- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/79
- Title:
- Radio fluxes of 195 ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/151/79
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The second realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF2), which is the current fundamental celestial reference frame adopted by the International Astronomical Union, is based on Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data at radio frequencies in X band and S band. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission, launched on 2013 December 19, started routine scientific operations in 2014 July. By scanning the whole sky, it is expected to observe ~500000 Quasi Stellar Objects in the optical domain an average of 70 times each during the five years of the mission. This means that, in the future, two extragalactic celestial reference frames, at two different frequency domains, will coexist. It will thus be important to align them very accurately. In 2012, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB) selected 195 sources from ICRF2 that will be observed by Gaia and should be suitable for aligning the radio and optical frames: they are called ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources. The LAB submitted a proposal to the International VLBI Service (IVS) to regularly observe these ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources at the same rate as Gaia observes them in the optical realm, e.g., roughly once a month. We describe our successful effort to implement such a program and report on the results. Most observations of the ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources now occur automatically as part of the IVS source monitoring program, while a subset of 37 sources requires special attention. Beginning in 2013, we scheduled 25 VLBI sessions devoted in whole or in part to measuring these 37 sources. Of the 195 sources, all but one have been successfully observed in the 12 months prior to 2015 September 01. Of the sources, 87 met their observing target of 12 successful sessions per year. The position uncertainties of all of the ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources have improved since the start of this observing program. For a subset of 24 sources whose positions were very poorly known, the uncertainty has decreased, on average, by a factor of four. This observing program is successful because the two main goals were reached for most of the 195 ICRF2-Gaia transfer sources: observing at the requested target of 12 successful sessions per year and improving the position uncertainties to better than 200{mu}as for both R.A. and decl. However, scheduling some of the transfer sources remains a challenge because of network geometry and the weakness of the sources, and this will be one focus of future sessions used in this ongoing program.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/354/485
- Title:
- Radio flux of 15-GHz 9C survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/354/485
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out extensive radio and optical follow-up of 176 sources from the 15-GHz 9th Cambridge survey. Optical identifications have been found for 155 of the radio sources; optical images are given with radio maps overlaid. The continuum radio spectrum of each source spanning the frequency range 1.4-43GHz is also given.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/838/139
- Title:
- Radio follow-up on 3FGL unassociated sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/838/139
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The third Fermi Large Area Telescope {gamma}-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the {gamma}-ray emission from those objects is unknown. Such objects are commonly referred to as unassociated and mostly do not exhibit significant {gamma}-ray flux variability. We performed a survey of all unassociated {gamma}-ray sources found in 3FGL using the Australia Telescope Compact Array and Very Large Array in the range 4.0-10.0 GHz. We found 2097 radio candidates for association with {gamma}-ray sources. The follow-up with very long baseline interferometry for a subset of those candidates yielded 142 new associations with active galactic nuclei that are {gamma}-ray sources, provided alternative associations for seven objects, and improved positions for another 144 known associations to the milliarcsecond level of accuracy. In addition, for 245 unassociated {gamma}-ray sources we did not find a single compact radio source above 2 mJy within 3{sigma} of their {gamma}-ray localization. A significant fraction of these empty fields, 39%, are located away from the Galactic plane. We also found 36 extended radio sources that are candidates for association with a corresponding {gamma}-ray object, 19 of which are most likely supernova remnants or H II regions, whereas 17 could be radio galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/303/420
- Title:
- Radio galaxies and quasars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/303/420
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The simple unification scheme of powerful radio galaxies and quasars, based entirely on the orientation dependent effects, has been confronted with the observed radio structures for 152 radio galaxies and 173 steep spectrum quasars. Contrary to the scheme's prediction, the cosmological evolution of geometrical parameters describing the large scale structure of these two types of radio sources are different.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/741/30
- Title:
- Radio/{gamma}-ray correlation in AGN
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/741/30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a detailed statistical analysis of the correlation between radio and gamma-ray emission of the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by Fermi during its first year of operation, with the largest data sets ever used for this purpose. We use both archival interferometric 8.4GHz data (from the Very Large Array and ATCA, for the full sample of 599 sources) and concurrent single-dish 15GHz measurements from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO, for a sub sample of 199 objects). Our unprecedentedly large sample permits us to assess with high accuracy the statistical significance of the correlation, using a surrogate data method designed to simultaneously account for common-distance bias and the effect of a limited dynamical range in the observed quantities.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/476/158
- Title:
- Radio haloes in nearby galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/476/158
