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The Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404: New Evidence from Radio Continuum Observations
We present the results of deep, high-resolution, 5 GHz Expanded Very Large
Array (EVLA) observations of the nearby, dwarf lenticular galaxy and
intermediate mass black hole candidate (M ~4.5 x 10^5 M_sun), NGC 404. For the
first time, radio emission at frequencies above 1.4 GHz has been detected in
this galaxy. We found a modestly resolved source in the NGC 404 nucleus with a
total radio luminosity of 7.6 +/- 0.7 x 10^17 W/Hz at 5 GHz and a spectral
index from 5 to 7.45 GHz of alpha = -0.88 +/- 0.30. NGC 404 is only the third
central intermediate mass black hole candidate detected in the radio regime
with subarcsecond resolution. The position of the radio source is consistent
with the optical center of the galaxy and the location of a known, hard X-ray
point source (Lx ~1.2 x 10^37 erg/s). The faint radio and X-ray emission could
conceivably be produced by an X-ray binary, star formation, a supernova remnant
or a low-luminosity AGN powered by an intermediate mass black hole. In light of
our new EVLA observations, we find that the most likely scenario is an
accreting intermediate mass black hole, with other explanations incompatible
with the observed X-ray and/or radio luminosities or statistically unlikely.Comment: Accepted for publication to Ap
Observations of hydroxyl in early-type galaxies
We used Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Telescope to observe OH in twelve early type galaxies with known reservoirs of dense gas. We present three new detections of OH in absorption in the 1667 MHz line. One objective of our survey was to find evidence of molecular outflows, but our sensitivity, and the strength of the OH absorption, were insufficient to detect outflows. The detected sources have infrared luminosities and dust temperatures among the
lowest of any galaxy detected in OH absorption. The ratio L_(HCN)=L_(CO), a measure of the dense gas fraction in galaxies, is a powerful selector of OH megamasers for galaxies with high infrared luminosity. In early-type galaxies, which have much lower infrared luminosities, L_(HCN)=L_(CO) is also a promising tool for discovering OH, but in absorption rather than in maser emission. In addition to dense molecular gas, a radio continuum source and a favorable line-of-sight to the observer are likely key factors in detecting OH absorbers
Multi-band Optical and Near-infrared Properties of Faint Submillimeter Galaxies with Serendipitous ALMA Detections
We present a catalog of 26 faint submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the XMM-LSS
field identified by cross-matching serendipitously detected sources in archival
ALMA Band 6 and 7 data with multi-band near-infrared (NIR) and optical data
from the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey, the VISTA Deep
Extragalactic Survey, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Large Survey,
and the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program. Of the 26 SMGs in our
sample, 15 are identified here for the first time. The majority of the sources
in our sample (16/26) have faint submm fluxes (). In addition to the 26 SMGs with multi-band optical and NIR
detections, there are 60 highly-reliable () ALMA sources with no
counterpart in any other band down to an IRAC [4.5] magnitude of . To further characterize the 26 galaxies with both ALMA and optical/NIR
counterparts, we provide 13-band forced photometry for the entire catalog using
the Tractor and calculate photometric redshifts and rest-frame colors. The
median redshift of our sample is . We find that our
sample galaxies have bluer colors compared to bright SMGs, and the UVJ color
plot indicates that their colors are consistent with main sequence star-forming
galaxies. Our results provide new insights into the nature of the faint
population of SMGs, and also highlight opportunities for galaxy evolution
studies based on archival ALMA data.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 32 pages, 11 figures, 4 table
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