Table · dataset · 1997
Counts and spectral indices at 8.44GHz
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We used the VLA to make deep images of two 7x7' fields at 8.44 GHz with 10" resolution.
Description
With an rms noise of 3.2 and 5.1 {micro}Jy, respectively, in the two fields, we compiled a catalog of 82 sources. The normalized differential 8.44 GHz counts are similar to those at 1.41 and 4.86 GHz.
All show a similarly steep submillijansky slope, which is only somewhat flatter than that expected for a nonevolving Euclidean population ({gamma}=2.5). Microjansky radio sources at 4.86 GHz have been identified with faint blue galaxies (18<~V<~28 mag). We argue that their expected median redshift is about 0.5-0.75.
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Hence, cosmological evolution may be needed to explain the steep slope of the microjansky counts. The 8.44 GHz counts must converge with slope {gamma}<2.0 below S(8.44)~300 nJy, or they would exceed the available field galaxy counts down to V~28 mag, and they must permanently converge below S(8.44)~20 nJy, or their integrated sky brightness would distort the observed thermal cosmic background radiation spectrum at centimeter wavelengths.
The estimated 31.5 GHz sky brightness from nanojansky to jansky levels is <36 {micro}K (3{sigma}). Even if weak radio sources cluster on scales of degrees as faint galaxies do, their anisotropic contribution to the COBE DMR experiment (with 7deg FWHM-beam) would not exceed ~1.2{micro}K.
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- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/405/498 ↗
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- ADS 1993ApJ...405..498W ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...405..498W ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/405/498 ↗
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/405/498 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
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