A tale of four surveys:What have we learned about the variable sky?     

S.B. Howell 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2008,329(3):259-262

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Massive dark matter haloes around bright isolated galaxies in the 2dFGRS     

Peder Norberg  Carlos S. Frenk  Shaun Cole 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,383(2):646-662

We identify a large sample of isolated bright galaxies and their fainter satellites in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). We analyse the dynamics of ensembles of these galaxies selected according to luminosity and morphological type by stacking the positions of their satellites and estimating the velocity dispersion of the combined set. We test our methodology using realistic mock catalogues constructed from cosmological simulations. The method returns an unbiased estimate of the velocity dispersion provided that the isolation criterion is strict enough to avoid contamination and that the scatter in halo mass at fixed primary luminosity is small. Using a maximum likelihood estimator that accounts for interlopers, we determine the satellite velocity dispersion within a projected radius of 175  h ⁻¹ kpc. The dispersion increases with the luminosity of the primary and is larger for elliptical galaxies than for spiral galaxies of similar b _J luminosity. Calibrating the mass–velocity dispersion relation using our mock catalogues, we find a dynamical mass within 175  h ⁻¹ kpc of     for elliptical galaxies and     for spiral galaxies. Finally, we compare our results with recent studies and investigate their limitations using our mock catalogues.  相似文献   

A 610-MHz survey of the ELAIS-N1 field with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope – observations, data analysis and source catalogue     

Timothy Garn  David A. Green  Julia M. Riley  Paul Alexander 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,383(1):75-85

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The Australia Telescope 20-GHz (AT20G) Survey: the Bright Source Sample     

Marcella Massardi  Ronald D. Ekers  Tara Murphy  Roberto Ricci  Elaine M. Sadler  Sarah Burke  Gianfranco De Zotti  Philip G. Edwards  Paul J. Hancock  Carole A. Jackson  Michael J. Kesteven  Elizabeth Mahony  Christopher J. Phillips  Lister Staveley-Smith  Ravi Subrahmanyan  Mark A. Walker  Warwick E. Wilson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,384(2):775-802

The Australia Telescope 20-GHz (AT20G) Survey is a blind survey of the whole southern sky at 20 GHz (with follow-up observations at 4.8 and 8.6 GHz) carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array from 2004 to 2007.
The Bright Source Sample (BSS) is a complete flux-limited subsample of the AT20G Survey catalogue comprising 320 extragalactic     ) radio sources south of  δ=−15°  with      Jy. Of these, 218 have near simultaneous observations at 8 and 5 GHz.
In this paper we present an analysis of radio spectral properties in total intensity and polarization, size, optical identifications and redshift distribution of the BSS sources. The analysis of the spectral behaviour shows spectral curvature in most sources with spectral steepening that increases at higher frequencies (the median spectral index α, assuming   S ∝ν^α  , decreases from  α^8.6_4.8= 0.11  between 4.8 and 8.6 GHz to  α²⁰_8.6=−0.16  between 8.6 and 20 GHz), even if the sample is dominated by flat spectra sources (85 per cent of the sample has  α²⁰_8.6 > −0.5)  . The almost simultaneous spectra in total intensity and polarization allowed us a comparison of the polarized and total intensity spectra: polarized fraction slightly increases with frequency, but the shapes of the spectra have little correlation. Optical identifications provided an estimation of redshift for 186 sources with a median value of 1.20 and 0.13, respectively, for QSO and galaxies.  相似文献   

A Combined EIS–NVSS Survey Of Radio Sources (CENSORS) – III. Spectroscopic observations     

M. H. Brookes  P. N. Best  J. A. Peacock  H. J. A. Röttgering  J. S. Dunlop 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,385(3):1297-1326

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Multibeam maser survey of methanol and excited OH in the Magellanic Clouds: new detections and maser abundance estimates     

J. A. Green  J. L. Caswell  G. A. Fuller  S. L. Breen  K. Brooks  M. G. Burton  A. Chrysostomou  J. Cox  P. J. Diamond  S. P. Ellingsen  M. D. Gray  M. G. Hoare  M. R. W. Masheder  N. McClure-Griffiths  M. Pestalozzi  C. Phillips  L. Quinn  M. A. Thompson  M. Voronkov  A. Walsh  D. Ward-Thompson  D. Wong-McSweeney  J. A. Yates  R. J. Cohen † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,385(2):948-956

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The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) – VII. Optical/IR photometry and stellar masses of submillimetre galaxies     

S. Dye  S. A. Eales  I. Aretxaga  S. Serjeant  J. S. Dunlop  T. S. R. Babbedge  S. C. Chapman  M. Cirasuolo  D. L. Clements  K. E. K. Coppin  L. Dunne  E. Egami  D. Farrah  R. J. Ivison  E. van Kampen  A. Pope  R. Priddey  G. H. Rieke  A. M. Schael  D. Scott  C. Simpson  T. Takagi  T. Takata  M. Vaccari 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,386(2):1107-1130

