survey and reaches a flux level of 1.03x10^-11^erg/s/cm2 over 50% of the sky and 1.34x10^-11^erg/s/cm2 over 90% of the sky. The majority of new sources in the 70 month survey continue to be active galactic nuclei, with over 700 in the catalog.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/186/378
- Title:
- Hard X-ray survey from Swift-BAT 2004-2006
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/186/378
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the catalog of sources detected in the first 22 months of data from the hard X-ray survey (14-195keV) conducted with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) coded mask imager on the Swift satellite. The catalog contains 461 sources detected above the 4.8{sigma} level with BAT. High angular resolution X-ray data for every source from Swift-XRT or archival data have allowed associations to be made with known counterparts in other wavelength bands for over 97% of the detections, including the discovery of ~30 galaxies previously unknown as active galactic nuclei and several new Galactic sources. A total of 266 of the sources are associated with Seyfert galaxies (median redshift z~0.03) or blazars, with the majority of the remaining sources associated with X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. This ongoing survey is the first uniform all-sky hard X-ray survey since HEAO-1 in 1977 (Fishman G.J., 1977IAUC.3134....1F). Since the publication of the nine-month BAT survey (Tueller, 2008, Cat. <J/ApJ/681/113>) we have increased the number of energy channels from four to eight and have substantially increased the number of sources with accurate average spectra. The BAT 22 month catalog is the product of the most sensitive all-sky survey in the hard X-ray band, with a detection sensitivity (4.8{sigma}) of 2.2x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s (1mCrab) over most of the sky in the 14-195keV band.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/633/A44
- Title:
- HARPS Young Nearby Stars - YNS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/633/A44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Young nearby stars are good candidates in the search for planets with both radial velocity (RV) and direct imaging techniques. This, in turn, allows for the computation of the giant planet occurrence rates at all separations. The RV search around young stars is a challenge as they are generally faster rotators than older stars of similar spectral types and they exhibit signatures of magnetic activity (spots) or pulsation in their RV time series. Specific analyses are necessary to characterize, and possibly correct for, this activity. Our aim is to search for planets around young nearby stars and to estimate the giant planet (GP) occurrence rates for periods up to 1000 days. We used the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6m telescope at La Silla Observatory to observe 89 A-M young (<600Myr) stars. We used our SAFIR (Spectroscopic data via Analysis of the Fourier Interspectrum Radial velocities) software to compute the RV and other spectroscopic observables. Then, we computed the companion occurrence rates on this sample. We confirm the binary nature of HD 177171, HD 181321 and HD 186704. We report the detection of a close low mass stellar companion for HIP 36985. No planetary companion was detected. We obtain upper limits on the GP (<13M_Jup_) and BD ({in}[13;80]M_Jup_) occurrence rates based on 83 young stars for periods less than 1000 days, which are set, 2_-2_^+3^ and 1_-1_^+3^%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/7A
- Title:
- Hat Creek High-Latitude H I Survey
- Short Name:
- VIII/7A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This survey consists of H I 21-cm spectra covering the entire northern sky with absolute Galactic latitude |b|>10 degrees and declination dec>-30degrees. The observations were made with the Hat Creek 85-foot telescope between 1968 and 1970. The individual spectra were obtained with a bank of 100 filters covering the velocity range from -92km/s to +75km/s. The velocity resolution was 2 km/sec (except at the ends of the spectra) and the beamwidth was 36arcmin. The spacing between points observed on the sky is (0.3deg/cosb) in Galactic longitude and (0.6deg) in Galactic latitude. A FITS version of the survey was derived at the Astrophysics Data Facility (NASA/GSFC) from the original catalog of spectra. The approximately 130,000 good spectra in the catalog (i.e., those with status code 1 and which have flat baselines) were interpolated to a uniform channel width in frequency, shifted as appropriate to take into account the proper central velocities, then interpolated onto a regular grid in Galactic coordinates. For the latter interpolation, the cos(b) corrections for longitude offsets were taken into account; no interpolation was done across gaps in coverage greater than 2 deg. Latitude-velocity slices were written in FITS format for each 30 arcmin of longitude. Separate files were written for the negative latitude (b < -10 deg ) and positive latitude (b > 10 deg) ranges. Slices containing no spectra, primarily negative latitude spectra in the fourth Galactic quadrant, were not written. A longitude-latitude map, integrated over all velocities, was also written in FITS format to illustrate the coverage of the individual latitude-velocity slices.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/257
- Title:
- Hawaii IR parallax program. IV. L0-T8 BDs with UKIRT
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/257
