- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/740/37
- Title:
- Obscured AGN at z~0.5-1 in the CDFS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/740/37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We identify a numerically significant population of heavily obscured AGNs at z~0.5-1 in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) and Extended Chandra Deep Field-South by selecting 242 X-ray undetected objects with infrared-based star-formation rates (SFRs) substantially higher (a factor of 3.2 or more) than their SFRs determined from the UV after correcting for dust extinction. An X-ray stacking analysis of 23 candidates in the central CDF-S region using the 4Ms Chandra data reveals a hard X-ray signal with an effective power-law photon index of {Gamma}=0.6^+0.3^_-0.4_, indicating a significant contribution from obscured AGNs. Based on Monte Carlo simulations, we conclude that 74%+/-25% of the selected galaxies host obscured AGNs, within which ~95% are heavily obscured and ~80% are Compton-thick (CT; N_H_>1.5x10^24^cm^-2^).
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/814/11
- Title:
- Obscured AGNs from XMM-Newton and AKARI
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/814/11
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report a new sample of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the XMM-Newton serendipitous source and AKARI point-source catalogs. We match X-ray sources with infrared (18 and 90{mu}m) sources located at |b|>10{deg} to create a sample consisting of 173 objects. Their optical classifications and absorption column densities measured by X-ray spectra are compiled and study efficient selection criteria to find obscured AGNs. We apply the criteria (1) X-ray hardness ratio defined by using the 2-4.5keV and 4.5-12keV bands >-0.1 and (2) EPIC-PN count rate (CR) in the 0.2-12keV to infrared flux ratio CR/F_90_<0.1 or CR/F_18_<1 where F_18_ and F_90_ are infrared fluxes at 18 and 90{mu}m in Jy, respectively, to search for obscured AGNs. X-ray spectra of 48 candidates, for which no X-ray results have been published, are analyzed and X-ray evidence for the presence of obscured AGNs such as a convex shape X-ray spectrum indicative of absorption of N_H_~10^22-24^/cm2, a very flat continuum, or a strong Fe-K emission line with an equivalent width of >700eV is found in 26 objects. Six of them are classified as Compton-thick AGNs, and four are represented by either Compton-thin or Compton-thick spectral models. The success rate of finding obscured AGNs combining our analysis and the literature is 92% if the 18{mu}m condition is used. Of the 26 objects, 4 are optically classified as an HII nucleus and are new "elusive AGNs" in which star formation activity likely overwhelms AGN emission in the optical and infrared bands.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/556/A114
- Title:
- Obscured AGNs in XMM deep survey in CDF-S
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/556/A114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Accretion onto supermassive black holes is believed to occur mostly in obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). Such objects are proving rather elusive in surveys of distant galaxies, including those at X-ray energies. Our main goal is to determine whether the revised IRAC criteria of Donley et al. (2012ApJ...748..142D; objects with an infrared (IR) power-law spectral shape), are effective at selecting X-ray type-2 AGN (i.e., absorbed N_H_>10^22^cm^-2^). We present the results from the X-ray spectral analysis of 147 AGN selected by cross-correlating the highest spectral quality ultra-deep XMM-Newton and the Spitzer/IRAC catalogues in the Chandra Deep Field South. Consequently it is biased towards sources with high S/N X-ray spectra. In order to measure the amount of intrinsic absorption in these sources, we adopt a simple X-ray spectral model that includes a power-law modified by intrinsic absorption at the redshift of each source and a possible soft X-ray component.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/453/2682
- Title:
- Observation & modelling for radio-loud AGN
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/453/2682
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The interactions between radio-loud AGN and their environments play an important role in galaxy and cluster evolution. Recent work has demonstrated fundamental differences between high- and low-excitation radio galaxies (HERGs and LERGs), and shown that they may have different relationships with their environments. In the Chandra Large Project ERA (Environments of Radio-loud AGN), we made the first systematic X-ray environmental study of the cluster environments of radio galaxies at a single epoch (z~0.5), and found tentative evidence for a correlation between radio luminosity and cluster X-ray luminosity. We also found that this relationship appeared to be driven by the LERG subpopulation. We have now repeated the analysis with a low-redshift sample (z~0.1), and found strong correlations between radio luminosity and environment richness and between radio luminosity and central density for the LERGs but not for the HERGs. These results are consistent with models in which the HERGs are fuelled from accretion discs maintained from local reservoirs of gas, while LERGs are fuelled more directly by gas ingested from the intracluster medium. Comparing the samples, we found that although the maximum environment richness of the HERG environments is similar in both samples, there are poorer HERG environments in the z~0.1 sample than in the z~0.5 sample. We have therefore tentative evidence of evolution of the HERG environments. We found no differences between the LERG subsamples for the two epochs, as would be expected if radio and cluster luminosities are related.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/194/29
- Title:
- Observations of blazars at 15GHz
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/194/29
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT science operations, we began a large-scale, fast-cadence 15GHz radio monitoring program with the 40m telescope at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO). This program began with the 1158 northern ({delta}>-20{deg}) sources from the Candidate Gamma-ray Blazar Survey and now encompasses over 1500 sources, each observed twice per week with about 4mJy (minimum) and 3% (typical) uncertainty. Here, we describe this monitoring program and our methods, and present radio light curves from the first two years (2008 and 2009). As a first application, we combine these data with a novel measure of light curve variability amplitude, the intrinsic modulation index, through a likelihood analysis to examine the variability properties of subpopulations of our sample.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/535/A38
- Title:
- Observations of NOAO Bootes field at 153MHz
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/535/A38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep, high-resolution radio interferometric observations at 153MHz to complement the extensively studied NOAO Bootes field. We provide a description of the observations, data reduction and source catalog construction. From our single pointing GMRT observation of ~12 hours we obtain a high-resolution (26"x22") image of ~11.3 square degrees, fully covering the Bootes field region and beyond.
