- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/761/143
- Title:
- Black hole masses of z~1.4 AGNs from SXDS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/761/143
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to investigate the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), we construct the black hole mass function (BHMF) and Eddington ratio distribution function (ERDF) of X-ray-selected broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z~1.4 in the Subaru XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) field. A significant part of the accretion growth of SMBHs is thought to take place in this redshift range. Black hole masses of X-ray-selected broad-line AGNs are estimated using the width of the broad MgII line and 3000{AA} monochromatic luminosity. We supplement the MgII FWHM values with the H{alpha} FWHM obtained from our NIR spectroscopic survey. Using the black hole masses of broad-line AGNs at redshifts between 1.18 and 1.68, the binned broad-line AGN BHMFs and ERDFs are calculated using the V_max_ method. To properly account for selection effects that impact the binned estimates, we derive the corrected broad-line AGN BHMFs and ERDFs by applying the maximum likelihood method, assuming that the ERDF is constant regardless of the black hole mass. We do not correct for the non-negligible uncertainties in virial BH mass estimates. If we compare the corrected broad-line AGN BHMF with that in the local universe, then the corrected BHMF at z=1.4 has a higher number density above 10^8^M_{sun}_ but a lower number density below that mass range. The evolution may be indicative of a downsizing trend of accretion activity among the SMBH population. The evolution of broad-line AGN ERDFs from z=1.4 to 0 indicates that the fraction of broad-line AGNs with accretion rates close to the Eddington limit is higher at higher redshifts.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/478/4068
- Title:
- BLAGNs and NLS1s characteristics.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/478/4068
- Date:
- 10 Dec 2021 00:54:07
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- investigated narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) at optical, mid-infrared (MIR), and X-ray wavelengths, comparing them to the broad-line active galactic nuclei (BLAGNs). We found that black hole mass, coronal line luminosities, X-ray hardness ratio and X-ray, and optical and MIR luminosities are higher for the BLAGNs than for NLS1s, while policyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contribution and the accretion rates are higher for NLS1s. Furthermore, we found some trends among spectral parameters that NLS1s have and BLAGNs do not have. The evolution of FWHM(H{beta}) with the luminosities of MIR and coronal lines, continuum luminosities, PAH contribution, H{beta} broad line luminosity, FWHM[OIII], and EW(H{beta}NLR) are important trends found for NLS1s. That may contribute to the insight that NLS1s are developing AGNs, growing their black holes, while their luminosities and FWHM(H{beta}) consequently grow, and that BLAGNs are mature, larger objects of slower and/or different evolution. Black hole mass is related to PAH contribution only for NLS1s, which may suggest that PAHs are more efficiently destroyed in NLS1s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/520/A47
- Title:
- Blazars in the Swift-BAT hard X-ray sky
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/520/A47
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a study on the blazar content in the 15-150keV map of the entire sky obtained analyzing 39 months of data collected by the BAT telescope aboard the Swift satellite. We performed a cross-correlation of the significance map, obtained with a dedicated highly efficient algorithm (Segreto et al., 2010A&A...510A..47S) for data processing and image reconstruction of the BAT survey data, with the blazar population of the Roma-BZCAT (Massaro et al., 2009, Cat. J/A+A/495/691). After corrections for source confusion and spurious detections, we found significance excesses higher than two standard deviations for 304 sources; the corresponding fraction of expected spurious associations is about 20%. We selected hard X-ray blazars according to their significance level and carried out a statistical analysis to characterise their emission properties. A sample of 121 blazars detected at a significance level sigma>3 is discussed in greater detail. The fraction of blazars with uncertain classification in this sample is considerable, more than twice with respect to the percentage obtained considering all the blazars classified in the Roma-BZCAT. We attribute the X-ray flux of the majority of selected BL Lac objects to the synchrotron emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/23
- Title:
- Blazar (sub-)mm & {gamma}-ray luminosities
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/754/23
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The coexistence of Planck and Fermi satellites in orbit has enabled the exploration of the connection between the (sub-)millimeter and {gamma}-ray emission in a large sample of blazars. We find that the {gamma}-ray emission and the (sub-)mm luminosities are correlated over five orders of magnitude, L_{gamma}_{prop.to}L_(sub-)mm_. However, this correlation is not significant at some frequency bands when simultaneous observations are considered. The most significant statistical correlations, on the other hand, arise when observations are quasi-simultaneous within two months. Moreover, we find that sources with an approximate spectral turnover in the middle of the mm-wave regime are more likely to be strong {gamma}-ray emitters. These results suggest a physical relation between the newly injected plasma components in the jet and the high levels of {gamma}-ray emission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/207/16
- Title:
- BL Lac candidates for TeV observations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/207/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- BL Lac objects are the most numerous class of extragalactic TeV-detected sources. One of the biggest difficulties in investigating their TeV emission is due to their limited number, since only 47 BL Lac objects are known to be TeV emitters. In this paper, we propose new criteria to select TeV BL Lac candidates based on infrared and X-ray observations. We apply our selection criteria to the BL Lac objects listed in the ROMA-BZCAT catalog (Cat. J/A+A/495/691), thereby identifying 41 potential TeV emitters. We then perform a search over a more extended sample combining the ROSAT bright source catalog (Cat. IX/10) and the WISE all-sky survey (Cat. II/311), revealing 54 additional candidates for TeV observations. Our investigation also led to a tentative classification of 16 unidentified X-ray sources as BL Lac candidates. This analysis provides new interesting BL Lac targets for future observations with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/640/A132
- Title:
- BL Lacs optical light curves & X-ray prop.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/640/A132
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It has become evident that one-zone synchrotron self-Compton models are not always adequate for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray-emitting blazars. While two-component models perform better, they are difficult to constrain due to the large number of free parameters. In this work, we make a first attempt at taking into account the observational constraints from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data, long-term light curves (radio, optical, and X-rays), and optical polarisation to limit the parameter space for a two-component model and test whether or not it can still reproduce the observed spectral energy distribution (SED) of the blazars. We selected five TeV BL Lac objects based on the availability of VHE gamma-ray and optical polarisation data. We collected constraints for the jet parameters from VLBI observations. We evaluated the contributions of the two components to the optical flux by means of decomposition of long-term radio and optical light curves as well as modelling of the optical polarisation variability of the objects. We selected eight epochs for these five objects based on the variability observed at VHE gamma rays, for which we constructed the SEDs that we then modelled with a two-component model. We found parameter sets which can reproduce the broadband SED of the sources in the framework of two-component models considering all available observational constraints from VLBI observations. Moreover, the constraints obtained from the long-term behaviour of the sources in the lower energy bands could be used to determine the region where the emission in each band originates. Finally, we attempt to use optical polarisation data to shed new light on the behaviour of the two components in the optical band. Our observationally constrained two-component model allows explanation of the entire SED from radio to VHE with two co-located emission regions.
