- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/4085
- Title:
- PACO radio sources complete sample polarimetry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/465/4085
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present high-sensitivity polarimetric observations ({sigma}_P_~=0.6mJy) in six bands covering the 5.5-38GHz range of a complete sample of 53 compact extragalactic radio sources brighter than 200mJy at 20GHz. The observations, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, achieved a 91 per cent detection rate (at 5{sigma}). Within this frequency range, the spectra of about 95 per cent of sources are well fitted by double power laws, both in total intensity and in polarization, but the spectral shapes are generally different in the two cases. Most sources were classified as either steep- or peaked-spectrum but less than 50 per cent have the same classification in total and in polarized intensity. No significant trends of the polarization degree with flux density or with frequency were found. The mean variability index in total intensity of steep-spectrum sources increases with frequency for a 4-5yr lag, while no significant trend shows up for the other sources and for the 8yr lag. In polarization, the variability index, which could be computed only for the 8yr lag, is substantially higher than in total intensity and has no significant frequency dependence.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/428/1845
- Title:
- PACO spectrally selected sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/428/1845
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Planck Australia Telescope Compact Array (Planck-ATCA) Co-eval Observations (PACO) have provided multi-frequency (5-40GHz) flux density measurements of complete samples of Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) radio sources at frequencies below and overlapping with Planck frequency bands, almost simultaneously with Planck observations. In this work we analyse the data in total intensity for the spectrally selected PACO sample, a complete sample of 69 sources brighter than S20GHz=200mJy selected from the AT20G survey catalogue to be inverted or upturning between 5 and 20GHz. We study the spectral behaviour and variability of the sample. We use the variability between AT20G (2004-2007) and PACO (2009-2010) epochs to discriminate between candidate High-Frequency Peakers (HFPs) and candidate blazars. The HFPs picked up by our selection criteria have spectral peaks >10GHz in the observer frame and turn out to be rare (<0.5% of the S20GHz>=200mJy sources), consistent with the short duration of this phase implied by the "youth" scenario. Most (=~89%) of blazar candidates have remarkably smooth spectra, well described by a double power law, suggesting that the emission in the PACO frequency range is dominated by a single emitting region. Sources with peaked PACO spectra show a decrease of the peak frequency with time at a mean rate of -3+/-2GHz/yr on an average time-scale of <{tau}>=2.1+/-0.5yr (median: {tau}median=1.3yr). The 5-20GHz spectral indices show a systematic decrease from AT20G to PACO. At higher frequencies spectral indices steepen: the median {alpha}4030 is steeper than the median {alpha}205 by {delta}{alpha}=0.6. Taking further into account the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer data we find that the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs), {nu}S({nu}), of most of our blazars peak at {nu}SEDp<105GHz; the median peak wavelength is {lambda}SEDp=~93{mu}m. Only six have {nu}SEDp>105GHz.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/794/152
- Title:
- PACS observations of Herschel-BAT sample
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/794/152
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Far-Infrared (FIR) photometry from the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer on the Herschel Space Observatory is presented for 313 nearby, hard X-ray selected galaxies from the 58 month Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) Active Galactic Nuclei catalog. The present data do not distinguish between the FIR luminosity distributions at 70 and 160{mu}m for Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2 galaxies. This result suggests that if the FIR emission is from the nuclear obscuring material surrounding the accretion disk, then it emits isotropically, independent of orientation. Alternatively, a significant fraction of the 70 and 160{mu}m luminosity could be from star formation, independent of active galactic nucleus (AGN) type. Using a non-parametric test for partial correlation with censored data, we find a statistically significant correlation between the AGN intrinsic power (in the 14-195keV band) and the FIR emission at 70 and 160{mu}m for Seyfert 1 galaxies. We find no correlation between the 14-195keV and FIR luminosities in Seyfert 2 galaxies. The observed correlations suggest two possible scenarios: (1) if we assume that the FIR luminosity is a good tracer of star formation, then there is a connection between star formation and the AGN at sub-kiloparsec scales, or (2) dust heated by the AGN has a statistically significant contribution to the FIR emission. Using a Spearman rank-order analysis, the 14-195keV luminosities for the Seyfert 1 and 2 galaxies are weakly statistically correlated with the F_70_/F_160_ratios.
