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24871. Xinglong optical spectra of UGC3223 in 4 epochs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/245
Title:
Xinglong optical spectra of UGC3223 in 4 epochs
Short Name:
J/AJ/159/245
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The discovery of spectral type transition of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the so-called "changing-look" (CL) phenomenon, challenges the widely accepted AGN paradigm, not only in the orientation-based unified model, but also in the standard disk model. In past decades, only a couple of nearby repeat changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) have been identified. Here we report spectroscopic observations of UGC3223 over the course of 18yr, from 2001 onwards. Combining the spectrum taken in 1987 by Stirpe, we have witnessed its type transitions from 1.5 to 2.0 to 1.8 over 32yr, and captured a long-lived (at least 10 yr) thorough "turn-off" state with a spectrum typical of a Seyfert 2 galaxy. The long-term thorough turn-off state probably suggests a once-dormant and an awakening central engine in UGC3223. We argue that the (dis)appearance of the broad Balmer emission lines can be explained by the disk-wind broad-line region model given the evolution of the calculated Eddington ratio of accretion of the supermassive black hole.
24872. Xinglong spectra of two changing-look SDSS AGNs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/887/15
Title:
Xinglong spectra of two changing-look SDSS AGNs
Short Name:
J/ApJ/887/15
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report a spectroscopic identification of two new changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs): SDSSJ104705.16+544405.8 and SDSSJ120447.91+170256.8, both with a "turn-off" type transition from type-1 to type-1.8/1.9. The identification is arrived at through a follow-up spectroscopic observation of the five CL-AGNs candidates that are extracted from the sample recently released in MacLeod+ (2019, J/ApJ/874/8). The candidates are extracted by the authors from the Sloan Digit Sky Survey Data Release 7, and are spectroscopically confirmed quasars with large amplitude variability. By compiling a sample of 26 previously identified CL-AGNs, we confirm the claim by MacLeod+ that CL-AGNs tend to be biased against a low Eddington ratio, and identify an overlap between the CL-AGNs at their dim state and the so-called intermediate-type AGNs. The overlap implies that there two populations of the intermediate-type AGNs with different origins. One is due to the torus orientation effect, and the other to the intrinsic change of the accretion rate of the central supermassive black holes.
24873. XinJiang Astronomical Observatory
ID:
ivo://xaovo/org
Title:
XinJiang Astronomical Observatory
Date:
10 Oct 2018 04:13:56
Publisher:
XinJiang Astronomical Observatory
Description:
Founded in 1957, the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed from a single-satellite observatory into an important and comprehensive astronomical research organization in the past few decades. With its headquarters located in the regional capital of Urumqi, XAO also has three sites in Nanshan, Kashgar and Qitai, and two other independent ground stations.
24874. xi Tau UBV and MOST light curves
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/594/A55
Title:
xi Tau UBV and MOST light curves
Short Name:
J/A+A/594/A55
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Compact hierarchical systems are important because the effects caused by the dynamical interaction among its members occur ona human timescale. These interactions play a role in the formation of close binaries through Kozai cycles with tides. One such system is xi Tauri: it has three hierarchical orbits: 7.14d (eclipsing components Aa, Ab), 145d (components Aa+Ab, B), and 51yr (components Aa+Ab+B, C). We aim to obtain physical properties of the system and to study the dynamical interaction between its components. Our analysis is based on a large series of spectroscopic photometric (including space-borne) observations and long-baseline optical and infrared spectro-interferometric observations. We used two approaches to infer the system properties: a set of observation-specific models, where all components have elliptical trajectories, and an N-body model, which computes the trajectory of each component by integrating Newton's equations of motion.
24875. XMDS/VVDS 4{sigma} catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/439/413
Title:
XMDS/VVDS 4{sigma} catalogue
Short Name:
J/A+A/439/413
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a catalogue of 286 X-ray sources with their optical identification taken from the XMDS survey (using the XMM-Newton EPIC instrument). This first version is limited to sources detected at 4{sigma} at least in one energy band, AND falling in the area covered by the optical VVDS survey.
