Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Extragalactic Southern Sources Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Vargas et al.
  2. Published by
    NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Abstract
      The ACTSOUTH catalog is a multi-frequency, multi-epoch catalog of extragalactic sources, based on 150, 220 and 280 GHz observations carried out in 2008, 2009 and 2010 using the Millimeter Bolometric Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The catalog contains 695 sources, found in a sky area of ~600 square degrees. It is obtained by cross-matching sources found in 11 sub-catalogs, one for each season and frequency band. Also include are co-added data from ~150 and ~160 square degrees using 2 and 3 years of overlapping observations. The authors divide the sources into two populations, synchrotron and dusty emitters, based on their spectral behavior in the 150 - 220 GHz frequency range. They find 374 synchrotron sources and 321 dusty source candidates. Cross-matching with catalogs from radio to X-ray results in 264 synchrotron sources (71%) and 89 dusty sources (28%) with counterparts, suggesting that 232 dusty candidates are not in existing catalogs. This table was ingested by the HEASARC in November 2023 based upon the files downloaded from the LAMBDA archive at <a href="https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/act_south_cat_get.html">https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/act_south_cat_get.html</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
    
Keywords
  1. Survey Source
Bibliographic source
2023arXiv231017535V
See also HTML
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/actsouth.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://nasa.heasarc/actsouth

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=actsouth&
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
Web browser access HTML
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_actsouth&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1

History

2025-08-29T00:00:00
Resource record created
2025-08-29

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