- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/374/907
- Title:
- The Hamburg/SAO Survey for ELGs. V.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/374/907
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the fifth list with results of the Hamburg/SAO Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies (HSS therein, SAO - Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia). The list is a result of follow-up spectroscopy conducted with the 2.2m CAHA and 4m Kitt Peak telescopes in 1999. The data of this snap-shot spectroscopy survey confirmed 166 emission-line objects out of 209 observed candidates and allowed their quantitative spectral classification and redshift determination. We could classify 98 emission-line objects as BCG/HII galaxies or probable BCGs, 5 as QSOs, 3 as Seyfert galaxies, 2 as super-associations in subluminous spiral galaxies. 25 low-excitation objects were classified as starburst nuclei (SBN), 24 as dwarf amorphous nuclei starburst galaxies (DANS) and 3 as LINERs. Due to low signal-to-noise ratio we could not classify 6 ELGs. Furthermore, for another 4 galaxies we did not detect any significant emission lines. For 131 emission-line galaxies, the redshifts and/or line intensities are determined for the first time. For the remaining 30 previously known ELGs we give either improved data of the line intensities or some independent measurements.
Number of results to display per page
Search Results
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/809/20
- Title:
- The M_BH_-{sigma} relation for active galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/809/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We create a baseline of the black hole (BH) mass (M_BH_)-stellar-velocity dispersion ({sigma}) relation for active galaxies, using a sample of 66 local (0.02<z<0.09) Seyfert-1 galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Analysis of SDSS images yields AGN luminosities free of host-galaxy contamination, and morphological classification. 51/66 galaxies have spiral morphology. Out of these, 28 bulges have Sersic index n<2 and are considered candidate pseudo-bulges, with eight being definite pseudo-bulges based on multiple classification criteria met. Only 4/66 galaxies show signs of interaction/merging. High signal-to-noise ratio Keck spectra provide the width of the broad H{beta} emission line free of Fe II emission and stellar absorption. AGN luminosity and H{beta} line widths are used to estimate M_BH_. The Keck-based spatially resolved kinematics is used to determine stellar-velocity dispersion within the spheroid effective radius ({sigma}_spat,reff_). We find that {sigma} can vary on average by up to 40% across definitions commonly used in the literature, emphasizing the importance of using self-consistent definitions in comparisons and evolutionary studies. The M_BH_-{sigma} relation for our Seyfert-1 galaxy sample has the same intercept and scatter as that of reverberation-mapped AGNs as well as that of quiescent galaxies, consistent with the hypothesis that our single epoch M_BH_ estimator and sample selection function do not introduce significant biases. Barred galaxies, merging galaxies, and those hosting pseudo-bulges do not represent outliers in the M_BH_-{sigma} relation. This is in contrast with previous work, although no firm conclusion can be drawn on this matter due to the small sample size and limited resolution of the SDSS images.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/727/20
- Title:
- The Megamaser Cosmology Project (MCP). III.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/727/20
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Observations of H_2_O masers from circumnuclear disks in active galaxies for the Megamaser Cosmology Project (MCP) allow accurate measurement of the mass of supermassive black holes (BH) in these galaxies. We present the Very Long Baseline Interferometry images and kinematics of water maser emission in six active galaxies: NGC 1194, NGC 2273, NGC 2960 (Mrk 1419), NGC 4388, NGC 6264 and NGC 6323. We use the Keplerian rotation curves of these six megamaser galaxies, plus a seventh previously published, to determine accurate enclosed masses within the central ~0.3pc of these galaxies, smaller than the radius of the sphere of influence of the central mass in all cases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/737/71
- Title:
- The [OIII] emission line in SDSS AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/737/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use homogeneous samples of radio-quiet Seyfert 1 galaxies and QSOs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the connection between the velocity shift and the equivalent width (EW) of the [OIII]{lambda}5007 emission line, and their correlations with physical parameters of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We find a significant and negative correlation between the EW of the core component, EW(core), and the blueshift of either the core (the peak), the wing, or the total profile of [OIII] emission; it is fairly strong for the blueshift of the total profile in particular. However, both quantities (EW and velocity shift) generally have only weak, if any, correlations with fundamental AGN parameters such as the nuclear continuum luminosity at 5100{AA} (L_5100_), black hole mass (M_BH_), and the Eddington ratio (L/L_Edd_); these correlations include the classical Baldwin effect of EW(core), an inverse Baldwin effect of EW(wing), and the relationship between velocity shifts and L/L_Edd_. Our findings suggest that both the large object-to-object variation in the strength of [OIII] emission and the blueshift-EW(core) connection are not governed primarily by fundamental AGN parameters such as L_5100_, M_BH_, and L/L_Edd_. We propose that the interstellar medium conditions of the host galaxies play a major role instead in the diversity of the [OIII] properties in active galaxies. This suggests that the use of [OIII]{lambda}5007 luminosity as a proxy of AGN luminosity does not depend strongly on the above-mentioned fundamental AGN parameters.
