- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/642/A93
- Title:
- EP Aqr ALMA and SPHERE observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/642/A93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Cool evolved stars are known to be significant contributors to the enrichment of the interstellar medium through their dense and dusty stellar winds. High resolution observations of these outflows have shown them to possess high degrees of morphological complexity. We observed the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star EP Aquarii with ALMA in band 6 and VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL in four filters the visible. Both instruments had an angular resolution of 0.025". These are follow-up observations to the lower-resolution 2016 ALMA analysis of EP Aquarii, which revealed that its wind possesses a nearly face-on, spiral-harbouring equatorial density enhancement, with a nearly pole-on bi-conical outflow. At the base of the spiral, the SiO emission revealed a distinct emission void approximately 0.4" to the west of the continuum brightness peak, which was proposed to be linked to the presence of a companion. The new ALMA data better resolve the inner wind and reveal that its morphology as observed in CO is consistent with hydrodynamical companion-induced perturbations. Assuming that photodissociation by the UV-field of the companion is responsible for the emission void in SiO, we deduced the spectral properties of the tentative companion from the size of the hole. We conclude that the most probable companion candidate is a white dwarf with a mass between 0.65 and 0.8M_{sun}_, though a solar-like companion could not be definitively excluded. The radial SiO emission shows periodic, low-amplitude perturbations. We tentatively propose that they could be the consequence of the interaction of the AGB wind with another much closer low-mass companion. The polarised SPHERE/ZIMPOL data show a circular signal surrounding the AGB star with a radius of ~0.1". Decreased signal along a PA of 138{deg} suggests that the dust is confined to an inclined ring-like structure, consistent with the previously determined wind morphology.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/605/A54
- Title:
- ESO 435-02/ESO 435-016 ATCA HI images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/605/A54
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A fly-by interaction has been suggested to be one of the major explanations for enhanced star formation in blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies, yet no direct evidence for this scenario has been found to date. In the HI Parkes all-sky survey (HIPASS), ESO 435-IG 020 and ESO 435-G 016, a BCD pair were found in a common, extended gas envelope of atomic hydrogen, providing an ideal case to test the hypothesis that the starburst in BCDs can be indeed triggered by a fly-by interaction. Using high-resolution data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), we investigated HI properties and the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the BCD pair to study their interaction and star formation histories. The high-resolution HI data of both BCDs reveal a number of peculiarities, which are suggestive of tidal perturbation. Meanwhile, 40% of the HIPASS flux is not accounted for in the ATCA observations with no HI gas bridge found between the two BCDs. Intriguingly, in the residual of the HIPASS and the ATCA data, ~10% of the missing flux appears to be located between the two BCDs. While the SED-based age of the most dominant young stellar population is old enough to have originated from the interaction with any neighbors (including the other of the two BCDs), the most recent star formation activity traced by strong H{alpha} emission in ESO 435-IG 020 and the shear motion of gas in ESO 435-G 016, suggest a more recent or current tidal interaction. Based on these and the residual emission between the HIPASS and the ATCA data, we propose an interaction between the two BCDs as the origin of their recently enhanced star formation activity. The shear motion on the gas disk, potentially with re-accretion of the stripped gas, could be responsible for the active star formation in this BCD pair.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/612/511
- Title:
- Exoplanet radio emission
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/612/511
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We predict the radio flux densities of the extrasolar planets in the current census, making use of an empirical relation - the radiometric Bode's law - determined from the five "magnetic" planets in the solar system (the Earth and the four gas giants). Radio emission from these planets results from solar wind-powered electron currents depositing energy in the magnetic polar regions. We find that most of the known extrasolar planets should emit in the frequency range 10-1000 MHz and, under favorable circumstances, have typical flux densities as large as 1mJy. We also describe an initial, systematic effort to search for radio emission in low radio frequency images acquired with the Very Large Array (VLA). The limits set by the VLA images (~300mJy) are consistent with, but do not provide strong constraints on, the predictions of the model.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/2877
- Title:
- Extended radio sources in ATLBS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/434/2877
