- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/187/64
- Title:
- The simultaneous optical-to-X-ray SED of AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/187/64
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report Swift observations of a sample of 92 bright soft X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This sample represents the largest number of AGNs observed to study the spectral energy distribution (SED) of AGNs with simultaneous optical/UV and X-ray data. The principal motivation of this study is to understand the SEDs of AGNs in the optical/UV to X-ray regime and to provide bolometric corrections which are important in determining the Eddington ratio L/L_Edd_. In particular, we rigorously explore the dependence of the UV-EUV contribution to the bolometric correction on the assumed EUV spectral shape. We find strong correlations of the spectral slopes {alpha}_X_ and {alpha}_UV_ with L/L_Edd_.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/209/14
- Title:
- The Swift/BAT hard X-ray transient monitor
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/209/14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray transient monitor provides near real-time coverage of the X-ray sky in the energy range 15-50 keV. The BAT observes 88% of the sky each day with a detection sensitivity of 5.3 mCrab for a full-day observation and a time resolution as fine as 64s. The three main purposes of the monitor are (1) the discovery of new transient X-ray sources, (2) the detection of outbursts or other changes in the flux of known X-ray sources, and (3) the generation of light curves of more than 900 sources spanning over eight years. The primary interface for the BAT transient monitor is a public Web site. Between 2005 February 12 and 2013 April 30, 245 sources have been detected in the monitor, 146 of them persistent and 99 detected only in outburst. Among these sources, 17 were previously unknown and were discovered in the transient monitor. In this paper, we discuss the methodology and the data processing and filtering for the BAT transient monitor and review its sensitivity and exposure. We provide a summary of the source detections and classify them according to the variability of their light curves. Finally, we review all new BAT monitor discoveries. For the new sources that are previously unpublished, we present basic data analysis and interpretations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/644/A159
- Title:
- The third realization of the ICRF, ICRF3
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/644/A159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A new realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) is presented based on the work achieved by a working group of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) mandated for this purpose. This new realization follows the initial realization of theICRF completed in 1997 and its successor, ICRF2, adopted as a replacement in 2009. The new frame, referred to as ICRF3, is based on nearly 40 years of data acquired by very long baseline interferometry at the standard geodetic and astrometric radio frequencies (8.4 and 2.3GHz), supplemented with data collected at higher radio frequencies (24GHz and dual-frequency 32 and 8.4GHz) over the past 15 years. State-of-the-art astronomical and geophysical modeling has been used to analyze these data and derive source positions. The modeling integrates, for the first time, the effect of the galactocentric acceleration of the solar system (directly estimated from the data) which, if not considered, induces significant deformation of the frame due to the data span. The new frame includes positions at 8.4GHz for 4536 extragalactic sources. Of these, 303 sources, uniformly distributed on the sky, are identified as "defining sources" and as such serve to define the axes of the frame. Positions at 8.4GHz are supplemented with positions at 24GHz for 824 sources and at 32GHz for 678 sources. In all, ICRF3 comprises 4588 sources, with three-frequency positions available for 600 of these. Source positions have been determined independently at each of the frequencies in order to preserve the underlying astrophysical content behind such positions. They are reported for epoch 2015.0 and must be propagated for observations at other epochs for the most accurate needs, accounting for the acceleration toward the Galactic center, which results in a dipolar proper motion field of amplitude 0.0058 milliarcsecond/yr (mas/yr). The frame is aligned onto the International Celestial Reference System to within the accuracy of ICRF2 and shows a median positional uncertainty of about 0.1mas in right ascension and 0.2 mas in declination, with a noise floor of 0.03mas in the individual source coordinates. A subset of 500 sources is found to have extremely accurate positions, in the range of 0.03 to 0.06mas, at the traditional 8.4GHz frequency. Comparing ICRF3 with the recently released Gaia Celestial Reference Frame 2 in the optical domain, there is no evidence for deformations larger than 0.03 mas between the two frames, in agreement with the ICRF3 noise level. Significant positional offsets between the three ICRF3 frequencies are detected for about 5% of the sources.Moreover, a notable fraction (22%) of the sources shows optical and radio positions that are significantly offset. There are indications that these positional offsets may be the manifestation of extended source structures. This third realization of the ICRF was adopted by the IAU at its 30th General Assembly in August 2018 and replaced the previous realization, ICRF2, on January 1, 2019.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/152/25
