- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/637/A12
- Title:
- Northern disk of M31 XMM-Newton images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/637/A12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use new deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disk of M31 to trace the hot interstellar medium (ISM) in unprecedented detail and to characterise the physical properties of the X-ray emitting plasmas. We used all XMM-Newton data up to and including our new observations to produce the most detailed image yet of the hot ISM plasma in a grand design spiral galaxy such as our own. We compared the X-ray morphology to multi-wavelength studies in the literature to set it in the context of the multi-phase ISM. We performed spectral analyses on the extended emission using our new observations as they offer sufficient depth and count statistics to constrain the plasma properties. Data from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury were used to estimate the energy injected by massive stars and their supernovae. We compared these results to the hot gas properties. The brightest emission regions were found to be correlated with populations of massive stars, notably in the 10kpc star-forming ring. The plasma temperatures in the ring regions are ~0.2keV up to ~0.6keV. We suggest this emission is hot ISM heated in massive stellar clusters and superbubbles. We derived X-ray luminosities, densities, and pressures for the gas in each region. We also found large extended emission filling low density gaps in the dust morphology of the northern disk, notably between the 5kpc and 10kpc star-forming rings. We propose that the hot gas was heated and expelled into the gaps by the populations of massive stars in the rings. It is clear that the massive stellar populations are responsible for heating the ISM to X-ray emitting temperatures, filling their surroundings, and possibly driving the hot gas into the low density regions. Overall, the morphology and spectra of the hot gas in the northern disk of M 31 is similar to other galaxy disks.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/89
- Title:
- Northern HI Parkes All Sky Survey Catalogue (HIPASS)
- Short Name:
- VIII/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Northern HIPASS catalogue (NHICAT) is the northern extension of the HIPASS catalogue, HICAT. This extension adds the sky area between the declination (Dec.) range of +2{deg}<DE<+25{deg}30' to HICAT's Dec. range of -90{deg}<DE<+2{deg}. HIPASS is a blind HI survey using the Parkes Radio Telescope covering 71 per cent of the sky (including this northern extension) and a heliocentric velocity range of -1280 to 12700km/s. The entire Virgo Cluster region has been observed in the Northern HIPASS. The galaxy catalogue, NHICAT, contains 1002 sources with v_hel_>300km/s. Sources with -300<v_hel_<300km/s were excluded to avoid contamination by Galactic emission. In total, the entire HIPASS survey has found 5317 galaxies identified purely by their HI content. The full galaxy catalogue is publicly available at http://hipass.aus-vo.org.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/580/A45
- Title:
- Nova M31N 2008-12a 2014 eruption in optical/UV
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/580/A45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Andromeda Galaxy recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a had been caught in eruption eight times. The inter-eruption period of M31N 2008-12a is ~1-year, making it the most rapidly recurring system known, and a strong single- degenerate Type Ia Supernova progenitor candidate. Following the 2013 eruption, a campaign was initiated to detect the predicted 2014 eruption and to then perform high cadence optical photometric and spectroscopic monitoring using ground-based telescopes, along with rapid UV and X-ray follow-up with the Swift satellite. Here we report the results of a high cadence multicolour optical monitoring campaign, the spectroscopic evolution, and the UV photometry. We also discuss tantalising evidence of a potentially related, vastly-extended, nebulosity. The 2014 eruption was discovered, before optical maximum, on October 2, 2014. We find that the optical properties of M31N 2008-12a evolve faster than all Galactic recurrent novae known, and all its eruptions show remarkable similarity both photometrically and spectroscopically. Optical spectra were obtained as early as 0.26-days post maximum, and again confirm the nova nature of the eruption. A significant deceleration of the inferred ejecta expansion velocity is observed which may be caused by interaction of the ejecta with surrounding material, possibly a red giant wind. We find a low ejected mass and low ejection velocity, which are consistent with high mass-accretion rate, high mass white dwarf, and short recurrence time models of novae. We encourage additional observations, especially around the predicted time of the next eruption, towards the end of 2015.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/120/2206
- Title:
- NTT, HDF-S and HDF-N photometric redshifts
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/120/2206
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and compare in this paper new photometric redshift catalogs of the galaxies in three public fields: the NTT Deep Field, the HDF-N, and the HDF-S. In the case of the NTT Deep Field, we present here a new photometric catalog, obtained by combining the existing BVrI and JKs with new deep U observations acquired with NTT-SUSI2, and which includes also the contiguous field centered on the z_em_=4.7 quasar BR 1202-0
2655. NTT SUSI Deep Field
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/341/641
- Title:
- NTT SUSI Deep Field
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/341/641
