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Sloan数字巡天中射电类星体的选择效应

On the selection effect of radio quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Yu Lu, Tinggui Wang, Hongyan Zhou, Jian Wu

摘要:

我们从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)和20厘米射电天空微弱图像(FIRST)中识别出大量射电类星体,包括那些具有复杂射电形态的射电类星体。使用这个样本,我们检查以前的射电类星体样本的选择效应,导致复杂的无线电形态和采用位置重合的无线电和光源之间的单独。我们发现,13.0%和8.1%的射电类星体在其光学位置的1.2和2弧秒内没有显示出射电核心,因此在这样的样本中被遗漏了。射电通量被低估了超过2倍的额外的8.7%的射电类星体。这些缺失的射电扩展类星体的射电噪声更大,具有典型的射电-光通量比,即射电响度RL >100,射电功率P >10^{25} W/Hz。它们占所有RL>100的类星体的三分之一以上。射电扩展类星体的颜色往往比射电致密类星体更蓝。这表明射电扩展类星体是更强大的射电源,例如,Fanaroff-Riley 2型(FR-II)源,而不是在较大倾角下观察的紧凑型源。通过与NRAO VLA巡天(NVSS)的射电数据进行比较,我们发现,对于总射电通量小于3 mJy的源,低表面亮度分量往往被FIRST低估,这表明这些微弱的射电源中的瓣仍然被错过了。

英文摘要:

We identified a large sample of radio quasars, including those with complex radio morphology, from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Faint Images of Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST). Using this sample, we inspect previous radio quasar samples for selection effects resulting from complex radio morphologies and adopting positional coincidence between radio and optical sources alone. We find that 13.0% and 8.1% radio quasars do not show a radio core within 1.2 and 2 arcsecs of their optical position, and thus are missed in such samples. Radio flux is under-estimated by a factor of more than 2 for an additional 8.7% radio quasars. These missing radio extended quasars are more radio loud with a typical radio-to-optical flux ratio namely radio loudness RL >100, and radio power P >10^{25} W/Hz. They account for more than one third of all quasars with RL>100. The color of radio extended quasars tends to be bluer than the radio compact quasars. This suggests that radio extended quasars are more radio powerful sources, e.g., Fanaroff-Riley type 2 (FR-II) sources, rather than the compact ones viewed at larger inclination angles. By comparison with the radio data from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), we find that for sources with total radio flux less than 3 mJy, low surface brightness components tend to be underestimated by FIRST, indicating that lobes in these faint radio sources are still missed.

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