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351. Classification of sources from the 2XMMi-DR3 cat.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/756/27
Title:
Classification of sources from the 2XMMi-DR3 cat.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/756/27
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We carry out classification of 4330 X-ray sources in the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog. They are selected under the requirement of being a point source with multiple XMM-Newton observations and at least one detection with the signal-to-noise ratio larger than 20. For about one-third of them we are able to obtain reliable source types from the literature. They mostly correspond to various types of stars (611), active galactic nuclei (AGNs, 753), and compact object systems (138) containing white dwarfs, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes. We find that about 99% of stars can be separated from other source types based on their low X-ray-to-IR flux ratios and frequent X-ray flares. AGNs have remarkably similar X-ray spectra, with the power-law photon index centered around 1.91+/-0.31, and their 0.2-4.5keV flux long-term variation factors have a median of 1.48, with 98.5% being less than 10. In contrast, 70% of compact object systems can be very soft or hard, highly variable in X-rays, and/or have very large X-ray-to-IR flux ratios, separating them from AGNs. Using these results, we derive a source type classification scheme to classify the other sources and find 644 candidate stars, 1376 candidate AGNs, and 202 candidate compact object systems, whose false identification probabilities are estimated to be about 1%, 3%, and 18%, respectively. There are still 320 sources associated with nearby galaxies and 151 in the Galactic plane, which we expect to be mostly compact object systems or background AGNs. We also have 100 candidate ultraluminous X-ray sources. They are found to be much less variable than other accreting compact objects.
352. Classifiers for star/galaxy separation
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/141/189
Title:
Classifiers for star/galaxy separation
Short Name:
J/AJ/141/189
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the star/galaxy classification efficiency of 13 different decision tree algorithms applied to photometric objects in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven (SDSS-DR7). Each algorithm is defined by a set of parameters which, when varied, produce different final classification trees. We extensively explore the parameter space of each algorithm, using the set of 884,126 SDSS objects with spectroscopic data as the training set. The efficiency of star-galaxy separation is measured using the completeness function.
353. Close pairs of galaxies in MUSE Deep Fields
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A87
Title:
Close pairs of galaxies in MUSE Deep Fields
Short Name:
J/A+A/631/A87
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Using the ILLUSTRIS cosmological simulation project, we investigate the relation between the separation of galaxies in a pair, both in velocity and projected spatial separation space, and the probability that these interacting galaxies will merge in the future. From this analysis, we propose a new set of criteria to select close pairs of galaxies along with a new corrective term to be applied to the computation of the galaxy merger fraction. We then probe the evolution of the major and minor merger fraction using the latest MUSE deep observations over the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Hubble Deep Field South, COSMOS-Gr30 and Abell 2744 regions. From a parent sample of 2483 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts, we identify 366 close pairs spread over a large range of redshifts (0.2<z<6) and stellar masses (10^7^-10^11^M_{sun}_). Using the stellar mass ratio between the secondary and primary galaxy as a proxy to split the sample into major, minor and very minor mergers, we found a total of 183 major, 142 minor and 47 very minor close pairs corresponding to a mass ratio range of 1:1-1:6, 1:6-1:100 and lower than 1:100, respectively. Due to completeness issues, we do not consider the very minor pairs in the analysis. Overall, the major merger fraction increases up to z~2-3 reaching 25% for pairs with the most massive galaxy with a stellar mass M*>10^9.5^M_{sun}_. Beyond this redshift, the fraction decreases down to ~5% at z~6. The major merger fraction for lower mass primary galaxies M*<10^9.5^M_{sun}_, seems to follow a more constant evolutionary trend with redshift. Thanks to the addition of new MUSE fields and new selection criteria, the increased statistics of the pair samples allow to narrow significantly the error bars compared to our previous analysis (Ventou et al., 2017A&A...608A...9V). The evolution of the minor merger fraction is roughly constant with cosmic time, with a fraction of 20% at z<3 and a slow decrease between 3<z<6 to 8-13%.
