Compact radio sources variable at 151 MHz – I. Catalogue of sources     

A. R. Minns  J. M. Riley 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,315(4):839-855

The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope has been used to produce a representative sample of low-frequency variable sources. 20 fields, each covering an area of approximately 9°×9° cosec  δ , have been observed at 151 MHz at between 2 and 10 epochs over the period from 1984 to 1996. At each epoch, maps were made with rms noise levels of typically 10–15 mJy beam⁻¹. From a total of ∼6000 sources detected on these maps, 207 are found for which the flux density variations between at least two epochs appear significant at greater than the 3 σ level. A numerical model is used to assess the true significance of the variability, given the analysis method adopted. This shows that for about half of the sources which appear to vary by >3 σ the variability is genuine. For the other half it is caused by random statistical fluctuations; most of the spurious variables vary by ≲3.5 σ between a single pair of epochs. A catalogue of the variable sources is presented, which includes an estimate of the probability that a given source is a genuine variable. Fractional flux density variations of between 5 and 100 per cent (typically 15–25 per cent) have been detected on a range of time-scales from 1 to 12 years.  相似文献   

A survey of hard spectrum ROSAT sources – I. X-ray source catalogue     

M. J. Page  J. P. D. Mittaz  F. J. Carrera 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,318(4):1073-1085

We present a catalogue of 147 serendipitous X-ray sources selected to have hard spectra ( α <0.5) from a survey of 188 ROSAT fields. Such sources must be the dominant contributors to the X-ray background at faint fluxes. We have used Monte Carlo simulations to verify that our technique is very efficient at selecting hard sources: the survey has 10 times as much effective area for hard sources as it has for soft sources above a 0.5–2 keV flux level of 10⁻¹⁴ erg cm⁻² s⁻¹. The distribution of best-fitting spectral slopes of the hard sources suggests that a typical ROSAT hard source in our survey has a spectral slope α ∼0. The hard sources have a steep number flux relation (d N /d S ∝ S ^{− γ} with a best-fitting value of γ =2.72±0.12) and make up about 15 per cent of all 0.5–2 keV sources with S >10⁻¹⁴ erg cm⁻² s⁻¹. If their N ( S ) continues to fainter fluxes, the hard sources will comprise ∼40 per cent of sources with 5×10⁻¹⁵< S <10⁻¹⁴ erg cm⁻² s⁻¹. The population of hard sources can therefore account for the harder average spectra of ROSAT sources with S <10⁻¹⁴ erg cm⁻² s⁻¹. They probably make a strong contribution to the X-ray background at faint fluxes and could be the solution to the X-ray background spectral paradox.  相似文献   

Heiles星光偏振源表的距离更正          下载免费PDF全文

蒙美娘  孙晓辉 《天文学报》2021,62(1):3-36

星光偏振是研究星际介质磁场的有力工具之一.Heiles源表收集了9286颗恒星的偏振信息,是目前最大的光学波段星光偏振源表,被广泛使用.但该表中恒星的距离参数是以前的测光距离,很不确定.把Heiles源表和Gaia第2次数据释放(DR2)源表进行交叉证认,以位置和星等作为判据,匹配了7613颗恒星,并获得了这些恒星的三角视差距离和误差,超过90%的恒星距离相对误差小于20%.基于新的距离,展示了星光偏振在银河系内的分布并讨论了可能的应用.  相似文献   

Seismic Inventory Simulation and Conformance Test Based on the Monte Carlo Method——A Case Study of the Fenhe-Weihe Belt     

Shao Xiaoyi  Wang Xiaoqing  Dou Aixi  Yuan Xiaoxiang 《中国地震研究》2018,32(4):533-548

Artificial earthquake catalogue simulation is one of the ways to effectively improve the incompleteness of the existing earthquake catalogue,the scarcity of large earthquake records and the improvement of seismological research.Based on the Poisson distribution model of seismic activity and the Gutenberg-Richter magnitude-frequency relationship, the Monte Carlo method which can describe the characteristics of the stochastic nature and the physical experiment process is used.This paper simulates the future seismic catalogues of the Fenhe-Weihe seismic belt of different durations and conducts statistical tests on them. The analysis shows that the simulation catalogue meets the set seismic activity parameters and meets the Poisson distribution hypothesis,which can obtain a better simulated earthquake catalogues that meets the seismic activity characteristics.According to the simulated earthquake catalogues,future earthquake trends in this region are analyzed to provide reference for seismic hazard analysis.  相似文献   

Galactic warps induced by cosmic infall     

Juntai Shen †  J. A. Sellwood 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,370(1):2-14

