- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/626/A60
- Title:
- F-GAMMA 2.64-43GHz radio data over 2007-2015
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/626/A60
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The advent of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope with its superb sensitivity, energy range, and unprecedented capability to monitor the entire 4{pi} sky within less than 2-3 h, introduced a new standard in time domain gamma-ray astronomy. Among several breakthroughs, Fermi has - for the first time - made it possible to investigate, with high cadence, the variability of the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED), especially for active galactic nuclei (AGN). This is necessary for understanding the emission and variability mechanisms in such systems. To explore this new avenue of extragalactic physics the Fermi-GST AGN Multi-frequency Monitoring Alliance (F-GAMMA) programme undertook the task of conducting nearly monthly, broadband radio monitoring of selected blazars, which is the dominant population of the extragalactic gamma-ray sky, from January 2007 to January 2015. In this work we release all the multi-frequency light curves from 2.64 to 43 GHz and first order derivative data products after all necessary post-measurement corrections and quality checks. Along with the demanding task to provide the radio part of the broadband SED in monthly intervals, the F-GAMMA programme was also driven by a series of well-defined fundamental questions immediately relevant to blazar physics. On the basis of the monthly sampled radio SEDs, the F-GAMMA aimed at quantifying and understanding the possible multiband correlation and multi-frequency radio variability, spectral evolution and the associated emission, absorption and variability mechanisms. The location of the gamma-ray production site and the correspondence of structural evolution to radio variability have been among the fundamental aims of the programme. Finally, the programme sought to explore the characteristics and dynamics of the multi-frequency radio linear and circular polarisation. The F-GAMMA ran two main and tightly coordinated observing programmes. The Effelsberg 100 m telescope programme monitoring 2.64, 4.85, 8.35, 10.45, 14.6, 23.05, 32, and 43 GHz, and the IRAM 30 m telescope programme observing at 86.2, 142.3, and 228.9 GHz. The nominal cadence was one month for a total of roughly 60 blazars and targets of opportunity. In a less regular manner the F-GAMMA programme also ran an occasional monitoring with the APEX 12 m telescope at 345 GHz. We only present the Effelsberg dataset in this paper. The higher frequencies data are released elsewhere. The current release includes 155 sources that have been observed at least once by the F-GAMMA programme. That is, the initial sample, the revised sample after the first Fermi release, targets of opportunity, and sources observed in collaboration with a monitoring programme following up on Planck satellite observations. For all these sources we release all the quality-checked Effelsberg multi-frequency light curves. The suite of post-measurement corrections and flagging and a thorough system diagnostic study and error analysis is discussed as an assessment of the data reliability. We also release data products such as flux density moments and spectral indices. The effective cadence after the quality flagging is around one radio SED every 1.3 months. The coherence of each radio SED is around 40 min. The released dataset includes more than 3x104 measurements for some 155 sources over a broad range of frequencies from 2.64 GHz to 43 GHz obtained between 2007 and 2015. The median fractional error at the lowest frequencies (2.64-10.45 GHz) is below 2%. At the highest frequencies (14.6-43 GHz) with limiting factor of the atmospheric conditions, the errors range from 3% to 9%, respectively.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/2473
- Title:
- Fine-scale structure in 250 sources at 15GHz
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/2473
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have examined the compact structure in 250 flat-spectrum extragalactic radio sources using interferometric fringe visibilities obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 15GHz. With projected baselines out to 440M{lambda}, we are able to investigate source structure on typical angular scales as small as 0.05mas.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/575/A80
- Title:
- FIR photometry of 3CR galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/575/A80
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Herschel (PACS and SPIRE) far-infrared (FIR) photometry of a complete sample of z>1 3CR sources, from the Herschel guaranteed time project The Herschel Legacy of distant radio-loud AGN. Combining these with existing Spitzer photometric data, we perform an infrared (IR) spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis of these landmark objects in extragalactic research to study the star formation in the hosts of some of the brightest active galactic nuclei (AGN) known at any epoch. Accounting for the contribution from an AGN-powered warm dust component to the IR SED, about 40% of our objects undergo episodes of prodigious, ULIRG-strength star formation, with rates of hundreds of solar masses per year, coeval with the growth of the central supermassive black hole. Median SEDs imply that the quasar and radio galaxy hosts have similar FIR properties, in agreement with the orientation-based unification for radio-loud AGN. The star-forming properties of the AGN hosts are similar to those of the general population of equally massive non-AGN galaxies at comparable redshifts, thus there is no strong evidence of universal quenching of star formation (negative feedback) within this sample. Massive galaxies at high redshift may be forming stars prodigiously, regardless of whether their supermassive black holes are accreting or not.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/601/A81
- Title:
- FIRST catalog of FR II radio galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/601/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We built a catalog of 122 FR II radio galaxies, called FRIICAT, selected from a published sample obtained by combining observations from the NVSS, FIRST, and SDSS surveys. The catalog includes sources with redshift <=0.15, an edge-brightened radio morphology, and those with at least one of the emission peaks located at radius r larger than 30 kpc from the center of the host. The radio luminosity at 1.4GHz of the FRIICAT sources covers the range L1.4~10^39.5^-10^42.5^erg/s. The FRIICAT catalog has 90% of low and 10% of high excitation galaxies (LEGs and HEGs), respectively. The properties of these two classes are significantly different. The FRIICAT LEGs are mostly luminous (-20>~Mr>~-24), red early-type galaxies with black hole masses in the range 10^8^<~M_BH_<~10^9^M_{sun}_; they are essentially indistinguishable from the FR Is belonging to the FRICAT. The HEG FR IIs are associated with optically bluer and mid-IR redder hosts than the LEG FR IIs and to galaxies and black holes that are smaller, on average, by a factor ~2. FR IIs have a factor ~3higher average radio luminosity than FR Is. Nonetheless, most (~90%) of the selected FR IIs have a radio power that is lower, by as much as a factor of ~100, than the transition value between FR Is and FR IIs found in the 3C sample. The correspondence between the morphological classification of FR I and FR II and the separation in radio power disappears when including sources selected at low radio flux thresholds, which is in line with previous results. In conclusion, a radio source produced by a low power jet can be edge brightened or edge darkened, and the outcome is not related to differences in the optical properties of the host galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/141/469
- Title:
- First list of the Karachentsev catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/141/469
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present HI observations of the galaxies in the first list of the Karachentsev catalog of previously unknown nearby dwarf galaxies (Karachentseva & Karachentsev, 1998, Cat. <J/A+AS/127/409>). This survey covers all known nearby galaxy groups within the Local Volume (i.e. within 10Mpc) and their environment, that is about 25% of the total sky. A total of 257 galaxies have been observed with a detection rate of 60%. We searched a frequency band corresponding to heliocentric radial velocities from -470km/s to ~+4000km/s. Non-detections are either due to limited coverage in radial velocity, confusion with Local HI (mainly in the velocity range -140km/s to +20km/s), or lack of sensitivity for very weak emission. 25% of the detected galaxies are located within the Local Volume. Those galaxies are dwarf galaxies judged by their optical linear diameter (1.4+/-0.2kpc on the average), their mean total HI mass (4.6x10^7^M_{sun}_), and their observed linewidths (39km/s).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/699/L43
- Title:
- FIRST-NVSS-SDSS AGN sample catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/699/L43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radio outflows of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are invoked in cosmological models as a key feedback mechanism in the latest phases of massive galaxy formation. Recently, it has been suggested that the two major radio AGN populations-the powerful high-excitation, and the weak low-excitation radio AGNs (HERAGN and LERAGN, respectively)-represent two earlier and later stages of massive galaxy buildup. To test this, here we make use of a local (0.04<z<0.1) sample of ~500 radio AGNs with available optical spectroscopy, drawn from the FIRST, NVSS, SDSS, and 3CRR surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/2097
- Title:
- FIRST "Winged" and X-shaped radio source candidates
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/2097
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A small number of double-lobed radio galaxies (17 from our own census of the literature) show an additional pair of low surface brightness "wings," thus forming an overall X-shaped appearance. Using the VLA FIRST survey database, we are compiling a large sample of winged and X-shaped radio sources for such studies. As a first step toward this goal, an initial sample of 100 new candidate objects of this type are presented in this paper.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/338/700
- Title:
- Flux densities for 290 blazars
- Short Name:
- J/AN/338/700
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of nine years of the blazar observing programme at the RATAN-600 radio telescope (2005-2014). The data were obtained at six frequency bands (1.1, 2.3, 4.8, 7.7, 11.2, 21.7GHz) for 290 blazars, mostly BL Lacs. In addition, we used data at 37GHz obtained quasi-simultaneously with the Metsahovi radio observatory for some sources. For each source NVSS name (RA (hhmmss) and DEC (ddmmss) for the J2000.0 epoch), and flux densities at seven frequencies are presented (1.1-37GHz).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/3478
- Title:
- Fornax A MWA 154MHz image
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/3478
- Date:
- 07 Feb 2022 14:41:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new low-frequency observations of the nearby radio galaxy Fornax A at 154MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array, microwave flux-density measurements obtained from WMAP and Planck data, and {gamma}-ray flux densities obtained from Fermi data. We also compile a comprehensive list of previously published images and flux-density measurements at radio, microwave and X-ray energies. A detailed analysis of the spectrum of Fornax A between 154 and 1510MHz reveals that both radio lobes have a similar spatially averaged spectral index, and that there exists a steep-spectrum bridge of diffuse emission between the lobes. Taking the spectral index of both lobes to be the same, we model the spectral energy distribution of Fornax A across an energy range spanning 18 orders of magnitude, to investigate the origin of the X-ray and {gamma}-ray emission. A standard leptonic model for the production of both the X-rays and {gamma}-rays by inverse-Compton scattering does not fit the multiwavelength observations. Our results best support a scenario where the X-rays are produced by inverse-Compton scattering and the {gamma}-rays are produced primarily by hadronic processes confined to the filamentary structures of the Fornax A lobes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/377/801
- Title:
- Fourth list of the Karachentsev catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/377/801
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents HI observations of 165 dwarf galaxy candidates from the Karachentsev catalog of candidates for nearby dwarf galaxies prepared from film copies of POSSII and the ESO/SERC southern extension. Now a total of 601 galaxies from the published Karachentsev catalog have been searched for HI emission. Table 1 lists coordinates and general optical properties while Table 2 presents HI data and some global properties of these galaxies.
