- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/82
- Title:
- Radio continuum survey of Kepler K2 mission Field 1
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/82
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first dedicated radio continuum survey of a Kepler K2 mission field, Field 1, covering the North Galactic Cap. The survey is wide field, contemporaneous, multi-epoch, and multi-resolution in nature and was conducted at low radio frequencies between 140 and 200MHz. The multi-epoch and ultra wide field (but relatively low resolution) part of the survey was provided by 15 nights of observation using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) over a period of approximately a month, contemporaneous with K2 observations of the field. The multi-resolution aspect of the survey was provided by the low resolution (4') MWA imaging, complemented by non-contemporaneous but much higher resolution (20'') observations using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The survey is, therefore, sensitive to the details of radio structures across a wide range of angular scales. Consistent with other recent low radio frequency surveys, no significant radio transients or variables were detected in the survey. The resulting source catalogs consist of 1085 and 1468 detections in the two MWA observation bands (centered at 154 and 185MHz, respectively) and 7445 detections in the GMRT observation band (centered at 148MHz), over 314 square degrees. The survey is presented as a significant resource for multi-wavelength investigations of the more than 21000 target objects in the K2 field. We briefly examine our survey data against K2 target lists for dwarf star types (stellar types M and L) that have been known to produce radio flares.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A21
- Title:
- Radio cubes of G82.65-2.00
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The combination of line and continuum observations can provide vital insight into the formation and fragmentation of filaments and the initial conditions for star formation. We have carried out line observations to map the kinematics of an evolved, actively star forming filament G82.65-2.00. The filament was first identified from the Planck data as a region of particularly cold dust emission and was mapped at 100-500m as a part of the Herschel key program Galactic Cold Cores. The Herschel observations cover the central part of the filament, corresponding to a filament length of ~12pc at the assumed distance of 620pc. CO observations show that the filament has an intriguing velocity field with several velocity components around the filament. In this paper, we study the velocity structure in detail, to quantify possible mass accretion rate onto the filament, and study the masses of the cold cores located in the filament. We have carried out line observations of several molecules, including CO isotopologues, HCO^+^, HCN, and CS with the Osaka 1.85m telescope and the Nobeyama 45m telescope. The spectral line data are used to derive velocity and column density information.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/482/247
- Title:
- Radio detections of 3G sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/482/247
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A considerable fraction of the gamma-ray sources discovered with the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) remain unidentified. The EGRET sources that have been properly identified are either pulsars or variable sources at both radio and gamma-ray wavelengths. Most of the variable sources are strong radio blazars. However, some low galactic-latitude EGRET sources, with highly variable gamma-ray emission, lack any evident counterpart according to the radio data available until now. The primary goal of this paper is to identify and characterise the potential radio counterparts of four highly variable gamma-ray sources in the galactic plane through mapping the radio surroundings of the EGRET confidence contours and determining the variable radio sources in the field whenever possible. We have carried out a radio exploration of the fields of the selected EGRET sources using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) interferometer at 21 cm wavelength, with pointings being separated by months.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/455/4191
- Title:
- Radio emission from radio-quiet quasars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/455/4191
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radio emission from radio-quiet quasars may be due to star formation in the quasar host galaxy, to a jet launched by the supermassive black hole, or to relativistic particles accelerated in a wide-angle radiatively driven outflow. In this paper, we examine whether radio emission from radio-quiet quasars is a byproduct of star formation in their hosts. To this end, we use infrared spectroscopy and photometry from Spitzer and Herschel to estimate or place upper limits on star formation rates in hosts of ~300 obscured and unobscured quasars at z<1. We find that low-ionization forbidden emission lines such as [NeII] and [NeIII] are likely dominated by quasar ionization and do not provide reliable star formation diagnostics in quasar hosts, while polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission features may be suppressed due to the destruction of PAH molecules by the quasar radiation field. While the bolometric luminosities of our sources are dominated by the quasars, the 160{mu}m fluxes are likely dominated by star formation, but they too should be used with caution. We estimate median star formation rates to be 6-29M_{sun}_/yr, with obscured quasars at the high end of this range. This star formation rate is insufficient to explain the observed radio emission from quasars by an order of magnitude, with log(L_radio,obs_/L_radio,SF_)=0.6-1.3 depending on quasar type and star formation estimator. Although radio-quiet quasars in our sample lie close to the 8-1000{mu}m infrared/radio correlation characteristic of the star-forming galaxies, both their infrared emission and their radio emission are dominated by the quasar activity, not by the host galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/573/306
- Title:
- Radio emission from supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/573/306
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report Very Large Array radio observations of 29 supernovae (SNe) with ages ranging from 10 days to about 90yr past explosion. These observations significantly contribute to the existing data pool on such objects. Included are detections of known radio SNe 1950B, 1957D, 1970G, and 1983N, the suspected radio SN 1923A, and the possible radio SN 1961V. None of the remaining 23 observations resulted in detections, providing further evidence to support the observed trend that most SNe are not detectable radio emitters. To investigate the apparent lack of radio emission from the SNe reported here, we have followed standard practice and used Chevalier's "standard model" to derive (upper limits to) the mass-loss rates for the supernova progenitors. These upper limits to the fluxes are consistent with a lack of circumstellar material needed to provide detectable radio emission for SNe at these ages and distances. Comparison of the radio luminosities of these supernovae as a function of age past explosion to other well-observed radio SNe indicates that the Type II SNe upper limits are more consistent with the extrapolated light curves of SN 1980K than of SN 1979C, suggesting that SN 1980K may be a more typical radio emitter than SN 1979C. For completeness, we have included an appendix where the results of analyses of the non-SN radio sources are presented. Where possible, we make (tentative) identifications of these sources using various methods.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/478/3848
