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Design of recursive digital filters having specified phase and magnitude characteristics
A method for a computer-aided design of a class of optimum filters, having specifications in the frequency domain of both magnitude and phase, is described. The method, an extension to the work of Steiglitz, uses the Fletcher-Powell algorithm to minimize a weighted squared magnitude and phase criterion. Results using the algorithm for the design of filters having specified phase as well as specified magnitude and phase compromise are presented
Automated optical identification of a large complete northern hemisphere sample of flat spectrum radio sources with S_6cm > 200 mJy
This paper describes the automated optical APM identification of radio
sources from the Jodrell Bank - VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS), as used for the
search for distant radio-loud quasars. The sample has been used to investigate
possible relations between optical and radio properties of flat spectrum radio
sources. From the 915 sources in the sample, 756 have an optical APM
identification at a red (e) and/or blue (o) plate,resulting in an
identification fraction of 83% with a completeness and reliability of 98% and
99% respectively. About 20% are optically identified with extended APM objects
on the red plates, e.g. galaxies. However the distinction between galaxies and
quasars can not be done properly near the magnitude limit of the POSS-I plates.
The identification fraction appears to decrease from >90% for sources with a 5
GHz flux density of >1 Jy, to <80% for sources at 0.2 Jy. The identification
fraction, in particular that for unresolved quasars, is found to be lower for
sources with steeper radio spectra. In agreement with previous studies, we find
that the quasars at low radio flux density levels also tend to have fainter
optical magnitudes, although there is a large spread. In addition, objects with
a steep radio-to-optical spectral index are found to be mainly highly polarised
quasars, supporting the idea that in these objects the polarised synchrotron
component is more prominent. It is shown that the large spread in
radio-to-optical spectral index is possibly caused by source to source
variations in the Doppler boosting of the synchrotron component [Abridged].Comment: LaTex, 17 pages, 5 gif figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in
MNRAS. High resolution figures can be found at http://www.roe.ac.uk/~ignas
ATPMN: accurate positions and flux densities at 5 and 8 GHz for 8,385 sources from the PMN survey
We present a source catalogue of 9,040 radio sources resulting from
high-resolution observations of 8,385 PMN sources with the Australia Telescope
Compact Array. The catalogue lists flux density and structural measurements at
4.8 and 8.6 GHz, derived from observations of all PMN sources in the
declination range -87 deg < delta < -38.5 deg (exclusive of galactic latitudes
|b| 70 mJy (50 mJy south of delta = -73
deg). We assess the quality of the data, which was gathered in 1992-1994,
describe the population of catalogued sources, and compare it to samples from
complementary catalogues. In particular we find 127 radio sources with probable
association with gamma-ray sources observed by the orbiting Fermi Large Area
Telescope.Comment: 20 pages, 21 figure
SINFONI's take on Star Formation, Molecular Gas, and Black Hole Masses in AGN
We present some preliminary (half-way) results on our adaptive optics
spectroscopic survey of AGN at spatial scales down to 0.085arcsec. Most of the
data were obtained with SINFONI which provides integral field capability at a
spectral resolution of R~4000. The themes on which we focus in this
contribution are: star formation around the AGN, the properties of the
molecular gas and its relation to the torus, and the mass of the black hole.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Science Perspectives for 3D
Spectroscopy. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Ed by M. Kissler-Patig, M. Roth and
J. Wals
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