We present estimates of the photometric redshifts, stellar masses and star formation histories of sources in the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES). This paper describes the 60 SCUBA sources detected in the Lockman Hole covering an area of ∼320 arcmin². Using photometry spanning the B band to 8 μm, we find that the average SCUBA source forms a significant fraction of its stars in an early period of star formation and that most of the remainder forms in a shorter more intense burst around the redshift it is observed. This trend does not vary significantly with source redshift. However, the sources show a clear increase in stellar mass with redshift, consistent with downsizing. In terms of spectral energy distribution types, only two out of the 51 sources we have obtained photometric redshifts for are best fitted by a quasar-like spectrum, with approximately 80 per cent of the sources being best fitted with late-type spectra (Sc, Im and starburst). By including photometry at 850 μm, we conclude that the average SCUBA source is forming stars at a rate somewhere between 6 and 30 times the rate implied from the rest-frame optical in a dust obscured burst and that this burst creates 15–65 per cent of the total stellar mass. Using a simplistic calculation, we estimate from the average star formation history that between one in five and one in 15 bright  ( L _*+ 2 < L _optical < L _*− 1 mag)  galaxies in the field over the interval  0 < z < 3  will at some point in their lifetime experience a similar energetic dusty burst of star formation. Finally, we compute the evolution of the star formation rate density and find it peaks around   z ∼ 2  .  相似文献   

Photometric redshifts for the Dark Energy Survey and VISTA and implications for large-scale structure     

Manda Banerji  Filipe B. Abdalla  Ofer Lahav  Huan Lin 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,386(3):1219-1233

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The Monitor project: the search for transits in the open cluster NGC 2362     

Adam A. Miller  Jonathan Irwin  Suzanne Aigrain  Simon Hodgkin  Leslie Hebb 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(1):349-363

We present the results of a systematic search for transiting planets in a ∼5 Myr open cluster, NGC 2362. We observed ∼1200 candidate cluster members, of which ∼475 are believed to be genuine cluster members, for a total of ∼100 h. We identify 15 light curves with reductions in flux that pass all our detection criteria, and six of the candidates have occultation depths compatible with a planetary companion. The variability in these six light curves would require very large planets to reproduce the observed transit depth. If we assume that none of our candidates are, in fact, planets then we can place upper limits on the fraction of stars with hot Jupiters (HJs) in NGC 2362. We obtain 99 per cent confidence upper limits of 0.22 and 0.70 on the fraction of stars with HJs ( f _p) for 1–3 and 3–10 d orbits, respectively, assuming all HJs have a planetary radius of 1.5 R _Jup. These upper limits represent observational constraints on the number of stars with HJs at an age ≲10 Myr, when the vast majority of stars are thought to have lost their protoplanetary discs. Finally, we extend our results to the entire Monitor project, a survey searching young, open clusters for planetary transits, and find that the survey as currently designed should be capable of placing upper limits on f _p near the observed values of f _p in the solar neighbourhood.  相似文献   

Timeline analysis and wavelet multiscale analysis of the AKARI All-Sky Survey at 90 μm     

Lingyu Wang  Michael Rowan-Robinson  Issei Yamamura  Hiroshi Shibai  Rich Savage  Seb Oliver  Matthew Thomson  Nurur Rahman  Dave Clements  Elysandra Figueredo  Tomotsugu Goto  Sunao Hasegawa  Woong-Seob Jeong  Shuji Matsuura  Thomas G. Müller  Takao Nakagawa  Chris P. Pearson  Stephen Serjeant  Mai Shirahata  Glenn J. White 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(2):601-615

We present a careful analysis of the point-source detection limit of the AKARI All-Sky Survey in the WIDE-S 90-μm band near the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP). Timeline analysis is used to detect IRAS ( Infrared Astronomy Satellite ) sources and then a conversion factor is derived to transform the peak timeline signal to the interpolated 90-μm flux of a source. Combined with a robust noise measurement, the point-source flux detection limit at signal-to-noise ratio  (S/N) > 5  for a single detector row is  1.1 ± 0.1 Jy  which corresponds to a point-source detection limit of the survey of ∼0.4 Jy.
Wavelet transform offers a multiscale representation of the Time Series Data ( tsd ). We calculate the continuous wavelet transform of the tsd and then search for significant wavelet coefficients considered as potential source detections. To discriminate real sources from spurious or moving objects, only sources with confirmation are selected. In our multiscale analysis, IRAS sources selected above 4σ can be identified as the only real sources at the Point Source Scales. We also investigate the correlation between the non- IRAS sources detected in timeline analysis and cirrus emission using wavelet transform and contour plots of wavelet power spectrum. It is shown that the non- IRAS sources are most likely to be caused by excessive noise over a large range of spatial scales rather than real extended structures such as cirrus clouds.  相似文献