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The HIPASS catalogue – I. Data presentation     

M. J. Meyer  M. A. Zwaan  R. L. Webster  L. Staveley-Smith  E. Ryan-Weber  M. J. Drinkwater  D. G. Barnes  M. Howlett  V. A. Kilborn  J. Stevens  M. Waugh  M. J. Pierce  R. Bhathal  W. J. G. de Blok  M. J. Disney  R. D. Ekers  K. C. Freeman  D. A. Garcia  B. K. Gibson  J. Harnett  P. A. Henning  H. Jerjen  M. J. Kesteven  P. M. Knezek  B. S. Koribalski  S. Mader  M. Marquarding  R. F. Minchin  J. O'Brien  T. Oosterloo  R. M. Price  M. E. Putman  S. D. Ryder  E. M. Sadler  I. M. Stewart  F. Stootman  A. E. Wright 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,350(4):1195-1209

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The colour–magnitude relation for galaxies in the Coma cluster     

A.I. Terlevich  N. Caldwell  R.G. Bower 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(4):1547-1562

We present a new photometric catalogue of the Coma galaxy cluster in the Johnson U and V bands. We cover an area of 3360 arcmin² of sky, to a depth of     in a 13-arcsec diameter aperture, and produce magnitudes for ∼1400 extended objects in metric apertures from 8.8- to 26-arcsec diameters. The mean internal rms scatter in the photometry is 0.014 mag in V , and 0.026 mag in U , for     .
We place new limits on the levels of scatter in the colour–magnitude relation (CMR) in the Coma cluster, and investigate how the slope and scatter of the CMR depend on galaxy morphology, luminosity and position within the cluster. As expected, the lowest levels of scatter are found in the elliptical galaxies, while the late-type galaxies have the highest numbers of galaxies bluewards of the CMR. We investigate whether the slope of the CMR is an artefact of colour gradients within galaxies, and show that it persists when the colours are measured within a diameter that scales with galaxy size. Looking at the environmental dependence of the CMR, we find a trend of systematically bluer galaxy colours with increasing projected radius from the centre of the cluster. Surprisingly, this is accompanied by a decreased scatter of the CMR. We investigate whether this gradient could be caused by dust in the cluster potential, however the reddening required would produce too large a scatter in the colours of the central galaxies. The gradient appears to be better reproduced by a gradient in the mean galactic ages with projected radius.  相似文献   

New Northern hemisphere common proper-motion pairs     

John Greaves 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,355(2):585-590

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A sharper view of the outer Galaxy at 1420 and 408 MHz from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey II: the catalogue of extended radio sources     

C. R. Kerton  J. Murphy  J. Patterson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(1):289-296

A new catalogue of extended radio sources has been prepared based on arcminute-resolution 1420-MHz images from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The new catalogue provides both 1420- and 408-MHz flux density measurements on sources found near the Galactic plane in the second quadrant of our Galaxy. In addition cross-identifications are made with other major radio catalogues and information is provided to facilitate the recovery of CGPS image data associated with each catalogued source. Numerous new radio sources are identified and the catalogue provides a comprehensive summary of both newly discovered and previously known H  ii regions and supernova remnants in the outer Galaxy. The catalogue should be of use both for synoptic studies of Galactic structure and for placing higher resolution observations, at radio and other wavelengths, in context.  相似文献   

Quasar candidates selection in the Virtual Observatory era     

R. D'Abrusco  G. Longo  N. A. Walton 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,396(1):223-262

We present a method for the photometric selection of candidate quasars in multiband surveys. The method makes use of a priori knowledge derived from a subsample of spectroscopic confirmed quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) to map the parameter space. The disentanglement of QSOs candidates and stars is performed in the colour space through the combined use of two algorithms, the probabilistic principal surfaces and the negative entropy clustering, which are for the first time used in an astronomical context. Both methods have been implemented in the voneural package on the Astrogrid Virtual Observatory platform. Even though they belong to the class of the unsupervised clustering tools, the performances of the method are optimized by using the available sample of confirmed quasars and it is therefore possible to learn from any improvement in the available 'base of knowledge'. The method has been applied and tested on both optical and optical plus near-infrared data extracted from the visible Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and infrared United Kingdom Infrared Deep Sky Survey-Large Area Survey public data bases. In all cases, the experiments lead to high values of both efficiency and completeness, comparable if not better than the methods already known in the literature. A catalogue of optical candidate QSOs extracted from the SDSS Data Release 7 Legacy photometric data set has been produced and is publicly available at the URL http://voneural.na.infn.it/qso.html .  相似文献