567. OCSVM anomalies
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/606/A39
- Title:
- OCSVM anomalies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/606/A39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Wide-angle photometric surveys of previously uncharted sky areas or wavelength regimes will always bring in unexpected sources - novelties or even anomalies - whose existence and properties cannot be easily predicted from earlier observations. Such objects can be efficiently located with novelty detection algorithms. Here we present an application of such a method, called one-class support vector machines (OCSVM), to search for anomalous patterns among sources preselected from the mid-infrared AllWISE catalogue covering the whole sky. To create a model of expected data we train the algorithm on a set of objects with spectroscopic identifications from the SDSS DR13 database, present also in AllWISE. The OCSVM method detects as anomalous those sources whose patterns - WISE photometric measurements in this case - are inconsistent with the model. Among the detected anomalies we find artefacts, such as objects with spurious photometry due to blending, but more importantly also real sources of genuine astrophysical interest. Among the latter, OCSVM has identified a sample of heavily reddened AGN/quasar candidates distributed uniformly over the sky and in a large part absent from other WISE-based AGN catalogues. It also allowed us to find a specific group of sources of mixed types, mostly stars and compact galaxies. By combining the semi-supervised OCSVM algorithm with standard classification methods it will be possible to improve the latter by accounting for sources which are not present in the training sample, but are otherwise well-represented in the target set. Anomaly detection adds flexibility to automated source separation procedures and helps verify the reliability and representativeness of the training samples. It should be thus considered as an essential step in supervised classification schemes to ensure completeness and purity of produced catalogues.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/789/112
- Title:
- Offset AGN Candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/789/112
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Offset active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are AGNs that are in ongoing galaxy mergers, which produce kinematic offsets in the AGNs relative to their host galaxies. Offset AGNs are also close relatives of dual AGNs. We conduct a systematic search for offset AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by selecting AGN emission lines that exhibit statistically significant line-of-sight velocity offsets relative to systemic. From a parent sample of 18,314 Type 2 AGNs at z < 0.21, we identify 351 offset AGN candidates with velocity offsets of 50 km/s <|{Delta}v| < 410 km/s. When we account for projection effects in the observed velocities, we estimate that 4%-8% of AGNs are offset AGNs. We designed our selection criteria to bypass velocity offsets produced by rotating gas disks, AGN outflows, and gravitational recoil of supermassive black holes, but follow-up observations are still required to confirm our candidates as offset AGNs. We find that the fraction of AGNs that are offset candidates increases with AGN bolometric luminosity, from 0.7% to 6% over the luminosity range 43 < log (L_bol_) [erg/s] <46. If these candidates are shown to be bona fide offset AGNs, then this would be direct observational evidence that galaxy mergers preferentially trigger high-luminosity AGNs. Finally, we find that the fraction of AGNs that are offset AGN candidates increases from 1.9% at z = 0.1 to 32% at z = 0.7, in step with the growth in the galaxy merger fraction over the same redshift range.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/L114
- Title:
- OGLE16aaa UVOT light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/L114
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the discovery and first three months of follow-up observations of a currently on-going unusual transient detected by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-IV) survey, located in the centre of a galaxy at redshift z=0.1655. The long rise to absolute magnitude of -20.5mag, slow decline, very broad He and H spectral features make OGLE16aaa similar to other optical/UV tidal disruption events (TDEs). Weak narrow emission lines in the spectrum and archival photometric observations suggest the host galaxy is a weak-line active galactic nucleus, which has been accreting at higher rate in the past. OGLE16aaa, along with SDSS J0748, seems to form a sub-class of TDEs by weakly or recently active supermassive black holes (SMBHs). This class might bridge the TDEs by quiescent SMBHs and flares observed as "changing-look quasars", if we interpret the latter as TDEs. If this picture is true, the previously applied requirement for identifying a flare as a TDE that it had to come from an inactive nucleus, could be leading to observational bias in TDE selection, thus affecting TDE-rate estimations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/496
- Title:
- OH megamasers infrared photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/496
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- OH megamasers are the most luminous masers in the universe. The total of 109 OH megamaser (OHM) galaxies known so far have been collected, and cross-identifications of those OHM galaxies with Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) sources are made in this paper. Using 2MASS (Cat. II/246) and IRAS (Cat. II/125, II/156) data, the infrared properties of OHM-detected and non-detected sources are compared.
