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1741. Hyper-luminous X-ray sources from SDSS and CSC2
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/882/181
Title:
Hyper-luminous X-ray sources from SDSS and CSC2
Short Name:
J/ApJ/882/181
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Hyper-luminous X-ray sources (HLXs; L_X_>10^41^erg/s) are off-nuclear X-ray sources in galaxies and strong candidates for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). We have constructed a sample of 169 HLX candidates by combining X-ray detections from the Chandra Source Catalog (Version 2) with galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and registering individual images for improved relative astrometric accuracy. The spatial resolution of Chandra allows for the sample to extend out to z~0.9. Optical counterparts are detected among one-fourth of the sample, one-third of which are consistent with dwarf galaxy stellar masses. The average intrinsic X-ray spectral slope indicates efficient accretion, potentially driven by galaxy mergers, and the column densities suggest one-third of the sample has significant X-ray absorption. We find that 144 of the HLX candidates have X-ray emission that is significantly in excess of the expected contribution from star formation and hot gas, strongly suggesting that they are produced by accretion onto black holes more massive than stars. After correcting for an average background or foreground contamination rate of 8%, we estimate that at least ~20 of the HLX candidates are consistent with IMBH masses, and this estimate is potentially several times higher assuming more efficient accretion. This catalog currently represents the largest sample of uniformly selected, off-nuclear IMBH candidates. These sources may represent scenarios in which a low-mass galaxy hosting an IMBH has merged with a more massive galaxy and provide an excellent sample for testing models of low-mass BH formation and merger-driven growth.
1742. Hypervelocity stars. II.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/660/311
Title:
Hypervelocity stars. II.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/660/311
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are stars ejected completely out of the Milky Way by three-body interactions with the massive black hole in the Galactic center. We describe 643 new spectroscopic observations from our targeted survey for HVSs. We find a significant (3.5{sigma}) excess of B-type stars with large velocities +275km/s<V_rf_<450km/s and distances d>10kpc that are most plausibly explained as a new class of HVSs: stars ejected from the Galactic center on bound orbits. If a Galactic center ejection origin is correct, the distribution of HVSs on the sky should be anisotropic for a survey complete to a fixed limiting apparent magnitude. The unbound HVSs in our survey have a marginally anisotropic distribution on the sky, consistent with the Galactic center ejection picture.
1743. Hypervelocity stars. III
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/671/1708
Title:
Hypervelocity stars. III
Short Name:
J/ApJ/671/1708
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the discovery of three new unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs), stars travelling with such extreme velocities that dynamical ejection from a massive black hole (MBH) is their only suggested origin. We also detect a population of possibly bound HVSs.
1744. I-band GALFIT analysis of luminous infrared galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/768/102
Title:
I-band GALFIT analysis of luminous infrared galaxies
Short Name:
J/ApJ/768/102
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys study of the structural properties of 85 luminous and ultraluminous (L_IR_>10^11.4^ L_{sun}_) infrared galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs) in the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) sample is presented. Two-dimensional GALFIT analysis has been performed on F814W "I-band" images to decompose each galaxy, as appropriate, into bulge, disk, central point-spread function (PSF) and stellar bar components. The fraction of bulge-less disk systems is observed to be higher in LIRGs (35%) than in ULIRGs (20%), with the disk+bulge systems making up the dominant fraction of both LIRGs (55%) and ULIRGs (45%). Further, bulge+disk systems are the dominant late-stage merger galaxy type and are the dominant type for LIRGs and ULIRGs at almost every stage of galaxy-galaxy nuclear separation. The mean I-band host absolute magnitude of the GOALS galaxies is -22.64+/-0.62 mag (1.8_-0.4_^+1.4^ L_1_^*^), and the mean bulge absolute magnitude in GOALS galaxies is about 1.1 mag fainter than the mean host magnitude. Almost all ULIRGs have bulge magnitudes at the high end (-20.6 to -23.5 mag) of the GOALS bulge magnitude range. Mass ratios in the GOALS binary systems are consistent with most of the galaxies being the result of major mergers, and an examination of the residual-to-host intensity ratios in GOALS binary systems suggests that smaller companions suffer more tidal distortion than the larger companions. We find approximately twice as many bars in GOALS disk+bulge systems (32.8%) than in pure-disk mergers (15.9%) but most of the disk+bulge systems that contain bars are disk-dominated with small bulges. The bar-to-host intensity ratio, bar half-light radius, and bar ellipticity in GOALS galaxies are similar to those found in nearby spiral galaxies. The fraction of stellar bars decreases toward later merger stages and smaller nuclear separations, indicating that bars are destroyed as the merger advances. In contrast, the fraction of nuclear PSFs increases toward later merger stages and is highest in late-stage systems with a single nucleus. Thus, light from an active galactic nucleus or compact nuclear star cluster is more visible at I band as ULIRGs enter their latter stages of evolution. Finally, both GOALS elliptical hosts and nearby Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ellipticals occupy the same part of the surface brightness versus half-light radius plot (i.e., the "Kormendy Relation") and have similar slopes, consistent with the possibility that the GOALS galaxies belong to the same parent population as the SDSS ellipticals.