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present radio continuum maps of 12 nearby (D<=27Mpc), edge-on (i>=76{deg}), late-type spiral galaxies mostly at 1.4 and 5GHz, observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Very Large Array, Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, Effelsberg 100-m and Parkes 64-m telescopes. All galaxies show clear evidence of radio haloes, including the first detection in the Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55. In 11 galaxies, we find a thin and a thick disc that can be better fitted by exponential rather than Gaussian functions. We fit our SPINNAKER (SPectral INdex Numerical Analysis of K(c)osmic-ray Electron Radio-emission) 1D cosmic-ray transport models to the vertical model profiles of the non-thermal intensity and to the non-thermal radio spectral index in the halo. We simultaneously fit for the advection speed (or diffusion coefficient) and magnetic field scale height. In the thick disc, the magnetic field scale heights range from 2 to 8kpc with an average across the sample of 3.0+/-1.7kpc; they show no correlation with either star-formation rate (SFR), SFR surface density (Sigma_SFR_) or rotation speed (V_rot_). The advection speeds range from 100 to 700km/s and display correlations of V{prop.to}SFR^0.36+/-0.06^ and V{prop.to}Sigma_SFR_^0.39+/-0.09^; they agree remarkably well with the escape velocities (0.5<=V/V_esc<=2), which can be explained by cosmic-ray driven winds. Radio haloes show the presence of disc winds in galaxies with Sigma_SFR_>10^-3^M_{sun}_/yr/kpc^2^ that extend over several kpc and are driven by processes related to the distributed star formation in the disc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/647/A50
- Title:
- Radio halos in mass selected clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/647/A50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radio halos are synchrotron diffuse sources at the centre of a fraction of galaxy clusters. The study of large samples of clusters with adequate radio and X-ray data is necessary to investigate the origin of radio halos and their connection with the cluster dynamics and formation history. The aim of this paper is to compile a well-selected sample of galaxy clusters with deep radio observations to perform an unbiased statistical study of the properties of radio halos. We selected 75 clusters with M>=6x10^14^M_{sun}_ at z=0.08-0.33 from the Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich catalogue. Clusters without suitable radio data were observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and/or the Jansky Very Large Array to complete the information about the possible presence of diffuse emission. We used archival Chandra X-ray data to derive information on the clusters' dynamical states. This observational campaign led to the detection of several cluster-scale diffuse radio sources and candidates that deserve future follow-up observations. Here we summarise their properties and add information resulting from our new observations. For the clusters where we did not detect any hint of diffuse emission, we derived new upper limits to their diffuse flux. We have built the largest mass-selected (>80% complete in mass) sample of galaxy clusters with deep radio observations available to date.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/135/155
- Title:
- Radio identification of 3EG EGRET sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/135/155
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The method of Mattox et al. (1996ApJ...461..396M) for identifying EGRET sources with 5GHz radio sources has been applied to the 3EG EGRET catalog of Hartman et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/123/79>). Complete results are tabulated. We tabulate separately 46 EGRET sources with radio identifications which we expect to have a high probability of being correct. We suggest that these sources are appropriate for most studies of the properties of {gamma}-ray blazars as a class. All but one of these 46 sources were classified by Hartman et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/123/79>) as high-confidence identifications; and the additional source was classified by Hartman et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/123/79>) as a plausible identification. We also tabulate separately 37 additional "plausible identifications of EGRET sources with radio sources." These less secure possibilities include the remaining 21 "high-confidence identifications" of Hartman et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/123/79>), three of the 27 "lower confidence potential blazar identifications" of Hartman et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/123/79>), and an additional 15 plausible identifications which have not been suggested previously. Many of these sources require new radio and optical observations to establish them as blazars. We suggest that the 23 "lower-confidence potential blazar identifications" of Hartman et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJS/123/79>) which we do not find plausible should not be used in studies of the properties of the EGRET blazars. For this analysis, we have made elliptical fits to the 95% confidence contours of the position uncertainty regions of the 3EG sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/481/95
- Title:
- Radio identification of EGRET sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/481/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a method to assess the reliability of the identification of EGRET sources with extragalactic radio sources. We verify that EGRET is detecting the blazar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However many published identifications are found to be questionable. We provide a table of 42 blazars that we expect to be robust identifications of EGRET sources. This includes one previously unidentified EGRET source, the lensed AGN PKS 1830-210, near the direction of the Galactic center. We provide the best available positions for 16 more radio sources that are also potential identifications for previously unidentified EGRET sources. All high Galactic latitude EGRET sources (|b|>3) that demonstrate significant variability can be identified with flat-spectrum radio sources. This suggests that EGRET is not detecting any type of AGN other than blazars. This identification method has been used to establish with 99.998% confidence that the peak gamma-ray flux of a blazar is correlated with its average 5GHz radio flux. An even better correlation is seen between gamma-ray flux and the 2.29GHz flux density measured with VLBI at the base of the radio jet. Also, using high-confidence identifications, we find that the radio sources identified with EGRET sources have greater correlated VLBI flux densities than the parent population of flat radio spectrum sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/159/282
- Title:
- 315 radio identified planetary nebulae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/159/282
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the 1.4GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS, Cat. <VIII/65>) images and source catalog, we identified 315 radio sources stronger than ~2.5mJy among over 1000 recently discovered planetary nebulae north of J2000 declination {delta}=-40{deg}. Two-thirds of these radio sources are weaker than 10mJy at 1.4GHz. This result is a uniform supplement to the previous NVSS radio identification of known PNe and a large homogeneous sample including over 1000 PNe with NVSS sources is obtained. By examining the radio properties of PNe, it is found that most of the planetary nebulae detected at both 1.4 and 5.0GHz are optically thick at {lambda}=20cm.