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VLA-COSMOS巡天:V.324 MHz连续观测

The VLA-COSMOS Survey: V. 324 MHz continuum observations

Vernesa Smolcic, Paolo Ciliegi, Vibor Jelic, Marco Bondi, Eva Schinnerer, Chris L. Carilli, Dominik A. Riechers, Mara Salvato, Alen Brkovic, Peter Capak, Olivie… 展开作者

Vernesa Smolcic, Paolo Ciliegi, Vibor Jelic, Marco Bondi, Eva Schinnerer, Chris L. Carilli, Dominik A. Riechers, Mara Salvato, Alen Brkovic, Peter Capak, Olivier Ilbert, Alexander Karim, Henry McCracken, Nick Z. Scoville

摘要:

我们提出了90厘米VLA成像的COSMOS领域,包括一个圆形面积为3.14平方度在8.0“x6.0”角分辨率与平均均方根为0.5毫焦/束。提取的目录包含182个源(低至5.5西格玛),其中30个是多组分源。使用Monte Carlo人工源模拟,我们得到的目录的完整性,我们表明,我们的90厘米源计数同意非常好,从以前的研究。利用X射线、NUV-NIR和射电COSMOS数据对90 cm射电样品的粒子数混合进行了研究,发现我们的样品主要由活动星系核(AGN)组成。我们所选的90 cm源的平均90-20 cm光谱指数(S_nu~nu**alpha,其中S_nu是频率nu处的通量密度,alpha是光谱指数)为-0.70,四分位距为-0.90至-0.53。只有少数超陡谱源存在于我们的样本中,与文献中类似领域的结果一致。我们的数据并没有显示出明显的光谱指数随红移而变陡。然而,我们的样本表明,光谱指数陡于-1的源都位于z>1,这与超陡谱射电源可能追踪中红移星系(z>1)的想法一致。

英文摘要:

We present 90 cm VLA imaging of the COSMOS field, comprising a circular area of 3.14 square degrees at 8.0"x6.0" angular resolution with an average rms of 0.5 mJy/beam. The extracted catalog contains 182 sources (down to 5.5sigma), 30 of which are multi-component sources. Using Monte Carlo artificial source simulations we derive the completeness of the catalog, and we show that our 90 cm source counts agree very well with those from previous studies. Using X-ray, NUV-NIR and radio COSMOS data to investigate the population mix of our 90 cm radio sample, we find that our sample is dominated by active galactic nuclei (AGN). The average 90-20 cm spectral index (S_nu~nu**alpha, where S_nu is the flux density at frequency nu, and alpha the spectral index) of our 90 cm selected sources is -0.70, with an interquartile range of -0.90 to -0.53. Only a few ultra-steep-spectrum sources are present in our sample, consistent with results in the literature for similar fields. Our data do not show clear steepening of the spectral index with redshift. Nevertheless, our sample suggests that sources with spectral indices steeper than -1 all lie at z>1, in agreement with the idea that ultra-steep-spectrum radio sources may trace intermediate-redshift galaxies (z>1).

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