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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/24311
Title: The Lockman Hole project: LOFAR observations and spectral index properties of low-frequency radio sources
Authors: Mahony, E. K.
Morganti, R.
PRANDONI, ISABELLA 
van Bemmel, I. M.
Shimwell, T. W.
Brienza, M.
Best, P. N.
Brüggen, M.
Calistro Rivera, G.
de Gasperin, F.
Hardcastle, M. J.
Harwood, J. J.
Heald, G.
Jarvis, M. J.
Mandal, S.
Miley, G. K.
Retana-Montenegro, E.
Röttgering, H. J. A.
Sabater, J.
Tasse, C.
van Velzen, S.
van Weeren, R. J.
Williams, W. L.
White, G. J.
Issue Date: 2016
Journal: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 
Number: 463
Issue: 3
First Page: 2997
Abstract: The Lockman Hole is a well-studied extragalactic field with extensive multi-band ancillary data covering a wide range in frequency, essential for characterizing the physical and evolutionary properties of the various source populations detected in deep radio fields (mainly star-forming galaxies and AGNs). In this paper, we present new 150-MHz observations carried out with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR), allowing us to explore a new spectral window for the faint radio source population. This 150-MHz image covers an area of 34.7 square degrees with a resolution of 18.6 × 14.7 arcsec and reaches an rms of 160 μJy beam<SUP>-1</SUP> at the centre of the field. As expected for a low-frequency selected sample, the vast majority of sources exhibit steep spectra, with a median spectral index of <tex-math id="TM0001" notation="LaTeX">α _{150}^{1400}=-0.78± 0.015</tex-math>. The median spectral index becomes slightly flatter (increasing from <tex-math id="TM0002" notation="LaTeX">α _{150}^{1400}=-0.84</tex-math> to <tex-math id="TM0003" notation="LaTeX">α _{150}^{1400}=-0.75</tex-math>) with decreasing flux density down to S<SUB>150</SUB> ∼10 mJy before flattening out and remaining constant below this flux level. For a bright subset of the 150-MHz selected sample, we can trace the spectral properties down to lower frequencies using 60-MHz LOFAR observations, finding tentative evidence for sources to become flatter in spectrum between 60 and 150 MHz. Using the deep, multi-frequency data available in the Lockman Hole, we identify a sample of 100 ultra-steep-spectrum sources and 13 peaked-spectrum sources. We estimate that up to 21 per cent of these could have z > 4 and are candidate high-z radio galaxies, but further follow-up observations are required to confirm the physical nature of these objects.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/24311
URL: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/463/3/2997/2646627
ISSN: 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2225
Bibcode ADS: 2016MNRAS.463.2997M
Fulltext: open
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