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Chandra Survey of Nearby Galaxies: A Significant Population of Candidate Central Black Holes in Late-type Galaxies
Based on the Chandra data archive as of March 2016, we have identified 314
candidate active galactic nuclei in 719 galaxies located closer than 50 Mpc,
among them late-type (Hubble types Sc and later) galaxies that previously had
been classified from optical observations as containing star-forming (H II)
nuclei. These late-type galaxies comprise a valuable subsample to search for
low-mass (<~ 10^6 solar masses) central black holes. For the sample as a whole,
the overall dependence of the fraction of active nuclei on galaxy type and
nuclear spectral classification is consistent with previous results based on
optical surveys. We detect 51 X-ray cores among the 163 H II nuclei and
estimate that, very conservatively, ~74% of them with luminosities above 10^38
erg/s are not contaminated by X-ray binaries; the fraction increases to ~92%
for X-ray cores with a luminosity of 10^39 erg/s or higher. This allows us to
estimate a black hole occupation fraction of >~ 21% in these late-type, many
bulgeless, galaxies.Comment: ApJ to appea
Chandra Survey of Nearby Galaxies: The Catalog
We searched in the public archive of the Chandra X-ray Observatory as of
March 2016 and assembled a sample of 719 galaxies within 50 Mpc with ACIS
observations available. By cross-correlation with the optical or near-infrared
nuclei of these galaxies, 314 of them are identified to have an X-ray active
galactic nucleus (AGN). The majority of them are low-luminosity AGNs and are
unlikely X-ray binaries based upon their spatial distribution and luminosity
functions. The AGN fraction is around 60% for elliptical galaxies and
early-type spirals, but drops to roughly 20% for Sc and later types, consistent
with previous findings in the optical. However, the X-ray survey is more
powerful in finding weak AGNs, especially from regions with active star
formation that may mask the optical AGN signature. For example, 31% of the H II
nuclei are found to harbor an X-ray AGN. For most objects, a single power-law
model subject to interstellar absorption is adequate to fit the spectrum, and
the typical photon index is found to be around 1.8. For galaxies with a
non-detection, their stacked Chandra image shows an X-ray excess with a
luminosity of a few times 10^37 erg/s on average around the nuclear region,
possibly composed of faint X-ray binaries. This paper reports on the technique
and results of the survey; in-depth analysis and discussion of the results will
be reported in forthcoming papers.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journa
Matching Users' Preference Under Target Revenue Constraints in Optimal Data Recommendation Systems
This paper focuses on the problem of finding a particular data recommendation
strategy based on the user preferences and a system expected revenue. To this
end, we formulate this problem as an optimization by designing the
recommendation mechanism as close to the user behavior as possible with a
certain revenue constraint. In fact, the optimal recommendation distribution is
the one that is the closest to the utility distribution in the sense of
relative entropy and satisfies expected revenue. We show that the optimal
recommendation distribution follows the same form as the message importance
measure (MIM) if the target revenue is reasonable, i.e., neither too small nor
too large. Therefore, the optimal recommendation distribution can be regarded
as the normalized MIM, where the parameter, called importance coefficient,
presents the concern of the system and switches the attention of the system
over data sets with different occurring probability. By adjusting the
importance coefficient, our MIM based framework of data recommendation can then
be applied to system with various system requirements and data
distributions.Therefore,the obtained results illustrate the physical meaning of
MIM from the data recommendation perspective and validate the rationality of
MIM in one aspect.Comment: 36 pages, 6 figure
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