Associazione Romana Astrofili

157 FRASSO SABINO 42,22945555N 12,81150555E 465m s.l.m.

Comet Observations [157 Frasso Sabino]

X-ray luminosity functions of different morphological and X-ray type AGN populations

Luminosity functions are one of the most important observational clues when studying galaxy evolution over cosmic time. In this paper we present the X-ray luminosity functions of X-ray detected AGN in the SXDS and GWS fields. The limiting fluxes of our samples are 9.0×10^(-15) and 4.8×10^(-16) erg/cm^2/sec^(-1) in the 0.5 – 7.0 keV band in the two fields, respectively. We carried out analysis in three X-ray bands and in two redshift intervals up to z < 1.4. Moreover, we derive the luminosity functions for different optical morphologies and X-ray types. We confirm strong luminosity...

Life after eruption - II. The eclipsing old nova V728 Scorpii

The old nova V728 Sco has been recently recovered via photometric and spectroscopic observations, 150 years after the nova eruption. The spectral properties pointed to a high-inclination system with a comparatively low mass-transfer rate. In this paper we show that the object is an eclipsing system with an orbital period of 3.32 h. It has enhanced long-term variability that can be interpreted as ‘stunted’ dwarf-nova-type outbursts. Using the ingress and egress times of the eclipsed components we calculate the radius of the central object. The latter turns out to be significantly...

Lyman break and UV-selected galaxies at $z \sim 1$ I. Stellar populations from ALHAMBRA survey

We take advantage of the exceptional photometric coverage provided by the combination of GALEX data in the UV and the ALHAMBRA survey in the optical and near-IR to analyze the physical properties of a sample of 1225 GALEX-selected Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at $0.8 \lesssim z \lesssim 1.2$ located in the COSMOS field. This is the largest sample of LBGs studied at that redshift range so far. According to a spectral energy distribution fitting with synthetic stellar population templates, we find that LBGs at $z \sim 1$ are mostly young galaxies with a median value of 341 Myr and have...

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