107. BLOX Cluster catalog
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/470/821
- Title:
- BLOX Cluster catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/470/821
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mass function of galaxy clusters is an important cosmological probe. Differences in the selection method could potentially lead to biases when determining the mass function. From the optical and X-ray data of the XMM-Newton Follow-Up Survey, we obtain a sample of galaxy cluster candidates using weak gravitational lensing, the optical Postman matched filter method, and a search for extended X-ray sources. We develop our weak lensing search criteria by testing the performance of the aperture mass statistic on realistic ray-tracing simulations matching our survey parameters and comparing two filter functions. We find that the dominant noise source for our survey is shape noise and that spurious cluster detection due to projections of large-scale structures are negligible. Our full cluster catalog has 155 cluster candidates, 116 found with the Postman matched filter, 59 extended X-ray sources, and 31 shear selected potential clusters. Most of these cluster candidates were not previously known. The present catalog will be a solid foundation for studying possible selection effects in either method.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/488/1221
- Title:
- BMW-Chandra source catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/488/1221
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the BMW-Chandra source catalogue drawn from essentially all Chandra ACIS-I pointed observations with an exposure time in excess of 10ks public as of March 2003 (136 observations). Using the wavelet detection algorithm developed by Lazzati et al. (1999ApJ...524..414) and Campana et al. (1999ApJ...524..423C), which can characterise both point-like and extended sources, we identified 21325 sources. Among them, 16758 are serendipitous, i.e. not associated with the targets of the pointings, and do not require a non-automated analysis. This makes our catalogue the largest compilation of Chandra sources to date. The 0.5-10keV absorption corrected fluxes of these sources range from ~3x10^-16^ to 9x10^-12^erg/cm^2^/s with a median of 7x10^-15^erg/cm^2^/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/653/A74
- Title:
- Bootes field X-ray/non-X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/653/A74
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use X-ray active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory within the 9.3deg^2^ Bootes field of the NDWFS to study whether there is a correlation between X-ray luminosity (LX) and star formation rate (SFR) of the host galaxy, at 0.5<z<2.0, with respect to the position of the galaxy to the main sequence (SFRnorm). About half of the sources in the X-ray sample have spectroscopic redshifts. We also construct a reference galaxy catalogue. For both datasets we use photometric data from the optical to the far-infrared compiled by the HELP project, and apply spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, using the X-CIGALE code. We exclude quiescent sources from both the X-ray and the reference samples. We also account for the mass completeness of our dataset, in different redshifts bins. Our analysis highlights the importance of studying the SFR-LX relation in a uniform manner, taking into account systematics and selection effects. Our results suggest, in less massive galaxies (log[M*(M_{sun}_)]~11), that an AGN enhances the SFR of the host galaxy by 50% compared to non-AGN systems. A flat relation is observed for the most massive galaxies. The SFRnorm does not evolve with redshift. The results, although tentative, are consistent with a scenario where, in less massive systems, both AGN and star formation are fed by cold gas supplied by a merger event. In more massive galaxies the flat relation could be explained by a different supermasssive black hole (SMBH) fuelling mechanism that is decoupled from the star formation of the host galaxy (e.g. hot diffuse gas). Finally, we compare the host galaxy properties of X-ray absorbed and unabsorbed sources. Our results show no difference, which suggests that X-ray absorption is not linked with the properties of the galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/463/1929
- Title:
- BOSS galaxies in X-ray clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/463/1929
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a direct measurement of the mean halo occupation distribution (HOD) of galaxies taken from the eleventh data release (DR11) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The HOD of BOSS low-redshift (LOWZ: 0.2<z<0.4) and Constant-Mass (CMASS: 0.43<z<0.7) galaxies is inferred via their association with the dark-matter halos of 174 X-ray-selected galaxy clusters drawn from the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS). Halo masses are determined for each galaxy cluster based on X-ray temperature measurements, and range between log_10_(M_180_/M_{sun}_)=13-15. Our directly measured HODs are consistent with the HOD-model fits inferred via the galaxy-clustering analyses of Parejko et al. for the BOSS LOWZ sample and White et al. for the BOSS CMASS sample. Under the simplifying assumption that the other parameters that describe the HOD hold the values measured by these authors, we have determined a best-fit alpha-index of 0.91+/-0.08 and 1.27^+0.03^_-0.04_ for the CMASS and LOWZ HOD, respectively. These alpha-index values are consistent with those measured by White et al. and Parejko et al. In summary, our study provides independent support for the HOD models assumed during the development of the BOSS mock-galaxy catalogues that have subsequently been used to derive BOSS cosmological constraints.