- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/354/485
- Title:
- Radio flux of 15-GHz 9C survey
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/354/485
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out extensive radio and optical follow-up of 176 sources from the 15-GHz 9th Cambridge survey. Optical identifications have been found for 155 of the radio sources; optical images are given with radio maps overlaid. The continuum radio spectrum of each source spanning the frequency range 1.4-43GHz is also given.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/455/2731
- Title:
- Radio galaxies in ZFOURGE/NMBS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/455/2731
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to reproduce the high-mass end of the galaxy mass distribution, some process must be responsible for the suppression of star formation in the most massive of galaxies. Commonly active galactic nuclei (AGN) are invoked to fulfil this role, but the exact means by which they do so is still the topic of much debate, with studies finding evidence for both the suppression and enhancement of star formation in AGN hosts. Using the ZFOURGE (FourStar Galaxy Evolution) and NMBS (Newfirm Medium Band Survey) galaxy surveys, we investigate the host galaxy properties of a mass-limited (M>=10^10.5^M_{sun}_), high-luminosity (L_1.4_>10^24^W/Hz) sample of radio-loud AGN to a redshift of z=2.25. In contrast to low-redshift studies, which associate radio-AGN activity with quiescent hosts, we find that the majority of z>1.5 radio-AGN are hosted by star-forming galaxies. Indeed, the stellar populations of radio-AGN are found to evolve with redshift in a manner that is consistent with the non-AGN mass-similar galaxy population. Interestingly, we find that the radio-AGN fraction is constant across a redshift range of 0.25<=z<2.25, perhaps indicating that the radio-AGN duty cycle has little dependence on redshift or galaxy type. We do however see a strong relation between the radio-AGN fraction and stellar mass, with radio-AGN becoming rare below ~ 10^10.5^M_{sun}_ or a halo mass of 10^12^M_{sun}_. This halo-mass threshold is in good agreement with simulations that initiate radio-AGN feedback at this mass limit. Despite this, we find that radio-AGN host star formation rates are consistent with the non-AGN mass-similar galaxy sample, suggesting that while radio-AGN are in the right place to suppress star formation in massive galaxies they are not necessarily responsible for doing so.
1353. Radio-loud AGN in SDSS
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/362/9
- Title:
- Radio-loud AGN in SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/362/9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A sample of 2712 radio-luminous galaxies is defined from the second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by cross-comparing the main spectroscopic galaxy sample with two radio surveys: the National Radio Astronomy Observatories (NRAO) Very Large Array (VLA) Sky Survey (NVSS, <VIII/65>) and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters (FIRST, <VIII/71>) survey. The comparison is carried out in a multistage process and makes optimal use of both radio surveys by exploiting the sensitivity of the NVSS to extended and multicomponent radio sources in addition to the high angular resolution of the FIRST images. A radio source sample with 95 per cent completeness and 98.9% reliability is achieved, far better than would be possible for this sample if only one of the surveys was used. The radio source sample is then divided into two classes: radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galaxies in which the radio emission is dominated by star formation. The division is based on the location of a galaxy in the plane of 4000{AA} break strength versus radio luminosity per unit stellar mass and provides a sample of 2215 radio-loud AGN and 497 star-forming galaxies brighter than 5mJy at 1.4GHz. A full catalogue of positions and radio properties is provided for these sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/2818
- Title:
- 87 radio loud quasars (RLS) with 3.6<=z<=4.4
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/2818
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We obtain a sample of 87 radio-loud quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) in the redshift range 3.6<=z<=4.4 by cross-correlating sources in the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) radio survey (S_1.4GHz_>1mJy) with star-like objects having r<20.2 in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7. Of these 87 QSOs, 80 are spectroscopically classified in previous work (mainly SDSS), and form the training set for a search for additional such sources. We apply our selection to 2916 FIRST-DR7 pairs and find 15 likely candidates. Seven of these are confirmed as high-redshift quasars, bringing the total to 87. The candidates were selected using a neural-network, which yields 97 percent completeness (fraction of actual high-z QSOs selected as such) and an efficiency (fraction of candidates which are high-z QSOs) in the range of 47-60 percent. We use this sample to estimate the binned optical luminosity function (LF) of radio-loud QSOs at z~4, and also the LF of the total QSO population and its comoving density. Our results suggest that the radio-loud fraction at high z is similar to that at low z and that other authors may be underestimating the fraction at high z. Finally, we determine the slope of the optical LF and obtain results consistent with previous studies of radio-loud QSOs and of the whole population of QSOs. The evolution of the LF with redshift was for many years interpreted as a flattening of the bright-end slope, but has recently been re-interpreted as strong evolution of the break luminosity for high-z QSOs, and our results, for the radio-loud population, are consistent with this.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/133/1331
