As part of an on-going study of radio transients in Epoch 1 (2017-2019) of the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS), we have discovered a sample of 0.2<z<3.2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected in the optical/infrared that have recently brightened dramatically in the radio. These sources would have previously been classified as radio-quiet based on upper limits from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters (FIRST; 1993-2011) survey; however, they are now consistent with radio-loud quasars. We present a quasi-simultaneous, multi-band (1-18 GHz) VLA follow-up campaign of our sample of AGN with extreme radio variability. We conclude that the radio properties are most consistent with AGN that have recently launched jets within the past few decades, potentially making them among the youngest radio AGN known.
The VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project: Star formation properties and radio luminosity functions of AGN with moderate-to-high radiative luminosities out to $z\sim6$
Deep radio surveys of extragalactic legacy fields trace a large range of spatial and brightness temperature sensitivity scales, and therefore have differing biases to radio-emitting physical components within galaxies. This is particularly true of radio surveys performed at less than 1 arcsec angular resolutions, and so robust comparisons are necessary to better understand the biases present in each survey. We present a multi-resolution and multi-wavelength analysis of the sources detected in a new Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) survey of the CANDELS GOODS-North field. For the 24 VLBA-selecte…
($ABRIDGED$) We probe the physical properties and large-scale environment of radio AGN in the faintest FR population to-date, and link them to their radio structure. We use the VLA-COSMOS Large Project at 3 GHz, with resolution and sensitivity of 0".75 and 2.3 $μ$Jy/beam, respectively, to explore the FR dichotomy down to $μ$Jy levels. We classify objects as FRIs, FRIIs or hybrid FRI/FRII based on the surface-brightness distribution along their radio structure. Our control sample is the jet-less/compact radio AGN (COM AGN) which show excess radio emission at 3 GHz VLA-COSMOS exceeding what is c…
We present ultra-deep, matched-resolution Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations at 10 and $3$ GHz in the COSMOS field: the COSMOS-XS survey. The final 10 and $3$ GHz images cover $\sim16\rm{arcmin}^{2}$ and $\sim180\rm{arcmin}^{2}$ and reach median rms values of $0.41μ\rm{Jy\,beam}^{-1}$ and $0.53μ\rm{Jy\,beam}^{-1}$, respectively. Both images have an angular resolution of $\sim 2.0''$. To fully account for the spectral shape and resolution variations across the broad bands, we image all data with a multi-scale, multi-frequency synthesis algorithm. We present source catalogs for t…
We have constructed a catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with $z < 0.13$, based on optical spectroscopy, from the parent sample of galaxies in the 6dF galaxy survey (Final Release of 6dFGS), a census of the Southern hemisphere. This work is an extension of our all sky AGN catalog \citet [ZCF, here after]{ZCF19}. The ZCF is based on 43,533 galaxies with $\rm K_s \leq$ 11.75 ($z \leq 0.09$) in the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS). The parent catalog of this work, the 6dF catalog, consists of 136,304 publicly available digital spectra for 125,071 galaxies with $\rm Dec \leq 0^\circ$ and $\rm K_…
We present radio observations of the galaxy merger remnant Mrk 212 with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the upgraded Giant Meter Radio Telescope (uGMRT). Mrk 212 has two previously known radio sources associated with the two optical nuclei, S1 and S2, with a projected separation of ~6 kpc, making it a dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidate. Our new 15 GHz VLA observations reveal that S1 is a double radio source centred around the optical nucleus; its total extent is ~750 parsec and its average 1.4-8.5 GHz spectral index is -0.81 +/- 0.06. S1 therefore, resembles a compact sy…
