J/ApJS/180/283 WMAP five-year source catalog (Wright+, 2009)
Five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe observations: source catalog.
Wright E.L., Chen X., Odegard N., Bennett C.L., Hill R.S., Hinshaw G.,
Jarosik N., Komatsu E., Nolta M.R., Page L., Spergel D.N., Weiland J.L.,
Wollack E., Dunkley J., Gold B., Halpern M., Kogut A., Larson D., Limon M.,
Meyer S.S., Tucker G.S.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 180, 283-295 (2009)>
=2009ApJS..180..283W 2009ApJS..180..283W
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, radio ; H II regions ; Cross identifications
Radio continuum ; Surveys
Mission_Name: WMAP
Keywords: catalogs - cosmic microwave background - quasars: general
radio continuum: galaxies - surveys
Abstract:
We present the list of point sources found in the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) five-year maps. The technique used in the
first-year and three-year analyses now finds 390 point sources, and
the five-year source catalog is complete for regions of the sky away
from the Galactic plane to a 2Jy limit, with SNR>4.7 in all bands in
the least covered parts of the sky. The noise at high frequencies is
still mainly radiometer noise, but at low frequencies the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is the largest uncertainty. A
separate search of CMB-free V-W maps finds 99 sources of which all but
one can be identified with known radio sources. The sources seen by
WMAP are not strongly polarized. Many of the WMAP sources show
significant variability from year to year, with more than a 2:1 range
between the minimum and maximum fluxes.
Description:
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP; Bennett et al.,
2003ApJ...583....1B 2003ApJ...583....1B) is a Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) mission, that
launched June 2001, designed to study cosmology by producing full-sky
maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. 208 point
sources were found in a search of the first year of WMAP observations
(Bennett et al. 2003, Cat. J/ApJS/148/97). A search for point
sources in the three-year WMAP data found 323 sources (Hinshaw et al.,
2007, Cat. J/ApJS/170/288). In this paper we report on 390 point
sources found in the WMAP five-year maps (Table 1). We have applied
the internal linear combination (ILC) V-W technique to the five-year
maps and there are 99 sources detected in the region with |b|>10°.
These are listed in Table 2. Among them, 64 are in the WMAP five-year
source catalog, 17 can be identified with sources in NED based on
continuity of spectral energy distributions, 17 are in complex
Galactic emission regions, leaving only one source at 09:21:28,
+7:24:22 without any identification.
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table1.dat 98 390 WMAP source catalog
table2.dat 98 99 WMAP point source catalog - five-year V-W bands
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See also:
VIII/5 : Bright Extragalactic Radio Sources (1Jy) (Kuehr+, 1981)
VIII/38 : The Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz (PMN) Surveys (Griffith+ 1993-1996)
VIII/40 : GB6 catalog of radio sources (Gregory+ 1996)
J/ApJS/148/97 : The WMAP First Year Source Catalog (WMAP1) (Bennett+, 2003)
J/ApJS/170/108 : NEWPS5σ source catalogue from WMAP (Lopez-Caniego+,
2007)
J/ApJS/171/61 : All-Sky Survey of Flat-Spectrum Radio Sources (Healey+, 2007)
J/ApJS/170/288 : WMAP 3 Year Temperature Analysis (Hinshaw+, 2007)
J/MNRAS/384/775 : Bright Source Sample of AT20G Survey (Massardi+, 2008)
J/AZh/85/483 : Sources from the WMAP catalog (Vol'vach+, 2008)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
4- 5 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
7- 8 I2 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000)
10 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000)
11- 12 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
14- 15 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
17- 19 I3 --- WMAP1 ? First-year WMAP source ID (J/ApJS/148/97)
21- 24 F4.1 Jy S(K) ?=- WMAP channel K (22GHz) flux
26- 29 F4.2 Jy e_S(K) ? Error on S(K)
31- 34 F4.1 Jy S(Ka) ?=- WMAP channel Ka (30GHz) flux
36- 39 F4.2 Jy e_S(Ka) ? Error on S(Ka)
41- 44 F4.1 Jy S(Q) ?=- WMAP channel Q (40GHz) flux
46- 49 F4.2 Jy e_S(Q) ? Error on S(Q)
51- 54 F4.1 Jy S(V) ?=- WMAP channel V (60GHz) flux
56- 59 F4.2 Jy e_S(V) ? Error on S(V)
61- 64 F4.1 Jy S(W) ?=- WMAP channel W (90GHz) flux
66- 68 F3.1 Jy e_S(W) ? Error on W)
70- 73 F4.1 --- alf Spectral index in the WMAP bands
75- 78 F4.2 --- e_alf Error on alf
80- 94 A15 --- 5GHzID ?=--- 5GHz identification (G1)
96- 98 A3 --- Note Individual note(s) (1)
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Note (1): Notes as follows:
a = Indicates the source has multiple possible identifications.
