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2025MNRAS.539.1977W - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 539, 1977-2020 (2025/May-3)

ALMACAL - XIV. X-Shooter spectroscopy, infrared properties, and radio SEDs of calibrators.

WENG S., SADLER E.M., KERRISON E., BOLLO V., PEROUX C., ZWAAN M., MAHONY E.K., ALLISON J.R., CHEN J., SZAKACS R. and YOON H.

Abstract (from CDS):

The ALMACAL-22 survey includes over 2700 h of observations of ALMA phase and amplitude calibrators, spanning frequencies from 84 to 950 GHz across bands 3 to 10. In total, 687 out of the 1047 calibrators have redshifts confirmed with spectroscopy and we find an additional 50 featureless blazars. The redshift distribution of the ALMACAL-22 sample peaks at $z \approx 1$ and spans a wide range, from the nuclei of nearby galaxies at $z \ll 0.01$ to quasars at $z = 3.742$. 70 new VLT/X-Shooter spectra of these sources covering UV to NIR wavelengths are also presented, which will be used in future stacking experiments to search for cold gas in the circumgalactic medium. Infrared magnitudes from WISE indicate that the majority of the sources are consistent with being quasars or blazars. After fitting the radio spectral energy distributions of the calibrators, we find that most ALMA calibrators exhibit peaked spectra or are re-triggered which is surprising given the large number of blazars in the sample. The peak frequencies span three orders of magnitude from 100 MHz to 170 GHz, corresponding to linear sizes ranging from sub-pc to $>$ 10 kpc. In the future, when combined with high-resolution radio imaging, these results will offer valuable constraints on the molecular gas content of the CGM, as well as the ages and duty cycles of AGN jets. The ever-growing ALMACAL data set will remain an indispensable resource for studying the various aspects of galaxy formation and evolution.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): catalogues - galaxies: active - BL Lacertae objects: general - quasars: general - radio continuum: galaxies

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