614. PAH features of AGN
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/470/3071
- Title:
- PAH features of AGN
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/470/3071
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectral features from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules observed in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) range are typically used to infer the amount of recent and ongoing star formation on kiloparsec scales around active galactic nuclei (AGN) where more traditional methods fail. This method assumes that the observed PAH features are excited predominantly by star formation. With current ground-based telescopes and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, much smaller spatial scales can be probed and we aim at testing if this assumption still holds in the range of few tens to few hundreds of parsecs. For that, we spatially map the emitted 11.3um PAH surface flux as a function of distance from 0.4-4 arcsec from the centre in 28 nearby AGN using ground-based high-angular-resolution mid-IR spectroscopy. We detect and extract the 11.3um PAH feature in 13 AGN. The fluxes within each aperture are scaled to a luminosity-normalized distance from the nucleus to be able to compare intrinsic spatial scales of AGN radiation spanning about two orders of magnitude in luminosity. For this, we establish an empirical relation between the absorption-corrected X-ray luminosity and the sublimation radius in these sources. Once normalized, the radial profiles of the emitted PAH surface flux show similar radial slopes, with a power-law index of approximately -1.1, and similar absolute values, consistent within a factor of a few of each other as expected from the uncertainty in the intrinsic scale estimate. We interpret this as evidence that the profiles are caused by a common compact central physical process, either the AGN itself or circumnuclear star formation linked in strength to the AGN power. A photoionization-based model of an AGN exciting dense clouds in its environment can reproduce the observed radial slope and confirms that the AGN radiation field is strong enough to explain the observed PAH surface fluxes within ~10-500pc of the nucleus. Our results advice caution in the use of PAH emission as a star formation tracer within a kpc around AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/510/A48
- Title:
- Palermo Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/510/A48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray catalogue obtained from the analysis of the the data relative to the first 39 months of the Swift mission. We have developed a dedicated software to perform data reduction, mosaicking and source detection on the BAT survey data. We analyzed the BAT dataset in three energy bands (14-150keV, 14-30keV, 14-70keV), obtaining a list of 962 detections above a significance threshold of 4.8 standard deviations. The identification of the source counterparts was pursued using three strategies: cross-correlation with published hard X-ray catalogues, analysis of field observations of soft X-ray instruments, cross-correlation with the SIMBAD database. The survey covers 90% of the sky down to a flux limit of 2.5x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s and 50% of the sky down to a flux limit of 1.8x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s in the 14-150keV band. We derived a catalogue of 754 identified sources, of which ~69% are extragalactic, ~27% are Galactic objects, ~4% are already known X-ray or gamma ray emitters whose nature has not been determined yet. The integrated flux of the extragalactic sample is ~1% of the Cosmic X-ray background in the 14-150keV range.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/551/A100
- Title:
- Panchromatic SED of Herschel sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/551/A100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Combining far-infrared Herschel photometry from the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) and Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) guaranteed time programs with ancillary datasets in the GOODS-N, GOODS-S and COSMOS fields, it is possible to sample the 8-500 micron spectral energy distributions of galaxies with at least 7-10 bands. Extending to the UV, optical, and near- infrared, the number of bands increases up to 43. We reproduce the distribution of galaxies in a carefully selected 10 restframe color space, based on this rich data-set, using a superposition of multi-variate Gaussian modes. We use this model to classify galaxies and build median spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of each class, which are then fitted with a modified version of the MAGPHYS code that combines stellar light, emission from dust heated by stars and a possible warm dust contribution heated by an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN). The color distribution of galaxies in each of the considered fields can be well described with the combination of 6-9 classes, spanning a large range of far- to near-IR luminosity ratios, as well as different strength of the AGN contribution to bolometric luminosities. The defined Gaussian grouping is used to identify rare or odd sources. The zoology of outliers includes Herschel-detected ellipticals, very blue z~1 Ly{alpha}-break galaxies, quiescent spirals, and torus-dominated AGN with star formation. Out of these groups and outliers, a new template library is assembled, consisting of 32 SEDs describing the intrinsic scatter in the restframe UV-to-submm colors of infrared galaxies. This library is tested against L(IR) estimates with and without Herschel data included, and compared to eight other popular methods often adopted in the literature. When implementing Herschel photometry, these approaches produce L(IR) values consistent with each other within a median absolute deviation of 10-20%, the scatter being dominated more by fine tuning of the codes, rather than by the choice of SED templates. Finally, the library is used to classify 24 micron detected sources in PEP GOODS fields on the basis of AGN content, L(60)/L(100) color and L(160)/L(1.6) luminosity ratio. AGN appear to be distributed in M*-SFR along with all other galaxies, regardless of the amount of infrared luminosity they are powering, with the tendency to lie on the high SFR side of the "main sequence". The incidence of warmer star-forming sources grows for objects with higher specific star formation rates, and they tend to populate the "off-sequence" region of the M*-SFR-z space.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/296
