J/other/RAA/14.942 Rotation measures of radio point sources (Xu+, 2014)
A compiled catalog of rotation measures of radio point sources.
Xu J., Han J.-L.
<Res. Astron. Astrophys., 14, 942-958 (2014)>
=2014RAA....14..942X 2014RAA....14..942X
ADC_Keywords: Radio sources
Keywords: catalogs - polarization - radio continuum: ISM - ISM: magnetic fields
Abstract:
We compiled a catalog of Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for 4553
extragalactic radio point sources published in literature. These RMs
were derived from multi-frequency polarization observations. The RM
data are compared to those in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) RM
catalog. We reveal a systematic uncertainty of about
10.0±1.5rad/m2 in the NVSS RM catalog. The Galactic foreground RM
is calculated through a weighted averaging method by using the
compiled RM catalog together with the NVSS RM catalog, with careful
consideration of uncertainties in the RM data. The data from the
catalog and the interface for the Galactic foreground RM calculations
are publicly available on the webpage: http://zmtt.bao.ac.cn/RM/ .
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 168 5264 A compiled catalog of Faraday rotation measures
of point sources
refs.dat 87 67 References
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See also:
J/ApJS/45/97 : Extragal. Radio Sources Faraday Rotation
(Simard-Normandin+ 1981)
J/A+AS/105/385 : Radio observations of Coma cluster I (Kim+ 1994)
J/A+AS/131/303 : GHz-Peaked-Spectrum radio sources (Stanghellini+ 1998)
J/AJ/115/1253 : Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS). I. (Perlman+ 1998)
J/A+A/406/579 : B3-VLA sample. III. Polarisation (Klein+, 2003)
J/ApJS/145/213 : Rotation measures of compact sources in CGPS (Brown+, 2003)
J/MNRAS/360/1305 : Polarization of extragalactic sources (Roy+, 2005)
J/MNRAS/381/341 : MRCR-SUMSS Ultra-steep-spectrum sample (Broderick+, 2007)
J/ApJ/663/258 : Rotation measures of extrag. sources in SGPS (Brown+, 2007)
J/ApJ/688/1029 : Magnetic field in the SMC (Mao+, 2008)
J/ApJ/702/1230 : Rotation measure image of the sky (Taylor+, 2009)
J/ApJ/707/114 : Faraday rotation in Cen A (Feain, 2009)
J/ApJ/714/1170 : Faraday rotation at high Galactic latitude (Mao+, 2010)
J/ApJ/728/97 : VLA rotation measures in the Galactic plane (Van Eck+, 2011)
J/ApJ/728/97 : VLA rotation measures in the Galactic plane (Van Eck+, 2011)
J/ApJ/755/21 : Rotation measures of extrag. radio sources (Mao+, 2012)
J/ApJ/759/25 : Rotation measures at 1.4GHz toward the LMC (Mao+, 2012)
J/A+A/559/A27 : RM Synthesis of 33 sources around M31 (Giessubel+, 2013)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 5 I5 --- Seq [1/4553] Source sequential number (1)
6 A1 --- --- [_]
7 I1 --- m_Seq [1/4]? Multiplicity number when more than one
line of data for this object (1)
9- 10 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000)
12- 13 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000)
15- 19 F5.2 s RAs [0/60] Right ascension (J2000)
21 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000)
22- 23 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000)
25- 26 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000)
28- 32 F5.2 arcsec DEs [0/60] Declination (J2000)
34 A1 --- rPos [FMNOV] Origin of the source position (2)
39- 45 F7.3 deg GLON Galactic longitude
47- 53 F7.3 deg GLAT Galactic latitude
55- 61 F7.1 rad/m2 RM Rotation measure
63- 66 F4.1 rad/m2 e_RM rms uncertainty on RM
68- 69 A2 --- q_RM [ABCD +] Grade of measurements (3)
71- 77 A7 --- r_RM Reference fro RM observations (see "refs.dat")
79- 89 A11 --- Tel Telescope
91- 95 F5.3 GHz Freq1 [0.3/8.4]? Frequency range of RM observation
97 A1 --- --- [-]
98-103 F6.3 GHz Freq2 [0.3/43]? Frequency range of RM observation
105-108 I4 --- NFr [3/4096]? Number of frequencies or channels
for the observations
110-116 F7.3 arcsec Res [1/378]? Angular resolution for RM determination
118-121 A4 --- Type Object type, from NED or Simbad
123-128 F6.4 --- z [0/4.3]? Redshift (see "refs.dat")
130-136 A7 --- r_z Reference for redshift
137-168 A32 --- Rem Remark or names in original references
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Note (1): Additional RM values in literature are indicated with the suffix
"_1", "_2", etc
Note (2): Note on source position as follows:
F = source position from FIRST survey database
V = source position from NVSS survey database
M = measured position from the published radio maps of the RM paper
N = source position taken from NED
O = Original position from literature of RM measurement
Note (3): RM uncertainties are <3rad/m2 for grade A, 3-10 for grade B,
10-30 for grade C, and >30rad/m2 for grade D.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 7 A7 --- Ref Reference code
10- 28 A19 --- BibCode BibCode
30- 54 A25 --- Aut Author's name
55- 87 A33 --- Com Comments
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History:
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(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 17-Apr-2015