- Title:
- The UV-bright Quasar Survey (UVQS) DR1
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/152/25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first data release (DR1) from our UV-bright Quasar Survey for new z~1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) across the sky. Using simple GALEX UV and WISE near-IR color selection criteria, we generated a list of 1450 primary candidates with FUV<18.5mag. We obtained discovery spectra, primarily on 3m-class telescopes, for 1040 of these candidates and confirmed 86% as AGNs, with redshifts generally at z>0.5. Including a small set of observed secondary candidates, we report the discovery of 217 AGNs with FUV<18mag that previously had no reported spectroscopic redshift. These are excellent potential targets for UV spectroscopy before the end of the Hubble Space Telescope mission. The main data products are publicly available through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/759/112
- Title:
- The UV low-redshift intergalactic medium
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/759/112
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a comprehensive catalog of ultraviolet (HST/STIS and FUSE) absorbers in the low-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) at z<0.4. The catalog draws from much of the extensive literature on IGM absorption and reconciles discrepancies among several previous catalogs through a critical evaluation of all reported absorption features in light of new HST/COS data. We report on 746 H I absorbers down to a rest-frame equivalent width of 12m{AA} over a maximum redshift path length {Delta}z=5.38. We also confirm 111 O VI absorbers, 29 C IV absorbers, and numerous absorption lines due to other metal ions. We characterize the bivariate distribution of absorbers in redshift and column density as a power law, ({partial}^2^N/{partial}z{partial}N){propto}N^-{beta}^, where {beta}=2.08+/-0.12 for O VI and {beta}=1.68+/-0.03 for H I. Utilizing a more sophisticated accounting technique than past work, our catalog accounts for ~43% of the baryons: 24+/-2% in the photoionized Ly{alpha} forest and 19+/-2% in the warm-hot IGM as traced by O VI. We discuss the large systematic effects of various assumed metallicities and ionization states on these calculations, and we implement recent simulation results in our estimates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/233/3
- Title:
- The VLBA Extragalactic Proper Motion Catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/233/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of extragalactic proper motions created using archival VLBI data and our own VLBA astrometry. The catalog contains 713 proper motions, with average uncertainties of ~24{mu}as/yr, including 40 new or improved proper motion measurements using relative astrometry with the VLBA. The observations were conducted in the X-band and yielded positions with uncertainties of ~70{mu}as. We add 10 new redshifts using spectroscopic observations taken at Apache Point Observatory and Gemini North. With the VLBA Extragalactic Proper Motion Catalog, we detect the secular aberration drift-the apparent motion of extragalactic objects caused by the solar system's acceleration around the Galactic center-at a 6.3{sigma} significance. We model the aberration drift as a spheroidal dipole, with the square root of the power equal to 4.89+/-0.77{mu}as/yr, an amplitude of 1.69+/-0.27{mu}as/yr, and an apex at (275.2{deg}+/-10.0{deg}, -29.4{deg}+/-8.8{deg}). Our dipole model detects the aberration drift at a higher significance than some previous studies, but at a lower amplitude than expected or previously measured. The full aberration drift may be partially removed by the no-net-rotation constraint used when measuring archival extragalactic radio source positions. Like the cosmic microwave background dipole, which is induced by the observer's motion, the aberration drift signal should be subtracted from extragalactic proper motions in order to detect cosmological proper motions, including the Hubble expansion, long-period stochastic gravitational waves, and the collapse of large-scale structure.
- ID:
- ivo://jvo/isas/darts/halca/halca_vsop_survey_program_data
- Title:
- The VSOP (the VLBI Space Observatory Programme) 5 GHz AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) Survey Program Analysis Data
- Short Name:
- HALCA_AGN
- Date:
- 19 Oct 2021 06:40:34
- Publisher:
- JVO
- Description:
- A significant fraction of the mission time of VSOP was to be dedicated to the VSOP Survey Programme of bright compact Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at 5 GHz, which was lead by ISAS. The VSOP Survey Sources are an unbiased dataset of 294 targets, of which 82% were successfully observed.