Thirteen dwarf galaxies have recently been found to host radio-selected accreting massive black hole (MBH) candidates, some of which are ``wandering" in the outskirts of their hosts. We present 9 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of these sources at milliarcsecond resolution. Our observations have beam solid angles ${\sim}10^4$ times smaller than the previous Very Large Array (VLA) observations at 9 GHz, with comparable point source sensitivities. We detect milliarcsecond-scale radio sources at the positions of the four VLA sources most distant from the photo-centers of their as…
The VLA Survey of the Chandra Deep Field South. V. Evolution and Luminosity Functions of sub-mJy radio sources and the issue of radio emission in radio-quiet AGN
Radio-Infrared Correlation for Local Dusty Galaxies and Dusty AGNs from the AKARI All Sky Survey
我们使用AKARI的远红外全天巡天与NVSS射电数据库相匹配的新版本来调查不同类型的河外源的本地（$z<0.25$）远红外射电相关（FIRC）。为了获得AKARI FIS源的红移信息，我们将星表与SDSS DR 8交叉匹配。这也使我们能够使用发射线的性质，以划分为四类来源：i）恒星形成星系（SFG），ii）复合星系（显示恒星形成和活跃的核心组件），iii）塞弗特星系，和iv）低电离核发射线区（LINER）星系。我们发现，塞弗特星系有最低的FIR/无线电通量比，并显示过量的无线电发射时相比，SFG。我们的结论是，FIRC可以用来分离SFG和AGN只有最响亮的射电对象。
The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is observing the entire sky north of $-40^{\circ}$ in the S-band ($2<ν<4\,$GHz), with the highest angular resolution ($2''.5$) of any all-sky radio continuum survey to date. VLASS will cover its entire footprint over three distinct epochs, the first of which has now been observed in full. Based on Quick Look images from this first epoch, we have created a catalog of $1.9\times10^{6}$ reliably detected radio components. Due to the limitations of the Quick Look images, component flux densities are underestimated by $\sim 15\,\%$ at $S_{\text{peak}}>3\,$mJy…
We make use of ultra-deep 3 GHz Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array observations of the COSMOS field from the multi-band COSMOS-XS survey to infer radio luminosity functions (LFs) of star-forming galaxies (SFGs). Using $\sim$1300 SFGs with redshifts out to $z\sim4.6$, and fixing the faint and bright end shape of the radio LF to the local values, we find a strong redshift trend that can be fitted by pure luminosity evolution with the luminosity parameter given by $α_L \propto (3.40 \pm 0.11) - (0.48 \pm 0.06)z$. We then combine the ultra-deep COSMOS-XS data-set with the shallower VLA-COSMOS $\mathr…
The XXL survey LII : The evolution of radio AGN luminosity function determined via parametric methods from GMRT, ATCA, VLA and Cambridge interferometer observations
We have conducted a systematic survey for z $<$ 0.04 active Galactic nuclei (AGNs) that may have changed spectral class over the past decade. We use SkyMapper, Pan-STARRS and the Véron-Cetty & Véron (2010) catalogue to search the entire sky for these ``changing-look'' AGNs using a variety of selection methods, where Pan-STARRS has a coverage of 3$π$ steradians (sky north of Declination $-30^\circ$) and SkyMapper has coverage of $\sim$ 21,000$~\rm{deg^2}$ (sky south of Declination $0^\circ$). We use small aperture photometry to measure how colour and flux have changed over time, where a change …
We present the discovery of a sample of 18 low-redshift (z<0.3) galaxies with transient nuclear radio emission. These galaxies are not or weakly detected in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm survey performed on 1993-2009, but have brightened significantly in the radio flux (by a factor of >5) in the epoch I (2017-2019) observations of Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). All the 18 galaxies have been detected in the epoch II VLASS observations in 2020-2021, for which the radio flux is found to evolve slowly (by a factor of ~40%) over a period of about three years. 15 galaxies have…
Systematic research of low redshift optically selected SDSS Type-2 AGN but with apparent long-term optical variabilities from Catalina Sky Survey, I: data sample and basic results
The radiative and jet power in active galactic nuclei is generated by accretion of material on to supermassive galactic-centre black holes. For quasars, where the radiative power is by definition very high, objects with high radio luminosities form around 10 per cent of the population, although it is not clear whether this is a stable phase. Traditionally, quasars with high radio luminosities have been thought to present jets with edge-brightened morphology (Fanaroff-Riley II - FR II) due to the limitations of previous radio surveys (i.e., FRIs were not observed as part of the quasar populatio…