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present parallaxes, proper motions, and J-band photometry for 348 L and T dwarfs measured using the wide-field near-infrared camera (WFCAM) on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT). This is the largest single batch of infrared parallaxes for brown dwarfs to date. Our parallaxes have a median uncertainty of 3.5mas, similar to most previous ground-based infrared parallax surveys. Our target list was designed to complete a volume-limited parallax sample of L0-T8 dwarfs out to 25pc spanning declinations -30{deg} to +60{deg} (68% of the sky). We report the first parallaxes for 165 objects, and we improve on previous measurements for another 53 objects. Our targets include 104 objects (mostly early-L dwarfs) having Gaia DR2 parallax measurements with which our parallaxes are consistent. We include an extensive comparison of previous literature parallaxes for L and T dwarfs with both our results and Gaia DR2 measurements, identifying systematic offsets for some previous surveys. Our parallaxes confirm that 14 objects previously identified as wide common proper motion companions to main-sequence stars have distances consistent with companionship. We also report new J_MKO_ photometry for our targets, including the first measurements for 193 of our targets and improvements over previously published J_MKO_ photometry for another 60 targets. Altogether, our parallaxes will enable the first population studies using a volume-limited sample spanning spectral types L0-T8 defined entirely by parallaxes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/3137
- Title:
- Hawaii redshifts in the ACS-GOODS region
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/127/3137
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of an extensive spectroscopic survey of galaxies in the roughly 160 arcmin^2^ ACS-GOODS region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N). We have identified 892 galaxies or stars with z<24, R<24.5, or B<25 in the region. The spectra were obtained with either the DEIMOS or LRIS spectrographs on the Keck 10m telescopes. The results are compared with photometric redshift estimates and with redshifts from the literature, as well as with the redshifts of a parallel effort led by a group at Keck. Our sample, when combined with the literature data, provides identifications for 1324 sources. We use our results to determine the redshift distributions with magnitude, to analyze the rest-frame color distributions with redshift and spectral type, and to investigate the dependence of the X-ray galaxy properties on the local galaxy density in the redshift interval z=0-1.5. We find the rather surprising result that the galaxy X-ray properties are not strongly dependent on the local galaxy density for galaxies in the same luminosity range.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/505/1297
- Title:
- Hawaii Trails Project
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/505/1297
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mysterious solar system object 133P/(7968) Elst-Pizarro is dynamically asteroidal, yet displays recurrent comet-like dust emission. Two scenarios were hypothesized to explain this unusual behavior: (1) 133P is a classical comet from the outer solar system that has evolved onto a main-belt orbit, or (2) 133P is a dynamically ordinary main-belt asteroid on which subsurface ice has recently been exposed. If (1) is correct, the expected rarity of a dynamical transition onto an asteroidal orbit implies that 133P could be alone in the main belt. In contrast, if (2) is correct, other icy main-belt objects should exist and could also exhibit cometary activity. Believing 133P to be a dynamically ordinary, yet icy main-belt asteroid, I set out to test the primary prediction of the hypothesis: that 133P-like objects should be common and could be found by an appropriately designed observational survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/633/A154
- Title:
- HDBSCAN star, galaxy, QSO classification
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/633/A154
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and colour-colour selections will face significant computational constraints, while machine-learning (ML) methods offer a viable approach to tackle datasets of that volume. While supervised learning methods can perform very well for classification tasks, the creation of representative and accurate training sets is a resource and time consuming task. We present a viable alternative using an unsupervised ML method to separate stars, galaxies and QSOs using photometric data. The heart of our work uses HDBSCAN to find the star, galaxy and QSO clusters in a multidimensional colour space. We optimized the hyperparameters and input attributes of three separate HDBSCAN runs, each to select a particular object class, and thus treat the output of each separate run as a binary classifier. We subsequently consolidate the output to give our final classifications, optimized on their F1 scores. We explore the use of Random Forest and PCA as part of the pre-processing stage for feature selection and dimensionality reduction. Using our dataset of ~50000 spectroscopically labelled objects we obtain an F1 score of 98.9, 98.9 and 93.13 respectively for star, galaxy and QSO selection using our unsupervised learning method. We find that careful attribute selection is a vital part of accurate classification with HDBSCAN. We applied our classification to a subset of the SDSS spectroscopic catalogue and demonstrate the potential of our approach in correcting misclassified spectra useful for DESI and 4MOST. Finally, we create a multiwavelength catalogue of 2.7 million sources using the KiDS, VIKING and ALLWISE surveys and publish corresponding classifications and photometric redshifts.
