442 research outputs found
The X-ray spectral properties of X-ray selected AGN : ROSAT spectra of EMSS AGN
Using a sample of 63 AGNs extracted from the Extended Medium
Sensitivity Survey (EMSS), we study the X-ray spectral properties of X-ray
selected AGN in the 0.12.4 keV ROSAT band. These objects are all the EMSS
AGN detected with more than 300 net counts in ROSAT PSPC images available from
the public archive (as of May 31, 1995). A Maximum-Likelihood analysis is used
to find the mean power-law spectral index and the intrinsic
dispersion $\sigma_p$. We find =1.42 with =0.44. This
value is significantly steeper (0.4) than the mean
/IPC spectral index obtained applying the ML analysis on the whole
sample of EMSS AGN. This result shows that the soft excess already noted in
optically selected AGN is present also in X-ray selected AGN. The relatively
high value obtained for the intrinsic dispersion confirms that in the soft band
AGN are characterized by a variety of spectral indices and the increase with
respect to results obtained from the analysis of Einstein data (0.16) suggests a further broadening of the spectral index
distribution as one moves to softer energies. A comparison between the mean
spectral index of Radio-quiet and Radio-loud subsamples shows that the mean
index of the RL sample is flatter than that of RQ, both in the IPC (0.3) and in the PSPC (0.4) data. This suggests
that the additional X-ray component in RL AGN dominates the X-ray emission of
RL AGN over almost two decades of energy (0.110 keV).Comment: 8 pages LaTex file; mn.sty macro (enclosed), 5 LaTex Tables, 12
Postscript figures; accepted for publication in MNRA
Polarization fluctuations due to extragalactic sources
We have derived the relationship between polarization and intensity
fluctuations due to point sources. In the case of a Poisson distribution of a
population with uniform evolution properties and constant polarization degree,
polarization fluctuations are simply equal to intensity fluctuations times the
average polarization degree. Conservative estimates of the polarization degree
of the classes of extragalactic sources contributing to fluctuations in the
frequency ranges covered by the forthcoming space missions MAP and Planck
Surveyor indicate that extragalactic sources will not be a strong limiting
factor to measurements of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background.Comment: 15 pages LaTeX file, 3 postscript figures. Uses elsart.sty and
elsart.cls Accepted for publication in New Astronom
The BeppoSAX High Energy Large Area Survey (HELLAS) - VI. The radio properties
We present results of a complete radio follow-up obtained with the VLA and
ATCA radio telescopes down to a 6 cm flux limit of about 0.3 mJy of all the 147
X-ray sources detected in the BeppoSAX HELLAS survey. We found 53 X-ray/radio
likely associations, corresponding to about one third of the X-ray sample.
Using the two point spectral index alpha_ro=0.35 we divided all the HELLAS
X-ray sources in radio quiet and radio loud. We have 26 sources classified as
radio-loud objects, corresponding to about 18% of the HELLAS sample. In
agreement with previous results, the identified radio-loud sources are
associated mainly with Type 1 AGNs with L(5-10 keV) > 10^44 erg/s, while all
the identified Type 2 AGNs and Emission Line Galaxies are radio quiet objects
with L(5-10 keV) < 10^44 erg/s. The analysis of the radio spectral index
suggests that Type 1 AGNs have a mean radio spectral index flatter than Type 2
AGNs and Emission Line Galaxies.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS, accepte
A method for space-variant deblurring with application to adaptive optics imaging in astronomy
Images from adaptive optics systems are generally affected by significant
distortions of the point spread function (PSF) across the field of view,
depending on the position of natural and artificial guide stars. Image
reduction techniques circumventing or mitigating these effects are important
tools to take full advantage of the scientific information encoded in AO
images. The aim of this paper is to propose a method for the deblurring of the
astronomical image, given a set of samples of the space-variant PSF. The method
is based on a partitioning of the image domain into regions of isoplanatism and
on applying suitable deconvolution methods with boundary effects correction to
each region. The effectiveness of the boundary effects correction is proved.
Moreover, the criterion for extending the disjoint sections to partially
overlapping sections is validated. The method is applied to simulated images of
a stellar system characterized by a spatially variable PSF. We obtain good
photometric quality, and therefore good science quality, by performing aperture
photometry on the deblurred images. The proposed method is implemented in IDL
in the Software Package "Patch", which is available on
http://www.airyproject.eu.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, accepted by A&
Age, metallicity and star formation history of spheroidal galaxies in cluster at z~1.2
We present the analysis, based on spectra collected at the Large Binocular
Telescope, of the stellar populations in seven spheroidal galaxies in the
cluster XLSSJ0223 at 1.22. The aim is to constrain the epoch of their
formation and their star formation history. Using absorption line strenghts and
full spectral fitting, we derive for the stellar populations of the seven
spheroids a median age =2.40.6 Gyr, corresponding to a median
formation redshift $\sim2.6_{-0.5}^{+0.7}$ (lookback time =
11$_{-1.0}^{+0.6}$ Gyr). We find a significant scatter in age, showing that
massive spheroids, at least in our targeted cluster, are not coeval. The median
metallicity is [Z/H]=0.09$\pm$0.16, as for early-types in clusters at
0$<z<<\sigma_e_{dyn}\Sigma_e_{dyn}\Sigma_e_{dyn}\Sigma_ez\sim1.3$, i.e.
more massive spheroids are more metal rich, have lower stellar mass density and
tend to be older than lower-mass galaxies.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables, published on MNRA
End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system
MAORY is the adaptive optics module of the E-ELT that will feed the MICADO
imaging camera through a gravity invariant exit port. MAORY has been foreseen
to implement MCAO correction through three high order deformable mirrors driven
by the reference signals of six Laser Guide Stars (LGSs) feeding as many
Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensors. A three Natural Guide Stars (NGSs) system
will provide the low order correction. We develop a code for the end-to-end
simulation of the MAORY adaptive optics (AO) system in order to obtain
high-delity modeling of the system performance. It is based on the IDL language
and makes extensively uses of the GPUs. Here we present the architecture of the
simulation tool and its achieved and expected performance.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes +
Instrumentation 2014 in Montr\'eal, Quebec, Canada, with number 9148-25
Topologie non convenzionali per reti di neuroni artificiali
Le reti neurali sono uno strumento informatico che si è progressivamente affermato dalla sua nascita, e si è distinto per le sue grandi potenzialità . Pur non essendo ancora presente una teoria matematica formale che le descriva, esse sono state approfonditamente studiate da ingegneri e informatici, rendendo il loro studio una branca tanto ampia quanto preziosa. In questa tesi presento alcuni modelli di rete neurale e ne illustro le caratteristiche a livello di topologia, elaborazione e addestramento
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