Unveiling the population of high-redshift radio galaxies using centimeter GMRT survey (original) (raw)
2014, arXiv: Astrophysics of Galaxies
Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS) radio sources are one of the efficient tracers of High Redshift Radio Galaxies (HzRGs). To search for HzRGs candidates, we investigate properties of a large sample of faint USS sources derived from our deep 325 MHz GMRT observations combined with 1.4 GHz VLA data on the two subfields (i.e., VLA-VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) and Subaru X-ray Deep Field (SXDF)) in the XMM-LSS field. The available redshift estimates show that majority of our USS sample sources are at higher redshifts with the median redshifts ~ 1.18 and ~ 1.57 in the VLA-VVDS and SXDF fields. In the VLA-VVDS field, ~ 20% of USS sources lack the redshift estimates as well as the detection in the deep optical, IR surveys, and thus these sources may be considered as potential high-z candidates. The radio luminosity distributions suggest that a substantial fraction (~ 40%) of our USS sample sources are radio-loud sources, distributed over redshifts ~ 0.5 to 4.
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