Candidate Double AGNs from Gaia & WISE (CDAGN) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Makarov V.V.
  2. Secrest N.J.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Making use of strong correlations between closely separated multiple or double sources and photometric and astrometric metadata in Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we generate a catalog of candidate double- and multiply imaged lensed quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), comprising 3140 systems. It includes two partially overlapping parts: a sample of distant (redshifts mostly greater than 1) sources with perturbed data; and systems that have been resolved into separate components by Gaia at separations less than 2". For the first part, which is roughly one-third of the published catalog, we synthesized 0.617 million redshifts using multiple machine-learning prediction and classification methods, using independent photometric and astrometric data from Gaia EDR3 and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, with accurate spectroscopic redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as a training set. Using these synthetic redshifts, we estimate a 4.9% rate of interlopers with spectroscopic redshifts below 1 in this part of the catalog. Unresolved candidate double and dual AGNs and quasars are selected as sources with a marginally high BP/RP excess factor (phot_bp_rp_excess_factor), which is sensitive to source extent, limiting our search to high-redshift quasars. For the second part of the catalog, additional filters on measured parallax and near-neighbor statistics are applied to diminish the propagation of the remaining stellar contaminants. The estimated rate of the positives (double or multiple sources) is 98%, and the estimated rate of dual (physically related) quasars is greater than 54%. A few dozen serendipitously found objects of interest are discussed in more detail, including known and new lensed images, planetary nebulae, young IR stars of peculiar morphology, and quasars with catastrophic redshift errors in SDSS.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. quasars
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. two-color-diagrams
  6. redshifted
  7. gravitational-lensing
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2023ApJS..264....4M
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/264/4
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22640004

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History

2023-04-13T13:21:19Z
Resource record created
2023-04-13T13:21:19Z
Created
2023-08-25T11:34:07Z
Updated

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