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9 C续:15 GHz无线电源调查

9C continued: a radio-source survey at 15 GHz

E. M. Waldram, G. G. Pooley, M. L. Davies, K. J. B. Grainge, P. F. Scott

摘要:

在我们的第一篇论文中,我们描述了用赖尔望远镜在15.2 GHz进行的射电源9 C巡天的三个区域,它们的总面积为520 ° ^2,完整性极限约为25 mJy。在这里,我们报告了一系列更深的区域,面积为115度^2,约为10 mJy,面积为29度^2,约为5.5 mJy。我们已经调查了源计数和分布的1.4至15.2 GHz的光谱指数(α),这些更深的样品。643个来源的完整目录可在网上查阅。我们的下限为5.5 mJy,我们没有发现任何证据表明,从早期的拟合计数超过25 mJy的差异源计数的任何变化。我们已经将我们的新目录和早期目录与1.4 GHz的NRAO VLA巡天(NVSS)目录进行了匹配。对于在15.2 GHz,在三个通量密度范围内选择的源的样本,我们检测到α的中值的显着变化;具有较高通量密度的样本具有较高的比例与平坦和上升的频谱的源。我们认为,这种观察到的转变是一致的模型包含两个不同的源人口具有不同的倾斜源计数。在1.4 GHz处选择的样品包含具有平坦和上升光谱的源的比例明显较小。此外,在我们的地区完成约10兆焦耳年,我们发现5个源之间的10至15兆焦耳年,占4.3%的来源在这个范围内,没有对应的NVSS目录。这些结果说明了固有的问题,在使用低频目录,在一个更高的频率,并强调我们的盲目15.2 GHz的调查的价值,以确保源人口。

英文摘要:

In our first paper we described three regions of the 9C survey of radio sources with the Ryle telescope at 15.2 GHz, constituting a total area of 520 deg^2 to a completeness limit of approximately 25 mJy. Here we report on a series of deeper regions, amounting to an area of 115 deg^2 complete to approximately 10 mJy and of 29 deg^2 complete to approximately 5.5 mJy. We have investigated the source counts and the distributions of the 1.4 to 15.2 GHz spectral index (alpha) for these deeper samples. The whole catalogue of 643 sources is available online. Down to our lower limit of 5.5 mJy we detect no evidence for any change in the differential source count from the earlier fitted count above 25 mJy. We have matched both our new and earlier catalogues with the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) catalogue at 1.4 GHz. For samples of sources selected at 15.2 GHz, in three flux density ranges, we detect a significant shift in the median value of alpha; samples with higher flux densities have higher proportions of sources with flat and rising spectra. We suggest that this observed shift is consistent with a model containing two distinct source populations having differently sloped source counts. Samples selected at 1.4 GHz contain significantly smaller proportions of sources with flat and rising spectra. Also, in our area complete to approximately 10 mJy, we find 5 sources between 10 to 15 mJy, amounting to 4.3 per cent of sources in this range, with no counterpart in the NVSS catalogue. These results illustrate the problems inherent in using a low frequency catalogue to characterise the source population at a much higher frequency and emphasise the value of our blind 15.2 GHz survey.

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