898. The 2WHSP catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/598/A17
- Title:
- The 2WHSP catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/598/A17
- Date:
- 04 Feb 2022 11:56:24
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High Synchrotron Peaked blazars (HSPs) dominate the gamma sky at energies larger than a few GeV; however, only a few hundred blazars of this type have been catalogued so far. In this paper we present the 2WHSP sample, the largest and most complete list of HSP blazars available to date, which is an expansion of the 1WHSP catalog of gamma-ray source candidates off the Galactic plane. We cross-matched a number of multi-wavelength surveys (in the radio, infrared and X-ray bands) and applied selection criteria based on the radio to IR and IR to X-ray spectral slopes. To ensure the selection of genuine HSPs we examined the SED of each candidate and estimated the peak frequency of its synchrotron emission ({nu}_peak_) using the ASDC SED tool, including only sources with {nu}_peak_>10^15^Hz (equivalent to {nu}_peak_>4eV). We have assembled the largest and most complete catalog of HSP blazars to date, which includes 1691 sources. A number of population properties, such as infrared colours, synchrotron peak, redshift distributions, and gamma-ray spectral properties, have been used to characterise the sample and maximize completeness. We also derived the radio logN-logS distribution. This catalog has already been used to provide seeds to discover new very high energy objects within Fermi-LAT data and to look for the counterparts of neutrino and ultra high energy cosmic ray sources, showing its potential for the identification of promising high-energy gamma, sources and multi-messenger targets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/234/23
- Title:
- The WISE AGN candidates catalogs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/234/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present two large catalogs of active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates identified across 30,093deg^2^ of extragalactic sky from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer's AllWISE Data Release. Both catalogs are selected purely using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) W1 and W2 bands. The R90 catalog consists of 4,543,530 AGN candidates with 90% reliability, while the C75 catalog consists of 20,907,127 AGN candidates with 75% completeness. These reliability and completeness figures were determined from a detailed analysis of UV- to near-IR spectral energy distributions of ~10^5^ sources in the 9deg^2^ Bootes field. The AGN selection criteria are based on those of Assef+ (2013, J/ApJ/772/26) recalibrated to the AllWISE data release. We provide a detailed discussion of potential artifacts and excise portions of the sky close to the Galactic Center, Galactic Plane, nearby galaxies, and other expected contaminating sources. These catalogs are expected to enable a broad range of science, and we present a few illustrative cases. From the R90 sample, we identify 45 highly variable AGNs lacking radio counterparts in the FIRST survey. One of these sources, WISEA J142846.71+172353.1, is a changing-look quasar at z=0.104, which has changed from having broad H{alpha} to being a narrow-lined AGN. We characterize our catalogs by comparing them to large, wide-area AGN catalogs in the literature. We identify four ROSAT X-ray sources that are each matched to three WISE-selected AGNs in the R90 sample within 30". Spectroscopy reveals that one of these systems, 2RXS J150158.6+691029, consists of a triplet of quasars at z=1.133+/-0.004, suggestive of a rich group or forming galaxy cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/577/A121
- Title:
- The XMM-ATLAS catalogues
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/577/A121
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Wide area X-ray and far infrared surveys are a fundamental tool to investigate the link between AGN growth and star formation, especially in the low-redshift universe (z<1). The Herschel Terahertz Large Area survey (H-ATLAS) has covered 550deg^2^ in five far-infrared and sub-mm bands, 16deg^2^ of which have been presented in the Science Demonstration Phase (SDP) catalogue. Here we introduce the XMM-Newton observations in H-ATLAS SDP area, covering 7.1deg^2^ with flux limits of 2*10^-15^, 6*10^-15^, and 9*10^-15^erg/s/cm^2^ in the 0.5-2, 0.5-8 and 2-8keV bands, respectively. We present the source detection and the catalogue, which includes 1700, 1582 and 814 sources detected by emldetect in the 0.5-8, 0.5-2 and 2-8keV bands, respectively; the number of unique sources is 1816. We extract spectra and derive fluxes from power-law fits for 398 sources with more than 40 counts in the 0.5-8keV band. We compare the best-fit fluxes with the catalogue ones, obtained by assuming a common photon index of Gamma=1.7; we find no bulk difference between the fluxes, and a moderate dispersion of s=0.33dex. Using wherever possible the fluxes from the spectral fits, we derive the 2-10keV Log N-Log S, which is consistent with a Euclidean distribution. Finally, we release computer code for the tools developed for this project.
