The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: IV. Multiwavelength data and analysis
Abstract
We provide an updated 'multiwavelength' version of the G4Jy catalogue (available at https://github.com/svw26/G4Jy, https://zenodo.org/communities/g4jy/records, and through VizieR), which has 127 new host-galaxy identifications, as described in Paper III of this paper series. We also supplement the redshift information (0.0 < z < 3.6), gathered in Paper III, with photometry available through DR10 of the DESI Legacy Surveys. Together, this legacy dataset allows us to investigate the multiwavelength properties of these southern radio-bright galaxies, which includes an initial analysis of radio spectral-curvature for this complete sample (S_151MHz > 4 Jy). For example, we present (for the first time in the literature) the radio-power--size diagram as a function of radio spectral-curvature, [P--D](SCI), noting that the spectral-curvature index (SCI) can act as a proxy for the spectral age of the radio source. This radio-power--size--age diagram shows a predominance of radio galaxies with SCI > 0.15 and D < 200 kpc, which are candidates for both remnant radio-galaxies and young radio sources, and a vast range of linear sizes for candidate restarted radio-galaxies (having SCI < -0.15). We also show that (i) G4Jy sources populate the entirety of WISE colour-colour space, (ii) optically point-like sources (i.e. candidate quasars) are brighter than the well-studied K--z relation (as expected), and (iii) there is no relation between the SCI of the radio source and its host-galaxy properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.08008,
title = {The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: IV. Multiwavelength data and analysis},
author = {Sarah V. White and Precious K. Sejake and Kshitij Thorat and Heinz Andernach and Thomas M. O. Franzen and O. Ivy Wong and Anna D. Kapinska and Joseph R. Callingham and Christopher J. Riseley and Nick Seymour and Randall Wayth and Lister Staveley-Smith and Rajan Chhetri and Natasha Hurley-Walker and John Morgan and Paul Hancock and Francesco Massaro and Abigail Garcia-Perez and Ana Jimenez-Gallardo and Harold A. Pena-Herazo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08008},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
23 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. To be cited alongside the accompanying Paper III, White et al. (2026a)