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221. CSS and GPS radio sources sample
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/3786
Title:
CSS and GPS radio sources sample
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/458/3786
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The dependence of the turnover frequency on the linear size is presented for a sample of Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum and Compact Steep Spectrum radio sources derived from complete samples. The dependence of the luminosity of the emission at the peak frequency with the linear size and the peak frequency is also presented for the galaxies in the sample. The luminosity of the smaller sources evolve strongly with the linear size. Optical depth effects have been included to the 3D model for the radio source of Kaiser to study the spectral turnover. Using this model, the observed trend can be explained by synchrotron self-absorption. The observed trend in the peak-frequency-linear-size plane is not affected by the luminosity evolution of the sources.
222. Data cubes of NGC 5253 (476-682nm)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/550/A88
Title:
Data cubes of NGC 5253 (476-682nm)
Short Name:
J/A+A/550/A88
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present Gemini-S/GMOS-IFU optical spectroscopy of four regions near the centre of the nearby (3.8Mpc) dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 5253.
223. Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/478/3721
Title:
Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/478/3721
Date:
10 Dec 2021 00:23:44
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the star formation rates (SFRs) of a sample of 109 galaxies with X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with moderate to high X-ray luminosities (L_2-8keV_=10^42^-10^45^erg/s), at redshifts 1<z<4.7, that were selected to be faint or undetected in the Herschel bands. We combine our deep Atacama large (sub-)millimetre array (ALMA) continuum observations with deblended 8-500um photometry from Spitzer and Herschel, and use infrared (IR) spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and AGN - star formation decomposition methods. The addition of the ALMA photometry results in an order of magnitude more X-ray AGN in our sample with a measured SFR (now 37%). The remaining 63 % of the sources have SFR upper limits that are typically a factor of 2-10 times lower than the pre-ALMA constraints. With the improved constraints on the IR SEDs, we can now identify a mid-IR (MIR) AGN component in 50% of our sample, compared to only ~1% previously. We further explore the F_870um_/F_24um_ -redshift plane as a tool for the identification of MIR-emitting AGN, for three different samples representing AGN-dominated, star formation-dominated, and composite sources. We demonstrate that the F_870um_/F_24um_ -redshift plane can successfully split between AGN and star formation-dominated sources, and can be used as an AGN identification method.
224. Deep ATLAS radio observations of CDFS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/2409
Title:
Deep ATLAS radio observations of CDFS
Short Name:
J/AJ/132/2409
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the first results from the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey, which consists of deep radio observations of a 3.7deg^2^ field surrounding the Chandra Deep Field-South, largely coincident with the infrared Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) Survey. We also list cross-identifications to infrared and optical photometry data from SWIRE, and ground-based optical spectroscopy. A total of 784 radio components are identified, corresponding to 726 distinct radio sources, nearly all of which are identified with SWIRE sources. Of the radio sources with measured redshifts, most lie in the redshift range 0.5-2 and include both star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. We identify a rare population of infrared-faint radio sources that are bright at radio wavelengths but are not seen in the available optical, infrared, or X-ray data. Such rare classes of sources can only be discovered in wide, deep surveys such as this.
225. Deep Chandra observations of NGC 4649. I.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/204/14
Title:
Deep Chandra observations of NGC 4649. I.
Short Name:
J/ApJS/204/14
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the X-ray source catalog for the Chandra monitoring observations of the elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649 (M60). The galaxy has been observed with Chandra ACIS-S3 in six separate pointings, reaching a total exposure of 299ks. There are 501 X-ray sources detected in the 0.3-8.0keV band in the merged observation or in one of the six individual observations; 399 sources are located within the D_25_ ellipse. The observed 0.3-8.0keV luminosities of these 501 sources range from 9.3x10^36^erg/s to 5.4x10^39^erg/s. The 90% detection completeness limit within the D_25_ ellipse is 5.5x10^37^erg/s. Based on the surface density of background active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and detection completeness, we expect ~45 background AGNs among the catalog sources (~15 within the D_25_ ellipse). There are nine sources with luminosities greater than 10^39^erg/s, which are candidates for ultraluminous X-ray sources. The nuclear source of NGC 4649 is a low-luminosity AGN, with an intrinsic 2.0-8.0keV X-ray luminosity of 1.5x10^38^erg/s. The X-ray colors suggest that the majority of the catalog sources are low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We find that 164 of the 501 X-ray sources show long-term variability, indicating that they are accreting compact objects. We discover four transient candidates and another four potential transients. We also identify 173 X-ray sources (141 within the D_25_ ellipse) that are associated with globular clusters (GCs) based on Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data; these LMXBs tend to be hosted by red GCs. Although NGC 4649 has a much larger population of X-ray sources than the structurally similar early-type galaxies, NGC 3379 and NGC 4278, the X-ray source properties are comparable in all three systems.
