Abstract
A deep survey of the European Large-Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) field in the
southern celestial hemisphere (hereinafter S1) has been carried out with
the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 1.4 GHz. The S1 region,
covering about 4 deg^2, has also been surveyed in the mid- and
far-infrared (5-200 μm) with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).
The radio survey provides uniform coverage of the entire S1 region, with
a sensitivity (5sigma) of 0.4 mJy over the whole area and 0.2 mJy in the
centre. To this sensitivity, virtually all the radio counterparts of the
far-infrared extragalactic ISO sources should be detected. This paper
presents a radio sample - complete at the 5sigma level - consisting of
581 sources detected at 1.4 GHz. Of these radio sources, 349 have peak
flux density in the range 0.2-1 mJy, forming a new homogeneous sample of
sub-mJy radio sources. Due to its size, depth and multiwaveband
coverage, the sample will allow us to study in greater detail the
sub-mJy radio source population. The full catalogue will be available
from http://athena.ph.ic.ac.uk/pubs.html
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 297-308 |
| Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Volume | 305 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 1999 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- SURVEYS
- GALAXIES: STARBURST
- COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS
- INFRARED: GALAXIES
- RADIO CONTINUUM: GALAXIES