VLA 352MHz image of the Bootes field. I. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Coppejans R.
  2. Cseh D.
  3. Williams W.L.
  4. van Velzen S.
  5. Falcke H
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a 324.5MHz image of the NOAO Bootes field that was made using Very Large Array (VLA) P-band observations. The image has a resolution of 5.6"x5.1", a radius of 2.05 degrees and a central noise of ~0.2mJy/beam. Both the resolution and noise of the image are an order of magnitude better than what was previously available at this frequency and will serve as a valuable addition to the already extensive multiwavelength data that are available for this field. The final source catalogue contains 1370 sources and has a median 325 to 1400MHz spectral index of -0.72. Using a radio colour-colour diagram of the unresolved sources in our catalogue, we identify 33 megahertz peaked-spectrum (MPS) sources. Based on the turnover frequency linear size relation for the gigahertz peaked-spectrum (GPS) and compact steep-spectrum (CSS) sources, we expect that the MPS sources that are compact on scales of tens of milliarcseconds should be young radio loud active galactic nuclei at high (z>2) redshifts. Of the 33 MPS sources, we were able to determine redshifts for 24, with an average redshift of 1.3. Given that five of the sources are at z>2, that the four faint sources for which we could not find redshifts are likely at even higher redshifts and that we could only select sources that are compact on a scale of ~5", there is encouraging evidence that the MPS method can be used to search for high-redshift sources.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. active-galactic-nuclei
  3. radio-galaxies
  4. radio-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.450.1477C
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/450/1477
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/450/1477
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74501477

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History

2015-04-28T12:26:07Z
Resource record created
2015-04-28T12:26:07Z
Created
2024-08-14T20:21:35Z
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