- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/858/65
- Title:
- A VLA study of high-redshift GRBs. I. GRB140311A
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/858/65
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from a recently concluded study of GRBs at z>~5 with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Spanning 1 to 85.5GHz and 7 epochs from 1.5 to 82.3d, our observations of GRB140311A are the most detailed joint radio and millimeter observations of a GRB afterglow at z>~5 to date. In conjunction with optical/near-IR and X-ray data, the observations can be understood in the framework of radiation from a single blast wave shock with energy E_K,iso_~8.5x10^53^erg expanding into a constant density environment with density, n_0_~8cm^-3^. The X-ray and radio observations require a jet break at t_jet_~0.6d, yielding an opening angle of {theta}_jet_~4{deg} and a beaming-corrected blast wave kinetic energy of E_K_~2.2x10^50^erg. The results from our radio follow-up and multiwavelength modeling lend credence to the hypothesis that detected high-redshift GRBs may be more tightly beamed than events at lower redshift. We do not find compelling evidence for reverse shock emission, which may be related to fast cooling driven by the moderately high circumburst density.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/79/675
- Title:
- B-band photometry of BL Lac object ON 231
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/79/675
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of 19-year optical monitoring of ON 231 are presented. Photographic B-band observations were obtained during 123 nights from April 1972 to March 1990 as part of the quasar monitoring program carried out the Astronomical Institute of St. Petersburg State University.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/799/72
- Title:
- Binary AGNs from the VLA Stripe 82 survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/799/72
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Galaxy mergers play an important role in the growth of galaxies and their supermassive black holes. Simulations suggest that tidal interactions could enhance black hole accretion, which can be tested by the fraction of binary active galactic nuclei (AGNs) among galaxy mergers. However, determining the fraction requires a statistical sample of binaries. We have identified kiloparsec-scale binary AGNs directly from high-resolution radio imaging. Inside the 92deg^2^ covered by the high-resolution Very Large Array survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 field, we identified 22 grade A and 30 grade B candidates of binary radio AGNs with angular separations less than 5" (10kpc at z=0.1). Eight of the candidates have optical spectra for both components from the SDSS spectroscopic surveys and our Keck program. Two grade B candidates are projected pairs, but the remaining six candidates are all compelling cases of binary AGNs based on either emission line ratios or the excess in radio power compared to the H{alpha}-traced star formation rate. Only two of the six binaries were previously discovered by an optical spectroscopic search. Based on these results, we estimate that ~60% of our binary candidates would be confirmed once we obtain complete spectroscopic information. We conclude that wide-area high-resolution radio surveys offer an efficient method to identify large samples of binary AGNs. These radio-selected binary AGNs complement binaries identified at other wavelengths and are useful for understanding the triggering mechanisms of black hole accretion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/357/1267
- Title:
- b_j_ur photometry and redshifts of QSOs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/357/1267
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The quasar sample selected by cross-correlating the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST, <VIII/71>) survey and the 2-degree Field Quasar Redshift Survey (2QZ, <VII/223>) allows us to explore, for the first time, the faint end of the radio and optical luminosity functions up to z=~2.2. We find indications (~3{sigma}) of a negative evolution for these faint sources at z>~1.8, both in radio and optical bands. This corresponds to a decrement in the space density of faint quasars of approximately a factor 2 at z=2.2 and confirms the presence of a differential evolution for the population of radio-active quasars. The faint end of both luminosity functions flattens and the comparison with the (optical) number density of the whole quasar population supports a dependence of the fraction of radio-detected quasars on the optical luminosity. A progressive decrease in the fraction of quasars in the whole radio source population can be consistently accounted for within the receding torus scenario. The population of low-luminosity quasars, which the FIRST-2dF detects, appears to depart from the classical scheme for radio-loud quasars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/867/131
- Title:
- Blazar candidates behind the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/867/131
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the identification of blazar candidates behind the Magellanic Clouds. The objects were selected from the Magellanic Quasars Survey (MQS), which targeted the entire Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 70% of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Among the 758 MQS quasars and 898 of the unidentified (featureless spectra) objects, we identified a sample of 44 blazar candidates, including 27 flat-spectrum radio quasars and 17 BL Lacertae objects, respectively. All the blazar candidates from our sample were identified with respect to their radio, optical, and midinfrared properties. The newly selected blazar candidates possess the long-term, multicolor photometric data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, multicolor midinfrared observations, and archival radio data for one frequency at least. In addition, for nine of them, the radio polarization data are available. With such data, these objects can be used to study the physics behind the blazar variability detected in the optical and midinfrared bands, as a tool to investigate magnetic field geometry of the LMC and SMC, and as an exemplary sample of point-like sources most likely detectable in the {gamma}-ray range with the newly emerging Cherenkov Telescope Array.
