CHANG-ES - XXVII. A radio/X-ray catalogue of compact sources in and around edge-on galaxies
Abstract
We present catalogues of discrete, compact radio sources in and around the discs of 35 edge-on galaxies in the Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies - an EVLA Survey. The sources were extracted using the PYBDSF program at both 1.6 GHz (L band) and 6.0 GHz (C band) from matching resolution (≈3 arcsec) data. We also present catalogues of X-ray sources from Chandra data sets for 27 of the galaxies. The sources at the two radio frequency bands were positionally cross-correlated with each other, and the result cross-correlated with the X-ray sources. All catalogues are included for download with this paper. We detect a total of 2507 sources at L band and 1413 sources at C band. 75 sources have been successfully cross-correlated in both radio bands plus X-ray. Three new nuclear sources are candidates for low luminosity active galactic nuclei in NGC 3877, NGC 4192, and NGC 5792; the one in NGC 3877 also appears to be variable. We also find new nuclear sources in two companion galaxies: NGC 4435 (companion to NGC 4438) and NGC 4298 (companion to NGC 4302). We have also discovered what appears to be a foreground double star; each star has X-ray emission and there is radio emission at both L band and C band in between them. This could be a colliding wind binary system. Suggestions for follow-up studies are offered.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stac659
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2202.13225
- Bibcode:
- 2022MNRAS.512.5755I
- Keywords:
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- catalogues;
- galaxies: nuclei;
- radio continuum: galaxies;
- X-rays: galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Accepted to MNRAS, 57 pages of which pages 30 to 57 are figures. 5 ancillary files containing tabular information, as explained in the appendices