Deep 20GHz survey of CDFS and SDSS Stripe 82

The Australia Telescope 20GHz (AT20G) deep pilot survey covers a total area of 5deg^2^ in the Chandra Deep Field South and in Stripe 82 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We estimate the survey to be 90% complete above 2.5mJy.

Of the 85 sources detected, 55percent have steep spectra ({alpha}_1.4_^20^<-0.5) and 45% have flat or inverted spectra ({alpha}_1.4_^20^>=-0.5). The steep-spectrum sources tend to have single power-law spectra between 1.4 and 18GHz, while the spectral indices of the flat- or inverted-spectrum sources tend to steepen with frequency. Among the 18 inverted-spectrum ({alpha}_1.4_^20^>=0.0) sources, 10 have clearly defined peaks in their spectra with {alpha}_1.4_^5.5^>0.15 and {alpha}_9_^18^<-0.15.