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FIRST和SDSS中的候选射电星样本

A Sample of Candidate Radio Stars in FIRST and SDSS

Amy E. Kimball, Gillian R. Knapp, Zeljko Ivezic, Andrew A. West, John J. Bochanski, Richard M. Plotkin, Michael S. Gordon

摘要:

我们通过结合来自20厘米巡天射电天空微弱图像(FIRST)和斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的射电和光学数据进行射电星搜索。SDSS的微弱极限使得对低光度恒星射电辐射的均匀搜索成为可能。我们从大约7000度$^2$的天空中选择了112颗等阶范围为$15<i\lesssim19.1$、射电通量为$S_{20}\geq1.25$ mJy的候选射电星。选择标准是$1\arcsec$内的位置重合、射电和光学点源形态以及被归类为恒星的SDSS光谱。通过随机匹配估计样本污染为$108\pm13$,这表明所选候选者中至多有一小部分是真正的射电星。因此,我们排除了一个非常罕见的极端射电响亮的恒星群体:在$15<i<19.1$星的星等范围内,每百万颗恒星中不超过1.2颗具有射电通量$S_{20}\geq1.25$ mJy。我们调查了样本的光学和射电颜色,以找到最有可能成为真正射电星的候选者。来自恒星轨迹的显著异常值以及磁活动恒星是后续射电观测的最佳候选者。我们的结论是,虽然目前的广域无线电调查是不够敏感,以提供均匀的样本的极其罕见的射电星,即将到来的调查,利用现有的和计划中的望远镜的高灵敏度确实有足够的灵敏度,并将允许这类对象的属性进行详细调查。

英文摘要:

We conduct a search for radio stars by combining radio and optical data from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm survey (FIRST) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The faint limit of SDSS makes possible a homogeneous search for radio emission from stars of low optical luminosity. We select a sample of 112 candidate radio stars in the magnitude range $15<i\lesssim19.1$ and with radio flux $S_{20}\geq1.25$mJy, from about 7000 deg$^2$ of sky. The selection criteria are positional coincidence within $1\arcsec$, radio and optical point source morphology, and an SDSS spectrum classified as stellar. The sample contamination is estimated by random matching to be $108\pm13$, suggesting that at most a small fraction of the selected candidates are genuine radio stars. Therefore, we rule out a very rare population of extremely radio-loud stars: no more than 1.2 of every million stars in the magnitude range $15<i<19.1$ stars has radio flux $S_{20}\geq1.25$ mJy. We investigate the optical and radio colors of the sample to find candidates that show the largest likelihood of being real radio stars. The significant outliers from the stellar locus, as well as the magnetically active stars, are the best candidates for follow-up radio observations. We conclude that, while the present wide-area radio surveys are not sensitive enough to provide homogeneous samples of the extremely rare radio stars, upcoming surveys which exploit the great sensitivity of current and planned telescopes do have sufficient sensitivity and will allow the properties of this class of object to be investigated in detail.

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