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the environments of extended radio sources in the Australia Telescope Low-Brightness Survey (ATLBS). The radio sources were selected from the ATLBS Extended Source Sample, which is a well defined sample containing the most extended of radio sources in the ATLBS sky survey regions. The environments were analysed using 4-m Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory Blanco telescope observations carried out for ATLBS fields in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey r' band. We have estimated the properties of the environments using smoothed density maps derived from galaxy catalogues constructed using these optical imaging data. The angular distribution of galaxy density relative to the axes of the radio sources has been quantified by defining anisotropy parameters that are estimated using a new method presented here. Examining the anisotropy parameters for a subsample of extended double radio sources that includes all sources with pronounced asymmetry in lobe extents, we find good evidence for environmental anisotropy being the dominant cause for lobe asymmetry in that higher galaxy density occurs almost always on the side of the shorter lobe, and this validates the usefulness of the method proposed and adopted here. The environmental anisotropy parameters have been used to examine and compare the environments of Fanaroff-Riley Class I (FRI) and Fanaroff-Riley Class II (FRII) radio sources in two redshift regimes (z<0.5 and z>0.5). Wide-angle tail sources and head-tail sources lie in the most overdense environments. The head-tail source environments (for the HT sources in our sample) display dipolar anisotropy in that higher galaxy density appears to lie in the direction of the tails. Excluding the head-tail and wide-angle tail sources, subsamples of FRI and FRII sources from the ATLBS appear to lie in similar moderately overdense environments, with no evidence for redshift evolution in the regimes studied herein.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/678/96
- Title:
- Extragalactic H2O masers
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/678/96
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the Green Bank Telescope, we conducted a "snapshot" survey for water maser emission toward the nuclei of 611 galaxies and detected eight new sources. The sample consisted of nearby (v<5000km/s) and luminous (M_B_<-19.5) galaxies, some with known nuclear activity but most not previously known to host AGNs. Our detections include both megamasers associated with AGNs and relatively low luminosity masers probably associated with star formation. The detection in UGC 3789 is particularly intriguing because the spectrum shows both systemic and high-velocity lines indicative of emission from an AGN accretion disk seen edge-on. Based on 6 months of monitoring, we detected accelerations among the systemic features ranging from 2 to 8km/s/yr, the larger values belonging to the most redshifted systemic components. High-velocity maser lines in UGC 3789 show no detectable drift over the same period. Although UGC 3789 was not known to be an AGN prior to this survey, the presence of a disk maser is strong evidence for nuclear activity, and an optical spectrum obtained later has confirmed it. With follow-up observations, it may be possible to measure a geometric distance to UGC 3789.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/109/2318
- Title:
- Extragalactic IRAS sources
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/109/2318
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Extragalactic sources detected at lambda=60um were selected from the IRAS Faint Source Catalog, Version 2 (Cat. II/156) by the criterion S(60um)>=S(12um). They were identified by position coincidence with radio sources stronger than 25mJy at 4.85GHz in the 6.0sr declination band 0deg<Dec.<+75deg (excluding the 0.05sr region 12h40m<R.A.<14h40m, 0deg<Dec.<+5deg) and with radio sources stronger than 80mJy in the 3.4sr area 0h<R.A.<20h, -40deg<Dec.<0deg (plus the region 12h40m<R.A.<14h40m, 0deg<Dec.<+5deg). Fields containing new candidate identifications were mapped by the VLA at 4.86GHz with about 15" FWHM resolution. Difficult cases were confirmed or rejected with the aid of accurate (sigma~1") radio and optical positions. The final sample of 354 identifications in Omega=9.4sr is reliable and large enough to contain statistically useful numbers of radio-loud FIR galaxies and quasars. The logarithmic FIR/radio flux ratio parameter q can be used to distinguish radio sources powered by "starbursts" from those powered by "monsters." Starbursts and normal spiral galaxies in a lambda=60um flux-limited sample have a narrow (sigma_q=0.14+/-0.01) q distribution with mean <q>=2.74+/-0.01, and none have "warm" FIR spectra [{alpha}(25um, 60um)<1.5]. The absence of radio-quiet (but not completely silent) blazars indicates that nearly all blazars become optically thin at frequencies {nu}<~100GHz. Nonthermal sources with steep FIR/optical spectra and dust-embedded sources visible only at FIR and radio wavelengths must be very rare.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/836/174
- Title:
- Extragalactic peaked-spectrum radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/836/174