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A42
- Title:
- The XMM-CDFS catalogues
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/555/A42
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Nuclear obscuration plays a key role in the initial phases of AGN growth, yet not many highly obscured AGN are currently known beyond the local Universe, and their search is an active topic of research. The XMM-Newton survey in the Chandra Deep Field South (XMM-CDFS) aims at detecting and studying the spectral properties of a significant number of obscured and Compton-thick (NH=10^24^cm^-2^ ) AGN. The large effective area of XMM-Newton in the 2-10 and 5-10keV bands, coupled with a 3.45Ms nominal exposure time (2.82 and 2.45Ms after lightcurve cleaning for MOS and PN respectively), allows us to build clean samples in both bands, and makes the XMM-CDFS the deepest XMM-Newton survey currently published in the 5-10keV band. The large multi- wavelength and spectroscopic coverage of the CDFS area allows for an immediate and abundant scientific return. In this paper, we present the data reduction of the XMM-CDFS observations, the method for source detection in the 2-10 and 5-10keV bands, and the resulting catalogues. A number of 339 and 137 sources are listed in the above bands with flux limits of 6.6x10^-16^ and 9.5x10^-16^erg/s/cm^2^, respectively. The flux limits at 50% of the maximum sky coverage are 1.8x10^-15^ and 4.0x10^-15^erg/s/cm^2^, respectively. The catalogues have been cross-correlated with the Chandra ones: 315 and 130 identifications have been found with a likelihood- ratio method, respectively. A number of 15 new sources, previously undetected by Chandra, is found; 5 of them lie in the 4Ms area. Redshifts, either spectroscopic or photometric, are available for ~92% of the sources. The number counts in both bands are presented and compared to other works. The survey coverage has been calculated with the help of two extensive sets of simulations, one set per band. The simulations have been produced with a newly-developed simulator, written with the aim of the most careful reproduction of the background spatial properties. For this reason, we present a detailed decomposition of the XMM-Newton background into its components: cosmic, particle, and residual soft protons. The three components have different spatial distributions. The importance of these three components depends on the band and on the camera; the particle background is the most important one (80-90% of the background counts), followed by the soft protons (4-20%).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/659/A32
- Title:
- Turin-SyCAT, Seyferts multifrequency catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/659/A32
- Date:
- 02 Mar 2022 06:48:51
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first release of Turin-SyCAT, a multifrequency catalog of Seyfert galaxies. We selected Seyfert galaxies considering criteria based on radio, infrared, and optical properties and starting from sources belonging to hard X-ray catalogs and surveys. We visually inspected optical spectra available for all selected sources. We adopted homogeneous and stringent criteria in the source selection aiming at reducing the possible contamination from other source classes. Our final catalog includes 351 Seyfert galaxies distinguished in 233 type 1 and 118 type 2. Type 1 Seyfert galaxies appear to have mid-IR colors similar to blazars, but are distinguished from them by their radio-loudness. Additionally, Seyfert 2 galaxies have mid-IR colors more similar to quasars than BL Lac objects. As expected from their spectral properties, type 1 and 2 Seyfert galaxies show a clear distinction when using the u-r color. Finally, we found a tight correlation between the mid-IR fluxes at both 12 and 22 um (i.e., F12 and F22, respectively) and hard X-ray fluxes between 15 and 150 keV. Both Seyfert types appear to follow the same trend and share similar values of the ratios of F12 and F22 to FHX in agreement with expectations of the AGN unification scenario. As future perspectives, the Turin-SyCAT will then be used to search for heavily obscured Seyfert galaxies among unidentified hard X-ray sources, given the correlation between mid-IR and hard X-rays, and to investigate their large-scale environments.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/431/836
- Title:
- Type 1 AGN at low z. III.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/431/836
