4.85 and 10.45GHz fluxes of SDSS-FIRST sources

To understand the activity and the types of accretion of supermassive black holes in different hosts, it is essential to study radio-optical properties of a large sample of extragalactic sources. In particular, we aim at studying the radio spectral index trends across the optical emission line diagnostic diagrams to search for potential (anti)correlations.

To this goal, we combine flux densities from the radio FIRST survey at 1.4GHz (with the flux density range 10mJy<=F1.4<=1000mJy for 209 SDSS sources at intermediate redshift (0.04<=z<=0.4) with the Effelsberg radiotelescope measurements at 4.85GHz and 10.45GHz. The information about the optical emission-line ratios is obtained from the SDSS-DR7 catalogue. Using the Effelsberg data, we were able to infer the two-point radio spectral index distributions for star-forming galaxies, composite galaxies (with a combined contribution to the line emission from the star-formation and AGN activity), Seyferts, and low ionization narrow emission region (LINER) galaxies.