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Description
This table contains results from the deep radio imaging at 1.4 GHz of the 1.3-deg<sup>2</sup> Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field (SXDF), made with the Very Large Array (VLA) in B and C configurations. This resulted in a radio map of the entire field, and a catalog of 505 sources covering 0.8 deg<sup>2</sup> to a peak flux density limit of 100 microJansky (uJy), which corresponds to signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios of between 5 and 8. Robust optical identifications are provided for 90 per cent of the sources, and suggested identifications are presented for all but 14 (of which seven are optically blank, and seven are close to bright contaminating objects). The authors show that the optical properties of the radio sources do not change with flux density, suggesting that active galactic nuclei (AGN) continue to contribute significantly at faint flux densities. they test this assertion by cross-correlating their radio catalog with the X-ray source catalog and conclude that radio-quiet AGN become a significant population at flux densities below 300 uJy, and may dominate the population responsible for the flattening of the radio source counts if a significant fraction of them are Compton-thick. The SXDF was observed with NRAO's VLA in B-array using the 14 overlapping pointings arranged an an hexagonal pattern that are listed in Table 1 of the reference paper. Three test observations of pointings 1, 4 and 6 were taken on 2001 May 17, and the rest of the data were obtained in 13 runs, each lasting 4.5 hours, between 2002 August 10 and September 9. All 14 pointings were re-observed in C-array on 2003 January 15 to provide additional information on larger angular scales. This table contains the catalog of 505 detected radio sources and their proposed optical counterparts (the latter taken mostly from the ultra-deep BRi'z' Suprime-Cam images of the SXDF). As mentioned above, 14 of these 505 radio sources have no suggested identifications. Additionally, 7 of the radio sources (source numbers 16, 114, 129, 263, 360, 361 and 488) have 2 listed optical identifications: in such cases, there are 2 entries for each source listed detailing the alternative optical counterparts, and with identical sets of radio parameters. Thus, there are 512 = 505 + 7 entries in this table. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2013 based on CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/372/741 file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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