The faint radio sky: VLBA observations of the COSMOS field
Journal
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
N. Herrera Ruiz
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Middelberg, E.
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Deller, A.
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Norris, R. P.
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Best, P. N.
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Brisken, W.
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Schinnerer, E.
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Smolcic, V.
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Momjian, E.
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Bomans, D.
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Scoville, N. Z.
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Carilli, C.
Abstract
We study the faint radio population using wide-field very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI) observations of 2865 known radio sources in the Cosmic
Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field. The main objective of the project was to
determine where active galactic nuclei (AGN) are present. The combination of
number of sources, sensitivity, angular resolution and area covered by this
project are unprecedented. We have detected 468 radio sources, expected to be
AGNs, with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.4 GHz. This is, to date,
the largest sample assembled of VLBI detected sources in the sub-mJy regime.
The input sample was taken from previous observations with the Very Large Array
(VLA). We present the catalogue with additional multiwavelength information. We
find a detection fraction of 20%, considering only those sources from the input
catalogue which were in principle detectable with the VLBA (2361). As a
function of redshift, we see no evolution of the detection fraction over the
redshift range 0.51.5 we find that spiral galaxies become the most prevalent
(48%). We demonstrate that wide-field VLBI observations, together with new
calibration methods such as multi-source self-calibration and mosaicing, result
in information which is difficult or impossible to obtain otherwise.
Volume
607
Start page
A132
Issn Identifier
0004-6361
Ads BibCode
2017A&A...607A.132H
Rights
open.access
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