- Title:
- PanSTARRS-1 slow-blue nuclear hypervariables
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/296
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss 76 large amplitude transients ({Delta}m>1.5) occurring in the nuclei of galaxies, nearly all with no previously known active galactic nucleus (AGN). They have been discovered as part of the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3{pi} survey, by comparison with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry a decade earlier, and then monitored with the Liverpool Telescope, and studied spectroscopically with the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). Based on colours, light-curve shape, and spectra, these transients fall into four groups. A few are misclassified stars or objects of unknown type. Some are red/fast transients and are known or likely nuclear supernovae. A few are either radio sources or erratic variables and so likely blazars. However the majority (~66 per cent) are blue and evolve slowly, on a time-scale of years. Spectroscopy shows them to be AGN at z ~0.3-1.4, which must have brightened since the SDSS photometry by around an order of magnitude. It is likely that these objects were in fact AGN a decade ago, but too weak to be recognized by SDSS; they could then be classed as 'hypervariable' AGN. By searching the SDSS Stripe 82 quasar database, we find 15 similar objects. We discuss several possible explanations for these slow-blue hypervariables - (i) unusually luminous tidal disruption events; (ii) extinction events; (iii) changes in accretion state; and (iv) large amplitude microlensing by stars in foreground galaxies. A mixture of explanations (iii) and (iv) seems most likely. Both hold promise of considerable new insight into the AGN phenomenon.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/742/3
- Title:
- Photometric catalogs for ECDF-S and CDF-N
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/742/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of deep multiwavelength data for z~0.3-3 starburst galaxies selected by their 70um emission in the Extended-Chandra Deep Field-South and Extended Groth Strip. We identify active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in these infrared sources through their X-ray emission and quantify the fraction that host an AGN. Lastly, we investigate the ratio between the supermassive black hole accretion rate (inferred from the AGN X-ray luminosity) and the bulge growth rate of the host galaxy (approximated as the SFR) and find that, for sources with detected AGNs and star formation (and neglecting systems with low star formation rates to which our data are insensitive), this ratio in distant starbursts agrees well with that expected from the local scaling relation assuming the black holes and bulges grew at the same epoch. These results imply that black holes and bulges grow together during periods of vigorous star formation and AGN activity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/742/61
- Title:
- Photometric redshift of AGNs from XMM- and C-COSMOS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/742/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper, we release accurate photometric redshifts for 1692 counterparts to Chandra sources in the central square degree of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. The availability of a large training set of spectroscopic redshifts that extends to faint magnitudes enabled photometric redshifts comparable to the highest quality results presently available for normal galaxies. We demonstrate that morphologically extended, faint X-ray sources without optical variability are more accurately described by a library of normal galaxies (corrected for emission lines) than by active galactic nucleus (AGN) dominated templates, even if these sources have AGN-like X-ray luminosities. Preselecting the library on the bases of the source properties allowed us to reach an accuracy {sigma}_{Delta}z_/(1+z_spec_)~0.015 with a fraction of outliers of 5.8% for the entire Chandra-COSMOS sample. In addition, we release revised photometric redshifts for the 1735 optical counterparts of the XMM-detected sources over the entire 2deg^2^ of COSMOS. For 248 sources, our updated photometric redshift differs from the previous release by {Delta}z>0.2. These changes are predominantly due to the inclusion of newly available deep H-band photometry (H_AB_=24mag).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/871/233
- Title:
- Photometric redshifts in the EGOODS-North field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/871/233
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep J- and H-band images in the extended Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North field covering an area of 0.22deg^2^. The observations were taken using WIRCam on the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Together with the reprocessed Ks-band image, the 5{sigma} limiting AB magnitudes (in 2" diameter apertures) are 24.7, 24.2, and 24.4 AB mag in the J, H, and Ks bands, respectively. We also release a multiband photometry and photometric redshift catalog containing 93598 sources. For non-X-ray sources, we obtained a photometric redshift accuracy {sigma}_NMAD_=0.036 with an outlier fraction {eta}=7.3%. For X-ray sources, which are mainly active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we cross-matched our catalog with the updated 2M-CDFN X-ray catalog from Xue+ (2016, J/ApJS/224/15) and found that 658 out of 683 X-ray sources have counterparts. GALEX UV data are included in the photometric redshift computation for the X-ray sources to give {sigma}_NMAD_=0.040 with {eta}=10.5%. Our approach yields more accurate photometric redshift estimates compared to previous works in this field. In particular, by adopting AGN-galaxy hybrid templates, our approach delivers photometric redshifts for the X-ray counterparts with fewer outliers compared to the 3D-Hubble Space Telescope catalog, which fit these sources with galaxy-only templates.
