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Description
At the faintest radio flux densities (S<sub>1.4</sub> < 10 mJy), conflicting results have arisen regarding whether there is a flattening of the average spectral index between a low radio frequency (325 or 610 MHz) and, for example, 1.4 GHz. The authors present a new catalog of 843-MHz radio sources in the European Large Area ISO Survey-South 1 (ELAIS-S1) field, which contains the sources, their Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) counterparts and the spectral index distribution of the sources as a function of flux density. The authors do not find any statistically significant evidence for a trend towards flatter spectral indices with decreasing flux density. In the reference paper, they investigate the spectral index distribution with redshift for those sources with reliable redshifts and explore the infrared properties. An initial sample of faint compact steep-spectrum sources in ATLAS are also presented, with a brief overview of their properties. To obtain low-radio-frequency (843-MHz) data within the ATLAS ELAIS-S1 region (Middelberg et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 1276, the tables from which are available as the ATLASESID and ATLASESCPT tables in the HEASARC database), the authors used the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST). They have made 31 separate 12-h observations taken with MOST, which were combined into a single image with a spatial resolution of 62 arcsec x 43 arcsec. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2013 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/421/1644">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/421/1644</a> file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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