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 1483 sources that display spectral peaks between 72MHz and 1.4GHz, selected from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey. The GLEAM survey is the widest fractional bandwidth all-sky survey to date, ideal for identifying peaked-spectrum sources at low radio frequencies. Our peaked-spectrum sources are the low-frequency analogs of gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) and compact-steep spectrum (CSS) sources, which have been hypothesized to be the precursors to massive radio galaxies. Our sample more than doubles the number of known peaked-spectrum candidates, and 95% of our sample have a newly characterized spectral peak. We highlight that some GPS sources peaking above 5GHz have had multiple epochs of nuclear activity, and we demonstrate the possibility of identifying high-redshift (z>2) galaxies via steep optically thin spectral indices and low observed peak frequencies. The distribution of the optically thick spectral indices of our sample is consistent with past GPS/CSS samples but with a large dispersion, suggesting that the spectral peak is a product of an inhomogeneous environment that is individualistic. We find no dependence of observed peak frequency with redshift, consistent with the peaked-spectrum sample comprising both local CSS sources and high-redshift GPS sources. The 5GHz luminosity distribution lacks the brightest GPS and CSS sources of previous samples, implying that a convolution of source evolution and redshift influences the type of peaked-spectrum sources identified below 1GHz.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/694/222
- Title:
- Extragalactic point sources in WMAP 5-yr maps
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/694/222
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of an extragalactic point source search using the five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 41, 61, and 94GHz (Q, V, and W bands) temperature maps. This work is an extension of our designing and applying a cosmic microwave background (CMB)-free technique to extract point sources in the WMAP maps. Specifically, we have formed an internal linear combination map of the three-band maps, with the weights chosen to remove the CMB anisotropy signal as well as to favor the selection of flat-spectrum sources. We have also constructed a filter to recover the true point source flux distribution on the sky. A total of 381 sources are found in our study at the >5{sigma} level outside the WMAP point source detection mask, among which 89 are "new" (i.e., not present in the WMAP catalogs). Source fluxes have been calculated and corrected for the Eddington bias. We have solidly identified 367 (96.3%) of our sources, the 1{sigma} positional uncertainty of which is 2'. The 14 unidentified sources could be either extended radio structure or obscured by Galactic emission. We have also applied the same detection approach to simulated maps, which yielded 364+/-21 detections on average. The recovered source distribution N(>S) agrees well with the simulation input, which proves the reliability of this method.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/681/747
- Title:
- Extragalactic point-source WMAP catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/681/747
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of an extragalactic point-source search using the 61 and 94GHz (V- and W-band) temperature maps from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Applying a method that cancels the "noise" due to the CMB anisotropy signal, we find in the |b|>10{deg} region 31 sources in the first-year maps and 64 sources in the three-year co-added maps at a 5{sigma} level. The 1{sigma} position uncertainties are 1.6' and 1.4', respectively. The increased detections and improved positional accuracy are expected from the higher signal-to-noise ratio of the WMAP three-year data. All sources detected in the first-year maps are repeatedly detected in the three-year maps, which is a strong indication of the consistency of this method. Of all the sources, 97% are identified with either the WMAP three-year source catalog or plausible extrapolations of lower frequency data, which indicates that our method is also reliable. The two unidentified sources have been recently confirmed to be false detections, using the WMAP five-year data. We derive the source count distribution at the WMAP V band by combining our verified detections with sources from the WMAP three-year catalog. If we assume that the effect of source clustering is negligible, the contribution to the power spectrum from faint sources below 0.75Jy is estimated to be (2.4+/-0.8)x10^-3^uK^2^sr for the V band, which implies a source correction amplitude of A=0.012+/-0.004uK^2^sr.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/54
- Title:
- Extragalactic Radio Source Identifications
- Short Name:
- VII/54
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog is a compilation of all published optical identifications of extragalactic radio sources. This machine-readable version is an updated and greatly expanded edition of the original published one; this version contains 14585 identifications and citations to 917 papers. The data file contains most commonly used source name, number in the 4C catalog Gower et al. (1967), and Pilkington and Scott (1965) if applicable, right ascension and declination (equinox B1950.0), magnitude estimate for the identification type of optical object, identification reference, alternate name for identified object (if known), confirmation or invalidation code and associated reference, finding chart existence (or nonexistence), redshift, and reference for the spectrum. A reference file contains the references ordered by number cited in the catalog and alphabetically by author. Completeness has been attempted for all papers published through the end of 1982. The present version contains fewer references than the 1974 version (which had 935) because certain numbers were unused in the previous edition and because certain references are no longer used in the 1983 version and were removed. The authors have prepared this final version and have discontinued future updates.