b = Source J0322-3711 (Fornax A) is extended, and the fluxes listed were
obtained by aperture photometry.
c = Source J0519-0539 is a blend of the Lynds Bright Nebulae
LBN 207.65-23.11 and LBN 207.29-22.66.
d = Source J1356+7647 is outside of the declination range of the GB6 and
PMN catalogs. Identified as QSO NVSSJ135755+764320 by S.A. Trushkin
(2006, private communication).
e = Source J1633+8226 is outside of the declination range of the GB6 and
PMN catalogs. It was identified as NGC 6251 by Trushkin
(2003BSAO...55...90T 2003BSAO...55...90T).
f = Source J1657+4754 is identified as QSO GB6J1658+4737 by S.A.
Trushkin (2006, private communication). Offset from the WMAP position is
18.1arcmin.
v = Probable variable: χ2>37.6.
V = Variable: χ2>100.
D = not explain in the paper.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
4- 5 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
7- 8 I2 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000)
10 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000)
11- 12 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
14- 15 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
17- 18 I2 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of declination (J2000)
20- 23 A4 --- --- [WMAP]
25- 34 A10 --- WMAP WMAP ID (JHHMM+DDMM)
36- 39 A4 --- OType Object type (G, QSO or HII)
41- 44 F4.1 arcmin Dist ? Distance from 5GHzID
46- 50 F5.1 Jy S(V) V-band flux (1)
52- 54 F3.1 Jy e_S(V) ? Error on S(V)
56- 60 F5.2 mK T(V-W) V-W temperature
62- 75 A14 --- 5GHzID 5GHz identification (G1)
76 A1 --- f_5GHzID [m ] Flag on 5GHzID (2)
78- 80 A3 --- ID/Mask Yes or No for Identified/Masked (3)
82- 98 A17 --- Notes Notes (4)
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Note (1): The V-band fluxes of the identified sources are calculated as in
Chen & Wright (2008ApJ...681..747C 2008ApJ...681..747C); the fluxes of the unidentified
sources are estimated by multiplying the V-W temperature in the
filtered map with the median conversion factor from V-W temperatures
to V-band fluxes of the identified sources and are given without an
uncertainty.
Note (2): 'm' indicates the source has multiple possible 5GHz identifications.
The brightest one is given here.
Note (3): Three-year WMAP point source mask is considered here
(Hinshaw et al. 2007, Cat. J/ApJS/170/288)
Note (4): Flags in Notes as follows:
d and * = new source cross-detected in Nie & Zhang (2007ChJAA...7..199N 2007ChJAA...7..199N)
and Lopez-Caniego et al. (2007, Cat. J/ApJS/170/108).
D = the source is included in the CRATES catalog
(Healey et al., 2007, Cat. J/ApJS/171/61)
+ = the source is included in the AT20G BSS catalog
(Massardi et al., 2008, Cat. J/MNRAS/384/775)
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Global Notes:
Note (G1): 5GHz identifications from:
PMN JHHMM+DDMM (Griffith et al., 1994, Cat. VIII/38),
GB6 JHHMM+DDMM (Gregory et al., 1996, Cat. VIII/40) or
1Jy HHMM+DD, Kuhr et al., 1981, (Cat. VIII/5).
If a 5GHz source is within 11' of the WMAP source position (the WMAP
source position uncertainty is 4') we identify the WMAP source with
the 5GHz source and list the identification in Table 1.
Nomenclature Notes:
Table 1: and
Table 2: <[WCO2009] JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> in Simbad.
History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 09-Oct-2009