The Las Campanas/AAT rich cluster survey – I. Precision and reliability of the photometric catalogue     

Kevin A. Pimbblet  Ian Smail  Alastair C. Edge  Warrick J. Couch  Eileen O'Hely  Ann I. Zabludoff 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(2):588-600

The Las Campanas Observatory and Anglo-Australian Telescope Rich Cluster Survey (LARCS) is a panoramic imaging and spectroscopic survey of an X-ray luminosity-selected sample of 21 clusters of galaxies at     . Charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging was obtained in B and R of typically 2° wide regions centred on the 21 clusters, and the galaxy sample selected from the imaging is being used for an on-going spectroscopic survey of the clusters with the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This paper presents the reduction of the imaging data and the photometric analysis used in the survey. Based on an overlapping area of 12.3 deg² we compare the CCD-based LARCS catalogue with the photographic-based galaxy catalogue used for the input to the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) from the APM, to the completeness of the GRS/APM catalogue,     . This comparison confirms the reliability of the photometry across our mosaics and between the clusters in our survey. This comparison also provides useful information concerning the properties of the GRS/APM. The stellar contamination in the GRS/APM galaxy catalogue is confirmed as around     per cent, as originally estimated. However, using the superior sensitivity and spatial resolution in the LARCS survey evidence is found for four distinct populations of galaxies that are systematically omitted from the GRS/APM catalogue. The characteristics of the 'missing' galaxy populations are described, reasons for their absence examined and the impact they will have on the conclusions drawn from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey are discussed.  相似文献   

Measurement of the angular correlation function of radio galaxies from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey     

Chris Blake  Jasper Wall 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,329(2):37-41

We quantify the angular distribution of radio sources in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) by measuring the two-point angular correlation function w ( θ ). By careful consideration of the resolution of radio galaxies into multiple components, we are able to determine both the galaxy angular clustering and the size distribution of giant radio galaxies. The slope of the correlation function for radio galaxies agrees with that for other classes of galaxy,     , with a 3D correlation length     (under certain assumptions). Calibration problems in the survey prevent clustering analysis below     . About 7 per cent of radio galaxies are resolved by NVSS into multiple components, with a power-law size distribution. Our work calls into question previous analyses and interpretations of w ( θ ) from radio surveys.  相似文献   

The Needles in the Haystack Survey: searching for X-ray-selected normal galaxies     

A. E. Georgakakis  I. Georgantopoulos  S. Basilakos  M. Plionis  V. Kolokotronis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,354(1):123-126

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The automated classification of astronomical light curves using Kohonen self-organizing maps     

David R. Brett  Richard G. West  Peter J. Wheatley 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,353(2):369-376

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Nature and completeness of galaxies detected in the Two Micron All Sky Survey     

Daniel H. McIntosh  Eric F. Bell  Martin D. Weinberg  Neal Katz 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,373(4):1321-1338

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Variable stars in the Bochum Galactic Disk Survey     

L. Kaderhandt  A. Barr Domínguez  R. Chini  M. Hackstein  M. Haas  F. Pozo Nuez  M. Murphy 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2015,336(7):677-681

We present a first overview of variable stars in the Bochum Galactic Disk Survey (GDS) with emphasis on eclipsing binaries (EBs). This ongoing survey is performed by a robotic twin refractor at the Universitätssternwarte Bochum located near Cerro Armazones in Chile. It comprises a mosaic of 268 fields in a stripe of Δb = ±3° along the Galactic plane observed once per month simultaneously in the Sloan r and i filters with a detection limit of r_s ∼ 16 mag and i_s ∼ 15 mag. The data from the first three years until the end of February 2014 yields a total of 41718 variable stars with variability amplitudes between 0.1–6 mag. A cross‐match with SIMBAD identified 11 465 of these variables unambiguously, while 2184 had multiple matches; most of the remaining stars could be matched with 2MASS objects. Among the SIMBAD‐listed objects with single matches, only 1982 turned out as known variables while a further 256 are suspected of variability. That leaves a total of 39480 potentially new variables. The group of known variables comprises 419 stars (21 %) that are classified as EBs while 443 (22%) are of other types; for the remaining 1120 catalogued variables (57 %) the type is unknown. Investigating variability as a function of spectral type, we find that SIMBAD provides spectral types for 2811 (25 %) of the identified stars. Spectral classes B (26 %), A (20 %), and M (25%) contain the most numerous variables, while all other classes contribute less than 10% each. More than half of the B (55 %) and A (56%) stars are designated as EBs, suggesting that hundreds of new B‐ and A‐type EBs may be contained in the GDS archive. In contrast, among the numerous M stars no EBs are known. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)  相似文献   

A CH₃CN and HCO⁺ survey towards southern methanol masers associated with star formation     

C. R. Purcell  R. Balasubramanyam  M. G. Burton  A. J. Walsh  V. Minier  M. R. Hunt-Cunningham  L. L. Kedziora-Chudczer  S. N. Longmore  T. Hill  I. Bains  P. J. Barnes  A. L. Busfield  P. Calisse  N. H. M. Crighton  S. J. Curran  T. M. Davis  J. T. Dempsey  G. Derragopian  B. Fulton  M. G. Hidas  M. G. Hoare  J.-K. Lee  E. F. Ladd  S. L. Lumsden  T. J. T. Moore  M. T. Murphy  R. D. Oudmaijer  M. B. Pracy  J. Rathborne  S. Robertson  A. S. B. Schultz  J. Shobbrook  P. A. Sparks  J. Storey  T. Travouillion 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,367(2):553-576

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Gravitational imaging of cold dark matter substructures     

L. V. E. Koopmans 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,363(4):1136-1144

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The X-ray properties of the dwarf Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55     

A.-M. Stobbart  T. P. Roberts  R. S. Warwick 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,370(1):25-42

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Eridanus – a supergroup in the local Universe?     

Sarah Brough  Duncan A. Forbes  Virginia A. Kilborn  Warrick Couch  Matthew Colless 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(3):1351-1374

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