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时域光谱巡天:用SDSS- III中的SEQUELS了解光变天空

The Time-Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Understanding the Optically Variable Sky with SEQUELS in SDSS-III

John J. Ruan, Scott F. Anderson, Paul J. Green, Eric Morganson, Michael Eracleous, Adam D. Myers, Carles Badenes, Matthew A. Bershady, William N. Brandt, Kennet… 展开作者

John J. Ruan, Scott F. Anderson, Paul J. Green, Eric Morganson, Michael Eracleous, Adam D. Myers, Carles Badenes, Matthew A. Bershady, William N. Brandt, Kenneth C. Chambers, James R. A. Davenport, Kyle S. Dawson, Heather Flewelling, Timothy M. Heckman, Jedidah C. Isler, Nick Kaiser, Jean-Paul Kneib, Chelsea L. MacLeod, Isabelle Paris, Nicholas P. Ross, Jessie C. Runnoe, Edward F. Schlafly, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Axel D. Schwope, Yue Shen, Keivan G. Stassun, Paula Szkody, Christoper Z. Waters, Donald G. York

摘要:

时域光谱测量(TDSS)是SDSS-IV eBOSS的一个子项目,主要目的是获得从SDSS/Pan-STARRS 1多历元成像中系统选择的约220,000个光学可变物体的识别光谱。我们根据在SDSS-III中的SEQUELS调查中在~320 deg^2的天空上拍摄的TDSS光谱,对TDSS所实现的科学进行了预览,该调查在一定程度上是SDSS-IV中eBOSS的试点调查。使用15,746 TDSS选择的单历元光谱的光度可变对象的SEQUELS,我们确定我们的可变性选择的样本的人口统计,并调查独特的光谱特性固有的样本选择的可变性。我们发现,基于变异性的选择类星体补充基于颜色的选择,通过选择额外的红类星体,并减轻红移偏差,产生一个平滑的类星体红移分布在很宽的范围内的红移。由此产生的类星体样品包含系统的耀变体和宽吸收线类星体比颜色选择的样品更高的分数。同样,我们表明,在TDSS选择的恒星样本中的M-矮星系统地具有较高的色球活性分数比底层的M-矮星人口,根据他们的H-α发射。TDSS还包含大量的具有主序色的天琴座RR和食双星,包括一些复合光谱双星。最后,我们对TDSS光谱的目视检查发现了大量奇特的光谱,我们突出了这些有趣的物体的一些情况。SDSS-IV中的主要TDSS调查将利用从这些早期结果中吸取的经验教训,用于各种时域科学应用。

英文摘要:

The Time-Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) is an SDSS-IV eBOSS subproject primarily aimed at obtaining identification spectra of ~220,000 optically-variable objects systematically selected from SDSS/Pan-STARRS1 multi-epoch imaging. We present a preview of the science enabled by TDSS, based on TDSS spectra taken over ~320 deg^2 of sky as part of the SEQUELS survey in SDSS-III, which is in part a pilot survey for eBOSS in SDSS-IV. Using the 15,746 TDSS-selected single-epoch spectra of photometrically variable objects in SEQUELS, we determine the demographics of our variability-selected sample, and investigate the unique spectral characteristics inherent in samples selected by variability. We show that variability-based selection of quasars complements color-based selection by selecting additional redder quasars, and mitigates redshift biases to produce a smooth quasar redshift distribution over a wide range of redshifts. The resulting quasar sample contains systematically higher fractions of blazars and broad absorption line quasars than from color-selected samples. Similarly, we show that M-dwarfs in the TDSS-selected stellar sample have systematically higher chromospheric active fractions than the underlying M-dwarf population, based on their H-alpha emission. TDSS also contains a large number of RR Lyrae and eclipsing binary stars with main-sequence colors, including a few composite-spectrum binaries. Finally, our visual inspection of TDSS spectra uncovers a significant number of peculiar spectra, and we highlight a few cases of these interesting objects. With a factor of ~15 more spectra, the main TDSS survey in SDSS-IV will leverage the lessons learned from these early results for a variety of time-domain science applications.

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