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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Radio-loud AGN in the XMM-LSS field
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 490, No. 3, Year 2008
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The XMM-Large Scale Structure survey field (XMM-LSS) is an extragalactic window surveyed in the X-ray with the XMM-Newton satellite. It has also been observed in the optical with the Canada-France Hawaï Telescope (CFHTLS survey), and in the infrared with the Spitzer Space Telescope (SWIRE survey). These surveys have been carried out to study the structure and evolution of both baryonic and dark matter on cosmological scales. In two previous papers, we presented deep low frequency radio surveys of the XMM-LSS field, with limiting flux density levels of ~4 and ~1.5 mJy/beam at 325 and 610 MHz respectively (5σ). These radio surveys were motivated by the need to understand the various connections between the host galaxies of radio sources and their environments. In this paper, we identify optical counterparts to the low frequency radio sources, using the CFHTLS optical catalogue and images, that have an i-band limiting magnitude of iAB ~ 25. We use a likelihood ratio method and estimate that ~75% of the radio sources have a detected optical counterpart. Using the CFHTLS and SWIRE data, we derive photometric redshifts for the galaxies that are identified with a radio source, as well as for those that are not; we demonstrate the reliability of these photometric redshifts by deriving the stellar mass function for galaxies at different redshifts, and showing that it is consistent with previous determinations. We classify the radio sources as type-1 AGN, radio galaxies, or star-forming galaxies, and show that the radio luminosity function of the radio galaxies agrees with previous measurements. © 2008 ESO.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tasse, Cyril
Netherlands, Leiden
Universiteit Leiden
Le Borgne, Damien
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation de Paris-saclay
R̈ottgering, Huub J.A.R.
Netherlands, Leiden
Universiteit Leiden
Best, Phillip N.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Pierre, Marguerite M.
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation de Paris-saclay
Rocca-Volmerange, Brigitte M.
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
Statistics
Citations: 16
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1051/0004-6361:20078453
ISSN:
14320746
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative