Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope J0916+6348 Field Radio Source Catalog

This table contains a catalog based on deep multifrequency observations made using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 153, 244, 610 and 1260 MHz of a field centred on J0916+6348, to search for evidence of fossil radio lobes which could be due to an earlier cycle of episodic activity of the parent galaxy, as well as haloes and relics in clusters of galaxies. The authors do not find any unambiguous evidence of episodic activity in a list of 374 sources, suggesting that such activity is rare even in relatively deep low-frequency observations.

The authors examine the spectra of all the sources by combining their observations with those from the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS), NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatories) VLA (Very Large Array) Sky Survey (NVSS) and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters Survey (FIRST). Considering only those which have measurements at a minimum of 3 different frequencies, they find that almost all sources are consistent with a straight spectrum with a median spectral index alpha ~ 0.8 (S<sub>nu</sub> ~ nu<sup>-alpha</sup>) which appears steeper than theoretical expectations of the injection spectral index.