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Description
This table contains results from deep 1.4-GHz Very Large Array (VLA) radio continuum observations of two ~0.5 deg<sup>2</sup> fields in the Coma cluster of galaxies. The two fields, "Coma 1" and "Coma 3", correspond to the cluster core and the southwest infall region, and were selected on account of abundant pre-existing multiwavelength data. In their most sensitive regions, the radio data reach 0.022 mJy (22 µJy) rms per 4.4" beam, sufficient to detect (at 5-sigma) Coma member galaxies with L<sub>1.4GHz</sub> = 1.3 x 10<sup>20</sup> W Hz<sup>-1</sup> (1.3 x 10<sup>27</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup> Hz<sup>-1</sup>). The full catalog of radio detections at and above a 4.5-sigma significance threshold is presented herein; there are 1030 of these sources which are detected at >= 5 sigma, 628 of which are within the combined Coma 1 and Coma 3 area. The authors also provide optical identifications of the radio sources using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The depth of the radio observations allows them to detect active galactic nuclei in cluster elliptical galaxies with M<sub>r</sub> < -20.5 (AB magnitudes), including radio detections for all cluster ellipticals with M<sub>r</sub> < -21.8. At fainter optical magnitudes (-20.5 < M<sub>r</sub> <~ -19), the radio sources are associated with star-forming galaxies with star formation rates as low as 0.1M_{sun}_ yr<sup>-1</sup>. The VLA observations were performed over five days in 2006 June as program code AM868. On each of the five days, the scheduled time was centered on the transit of Coma. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2011 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/137/4436">CDS catalog J/AJ/137/4436</a> files table2.dat ('The Radio Source Catalog') and table3.dat ('Optical Counterparts to the Radio Sources'). It does not include table4.dat ('Rejected Optical Counterparts to the Radio Sources'). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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