This paper is the first of a series describing the results of the Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South radio survey. The survey was conducted at four wavelengths, 20, 11, 6, and 3cm, over a 4 year period and achieves an rms sensitivity of about 10{mu}Jy at each wavelength. We describe the observations and data reduction processes and present data on radio sources close to the center of the Hubble Deep Field-South. We discuss in detail the properties of a subset of these sources. The sources include both starburst galaxies and galaxies powered by an active galactic nucleus and range in redshift from 0.1 to 2.2. Some of them are characterized by unusually high radio-to-optical luminosities, presumably caused by dust extinction.
This paper is part of a series describing the results from the Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South (ATHDFS) survey obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. This survey consists of observations at 1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz, all centered on the Hubble Deep Field-South. Here we present the first results from the extended observing campaign at 1.4GHz. A total of 466 sources have been cataloged to a local sensitivity of 5{sigma} (11{mu}Jy rms). A source extraction technique is developed that (1) successfully excludes spurious sources from the final source catalogs and (2) accounts for the nonuniform noise in our image. A source catalog is presented, and the general properties of the 1.4GHz image are discussed. We also present source counts derived from our ATHDFS 1.4GHz catalog.
The Australia Telescope Hubble Deep Field-South (ATHDF-S) survey of the Hubble Deep Field-South (HDF-S) reaches sensitivities of ~10uJy at 1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz, making the ATHDF-S one of the deepest surveys ever performed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). Here, we present the optical identifications of the ATHDF-S radio sources using data from the literature. We find that ~66% of the radio sources have optical counterparts to I=23.5mag. Deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of the area identifies a further 12% of radio sources. We present new spectroscopic observations for 98 of the radio sources and supplement these spectroscopic redshifts with photometric ones calculated from five-band optical imaging.
We present a new radio survey of about 100 late-M and L dwarfs undertaken with the Very Large Array. The sample was chosen to explore the role of rotation in the radio activity of ultracool dwarfs. As part of the survey we discovered radio emission from three new objects, 2MASS J0518113-310153 (M6.5), 2MASS J0952219-192431 (M7), and 2MASS J1314203+132001 (M7), and made an additional detection of LP 349-25 (M8). Combining the new sample with results from our previous studies and from the literature, we compile the largest sample to date of ultracool dwarfs with radio observations and measured rotation velocities.
This paper analyses the radio properties of a subsample of optically obscured (R>=25.5) galaxies observed at 24um by the Spitzer Space Telescope within the First Look Survey. Ninety-six F24um>=0.35mJy objects out of 510 are found to have a radio counterpart at 1.4GHz, 610MHz or at both frequencies, respectively, down to ~40 and ~200uJy. IRAC photometry sets the majority of them in the redshift interval z~=[1-3] and allows for a broad distinction between active galactic nucleus (AGN) dominated galaxies (~47 per cent of the radio-identified sample) and systems powered by intense star formation (~13 per cent), the remaining objects being impossible to classify. The percentage of radio identifications is a strong function of 24-um flux: almost all sources brighter than F_24um_~2mJy are endowed with a radio flux at both 1.4GHz and 610MHz, while this fraction drastically decreases by lowering the 24-um flux level.
We present a 1.4GHz catalog of 810 radio sources (560 sources in the complete sample) found in the SSA 13 field (RA=13:12, DE=42:38). The 1.4GHz radio image was obtained from a 91hr VLA integration with an rms noise level of 4.82uJy/beam at the field center. Optical images in the R band (6300{AA}) and z band (9200{AA}) with 3{sigma} detection magnitudes of 26.1 and 24.9, respectively, were obtained from three observing nights on the 8m Subaru Telescope. We find that 88%+/-2% of the radio sources are identified with an optical counterpart.
A reexamination of the correspondence between 6cm radio continuum sources and young star clusters in the Antennae galaxies indicates that ~85% of the strong thermal sources have optical counterparts, once the optical image is shifted 1.2" to the southwest. A sample of 37 radio-optical matches are studied in detail, showing correlations between radio properties (i.e., total flux and spectral index) and a variety of optical characteristics (i.e., intrinsic cluster brightness, H{alpha} flux and equivalent width, extinction, and cluster ages). There is a strong correlation between the radio flux and the intrinsic optical brightness.
The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope has been used to survey a region ~7x7deg^2^ about the North Ecliptic Cap at 151MHz with a resolution of 70x77arcsec^2^. The resulting radio source catalogue of 400 sources is complete to a peak flux density limit of 120mJy/beam. Using the Cambridge APM we have searched for identifications on the Palomar Sky Survey plate 550 which covers much of the survey area, and we list the 157 sources with one or more optical objects within 15arcsec of the radio position.
We study the correlations between the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) radio emission at 15GHz, extended emission at 151MHz, and optical nuclear emission at 5100{AA} for a complete sample of 135 compact jets. We use the partial Kendall's tau correlation analysis to check the link between radio properties of parsec-scale jets and optical nuclear luminosities of host active galactic nuclei (AGN).