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With the goal of investigating the nature and the environment of the faint radio sources (at mJy level), here are presented results of X-ray dentifications of Faint Imaging Radio Survey at Twenty centimetres (FIRST) in the 9 square degrees…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Khadija EL Bouchefry

This paper presents the Hubble diagram (K-z relation) for FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at 20 cm) radio sources identified in the Bootes and Cetus fields. The correlation between the K magnitude of the FIRST-NDWFS sample and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Khadija EL Bouchefry

In this article we present deep, high-resolution radio interferometric observations at 153 MHz to complement the extensively studied NOAO Bootes field. We provide a description of the observations, data reduction and source catalog…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. T. Intema , R. J. van Weeren , H. J. A. Rottgering , D. V. Lal

We have surveyed a field covering 9.0 degrees^2 within the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey region in Bootes with the Multiband Imaging Photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) to a limiting 24 um flux density of 0.3 mJy. Thirty one…

We present a preliminary survey of 58 radio sources within the isoplanatic patches (r < 25") of bright (11<R<12) stars suitable for use as natural guide stars with high-order adaptive optics (AO). An optical and near-infrared imaging survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 B. Stalder , K. C. Chambers , William D. Vacca

In this paper, the availability of multi-wavelength optical/infrared information of FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at 20 cm) radio sources counterparts over ~9.2 deg^{2} in Bootes field and ~2.4 deg^{2} in Cetus field is exploited to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Khadija EL Bouchefry

In a pilot search for high-redshift radio QSOs, we have obtained spectra of 55 FIRST sources (S(1.4GHz) > 1 mJy) with very red (O-E > 3) starlike optical identifications. 10 of the candidates are QSOs with redshifts 3.6 < z < 4.4 (4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. R. Benn , M. Vigotti , M. Pedani , J. Holt , K. -H. Mack , R. Curran , S. F. Sanchez

As a step toward investigating the parsec-scale properties of faint extragalactic radio sources, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) was used at 5.0 GHz to obtain phase-referenced images of 76 sources in the NOAO Bootes field. These 76…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Wrobel , G. B. Taylor , T. A. Rector , S. T. Myers , C. D. Fassnacht

We have conducted a deep, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observation at 1.4 GHz of an area of sky located within the NOAO Bootes field, using the NRAO VLBA and 100-m Green Bank Telescope. Applying wide-field VLBI techniques, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Garrett , J. M. Wrobel , R. Morganti

From examination of only 4 deg^2 of sky in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) region, we have identified the first radio-loud quasar at a redshift z>6. The object, FIRST J1427385+331241, was discovered by matching the FLAMEX IR survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ian D. McGreer , Robert H. Becker , David J. Helfand , Richard L. White

We present wide area, deep, high-resolution 153 MHz GMRT observations of the NOAO Bootes field, adding to the extensive, multi-wavelength data of this region. The observations, data reduction, and catalogue construction and description are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 W. L. Williams , H. T. Intema , H. J. A. Röttgering

We present basic observational data on the 6C** sample. This is a new sample of radio sources drawn from the 151 MHz 6C survey, which was filtered with radio criteria chosen to optimize the chances of finding radio galaxies at z > 4. The…

We present a sample of 1317 Infrared-Faint Radio Sources (IFRSs) that, for the first time, are reliably detected in the infrared, generated by cross-correlating the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky survey with major radio…

We used the Near Infrared Camera on Keck I to obtain Ks-band images of four candidate high-redshift radio galaxies selected using optical and radio data in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey in Bootes. Our targets have 1.4 GHz radio flux…

The Combined EIS-NVSS Survey Of Radio Sources (CENSORS) is a 1.4 GHz radio survey selected from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and complete to a flux-density of 7.2mJy. It targets the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) Patch D, which is a 3 by 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Brookes , P. N. Best , R. Rengelink , H. J. A. Rottgering

We present a study of photometric redshift performance for galaxies and active galactic nuclei detected in deep radio continuum surveys. Using two multi-wavelength datasets, over the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Bo\"otes and COSMOS fields,…

We present the method and first results of a survey for high-redshift (z>3) radio-loud quasars, which is based on optical identifications of 2902 flat-spectrum radio sources with S(5GHz)>= 25mJy. The radio sample was defined over a 1600 sq…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. M. Hook , R. H. Becker , R. G. McMahon , R. L. White

We describe a program to identify optical counterparts to radio sources from the VLA FIRST survey using the Cambridge APM scans of the POSS-I plates. We use radio observations covering 4150 square degrees of the north Galactic cap to a 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard G. McMahon , Richard L. White , David J. Helfand , Robert H. Becker

The FIRST Radio Survey provides a new resource for constructing a large quasar sample. With source positions accurate to better than 1\arcsec\ and a point source sensitivity limit of 1 mJy, it reaches 50 times deeper than previous radio…

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