1745. I-band light curves of SNe II from OGLE-IV
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/1753
Title:
I-band light curves of SNe II from OGLE-IV
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/449/1753
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study a sample of 11 Type II supernovae (SNe) discovered by the OGLE-IV survey. All objects have well-sampled I-band light curves, and at least one spectrum. We find that two or three of the 11 SNe have a declining light curve, and spectra consistent with other SNe II-L, while the rest have plateaus that can be as short as 70 d, unlike the 100 d typically found in nearby galaxies. The OGLE SNe are also brighter, and show that magnitude-limited surveys find SNe that are different than usually found in nearby galaxies. We discuss this sample in the context of understanding Type II SNe as a class and their suggested use as standard candles.
1746. I-band photometry of cosmic flows
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/415/1935
Title:
I-band photometry of cosmic flows
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/415/1935
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Within the "Cosmic Flows" project, I-band photometry of 524 relatively nearby galaxies has been carried out over the course of several years with the University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope and a camera with a 7.5-arcmin field of view. The primary scientific goal was to provide global magnitudes and inclinations for galaxies for the purpose of measuring distances through the correlation between galaxy luminosities and rotation rates. The 1{sigma} accuracy on a total magnitude is 0.08mag. The observations typically extend to 7-8 exponential disc scalelengths, so the data are useful for studies of the structural properties of galaxies.
1747. IC 1613 asymptotic giant branch variables
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/452/910
Title:
IC 1613 asymptotic giant branch variables
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/452/910
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
JHKs photometry is presented from a 3-yr survey of the central regions of the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy IC 1613. The morphologies of the colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams are discussed with particular reference to the supergiants and M- and C-type asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. Mean JHKs magnitudes, amplitudes and periods are given for five O-rich and nine C-rich Mira variables for which bolometric magnitudes are also estimated. A distance of 750kpc ((m-M)0=24.37+/-0.08mag) is derived for IC 1613 by fitting a period-luminosity (PL) relation to the C-rich Miras. This is in agreement with values from the literature. The AGB stars exhibit a range of ages. A comparison with theoretical isochrones suggests that four luminous O-rich Miras are as young as 2x10^8^yr. One of these has a lithium absorption line in its spectrum, demonstrating that it is undergoing hot bottom burning (HBB). This supports the idea that HBB is the cause of the high luminosity of these AGB stars, which puts them above the fundamental PL relation. Further studies of similar stars, selected from their positions in the PL diagram, could provide insight into HBB. A much fainter, presumed O-rich, Mira is similar to those found in Galactic globular clusters. The C Miras are of intermediate age. The O-rich variables are not all recognized as O-rich, or even as AGB stars, on the basis of their J-Ks colour. It is important to appreciate this when using near-infrared surveys to classify AGB stars in more distant galaxies.
1748. ICMF of super star clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/823
Title:
ICMF of super star clusters
Short Name:
J/AJ/135/823
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The initial cluster mass function (ICMF) is a fundamental property of star formation in galaxies. To gauge its universality, we measure and compare the ICMFs in irregular and spiral galaxies. Our sample of irregular galaxies is based on 13 nearby galaxies selected from a volume-limited sample from the fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), from which about 320 young (<=20Myr), massive (>~3x10^49M_{sun}_) clusters or associations were selected using an automated source extraction routine. The extinctions, ages, and masses were determined by comparing their u'g'i'z' magnitudes to those generated from starburst models.
1749. IC 342 multi-frequency radio polarization study
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A93
Title:
IC 342 multi-frequency radio polarization study
Short Name:
J/A+A/578/A93
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation and stabilization of spiral structures in galaxies, but the interaction between interstellar gas and magnetic fields has not yet been understood. In particular, the phenomenon of "magnetic arms" located between material arms is a mystery. The strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields and their relation to spiral arms in gas and dust are investigated in the nearby and almost face-on spiral galaxy IC 342.
1750. Identification of X-ray sources around Seyferts
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/319/33
Title:
Identification of X-ray sources around Seyferts
Short Name:
J/A+A/319/33
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Excess numbers of X-ray sources around bright Seyfert galaxies have been demonstrated with significances of association up to 7.4-sigma (Radecke, 1997A&A...319...18R). The optical identification of these sources is shown here to be predominantly blue stellar objects (BSO's) of which some are already catalogued as quasars. Excluding the two brightest Seyferts, a subset of 24 with apparent magnitudes between 8.04<=B_T_^o,i^<=12.90mag. show a minimum excess of >46 bright X-ray sources. These excess X-ray sources are generally distributed between 10'<r<40' and 12 of the Seyferts show conspicuous pairs of X-ray sources across their active nuclei. Additional pairing and alignment of sources is seen for the remaining Seyferts. Among the paired X-ray sources, 53 have been identified as BSO's. Some double and multiple BSO's have been identified which are candidates for groups and associations of quasars. Some groups are well aligned and some centered on small blue galaxies. Four previously known BL Lac objects fall close enough to the Seyferts in this sample to confirm, at a significance level of 1-2x10^-9^, a previously reported association of BL Lac objects with bright, low redshift galaxies.

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