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog contains BVrI photometry of galaxies in a 5.62arcmin^2^ field 80arcsec south of the high redshift (z=4.7) quasar BR 1202-0725, derived from observations with the direct CCD camera SUSI at the ESO NTT. The formal 5{sigma}magnitude limits (in 2xFWHM apertures) are 26.9, 26.5, 25.9 and 25.3 in B, V, r and I respectively. Reliable colors have been measured for galaxies selected down to r=26. The choice of the optical filters has been optimized to define a robust multicolor selection of galaxies at 3.8<=z<=4.4. The catalogue has been processed with the SExtractor algorithm (Bertin, 1996A&AS..117..393B) and contains 608 objects detected on the image resulting from the sum of the four weighted frames (B, V, r, I) by convolving the reference frame by the PSF and then thresholding it at 1.1 {sigma} of the background r.m.s. For quantitative analysis, border areas with larger noise due to the combination of dithered exposures with shorter integration times should be used with caution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/336
- Title:
- Nuclear activity in isolated galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/434/336
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectroscopic study of the incidence of active galactic nucleus (AGN) nuclear activity in two samples of isolated galaxies. Our results show that the incidence of non-thermal nuclear activity is about 43 and 31 percent for galaxies with emission lines and 40 and 27 percent for the total sample, respectively. For the first time we have a large number of bona fide isolated galaxies (513 objects), with statistically significant number of all morphological types. A large fraction (~70%) of elliptical galaxies or early-type spirals have an AGN and ~70% of them are low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions. We find a larger fraction of AGN in early morphological types, as also found in the general population of galaxies. Only 3% of the AGN show the presence of broad lines (not a single one can be classified as type 1 AGN). This is an important result which is at odds with the unified model even if we consider warped or clumpy tori. Finally, we interpret the large fraction of AGN in isolated galaxies as the result of secular accretion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/405/2505
- Title:
- Nuclear activity in ULIRGs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/405/2505
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a 5-8um spectral analysis performed on the largest sample of local ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) selected so far, consisting of 164 objects up to a redshift of ~0.35. The unprecedented sensitivity of the Infrared Spectrograph onboard Spitzer allowed us to develop an effective diagnostic method to quantify the active galactic nucleus (AGN) and starburst (SB) contribution to this class of objects. The large AGN over SB brightness ratio at 5-8um and the sharp difference between the spectral properties of AGN and SB galaxies in this wavelength range make it possible to detect even faint or obscured nuclear activity, and disentangle its emission from that of star formation. By defining a simple model we are also able to estimate the intrinsic bolometric corrections for both the AGN and SB components, and obtain the relative AGN/SB contribution to the total luminosity of each source.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/27/942
- Title:
- Nuclear activity of NGC 5548
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/27/942
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- UBVRI observations of the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548 from 1990 until 2000 at four astronomical observatories are given in Table2. All data have been reduced to a single system and are given for an A=14.3" aperture.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/27/83
- Title:
- Nuclear activity of NGC 4151 in 1989-2000
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/27/83
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Broadband UBVRI observations of the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 from 1989 until 2000 at three astronomical observatories: the Crimean Station of the Sternberg astronomical institute, The Special Astronomical observatory in the Caucasus and the Maidanac observatory of the Ulugbek Astronomical institute in Uzbekistan. All data have been reduced to a single system and are given for an A=27.5" aperture.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A74
- Title:
- Nuclear obscuration in LINERs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/578/A74
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Most of the optically classified low-ionisation, narrow emission-line regions (LINERs) nuclei host an active galactic nucleus (AGN). However, how they fit into the unified model (UM) of AGN is still an open question. The aims of this work are to study at mid-infrared (mid-IR) (1) the Compton-thick nature of LINERs (i.e. hydrogen column densities of N_H_>1.5x10^24^cm^-2^) and (2) the disappearance of the dusty torus in LINERs predicted from theoretical arguments. We have compiled all the available low spectral-resolution, mid-IR spectra of LINERs from the InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS) onboard Spitzer. The sample contains 40 LINERs. We have complemented the LINER sample with Spitzer/IRS spectra of PGQSOs, Type-1 Seyferts (S1s), Type-2 Seyferts (S2s), and StarBurst (SB) nuclei. We studied the AGN compared to the starburst content in our sample using different indicators: the equivalent width of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon at 6.2{mu}m, the strength of the silicate feature at 9.7{mu}m, and the steepness of the mid-IR spectra. We classified the spectra as SB-dominated and AGN-dominated, according to these diagnostics and compared the average mid-IR spectra of the various classes. Moreover, we studied the correlation between the 12{mu}m luminosity, {nu}L_{nu}_(12{mu}m), and the 2-10keV energy band X-ray luminosity, L_X_(2-10keV).