24876. XMM AGN optical-UV luminosities
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/539/A48
Title:
XMM AGN optical-UV luminosities
Short Name:
J/A+A/539/A48
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) emit radiation over a wide range of wavelengths, with a peak of emission in the far-UV region of the electromagnetic spectrum, a spectral region that is historically difficult to observe. Using optical, GALEX UV, and XMM-Newton data we derive the spectral energy distribution (SED) from the optical/UV to X-ray regime of a sizeable sample of AGN. The principal motivation is to investigate the relationship between the optical/UV emission and the X-ray emission and provide bolometric corrections to the hard X-ray (2-10keV) energy range, k_bol_, the latter being a fundamental parameter in current physical cosmology.
24877. 2XMM AGN X-ray and mid-IR luminosities
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/1422
Title:
2XMM AGN X-ray and mid-IR luminosities
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/449/1422
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have determined the relation between the AGN luminosities at rest-frame 6{mu}m associated with the dusty torus emission and at 2-10keV energies using a complete, X-ray-flux-limited sample of 232 AGN drawn from the Bright Ultra-hard XMM-Newton Survey. The objects have intrinsic X-ray luminosities between 10^42^ and 10^46^erg/s and redshifts from 0.05 to 2.8. The rest-frame 6{mu}m luminosities were computed using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and are based on a spectral energy distribution decomposition into AGN and galaxy emission. The best-fitting relationship for the full sample is consistent with being linear, L_6{mu}m_{prop.to}L_2-10keV_^0.99+/-0.03^, with intrinsic scatter, {Delta}logL_6{mu}m_~0.35dex. The L_6{mu}m_/L_2-10keV_ luminosity ratio is largely independent of the line-of-sight X-ray absorption. Assuming a constant X-ray bolometric correction, the fraction of AGN bolometric luminosity reprocessed in the mid-IR decreases weakly, if at all, with the AGN luminosity, a finding at odds with simple receding torus models. Type 2 AGN have redder mid-IR continua at rest-frame wavelengths <12{mu}m and are overall ~1.3-2 times fainter at 6{mu}m than type 1 AGN at a given X-ray luminosity. Regardless of whether type 1 and type 2 AGN have the same or different nuclear dusty toroidal structures, our results imply that the AGN emission at rest-frame 6{mu}m is not isotropic due to self-absorption in the dusty torus, as predicted by AGN torus models. Thus, AGN surveys at rest-frame ~6{mu}m are subject to modest dust obscuration biases.
24878. XMM and Chandra X-ray sources near 4U 1755-33
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/641/410
Title:
XMM and Chandra X-ray sources near 4U 1755-33
Short Name:
J/ApJ/641/410
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report on new X-ray observations of the large-scale jets recently discovered in X-rays from the black hole candidate 4U 1755-33. Our observations in 2004 show that the jets found in 2001 are still present in X-rays. However, sensitive radio observations in 2004 failed to detect the jets.
24879. XMM/CDFS AGN intrinsic absorption
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/459/693
Title:
XMM/CDFS AGN intrinsic absorption
Short Name:
J/A+A/459/693
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We combine bright XMM-Newton data with the Chandra Deep Field South observations to explore the behavior of the intrinsic AGN absorption, as a function of redshift and luminosity. Our sample consists of 359 sources selected in the hard 2-8keV band, spanning the flux range 6x10^-16^-3x10^-13^erg/cm^2^/s with a high rate of spectroscopic or photometric redshift completeness (100 and 85 per cent respectively for the Chandra and XMM-Newton data). We derive the column density values using X-ray spectral fits. We find that the fraction of obscured AGN falls with increasing luminosity in agreement with previous findings. The fraction of obscured AGN shows an apparent increase at high redshifts (z>2). Simulations show that this effect can most probably be attributed to the fact that at high redshifts the column densities are overestimated.
24880. XMM/CFDS catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/350/785
Title:
XMM/CFDS catalogue
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/350/785
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the X-ray source catalogues for the XMM surveys of the 3-h and 14-h (also known as the Groth Strip) Canada-France Redshift Survey fields (0.5-10keV flux range ~2x10^-15^-10^-13^erg/cm^2^/s). We use a subset of the XMM sources, which have Chandra positions, to determine the best method of obtaining optical identifications of sources with only XMM positions. We find optical identifications for 79 per cent of the XMM sources for which there are deep optical images. The sources without optical identifications are likely to be optically fainter and have higher redshifts than the sources with identifications. We have estimated 'photometric redshifts' for the identified sources, calibrating our method using ~200 galaxies in the fields with spectroscopic redshifts. We find that the redshift distribution has a strong peak at z~0.7.

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