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Near Infrared and Radio Observations of Distant Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

R. A. Laing
Affiliation:
NRAO, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
F. N. Owen
Affiliation:
NRAO, P.O. Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
J. J. Puschell
Affiliation:
CASS, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

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This paper is concerned with the distant radio galaxies in a sample of bright sources selected at 178 MHz by Laing, Riley & Longair (1982). This sample is 96% complete for sources with θ < 10′ and the bias of the 3CR catalogue against sources of large angular size has also been reduced. Deep optical searches have located many candidate identifications, but the probability of a chance coincidence with an unrelated object is appreciable, especially in the faintest cases, unless the area to be searched is small. We have therefore mapped the sources with candidate identifications having V > 20, using the VLA at a wavelength of 6 cm (Laing, Owen & Puschell, in preparation), in order to search for radio cores. We have so far located cores in 16/23 sources and set 5σ upper limits of 0.6 mJy for the remainder. None of the cores had been detected previously. In all cases, the cores coincide with optical objects, although one source (3C 340) had been misidentified. Several ambiguities have now been resolved.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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