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the optical narrow-line ratios in a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) based sample of 3175 broad H{alpha} selected type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN), and explore their positions in the BPT diagrams as a function of the AGN and the host properties. We find the following: (1) the luminosities of all measured narrow lines (H{alpha}, H{beta}, [OIII], [NII], [SII], [OI]) show a Baldwin relation relative to the broad H{alpha} luminosity LbH{alpha}, with slopes in the range of 0.53-0.72. (2) About 20 percent of the type 1 AGN reside within the "Composite" and "star-forming" (SF) regions of the Baldwin, Phillips & Terlevich (BPT) diagrams. These objects also show excess narrow H{alpha} and ultraviolet (UV) luminosities, for their LbH{alpha}, consistent with contribution from star formation which dominates the narrow-lines emission, as expected from their positions in the BPT diagrams. (3) The type 1 which reside within the AGN region in the BPT diagrams, are offset to lower [SII]/H{alpha} and [NII]/H{alpha} luminosity ratios, compared to type 2 AGN. This offset is a selection effect, related to the lower AGN/host luminosity selection of the type 2 AGN selected from the SDSS galaxy sample. (4) The [NII]/H{alpha} and [NII]/[SII] ratios in type 1 AGN increase with the host mass, as expected if the mass-metallicity relation of quiescent galaxies holds for the AGN narrow-line region (NLR). (5) The broad lines optical Fe ii is higher for a higher [NII]/H{alpha}, at a fixed Lbol and Eddington ratio L/LEdd. This suggests that the broad line region metallicity is also related to the host mass. (6) The fraction of AGN which are low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs) increases sharply with decreasing L/LEdd. This fraction is the same for type 1 and type 2 AGN. (7) The BPT position is unaffected by the amount of dust extinction of the optical-UV continuum, which suggests that the extincting dust resides on scales larger than the narrow-line region (NLR).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/329/418
- Title:
- UBVRcIc photometry in fields of Seyfert galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AN/329/418
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present UBVRcIc magnitudes of 49 comparison stars in the fields of the Seyfert galaxies Mrk 335, Mrk 79, Mrk 279, Mrk 506, 3C 382, 3C 390.3, NGC 6814, Mrk 304, Ark 564, and NGC 7469 in order to facilitate the photometric monitoring of these objects; 36 of the stars have not been calibrated before. The comparison stars are situated in 5x5arcmin fields centred on the Seyfert galaxies, their V band flux ranges from 11.7 to 18.2mag with a median value of 16.3mag, and their B-V colour index ranges from 0.4 to 1.6mag with a median value of 0.8mag. The median errors of the calibrated UBVRCIC magnitudes are 0.08, 0.04, 0.03, 0.04, and 0.06mag, respectively. Comparison stars were calibrated for the first time in three of the fields (Mrk 506, 3C 382, and Mrk 304). The comparison sequences in the other fields were improved in various aspects. Extra stars were calibrated in four fields (Mrk 335, Mrk 79, NGC 6814, and NGC 7469) most of these stars are fainter and are situated closer to the Seyfert galaxies compared to the existing comparison stars. The passband coverage of the sequences in five fields (Mrk 335, Mrk 79, Mrk 279, NGC 6814, and Ark 564) was complemented with the U band.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/801/127
- Title:
- 3.6um, 4.5um, B and V light curves of NGC 6418
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/801/127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a 15 month campaign of high-cadence (~3 days) mid-infrared Spitzer and optical (B and V) monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 6418, with the objective of determining the characteristic size of the dusty torus in this active galactic nucleus (AGN). We find that the 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m flux variations lag behind those of the optical continuum by 37.2_-2.2_^+2.4^-days and 47.1_-3.1_^+3.1^-days, respectively. We report a cross-correlation time lag between the 4.5 and 3.6{mu}m flux of 13.9_-0.1_^+0.5^ days. The lags indicate that the dust emitting at 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m is located at a distance ~1-light-month (~0.03pc) from the source of the AGN UV-optical continuum. The reverberation radii are consistent with the inferred lower limit to the sublimation radius for pure graphite grains at 1800K, but smaller by a factor of ~2 than the corresponding lower limit for silicate grains; this is similar to what has been found for near-infrared (K-band) lags in other AGNs. The 3.6 and 4.5{mu}m reverberation radii fall above the K-band {tau}{propto}L^0.5^ size-luminosity relationship by factors <~2.8 and <~3.4, respectively, while the 4.5{mu}m reverberation radius is only 27% larger than the 3.6{mu}m radius. This is broadly consistent with clumpy torus models, in which individual optically thick clouds emit strongly over a broad wavelength range.