16. BL Lac from SDSS
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/2542
- Title:
- BL Lac from SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/2542
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae candidates identified from 2860deg^2^ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily selected to have quasi-featureless optical spectra and low proper motions as measured from SDSS and USNO-B positions; however, our ability to separate Galactic from extragalactic quasi-featureless objects (QFOs) on the basis of proper motion alone is limited by the lack of reliable proper motion measurements for faint objects. Based largely on this remarkably clean color separation, we subdivide the sample into 240 probable candidates and 146 additional less probable (likely stellar) candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/339/34
- Title:
- Bright galaxies from the WENSS minisurvey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/339/34
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A search for bright galaxies associated with radio sources from the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS) minisurvey has been carried out. A galaxy counterpart was found for 402 of almost 10,000 radio sources. Of these a radio and optically complete sample, with a flux density limit at 325MHz of 30mJy and a limiting red magnitude of 16, can be constructed, which contains 119 galaxies. This paper is the first step of a more general study, in which we aim to derive a bright galaxy sample from the entire WENSS survey (which is now available in the public domain) and thus to construct practically definitive local radio luminosity functions of elliptical and spiral galaxies. We briefly describe the WENSS minisurvey, and the steps that are needed for the optical identification of its radio sources. Due to the large numbers of sources involved (over 200,000) completely automated procedures are obviously needed and we discuss these in some detail. It is shown that with modern utilities projects as described here have become quite feasible. Some results (e.g. a preliminary determination of the local radio luminosity function) are presented.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/204/151
- Title:
- Bright radio sources at 178 MHz (3CRR)
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/204/151
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A revised sample of bright radio sources at 178MHz is defined in order to correct the biases introduced into the 3CR catalog by confusion and partial resolution. The sample is shown to be 96 percent complete to a flux-density limit of 10Jy for sources smaller than 10arcmin. The bias of the 3CR catalog against objects of larger angular size is also reduced. Optical identifications are presented for 96 percent of the sources, 71 percent with galaxies and 25 percent with quasars. The radio-galaxy population is found to show strong space-density evolution for luminosities in excess of approximately 10^26.5^W/Hz/sr at 178MHz (redshifts greater than or approximately equal to 0.2), while the evolutionary properties of galaxies and quasars of the same luminosity and redshift are very similar.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/83/310
- Title:
- BV(RI)c photometry of S5 0716+714
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/83/310
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photometric observations of the radio source S5 0716+71 were obtained in Johnson-Cousins BVRI filters from 1998 to 2001. with Zeiss-600 and Zeiss-1000 telescopes of SAO of the Russian Academy of Science.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/44/383
- Title:
- Byurakan-IRAS galaxies (BIG) with SDSS spectra
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/44/383
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The sample of Byurakan-IRAS galaxies (BIG) has been created based on optical identifications of IRAS Point Source Catalog (PSC) at high galactic latitudes. As a result, 1178 galaxies have been identified. 172 of them have been observed spectroscopically with Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO, Armenia) 2.6m, Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO, Russia) 6m and Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP, France) 1.93m telescopes. Later on, spectra were obtained for more 83 BIG objects in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We have extracted and studied these spectra, classified them and measured spectral features. Diagnostic diagrams have been built to distinguish starbursts (SB), LINERs and Seyfert galaxies. Cross-correlations were made for these objects with multiwavelength (MW) catalogues and their physical properties were studied. Among these 83 objects, 55 HII, 8 Seyfert galaxies, 2 LINERs, 4 other AGN, 6 composite spectrum objects, and 8 other emission-line galaxies have been revealed. Three of these objects are Ultra-Luminous InfraRed Galaxies (ULIRG).