- Title:
- Radio observation of HDFS at 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/133/1331
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deep radio observations of a wide region centered on the Hubble Deep Field-South have been performed, providing one of the most sensitive sets of radio observations acquired on the Australia Telescope Compact Array to date. A central rms of ~10uJy is reached at four frequencies (1.4, 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz). In this paper the full source catalogs from the 2.5, 5.2, and 8.7GHz observations are presented to complement Paper II (Huynh et al., 2005, Cat. J/AJ/130/1373) in this series, along with a detailed analysis of image quality and noise. We produce a consolidated catalog by matching sources across all four frequencies of our survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1358
- Title:
- Radio observations of the HDFS region. I
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1358
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/1373
- Title:
- Radio observations of the HDFS region. II
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/130/1373
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/2470
- Title:
- Radio observations of the HDFS region. IV.
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/2470
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/921
- Title:
- Radio properties of z < 0.3 quasars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/466/921
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To better constrain the hypotheses proposed to explain why only a few quasars are radio loud (R_L_), we compare the characteristics of 1958 nearby (z<=0.3) SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) quasars, covered by the FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) and NVSS (NRAO VLA Sky Survey) radio surveys. Only 22 per cent are R_L_ with log(L_1.4GHz_)>=22.5W/Hz, the majority being compact (C), weak radio sources (WRS), with log(L_1.4GHz_)<24.5W/Hz. 15 per cent of the RL quasars have extended radio morphologies: 3 per cent have a core and a jet (J), 2 per cent have a core with one lobe (L), and 10 per cent have a core with two lobes (T), the majority being powerful radio sources (PRS), with log(L_1.4GHz_)>=24.5W/Hz. In general, RL quasars have higher bolometric luminosities and ionization powers than radio-quiet (RQ) quasars. The WRS have comparable black hole (BH) masses as the RQ quasars, but higher accretion rates or radiative efficiencies. The PRS have higher BH masses than the WRS, but comparable accretion rates or radiative efficiencies. The WRS also have higher FWHM_{[OIII]} than the PRS, consistent with a coupling of the spectral characteristics of the quasars with their radio morphologies. Inspecting the SDSS images and applying a neighbour search algorithm reveal no difference between the RQ and RL quasars of their host galaxies, environments, and interaction. Our results prompt the conjecture that the phenomenon that sparks the RL phase in quasars is transient, intrinsic to the active galactic nuclei, and stochastic, due to the chaotic nature of the accretion process of matter on to the BHs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/375/931
- Title:
- Radio sources in the 6dFGS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/375/931
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have identified 7824 radio sources from the 1.4GHz NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS, Cat. <VIII/65>) with galaxies brighter than K=12.75mag in the Second Incremental Data Release of the 6 degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS DR2, Cat. <VII/249>). The resulting sample of redshifts and optical spectra for radio sources over an effective sky area of 7076deg^2^ (about 17 per cent of the celestial sphere) is the largest of its kind ever obtained. NVSS radio sources associated with galaxies in the 6dFGS span a redshift range 0.003<z<0.3 and have median z{bar}=0.043. Through visual examination of 6dF spectra we have identified the dominant mechanism for radio emission from each galaxy. 60 per cent are fuelled by star formation and 40 per cent are fuelled by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered by a supermassive black hole. We have accurately determined the local radio luminosity function (RLF) at 1.4GHz for both classes of radio source and have found it to agree well with other recent determinations. From the RLF of star-forming galaxies we derive a local star formation density of 0.022+/-0.001M_{sun}_/yr/Mpc^3^, in broad agreement with recent determinations at radio and other wavelengths.
