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The KHOLOD Experiment: A Search for a New Population of Radio Sources
Published data from long-term observations of a strip of sky at declination
+5 degrees carried out at 7.6 cm on the RATAN-600 radio telescope are used to
estimate some statistical properties of radio sources. Limits on the
sensitivity of the survey due to noise imposed by background sources, which
dominates the radiometer sensitivity, are refined. The vast majority of noise
due to background sources is associated with known radio sources (for example,
from the NVSS with a detection threshold of 2.3 mJy) with normal steep spectra
({\alpha} = 0.7-0.8, S \propto {\nu}^{- \alpha}), which have also been detected
in new deep surveys at decimeter wavelengths. When all such objects are removed
from the observational data, this leaves another noise component that is
observed to be roughly identical in independent groups of observations. We
suggest this represents a new population of radio sources that are not present
in known catalogs at the 0.6 mJy level at 7.6 cm. The studied redshift
dependence of the number of steep-spectrum objects shows that the sensitivity
of our survey is sufficient to detect powerful FRII radio sources at any
redshift, right to the epoch of formation of the first galaxies. The inferred
new population is most likely associated with low-luminosity objects at
redshifts z < 1. In spite of the appearance of new means of carrying out direct
studies of distant galaxies, searches for objects with very high redshifts
among steep and ultra-steep spectrum radio sources remains an effective method
for studying the early Universe.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
Flaring variability of Microquasars
We discuss flaring variability of radio emission of microquasars, measured in
monitoring programs with the RATAN-600 radio telescope. We carried out a
multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of
the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, and Cyg X-3 during the recent sets in
2005-2007. A lot of bright short-time flares were detected from GRS 1915+105
and they could be associated with active X-ray events. In January 2006 we
detected a drop down of the quiescent fluxes from Cyg X-3 (from 100 to 20
mJy), then the 1 Jy-flare was detected on 2 February 2006 after 18 days of
quenched radio emission. The daily spectra of the flare in the maximum were
flat from 2 to 110 GHz, using the quasi-simultaneous observations at 110 GHz
with the RT45m telescope and the NMA millimeter array of NRO in Japan. Several
bright radio flaring events (1-15 Jy) followed during the continuing state of
very variable and intensive 1-12 keV X-ray emission (0.5 Crab), which was
monitored in the RXTE ASM program. Swift/BAT ASM hard X-ray fluxes correlated
strongly with flaring radio data. The various spectral and temporal
characteristics of the light curves from the microquasars could be determined
from such comparison. We conclude that monitoring of the flaring radio emission
is a good tracer of jet activity X-ray binaries.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, published in the proceedings of the Second
Kolkata conference on Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe,
ed. S.K. Chakrabarti (AIP
Radio emission of the Galactic X-rays binaries with relativistic jets
Variable non-thermal radio emission from Galactic X-ray binaries is a trace
of relativistic jets, created near accretion disks. The spectral
characteristics of a lot of radio flares in the X-ray binaries with jets (RJXB)
is discussed in this report. We carried out several long daily monitoring
programs with the RATAN-600 radio telescope of the sources: SS433, Cyg X-3,
LSI+61o303, GRS 1915+10 and some others. We also reviewed some data from the
GBI monitoring program at two frequencies and hard X-ray BATSE (20-100 keV) and
soft X-ray RTXE (2-12 keV) ASM data. We confirmed that flaring radio emission
of Cyg X-3 correlated with hard and anti-correlated with soft X-ray emission
during the strong flare (>\tau$ depends upon frequency as tau \propto \nu^{-0.4} in the first
flare and does not depend upon frequency in the second flare, and is equal to
\tau=6+-1 days at frequencies from 0.96 to 21.7 GHz in the last flare in May
1999. Many flaring RJXB show two, exponential and power, laws of flare decay.
Moreover, these different laws could be present in one or several flares and
commonly flare decays are faster at a higher frequency. The decay law seems to
change because of geometric form of the conical hollow jets. The synchrotron
and inverse Compton losses could explain general frequency dependences in flare
evolution. In conclusion we summarized the general radio properties of RJXB.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, 14 Postscript figures, talk given at the Gamov
Memorial International Conference (GMIC'99) "Early Universe: Cosmological
Problems and Instrumental Technologies" in St.Petersburg, 23-27 August, 1999,
to appear in Astron. Astrophys. Trans., 200
Observations of the bright radio sources in the North Celestial Pole region at the RATAN-600 radio telescope
A survey of the North Celestial Pole region using the RATAN-600 radio
telescope at five frequencies in the range 2.3 to 21.7 GHz is described.
Sources were chosen from the NVSS catalogue. The flux densities of 171 sources
in the Declination range +75 to +88 are presented; typical flux density errors
are 5-10 percent including calibration errors. About 20 percent of the sources
have flat spectra or a flat component.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures; to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
(without last figure with the spectra of the observed sources
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