- Title:
- Radio-emitting AGN environmental prop.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/478/3848
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021 00:52:31
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the environmental properties of z<=1.2 radio-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) belonging to the ~2deg^2^ of the COSMOS field, finding that about 20 per cent of them appear within overdense structures. AGNs with P_1.4GHz_>10^23.5^W/Hz/sr are twice more likely to be found in clusters with respect to fainter sources (~38 per cent vs ~15 per cent), just as radio-selected AGNs with stellar masses M_*_>10^11^M_{sun}_ are twice more likely to be found in overdense environments with respect to objects of lower mass (~24 per cent vs ~11 per cent). Comparisons with galaxy samples further suggest that radio-selected AGN of large stellar mass tend to avoid underdense environments more than normal galaxies with the same stellar content. Stellar masses also seem to determine the location of radio-active AGN within clusters: ~100 per cent of the sources found as satellite galaxies have M_*_<10^11.3^M_{sun}_, while ~100 per cent of the AGNs coinciding with a cluster central galaxy have M_*_>10^11^M_{sun}_. No different location within the cluster is instead observed for AGN of various radio luminosities. Radio AGN, which also emit in the Mid-Infrared show a marked preference to be found as isolated galaxies (~70 per cent) at variance with those also active in the X-ray that all seem to reside within overdensities. What emerges from our work is a scenario whereby physical processes on sub-pc and kpc scales (e.g. emission, respectively, related to the AGN and to star formation) are strongly interconnected with the large-scale environment of the AGN itself.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/477/830
- Title:
- Radio flux density of extremely red quasars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/477/830
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Most active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are radio quiet, and the origin of their radio emission is not well understood. One hypothesis is that this radio emission is a byproduct of quasar-driven winds. In this paper, we present the radio properties of 108 extremely red quasars (ERQs) at z=2-4. ERQs are among the most luminous quasars (L_bol_~10^47-48^erg/s^) in the Universe, with signatures of extreme (>>1000km/s) outflows in their [OIII]{lambda}5007{AA} emission, making them the best subjects to seek the connection between radio and outflow activities. All ERQs but one are unresolved in the radio on ~10kpc scales, and the median radio luminosity of ERQs is {nu}L_{nu}_[6GHz]= 10^41.0^erg/s, in the radio-quiet regime, but 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than that of other quasar samples. The radio spectra are steep, with a mean spectral index <{alpha}>=-1.0. In addition, ERQs neatly follow the extrapolation of the low-redshift correlation between radio luminosity and the velocity dispersion of [OIII]-emitting ionized gas. Uncollimated winds, with a power of one per cent of the bolometric luminosity, can account for all these observations. Such winds would interact with and shock the gas around the quasar and in the host galaxy, resulting in acceleration of relativistic particles and the consequent synchrotron emission observed in the radio. Our observations support the picture in which ERQs are signposts of extremely powerful episodes of quasar feedback, and quasar-driven winds as a contributor of the radio emission in the intermediate regime of radio luminosity {nu}L_{nu}_=10^39^-10^42^erg/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/79
- Title:
- Radio fluxes of 195 ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/151/79
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The second realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF2), which is the current fundamental celestial reference frame adopted by the International Astronomical Union, is based on Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data at radio frequencies in X band and S band. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission, launched on 2013 December 19, started routine scientific operations in 2014 July. By scanning the whole sky, it is expected to observe ~500000 Quasi Stellar Objects in the optical domain an average of 70 times each during the five years of the mission. This means that, in the future, two extragalactic celestial reference frames, at two different frequency domains, will coexist. It will thus be important to align them very accurately. In 2012, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB) selected 195 sources from ICRF2 that will be observed by Gaia and should be suitable for aligning the radio and optical frames: they are called ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources. The LAB submitted a proposal to the International VLBI Service (IVS) to regularly observe these ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources at the same rate as Gaia observes them in the optical realm, e.g., roughly once a month. We describe our successful effort to implement such a program and report on the results. Most observations of the ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources now occur automatically as part of the IVS source monitoring program, while a subset of 37 sources requires special attention. Beginning in 2013, we scheduled 25 VLBI sessions devoted in whole or in part to measuring these 37 sources. Of the 195 sources, all but one have been successfully observed in the 12 months prior to 2015 September 01. Of the sources, 87 met their observing target of 12 successful sessions per year. The position uncertainties of all of the ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources have improved since the start of this observing program. For a subset of 24 sources whose positions were very poorly known, the uncertainty has decreased, on average, by a factor of four. This observing program is successful because the two main goals were reached for most of the 195 ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources: observing at the requested target of 12 successful sessions per year and improving the position uncertainties to better than 200{mu}as for both R.A. and decl. However, scheduling some of the transfer sources remains a challenge because of network geometry and the weakness of the sources, and this will be one focus of future sessions used in this ongoing program.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/354/485
- Title:
- Radio flux of 15-GHz 9C survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/354/485
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out extensive radio and optical follow-up of 176 sources from the 15-GHz 9th Cambridge survey. Optical identifications have been found for 155 of the radio sources; optical images are given with radio maps overlaid. The continuum radio spectrum of each source spanning the frequency range 1.4-43GHz is also given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/303/420
- Title:
- Radio galaxies and quasars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/303/420
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The simple unification scheme of powerful radio galaxies and quasars, based entirely on the orientation dependent effects, has been confronted with the observed radio structures for 152 radio galaxies and 173 steep spectrum quasars. Contrary to the scheme's prediction, the cosmological evolution of geometrical parameters describing the large scale structure of these two types of radio sources are different.