Back to basics: Little Red Dots as galaxies and dust-obscured AGNs in a synthetic NIRCam sky simulated with L-GalaxiesBH
Donostia International Physics Centre (DIPC)（多诺斯蒂亚国际物理中心）；University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU（巴斯克国立大学）；Como Lake Center for AstroPhysics, University of Insubria（因斯布鲁克大学科莫湖天体物理中心）；Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca（米兰比可卡大学 G. Occhialini 物理系）；INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca（意大利国家核物理研究所米兰比可卡分部）；Key Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院国家天文台计算天体物理学重点实验室）；School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学天文与空间科学学院）；Institute for Frontiers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学前沿天文与天体物理研究所）；School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学物理与天文学院）；Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC)（空间科学研究所（加泰罗尼亚高等研究学院，西班牙国家科研委员会））
A Wide and Deep Exploration of Radio-detected Active Galactic Nuclei with Subaru HSC (WERGS). XIII. High-z Radio Quasar Selection from HSC--VLASS over $\sim1200$ deg$^2$
The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Tohoku University（东北大学）；Hosei University（法政大学）；National Astronomical Observatory of Japan（日本国立天文台）；Waseda University（早稻田大学）；ILANCE, CNRS – University of Tokyo International Research Laboratory（ILANCE，法国国家科学研究中心-东京大学国际研究实验室）
A Study of Active Galactic Nuclei in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectroscopy
低表面亮度星系（LSBG）中的活动星系核（AGN）在以往的研究中很少受到关注。本文对Impey等人（1996）的APM LSBG样品中的194个LSBG进行了详细的光谱分析，这些样品是由Sloan数字巡天数据发布5（SDSS DR 5）进行光谱观测的。我们精心的光谱分析使我们能够进行，第一次，可靠的光谱分类的基础上，严格的标准发射线诊断图在LSBGs的核活动。恒星形成星系是常见的，在大约52%的LSBG中发现。我们发现，与以前的一些说法相反，含有活动星系核的星系的比例显着低于附近的正常星系的高表面亮度。这与Impey等人（2001年）的研究结果定性一致。这一结果适用于每个形态类型，从Sa到Sc。具有较大的中心恒星速度色散，或较大的物理尺寸的LSBG，往往有更高的机会窝藏AGN。对于三个具有宽发射线的活动星系核，由发射线估算的黑洞质量与已知的正常星系和活动星系核的M- $σ_\ast$关系基本一致。
VLA FRAMEx. III. Circumnuclear Radio Emission Mechanisms in Hard X-ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei
The George Washington University（乔治华盛顿大学）；Space Telescope Science Institute（太空望远镜科学研究所）；University of Maryland Baltimore County（马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校）；Arlington Public Schools（阿灵顿公立学校）
Ram pressure stripping is a crucial evolutionary driver for cluster galaxies. It is thought to be able to accelerate the evolution of their star formation, trigger the activity of their central active galactic nucleus (AGN) and the interplay between the galactic and environmental gas, and eventually dissipate their gas reservoir. We explored the outcomes of ram pressure stripping by studying the non-thermal radio emission of the jellyfish galaxy JW100 in the cluster Abell 2626 ($z=0.055$) by combining LOFAR, MeerKAT, and VLA observations from 0.144 to 5.5 GHz. We studied the integrated spectra…
Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - IX: Merger-induced AGN activity as traced by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
星系之间的相互作用预计会导致气体流入，可能引发核活动。由于流入的物质可以掩盖相互作用星系的中心区域，以前的光学研究的一个潜在的限制是，被掩盖的活动星系核（AGN）可以错过在合并序列的各个阶段。我们提出了第一个大的中红外研究活动星系核合并和星系对，以量化的相互作用所引发的模糊活动星系核的发病率。样本由斯隆数字巡天（Sloan Digital Sky Survey）绘制的星系对和合并后的星系组成，这些星系对和宽视场红外天空探测器（WISE）的探测结果相匹配。我们发现，在对活动星系核的分数，相对于质量，红移和环境匹配的控制样本，增加作为一个功能，减少预计分离。这种增强是最引人注目的合并后的样本，在那里我们发现一个因素的10-20过剩的活动星系核部分相比，控制。虽然这种趋势是在定性协议的基础上的光学活动星系核选择的结果，中红外选择活动星系核过剩增加更显着地在合并后比光学活动星系核。我们的研究结果表明，积极占主导地位的光学遮蔽活动星系核变得更加普遍，在最先进的合并，与理论预测一致。
We have performed a search over 3440 deg$^2$ of Epoch 1 (2017-2019) of the Very Large Array Sky Survey to identify unobscured quasars in the optical ($0.2 < z < 3.2$) and obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the infrared that have brightened dramatically in the radio over the past one to two decades. These sources would have been previously classified as "radio-quiet" quasars based on upper limits from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters survey (1993-2011), but they are now consistent with "radio-loud" quasars ($L_{\rm 3\,GHz} = 10^{40 - 42} \,\, {\rm erg} \,{\rm s}^{-1…
