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Description
This table contains the results of a deep 610-MHz survey of the 1<sup>hr</sup> XMM-Newton/Chandra survey area with the Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The resulting maps have a resolution of ~7 arcseconds and an rms noise limit of 60 microJy (uJy). To a 5-sigma detection limit of 300 uJy, the authors detect 223 sources within a survey area of 64 arcminutes in diameter. They compute the 610-MHz source counts and compare them to those measured at other radio wavelengths. The well-known flattening of the Eucidean-normalized 1.4-GHz source counts below ~ 2 mJy, usually explained by a population of starburst galaxies undergoing luminosity evolution, is seen at 610 MHz. In 2004 August, the 1<sup>hr</sup> field (centered at (J2000.0) RA, Dec = 01<sup>h</sup> 45<sup>m</sup> 27<sup>s</sup>, -04<sup>o</sup> 34' 42") was observed for approximately 4.5 hours at 610 MHz with the GMRT. Observations were carried out in dual band, spectral line mode, the former to maximize bandwidth and the latter to minimize chromatic aberration. Two sidebands, each of 128 spectral channels of 125 kHz, were centred on 602 and 618 MHz to give a total of 32 MHz bandwidth, with two independent circular polarizations recorded. Sources were extracted with the AIPS task SAD. A conservative peak flux density detection limit of 5 sigma (i.e. 300 uJy) was used to minimize the number of noise spikes spuriously detected as sources. In the areas surrounding the five brightest sources, detection was performed separately with higher detection thresholds to account for the higher rms noise. Within the 20% power radius of the GMRT primary beam at 610 MHz (32 arcminutes), 213 sources were discovered above a 5-sigma peak flux density detection limit of 300 uJy. In order to determine the success of the SAD source extraction, both the science images and the residual noise maps were carefully inspected. There were eight extended sources where the Gaussian model fit by SAD inadequately described the data: these are marked by source_flag = 'a' in this table. The characteristics of these sources were determined using the AIPS task TVSTAT, and contour plots of them are shown in Fig. 1 of the reference paper. Five of these appear to contain two peaks joined by extended emission, that is, they are double-lobe sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2012 based on CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/378/995 file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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