- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/52/63
- Title:
- H I Survey of the Galactic Center Region
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/52/63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Presented here are 21-cm (1.42GHz) observations of neutral hydrogen emission from the core of our Galaxy made over a period of several years with the 140-foot telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The survey covers the region 348 < l < 10, -10 < b < 10 with an angular resolution of 21' and a grid spacing of 0.5 degrees in both l and b, and the velocity range |v| < 310 km/s with a kinematic resolution of 5.5 km/s. The sensitivity of the data generally corresponds to an antenna-temperature rms level of 0.02 K or better. The H I spectra from the survey are archived in a single three-dimensional (v, l, b) data cube in FITS image format. There are 224 velocity channels with a step of 2.75 km/s between channels. The intensities are given in units of antenna temperature and can be converted to brightness temperature units by multiplying by a factor of (1.52).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/1309
- Title:
- H_2_O masers in AFGL 2591 VLA 3-N
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/1309
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we analyse multi-epoch very long baseline interferometry water maser observations carried out with the Very Long Baseline Array towards the high-mass star-forming region AFGL 2591. We detected maser emission associated with the radio continuum sources VLA 2 and VLA 3. In addition, a water maser cluster, VLA 3-N, was detected ~0.5arcsec north of VLA 3. We concentrate the discussion of this paper on the spatio-kinematical distribution of the water masers towards VLA 3-N. The water maser emission towards the region VLA 3-N shows two bow-shock-like structures, northern and southern, separated from each other by ~100mas (~330AU). The spatial distribution and kinematics of the water masers in this cluster have persisted over a time span of 7yr. The northern bow shock has a somewhat irregular morphology, while the southern one has a remarkably smooth morphology. We measured the proper motions of 33 water maser features, which have an average proper motion velocity of ~1.3mas/yr (~20km/s). The morphology and the proper motions of this cluster of water masers show systematic expanding motions that could imply one or two different centres of star formation activity. We made a detailed model for the southern structure, proposing two different kinematic models to explain the three-dimensional spatio-kinematical distribution of the water masers: (1) a static central source driving the two bow-shock structures and (2) two independent driving sources, one of them exciting the northern bow-shock structure, and the other one, a young runaway star moving in the local molecular medium exciting and moulding the remarkably smoother southern bow-shock structure. Future observations will be necessary to discriminate between the two scenarios, in particular by identifying the still unseen driving source(s).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/473/713
- Title:
- Host galaxies of powerful radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/473/713
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper describes those properties of the host galaxies of powerful radio sources that are unique to radio galaxies. The radio galaxies have redshifts up to z=0.5 and radio powers, P(408MHz), ranging from 10^25^ to 10^28^W.Hz^-1^ (H_0_=50km.s^-1^.Mpc^-1^ and q_0_=0). We find that the magnitudes, colors, and surface brightness profiles of these radio galaxies are very diverse. Their rest frame V magnitudes range from -24th to -20th magnitude and are 0.55+/-0.06mag fainter than those of brightest cluster members. Their (B-V) colors can be as red as those of brightest cluster members but may also be ~1 mag bluer. The optical structure of the low-redshift (0.03<z<0.25) radio galaxies may vary ranging from cD to N galaxy behaviour. Although the host galaxies of the low-redshift radio sources are generally "elliptical-like" galaxies, a comparison of the overall structure of radio galaxies to those of radio- quiet "generalized elliptical galaxies" of Schombert shows that only 17% are genuine elliptical galaxies, 9% have elliptical profiles with truncated halos, 26% are roughly elliptical but have disturbed surface brightness profiles, 16% are cD or D galaxies, 7% have double nuclei, and 21% are N galaxies. The only property that radio galaxies, as a class, have in common is that their sizes are relatively larger than those of normal elliptical galaxies of the same absolute magnitude. At the 22d isophote (in V) radio galaxies are 11% larger, at the 24th isophote they are 15% larger, and at the 25th isophote they are 20% larger. The host galaxies of the low-redshift (0.03<z<0.25) FR I and FR II sources have different properties. 69% of all FR I's are associated with cD-like or double nucleus galaxies, 19% with smooth ellipticals, and 13% with disturbed ellipticals; no FR I's are associated with N galaxies. 41% of all FR IIs are associated with N galaxies, 26% with smooth ellipticals, and 26% with disturbed ellipticals; no FR II's are associated with cD-like galaxies. The colors and color gradients are also different, with the FR II's having both bluer colors and a larger dispersion in their color gradients. Powerful FR I and FR II sources exhibit differing cosmological evolutions in their number counts. At low redshifts, almost all powerful sources are FR I's, and at high redshifts they are predominantly FR II's. We suggest that powerful FR I's prefer host galaxies that are the dominant central galaxies of relaxed groups and clusters, while FR II's are most often associated with violent galaxy encounters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/122/81
- Title:
- HST snapshot survey of 3CR radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/122/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and describe optical counterparts to 46 3CR radio galaxies of redshifts less than 0.1 that were imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) WFPC2 camera through the broadband F702W filter as part of the 3CR Snapshot Survey. This is the fifth and last such paper describing the 252 radio galaxies of this R-band survey. At the 0.1'' resolution of the images, a wealth of detail is visible. Approximately 89% of the galaxies are ellipticals, and nearly all reside in groups or clusters of galaxies of various richness and compactness. Nearby elliptical companions of slightly smaller size and mass are common. Dust is prevalent in the cores of the 3C hosts; nearly half of the galaxies possess some type of dust structure, such as irregular dust lanes, filaments, or disks. Besides the well-known dust disks of 3C 264 and 3C 270, we have found five new candidates in 3C 31, 3C 40, 3C 296, 3C 449, and 3C 465, as well as in the central regions of the nearby neighbors of 3C 31 and 3C 465. Our sample includes six confirmed optical synchrotron jets in 3C 15, 3C 66B, 3C 78, 3C 264, 3C 274, and 3C 371, or approximately 13% of the sample. Unresolved nuclei, consistent with the point spread function of WFPC2, are found in 43%-54% of the galaxies and in the majority of galaxies with dust disks and optical jets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A93
- Title:
- IC 342 multi-frequency radio polarization study
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/578/A93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation and stabilization of spiral structures in galaxies, but the interaction between interstellar gas and magnetic fields has not yet been understood. In particular, the phenomenon of "magnetic arms" located between material arms is a mystery. The strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields and their relation to spiral arms in gas and dust are investigated in the nearby and almost face-on spiral galaxy IC 342.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/873/132
- Title:
- ICRF3 radio-loud quasars with Gaia DR2 data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/873/132
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate a sample of 3413 International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF3) extragalactic radio-loud sources with accurate positions determined by very long baseline interferometry in the S/X band, mostly active galactic nuclei and quasars, which are cross-matched with optical sources in the second Gaia data release (Gaia DR2). The main goal of this study is to determine a core sample of astrometric objects that define the mutual orientation of the two fundamental reference frames, the Gaia (optical) and the ICRF3 (radio) frames. The distribution of normalized offsets between the VLBI sources and their optical counterparts is non-Rayleigh, with a deficit around the modal value and a tail extending beyond the 3{sigma} confidence level. A few filters are applied to the sample in order to discard double cross-matches, confusion sources, and Gaia astrometric solutions of doubtful quality. Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System and Dark Energy Survey stacked multicolor images are used to further deselect objects that are less suitable for precision astrometry, such as extended galaxies, double and multiple sources, and obvious misidentifications. After this cleaning, 2643 quasars remain, of which 20% still have normalized offset magnitudes exceeding 3, or a 99% confidence level. We publish a list of 2119 radio-loud quasars of prime astrometric quality. The observed dependence of binned median offset on redshift shows the expected decline at small redshifts, but also an unexpected rise at z~1.6, which may be attributed to the emergence of the CIV emission line in the Gaia's G band. The Gaia DR2 parallax zero-point is found to be color-dependent, suggesting an uncorrected instrumental calibration effect.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/KFNT/27.299
- Title:
- ICRF stars near extragalactic radio sources
- Short Name:
- J/other/KFNT/27.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The compiled catalogue of 231044 stars was created from photographic and CCD observations of position catalogues observed by ground based telescopes. The catalogue destine for optical observations VLBI-ICRS astrometrical extragalactic radiosources (ERS) with telescopes equiped with CCD-cameras. The main purpose of this catalogue is to ensure the reference stars in optics for reducing positions of faint astrometrical ERS 17-22mag relative to more bright reference stars 14-17mag. The catalogue contains 231044 star positions in fields 40'x40' near 240 ERS. More than nine catalogues of stars coordinates were used for compiling the Pul-ERS catalogue. For 69% of stars the proper motions were taken from UCAC3 catalogue to convert the position stars to the common epoch. The number of position measurements for each star varies from one to more than ten records. The inner precision of positions of stars in Pul-ERS is from 4 to 150mas. 159331 stars of the compiled catalogue were identified with stars of the UCAC3. The average internal accuracy of positions on both coordinates is not worse 0.11".
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/615/702
- Title:
- IC 133 water vapor maser
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/615/702
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on the results of a 14yr long VLBI study of proper motions in the IC 133 H_2_O maser source in the galaxy M33.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/25/447
- Title:
- Identification of radio sources. I.
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/25/447
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detailed identification of radio sources within the Abell radii in 26 rich galactic clusters of the FIRST catalog with optical objects of the APM and DSS surveys had been carried out. Of the 326 radio sources in the cluster fields, 99 are identified, 40 have probable identifications, and 187 are unidentified. Among last sources, 20 are definitely located in the clusters and 34 are cluster members with high probability. Thus, 30-40% of the FIRST radio sources could be identified using APM and DSS data, and there were two sources in each cluster on the average.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/73/835
- Title:
- Identifications of objects from RC Catalog
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/73/835
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results from a continuing program for identification of sources from the RC catalog (from observations with the RATAN-600 radio telescope) with the APM (Automatic Plate Measuring) Northern Sky Catalogs available via the Internet are presented. The coordinate accuracy for the optical objects is better than 1".