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Title:
Radio Continuum Survey of an Optically Selected Sample of Nearby Seyfert Galaxies
Authors:
Ho, Luis C.; Ulvestad, James S.
Affiliation:
AA(The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101-1292 ), AB(National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 0, 1003 Lopezville Road, Socorro, NM 87801; )
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 133, Issue 1, pp. 77-118. (ApJS Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2001
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Jets, Galaxies: Nuclei, Galaxies: Seyfert, Galaxies: Structure, Radio Continuum: Galaxies
DOI:
10.1086/319185
Bibliographic Code:
2001ApJS..133...77H

Abstract

We have used the Very Large Array (VLA) to conduct a survey for radio continuum emission in the sample of 52 Seyfert nuclei selected from the optical spectroscopic galaxy catalog of Ho, Filippenko, & Sargent. This Seyfert sample is the most complete and least biased available, and, as such, it will be useful for a variety of statistical analyses. Here we present the observations, measurements, and an atlas of radio maps. The observations were made at 6 cm in the B array and at 20 cm in the A array, yielding matched angular resolutions of ~1". We detected 44 objects (85%) at 6 cm and 37 objects (71%) at 20 cm above a 3 σ threshold of 0.12 mJy beam-1. The sources have a wide range of radio powers (P~1018-1025 W Hz-1), spectral indices (α206~+0.5 to -1), and linear sizes (L~few tens pc-15 kpc). The morphology of the radio emission is predominantly that of a compact core, either unresolved or slightly resolved, occasionally accompanied by elongated, jetlike features. Linearly polarized emission was detected at 6 cm in 12 sources, nine of which were also detected at 20 cm.

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