226. Deep Chandra survey in J1030+0524 field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/637/A52
Title:
Deep Chandra survey in J1030+0524 field
Short Name:
J/A+A/637/A52
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the X-ray source catalog for the 479ks Chandra exposure of the SDSS J1030+0524 field, that is centered on a region that shows the best evidence to date of an overdensity around a z>6 quasar, and also includes a galaxy overdensity around a Comptonthick Fanaro-Riley type II (FRII) radio galaxy at z=1.7. Using wavdetect for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for source photometry and significance assessment, we create preliminary catalogs of sources that are detected in the full (0.5-7.0keV), soft (0.5-2.0keV), and hard (2-7keV) bands, respectively. We produce X-ray simulations that mirror our Chandra observation to filter our preliminary catalogs and get a completeness level of > 91% and a reliability level of 95% in each band. The catalogs in the three bands are then matched into a final main catalog of 256 unique sources. Among them, 244, 193, and 208 are detected in the full, soft, and hard bands, respectively. The Chandra observation covers a total area of 335 arcmin2, and reaches flux limits over the central few square arcmins of ~3x10^-16^, 6x10^-17^, and 2x10^-16^erg/cm2/s in the full, soft, and hard bands, respectively This makes J1030 field the fifth deepest extragalactic X-ray survey to date. The field is part of the Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC), and is also covered by optical imaging data from the Large Binocular Camera (LBC) at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), near-IR imaging data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope WIRCam (CFHT/WIRCam), and Spitzer IRAC. Thanks to its dense multi-wavelength coverage, J1030 represents a legacy field for the study of large-scale structures around distant accreting supermassive black holes. Using a likelihood ratio analysis, we associate multi-band (r, z, J, and 4.5um) counterparts for 252 (98.4%) of the 256 Chandra sources, with an estimated reliability of 95%. Finally, we compute the cumulative number of sources in each X-ray band, finding that they are in general agreement with the results from the Chandra Deep Fields.
227. Displacement of black hole in M87
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/717/L6
Title:
Displacement of black hole in M87
Short Name:
J/ApJ/717/L6
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Isophotal analysis of M87, using data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveals a projected displacement of 6.8+/-0.8pc (~0.1") between the nuclear point source (presumed to be the location of the supermassive black hole, SMBH) and the photo-center of the galaxy. The displacement is along a position angle of 307+/-17{deg} and is consistent with the jet axis. This suggests the active SMBH in M87 does not currently reside at the galaxy center of mass, but is displaced in the counter-jet direction. Possible explanations for the displacement include orbital motion of an SMBH binary, gravitational perturbations due to massive objects (e.g., globular clusters), acceleration by an asymmetric or intrinsically one-sided jet, and gravitational recoil resulting from the coalescence of an SMBH binary.
228. Distribution of AGNs in galaxy clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/392/1509
Title:
Distribution of AGNs in galaxy clusters
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/392/1509
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present an analysis of the X-ray point source populations in 182 Chandra images of galaxy clusters at z>0.1 with exposure time >10ks, as well as 44 non-cluster fields. The analysis of the number and flux of these sources, using a detailed pipeline to predict the distribution of non-cluster sources in each field, reveals an excess of X-ray point sources associated with the galaxy clusters. A sample of 148 galaxy clusters at 0.1<z<0.9 , with no other nearby clusters, shows an excess of 230 cluster sources in total, an average of ~1.5 sources per cluster. The lack of optical data for these clusters limits the physical interpretation of this result, as we cannot calculate the fraction of cluster galaxies hosting X-ray sources. However, the fluxes of the excess sources indicate that over half of them are very likely to be active galactic nuclei (AGN), and the radial distribution shows that they are quite evenly distributed over the central 1Mpc of the cluster, with almost no sources found beyond this radius. We also use this pipeline to successfully reproduce the results of previous studies, particularly the higher density of sources in the central 0.5Mpc of a few cluster fields, but show that these conclusions are not generally valid for this larger sample of clusters. We conclude that some of these differences may be due to the sample properties, such as the size and redshift of the clusters studied, or a lack of publications for cluster fields with no excess sources. This paper also presents the basic X-ray properties of the galaxy clusters, and in subsequent papers in this series the dependence of the AGN population on these cluster properties will be evaluated.
229. Double-lobed radio quasars from the SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/666
Title:
Double-lobed radio quasars from the SDSS
Short Name:
J/AJ/131/666
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have combined a sample of 44,984 quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 3 (Cat. <II/259>) with the FIRST radio survey (Cat. <VIII/71>). Using a novel technique in which the optical quasar position is matched to the complete radio environment within 450", we are able to characterize the radio morphological make-up of what is essentially an optically selected quasar sample, regardless of whether the quasar (nucleus) itself has been detected in the radio.
230. Double-peaked AGN. I. Dual AGN candidates
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/753/42
Title:
Double-peaked AGN. I. Dual AGN candidates
Short Name:
J/ApJ/753/42
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Merger-remnant galaxies with kiloparsec (kpc) scale separation dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) should be widespread as a consequence of galaxy mergers and triggered gas accretion onto supermassive black holes, yet very few dual AGNs have been observed. Galaxies with double-peaked narrow AGN emission lines in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are plausible dual AGN candidates, but their double-peaked profiles could also be the result of gas kinematics or AGN-driven outflows and jets on small or large scales. To help distinguish between these scenarios, we have obtained spatial profiles of the AGN emission via follow-up long-slit spectroscopy of 81 double-peaked narrow-line AGNs in SDSS at 0.03<=z<=0.36 using Lick, Palomar, and MMT Observatories. We find that all 81 systems exhibit double AGN emission components with ~kpc projected spatial separations on the sky (0.2h^-1^_70_kpc<{Delta}x<5.5h^-1^_70_kpc; median {Delta}x=1.1h^-1^_70_kpc), which suggests that they are produced by kiloparsec-scale dual AGNs or kiloparsec-scale outflows, jets, or rotating gaseous disks.