354. Clouds in SEDIGISM science demonstration field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/601/A124
Title:
Clouds in SEDIGISM science demonstration field
Short Name:
J/A+A/601/A124
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The origin and life-cycle of molecular clouds are still poorly constrained, despite their importance for understanding the evolution of the interstellar medium. Many large-scale surveys of the Galactic plane have been conducted recently, allowing for rapid progress in this field. Nevertheless, a sub-arcminute resolution global view of the large-scale distribution of molecular gas, from the diffuse medium to dense clouds and clumps, and of their relationship to the spiral structure, is still missing. We have carried out a systematic, homogeneous, spectroscopic survey of the inner Galactic plane, in order to complement the many continuum Galactic surveys available with crucial distance and gas-kinematic information. Our aim is to combine this data set with recent infrared to sub-millimetre surveys at similar angular resolutions. The SEDIGISM survey covers 78deg^2^ of the inner Galaxy (-60{deg}<l<+18{deg}, |b|<0.5{deg}) in the J=2-1 rotational transition of ^13^CO. This isotopologue of CO is less abundant than ^12^CO by factors up to 100. Therefore, its emission has low to moderate optical depths, and higher critical density, making it an ideal tracer of the cold, dense interstellar medium. The data have been observed with the SHFI single-pixel instrument at APEX. The observational setup covers the ^13^CO(2-1) and C^18^O(2-1) lines, plus several transitions from other molecules. The observations have been completed. Data reduction is in progress and the final data products will be made available in the near future. Here we give a detailed description of the survey and the dedicated data reduction pipeline. To illustrate the scientific potential of this survey, preliminary results based on a science demonstration field covering -20{deg}<l<-18.5{deg} are presented. Analysis of the ^13^CO(2-1) data in this field reveals compact clumps, diffuse clouds, and filamentary structures at a range of heliocentric distances. By combining our data with data in the (1-0) transition of CO isotopologues from the ThrUMMS survey, we are able to compute a 3D realization of the excitation temperature and optical depth in the interstellar medium. Ultimately, this survey will provide a detailed, global view of the inner Galactic interstellar medium at an unprecedented angular resolution of ~30".
355. Clustering of high-redshift QSOs from SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/2222
Title:
Clustering of high-redshift QSOs from SDSS
Short Name:
J/AJ/133/2222
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4426 luminous optical quasars with redshift 2.9<=z<=5.4 selected over 4041deg^2^ from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We fit a power-law to the projected correlation function w_p_(r_p_) to marginalize over redshift-space distortions and redshift errors.
356. 6cm and 20cm survey of Galactic Center
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/177/515
Title:
6cm and 20cm survey of Galactic Center
Short Name:
J/ApJS/177/515
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We describe the results of a millijansky sensitivity VLA survey of roughly 1deg^2^ near the Galactic center at 6 and 20cm. Catalogs of compact and filamentary structures are given and compared to previous surveys of the region. Eight of the unusual nonthermal radio filaments are detected in 6cm polarized emission; three of these are the first such detections, confirming their nonthermal nature. This survey found emission from a filament at (l,b)=(359.1,0.75), or a projected distance from Sgr A* of 200pc, greatly extending the latitude range observed with such features. There is also new evidence for spatial gradients in the 6/20cm spectral indices of some filaments, and we discuss models for these gradients. In studying compact sources, the combination of spectral index and polarization information allows us to identify pulsar candidates and compact HII regions in the survey. There is also some evidence that the flux measurements of compact sources may be affected by electron scattering from the interstellar medium in the central few hundred parsecs of the Galaxy.
