The Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) survey was used to select a complete sample of 656 Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources with spectral turnovers above 5GHz. The AT20G has near simultaneous observations at 4.8, 8.6 and 20GHz, which makes it possible to exclude flat spectrum variability as a cause of a source's peaked spectrum. Optical identification of the sample results in 361 QSOs and 104 galaxies and 191 blank fields. Redshifts are known for 104 of the GPS sources. The GPS sources from the AT20G are discussed and compared to previously known samples. The new sample of high frequency peaking GPS sources is found at a lower redshift than previous samples and to also have a lower 5GHz radio power. Evidence is found to support the idea that the origin of the GPS spectral shape are intrinsically different for galaxies and QSOs. This paper is an elaboration and extension of the talk given at the $4^{th}$ CSS/GPS conference in Riccione in May 2008.
GPS and CSS sources are thought to represent a young and/or confined sub-population of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) that are yet to evacuate their surrounding ambient interstellar gas. By studying the gaseous environments of these objects we can gain an insight into the inter-dependent relationship between galaxies and their supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH) will build a census of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas in galaxies at intermediate cosmological redshifts. FLASH is expected to detect at least several hundred HI absorbers as…
Flux-density spectral analysis for several pulsars and two newly-identified gigahertz-peaked spectra
在本文中,我们提出的结果通量密度测量的21个恒星在一个很宽的频率范围内,使用巨型米波射电望远镜(GMRT)和Effelsberg望远镜。我们的样本是一组大多是新发现的恒星星,这些恒星星是从千兆赫兹峰值光谱(GPS)恒星星的候选者中挑选出来的。利用我们的观测结果以及以前公布的数据,我们确定了两个新的GPS卫星。PSR J 1740 +1000是第一颗DM值很低的脉冲星,其色散量为24 pc cm $^{-3}$,我们还选择了几个光谱变化频率很高的候选天体,这些天体需要进一步的研究,我们还重新讨论了我们的源选择标准,以便将来寻找GPS脉冲星。
A recent multi-year Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS) revealed a group of objects that appeared as new radio sources after $>$5--20 years of absence. They are transient phenomena with respect to the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters (FIRST) survey and constitute the first unbiased sample of renewed radio activity. Here we present the follow-up, radio, optical and X-ray study of them. The group consist of 12 sources, both quasars and galaxies with wide redshift ($\rm 0.04 < z < 1.7$) and luminosity ($\rm 22<log_{10}[L_{1.4GHz}/W~Hz^{-1}]>24.5$) distribution. Their radio pro…
University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);University of Toronto(多伦多大学);University of Washington(华盛顿大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学);Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey(新泽西州立罗格斯大学);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);University of California, Berkeley(加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校)
An ASKAP survey for HI absorption towards dust-obscured quasars
类星体被吸积的气体和尘埃遮蔽,或者被尘埃干扰的星系遮蔽,会导致活动星系核(AGN)在光学选择的巡天中被遗漏。无线电观测可以克服这种尘埃偏见。特别是,无线电调查寻找HI吸收通知我们如何AGN可以影响到冷的中性气体介质内的主星系,或通过观察到的视线气体运动学的干预星系的人口。本文介绍了利用澳大利亚SKA探路者(ASKAP)试运行阵列在$0.4 < z < 1$对34个遮蔽类星体进行HI吸收线测量的结果。我们检测到三个HI吸收线,其中一个系统以前未知。通过对两个源的光学跟踪,我们发现在所有的探测中HI气体都与活动星系核有关,因此这些活动星系核被其宿主星系内的物质所遮蔽。我们的大多数样本都是紧凑的,此外,要么是千兆赫兹峰值频谱(GPS),或陡峭的频谱(CSS)源,都被认为是年轻的或最近重新触发的无线电活动星系核。我们的样本的无线电频谱能量分布分类同意星系演化模型中,模糊AGN最近才变得活跃。我们相关联的HI检测率的GPS和紧凑的SS源相匹配的其他调查对这些来源。我们还发现了浅的和不对称的HI吸收特征,这与以前的研究结果一致,即致密射电星系中的冷中性介质通常受到活动星系核的运动学扰动。
We explore the presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN)/black holes (BH) in Green Pea galaxies (GPs), motivated by the presence of high ionization emission lines such as HeII and [NeIII] in their optical spectra. In order to identify AGN candidates, we used mid-infrared (MIR) photometric observations from the all-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission for a sample of 1004 GPs. Considering only $>5σ$ detections with no contamination from neighboring sources in AllWISE, we select 31 GPs out of 134 as candidate AGN based on a stringent 3-band WISE color diagnostic. Using multi-epo…
Broadband Spectral Modeling of the Extreme Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Source PKS B0008-421
我们目前的宽带观测和光谱建模的PKS B 0008 -421,并确定它作为一个极端的千兆赫兹峰值频谱(GPS)源。PKS B 0008 -421的特点是在转换率以下的最陡已知光谱斜率,接近同步加速器自吸收的理论极限,以及任何GPS源的最小已知光谱宽度。源的光谱覆盖范围从0.118到22 GHz,其中包括来自Murchison宽场阵列和澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列宽带通接收器的数据。我们已经实现了一个贝叶斯推断模型拟合例程,以适应各种吸收模型的数据。我们发现,如果不包括一个高频指数突破的吸收模型不能准确地拟合的数据,在无线电频谱的峰值以上和以下的显着偏差。增加一个高频率的休息提供了可接受的光谱拟合的不均匀的自由-自由吸收和双组分同步自吸收模型,与不均匀的自由-自由吸收模型统计上的优势。高频频谱中断的要求意味着源已经停止注入新的粒子。非均匀的自由-自由吸收模型负责营业额的频谱的额外支持是由来自模型拟合的物理参数之间的一致性和指数光谱突变的影响,如源被密集的环境介质包围,以保持在千兆赫区域附近的峰值频率的必要性。PKS B 0008 -421的发现表明,下一代低射频勘测可能揭示大量已停止活动的GPS源,并且超陡频谱源群的一部分可能由这些处于遗迹阶段的GPS源组成。