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Optical Spectra of Low Flux Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

D. C. Koo ,
R. G. Kron  and
R. A. Windhorst
D. C. Koo
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 U.S.A.
R. G. Kron
Affiliation:
Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, Williams Bay, WI 53191 U.S.A.
R. A. Windhorst
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281 U.S.A.

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Low flux radio sources are important for a variety of reasons. In principle, a 1 mJy survey that is over 1000 times fainter than the 3CR allows us to reach objects 20 times more distant, almost literally to the edge of the universe, or to detect much less luminous sources at the same distances. We can hope to detect primeval galaxies, to check the idea that objects with redshifts z greater than 3 or 4 are optically hidden by dust, to detect new populations of radio objects, to possess pointers to distant clusters and galaxies, as well as to understand better the AGN phenomenon.

Type
Part 9: Intrinsically Weak AGNs
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 134: Active Galactic Nuclei , 1989 , pp. 518 - 519
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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