357. CMB intensity map from WMAP and Planck PR2 data
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/591/A50
Title:
CMB intensity map from WMAP and Planck PR2 data
Short Name:
J/A+A/591/A50
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We describe a new estimate of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) intensity map reconstructed by a joint analysis of the full Planck 2015 data (PR2) and nine years of WMAP data. The proposed map provides more than a mere update of the CMB map introduced in a previous paper since it benefits from an improvement of the component separation method L-GMCA (Local-Generalized Morphological Component Analysis), which facilitates efficient separation of correlated components. Based on the most recent CMB data, we further confirm previous results showing that the proposed CMB map estimate exhibits appealing characteristics for astrophysical and cosmological applications: i) it is a full-sky map as it did not require any inpainting or interpolation postprocessing, ii) foreground contamination is very low even on the galactic center, and iii) the map does not exhibit any detectable trace of thermal SZ contamination. We show that its power spectrum is in good agreement with the Planck PR2 official theoretical best-fit power spectrum. Finally, following the principle of reproducible research, we provide the codes to reproduce the L-GMCA, which makes it the only reproducible CMB map.
358. 7C 151-MHz survey of region 9-16h 20-35deg
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/282/779
Title:
7C 151-MHz survey of region 9-16h 20-35deg
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/282/779
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope has been used at 151 MHz to survey a region of 1393 square degrees, in the range RA 9h to 16h, Dec 20deg to 35deg, with an angular resolution of 108x108cosec(dec) arcsec^2^. The rms noise on the maps is in general ~35-55 mJy/beam but varies considerably and exceeds this in some areas. We have extracted sources with signal-to-noise ratio > 5.5, a total of 5526, and present a catalogue of their positions and flux densities.
359. 7C: 151MHz survey of 3 regions
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/298/637
Title:
7C: 151MHz survey of 3 regions
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/298/637
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope has been used at 151MHz to survey three regions centred at RA=10h05min, DE=53{deg}54', RA=10h42min, DE=57{deg}36' and RA=13h32min, DE=38{deg}10', each of area 7.3x7.3cosec(DE)deg^2^. The resolution is 70x70cosec(DE)arcsec^2^, and the rms noise on the maps is typically 15mJy/beam. We present positions and flux densities for 2381 sources which have signal-to-noise ratios >5.5.
360. 1.3cm line survey toward Orion KL
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/581/A48
Title:
1.3cm line survey toward Orion KL
Short Name:
J/A+A/581/A48
Date:
18 Nov 2021 11:23:37
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Orion KL has served as a benchmark for spectral line searches throughout the (sub)millimeter regime. The main goal is to systematically study spectral characteristics of Orion KL in the 1.3cm band. We carried out a spectral line survey (17.9GHz to 26.2GHz) with the Effelsberg-100m telescope towards Orion KL. We find 261 spectral lines, yielding an average line density of about 32 spectral features per GHz above 3 sigma. The identified lines include 164 radio recombination lines (RRLs) and 97 molecular lines. A total of 23 molecular transitions from species known to exist in Orion KL are detected for the first time in the interstellar medium. Non-metastable ^15^NH_3_ transitions are detected in Orion KL for the first time. Based on the velocity information of detected lines and the ALMA images, the spatial origins of molecular emission are constrained and discussed. A narrow feature is found in SO_2_ (8_1,7_-7_2,6_), possibly suggesting the presence of a maser line. Column densities and fractional abundances relative to H_2_ are estimated for 12 molecules with LTE methods. Rotational diagrams of non-metastable ^14^NH_3_ transitions with J=K+1 to J=K+4 yield different results; metastable ^15^NH_3_ is found to have a higher excitation temperature than non-metastable ^15^NH_3_, indicating that they may trace different regions. Elemental and isotopic abundance ratios are estimated: ^12^C/^13^C=63+/-17, ^14^N/^15^N=100+/-51, D/H=0.0083+/-0.0045. The dispersion of the He/H ratios derived from H_alpha/He_alpha_ pairs to H_delta_/He_delta_ pairs is very small, which is consistent with theoretical predictions that the departure coefficients bn factors for hydrogen and helium are nearly identical. Based on a non-LTE code neglecting excitation by the infrared radiation field and a likelihood analysis, we find that the denser regions have lower kinetic temperature, which favors an external heating of the Hot Core.

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