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- Kenneth J Duncan
- J. Sabater
- H. J. A. Röttgering
- M. J. Jarvis
- P. N. Best
- J. R. Callingham
- R. Cochrane
- J. H. Croston
- B. Mingo
- L. Morabito
- D. Nisbet
- I. Prandoni
- T. W. Shimwell
- C. Tasse
- G. J. White
- W. L. Williams
- L. Alegre
- K. T. Chyży
- G. Gürkan
- M. Hoeft
- R. Kondapally
- A. P. Mechev
- G. K. Miley
- D. J. Schwarz
- R. J. van Weeren
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
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| Early online date | 19 Nov 2018 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Nov 2018 |
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Abstract
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey of the Northern sky. The LoTSS First Data Release (DR1) presents 424 square degrees of radio continuum observations over the HETDEX Spring Field (10h45m00s $ 0.15$) of 7.9%. We also find that, at a given redshift, there is no strong trend in photo-$z$ quality as a function of radio luminosity. However there are strong trends as a function of redshift for a given radio luminosity, a result of selection effects in the spectroscopic sample and/or intrinsic evolution within the radio source population. Additionally, for the sample of sources in the LoTSS First Data Release with optical counterparts, we present rest-frame optical and mid-infrared magnitudes based on template fits to the consensus photometric (or spectroscopic when available) redshift.
Notes
16 figures, 1 table and 18 pages. This paper is part of the LOFAR surveys Data Release 1 and has been accepted for publication in a special edition of A&A that will appear in Feb 2019, Volume 622. The catalogues and images from the data release will be publicly available at http://www.lofar-surveys.org upon publication of the volume. Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics. © 2019 ESO.
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