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 Determination of radio spectra from catalogues and identification of Gigahertz peaked sources (GPS) from the Virtual Observatory Bernd VollmerS. DerriereT. KrichbaumT. Boch, B. Gassmann, E. DavoustP. Dubois, F. Genova, F. OchsenbeinW. van Driel CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, France MPIfR, Bonn, Germany Observatoire Mid- Pyrenees, Toulouse, France Observatoire de Paris, France

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Determination of radio spectra from catalogues and identification 

of Gigahertz peaked sources (GPS) from the Virtual Observatory

Bernd Vollmer, S. Derriere, T. Krichbaum, T. Boch, B. Gassmann, E. Davoust, P. Dubois, F. Genova, F. 

Ochsenbein, W. van Driel

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, FranceMPIfR, Bonn, Germany

Observatoire Mid­ Pyrenees, Toulouse, FranceObservatoire de Paris, France

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The project

• Aim: extract radio cross­ids / spectra from a heterogeneous set of catalogues

• Scientific goal: datamining to search for peculiar sources (e.g. GPS sources = young radio loud AGNs not well understood) + the role of variability in a multi­epoch database

• Results: (i) catalogue of radio spectra (VizieR) =                      added value data for the VO

        (ii) follow­up simultaneous observations at 3      frequencies: assess source variability;

                        search for new GPS sources                   (ii) prototype of a VO tool for                          intelligent data discovery

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Radio surveys

• Single dish              Interferometer• Systematic / pointed (finder) surveys• Main characteristics:         ­ Sky coverage        ­ Frequency     m/cm wavelength range        ­ Angular resolution (beamsize)        ­ Sensitivity

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Cross­identification of radio sources – the influence of frequency

1.9m                                35cm                       20cm                      6cm                                 (Slee 1977)                      (Paul et al. 1992)   (Burns et al. 1983)  (Burns et al. 1983)

Increasing frequency

Example: Cen A

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Cross­identification of radio sources­ the influence of resolution

.

Green Bank20cm10’

Green Bank6cm3.5’

VLA, NVSS20cm45’’VLA, FIRST20cm5’’

VLA, 20cm (Burns et al. 1983)

at a larger distance:

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Cross­identification of radio sources

Based on • on proximity / resolution / source extent • comparison of fluxes at the same 

frequency• radio spectrum (radio SED)• physical characteristics (e.g. galaxies, SN 

remnants, AGNs)

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Steps for cross­identification

• Search for, preparation of and uniformization of radio catalogues

• Definition of code standards• Proximity search• Selection based on fluxes at the 

same frequency• Selection based on radio spectrum• Self­consistency of the final 

catalogue

SPECFIND

VO tool

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SPECFIND

• 22 radio catalogues included• 11 different frequencies• 3.5 million sources (half of them are from the 

NVSS)• Results: ~760,000 independent associations      ~67,000 independent radio spectra with         more than 2 independent points 

­> more than an order of magnitude more than previous works                   (e.g. Vigotti et al. 1989, Kulkarni et al. 1990)

• Cross­ids and spectra available in    VizieR at CDS      

(Vollmer et al., 2005a, 2005b)

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Scientific follow­up project

• Datamining of the SPECFIND database• Search for sources with inverted radio spectrum => 

variability; possible Gigahertz peaked sources (GPS: young radio loud AGN’s not well understood) or futur mm­VLBI targets

• Quasi­simultaneous observations of these sources at three frequencies (4.8 GHz, 10.4 GHz, 32 GHz) with the Effelsberg 100m telescope

• Comparison of spectra from data at different epochs with data at the same epoch =>  

    source variability => potential candidates for intraday variable (IDV) sources

Vollmer et al. (2008)

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GPS source observations: results

• about 50% of the sources show a peak at ν  >1GHz

• ~30% of variable of confused sources 

• <10% uncertain classification

• we add 65 new GPS/HFP sources to existing samples (<200 sources)

Vollmer et al. (2008)

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Going further with VO capabilities

• Preparation and uniformization of radio catalogues very time consuming

• Aim: include a maximum of available radio catalogues (>100)

• Within the framework of VOTECH at CDS:   development of    (i) a tool to search for useful catalogues in the 

Virtual Observatory   (ii) a tool to extract relevant information and to 

uniformise the catalogue information   (iii) a tool to characterise the data

Towards new VO tools

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I. Registry query tool• Finding VO resources based on Unified Content 

Descriptors (UCDs) matching a query (written in Java; uses XMLDV API to get data from an XML registry)

relevant resources

UCD examples:Radio flux:        phot.flux.density;em.radio*Right ascension:   pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDeclination:           pos.eq.dec;meta.main

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II. Data homogenisation tool• Aim: extraction of homogenized data from a heterogeneous set of 

catalogues (Java; works on XML tables)• Output: VOTable or ASCII

homogenization interface

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III. Characterisation tool

• Implementation of the VO « characterization » data model

• Will serve as input for the homogenisation tool

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VizieR catalogue VIII/74A    new release22 radio catalogues 115 radio catalogues3.49 million sources 3.86 million sources (+10%)67000 objects 95500 objects (+40%)

SPECFIND: new release

new release

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Compatibility with previous release

• Dedicated software to compare the two releases

• Interacts with Aladin via SAMP (former PLASTIC)

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Summary• Tool to extract radio spectra from a large set of radio catalogues is 

available (SPECFIND)• Results for 22 radio catalogues are published and available in VizieR 

at CDS (Vollmer et al. 2005a,b)• Scientific follow­up projet based on the datamining of the SPECFIND 

spectra is in progress (Vollmer et al. 2008)• Within the framework of VOTECH at CDS:    development of   (i) a tool to search for useful radio catalogues in the Virtual Observatory   (ii) a tool to extract relevant information from these catalogues and to 

uniformise the catalogue information   (iii) a tool to characterise the data• Prototypes available at  

http://eurovotech.org/twiki/bin/view/VOTech/ResourceDiscovery• New release of SPECFIND catalogue soon     

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Well­behaved sources I

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Well­behaved source II

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Spectral break I

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Spectral break II

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Spectral break III

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Spectral break IV

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Spectral break V

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Extended sources I

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Extended sources II

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Extended sources III

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Complex source

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Physical doubles I

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Physical doubles II

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Physical doubles III

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Physical doubles IV

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Unphysical doubles