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Distant Radio Galaxy Search Applying Astrogrid

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Distant Galaxy Search Applying Astrogrid

Overview:

The first astronomical problem that has been experienced by IPI RAN together with the Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS (SAO RAS) applying AstroGrid and Aladin is a distant radio galaxy search in the sky strip investigated in the “Cold” deep survey with the RATAN-600 (large Russian radio telescope). We used RCcatalogue as a list of initial radio sources. We had to select optical sources with certain properties taken from DR 3 SDSS and crosssmatched them with the RCcatalogue. The result of the crossmatch may contain candidates for distant galaxies that should be analyzed further applying their images and Aladin capabilities.

Astrogrid Applications Used:

  • RCQuery (ivo://ipi.ac.ru/astrogrid-dsa-RC/ceaApplication)
    • This application provides ADQL access to radio catalog (RCCatalog)
  • SDSSQuery (ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr5-dsa/ceaApplication)
    • This application provides ADQL access to optical catalog (SDSS)
  • CrossMatch (ivo://org.astrogrid/CrossMatcher)
    • This application performs crossMatch
  • NullStringDelete (ivo://ipi.ac.ru/delNullStrings)
    • This application deletes all empty rows from VOTable
  • GetImage (ivo://ipi.ac.ru/submitAladinScript)
    • This application submits script written on the Aladin script language. This script has two parameters #Ra, #Dec.

Example of Aladin script used in distant galaxy search task:

reset;
grid;
get aladin(DSS2,F) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get DSS.ESO(DSS1,14.1,14.1) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get SDSSDR3 #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get NVSS(0.2,15.0,Stokes I,Sine) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
contour 4;
get Vizier(VIII/65/nvss) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get FIRST(10) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
contour 4;
get Vizier(VIII/71/first) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get Vizier(VIII/42/txs) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get Vizier(J/A+AS/87/1/table1) #Ra #Dec 5';
sync;
get SDSSDR3cat #Ra #Dec 1';
sync;
get VizieR(2mass) #Ra #Dec 1';
sync;
get VizieR(USNOB) #Ra #Dec 1';
sync;
show 1;
hide NVSS FIRST;
zoom 4x;

Workflow for distant galaxy search problem

Workflow consists of 4 steps:
  • Get data from RC Catalog and SDSS Catalog (RCQuery, SDSSQuery)
  • CrossMatch result of previous steps (XMatch)
  • Prepare data for Image Retrieval tool (DeleteNullStrings, workflow script)
  • Get images in cycle (GetImage)

Next is an example of a result image opened in Aladin:

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