A Swift X-ray view of the SMS4 sample - III: Deeper insight into previously undetected sources
Abstract
We update the X-ray information given in Maselli et al. (2024) for five bright radio sources in the SMS4 catalog, thanks to additional observations with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (hereafter Swift) carried out through February 2026. X-ray emission from MRC B1754-597, previously based only on data from the eROSITA-DE DR1 catalogs, is now detected also by Swift, which yields a more precise positional uncertainty. Thanks to ~7 ks of additional exposure with Swift we are now able to detect MRC B1817-391, a source for which no X-ray counterpart is found in eROSITA-DE DR1. Another source that is not detected in the eROSITA-DE DR1 catalogs, and that was not observed by Swift earlier than 2025, is MRC B1827-360: with a ~6 ks X-ray observation, the source is detected. Finally, based on ~8 ks of additional exposure, we detect X-ray emission for MRC B2032-350, a source that lies out of the DR1 footprint. In contrast, additional exposure (~2 ks) just gives an upper limit on the X-ray emission of MRC B1814-519. The analysis of the extent and the hardness ratio of the four detected X-ray sources suggests the presence of soft, diffuse X-ray emission as expected from galaxy group cores or hot galaxy coronae. Using the positional uncertainty of the X-ray detections to constrain the search for counterparts at lower energies, we provide a new infrared/optical counterpart for MRC B1817-391 and confirm the counterparts previously reported in the literature for the three remaining sources.
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BibTeX
@misc{maselli2026swift,
title = {{A Swift X-ray view of the SMS4 sample - III: Deeper insight into previously undetected sources}},
author = {Alessandro Maselli and William R. Forman and Christine Jones and Ralph P. Kraft and Matteo Perri},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.04310},
eprint = {2609.04310},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04310},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Swift X-ray view of the SMS4 sample - III: Deeper insight into previously undetected sources
AU - Alessandro Maselli
AU - William R. Forman
AU - Christine Jones
AU - Ralph P. Kraft
AU - Matteo Perri
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/03
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.04310
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04310
AB - We update the X-ray information given in Maselli et al. (2024) for five bright radio sources in the SMS4 catalog, thanks to additional observations with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (hereafter Swift) carried out through February 2026. X-ray emission from MRC B1754-597, previously based only on data from the eROSITA-DE DR1 catalogs, is now detected also by Swift, which yields a more precise positional uncertainty. Thanks to ~7 ks of additional exposure with Swift we are now able to detect MRC B1817-391, a source for which no X-ray counterpart is found in eROSITA-DE DR1. Another source that is not detected in the eROSITA-DE DR1 catalogs, and that was not observed by Swift earlier than 2025, is MRC B1827-360: with a ~6 ks X-ray observation, the source is detected. Finally, based on ~8 ks of additional exposure, we detect X-ray emission for MRC B2032-350, a source that lies out of the DR1 footprint. In contrast, additional exposure (~2 ks) just gives an upper limit on the X-ray emission of MRC B1814-519. The analysis of the extent and the hardness ratio of the four detected X-ray sources suggests the presence of soft, diffuse X-ray emission as expected from galaxy group cores or hot galaxy coronae. Using the positional uncertainty of the X-ray detections to constrain the search for counterparts at lower energies, we provide a new infrared/optical counterpart for MRC B1817-391 and confirm the counterparts previously reported in the literature for the three remaining sources.
ER -